...May 18, 2016 After Watching “My Big Greek Wedding” The movie “My Big Greek Wedding” is about the wedding between Tula, who is a Greek-American and was wearing out of fashion style and Ian who is local American white man. Even if now she is in her early thirties, her mother and father want to find a husband in hoping of sending her to Greece. At this time, she meets a perfect guy who is American. The major conflict in this movie came out after she met him. In this movie, there are a lot of cultural things that have learned in this class. For example, dominant culture, a minority group, oppression, culture difference, and collectivism. Here are the reasons why I thought of many those concepts. First of all, this movie showed the family living in America with Greek culture, showing dominant culture and a minority group. At the start of this movie, it illustrated how this girl had grown up in America. Since this Greek family immigrated to America, the dominant culture is American culture. So, Tula was illustrated adjusting in American culture was hard, avoiding other American girls. However, her family was different. Even if they are in American, they didn’t remove their own culture, especially their house. In the movie, they lived in normal Chicago town. Whereas other houses are similar with American traditional style house, her family houses are similar with the temple of the Parthenon. Indeed, they always have their meal with Greek food. In this point, even if they are...
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...Democracy: Alive in America? Everyone is nervously awaiting the final decision of the year 2000 Presidential election with George W. Bush and Al A. Gore running closely side by side. There was debate in the legitimacy of the electoral votes cast in Florida earlier in time, so the suspense rising in America’s final decision is enormous. Looks like Gore holds this trophy for popular votes with a close 543,895 votes winning over Bush. According to previous elections, Gore has this competition conquered, the results come in; George W. Bush is our new president! With a slim win by 5 electoral votes, Bush is our new president. Wait a second, popular vote is that not the votes of qualified voters of the population? In America today, political decisions are decided democratically by its residents. Although Al Gore won the popular vote, George Bush is still the decided president. Then what is democracy, where did it come from, is our current democratic society a progression or is it a regression of democracy’s evolution? America has a government decided by the population of America; at least that is of the idea of a democratic society. Let us then compare American democracy to where democracy was created. The reason why everyone votes is to make a unanimous decision of who will become the leaders of a country. Democracy is just that, a government where the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation...
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...Development of racial thinking The intrusion of Europe into the orient was spearheaded by the intention to create trading routes to China during the 15th century (Hauner, 2013). This search for trading routes led to various historical accounts. During this search, Hauner (2013) indicates that the Age of Discovery and the introduction of early modern warfare were initiated by the Europeans in the Far East. These activities increased the presence of the activities of European nation in the Asian countries hence leading to colonization of several countries. The European existence in the Asian continent was so immense in that East Timor got its independence from Portugal in the year 2002 (Stevens, 2010). The western nations used the concepts of nation state and multinational state to ensure racial superiority. The nation state was a social construct by the colonizing European colonizing nations in brainwashing the citizens of their colonies (Perry, 2010). The concept does not have a definite definition. However Stevens (2010) indicates that it is the act whereby people are grouped together according to their customs, language, traditions, habits and ethnicity. On the other hand, a multinational state is the concept where people were grouped together in order to form a single geographical orientation however such populations differed in language or ethnicity. These two concepts led to the development of ethnicity among the Asian communities. This is because most people within the...
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...imminent god in nature and in man itself. This is the land from where like the tidal waves, spirituality and philosophy have always rushed out and indulged the world. ©Sachin Khandelwal But do not forget!!! It is the same India which has withstood shocks of centuries, of hundreds of foreign invasions, hundreds of upheavals of manner and customs. The same land which stand firmer than any rock of the world with its undying vigour and indestructible life. Life of India is of the same nature as the soul, without beginning and without an end.. Immortal. And we are children of such a country. Our story began when our first race... “Aryans” came to India. And here is the story of Aryans describing why we are the way we are: Three mountains stand as a typical of progress. The Himalayas of Indo-Aryans, Sinai of Hebrew and Olympus of Greek civilizations. When Aryans reached India they found that the climate was so hot that they could not work longer physically. So they started to think, thus they became introspective and developed religion and the great inner being. They discovered that there was no limit to the power of mind and they sought to master that and through it they found that there was something infinite coiled up in the frame we call man , which was seeking to become Kinetic. To evolve this became their primary aim. ©Sachin Khandelwal Another branch of Aryans went to a smaller and more...
