...In “On Going Home,” Joan Didion writes about the differences between her family and her husband because they do not get along. Didion is saying that she feels like an outsider in her own home because she moved away and hers and the lifestyle of her family are not the same. Didion is nostalgic about what went on when she was younger, because she started to go through old pictures and junk. She is starting to get bored and missing her life in L.A. Her family still thinks of her as a child. The mother cannot giver daughter the same sense of home and family because of her disconnection. This essay spoke to me on various levels but the main reason why I chose it is because I could see myself in it. As a married woman who has chosen to live far from “home,” I felt connected to this piece and to Didion. In “On Going Home” Didion uses place in both ways. She discusses her childhood home, in the Central Valley of California, the specific place where she grew up and where her mother resides, and as she shares her memories and experiences with the location itself, she also gives up insight into her history, culture, what her family is/was like and how that place affected and still affects her emotionally and how it compares to the home she’s made with her husband and daughter in Los Angeles. Writing about place challenges us to rethink the way in which we view our own place—what we take for granted, how we choose to define ourselves, and what we mean to others.” Didion’s...
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...On their way home Billy and his new friend Darcy decide to stop by the hotel so they could buy a carton of stubbies. At that moment Billy feels like he has to say yes or he is going to lose Darcy as a friend but he also want to make a good impression on Darcy. On their way to the bar Darcy bring up some memories of Billys past. His uncle, his dead father, his brother and his sister. He can never escape these people. The bar on the red birck hotel is almost empty when two friends arrived. The barman won't serve drinks to them and Billy gets mad at the barman. In the end of the fight the barman yells at Billy and he called him a black bastard. At that moment Billy …... that he is not white. He is black and nothing is going to change that. But at some point Billy believed that he was white. He has been living the white mans live and not at one point thought that he was black. The year Billy turned eighteen he has forgotten all about his black family. Billy saw himself as a white person and now he was looking down at the black people. Billy has success and playing for the state. This is one of the things that make billy look down on his people. I think that Billy needs to get away. He needs to think about his life and where he belongs. But in the end the way that the sergeant treats Billy is not fair. Even though he is black. Billy belongs at home with his family and not in the prison. But what Billy did was wrong. He did not deserved to live the life he...
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...Professor Hollands English 104-992 28 September 2015 “Going Home” The place where a person grew up will always be part of that person like a home, but when he leaves and comes back, the return to the familiar becomes unfamiliar. In the poem “Going Home” by Maurice Kenny, a Mohawk descendant captures the emotion that goes along with returning home for Native Americans. It feels foreign and they feel foreign to those that have stayed. Kenny uses imagery and symbolism to portray thoughts of his home he no longer feels is the same. His words are very deep and make readers think about the experiences they have when going back to their birth place. Furthermore, in reality Kenny ran away from home to New York City at the age of sixteen because of his strict father. He stayed there for a while and eventually came back home. He portrays his experience and thoughts on his way back. Using imagery he describes his sights while on the way back, “The book lay unread in my lap; snow gathered at the window” (1-2). He uses more imagery to describe the sight of the field; creating a weary tone that is balanced with the beauty nature has provided. “to country cheese and maples; tired rivers and closed mills” (6-7). Along the way he makes the readers imagine his childhood memories, “home to gossipy aunts… their dandelions and pregnant cats” (8-9). Furthermore he creates an image of his birthplace, fruits of nature and rocky fields, “home to cedars and fields of boulders; cold graves under willows...
