...“The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven” by Sherman Alexie and “Separation Anxiety” by Evie Shockley discuss the complications of identity while living in worlds of different cultures. Victor is the main character of “The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven” and he has an identity crisis throughout the story since he lives in the city but is from the Indian reservation. He identifies not only as a Native American, but he lives in a community surrounded by mostly Caucasian people which makes him feel out of place. He feels that he does not belong in the reservation and also does not belong in the big city. The narrator, Peaches, in “Separation Anxiety” identifies herself as an African American and lives in a community where everyone...
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...How Children View Group Ownership in a Family Setting Matthew Seanor Florida International University How Children View Group Ownership in a Family Setting The research study that I have chosen to analyze was a study conducted with young children to see how they understand the limits and the benefits of group ownership. The study was conducted with 540 children with their ages varying from 3 to 6 (Huh 2017). These children were from an area that is mostly middle class, with 79% of the region being Caucasian (Huh 2017). The researchers chose to show how children comprehend the concept of group ownership by conducting six experiments with different age ranges. There is a plethora of research studies that deal with young children and group settings. However, most researchers fail to see how children view group ownership. In this paper, I will analyze how this study on Children and Group Ownership, specifically with family, was conducted. The study that I will analyze specifically deals with how children ownership of objects in a family setting. The researcher used 60 children for this study, 20 three year olds, 20 four year olds, and 20 five year olds (Huh 2017). First, the researcher made sure that the child could point out his or her individual family members along with a full family photo. After the researcher...
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...I think the human need for a sense of belonging is partially based on a primal need to feel safe. In most survival situations you are always safer in numbers. The bigger group you belong to the more eyes and senses you have to be aware of possible threats. I think it is also true that if you feel you belong to the group you can trust them more and feel free to let your guard down. So the human need for belonging is based on survival. That said I think it also serves an emotional aspect. A sense of belonging can have huge effects of the psychic. I think it would help combat depression, improve social skills, help to regulate emotional responses and build a connection with others. Now with the sense of belonging and the need to create an emotional...
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...Hip Hop music is the most popular music that is out in today's world. Blacks, whites, and latinos listen to Hip Hop music that is being played. What the question is a lot of people would like to know and come to a complete agreement on is who does hip hop music belong to. Hip Hop music belongs to a cultural group, African Americans. African Americans are the ones who started it first. African Americans know how to make it come alive and they can relate more to it. Everyone wants to know the fact and truth on who does hip hop music belong to. Hip Hop music belongs to everyone but however, it belongs to African Americans. Some may say it's a racial standard and that it's not true are right to give a group all the credit for something they started, but it's true. Hip Hop started in 1970, in south Bronx in New York city, with the African American youth residing in the Bronx. First, Hip Hop artist was the Sugar Hill Gang. Hip Hop was inspired by the urban black community. Hip Hop music started in one area before...
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...Number: 203722 Choice of the Question: Number 2 Title: Andreas Walther – Interact and Shifting Between the West and the East Did the question that which ethnic group (or ethnic groups in some cases) that you belong to ever come across your mind when you are alone? I suppose that the question “oh which ethnic group I actually belongs to?” would not bother you in the halfway you are walking, driving, or anything you are doing just by yourself. But when you are interacting with someone else (especially when the person is belongs to other ethnic groups), you come to think of the ethnic identity, your own ethnic identity and others ethnic identity. This is why I tend to see ethnic identity as an interactional identity. On the other hand, ethnic identity is a situational identity, too. In this essay I would discuss about these interactional and situational characteristics of one’s ethnic identity. I will try to explain why am I sees ethnic identity as an interactional and situational identity. I am going to discuss this, because I would like to share my points of view about these characteristics of ethnic identity, after reading some materials regarding these topics. First of all, I would like to introduce you a person who does really mean a lots to me. However, I must stress out that I get to know him, only on paper (I read his book!) but not in the reality. Andreas Walther, 27 years old, currently lives in Hong Kong, and about to move to Taiwan. Andreas is very tall, he has...
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...Sabbath of the Month Area of Concern | Objectives | Name of the Activity | Target Date | Focal Person | Strategy | Resources | Performance Evidence | | To be able to know if the family where someone belong has God with them | “Can God be seen through my family?” | August 3, 2013 | | Group Dynamic | | One can determine if God is visible in the family he/she belongs | | To let everyone know the importance of peace in the family | “Enemy in the Family?” | September 7 | | | | | | To promote the prescribed clothing everyone is encouraged to wear | “Putting on the Apparel” | October 5 | | | | | | To let everyone choose their destiny whether a life with or without God | “Power of Choice” | November 2 | | | | | | To encourage each one to have a complete surrender of life to God | “Letting Go and Let God” | December 7 | | | | | | To let everyone make a resolution for the new year for a new life and for another chance to live with Christ | “My New Year’s Resolution | January 4, 2014 | | | | | | To aspire to be filled up by the Holy Spirit and learn to create a selfless love for God | “Selfless Love for God” | February 1 | | | | | | To recognize where do really someone belong, whether to God or to the other side | “Where do I belong?” | March 1 | | | | | Mountain View College Alumni Church Adventist Youth Council Academic Year 2013-2014 DEVELOPMENT PLAN * To Share God’s Friendship * Health 2nd Sabbath of the Month ...
