...Northern Exposure At the beginning of the video Northern Exposure, Joel had a rough time adjusting to way that Thanksgiving was celebrated in this small town in Alaska called Cicely. Joel is a doctor from New York who was given scholarship money from Alaska to attend school. Now he works as a doctor in Cicely, a small town of just 860 people. Cicely is mixture of Native Americans and European Americans. Joel is having a hard time understanding the Native American way of celebrating Thanksgiving. He is only looking at the situation from his point of view. Joel is being very ethnocentric in his beliefs about Thanksgiving. He is basing Thanksgiving off of his own culture and is not understanding of the other cultures around him. Joel in being inconsiderate of the Native American way of celebrating Thanksgiving. Their way of life is very different to him. The type of food, music, decoration, or for example the throwing of the tomato is differences between the two cultures. The Native Americans kind of mixed Thanksgiving and Halloween together. They had bones, skulls, and skeletons hung up all around the town. The tomato incident was very difficult for Joel to understand. From his perspective he felt as if he did something wrong. He just couldn’t figure out why Ed had hit him with a tomato. Joel is Ed's first victim and he is angered because in his words he is "definitely not white. The throwing of the tomato was Ed's way in saying season greetings to Joel. In the Native American...
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...made friends from different countries, which are Africans, Mexicans, and Canadians. I moved from Georgia when I was nine, and I have lived in the rural of Texas since. Therefore in the past twenty-one years of my life I have had the pleasure of living in two different cultural backgrounds, and learn the differences in between. Abstract This paper seeks to explain that within the societies our beliefs, attitudes and values are the same when it comes to holidays concerning festivities and celebrations. Within societies, various religions, and ethnic groups can set us apart due to a range of responses, feelings, behaviors, attitudes, symbols, and material objects when it comes to death in our culture. Celebration of holidays within a culture The difference in a white and black culture In the United Stated it is a tradition to celebrate Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Valentine’s Day, Easter, and Death. Halloween is celebrated on the 31st of October every year. It is a time when people of all ages mostly kids dress up funny, and does ‘trick or treat’. This holiday is celebrated by giving away free candy, buying costumes, decorating pumpkins to have funny faces or carved jack –o’lanterns...
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...No Turkey for Thanksgiving “What do you mean we aren’t having turkey for Thanksgiving?” My family has become set in our ways when it comes to the food menus for holidays. You could say my family has created folkways for our holiday meals governing the “when and what to eat” -- concept. Folkways are defined by Joan Ferrante, as norms that apply to the mundane aspects or details of daily life (Ferrante 50). My family has developed many folkways around the holidays, so much so that if anyone tries to change them up it disrupts the norm of the holiday for us. The traditional family does everything by the book as far as preparing holiday meals but sometimes changes up the menu. In my family, we are so set in our way that if something is missing, it can cause drama and make for grumpy family members. My family has developed many folkways that are centered on the foods we eat for certain holiday meals, such as 4th of July, Thanksgiving and Christmas. The typical 4th of July meal that my family prepares is barbequed hamburgers, hot dogs, potato and/or pasta salads, chips, dips, and fruit, usually cantaloupe and watermelon. Thanksgiving dinner consists of turkey with stuffing, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, gravy and all the other traditional Thanksgiving dishes. Christmas dinner is usually prime rib, baked potatoes, salad and all things that go along with a prime rib dinner. Our most traditional Christmas meal is prime rib, and it would be really strange if that was not on...
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...whether it is for necessity or luxury. Our appetite for shopping dates back hundreds of years to the bazaars and markets of old times. Over the years, our fascination with shopping has increased and evolved. There are more smart and sales-conscious shoppers. As a result, the markets and vendors have evolved in order to accommodate the evolved shopper. It has resulted in the creation of mass markets, industrialization, and cultural attitudes. With the increasing amount of shoppers, and countless markets and vendors, companies are competing to gain shopper interest; they invent new products, create persuasive advertising, and offer sales on current merchandise. For companies, their largest revenue gain comes around the holidays. Therefore, they make big pushes for consumer sales on those designated days. However, a large portion of their revenue comes from one non-holiday, the man-made holiday, Black Friday. On this day, consumers spend more time and money in preparation than they do on their goods. There is a significant change in their attitudes and behavior; they become more competitive and more aggressive. This single day affects both producers and consumers. The combination of aggressive shoppers, sales, and limited quantities can be a recipe for chaos and disaster. To many shoppers, Black Friday spawns the beginning of the holiday sales. In an effort to save money and take advantage of the holiday sales, many shoppers participate in the Black Friday shopping events...