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...Going Home Summary of the story: The story ’Going Home’ is about a young man who’s turning twenty-one. He lives in Great-Britain but his parents have aboriginal roots. The story is told from when he was sixteen years old till his twenty-first birthday. This young man goes by a couple of names: Billy Woodward and William Jacob Woodward. Those two names symbolize the two sides he has as a ‘white’ aboriginal. When he is the ‘son of his parents’ and when he talks to other aboriginals, he’s called Billy. When he’s among white people, being a regular teenager in Britain, he goes by the name William Jacob. At 18 years of age, he gets picked up by a big football team and moves away from home. Besides football, he also likes painting pictures and is very good at it. He tries to live like a white man, even though he is black, repressing his past. From time to time he stumbles into some aboriginal family of his, and is being very ashamed of them. He thinks that they are all drunken and disgusting individuals. Even though he looks at his people with revulsion, he wants to go home and visit his family for his twenty-first birthday. He expects them to celebrate him, though he hasn’t been home for three years. He didn’t even come home when his father died in an accident. Billys’ family lives far away from the city in an old aboriginal-camp. When the day arrives, he drives out to the old camp in his new fancy car. He had sold some pictures to afford this car. He picks up Darcy, an aboriginal-man...
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...In On Going Home, Didion tackles themes such as belonging, family and home by telling the story of a time when, without her husband, she took her daughter “home” to celebrate her first birthday to the hometown where Didion grew up in the house where she lived with her mother and premarital family. The essay deals with Didion’s personal issues as she compares and contrasts her current life with her husband and their child versus her life and experiences growing up. The essay speaks to the internal conflict many of us feel as adults once we leave the nest, so to speak, and go out into the world to find new “homes” while always looking back to our pasts. I felt connected to this piece and that connection inspired me to want to dive deeper. This essay spoke to me on various levels but the main reason why I chose it is because I could see myself in it. Both as a mother of a young child and as a married woman who has chosen to live far from “home,” I felt connected to this piece and to Didion as its writer. I have traveled with my daughter, now age four, back to visit my family in Philadelphia numerous times since she was born. When we lived in New York, I made the drive three to four times per year and now that I live in Iowa, the frequency has diminished to an annual flight but she and I still find ourselves making the trip without my husband, due to his work schedule. Our recent two lectures discussed the importance of “place” and its meaning in our writing. Unit One discussed...
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...be prejudice towards him, even though he tries his hardest to become white. He will bereminded of his past every time a black aboriginal looks him in his eyes.The racism towards aboriginals is very extreme in this society. All the aboriginals look like drunkenbastards, and it’s almost impossible to escape the stereotypes. That’s why the government andpolice are trying to stop the aboriginals committing crimes - ALL of them, even the innocent ones.The Past:The Past is a poem about a man sitting in suburbia, in a home with an electric heater. He falls intodream about his past, where he was sitting in the nature in front of a campfire. He is probably alsoan aboriginal who has moved away from his camp. He describes that he’s (..) haunted by tribalmemories, which could indicate his aboriginal past. Also seeming that he has this aboriginal past isthe quote; (..) But a thousand thousand camp fires in the forest - Are in my blood. The man in “ThePast”, and Billy from “Going Home” both have an identity crisis. They are aboriginals and belongin the forest, but the live in the white man’s...
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...per acre etc. My husband: Talk in codeP185 People in 1930s: carry the burden of “home”, find in family life the source of all tension and drama Children born after WWII: irrelevant “the question of whether or not you could go home again was a very real part of the sentimental and largely literary baggage with which we left home in the fifties.” “what sense ...who is beside the point?” The past Didion: a bathing suit in seventeen; a letter of rejection from The Nation; “enemies of a guerrilla war” with my mother The present Didion: get along well with my mother “I smooth out the snapshot and look into his face, and do and do not see my own.” My husband’s call from LA: things happening in LA; suggest that I drive out to some big cities My reaction: drive to a family graveyard, a ranch with my father “dread my husband’s evening call”, “although I know that I will be in LA I say, in the oblique way my family talks, that I will come.” Things for the baby’s birthday party: a white cake, ice cream, champagne, xylophone, a sundress from Madeira, a funny story Gifts I would like to promise: a sense of her cousins and rivers and her great-grandmother’s teacups, a picnic on a river with fried chicken and her hair uncombed; home for birthday “I would like to ...but we live differently now and I can promise her nothing like that.” Contrast to show the home deconstruction The home has changed( position, emotion, relation) Prefer the side more related to the place...