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...Cultural Differences: A Lesson in Tolerance Approximately Two - Three Weeks of Instruction Stage 1 – Desired Results Quarter 4 Rhetorical Approach Standards – Grade 7: V1.1 (identify figurative language), RC 2.4 (compare original text to summary), RC 2.6 (relate author’s evidence to claim), LRA 3.5 (identify recurring themes), WA 2.2 (response to literature) Big Ideas & Understanding(s): Essential Question(s): We are authors of own identity. 1. How would I describe the people in my community? Students will understand that… Stereotypes change over time; individuals must resist stereotyping. Individuals should consider themselves members of fluid or changeable groups. An extended metaphor can be a powerful way to structure an argument. 2. What are some different ways that I define my own identity? 3. How can a metaphor be extended to tell an entire narrative? 4. How can cultural differences within the United States strengthen us as a country? Student will know… Students will be able to… Comparisons (extended metaphors) are powerful ways to structure an argument 1.Trace the author’s argument in an article How different figures of speech can function in an argument or narrative: alliteration, onomatopoeia, simile, metaphor, personification, and imagery Background information on Ellis Island, and/or immigration, depending on visual texts chosen How to write a different type of Response to Literature…one modeled after the...
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...and many communities in general. On one hand, it is true that these former two terms can be considered complete opposites. Pratt herself states that “the idea of the contact zone is intended in part to contrast with ideas of community” (507). They are, nonetheless, also indubitably related. Insiders, for example, often times view their group as a community, homogenous in its views and goals. Conversely, many outsiders may view the group as a heterogeneous contact zone. This discussion also leads to a truly intriguing question: Can you, simultaneously, consider a group you belong to as both a community and a contact zone? Although there are surely many examples of groups that could be described as communities and/or contact zones, one very relatable instance to me, along with many others, is the high school experience as a whole. My father, who recently retired, was active duty in the United States Air Force for twenty-two years, including nearly my entire childhood. Due to this fact, my family and I moved around quite frequently both around the country, and around the world. Throughout his many assignments and deployments, I had both the great opportunity and great misfortune of attending many public schools, including three during my high school career. This experience, although challenging, gave me a chance to see a few typical high schools from drastically different...
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...concept that is shaped by our interactions and experiences with people, groups and communities. It is evident that we can develop a strong need and desire to belong and our ability to achieve this is shaped by our behaviours attitudes and actions. This notion is evident in the novel, The Simple Gift composed by Steven Herrick. Where Herrick demonstrates many concepts of belonging, one being the need to belong to a group or a community shapes our behaviour, attitudes and actions. Herrick conveys this through the perspectives of Billy, Old Bill and Caitlin. In Steven Herrick’s novel ‘A Simple Gift’, he uses various techniques to portray belonging or the lack of belonging. We accompany Billy as he meets great role models which serve to inspire him thoughout the novel. Ernie's train whistle symbolises the beginning of Billy's new life contrasted favourably by Ernie’s accepting and helpful attitude. Ernie give Billy his first taste of hope in mankind, whilst allowing Billy to feel acceptance. His next positive role model is Irene, Bendarat’s Librarian, who welcomes him and encourages him to borrow books and broaden his mind, Irene accepts Billy immediately a helps him at stages of the story. A great technique used in the novel is Multiple Narrators, as the characters of Billy, Old Bill and Caitlin who because of their sense of alienation, are pushed towards one another by fate, to fulfil their need to belong. The mutual yearning they share is revealed by the use of a split narrative...
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...While Population: 485 centers on several different themes throughout the book, I chose to focus my interpretation on the sense of belonging the author, Michael Perry, seems to crave all through the literature, and more specifically, during chapters one and seven. In chapter one, titled Jabowski’s Corner, he opens the door to his journey by bringing us to the small town of New Auburn, Wisconsin. This is the place he belongs. He introduces many of the people of New Auburn in every chapter, but I chose chapter seven because he describes the diverse groups of individuals that make up the town and refers to them as “My People,” which is also the title of the chapter. These are the people that make up the town, the people he belongs with. I feel his love for the land, in this small Wisconsin town, is deeply expressed in both chapter one and in chapter seven. Another association the two chapters have is the idea that to truly feel that comfort and pleasure of belonging in the place where you live, love for the land may not be enough. Michael finds a way to connect to the community and then to connect the community with the land. Michael Perry, the author and main character, has returned to the place he calls home after being away for twelve years. He left New Auburn after graduating high school. While away, he earned a bachelor’s degree from nursing school and worked a couple of jobs as a nurse. He was frustrated by the fact that he didn’t know how to extricate someone...
