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- 71: Critical Analysis Of "Identity Crisis" and "Oppositional Dress"
- Critical Analysis Of "Identity Crisis" and "Oppositional Dress" In Minabrere Ibelema's essay "Identity Crisis", Ibelema suggests that the mainstream american culture is so powerful that all cultures conform to it. Ibelema does this by showing how the mass media portrays African Americans in relation to their cultural identity by ...
- 72: Crisis In Kosovo
- Foundations in the Crisis in Yugoslavia For hundreds of years there has been conflicts in the area of Yugoslavia. The present day conflicts between the United Nations and Slobodan Milosevic and the Serbians has caused uproar throughout the world ...
- 73: The Aids Crisis
- The AIDS Crisis AIDS is an epidemic that has been treated like every other plague in history. Because it is human nature to be afraid of what one cannot control, people are invariably afraid of disease and infection ...
- 74: A Look Into Asian Herbology
- A Look Into Asian Herbology One of the most fascinating areas of Chinese culture is their use of traditional and folk remedies in order to restore vitality after illness and even improve many areas if their lives when healthy ...
- 75: The Development Of Dance And Theatre In The East Asian Nations
- The Development Of Dance And Theatre In The East Asian Nations CHINA Formative period. Singing and dancing were performed at the Chinese court as early as the Chou dynasty (C.1111-255 BC). An anecdote describes a case of realistic acting in 402 BC, when ...
- 76: An American Crisis: Gulf War Syndrome
- An American Crisis: Gulf War Syndrome Imagine a soldier that is willing to die for his country in the Persian Gulf region, so that Americans could pay less for petroleum products in the Gulf, the soldier serves his ...
- 77: Chinese Immigration into America
- Chinese Immigration into America Surprisingly, Asian Americans have been in America for over 150 years. They are as diverse as the immigrants from Europe, ranging from China, Japan, Korea, Cambodia, Korea, Philippines, India, Vietnam, and Laos. (Takaki, page 8) When many ... Chinese labor could be used to develop the industries of California, it would be the height of folly to forbid its entrance to the Golden Gate." (Takaki, page 28) There was a constant demand for Asian labor all across the Pacific Coast, because they were cheaper, and generally harder working. Robinson claims that, "
even a lowly job in America would be a step up for an Asian, who would do work that whites had "out grown." Factories owners, bankers, investors, and other leaders of American industry used the Chinese workers to keep wages down. (Takaki, page 30) Chinese workers would work ...
- 78: Identity Crisis (joy Luck Club
- Identity Crisis (Joy Luck Club) Every person comes to a point in their life when they begin to search for themselves and their identity. Usually it is a long process and takes a long time with many ...
- 79: Chinese-american Culture In Un
- ... survive and the second generations efforts to thrive
made the transition into American culture possible. Overcoming barriers such as language, education, work ethic, and sex roles was just a beginning to the problems that all Asian Americans faced. The most obvious and one of the most difficult walls to climb was the language. First generation immigrants rarely became fluent in English and more often than not learned so little that they ... communicate well enough that they actually had skills. Trials in the work place helped the immigrants impress upon their children the importance of education. Education in Asia was and is completely different from western civilization. Asian teachers bear all the responsibility without any help from the home. Ngs portrayal of Leila as a school teacher and how difficult it was to connect with the Asian childrens parents is a situation relating back to the separation of education and the home in Asia. Another difficult barrier in education was the role of the student. In Asia the student learns ...
- 80: Crisis: Generation X
- Crisis: Generation X Generation X is the most misunderstood generation to date. Douglas Coupland attempts to make sense of what sense this generation has been left with. Due to high expectations placed upon Generation X, commonly ...
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