Skrzynecki has struggled to come to terms with his cultural identity and his sense of belonging. Skrzynecki seems to have had a sudden intuitive leap of understanding of what he must do to find himself. Once he finds himself he will be able to belong. The supplementary text I will be using is a BBC documentary, “Who do you think You Are?” The text explores the relationship between cultural identity and the concept of belonging. For Natasha Kaplinsky, a British news presenter and her distant cousin, Benny, the need to revisit the past; to engage with their cultural background is again very important.
The novel Boys of Blood and Bone written by David Metzenthen (2003) follows the journey of two teenage boys. The overall message this novel conveys is to connect young people with past history. Metzenthen also covers social, moral and ethical messages such as mateship and respect. Boys of Blood and Bone is valuable to young readers as they are able to connect with messages through the selected colloquial language and gain better understanding of World War 1. Metzenthen has delivered this novel through the use of parallel plot lines, which connects the two stories together.
Salman Rushdie is an Indian-born British essayist who migrated from his native homeland of India for Britain at a young age. In one of his more popular essays, Rushdie expresses the importance of migration as something that should be done by all; however, American essayist, Russell Sanders, has a different opinion. In the passage, “Staying Put: Making a Home in a Restless World, Sanders uses several strategies and techniques to refute Rushdie’s claims as well as develop his own. The historical evidence found in the response serves a dual purpose. The first is to provide examples for his audience in order to further his credibility.
One of the strategies he used was personal experiences. The first part of the essay goes into detail on Orwell's child hood, and how even at a young age he knew he was going to be a writer. Orwell using his personal experiences shows us that he is a person like you and me. In order to understand a writer, you need to understand the factors that shaped him and the way he reacted to those factors. Another rhetorical strategy Orwell uses is Classification.
Arab Americans trace ancestry to any of the various waves of immigrants of the countries comprising the Arab World. Arab Americans and Muslim overlap each other but they distinct from each other. Majority of Arab Americans aren’t Muslims. Both Arab and American cultures could never agree on main points and have been a source of conflict through the history of the world. Arab culture often embraces Islam and they make use of the Arabic language.
This boosts the individual’s self-esteem and promotes community cohesion. Mirza supports this view with her research on identity amongst young Muslims. She demonstrates how the later generations of young Muslims have created a strong identity within Islam as a form of cultural defence against British foreign policy. Muslims saw British foreign policies at the beginning of the 21st century, such as the Iraq and Afghanistan invasions, as anti-Islamic. To defend themselves against these Western ideas they reasserted the defence of their culture and religion.
Using the pre-release material and your wider sociological knowledge explain and evaluate the use of time-use diaries in investigating changes in the role of a father in two parent families from ethnically diverse backgrounds. (52) Haurai and Hollingworth (H and H) used a mixed method (also known as methodological pluralism) approach in their research, combining semi-structured interviews, which would gain largely qualitative data, with time use diaries, which would generate both qualitative and quantitative data. By using these two methods they would gain the approval of both interpretivists and, to a lesser extent, positivists. This is because interpretivists seek rich and meaningful insights gained from qualitative methods, which they were able to gain through semi-structured questionnaires, allowing them to gain a sense of verstehan (empathy). Positivists meanwhile favour quantitative data as they believe it is objective, value free and is not affected by researcher bias.
Personal identity is very important because it shows who a person is. Identity can be used in a positive or negative way. People can be judgmental on the identity of people because it can transcend a particular lifestyle and background. Race, gender, economic status, and social status are all rooted to develop one’s self-identity. In the two short personal essays, “ Black Men and Public Space ” by Brent Staples and “ The Lesson ” by Toni Cade Bambara the authors tell about their social
When we embark on emotional, mental and physical journeys, we initially possess basic attitudes, beliefs and values. Whilst the journey progresses, individuals and groups experience physical and mental barriers which influence new attitudes and aspirations. Individuals learn from others’ experiences and adopt and develop new ideas and perceptions of our surroundings and self identity. Our beliefs and aspirations influence our journeys as they are the foundation and basis from which our inner and physical passage emerges. In the poems ‘I, Too, Sing America’ by Langston Hughes and ‘Then and Now’ by Kath Walker, and the film ‘The King’s Speech’ (2010) directed by Tom Hooper, it is possible to see how individuals embark on individual and combined journeys to satisfy personal desires or to achieve a common goal.
A college education is about giving oneself the ability to have control over their life. David Foster Wallace speaks volumes to this point, as the true value of education lies not in the obvious benefits but rather in the deep seeded experiences that a student takes away with them and culminates in the form of tangible skills that can be utilized in real life. Commencement speeches tend to be motivational, celebratory, and inspirational, Although David Foster Wallace embodied these three subcategories in some capacity in his commencement speech at Kenyon College; he did so by presenting the graduating students with a piece of wisdom that they could use as they moved into their professional lives. David Foster Wallace informed the young