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...TASK # 2 OTHERING Othering occurs when one group of people exclude others who they would consider different in some way. By making others feel excluded we boost our own egos making us feel as if we are the better group. Othering is a way in which we believe that our beliefs, our race and our life are better than another groups. We base this decision on one fact alone and that is the fact that they are different in some way from what we believe to be normal. In the poem The White House by Claude McKay it clearly tells us of the hatred he feels from the world around him because of the color of his skin. The line “Oh, I must keep my heart inviolate against the potent poison of your hate.” (McKay, n.d., line 13 and 14) This line tells us that he feels all this hate is coming from the people around him and that he views the world as being against him. It is very clear from this poem that McKay believes very strongly against the exclusion of Africa Americans and their rights. After reading the poem you get a sense of how very strongly he believed in equal rights for all. The line “But I posses the courage and the grace to bear my anger proudly and unbent.” (McKay, n.d. , line 3 and 4) I feel that this demonstrates his strength to preserver despite what he is going through and how angry he may be. In the line “Your door is shut against my tightened face.” (McKay, n.d., Line 1) you can feel his sense of not feeling as if he belongs. He feels as if he is an outsider looking in and...
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...Social Roles and Status |Status |The two different statuses I hold are unemployed and being a mother and a student. Being unemployed | |Identify the different statuses you hold |would fall under ascribed. And being a mother and student would fall under achieved. | |in society, both ascribed and achieved. | | |Master Status |My mastery status in society would be a parent. | |Identify your master status in society. | | |Social Roles |My role as a parent is a very important responsibility. I have to always be a mother. Even when | |Describe the roles associated with the |times get tough. | |various statuses identified above. | | |Role conflict, strain, exit |I experienced a role conflict. I was hospitalized due to a gallblatter removal. It was unexpected. | |Discuss a time when you experienced |It was hard because I never had surgery before that. | |either role conflict...
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...Chapter 1 The Problem and its Background Introduction Fraternity is one of the most influential groups that students may encounter during his/her college days. When we hear fraternity, commonly it belongs to men but as the years passed, even women are also being engaged with fraternities or the so called sorority. As an individual, we have this feeling that we need to belong. It is very essential for man to find fulfillment and to have a feeling of acceptance simply because man by nature is a social being. Adolescents were the ones who are always involve in fraternities. Adolescents, as said by many psychologists or theorists, it is the critical stage of life. It is accompanied by many changes that bring crisis and difficulties, and these changes include physical, mental, emotional and social. Physical changes were very visible and very observable thing that takes place during adolescence. But the social aspect of adolescents also changes. It is the time when an individual searches and identifies himself through socialization. The prior environment of every individual is the family. But as we continue to grow, it broadens extending to friends and peers in school. Adolescents begin to search for new friends and start to form or join any group that makes them think of joining one of these. Adjustment in the society is one of the most difficult aspects and includes the members of the opposite sex and adult outside family members and also the school environment. Being...
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...Practical of Biology Medical I- The Microscope A compound light microscope Function of microscope parts: Eye Piece: The part you look at with your eye. Usually 10 X magnification. Arm and Base: Used to safely transport microscope. Stage: Slides are placed on it. Coarse Adjustment: Used to make large changes in focus. Fine Adjustment: Used to small adjustments of focus. Tube: Reflects light up to the viewer’s eye. Low Power Objective: The first lens you use when doing proper microscope work. Usually 4 X. Medium Power Objective: The second lens you use when doing proper microscope work. Usually 10 X. High Power Objective: The highest magnifications usually 40 X. Oil immersion lens: The highest magnifications usually 100 X. Stage Clips: Use to keep the slide in place. Diaphragm: Use to vary the amount of light passing through the slide. II- Gametogenesis T.S of Tests and Epididymis T.S of Tests and Seminifeorus tubules Seminifeorus tubules T.S of Ovary T.S of Ovary III- Tissues SIMPLE CUBOIDAL EPITHELIUM Simple Squamous Epithelium Simple columnar epithelium Ciliated pseudostratified columnar epithelium Compact bone Hyaline Cartilage Human Blood Film Nerve cells T.S of Spinal cord Skeletal Muscle Smooth Muscle ...
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...I was born in San Diego, California and lived there until I was 10. Throughout those 10 short years I was exposed to a wide set of diversity. People of different ethnics, cultures, sexual orientations, religions, etc. I had the luxury of seeing the differences in people at such a young age. Being black and white, living in a family that was predominantly white was hard to understand. I asked the questions like “why was I different,” and “why my skin color was brown and not white,” like my mothers and siblings. But living in California it was easy seeing others just like me. Its diversity influenced how I acted and operated within the society I lived in. It made me accept and realize that being “different” is normal. By 10 my family and I moved to a little town called Farmington, New Hampshire. I guess you can say I had a bit of a culture shock....
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