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Ying Ying Amy Tan
1,485 wordsE-AMERICAN WOMEN IN AMERICAN CULTURE In Amy Tan's novel, The Joy Luck Club, there is one episode, "Waiting Between the Trees, " illustrating major concerns facing Chinese-American women. Living with their traditional culture in American society, Chinese-American women suffer the problems of culture conflicts. While their American spouses are active and assertive, they are passive and place their happiness entirely on the goodness of their husbands. At one time, this passiveness can be seen as a ...
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Endangered Species Whaling Commission
1,269 wordsThe Makah Indian Whaling: Indigenous Right or For hundreds of centuries, the Makah Indians have revolved their culture and traditions around whaling. It has been part of their tradition as long as the tribe has ever existed. In the early part of this century the Makah voluntarily abandoned the whale hunt in recognition of the precarious situation of the gray whale. When the whale was listed as an endangered species in 1969 the hunt was officially banned. The Makah were formally forced to give up...
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Trench Warfare European Nations
1,322 wordsS. Asin philosophies to the West. Third World countries w/ collective widespread lasting poverty in Asia, Africa, South and Cent, Amer. Low life expect. High inf. mortality. Poor health. Underdeveloped, lack of resources create this as well as colonization and exploitation by imperial powers. Trench Warfare (WWI) a new dev'd method of fighting utilizing ditches dug on the western front = deadlock and killing thousands of soldiers for virtual stalemate. 3 X Entente-France, Russ, GB (WWI). 3 x All...
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Joy Luck Club Ying Ying
1,380 wordsAn author's cultural background can play a large part in the authors writing. Amy Tan, a Chinese-American woman, uses the cultural values of Chinese women in American culture in her novel, The Joy Luck Club. These cultural values shape the outcome of The Joy Luck Club. The two cultural value systems create conflict between the characters. In The Joy Luck Club, the chapter "Waiting Between the Trees" illustrates major concerns facing Chinese-American women. Chinese culture is a male dominated cul...
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Heart Of Darkness Black And White
1,785 wordsColonialism in Heart of Darkness and Things Fall Apart Within Joseph Conrad's classic novel Heart of Darkness the representation of indigenous Africans their society and culture can be construed as deplorably racist, yet can also be seen as a portrayal of European values of the era and an attack on colonization. This paper examines and Conrad's novel Heart of Darkness and Achebe's novel Things Fall Apart from the perspective of colonial issues and discusses how it can be interpreted. The theme o...
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Brazilian Culture Cultural Identity
1,651 wordsAnthropophagy and Brazilian Culture Cannibalism is a phenomenon which was widely spread in some areas. There are several views on the essence and nature of cannibalism. Some of the scientists consider that the reason of cannibalism was famine and starvation. Though while talking about Brazil, the land of Aztecs, there was a fertile soil and rich vegetation. The agriculture was on a high level. Aztecs hunted animals which contributed to their ration. The scientists argue about the roots of cannib...
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Papua New Guinea Indigenous Population
1,666 words... in the Duke of York group. Central to Tolai culture is the Tumbuan society, personified by a large tapa mask with circular eyes painted on the front topped by a black and white feather. This sacred Tolai Tumbuan masks arrive for a boy's initiation ceremony Traditional Malangan house display showing their masks, friezes, and sculptures. The man in front wearing a blue lava-lava is the "Rate" or ceremonial leader for this clan culture. A man wearing tapa cloth mask represents an important fema...
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Things Fall Apart By Chinua Achebe
1,011 words"Things Fall Apart" by Chinua Achebe Things Fall Apart is a brilliant masterpiece of Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe who is as well as Ben Okri is one of the founders of the national Nigerian Literature. Chinua Achebe succeeded to create a comprehensive picture of a traditional village culture of Africa. On one hand the author tries to attract attention of the entire world to the riches of the African traditional culture and on the other hand he is appealing to his native people to remind them on ...
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Female Genital Mutilation Labia Minora
1,268 wordsFemale circumcision, better known as Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), is an ugly monster finally rearing its head from out of the depths of time. It can attack a girl at any age, with a little prompting from her society, and the aid of an unsuspecting human wielding a knife. Usually, it is performed from a few days after birth to puberty, but in some regions, the torture can be put off until just before marriage or the seventh month of pregnancy (Samad, 52). Women that have gone beyond the prima...
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Female Genital Mutilation Labia Minora
1,209 wordsCULTURE OR TORTURE? Female circumcision, better known as Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), is an ugly monster finally rearing its head from out of the depths of time. It can attack a girl at any age, with a little prompting from her society, and the aid of an unsuspecting human wielding a knife. Usually, it is performed from a few days after birth to puberty, but in some regions, the torture can be put off until just before marriage or the seventh month of pregnancy (Samad, 52). Women that have g...
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