...What exactly is the American dream? For many individuals the so-called American dream might vary. In “two kind” by Amy Tan the mother whom is a Chinese immigrant wishes that her first generation American daughter accomplish everything she couldn’t and even wishes that her daughter becomes a prodigy. This hope to acquire the American dream bring tension in the mother and daughter relationship and she in between these two kind of dreams her mothers dream for her and her own dreams. Also, this writing emphasizes the relationship of an immigrant mother and her Chinese American daughter and the tension cause of the American culture that clashes with mother Chinese culture and leads into miscommunication. Also, what might seem like the mother want...
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...advocates and public-order advocates. Individual-rights advocates focus on just that. They make sure the rights of citizens and suspects are both upheld (like the right to a speedy trial and bail). Public-order advocates are there to make sure that the public (communities) are also protected from unacceptable behavior... Describe the American experience with crime during the last half century. What noteworthy criminal incidents or activities can you identify during that time, and what social and economic conditions might have produced them? The American experience with crime during the last half century has been especially influential in shaping the criminal justice system of today. Although crime waves have come and gone, some events during the past century stand out as especially significant, including a spurt of widespread organized criminal activity associated with the Prohibition years of the early twentieth century; the substantial increase in “traditional” crimes during the 1960s and 1970s; the threat to the American way of life represented by illicit drugs around the same time; and the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 (Dworkin, 2005)., The American experience with crime during the last half century has been the main reason for the way our courts, law enforcement, and the criminal justice system operates the way that it does today. There have been many crime waves and other events that have played a key role in shaping the system as it is today. Some of...
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...words are the introduction to some of the main characters, which describe what Hannah and Nath look like to random strangers. Strangers see all people that do not look like them as alien-like creatures. Who, in their mind, do not believe that aliens do not deserve equal rights. Nath and Hannah are a mixture of Asian and Caucasian because their father is Asian and their mother is Caucasian. The lady from the grocery store automatically thinks that Nath and Hannah are Asian because of their squinted eyes. This situation demonstrates how average white people judge what ethnicity foreigners are based on their...
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...their music videos into their very own African-American communities. The two songs focus on different aspects of this issue: “Bitch Bad” concentrates on the family and individual point of view There are many differences however the similarities are more coherent. The two songs make suggest that the African-American community make amends to what they have created themselves, there is also blame that is spread amongst not only the African-American people but also the white supremacists...
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...arrival. Between 1945 and 1972, over one million British migrants settled in Australia. Before 1945, many people, including Australians themselves, considered Australia to be nothing more than a British colony; a nation whose national identity was relatively indistinct from the British. During this period of Australia's history, our modes of entertainment, food, fashion, sporting culture and our social values and attitudes were largely dictated by British culture. American influence on the Australian culture One of the most significant changes to have taken place in Australian society since the end of WWII, however, has been its drift towards American, rather than British culture. As the American way of life was projected further into Australia via popular culture, it would rapidly alter the ways we spent our money, entertained ourselves, dressed and socialised. Eventually, many of our British cultural legacies would give way to new American ideals. In the decades since World War II, however, the penetration of American popular...
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...Between 1945 and 1972, over one million British migrants settled in Australia. Before 1945, many people, including Australians themselves, considered Australia to be nothing more than a British colony; a nation whose national identity was relatively indistinct from the British. During this period of Australia's history, our modes of entertainment, food, fashion, sporting culture and our social values and attitudes were largely dictated by British culture. American influence on the Australian culture One of the most significant changes to have taken place in Australian society since the end of WWII, however, has been its drift towards American, rather than British culture. As the American way of life was projected further into Australia via popular culture, it would rapidly alter the ways we spent our money, entertained ourselves, dressed and socialised. Eventually, many of our British cultural legacies would give way to new American ideals. In the decades since World War II, however, the penetration of American...
