...Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. Immigrants from these countries from South Asia form the South Asian Americans. For many years, South Asia Americans have been trying to come together and form one community that will treat members from each South Asian country equally. According to the proponents of this formation, it will help them to address challenges that they face as one community and ensure that they all work towards their success as South Asian Americans. However, some member of South Asian Americans believe that they got raw deal in the formation of South Asian community as one or few countries have taken advantage of the term to refer to themselves and created different class status among the South Asian Americans instead of all being equal. According to the members of the South Asian Americans, the formation of class status has become a major impediment towards the achievement of success by the South...
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...Hypertension and Asian Indian Americans Hypertension is the precursor to many other degenerative diseases. Chronic high blood pressure leads to higher risk of cardiovascular disease and stroke. It can also make diseases such as diabetes and renal disease much worse. Hypertension is common across all population groups with around a third of the general population developing the condition. Ethnic minorities in the United States have more prevalence of hypertension than their non-Hispanic Caucasian counterparts, of that one third, about 38 percent are Asian Americans, and of that 38 percent, around 40 percent are East/Southeast Asian (Fei, 2017). Prevalence rates increase with acculturation, the longer a patient has been in the United States,...
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...In my journey, a challenge I had to overcome personally is being an Asian-American myself. Growing up my parents had trouble communicating with people and knowing the English language in general. I had to translate bills, letters, and conversations for them because they struggled with communication. It was hard for me to translate for both parties at once as I struggled with fluency in Vietnamese myself. Conversations with my parents lasted with little phrases instead of sentences, so I couldn’t be much of help to them. I overcame this by interacting and exposing myself to the language more at the temple and during my trip to Vietnam in order to communicate better. Furthermore, this challenge has affected my character of being patient and knowledgeable...
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...The essay that I chose to read was “Facing Poverty with a Rich Girl Habits” by Suki Kim. In this essay the author explains of a life altering experience where her and her family was living a life where money was of no object, a life where they were millionaires. They lived in a hilltop mansion with gorgeous scenery and perks that people of lower financial class were not privy to such as chauffeurs, private school and special aides to assist with homework. The author further explains how her life of luxury takes a dramatic turn. Suki goes into detail about how they lost everything in one quick swoop. Her father’s businesses all failed and were bankrupt. She explains how in her country of South Korea that bankrupts was a crime that was punishable with a jail sentence. In a last ditch effort to avoid him going to prison they fled their country with no money to America. They relocate to Woodside, New York. The realization of her new life shows apparent when she explains how she hated her new brownstone home that they are forced to relocate to. She also takes a moment to introduce us to her first “friends” Andy and Billy. The author then gives the reader the new and different experiences she faces as an immigrant in a brand new place. The young girl who had wealth and opportunity was now no more than another face no special than anyone else. She talks about the racial changes in her life as far as being labeled as Asian and learning that there is a conception that as someone...
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...5/17/2016 WEEK 3 The Essay An Overview of Essay Development The INTRODUCTION The BODY PARAGRAPHS What it contains? Background information, which attracts or ‘hooks’ the reader. What it contains? Topic sentences which follow the thesis statement. Transitions introducing each sub topic. Relevant and generous convincing support (unity) and coherence. A closing remark (concluding sentence) showing the relevance of the support. A thesis statement, which limits the topic and states a precise opinion. The CONCLUSION What it contains? A paraphrase of the thesis statement. INTRODUCTION A summary of the main points. A closing remark (final remark). 1 5/17/2016 Introduction dna noitnetta s’redaer eht teg ot koo H ::::kooH koo H koo H .1 .1 .1 .1 eht ni ecnetnes tsrif( .cipot eht secudortni )hpargarap .2 tnempoleveD .3 .3 .3 .3 neme a S s sehT neme a S s sehT :::: ttttnemettttattttS siiiisehT neme a S s sehT secnetnes lareneg 4 ot 2 : fo sucof eht ecudortni ot )hpargarap eht fo ecnetnes tsal( )hpargarap eht fo ecnetnes tsal( )hpargarap eht fo ecnetnes tsal( )hpargarap eht fo ecnetnes tsal( .yasse eht 1. Start with a general statement (funnel approach) HOW DO YOU CREATE A HOOK? 2.Start with an idea/situation that is the opposite of the one you intend to develop We live in an era where television is the national pastime. Since the invention of the television set, people have...
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...Geography Programme, School of People, Environment and Planning ESSAY WRITING AND FORMAT GUIDE FOR GEOGRAPHY STUDENTS Essay Writing and Format Guide 2 Essay Writing and Format Guide Table of Contents Introduction: Why Write Essays? ........................................................ 4 Types of Essay........................................................................................ 5 Analysing the Question: Answering the Question............................ 5 Planning Your Essay ............................................................................. 8 Writing Your Essay................................................................................ 9 Introduction ..................................................................................... 10 The Body of the Essay.................................................................... 10 Concluding ....................................................................................... 12 Editing............................................................................................... 13 Writing Style ......................................................................................... 13 Spelling.............................................................................................. 13 Writing numbers.............................................................................. 14 Grammar: plurals and apostrophes .............................................. 15 Syntax: The...
