...Sensations My family and I are moving to the Americas because we used to have a terrible life in Asia. I have yet to wonder or what to expect once we arrive. Although my stomach has intertwined and I am uncertain what lies ahead, for my future and my parents in America. My mind is petrified and I am too, but my heart is warm and I feel as if things will be different but conventional and abundant. I am now in America; however, in my heart I am at my roots, Asia. I am anxious to meet someone who will love me for who I am and not for where I am coming from, to be given that feeling where I feel like home. I am not aware of these American people, nor did I expect to be. My eyes deceive my mind, I have arrived at a community where I am surrounded by mindful people. In a moment as I was processing what will be my new world for as long I live; in the hope that these people will accept me. One afternoon after the day we arrived, I was walking past a crowd of people. I caught a glimpse of a beautiful man, whose name I would like to know. From his gorgeous light brown hair to deep blue eyes, and skin almost the color of pearl. He really caught my attention to the point where I thought of him every minute. I would never imagine myself with a white man whose complexion is...
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...wrote the Nobel peace prize winning book, “Night” to reveal the untold events that transpired at the time of WW2. In the book , “Night”, Elie’s religion, personality, and fear of death changed because of the events arose. Elie’s religion in “Night” was affected because of the events that took place. IN the beginning of the book, Elie is a highly religious boy. Shown on page 4, he says, “ one day I asked my father too find a master...
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...她 爱它! （She loves it!） With a plane tickets in hand, luggage rolling behind them, and a new life in mind, 25-year-old Alice Nan a tiny little Asian woman and her husband embarked on their journey to America. The 7,949-mile trip was well worth the life that she would soon achieve. Nan, seven months pregnant, waddled through the Stillwater airport and knew that her life had changed forever. “I was very excited,” She said. “It was a brand new world, I had never been out of my country and I was very excited when I saw all of the American people.” Even though Nan came to America for a better education, she didn’t know what she would do. All she wanted was a stable job, especially since she was about to give birth to her daughter. “I started working as a teacher’s assistant,” Nan said. “I helped in ESL, and I knew right away that I wanted to be a teacher and work with students.” After completing her degree at The University of Oklahoma, Nan became a math teacher at a local school. But when a job opened teaching her first language and her culture to the students she wanted to work with, she pounced on it. Everyone who has had Nan is very glad that she took the job and decided to stay at Norman High School instead of moving to Norman North High School. “Ms. Nan is one of the funniest teachers in the world,” said sophomore Josh Bryant with a smile on his face. “She does something every day to make me laugh.” Even though she enjoyed teaching math, nothing can compare to teaching...
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...Movin’ On Up: Have Black Sitcoms Really Changed the Black Community for the Better? Through time, blacks in television have been able to abolish many of the pervious stereotypes from past generations. However as media progresses and blacks are becoming a more predominate part of American television, the effect of black sitcoms is being called into question when it comes to their effect on the black community. The early 70’s through the 90’s were the golden age for black sitcoms, both the good and the bad. Blacks were still portrayed as both ignorant, poor, mammy and uncle type characters in shows such as Good Times, Stanford and Son, and more recently, Tyler Perry’s house of Payne. However, many shows promoted the educated, independent, affluent black family such as The Cosby Show, The Jefferson’s, and A Different World. Do these shows truly have an effect on the black community, and even more importantly do they effect how the rest of America views them? For blacks portrayal on television perception is reality, many preconceived notions of how blacks act and carry themselves in everyday life have been eliminated, nevertheless, black sitcoms still reinforce stereotypes that have plagued the black community since the beginning of slavery. Background: * “From Mammy to Miss America and Beyond: Cultural Images and the Shaping of U.S. Social Policy:” A brief summery of the history of blacks on television and how this has effected the community in general. * In “Television...
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...It’s hard to imagine a life without the contributions of the countless people that have helped to shape our nation. From scientific discoveries to technological inventions to dreams of equality, there’s no doubt that we’ve come a long way since our ancestors first arrived here on a ship. There are hundreds, if not thousands, of great thinkers whose ideas dramatically improved our quality of life. In my opinion, three of the most influential people that helped turned the United States into the wonderful nation it is today include Benjamin Franklin, Henry Ford, and Martin Luther King, Jr. Benjamin Franklin had many accomplishments that bettered our lives. He is credited with establishing the first library and helping to create the postal system, as well as several inventions like bifocal glasses, wood stoves, and an early version of an indoor toilet. He was one of the founding fathers that helped draft the Constitution. His contribution that had the greatest impact on changing the world was his experiments with electricity. Franklin's book, Experiments and Observations on Electricity, was one of the most reprinted scientific books of the time. In his book, he discussed the principles of electricity that became the basis of our modern electrical theory. His work was so revolutionary that in 1756 he was awarded the Copley Medal. It has been said that the reason he is featured on the hundred dollar bill is because we don’t have a thousand dollar bill. ...