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...World affected the lives of the Native Americans drastically, in many ways. First, the colonization of Europeans caused many Native Americans to die. In addition, another result of the Europeans colonizing the Americas was that the Native Americans were introduced to new foods and animals, resulting in cultural diffusion. Lastly, in the result of European explorers coming to the New World resulted in the Native Americans to be treated badly, such as being sold into slavery. Overall, the result of Europeans settling in the New World influenced the Native Americans ways of living. First of all, the most direct way that European colonization affected the Native Americans, was the infectious diseases that they brought...
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...Mayan’s in the around 734-760 AD are very different from Americans in many ways. Some of these differences include the way they write, use math, live in general, and even the way they arranged their society are just a few ways the Mayans differ from us. But, we also have many similarities like war, diseases, and even the fact that the mayans got us started on the math we use today. But, one of the major similarities and differences fall in one specific category. Religious beliefs. And that's where my point of these similarities and differences begin. The Mayans and the Americans are similar by their religious beliefs in multiple ways. But I would say that the fact that they also believed in certain religions like us is one of the most important ones. Catholic for example. Many Americans believe in the Catholic category for religion. The Mayans also believed in beauty as we do, especially piercings. And, they also believed that there were days, years, and months that are based on the stars like we do today. This leads us to how we both have the same calendar. Though we have these similarities, there are some...
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...Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American journalist and author. His writing style was very different from others because he didnt use that much adverbs/ adjectives or didnt really descriped the characters in his stories but let them speak through their actions. His language was really simple so averyone could understand. However, he used the ”Iceberg theory” which means that the surface of the story is simple, but below the surface is the structure more complex. He had a high degree of detail in description of places/things and his typically themes in his stories were love, war, loss, wildness etc.. Cat in the rain Writtin by Hemingway and publised in 1925. An American couple is on vacation in Italy. The American wife sees a cat outside in the rain and she wants it very bardly, so she goes out to get it but the cat is gone. She goes back to her hotel room and starts a conversation with her husband. She tells him the things she wants but her husband doesnt seem to be interested at all. But in the end, the padrone comes with a cat to her. There is a very long description of the enviroment (typical Hemingway style). ”In the good weather there was always an artist with his easel. Artists liked the way the palms grew and the bright colors of the hotels facing the gardens and the sea.” First of all, he descripes the enviroment like it’s summer but then he writes that it’s raining. It’s sympolizes their relationship. First it was great and they were happy but then it all...
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...In Vonnegut’s anti-war book, Slaughterhouse-Five, he has a character named Billy Pilgrim, who is a drafted American soldier during World War II. He goes through different parts of his life by time traveling and encounters with aliens along the way. The story revolves around the bombing of Dresden and how Billy interprets life as the way he sees it. From end to end in the book, Vonnegut uses plentiful of rhetorical techniques such as: metaphors, syntax, and diction to emphasize to the readers that the British are comically more “realistic” for war than the American POWs— in all actuality the Americans are mostly depicted the way it is in reality. The way Vonnegut intertwines metaphors, syntax, and diction to reiterate that the American POWs are not as well “prepared”, although the British are. Vonnegut uses syntax as he writes, “The Englishmen had hoarded these so cunningly that now, as the war was ending, they had three tons of sugar, one ton of coffee, eleven hundred pounds of chocolate, seven hundred pounds of tobacco…” He contrasts the British explicitly with the detailed list that they are rich of food and resources because the British have to share with the broke down Americans....
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...citizenship. America is a deserve country, which have immigrants from all over the world. Some of immigrants consider themselves as American and others still identity themselves as before. The article “ note of a native speaker” and “ American dreamer” described two immigrants who have moved to America. From “ Notes of a native speaker”, Eric liu was born in America, he was the second generation as an “ ABC”, which means American born Chinese. His parents wanted him to be an American. He tried to be like that, but he found that the only way to be an American was to be white. From “ American dreamer”, Bharati Mukherjee, a woman born in India,she thought her identity was fixed when she was born, she immigrated to America for a better life and tried to disobey her family in India, she wanted to change her own identity and came to U.s because the society was more diversity. The identity of belonging based on and influence by culture , family and language. Eric Liu’s was the second generation of immigrates, so his parents were Chinese before they became to U.S citizens. However, his family did not teach him to be as a Chinese, he was totally to be taught as an American. He considered that he has became an American before he was born. “ My own assimilation began long before i was born. It began with my parents, who came here with an appetite for Western ways already whetted by films and books and music and, in my mother’s case, by a father who’d been to the West.His parents already...
