...American Literature I Prof. Ignacio Magaloni Over the last 5 weeks, there have been many interesting readings assigned. We have experienced readings from Native Americans and European Americans that settled here in America. Through these readings we have learned how each culture communicated with each other and expressed their views. We have also learned many different customs that each culture practiced or believed in. Early European Americans expressed how they felt leaving England and then later becoming a new independent country. As I look back, both cultures did believe in a God or Great Spirit and each one worked in a different way. This is one concept that caught my attention the most, the Native Americans believed deeply in the Great Spirit. In week five, we read stories of the Pontiac and other Native American Tribes. As I read through the stories they all had one thing in common and that was the Great Spirit. The Native Americans relied heavily on the Great Spirit for guidance and worshipped him greatly. “Our Great Father, over the great waters, is angry with the white people, our enemies. He will send his brave warriors against them; he will send us rifles, and whatever else we want-he is our friend, and we are his children.” (449) When the white men were trying to overrun the native Americans it was the Great Spirit who gave them advice to rely on the ancestor’s techniques to overcome the white men. The European Americans on the other hand viewed...
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...America is taught to believe that this country was found and colonized by European immigrants. Historical and mainstream America is ignorantly taught, that anyone who does not have European features is not considered American. Whites are the Americans. Any person who is not of European descent is categorized as “other” or ethnic. This is a filter of the master narrative Ronald Takaki focuses on, on dismantling in his book A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America. He challenges this history by including the stories of the true diverse America. America fails to teach that this country is built upon the bones of Native, African, Irish, German, and Mexican American ancestry. Takaki’s motive on writing his book is to confront and explain...
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...Most Americans are probably not aware that European’s are concerned with the U.S. Presidential elections. After all, Europeans will not have a vote coming this November. Numerous poles of different European citizens show an overwhelming support for the current president, Barrack Obama, over his Republican challenger, Mitt Romney. "If Europeans could vote in November's election, 75% would vote for Obama while only 8% would vote for Romney" (World views). While many ideas and opinions are given for the overwhelming support of President Obama it is mostly due to cultural, historical, and foreign policy views of European. The US Democratic Party is much more secular and closer to European idea of thought and government. They believe the federal government has much more of a role to play in providing some basic services, similar to the ideas common in Europe (European Conservatives). The US Republican Party has more of an individualist approach, where federal government plays a smaller role of individuals. Romney has been portraying Obama as wanting to turn America into a European-style entitlement society. Stating he wants to ensure that America remains a free and prosperous land of opportunity (European Conservatives). This has done nothing but get Europeans to support Romney even less. Europeans have historically sided with the Democratic candidate in the US presidential race. This European perception of Republicans was made worse during the Bush administration, largely because...
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...in his book prefers the EU policy than that in the United States. After he mentions the three models, actually the forth models; THE USA, china, Japan, and the EU model, He believes that EU developed model is the best one for the world in the 21 century. In order to present the model as the suitable one, Steve stresses many points that EU pass out the USA and show how USA continues to miss lead the public and presents its model as the bet one. Among those issues that he has stressed, USA media and what has associated with it in term of European economy and American view , welfare and social system and what associate with it. Steven Hill stresses that because of American media and political leaders taken a model adaptation, in term of who is right or who is wrong, and which model beats the other. Instead take it, from the point that we just need to learn from together, and we have to teach together in order to save ourselves and the world as the whole. Taken for consideration that there are countries round the world who needs to get to where we are now, to have the same chance that we had have, but how they going to achieve it without burning the world, without global warming environment chaos, if our media until today doesn’t has a transparency in presenting the best for us. He express that USA medias has been hid the truth about Europe achievement, He indicates that media is missing the real story and presenting to the USA a couple countries in Europe...
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...Peninsula from the Muslim occupiers. Protestants- Europeans...
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...How did the influence of the European settlers affect literature in the Americas? Before the settlers came the native language was based on the myths that the Native Americans made up to explain the causes of the earth. Anne Bradstreet was one of the most important influences on literature. Influence by Shakespeare, Anne Bradstreet might be the first American poet. Europeans settlers affected the language of the Native Americans. At that time the Native American’s literature was based on myths. European literature was different theirs was more based on facts and reasoning. Thanks to the European settlers the literature in the Americas started to be written down rather than being told or lectured. Settlers started to write poems that focused on the same thing as the stories of the Native Americans which were on the views of life and the earth. Compared to Anne Bradstreet’s style of writing, the Native Americans’ was more oral. They would be telling stories to their kids rather than writing them down. Anne Bradstreet had a different type of writing though; hers was based more on her religious views. Both were very similar because like the Native Americans, Anne Bradstreet’s writing was about her experiences and on life. Influenced by Shakespeare, she found in him a source of inspiration and technique that would one day run like threads of gold through the fabric of her own work.” Knowing this helps me understand American Literature much better. Now I know that Anne Bradstreet...