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...Black Friday Madness In the essay “Black Friday: Consumerism Minus Civilization,” the author, Andrew Leonard, makes the argument that, “The out-of-control marketing and consumer insanity” (135) has taken over Thanksgiving and the days following it. Sadly, as consumers, we have forgotten what Thanksgiving is really all about. Marketing businesses have gone overboard brainwashing consumers with advertisements pumping them up to shop on Black Friday and the days that follow. Moreover, marketing businesses have caused the actions we see and hear about on Black Friday such as people being trampled, as consumers rush into stores to shop the sales, and are proof of this insanity. I strongly agree with Leonard’s arguments from “Black Friday: Consumerism Minus Civilization,” that it is time to take back Thanksgiving and end the craziness. First of all, Leonard points out that marketing and consumers have become out of control with all of the Black Friday sales. He gives examples of advertisements that are out of control. For example, “after the perky Stepford-wife shopper sings joyfully about how she’s ‘been in line since yesterday’ and how everybody’s going to Kohl’s at ‘midnight, midnight’ the ad ends with her observing, with a mild air of perturbance, that she ‘can’t get this darn song out of my head.’ Ladies and gentlemen, there’s your winner of the 2011 award for honesty in advertising” (135). This commercial is an attempt to brainwash consumers. He talks about “grown men screaming...
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...by celebrations or festivals. But as time passes, people are beginning to forego and abandon family traditions and values. While this global trend is becoming more and more evident, certain cultures still cling to old practices and attitudes. Although the portrayal of Chinese families in “My Grandmother’s Dumplings” is fairly accurate, Amy Ma fails to address how western and technology-centric views have altered people’s outlook on things like family gatherings, roles of family members, and attitude towards family members. Today, family gatherings no longer have meaning. In the story, Ma writes about the Spring Festival, which is, “The most important celebration of the year: It is a time to be with family, to visit friends and start life anew.” Ma describes her family traditions and how there’s a cultural meaning to the holidays. As an example of one of these rigid traditions, Ma states in her story that, “It was considered bad luck to do any work.” In contrast, many people today work on holidays such as Thanksgiving as others spend their holidays waiting in line on Black Friday rather than spending time with their family. The thirst for great deals has overshadowed the main idea of family bonding. This year, many people skipped Thanksgiving dinner and spending time with their families to camp out at stores to get shopping deals on Black Friday. Starting in the twentieth century, women have started to take a more active role outside of the household. Ma talks about the...
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...A West and East Coast Interpretation of Uncle Sam’s Thanksgiving Dinner The first cartoon of the Uncle Sam’s Thanksgiving Dinner was created by Thomas Nast in 1869. His cartoon shows a positive attitude towards and exemplifies a more unified American identity. His cartoon however, was lampooned eight years later in 1877 by G.F Keller, whom clearly did not have the same vision on immigration as Nast did. Through the stereotypes, variety of people, quotes, and symbolism shown in both cartoons, the illustrators reveal “a direct contrast on two different interpretations coming from the American East and the West coast on the issue of immigration.” In Uncle Sam’s Thanksgiving Dinner 1869, Thomas Nast shows ethnic diversity and proposes a vision of what could be a future possibility on political equality in the United States of America. The people seated at the dinner table come from all over the world, they are: Native American, German, French, Arab, British, African, Chinese, Italian, Spanish, and Irish. In this image Nast subtly includes a portrait of the “Castle Garden.” The Castle Garden was a place where most immigrants were processed, this was similar to a home for the immigrant. Another strong tie to this image is the Fifteenth Amendment which is, “The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by ant state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.” During this time period Mexicans were being...