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...Throughout the semester of readings, and videos,I’ve learned many examples of structural racism problems affecting the food system. An example, in chapter three “From the Past to the Present”, african american farmers were considered less than white farmers. White farmers had threatened the livelihood of many african americans. African americans created other ways to help change the structure of how black farmers would be viewed, for instance the Black Panther Party. In slavery, black people had a big part in the production with harvesting products like cotton, but the system of elite white dominance brought discrimination and racism towards blacks, leaving them with little to no say in the food system. (Green, 50) Another example of structural...
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...the United States, the cultural values and beliefs of people from different cultures are somehow blended into one cultural value system. According to businessdictionary.com, consumer behavior is the process by which individuals search for, select, purchase, use, and dispose of goods and services, in satisfaction of their needs and wants. People with different ethnicity backgrounds tend to buy things a little bit differently than others. Trying to figure out what they want, how they want and where they want is what marketers sometimes have difficulties deciding. The different ethnicities in the U.S. that would be covered include: Caucasian Americans, African Americans, Hispanics, Asians, and Indians. “The U.S. population is highly ethnically and racially diverse. As of the 2010 Census, the U.S. population was 63.7% White, 12.2% African American and 16.3% Hispanic” (Akcay 2012). Going into detail on how these ethnicities make their purchase decision and comparing them would be the main purpose of this research. Why do people buy the things that they buy, is one question that many marketers try to figure out? “Ethnicity involves the social construction of origin as the basis for determining the community or collective and may be based upon a combination of history, territory, culture or physiognomic grounds” (Anthias 1992). There are so many people that are in these markets it is difficult to concentrate on just one type of ethnicity. There are things that some cultures don’t really...
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...see rows of cars, people walking and talking, advertisements, lights, and architecture. The cars are all different makes and models, the people walking are dressed differently and talking differently, the advertisements are bold and in-your-face, the lights can be for the cars or another signal to get your attention, and the architecture is shaped by the structure and soundness of the building and what it is designed for. All of these facets are a symbol of our culture. Our culture is passed down from our elders on to us through life norms and the morals and values learned. This culture has been our way of life and unsurprisingly, is all that we know. But why? I, like most Americans, root to another continent. I am always curious about where we, people, come from originally. Although I cannot trace my heritage, I can trace my name etymology. I am classified as a legal American citizen is by jus soli. More simply stated, I was born here, and this is what I call my home. It is all I know. Since I know this about myself, it allows me to be more open minded to other cultures, languages, and inquire about their traditions. Most people in the world share a common sense of universal values, they are a set standard, i.e. trustworthiness, honesty, et cetera. These universal values are also in every major religion in some form. Along with the universal values, there are non-ethical values. Non-Ethical values vary in priority from person to person, depending on their own agenda. Where...
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...America became known as the “American Dream”. The basic idea of the American Dream generally has stayed the same throughout time, although the majority of Americans seem to take the Dream for granted. The first settlers arrived to the New World in search of a treasure: life, liberty, and freedom. This treasure was and still is the American Dream. Now people from all over the world come to America in search of the same Dream; some even die trying. People were not as materialistic as people are now; they just wanted happiness. As time passed, people became more materialistic and began to take for granted what they were born with. However, the “American Dream” hardly ever turns out like any individuals have anticipated. America is often considered as the “best country” in the world, but behind this façade, many people struggle daily to earn enough money to survive. America has had its times of despair and advances but through it all we have learned new ways, cultures, and overall advancements in life. Throughout the American Ways book we were given to read and analyze, there were many things about American life that not only related to now but also showed us lessons learned and conflicts repeated through time. To myself and maybe others, the pieces presented to me in class had the ability to bring me into another world. In each piece, I was almost warped to a different time of America and had the ability to see many things. One thing I would like to compare is not...
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