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...In her essay, “On going home”, Joan Didion expresses a profound sense of reminiscence for her family home in Central Valley of California where she goes to celebrate her daughter’s birthday. In the very beginning of her essay, Didion makes a simple yet complex distinction between her house in Los Angeles where she lives with her husband and her baby and her house in Central Valley where her family lives. Didion’s use of negative diction, especially the word “troublesome”, suggests that she feels unsettled at her family home. She accepts the disconcerting fact that once with her family, she falls into their “difficult”, “oblique” and “deliberately inarticulate” ways which make her husband uneasy. She sees this intimate attachment with her family as a “burden” not because of fights or differences, but because it took her almost thirty years before she could talk to her family on the telephone without crying after she hung up. This is when Didion introduces beautifully, the internal conflict she faces, “the nameless anxiety” that “colors the emotional charges” between herself and the place she comes from. Further, Didion illustrates how she walks around every turn and every corner in the house, from room to room, opening drawers and finding objects from her childhood. As days pass, Didion fears her husband’s phone call, for she might soon be asked about her whereabouts, almost forcing her to drive to nearby cities. Instead, she visits her family graveyard which is now vandalized...
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...Author – Archie Weller Title – Going home ( 1986 ) Themes: Identity, Pride, Cultural differences. Where – Australia – Perth ( Big city ) vs Koodup ( small town ) When – Modern society Who – Billy/ William Woodward – Protagonist: His " Black " name is Billy, while his " White " name is William. This further goes to show just how much this story is focused on the identity crisis that of a young man, split between his black legacy which he somewhat feels ashamed off, aswell as his white life, filled with material joy aswell as some feeling of acceptance. Atleast that is how Billy would choose to see it. The conflict of the story is very much a split between Billy vs society aswell as Billy vs himself. This can again be see as indiginous people in Australia were still inferior people compared to the whites in the society. A thing that Billy did not seem to be able to accept. Several times through the story, Billy starts showing signs of projecting this view of black people away from himself onto others. That way, Billy managed to create this personal shield around himself that distanced himself from other aboriginal people and allowed him to be accepted into the white circles in Perth. This obviously went to become an inner conflict for Billy as he is confronted several times by his people, which leaves a heavy mark on Billy. Ultimately it would seem Billy was culturally assimilating, so that he wouldn't have to deal with what he felt was a hopeless fight...
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...Brownsburg Going Green The place I call home is Brownsburg, Indiana. I have lived and grown up there my entire life as well have my parents. Brownsburg is located in Hendricks County, which is about 20 minutes west of Indianapolis. It has a growing population of 22,000. Brownsburg has a total of six elementary schools, two middle schools, and one high school. In 2009, Brownsburg was ranked number one in the state and number thirty three in the nation for top places to live. This was because Brownsburg’s low crime rate, excellent school system, and strong economy. These are all of the reasons why I love my hometown and why I chose it for this paper. I believe by making simple changes in the community, transitioning to a post-carbon community will be a lot easier. If I had to envision myself living the “good life,” it would have to start with having a family with 3 kids and a wife. We would be living in a two story house in a neighborhood that it close to the schools. My wife and I would both have successful jobs, together making over 125,000 a year. I want to be a nice, well known, sociable guy around the community. I see myself being involved in as many community activities possible and hope that everyone else in Brownsburg will too. In a perfect life, I see Brownsburg as a place where the whole community can be a happy place where everyone has an important purpose. A lofty goal, but a good goal would be to have everyone in the community know each other. Another goal would be...
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...Joan Didion: What is Home? In Joan Didion’s essay “On Going Home” she writes about leading a double life. She feels like one person when she’s with her husband and daughter in Los Angeles, and a completely different person when back “home” surrounded by her childhood family in the Central Valley of California. During this particular trip, she begins to reflect on her life in Los Angeles. Didion contemplates the fact that she often feels uneasy around her husband, just like he feels uneasy being around her family. At a crossroad, she must decide not only who she is, and the life she wants, but also the kind of life she wants for her daughter. Her life in Los Angeles has cleansed her from her youth—one that was dusty and full of useless trinkets. She ponders the time her husband wrote the word “D-U-S-T” on those useless trinkets and she remembers her feelings of sadness and indignation. She says, “We live in dusty houses…filled with mementos quite without value to him” (139-40). The dust-covered trinkets signify what is important to her, or what needs to be addressed in her marriage. Yet, these objects just lay there waiting for someone to see them—for someone to dust them off and care for them—not unlike how Didion wishes her husband would see her and nurture her in their marriage. Didion wonders which of her two homes is normal or if they are both flawed. When she and her husband are with her family, he becomes apprehensive about her behavior, “…because once there I fall...