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...provided us with the ability to learn new technology and advance in our latest technologies. Since the first man walked on the moon, science has advanced at a rapid pace; nuclear power, television, jet engines, satellites and computers proved that only the scope of our imaginations could possibility limit our progress. Ever since the first human walked on the moon, humans have looked beyond the moon to Earth’s neighbor planet, Mars. The Apollo mission showed us looking back at a fragile planet adrift in a void, making us second guess who we were and are in terms of species as well as our species’ place in a vast universe. Discovery of alien life, amounting to nothing more but only a string of protein or some nucleotides, most certainly changed our perspective on the role of life in the cosmos. The space technology has vastly changed our life and our way of living. The automobile is a major human success as well when it comes to technology. The early history of the automobile can be divided into multiple eras, based on the prevalent means of propulsion on the prevalent means of propulsion (the action of driving or pushing forward). Propulsion is a means of creating force that leads to movement. In 1769 the first steam powered auto-mobile was built by Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot, (having the capability of human transportation). Cars were...
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...and historical events that took place in the three quarters of a century leading up to the American Revolution. She notes how the early settler’s beliefs, attitudes, and values changed both about themselves in this new land and the ideal future they envisioned for their families. What I would like to focus on however, is how she describes the colonial American's shift from servitude, to patriotism, and just some...
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...Korematsu v United States The United States of America is known for its freedom and opportunity. However, the glorified nation was not always so bright and welcoming for American minorities. In fact, many infamous Supreme Court cases concerned civil rights for these minorities. Korematsu v United States was a milestone for Japanese Americans in the 1940s. It is evident that this case was filled with racial prejudice towards Japanese Americans. Korematsu v United States significantly brought to discussion the power of the United States government concerning civil rights. World War II’s effects on the world are limitless, however America’s role and state during this dire time was notably impacted. Men at this moment have gone off to war, leaving...
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...It was a cold winter day when my mother brought me along with her to go to the supermarket. My hands were cold like ice and I could barely move them, I just knew the supermarket would have this same feeling. As I walked through the aisles of the fruits and vegetables, a thought scattered across my mind like a mice running from their predator. I thought to myself how did farmers manage to take care of the produce and do they have any chemicals on them? My thought made me pace through the aisles, I kept wondering about the fruits and vegetables because they symbolize the memories of my mother and how she experienced life on the farm. My mother’s grandfather was a farmer of the farm they lived near. She told me memories of her being...
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...events around the world that have taken place. What I really liked about this timeline was that it tells you the person age at the time of the events taking place, that is a cool feature because I can read something like “first human in space, at age 21” I can feel that because I’ve been 21 and myself at age 21 traveling to space was a been there done that type of thing, we have people living in space for years at a time now conducting missions when back in 1961 space was seen as something impossible but the top countries around the world rushed to get there first. The person I speak of is none other than my grandma, Marina Olivares. Or as I like to refer to her as, “Mama Estela.” Estela is 75 years young, born and raised in El Salvador. She came to the United States hoping for a better life to life the “American dream” that was so advertised in the late 1900s. Come to America, make a lot of money, and buy a big house, you know, the American dream. Before I get to her interesting travel over to the US, I talked to her about year 1969 and the impact that Neil Armstrongs landing on the moon had on her. She was age 29, living in El Salvador. She told me how amazed she was that someone out there can actually do something so magnificent. Living in El Salvador in poverty hearing about someone getting on a super shuttle, traveling thousands of miles away, into uncharted territory and landing on a planet that we see every night, she was amazed. She felt that by the U.S. being the...
