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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• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Graduate

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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• Grade Level: Graduate

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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• Grade Level: Graduate

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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• Grade Level: Graduate

In its broadest sense, popular music is an umbrella term referring to a vast range of commercially mass-marketed musical genres contrasting with classical or art music and intended to appeal to the masses (e.g., rock, rock and roll, hip-hop, grunge, heavy metal, rhythm and blues, punk, soul, techno,...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Graduate

In Immigration And National Identity In Obama's America: The Expansion Of Culture-War Politics, Williams reviews immigration problems in America focuses on culture diversity establishment and equilibrium. ...

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• Has Bibliography
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While some European immigrant groups lacked adequate numbers to avoid English assimilation (the Huguenots), others came to America in sufficient numbers to retain a unique ethnic identity that would impact American culture as a whole. ...

• Word Count: 2312
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• Grade Level: Graduate