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...Archie Weller – Going home. Sometimes people is ashamed of their roots and ancestors, some people look at their own species as “dirty” and “incomplete” and this is just the case in Archie Wellers – Going home. This story is about a young aboriginal man who is turning twenty-one. He goes by two names: William Jacob Woodward and Billy Woodward. Billy is used in the “black-society” and William in the white. He got headhunted by a big football team at age 18, and moved away from his family and moved to Great Britain. He’s also a very successful painter. But when he is turning twenty-one he decides to visit his family at home. He receives a watch as a birthday present from his brother but is being arrested later on, because the watch is stolen. The theme in the story is very much about the difference between colours of skin and the history behind it. And its about being proud of who you are and not neglecting your family. Billy (or William) isn’t proud of who he is, and considers aboriginals as “drunk”, ”filthy, etc. “She grinned up at him like Gorgon, her hands clutched at his body, like the lights from the nightclub. ‘Billy! Ya Billy Woodward, unna?’ ‘Yes. What of it?” He snapped’. ‘Ya dunno me? Im ya Aunty Rose, from down Koodup’. She cackled then. Ugly, oh, so ugly. Yellow and red eyes and broken teeth and a long, crooked, whit scar across her temple. Dirty grey hair all awry. His people. His eyes clouded over in revulsion. He shoved her away and walked...
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...Rozy Karim Professor: Dr. Joanna Mansbridge English 104W November 29th, 2013 Strangers and how we perceive them. I was appalled by the sight of a young girl, malnourished, dirty, in torn cloths crying and begging for money on Ahmedabad Street in India. Just as I reached for my purse to give her some money, my host, Dr. Dalal pushed me aside, gestured me inside our parked car, locked the doors and exclaimed “I should have warned you! Haven’t you seen the movie “Slumdog Millionaire?” I was left shaking, words cannot describe the horror I felt for not helping out a poor desolate child. How could this helpless child be a victim of an organized crime of self-made beggars? To answer this question would be an essay in itself, however, I describe this, as one of many etched incidences in my life to illustrate that I misrecognized the beggar and was influenced by someone else’s preconceived stereotype image of “other, a stranger described as a beggar” that was different then us. The notion of “other and misrecognition” is described in Toni Morrison’s essay “Strangers” (1998) when she explores this concept by depicting a stranger as an image of a bizarre fisherwomen dressed in men’s clothing; while Brent Staples portrays his own image as a stranger and depicts how he is perceived as a threat to others in his essay “Black Men and Public Space” (1986). Although both Morrison and Staples offer differing accounts of their experiences and feelings, they both share the same vision...
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...Backward Design : Lesson Plan Title: Future Tense Topic: My Plan Course: English Class: Primary 6 Time: 3 hours Teacher: Ayse Algin | Stage 1: Desired Results | Standard F1.2.1 Write in an exchange in interpersonal communication and how to plan their time.Standard F1.2.4 Write to ask for and give data about themselves, their friends and matters around them. | Understanding: * Student will understand how to make positive sentense in the future tene. * Using future tense is important for things which we willl do future. * If we plan our time we can enjoy with it and we can have time to spent with our friends. * How to make plan for future using future tense. | Essential Questions: * What does the plan mean? * How can you plan your time? * How can you invite your friends to play? * What can we plan our time for? * What kind of job students want to be most? | Students will know… * How to use future tense. * What is structure of future tense. | Students will be able to… * Understand future tense structure. * Write positive sentence in future tense. * Write negative sentence in future tense. * Make question in future tense. | ...
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