Personal Exploration Worksheet Part 1: Select 4 groups that you are the least familiar with from the following list: • African Americans • Native Americans • Latino(a) • Asian Americans • Jewish Americans • Arab/Muslim Americans • Single mothers • Displaced homemakers • People over 60 • Unemployed people over 50 • Immigrants Part 2: Write a 50- to 100-word response to each question: Group 1: people over 60 1) Describe your assumptions, beliefs, and perceptions
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Living in the Twenty First Century, the world itself is now a gigantic melting pot filled with variety of cultures and races blending into one another creating a bland taste that does not amplify the unique traits of the individuals. In the book “Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights” by Kenji Yoshino who talks about “Covering” as if it was a non-discriminatory disease that spreads and ails the individuals who feels stigmatized of their natural attributes masking it from the public view
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what is American Pluralism? What an opportunity to take American Pluralism at this moment in your life and this historic moment in American history! The American Pluralism course examines the multicultural, multi-ethnic nature of American society. It introduces students to important areas of American experience and culture, including race, class, and gender. We will critically examine American current affairs, contemporary history, and popular culture. Writings by and about Americans of color
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argues that Americans would rather face the inconvenience such as sitting in miserable heat on a train or not having your lunch tray collected on a plane. Buckley writes this essay as a result of constantly finding him accepting the inconvenience of life that could easily be fixed if he were to just speak up. The first theory Buckley stated is that everyone expects someone else to complain instead of them. You can’t go around expecting someone to always do the job for you. You need to speak for yourself
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Manners I have attached scenarios to my topics to see how you will all react * Ask someone how much they earn. * Arrive 15 minutes late. * Yawn in public. * Say “I’m going for a piss”. * In the age of equal rights - is it still necessary for men to hold the door open for ladies and pay for their drinks? * Begin speaking before another person has stopped. (Or speak simultaneously.) * Cross your legs in front of your boss. * Comb your hair in public. * Pick your
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opportunities, causes thousands of people to abandon their homes and their homeland to experience the American dream. In the short story “The Thing Around Your Neck” by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie the main character, a Nigerian woman, Akunna, wins a the American visa lottery, and she is rewarded with the chance to go to the United States of America. Akunna goes to America to experience the American dream but it is then cut short when she is subjected to sexual abuse at the hand of her uncle. In this
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How does the film El norte illustrate some of the difficulties faced by indigenous people living in the Americas in the late Twentieth Century? Do the film’s conclusions offer any optimism? Gregory Nava’s El Norte is an Oscar nominated British and American made film which premiered at the Telluride Film Festival in 1983. Based Nava’s experiences, the film tells the story of Quiche Indians Rosa and Enrique as they are forced to flee from the village in Guatemala in order to make a new life for
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think that this commercial was very inspirational and intriguing. This commercial has opened up my eyes and showed me how diverse our country really is. What I also didn’t realize before watching this commercial was how horrible and disrespectful Americans can be to foreigners. While watching this commercial I saw how upset these people were about how they have been treated and how different and out of place that they felt sometimes being in certain groups. No one should ever have to feel the way that
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of literature about American values, in which confidence and self-reliance are illustrated. “I refuse to give up my obsession. America, stop pushing. I know what I’m doing.” – Allen Ginsberg, “America.” Allen Ginsberg’s “America” presents a sharp criticism of American culture by someone who has almost completely rejected its values. The poem’s speaker addresses America directly, as if he were giving a lecture or a sermon to the nation itself instead of to the American people. The nation’s
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"You may write me down in history, With your bitter, twisted lies, You may trod me in the very dirt But still, like dust, I'll rise" that sentence has been with me since the very first time I heard it. If you do not know where that famous line is from do not worry I will enlighten you. Maya Angelou, a woman so extraordinary she will live until the end of time. A civil rights activist, legendary poet, but most importantly she was a mother figure for an entire African American community especially
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