Mohsin Hamid, in his novel The Reluctant Fundamentalist explores the effects of 9/11 through the eyes of his protagonist, Changez, a Pakistani who lived in America for ‘four and a half years.’ Changez shares his experiences of living in America, where he questions his identity after 9/11, owing to the stereotypes about all Pakistanis being terrorists. By using Changez as a narrator and an American man as a listener, Hamid explores the underlying issues of 9/11, the vulnerability of people after such an event and the effects it has on the nation. Hamid does this by exploring the rise and fall of Changez’s relationship with America and Erica. Hamid explores Changez’s initial infatuation with America. The novel implies that even though Changez is later ambivalent about his connection with America, he loves certain aspects of America.
Why are their still forms of discrimination in today’s society? There are still forms of discrimination in today’s society because of societies up-bringing. How people are raised and what community they live in plays a big factor in they treat others. If a society promotes equality then the chances of visible discrimination are less likely. There are still forms of discrimination in today’s society because throughout society, discrimination still exists primarily due to the projection of the mass media.
Some senior officers in the Met remain unrepentant, arguing that they can't afford to think twice when investigating matters of urgent public safety. It is the same kind of defence that is being used to justify racial profiling for airline passengers at Britain's airports. Nevertheless, suspicions that the Met has failed to come to terms with an inherent prejudice was highlighted earlier this year when a discussion paper commissioned by the Met's Directorate of Professional Standards, suggested that Asian officers, and in particular Pakistani Muslim officers, were "under greater pressure from the family, the extended family ... and their community against that of their white colleagues to engage in activity that might lead to misconduct or criminality." In response, the Metropolitan Police said that the purpose of the report was to seek to understand how social and familial pressures affect officers' work. QUESTION TO FOCUS ON: What causes the so-called ‘growing global polarisation’ within the British society?
If it was not for the counter culture of the sixties, there would still be an active never-ending war in Vietnam. People should not have to endure unfair treatment just because their forefathers stipulated their practice because it was appropriate at the time. Old Man Warren, the eldest of the town, is the leading example of the past generation’s striving for solidity of out-dated virtues when he calls villages off to the north that had quit the lottery a, “pack of crazy fools”. He is completely enthralled
Sung Beom Kwon 01-30-2015 UGC 211 American Pluralism Response paper 1 Fahrenheit 9/11 Watching the film Fahrenheit 9/11 made me think of corruption of government that I haven’t thought about before. I personally don’t have any interest in political matters since it never actually affected me, my family, or my friends. But watching this film reminded me of discussion I heard from my host family about 9/11. It has been years since I’ve heard this conversation and had a very low fluency in English at the time but I could still remember clearly that 9/11 might have been a scenario set up by U.S.A. and it was all to take over the oil reserves in Middle East. At the time I did not believe the story or more likely I didn’t care what the U.S. government was doing but the film got me by shock with so much evidence it presented and how corrupt a government official could be for their own self-interest.
I don’t believe he was ever violent with his war protests. The only thing in my opinion that could have been argued that John Lennon was endangering was the image of the government which made them feel threatened. I feel that John Lennon did a very good job of how he handled his opposition and I don’t believe he could have gone about it another way while staying peaceful. In my opinion I think the government handled the John Lennon situation very poorly, John only demonstrated peaceful protest, and he never harmed anyone. The government tried to have John Lennon deported on a charge that they dug up from his past in his country.
Everybody including myself, has shortfalls and have failed expectations, but in my opinion that is not reason to maliciously ignore, torture, or think of a race in a biased way simply because of their looks, dialect, or descent. Our generation should not make opinions on a race as a whole based on their prior personal experiences. However, unfortunately people do. Most recently I have seen friends putting down the Iraqi and Iranian races as a whole because the countries are well known for terroristic activity. However, this really gets to me, as I have met both Iranians and Iraqi’s who are on fire for God meaning enthusiastic and loves him with all their hearts.
This is what Michael Moore was trying to prove in his movie, that Americans are violent for no reason because they afraid of losing their rights and Michael Moore tries to show us this through his documentary, was very truthful about how violent and paranoid Americans are. But he wasn’t bias even though he was American and had owned weapons and was a member or the NRA since he was sixteen, he even took on the NRA’s CEO Charlton Heston and he fled from his interview with Moore towards the end because he was
As everyone knows, this is a Steven Spielberg war film and his first attempt at actually capturing the horror of warfare. I've never been in war, and it's not likely that I ever will be, but I think experiencing Saving Private Ryan is the closest I'll ever come. After watching this film, I felt like I had survived a war. I was tired, exhilarated, battered, and disturbed. It's not a pleasant experience, but it's a profoundly powerful one, and I recommend that everyone see it.
He accepts the consequences that came with his arrest by leaving for the prison camp. But his story prompted the Captain to say “We ain’t never had one of them before.” He has not changed himself into becoming a part of what society is expected to be. Emerson says “I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies and dead institutions,” where a large portion of the population likes to follow the expectations and image that other have set up for them. This is essentially what happens to a major part of society which is why expectations and the “norm” have been set up because it’s what everyone is accustomed to. Although without expectations, an idea of a regular society cannot be created leaving many people lost and not knowing what to do.