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...Expressive Essay (Observation, Ethnography or Memoir) First Draft ENC 1101 – CR Junkins Purpose: What do I want the student to do? In this course, we will explore the two most commonly used forms of writing for college students: expressive writing and academic writing. Expressive writing captures what is important to the writer. In order to succeed, writers must understand themselves. Such writing is deeply personal. Expressive writing is designed to prepare students for writing outside academics—communicating feelings and observations, beliefs and opinions, community and individuality—all skill sets that will enable students to succeed in any discipline or career path. From a learning perspective, expressive writing is often an easier form of writing than academic. It allows students to begin working with such concepts as language, reasoning and mechanics while working with material they find worth discussing. In this assignment, I want students to carefully examine both themselves and their community. What makes their community unique? What is their place within the community? How did their unique, individual personality take shape? Project Overview: How do I want the student to do the assignment? Component One: Personal Students will choose to write on one of the following three topics: • One’s sense of place (observation) • One’s place within a community (ethnography) • One’s relationship to an event from the past (memoir) ...
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...Who do you think your selected audience will be in your critical analysis essay? Describe this audience, and explain how they would benefit from any insights produced from your analysis of your selected article. I think my selected audience will be students of foreign descent that are interested in becoming English majors or studying literature. I think they would be the group that would benefit the most from this article. My audience would be composed of students that do not use English as their mother tongue but still want to pursue the language and study it. They would be passionate about studying English either to make a better life in the U.S. for themselves or simply help other students like themselves learn it in the future. I believe that the contents of this article would help those students in motivating them in becoming authors or writers themselves. Although this article mostly speaks towards her mother and how she had a different style of English, it still talks about how she was told she could never write or become a scholar in language because of English not being her primary language. She overcomes this and becomes a very revered Asian-American writer....
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...ccarolan@uoregon.edu Purpose: This course explores the geography of the Middle East with an emphasis on politics, culture, and regional cohesion. Through a variety of sources including modern literature, film, images of landscape, traditional academic texts and the daily news, we will pursue an understanding of those elements that characterize the region, as well as those features that are distinct and mark different peoples and places. We will examine local, sub-national, national, and international issues relating to identity and status, history, environment, economy and other topics, in an attempt to create a portrait of daily life in the many venues of the region, whether they be urban or rural, coastal or desert, North African or Asian, Muslim, Christian, Jewish, Arab, Israeli, Turkish, Iranian, and so on. Our goal will be to use the information available to us to discern patterns in the region that allow us to grasp its richness and complexity, to gain a sense of its past, contextualize current changes, and to anticipate future directions. Resources: For this course we will work from a number of selected writings, and we will also read three Middle Eastern novels. The first, by the Sudanese author Tayib Salih, is Season of Migration to the North, a complex narrative about the imprint of colonialism on the Arab psyche and the struggles between tradition and modernity in a small village on the Nile. The second, is Cities of Salt by Abdelrahman Munif, which deals with...
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...Writing and Literary Critique of Asian/Pacific American Literature Throughout the history of the United States media, there are common stereotypes of females in films that are presented in the short story by Fong, Charlie Chan’ No More. I believe that the roles of Asian Americans are limited in films, such as gender and sexuality, by stereotyping females. Asian Americans are being portrayed as negative images through various media, from books, films, plays, and even television. “The audience would realize that media views Asians and Asian Americans as others that include exoticized women, asexual men, a yellow peril threat to the United States” (Ono & Pham, 2009). Throughout this essay, I am referencing the article by Fong, Charlie Chan’ No More, and Moon, a poem by Marilyn Chin, where they both talk about sexuality and gender. “Asian women, have often been depicted as almost completely sexual” (Fong, 177). In the short story as well as the poem, they can manipulate the messages of gender and sexuality of Asian American females that are being represented in both stories. Throughout Fong’s short story, there is a lot of controversy whether or not Asian American females are being portrayed with negative images, for example as sex objects. I also researched instances on the counter actions taken by Asian American females that protest the negative images, such as the dragon lady. I believe that Asian American females are being portrayed with such negative images, such as...
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...| Why is it so difficult to be understood? | by | | Herman Jacobs | | Why is it so difficult to be understood? For this essay we were asked to place imagine ourselves as the main character of a short story and then answer a simple question about her motivation. The challenge is that the main character is a Japanese-American woman living more than 50 years ago. The story “Two Deserts” by Valerie Matsumoto tells of Emiko Oyama, a young mother who lives in California’s Imperial Valley. Emiko is married with one daughter. As the story unfolds, it becomes clear that Emiko was interned during World War Two. This is no doubt one of the two deserts referred to by the story’s title. Emiko also revelas in the story that she has never been to Tokyo, and therefore we assume that she has never been to Japan. Emiko’s relationship with new neighbors is the heart of the story. More to the point Emiko’s relationship with Roy, a retired man who is very pushy, is the story. Emiko suffers Roy and adapts her life to try and discourage him from bothering her, but does not confront him directly. At the end of the story Emiko kills a scorpion and this signals that she has overcome her fears and that Roy won’t bother her any longer. The question is, why doesn’t she confront Roy sooner or in a more direct manner? Can language, culture and gender explain this? One reason Emiko doesn’t confront Roy directly has to do with linguistics, Robin Lakoff wrote about “Women’s Language...