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...this sense are the Indians, who are sometimes misunderstood as the foreigners. When talking about foreigners, it is the Europeans who invaded and settled in America, not the Indians. But, on many occasions this is not the case, as many of the European settlers consider themselves as the indigenous people of America (Howells and Negreiros 27). These concepts have been shown in films, where the battle for what might appear as ownership is evident. There are many films that are about the indigenous people of America, among which are Smoke Signals and Fast Runner. The films try to demonstrate and oppose the stereotypes that people have for the indigenous people of America (Knopf 193). Comparing the movies, one can see the employment of cinematic applications such as sounds and shots, editing, angle, camera movement, framing, music, and lighting, and then see how they relate or contrast. All the same, the films are...
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...Differences between American and European Values Shalonda Cotton Cross-Cultural Perspectives Allan Mooney 3/29/2015 Even the United States and Europe is just a flight across the Atlantic, Europeans and Americans are very different, but have some similarities also. Europeans and Americans both agree and disagree what we deem are basic values are. There is a view that supports opposing views of the world and foreign relations obviously stands in need of clarification. The Pew Research Centre reported a very wide public, single opinion poll, taken of public attitudes in several different countries. It shows that America's old faithful image has slipped a bit. The Pew study found that many Europeans support “the US-led war on terror” and about 60% called Iraq a serious threats. Many countries love and admire America culture because of our science, technology and new modern way of thinking. In both the Marshall Fund and Pew studies, there were a few differences in attitudes towards our armed forces, neither was there much difference in a positive opinion to use force abroad. The Marshall Study points out that institutions such as NATO of the United Nations is just as strong in America as Europe. Majorities in almost every country said the world would be less safe if there were a competing superpower, based off the Pew Study. Some Americans say they favor a firm intelligent leadership from the European Union, while some Europeans say they want...
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...The Influence of Heritage on Current Culture Evaluation of how family subscribes to these traditions and practices is offered in detail, while offering insight and/or reflection.It is essential for nurses to provide culturally sensitive care to each and every patient in order to establish repor and maintain a safe working relationship with each individual. To provide culturally sensitive care to a nurses patient’s he or she must first assess their own beliefs, values, and culture at large. The nurse can do this by using the Heritage Assessment Tool. This tool shows the nurse how important their heritage is to them and if they have adopted their ways of life from their family’s history and influence. This gives the nurse a starting point for his or her own competency because once the nurse knows their own beliefs they will know what to keep in mind as their own biases that may hinder or limit care of their patients. The Heritage Assessment tool can then be used with the nurses’ patients in assessing how much they follow their cultural heritage. When interviewing families from different cultures one can see the disparities between them and their perception of their health maintenance, health protection, and health restoration. Applying the Heritage Assessment in Evaluating the Needs of the Whole Person The Heritage Assessment is a useful tool in evaluating the needs of the patient and in being able to provide holistic patient care. The Heritage Assessment Tool assesses whether...
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...When Two Religious Views Come into One Perspective Thomas Bender views American history as being taught from a single point of view, through the eyes of the Nation, and how it became America without taking into consideration the other views from pre-existing civilizations. He believes that a nation’s citizens should be shown history not only in their country’s perspective, but also in the perspective of those that were involved in that historic event. Using the pieces chosen, I will show how two views: a young Native American taking a religious journey, and a European farmer in America going through a revelation, can create a better picture on how religion took part in the colonization of America. Neolin, a young Indian part of the Wolf nation set out on his journey to Heaven to see the Master of life. He traveled for a couple days more than a week came across a tall White Mountain. Here a woman instructed him to leave everything and strip his clothes, she showed him...