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...Colonial Test Review from Of Plymouth Plantation 1. What is the “First Encounter”? 2. Please summarize “The Starving Time”. 3. How did Squanto help the colonists? 4. What conditions did the Pilgrims face on the First Thanksgiving? 5. Who is the author? from Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God 5. What feeling does the author hope to inspire in his listeners? 6. Who is the audience? 7. Who is the author? from The General History of Virginia 8. How was Smith saved form death in Powhatan’s court? 9. Why were the Native Americans important to the colonists? 10. What does Smith’s description of giving gifts to the Native Americans reveal about his attitude toward them? 11. Who is the author? from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano 12. How can we tell that the slave traders wanted to keep the captives alive? 13. Why did Equiano fear the sailors? 14. In what ways were the sailors cruel? 15. Why was Equiano whipped? 16. According to Equiano, what added to the horror of slavery? 17. Who is the author? The World on the Turtle’s Back 18. Why does the man go to the Great Tree at the beginning of the myth? 19. Why is the Great Tree important to the Iroquois’ creation myth? 20. What does this creation myth explain about the Iroquois dance rituals? 21. What do the arrows that the man brings to the girl represent? 22. What does the twins’ competition to make animals in this creation myth explain...
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...the National College of Arts in 1975. He went to the US to get a degree in Theater, later on he got a master degree in film Production at the NY University. Ang first assisted a student movie and then went on to directing his own movies, before The Ice storm, he had directed a couple of movies, and some of them was nominated for an Oscar. The Ice Storm takes place in Connecticut, USA. It is Thanksgiving weekend and the weather is cold. In this suburb, many families have problems. The adults are depressed, they are fed up with this boring time in their life. Their teenage kids are not far behind in the problem area, they are experiencing with pot, sex, alcohol and theft. The Hood Family is a middleclass family, there are 4 members and all of them have some kind of problem. The father Ben is having an affair with neighbor Janey Carver, which is also a family who are close to the Hood family. The Mother Elena is shoplifting, she also has an admire who is a longhaired minister. Their young daughter is Wendy who is very passionate about world problems such as hunger.During Thanksgiving dinner, Ben asks her to say grace, and instead of doing so, she makes a provocation towards her dad. Their elder son Paul, smokes pot and likes a girl named Libbets, but she doesn’t like him in the same way. Ben catches Wendy at their neighbors house, her and Mikey, the Carvers eldest son is doing some exploring in the low area of the body, Ben asks her daughter what she is doing, but the...
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...Native American Oppression Santucee Bell Case Western Reserve University Native American Oppression Introduction & Focal Population Imagine living in a world that consistently devalues your existence and is heavily populated with individuals who are quick to use and abuse your resources, but are slow to share the wealth that is accumulated from those resources. How would you feel? Unfortunately, certain populations do not have to visualize the disparity that is pictured above. This is because inequity is one of the most demoralizing social issues that plague America today. The worst thing about inequity is the fact that it continues to disproportionately burden individuals who are categorize as being minority in today’s society. This is especially true for the American Indian/Alaska Native population. This population continues to be one of the most vulnerable minority groups. According to the U.S. Census Bureau’s Overview of Race and Hispanic Origin: 2010 (2011), “American Indian or Alaska Native refer to a person having origins in any of the original peoples of North and South America (including Central American) and who maintains tribal affiliation or community attachment” (Humes, Jones, & Ramirez, 2011, p. 3). 2,475,956 out of 308, 745,538 people that live in America are believed to be American Indian/Alaska Native, including those who report affiliations with tribes and South and Central American Indian groups (Humes et. al,, 2011, p. 4). This number is...
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...myth of the Founding Fathers is quite significant. According to historian G.Gordon he feels that the founders are being portrayed as boring and relaxed attitudes and are not being properly celebrated. Even Ray Raphael agrees with the statement from his book, “The American revolutionaries and framers of the Constitution are no longer being celebrated in the way they used to be.(Ray Raphael pg.160;161) Teaching the founding myths of our country can serve as a useful purpose. The purpose of the founding myths is not to lie to Americans about history, it is to shorten the facts of history. Teachers cannot teach a third grader what they teach college students about the American Revolution and the Declaration of Independence. For the maturity level of the brain is not fully developed it would be hard for a student that young to comprehend the level of history they are being taught. Founding myths provide us a resource to give the younger ages of people an in depth shorter version of the whole story. The pilgrims having a “Thanksgiving” is a good example of another founding myth that I learned in school. The pilgrims that were actually Puritans, came to America in the winter of 1620 and were not prepared for that winter. The pilgrims also were not welcomed by friendly Wampanoag Indians. Instead of meeting to have the “first” Thanksgiving they instead went to meet each other to discuss the rights of the lands. In conclusion, the idea of founding myths cannot be completely controlled by...