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...Justice for All I will be sharing my essay with Kanny Huang, Mariah Musgrove, and Mr. Romine. Kanny and Mr. Romine are both males while Mariah is a female. Kanny and Mariah are both fellow classmates and Mr. Romine has a master’s degree in language arts. Kanny is of Asian ethnic background and is sixteen years old while Mr. Romine is of caucasian ethnic background and is forty-seven. Mariah is also sixteen years old and of caucasian ethnic background. They have all already read “Letter From Birmingham Jail” and very good background information on the topic. They all know Martin Luther King pushed for equality in a nonviolent way. Kanny and Mariah are both writing their own essays over the selected core reading. They too will be summarizing...
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...At the University of Michigan Medical School, we are committed to building a superb educational community with students of diverse talents, experiences, opinions, and backgrounds. What would you as an individual bring to our medical school community? Being Asian in the racially homogenous community of [small town], it was clear: I did not belong. When my father moved to South Korea after my 8th grade year, I was excited to spend summers there. I would finally belong. I was wrong. My excellent Korean language skills let me feign native status but my American mannerisms betrayed me. To Koreans, I was just American. At [university], a diverse community, I sought out Korean-Americans. But they questioned whether I truly understood the Asian-American experience due to my [predominantly white state] upbringing. To them, I was white. While these cultural rejections from my various communities were painful, I learned to recognize individuals as unique entities despite shared identity markers such as race. I vowed to always see the whole person; not just her external stereotypes. I have stayed true to this promise as a teacher in [New York City] and have seen the rewards in the form of fruitful relationships. I will continue to do the same with my patients. My struggles to belong taught me to work easily with a variety of people by adjusting my perspectives without sacrificing my values, and listening carefully to others. I built my own sense of belonging, which was more than my...
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...RECRUITMENT TO POSTS IN GRADES 17 & 16 UNDER THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, 1971 ENGLISH ESSAY Maximum marks: 100 C SS .C O M .P Note: Write an essay in ENGLISH on ONE of the following: 1. Man as part of a design infinitely vaster than himself. 2. Knowledge demands love as its complement. 3. The amusement mania. 4. The art of feature films made in Pakistan. 5. Art and Religion. 6. Education of freedom. 7. Brain-washing. 8. The lessons of the past. 9. Requisites for social progress in Pakistan. 10. How words change our lives? 11. Man is condemned to be free. 12. Leaders and followers. K Time allowed: 3 hours ENGLISH ESSAY EXAMINATION 1972 Maximum marks: 100 C SS .C O M .P Write an essay in English on One of the following: 1. Relevance of Islam to Science. 2. The sanctity of law. 3. Competitive results of planned economy? 4. The sick soul. 5. The strategy of political warfare. 6. “If’ in History. 7. Psychology and its social meaning. 8. Reverence for life. 9. International morality. 10. The divided self and the process of its unification. 11. Statesmen and Diplomatists. 12. The foundations of the feature. K Time allowed: 3 hours ENGLISH ESSAY EXAMINATION 1973 Time allowed: 3 hours Maximum marks: 100 1. (a) Make an outline for writing an Essay in English on One of the following subjects: (b) Write the Essay on the subject you have selected more or less on the basis of the Outline you have...
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...Criterion SM Online Essay Evaluation: An Application for Automated Evaluation of Student Essays Jill Burstein Educational Testing Service Rosedale Road, 18E Princeton, NJ 08541 jburstein@ets.org Martin Chodorow Department of Psychology Hunter College 695 Park Avenue New York, NY 10021 martin.chodorow@hunter.cuny.edu Claudia Leacock Educational Testing Service Rosedale Road, 18E Princeton, NJ 08541 cleacock@ets.org Abstract This paper describes a deployed educational technology application: the CriterionSM Online Essay Evaluation Service, a web-based system that provides automated scoring and evaluation of student essays. Criterion has two complementary applications: E-rater®, an automated essay scoring system and Critique Writing Analysis Tools, a suite of programs that detect errors in grammar, usage, and mechanics, that identify discourse elements in the essay, and that recognize elements of undesirable style. These evaluation capabilities provide students with feedback that is specific to their writing in order to help them improve their writing skills. Both applications employ natural language processing and machine learning techniques. All of these capabilities outperform baseline algorithms, and some of the tools agree with human judges as often as two judges agree with each other. 2. Application Description Criterion contains two complementary applications that are based on natural language processing (NLP) methods. The scoring application, e-rater®, extracts...
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