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...Every wonder why Americans have the Constitution? Or why different countries have different laws? It’s for keeping everyone in line. No one wants to live in a country or area where everyone is free to do what they want, there needs to be some kind of governing that helps keep everyone from getting out of control. Different ways to handle that have been used back in ancient times. Take Ancient Egypt and Ancient Greece for example, they both had ways, including the types of governing and their military force. The Greeks and Egyptians both had problems with keeping their civilization in line, and their solutions to their problem were both similar and different. One solution the Greek had for keeping their civilization in line included having a...
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...the world because some of the things in Greek history are used in today's modern day society. Some of the things are the Greeks government, math, and architecture. These things are important because without these things are modern day life would be crazy different without math, government, and architecture. Greek Gods and Goddesses One thing the Greeks are famous for are their religious beliefs in the Greek gods such as Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades. These were the most popular Greek gods because they were the sons of Chronos which wanted to eat Zeus like he did with the other gods. So then Zeus had been eaten on purpose so he could save his siblings Hades and Poseidon. Also Zeus was the god of the sky, Poseidon was the god of the sea, and Hades was the god of the underworld. These were just some of the common gods though, there's also Demeter goddess of agriculture, Ares god of war, Athena goddess of wisdom, and many more. Athens...
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...when they came to the new world. The poem helps explain the feelings that immigrants may have had about leaving where they came from, compared to America. As well as, what they initially saw and felt as they arrived in America. The first line of the poem “Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame”(Lazarus 1) shows a difference between the Colossus of Rhodes and the Statue of Liberty. The Colossus of Rhodes was a statue that is debated between welcoming people to the trading harbor, or separates the island keeping invaders from entering the Greek island of Rhodes. Where as, the Statue of Liberty...
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...gain while growing up, these little rascals seem to be missing something worth value when going through their childhood through adolescence; that’s discovering the world around them. They grow up not knowing anything about their surroundings and how things came to be. Curiosity can easily affect children causing them to ask question after questions. Parents eventually try to fill that void with religion that carves a path full of information that leads them to one simple answer. Yet these answers bore them, it gives them nothing that sparks their imagination, making them careless about the life around them. Don’t be the one to let your children fall prey to this. We need more children with a solid belief that can feed their imaginations. There’s one thing that’s guaranteed to catch your child’s attention, especially since it revolved around stories is Greek Mythology due to the simple fact that children love stories, which is interesting seeing how they grow up eventually not...
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... was on 28 November 2013 during Hanukkah. This was the third time Thanksgiving occurred during Hanukkah since President Abraham Lincoln declared it a national holiday. This incident occurred last in 1899 and is said not to occur again in the foreseeable future based on the Jewish calendar. The definition of the Hebrew word Hanukkah is dedication. This definition prompts us to realize that the Jewish holiday memorializes the re-dedication of the holy Temple in Jerusalem after the Jews successfully took conquered the Greeks in 165 B.C.E. The Jewish Temple was taken over in 165 B.C.E. by Greek military and devoted to the reverence the god Zeus. The takeover was an unexpected defeat for the Jewish people, and they feared to retaliate. The Syrian-Greek emperor Antiochus ordered all Jews to worship Greek gods and informed them that any observation of the Jewish religion would be a crime punishable by death after 167 B.C.E. The order established by the Syrian-Greek emperor Antiochus fueled the Jewish resistance which originated in a village called Modiin, close...
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...who dislikes or hates another race or culture. This also means prejudice and discrimination. Racism started long ago even before slavery with the Africans or blacks. For an example, the Greeks and Romans didn’t like the Barbarians which were people who lived in northern Europe. They called them barbarians because they didn’t have the education or lifestyle the way the Greeks and Romans lived. Just like the white people called Africans; niggers, which the true definition is an ignorant person. Why, because we couldn’t speak english, or couldn’t read and write. But later, the term “nigger” became a definition of a black person which is part of racism. Different ethnic groups had they partake of racism and the learning about the fight of the Native Americans, African Americans and Jews; will give you a true definition of racism. Native Americans also known as Indians were named that because; Christopher Columbus didn’t even know where he was. He thought he was in India but actually he landed on one of the islands in the Caribbean which now is called the West Indies. They say Columbus discovered America, how can you discover something if people (the Native Americans) already lived there? Which brings me to the next question, why do they call Indians, Native Americans if they were here first? America was named after an Italian navigator, named Amerigo Vespucci which the Spaniards honored him. (Amerigo Vespucci. (2011). Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th Edition, 1.) The Natives...