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...As humans in this world we all have values, beliefs, and attitudes that we have developed throughout our lives. According to Koppelman (2011), values are a combination of attitudes which generate action, beliefs are inferences about reality, and attitudes are a cluster of related beliefs. Using Koppelman’s definitions of values, beliefs and attitudes, I would say some of my most important values now are that of honesty, positivity, loyalty, academic excellence, self-criticism and being the best just to name a few. My beliefs about reality is what I would call a spiritual one. One must do good to attain good which helps create my positive attitude about life and its circumstances. I come from a large city but grew up in the inner city where there is not much diversity at all. As a youth I was taught to accept certain values through different approaches stated by Koppelman(p.5-6), but I often questioned them feeling they were wrong and confused because of the inconsistency of them. With my values determining my choices as stated by Koppelman (p.3), my choices were not that of good ones. There was not much of a belief...
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...Five Year HR Plan 2006-2011 Planning Committee: Five Year Plan Introduction SMC Company is becoming a leader in manufacturing ergonomic office equipment. The company is located in a small mid-western town of 30,000 people with a local labor market population of approximately 40% minority. SMC has been successful in diversifying its labor force; two-years ago the racial demographic makeup of the company was 90% white, now SMC has a bilingual workforce. SMC is faced with the challenge of remaining competitive in the local labor market where unemployment rate is lower than 2.2%. Over the past two years SMC have experiences many changes such as a shrinking local labor market, rising labor cost, bilingual workforce, accident rate increase of 50%, and SMC’s CEO is terminally ill. Furthermore, demand for SMC’s product continued to increase and the company has experienced unsuccessful labor organizing activities. The plan will address all aspects of what SMC needs to do in the next five years, with the emphasis on five major areas: staffing, employee development and training, compensation and benefits, employee relations, and safety and health. Ongoing issues of technological advances and diversity and demographics are also addressed. Staffing In an ongoing effort to address many of the challenges associated with staffing, the leaders at SMC identified a plan to utilize the “Strategic HRM” competency approach. Utilizing this approach allows the organization...
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...Multicultural education relates to education and instruction designed for the cultures of several different races in an educational system. This approach to teaching and learning is based upon consensus building, respect, and fostering cultural pluralism within racial societies. Multicultural education acknowledges and incorporates positive racial idiosyncrasies into classroom atmospheres. Generally speaking, multicultural education is predicated on the principle of educational equity for all students, regardless of culture, and it strives to remove barriers to educational opportunities and success for students from different cultural backgrounds. In practice, educators may modify or eliminate educational policies, programs, materials, lessons, and instructional practices that are either discriminatory toward or insufficiently inclusive of diverse cultural perspectives. Multicultural education also assumes that the ways in which students learn and think are deeply influenced by their cultural identity and heritage, and that to teach culturally diverse students effectively requires educational approaches that value and recognize their cultural backgrounds. In this way, multicultural education aims to improve the learning and success of all students, particularly students from cultural groups that have been historically underrepresented or that suffer from lower educational achievement and attainment. Instructionally, multicultural education may entail the use of texts, materials...
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...Running Head: NOTES 1 LIBERTY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF EDUCATION FAITH, FREEDOM, AND PUBLIC SCHOOL NOTES Session 1 Notes Legally Supported Abington School District v. Schempp Many people think this is the case that the Bible had been thrown out of public schools, but it was really the type of Bible reading that had been thrown out of Schools. There was a PA law that said, “At least ten verses from the Holy Bible shall be read, without comment, at the opening of each public school on each school day. Any child shall be excused from such Bible reading, or attending such Bible reading, upon the written request of his parent or guardian.” Edward Schempp challenged this law saying that the state should not be making Bible reading mandatory. The Supreme Court favored Schempp and declared “this type” of Bible reading in the public schools to be unconstitutional. They did however say, “It certainly may be said that the Bible is worthy of study for its literary and historic qualities.” Florey v. Sioux Falls School District This federal case dealt with Religious Holidays. The Sioux Falls school policy read, “Music, art, literature, and drama having religious themes or basis are permitted as part of the curriculum for school sponsored activities and programs if presented in a prudent and objective manner and as a traditional part of the cultural and religious heritage of the particular holiday.” ...
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