As the story continues, this symbol of homes also helps to develop their identities and reveals each of their own experiences in assimilating into American culture. One way Lahiri conveys the way in which a home is a reflection of one's identity, as well as the theme of the alienating experience of immigrants assimilating into America and the exposure of two cultures, is through the use of the characterisation of Ashima and the development of her identity. ... This conveys the limited development of her identity in relation to the place she resides. ... The different 'homes' ...

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Anzaldua states in her essay, "Ethnic identity is twin skin to linguistic identity "I am my language. ... In this quote Anzaldua explains that her ethnic identity and her linguistic identity go together as one. This makes her feel that her language makes up an extensive part of her personal identity. ... She believes that being forced to learn English in America is wrong, and alters part of your personal identity, just as learning academic voice through academic discourse could alter student's personal identities. ... But instead this discourse adds something useful and necessary...

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Her process of Americanization is different from her families and so is the process of the construction of her identity based on the ideals of both "American" and "Chinese" cultures. ... " Essentially Leila establishes that the estrangement and inability to assimilate into American culture was due to her Chinese identity and the family roles it comes with. ... There is an estrangement in cultural involved with an individual pursuit of the American Dream, and most certainly there is one within Chinese American identity as shown by Leon, Mah, and Leila. Leon comes w...

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Each writer consistently associates the claims of his discrete individuality with those of a representative cultural identity, and in order to emphasize the sense of common possibility implied by such an association, each chooses to address his audience through a rhetoric of elaborately contrived simplicity.1 As David Levin observes, the movement from private to public standards of identity is the overriding structural feature of Franklin Autobiography.2 What gives this synthesis of democratic identities a cumulative validity and coherence is the attitude of self-conscious discovery with whi...

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However the negative connotations of "when this one is pulled down" symbolizes the loss of their cultural identity as they adopt 'Australian' traditions and therefore, limit their sense of belonging to their homeland. ... Individuals ostracised from a society are prevented from gaining a strong sense of acceptance and identity. ... The use of anaphora and listing of the vast number of atrocities further emphasises the extent of the wrongdoings, demonstrating that the Aborigines' sense of belonging may only be restored through the acknowledgment of their cultural identity. ... In...

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The events of this time period, such as the French and Indian war, and increasing tension with Britain regarding its policies regarded the colonies served to help form a sense of unity and identity, although strained at times because of local differences and an unwillingness to cooperate at certain critical junctures. In the early 1750's, there was very little sense of unity or a national identity between the colonies as a whole. ...

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A conspicuous firmness about Bender-Baird's book is her vigorous and thoughtful consideration about the participants' ideology of their own identity, testimonial confidentiality, and information accessibility. ... Army official, who upon discussing her identity coming out as a transgender, was stereotypically judged, and eemed unfit for higher political admission. ... The author discreetly analyzed and interpreted the literature behind her use of terms, appropriately describing the historical usage and semantic application of the word "transgender." As discussed, the author was a...

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The strongest characteristic within development takes shape in the form of identity. ... For instance, for a child to be associated with a dominant identity that is skewed more towards the negative end of the spectrum entails possible adverse behavior patterns consistent with the identity of dominant associations. ... The reasoning behind this anticipated variance is that while a son that is named after an absent father could feel a stronger since of identity to the behavior patterns of that absent father molding the psyche of the son in a negative manner, nothing is ever 100% and it is indee...

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Japanese internment in the aftermath of the attack on Pearl Harbor in December of 1941, caused a new sense of ethnic and national identity within the Japanese American community. In Jane Naomi Iwamura's article, "Japanese Americans and the Birth of a New Civil Religion,"" the author argues that: "what has emerged from the collective experience of war and internment is a faith that is tied to no particular religious tradition, but that takes racial-ethnicity identity as its starting point. ... In other words, the author states that the experience of internment and war for the Japanese peop...

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It was during this period that the two parties, although their differences were ameliorated to an extent, moved forward another step in defining their respective party identities. ... In particular, religion was a central to the political identities of politicians. ...