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...about a gay cabaret owner and his drag queen companion. Gays and lesbians have been around for a long time, especially in Hollywood, but more people started to come out in the 90’s. With the popularity of shows like Will and Grace, which feature leading gay characters, as well as the show Friends, Ross Gellar’s lesbian ex-wife Carol, marries her partner and happily co-parents her son with Ross. Over a period of time we are slowly seeing gay, lesbian, and bi-sexual characters slowly entering into the mainstream media (Campbell, 1). The progression towards the acceptance of homosexuality in the media can be seen in many of the popular shows today. An example is Will & Grace, as well as other television shows such as Grey’ s Anatomy, Greek, Ugly Betty, and Modern Family. Will & Grace would not have been on air if it were not for Ellen...
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...Agricultural Revolution: Relationship between Men and Women To understand why the relationship between men and women changed after the Agricultural Revolution we must first get a brief overview of how women were viewed prior to the Agricultural Revolution and what role they played. With the help of archeologist and history recorded we are able to contrast the differences in history of views of power between men and women. There are three different stages of human development in history: hunting and gathering, farming, city life. A woman’s role changed during each of these stages. Prior to agricultural revolution, during the hunting and gathering stage, women had a very important role in gathering and creating sustainability and preservation of food. There was no private property and riches and they had no variation in wealth and power because everyone did a lot of the same work; hunting and gathering. Women where objects of warship and fertility gods. After the Agricultural Revolution the relationship between men and women changed due to the change in agriculture which became more advanced and women’s roles changed and therefore the view on the importance between a man and a woman also changed. Women where more independent and free in the hunting and gathering stage then they are today. Why did the relationship between men and women change after the Agricultural Revolution? It is natural human behavior to honor and respect those that provide for fellow mankind in the most...
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...University March 4, 2010 Early Greece and All Its Glory Phoenician Alphabet The Greeks adopted the Phoenician alphabet. Just like the Phoenicians the Greek alphabet is written from right to left. The direction of writing later changed to ox-turning. Ox-turning is a written language that is written from right to left and on the next line it continues from left to right and so on. Eventually, the Greek alphabet does change to left to right but that’s during the fifth century. (Bantwal, 2008) Greek Education For Greek children, their education mostly consisted of poetry and song. (Hadas, 1950) Education was more popular among young boys but it was not uncommon for girls. The wealthier children remained in school for ten years. Grammatistes, paidotribes and kitharistes were the teachers who taught the children. Grammatistes taught literature, arithmetic, reading and writing. Paidotribes coached boxing, wrestling, and gymnastics. Kitharistes taught music. At age eighteen, boys would train for the military for two years before further education. (Discovery Channel, n.d) The Illiad and the Odyssey Homer wrote the two most classic poems titled the Illiad and the Odyssey. The Illiad is based on the last six weeks of the Trojan War. The main character of the Illiad is Achilles. Achilles and Agamemnon get in a heated argument and Achilles retracts from the war. The Greeks are losing the battle and Achilles does not rejoin the battle until he hears that his...
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...The Four Creations The stories both tell how other gods were created but not the original. The Hopi story had the Creator who created a god of lesser gods. I am not sure if the ones under the Creators nephew, Sotuknang, were in fact gods but they held power. In the Greek/Roman mythology there was a couple of gods who then created more gods. They created them as a parent who would create a child. The Hopi story just sprung them into being main gods. There are similarities between us because we as humans have always wondered about our existence. Some need a solid reason about how they were created so they imagine someone or something being that creator. Since that person created us we assume they were always there and they themselves don’t need a creator because they are a God, the highest ranking being we believe in. There...
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...So The Protestants started by John Calvin and Martin Ruther, but England remained catholic for awhile it is only after 20 years they created protestant. Then became the protestant Anglican (English brand) Henry was not interested in protestant or Catholics, he just wanted to devote. A sect came out from protestant which called puritans, they were strict, and no one can stand them especially Henry IIIV because they did not like his acts. So he gave them the charter that allowed them to occupy America and make it land for them. The most important purpose of their colonization is to incite the native; they said that they want to convert Indians so they want to put teeth on it. However this is not the real purpose, they just wanted the land. England announced their right before they even reach America. They attacked the Indians without a warning and the murdered a lot, and any land without a house and farm is free for them to take. They forbid the Indians from doing their Rituals because it is sorcery as they said! This case led to war, Indian had to have a reaction, so it led to violence. The revolution ____________________________ England was biased to English against America. America hated western because they were a trouble maker. They were paying taxes to England and they couldn’t own land, you had to have permission to invest, and aristocrats might say 50/50. This case led to revolution which caused a reformation. So the reformation brings new European state but these...
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