Incorporating aboriginal studies in the school system teaches the younger generations about social values and to respect the cultures of others. ... This paper will argue aboriginal literature is a necessary aspect to be involved in the educational system because it teaches the importance of culture, oral literature, and how to preserve history. ... Oral literature is words which are spoken, not recorded on paper. ... Oral literature is meaningful and useful to us in many different ways. ... Aboriginal literature help teach the importance of preserving history. ...

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The English Literary Canon is perceived as the paradigm of exquisite literature bound with key concepts fundamental to our understanding and exploration of societal and political values, rendering it to be widely admired by all. Scholars uphold works from the Literary Canon with the highest regard and proceed to manifest these works into school curriculum for literary study due to their powerful influential nature and complex ideas embedded in these texts. ... The English Canon is often seen as an authoritative list bearing handfuls of treasured literature renowned by all. ... Ultimately the...

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Most students think, study, and write in the way they have been trained at school and university. ... When a student trained in one cultural tradition moves, as u are planning to move, to study in another country, a different style of learning is often necessary. A way of understanding the problems a student from another culture can face in moving to a Western tertiary system is to consider the case of an Indonesian postgraduate student who was writing her thesis on Indonesian literature. ... In the first chapter the student had recounted the personal life of the author she was studying. ...

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These studies expose the impracticability of US citizenship as the baseline for true Americanism. Another common viewpoint on the National Identity Crisis is that Americanism is under threat from hyper pluralism a viewpoint shown in a study conducted by The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation. ... The study also presents the idea of forcing immigrants to "Americanize" an idea that is already happening without any intervention in the form of multi-generational immigrant families have adopting many of the social customs in America advocating for forced assimilation would only be counter intuitive...

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And actually we are surrounded by mythology in today's society everywhere, whether you realize it or not: in films, in the names of the cities, in literature, in art, in cultural traditions. ... That's why the beautiful images of the mysterious world of myths and fairy tales were introduced to various forms of art, literature and films. ... To answer to my question "Why it is important to study myths", I can quote Joseph Campbell: "Read myths. ...

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For example, I have friends there since I was in elementary school, and until now we are a group of friends living together and studying in the same college. ... Listening carefully and not interrupting the speaker is counted as a member of modern literature. For example, one day a foreign student came to study in my class, the teacher was explaining the lesson while he was busy talking to his classmate. ...

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As the aspect of positive influence, as to the western Scientism and Rationalism, the Humanism and humanistic literature, the neoteric idea of Democracy and Nomocracy, the advanced Modernism, and the continuable-developmnet strategy and many more, we are to enormously accept and manage, with the great confidence and generosity of our unique particularity of our nation-owned. Studying while collision, sublimating while impacted, enhancing while syncretized, this is the right way to these advantages that we can accept. ...

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Why that short story is categorized as post-colonial literature? ... "Who would have dreamt that her daughter was doing a PhD in Comparative Literature, ." (pg. 491) According to Appachana's life history, she moved to America and continued her studies at Pennsylvania University and receiving an MFA in Creative Writing. ...

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He uses the matchless examples such as essays and poems of writers like Zhuangzi, Tao Qian, and etc. to contrast with the inflexible "eight-legged" prose style, and also promotes the national speech in literature so that everyone can "speak what you want to say and say it in the way you want to say it".2 This freedom in literary expression allows people to think independently and stirs up individualism in China. ... Those methods are a systematic inquisition of truth and nature in religion, philosophy, and natural science, which have "overthrown the religion of superst...

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An ethnocentric curriculum is when the school emphasizes the values of only their own culture therefore emphasis is put on white-western music, literature, language, history, religion, etc An ethnocentric curriculum does not value black, Asian or any other cultures except their own and therefore a pupil of a different ethnicity will not have the same knowledge and understanding of white-British culture as much as they may have of their own culture, however this is not recognized, hence the pupil is doomed to fail as they may not know or understand the ˜basic' English/British cultu...

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Webster's Dictionary defines the term "humanities" as "Those branches of knowledge, such as philosophy, literature, and art, that are concerned with human thought and culture; the liberal arts." ... To touch base on just one aspect of a specific culture would already be a challenge in itself - having to study the humanity of the human race would take a lifetime. ...

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