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- 311: Prejudice
- ... brought up, I never want to be a part of it. I tell myself I am not prejudice, but I can not say ii am completely not prejudice. Even though my two best friends are Asian and Black, I am still prejudice in other ways. My friends and I make fun of each other sometimes when something happens. For example, when my best friends come over and the dogs bark at ... the world turn pitch black - probably never? One last personal prejudice of mine is actually a stereotype. When I see Asians, I tell people watch out, crazy driver. Yet my best friend though who is Asian is probably one of the best drivers I know. Prejudice is found everywhere. Even when you sit down to take a standardized test. What do they ask for? Of course, your race. Why does a ...
- 312: Stereotype: Speaking Mandarin
- ... a restaurant and to the costumers that would eat there. I got my first job here in Newmarket by applying for a Chinese restaurant as a kitchen helper, when I handed my application to the Asian Manger, he immediately said I was hired and told me I would be paid in cash but of course under the minimal wage. At that time I didn't think much of it, I was ... my employer what I know and what I need as assets for the job. Later on I realized that the only reason I had received my first job was because of my appearance as an Asian and assumption where made that I could speak Mandarin and would work for less.
- 313: Chaucerian Commentary
- ... the tellers: the meaning of each tale cannot only be divorced from the teller but is both initially and finally referred back to him or her. (Patterson, 2) The knight s tale is precisely a crisis in governance: it tells the story of how the Athenian man of reason Theseus tries to control and discipline and govern The Knight s tale bespeaks a crisis of governance in the way it is told: the Knight is continually anxious about organizing, controlling, structuring, and discipling his own narrative. (Patterson, 7) All the tales pursue fault lines of human life, the thin ...
- 314: A Circular Life ( When The Leg
- ... older, mature adult. Thus meaning When the Legends Die is a bildungsroman. A bildungsroman is a novel in which the protagonist from beginning to the end matures, and in a classic bildungsroman, undergoes a spiritual crisis. His life is filled with many obstacles and affected by many people positively and negatively. Throughout the story he overcomes these obstacles and lives through the people. His attitude is affected with the presence of ... Red to be able not to repeat mistakes and what to do in what situation. But that does not mean he is set for any situation. In the end he returns after having a spiritual crisis in which he gets seriously injured from a hard blow. In which he then returns to his old ways in living how he did as a kid, in the old way. Completing a circle, in ...
- 315: Atomic Bomb
- ... ending the animosity between them and the United States. The Japanese invasion of China immediately before and during World War II lasted from the early 1930's to 1945. During this dark period in modern Asian history, the Japanese military machine was motivated by a desire for expansion and imperialism, a desire to end their second class citizenship in the world, by dominating others. The brutalities and atrocities committed by the ... ended with their timely surrender, due largely to the speed and effectiveness of the Atomic Bombs. The victims of the Japanese militarists' aggression included the innocent people of China, Korea, the Philippines, other south east Asian countries, the United States, and while it seems unlikely, even Japan itself. The atrocities that were preformed by the Japanese during World War II were only paralleled by those of the Nazi regime, atrocities including ...
- 316: Racism: Issue In Institutional Racism
- ... for cheap labor, and Chinese flocked there to work on the railroads. By 1867 they numbered 50,000; their number increased after the Burlingame Treaty of 1868, which permitted Chinese immigration but not naturalization. Anti-Asian prejudice and the competition with American workers led to anti-Chinese riots in San Francisco in 1877, then to the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, which banned Chinese immigration for 10 years. Once again inherent ... scarcity of employment opportunities combines with prejudices to create a atmosphere of hatred and political blame directed toward the Chinese immigrants (The Heathen Chinese 230-240). Another case of dualistic application of justice towards the Asian- American community is the case of Japanese-American internment during the Second World War. In 1942, Lt. Gen. John L. De Witt rationalized the deportation of Japanese nationals and Japanese-Americans with A Jap is ...
- 317: The Police and Corruption
- ... do not call upon the police for things that they feel the police will not believe or will not consider legitimate concerns. Therefore citizens only call upon the police for what they regard as a crisis or important matter. What the citizen generally regards as a crisis is necessarily routine to the police; it becomes part of their regular work and follows routines. Likewise, police intervention in the lives of citizens by such means as detaining citizens for questions- regarded by police ...
- 318: Jesus and Youths In America
- ... afraid or ashamed of their bodies, gays and lesbians need not live undignified lives of shame and a teenage mother need not carry to term a baby she can not afford. This is the moral crisis the Pat Robertson denounces. If I had a two billion dollar tax-exempt media corporation, I'm sure I could paint progress as crisis too. The real fundamentals of Christianity that offer a positive function for society is not the condemnation of diversity and alienation that the rich and religious are always so good at; it is the idea ...
- 319: Domestic Violence
- ... other social problems such as substance abuse, juvenile delinquency, and violent crimes of all types" (MTCAWA e-mail interview). Domestic violence against women is not merely a domestic issue; but, rather a complex socio-economical crisis that threatens the interconnected equilibrium of the entire social structure. Causes & Effects "Within the family there is a historical tradition condoning violence" (Violence Against Women: The Missing Agenda, 29). Domestic violence against women accounts for ... domestic violence occurs use doctors eight times more often, visit the emergency room six times more often and use six times more prescription drugs than the general population (Facts About Domestic Violence.) A Socio-Economic Crisis Domestic violence against women is not an individual or family problem. It is an important social issue. Using the Systems Theory as a theoretical framework helps show the resonating effect of such violence. The family ...
- 320: Bone
- ... fiction novel, but the story told is like a non-fiction book; giving readers a sense of realism. As a Chinese reading Bone, I understand the narrators feelings and predicaments. Although she is an Asian, her thinking lies more on the American side. Leila wants to move out to stay with Mason but yet she fears leaving her mother alone and also of what her mother might say in regards to a girl staying with a man before marriage. In Asian culture, cohabitation is not popular and widely accepted. In the books narrative hierarchy, I find the narrator placed herself at the top, always wanting or hoping that things were done her way or that ...
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