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...in office and they are just sitting there drinking some coffee. That’s the person you voted for. Then again, you turn your television on to see the news, what do you see? War, natural disasters, terrorism, or politians having an affair with their secretary? You don’t see much about how a whole city’s children received a new school funded by a celebrity or having people actually keep their promises. Then there are those who spend every penny on someone whom they do not know in Africa, South America, or in the Middle East to keep them fed and dressed; yet no matter what they do, it just isn’t enough to help them have a better life. Around the world, many foundations’ priority is helping others in need of food, education, and shelter. Those people and foundations are making this world a better place but how come it feels like nothing changes? There is still corruption in governments and awful things going on that it seems for every step forward, the world takes two step back. We aren’t moving forward because no one is totally fulfilling what they are meant to do to change the world. Yes, I am guilty of that. “Better late than never” I have been told. So far that quote has kept me from going backwards. We keep waiting on the world to change. Through music he has been able to connect the whole world through the Grammy award winning song “Waiting on the World to Change” from John Mayer. I can begin and have a never-ending essay about John because he has supported so many foundations...
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...touched the hearts of middle-America. Personally I was very moved by the film and the true story it portrays. It's British filmmaking at its best. And yet notwithstanding my enjoyment of the film, I found Colin Firth's performance as King George VI difficult to watch. Not because it was anything less than very fine acting indeed, but because it reminded me of many childhood days spent sitting across the kitchen table from my father, waiting patiently as he, like his monarch, wrestled with an often paralysing stutter. To have something to say and not be able to say it can only be excruciating, and yet it is something that an estimated 65 million people worldwide have to deal with every day of their lives. It's little consolation to know that kings can suffer as much as commoners, or that some notable orators, including Winston Churchill and movie stars such as Bruce Willis and Emily Blunt have had the same problem. If you stutter, life is different for you. Simple things that the rest of us take for granted, like telling a joke or addressing a group at work, giving a speech at your child's wedding, become potential minefields of embarrassment. No wonder my father had a short fuse. For him daily dialogue was an ordeal... frustration was a way of life. With any other condition one would have expected that treatment would have been sought, diagnoses made and preventive options discussed, but in the 1950s and 1960s, stutterers suffered in silence. My father's stutter was never...
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...thought Saigon was lost forever.” Now he is currently a prosperous pharmacist in Westminster, Orange County, also known as Little Saigon. Tran writes that Orange County was once a neglected strip of bean fields, salvage yards, and empty storefronts, turned into a vibrant, bustling community by the Vietnamese refugees. Tran news article also is support with many other accounts from...
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...Over the course of the semester, I have learned a lot about myself and my family as a whole. Family problems and social change has made me realized that family plays an important role in shaping your actions and forming your perceptions. Family dynamics have obviously changed over the centuries; things that are going on in this day and age are not the same as it was decades ago. As for my family, we come from an Afro-Caribbean background; we are natives of Haiti. My parents migrated from Haiti to Bahamas and from there to America with four children, in hopes of providing a better future for us. They worked odd jobs here and there just to provide shelter, food, and other necessities that we would need. The only burden my parents ever placed on my siblings and I, were to receive an education and strive to be successful. They made many sacrifices to provide us with these opportunities, and for that I will forever be grateful. Nonetheless, I will be discussing the differences between generations of my family. I decided to interview my grandmother Ermilie and my father Luc. Themes in Ermilie’s Life (born 1936) Ermilie is my grandmother on my mother’s side. She is the only one of my grandparents that is still alive. Seeing that we were immigrants for quite some time, I only had access to my immediate family and a few cousins. I met my grandmother for the first time on June 4th, 2014. Over the years I could only talk to her; it was a joyous moment for me to finally put a face with...
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...GROWING OLDER IN AMERICA The United States more than ever, is experiencing a dramatic increase in the number of people who live to old age. An increase in seniors is attributed to advances in science, technology and medicine leading to reductions in infant and maternal mortality, infectious and parasitic diseases, occupational safety measures and improvements in nutrition and education. This occurrence is creating challenges for Americans of all ages as they deal with Social Security, health care, housing, employment and other national issues that are important to an aging population. The number of Americans living over the age of 65 has dramatically increased in the past years. People are beginning to live well past retirement and later stages of their lives because they have remained healthy and productive. Given the fact that America is aging, it is important to have resources available for American’s who will soon dip into retirement funds and Medicare. A good question to ask as America becomes populated by more and more elderly is, “How can the unique needs and desires of each person be appropriately assessed and addressed in a rapidly changing health care environment?” In 2011 “baby boomers” began to turn 65 which accounted for 14 percent of the U.S. population, that percentage will increase to 20 by the year 2030 (APA). The average life expectancy for men is now 73 years and for women it is 80 years. These baby boomers will have a significant impact on American society...
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