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Such relationships also have the ability to rob them of individuality however, often causing changes in identity after altering personal beliefs and desires in pursuit of the natural human need to belong. ... Connections can force a decision between retaining the things which make up one's identity; their beliefs and desires, or succumbing to the human need to belong, where choosing the former can result in alienation and isolation, however choosing the latter can result in a loss of individuality and sense of self by conforming to the beliefs and desires of others. ...

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Sociologists Candace West and Don Zimmerman argued that gender was less a component of identity -fixed, static- that we take with us into our interactions, but rather the product of those interactions. ... And this might result in the primary association of women's identities and purposes with motherhood. ... Women are being excluded from formal political processes, expelled from the paid workforce, and denied reproductive freedom as their bodies and identities are maternalized . ...

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We are aware that there are a variety of different types of social groups such as gender, sexuality and race; however social class is the main area in division in people, it informs gender, sexuality and race identities. ... Evidently to the theory, self identity as well as behaviors of individuals can be influenced by the terms used to describe them. ... Furthermore, in relation to "performativity" (Butler, 1993) explains performative discourse, whereby the reiterate statement of "she stinks" highlighted within the case study, shapes Christina's identity. ... Within a school institute or...

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The final result is both bodies of work demonstrate the positivity of forging an identity though connection to people and place. ... The stark contrast between Felik's stoic strength of personal identity shown again though high modality: "I never once heard him complain," even through the hyperbolic "years of forced labour as well as Chihiro's developed personal strength is not seen in the poet due to his inability to connect with his Polish heritage, stressing the importance of an authentic connection to people and place in achieving happiness. ...

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However, both texts explore similar aspects of humanity including humanity's pursuit of progress and power, questioning of the human identity and refusal to consider the morality of their actions, albeit in different paradigms. ... The ambiguity of human identity is examined in both texts, exposing the ongoing concern of what constitutes being human. ...

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Althusser goes further in his analysis to assert that this intricate relationship between the governor and the governed causes the latter to unconsciously accept predetermined identities of subjugation through a given ideology propagated by the state. ... I have also tried to show the way Orwell deals with the issue of the modern man's identity, both universally and specifically in the context of the Soviet Union. ...

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When the sporting world recognized the effectiveness of transfusions is open to debate, and some papers discovered that there were some runners which profited from blood transfusions but no details were given specially with the identity of the athletes involved or the nature of the transfusions. ...

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Lincoln Electric is a company with an impressive history. Prior to its international expansion, Lincoln Electric was able to substantially differentiate itself from its competitors by developing novel strategies that centered on innovation, product support, and an incentive program. While the aforem...

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In addition to voter apathy as one of the main problems of internet voting, Harrop touches upon the potential problems of internet voting such as coercion, identity theft, fraud and that voting should be a communal activity. ...

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Storytelling developed with the function of entertaining, instilling moral values and entrenching cultural identity, while history entails an analysis of past events, often with an element of objectivity. ...

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Before the commercialization of the Internet in the early 1990's, geographical constraints hindered many small and mid-market sized companies from expanding globally. Since the Internet's introduction to the field of commerce, many industries (especially the retail industry) have taken full advanta...

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The attitudes and opinions of others become important as she begins to expand her understanding of world, as well as to continue to develop appropriate sex-role identity, this can be seen when Myra mentions that she is unsure if she is "pretty- as none of her school mates mention or say that to her. ...

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Why did Germany fail to Unite before 1860? Various individual and different factors equal in significance contributed towards inhibiting Germany failing to unite before 1860; these included: the Bund; Austro Prussian Rivalry; Inter-State rivalry; popular indifference; the failure of the Frankf...

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In conclusion, Sergei Eisenstein and Dziga Vertov both firmly believed that cinema is given a special function as the medium that alone is capable of producing the knowledge of motion and the identity of structures. ...

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Explaining Development in Africa: An Analysis of Three Approaches While the modernization approach "presented a hopeful general framework of progressive development," and the statist theory "[reassesses] the role of the state and pinpoints the effects of political frailty and mismanagement," the...

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