Mr. Jacobs dreaded when he entering into a new environment and started to work under their culture and was discussed with employees and community. Mr. Jacobs made a community center that would allow members of community that would help people with health related question. Under Jacobs’s leadership Windber has established an affiliation with the Plane tree treatment system, which integrates meditation, massage, music and other holistic methods in to traditional health care, and the wellness center which offers fitness training, yoga and acupuncture. He made connections with the employees of the hospital and the community at large. Mr. Jacob first interviews each of the employees to find out what they wanted from the community and from the hospital.
Symone Jackson September 6, 2012 English 1001 Lingua Franchise In the article, Lingua Franchise, Charles Foran shares his experiences and knowledge on foreign tongues and how English is incorporated into other languages. Foran concludes that though there has been a ‘tidal wave’ of English among the globe, it is not putting any major languages to rest and that other countries are receptive to integrating English into their own language. The intended audience seems to be those who believe that English is dominating other languages into extinction. The author’s purpose is stated in a ‘matter-of-fact’ tone which attempts to convince readers that the wide spread use of English is harmless. The genre of the article is informative with examples from the author’s own experiences.
He argued that social development studies showed changes in their social behaviors and their interactions once in their new environment. Thus, he concluded that the new society was uniquely America. He has a very valid argument, but I believe he could have maintained the strength of his argument while also including the fact that the American people coming from British roots, the Puritans, the Royalist elites, the North Midlanders of England and the North British and Irish were still unique as a sub-culture melded together by the choice for religious and economic freedom. The pursuit to own land and accumulate wealth, and not be under the rule of the crown was first and foremost in the early colonists minds. Fisher rests his entire point of view based on the roots of the four British folkways that separated the settlers in America.
Jane Tompkins wanted to know the answer to the question of, “All I wanted was a general ideal of what happened between the English settlers and natives in the seventeenth-century New England.” (Tompkins200) She had no ideal of confusing or false information she would come into while trying to find an answer. She researched several writers and scholars who only told half the truth and not the full facts. She saw in the writers writing their opinion instead of facts. Her first research began with Perry Miller who wrote about the movement of European culture. Miller showed in his writing how bias he was with seeing the truth about the Indians.
Response to Bulosan, Roth and Erdrich It is impossible to define what it means to be “American” in one simple term. America is sometimes said to be the land of opportunity, the land of freedom, a place where everyone is free to live without judgment or persecution. Many have found that this assumption about America is incorrect. Many have found that America is littered with struggles and hypocrisy. Maybe what it really means to be an “American” is to accept the fact that America is a country full of contradictions and ironies, and instead of chasing perfection, one must simply accept the good with the bad.
The text deeply accentuates the concept of belonging through the notions of culture and identity. This is the story of the Ganguli family, who migrate from Calcutta to America and spend their lives striving for a better life and integration into the new culture. Throughout the novel the family is faced with the issues of culture, and the barriers that exist around it. This concept is depicted early on in the novel when they are required to fill out the birth certificate of their first child but the letter from Ashima’s grandmother has not yet arrived, the letter that holds the name of this child. This letter is a tradition practiced in India for a number of centuries, where the grandmother of the new born, is responsible for naming the child.
If in order to become an American, one must be brought up with one ethnicity, not two. This is how the narrator viewed the American identity as. Race and ethnicity takes into part as the factors that led to the exclusion in this text. The narrator of this text feels like she is being excluded from the American society simply because she is part of more than one ethnicity. Just like on page 230, she stated, “As my life began in my father’s country it may end in my mother’s.” She had to decide if the way to defined the American identity was having the option to choose what one wishes.
Not much has changed since 1899 when Onoto Watanna and Sui Sin Far—the Eaton Sisters—confronted the dreaded binary that seems perpetually to define Asian Americans as either "model minorities" or "bad subjects," as those who either collaborate with or resist corrupt American racial practices. A century later, the "mainstream Asian American intellectual class," inclusive of "academics, artists, activists, and nonacademic critics," still struggles with this rhetorical burden, at times incapable of collapsing this problematic binary, other times intentionally reaffirming it for personal gain, so argues Viet Thanh Nguyen in Race and Resistance: Literature and Politics in Asian America. Moreover, according to Nguyen, Asian American creative writers
How does Sebold use representations of speech and other literary techniques to portray Ray Singh in the following extract? In the extract Alice Sebold uses representations of speech and other literary techniques to present Ray Singh as a very nice but different outsider. The extract is located just after Len Fenerman finds Susie's notes from Mr. Botte's class. Towards the end of the extract the use of irony in "Suburbia: The American Experience" is used to demonstrate the segregation between Ray and his "American" acquaintances. Also the fact that this book was written post 9/11 places a huge spotlight on Ray Singh, this makes the reader think that Ray Singh is used as a Symbol of all the immigrants and travellers in America.
Literature 221 April 27, 2010 Final Project Essay: Therese Lafirme “At Fault” What is American spirit? Despite there being differences in the way people look or speak, they share traits and characteristics that could easily be agreed exemplify Americanism. The novel “At Fault” by Kate Chopin contains great examples of characters that exhibit the American spirit. Looking beyond the surface and the main plot Therese Lafirme is one of these characters who is uniquely American. In the novel Therese portrays and symbolizes what American spirit is all about and what it has become despite of her creole descent.