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...Melinda Houk Unit 4 AIU Online HUMA215-1202B-17 May 12, 2012 Abstract Europeans had their first encounters, with Native Americans, in the seventh century. The area, in which it was mostly confined to, was in the eastern part of the continent. They accelerated westward, during the aftermath, of Louisiana Purchase, and the Revolutionary war. The non-western cultural groups, which were listed in the assignment text, were; African, Chinese, Indian, Japanese, and Native American. I was asked to choose one of these groups, and discuss the impact, that the Western, or European cultures, had on the group. .(Sayre, 2008)). The non-western group, which I decided to research on, is the Native American group. Unit 4 Europeans had their first encounters, with Native Americans, in the seventh century. The area, in which it was mostly confined to, was in the eastern part of the continent. They accelerated westward, during the aftermath, of Louisiana Purchase, and the Revolutionary war. The non-western cultural groups, which were listed in the assignment text, were; African, Chinese, Indian, Japanese, and Native American. I was asked to choose one of these groups, and discuss the impact, that the Western, or European cultures, had on the group. . (Sayre, 2008)). The non-western group, which I decided to research on, is the Native American group. The Western nations, in the last part of the nineteenth century, were revitalized by the effectiveness of the new...
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...Case Study EuroDisney 1. What factors contributed to EuroDisney's poor performance during its first year of operation? What factors contributed to Hong Kong Disney's poor performance during its first year? It was cheaper for European families to travel to Disney World in Orlando, FL. Not only was the trip to Orlando going to be cheaper, but it was almost guaranteed that the weather was going to be spectacular. People go on vacation to have a good time, but more importantly to enjoy the weather. People in Europe and around the world are not going to vacation at a spot where the weather is going to be unpredictable. France gets cold in the winter, therefore going to Disney World in Orlando would be more logical. It will be cheaper and the weather is going to be decent for whenever you choose to go. The French culture did not like the American Fairy-tale characters. The French had their own fairy-tale characters; one even has a park located near EuroDisney. Starting up a company internationally is an extremely hard task. Researching the culture of the country in which the company is going to be located is extremely important. When the plans to bring EuroDisney to Paris were finalized, they should have begun extensive research on the culture and history of France. By not doing that Disney may have insulted the French, but more so they hurt their chances of making money. The whole Disney idea was not sitting well with the French people. For example, during a trip...
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...that this New World confronted countless modifications after Europeans set foot on this “new” soil, especially contrasting settlements from the way Native Americans fashioned their way of living. The book Changes in the Land by William Cronon discusses not only this, but the view point of the ecology of pre-colonial New England and the fundamental reorganization of not only people, but as well as the flora and fauna transformation in this New World. Cronon’s purpose of this book was to explain why Europeans changed as they did during the colonial period and to use the ecological aspects of the “European invasion” of pre-colonial New England in order to wholly recognize the cultural aspects....
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...biases do not represent how I perceive myself because in terms of the Gender-Career IAT that I do not think that male should be with the family. The way in which I have been brought up is that male is to go out into the working world and earn an income in which he can support his family while the female can contribute to the income if she chooses to do so. Whether this I right I do not know but this is my experience in my household while being brought up. I believe things are changing in today’s current society where there is more equality in the world but I don’t believe this bias test is correct with these results. The biases in the African America- European American IAT do not represent how I perceive myself because the tests show that I have a strong preference for European Americans rather than African Americans. I can’t see how I would have this opinion when I come from a mixed background. Brought up with one side of my family being mainly European and one side being mainly African with mixed parents I cannot understand as to how the bias test suggests that I have preference towards one or the other. The only thing that I think could affect my bias is that I was in a bit more contact with the European side of my family as a young child from about 2-6. Because of my Christian worldview, my results are not affected because as a person who is learning about Christ every day and hasn’t got enough knowledge about Christ and the Christian point of view so I cannot speak from...
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...the self views the self as independent and regards a person as possessing a set of self-defining attributes, which are used to take action in the expression of personal beliefs and the achievement of personal goals. b. Collectivistic Culture the dominant model of the self views the self as interdependent, regards a person as a flexible, connected entity who is bound to others, and considers group goals as primary and personal beliefs, needs, and goals as secondary In these cultures, relationships also take an interdependent form—they are less voluntary and more “given”. 2) Comparing European Americans to individuals of Asian descent, which group is more likely to seek social support? c. In an initial set of studies using both open-ended and closed-ended methods, we found that Asians and Asian Americans reported using social support to help them cope with stress less than did European Americans. 3) The authors propose three different reasons as to why there are differences in social support seeking between European Americans and individuals of Asian descent. Which of the three reasons do they believe is the most likely explanation for the group difference? Explain. 1. First, it may be that Asians and Asian Americans do not have to ask for social support because they have more unsolicited social support available to them than do European Americans. 2. Second, it may be that Asians and Asian Americans have a stronger belief than European Americans...
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