at Colegio de San Nicolas Obispo in Moreli. He became the dean of Colegio de San Nicolas Obispo in…
Between the 1930’s and the 1950’s, a lot of things happened in the NFL. The draft was introduced to the league in 1936 to acquire college players. The first televised professional game occurred in 1939 between the Philadelphia Eagles and the Brooklyn “Football” Dodgers. In 1941, the NFL would name it’s very first commissioner. During World War II, teams would merge as there was a major player shortage. In the late 1940’s and early 1950’s would a lot more teams end up joining the league.…
Aparna is a traditional Bengali housewife that had been transplanted to the United States. When the story begins, the reader can’t help but to feel sorry for the loneliness that Aparna must be feeling. She is in a country which thrives on a culture that is very different from the one which she is familiar with. Her husband is engulfed by his work and Aparna is left to entertain herself daily. She has few friends in the United States and nothing to occupy her time. Lahiri writes “…I would return from school and find my mother with her purse in her lap and her trench coat on, desperate to escape the apartment where she had spent the day alone.” As the plot continues, the reader is given hope…
America is still the Promised Land to millions of immigrants. They are from all over the world and do everything to make their way to the United States of America. Nonetheless, once in the USA, the immigrants experience a process of Americanization or the adoption of the American values and customs for the goal of becoming a member of the U.S.A. international mosaic. Most of these immigrants have difficulty integrating into the U.S. society because their own cultural baggage, frames of references and convictions do prevent them from effectively taking on the new culture. The two stories, "Saving Sourdi" by May-Lee Chai and “Clothes” by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, are about becoming Americanized through women’s rights and arranged marriages.…
In Bharati short story “two ways to belong to America” she talks and her and her sister experience as first time immigrants migrating from India to America. At their arrival to America they were similar in a lot of ways, appearance and attitudes-views and sentiments. They were both seeking degrees-Mira in child psychology and pre-school education, bharati went on to peruse a degree in creative writing. After they obtained their degree’s they were to return to India and marry, a man of their fathers choosing.…
As a beginning of this film, a myth is told by the Nyinba people of Nepal: a story of fearsome spirits thought to kill children and the weak. Their crime was adulterous passionate love and it was this that had condemned them to live eternally between life and death. In this film, we learn about and explore marriages in tribal societies. We can clearly identify the differences that challenge both side’s ideas and sensibilities about marriage bonds.…
Jhumpa Lahiri’s collection of stories Interpreter of Maladies is the result of her “desire to force the two worlds I occupied to mingle on the page as I was not brave enough, or mature enough, to allow in life” (Lahiri, “My Two Lives”). The stories, set across national, but also generation, or gender frontiers, contribute to the writer’s finally finding an identity of her own. She strives to reconcile her two selves as, “like many immigrant offspring, I felt intense pressure to be two things, loyal to the old world and fluent in the new, approved of on either side of the hyphen” (Lahiri, “My Two Lives”). Consequently, the collection may be interpreted as the writer’s journey into her new, even if not necessarily true, self.…
There are many different causes of crime in the Criminal Justice system today. Here are three causes of crimes of my own opinion. Poor judgment, meaning lack of ability to think or act clearly, criticism meaning being picked on all your life and being put down in a negative way, and revenge meaning getting back at someone who has caused you pain or suffering and has done physical or mental harm to your family or friends.…
Moving to a different country is never easy and author Jhumpa Lahiri captures this struggle in the astounding book, The Namesake. Her words perfectly emulate the struggles each main character— Ashoke, Ashima and Gogol face. This book is written in a third person omniscient view which enables readers to look into the intimate thoughts of each character, and how they individually handle their ability to balance the Bengali and American culture. Each character’s journey to conform is unique, making their personal growth different.…
Diasporic experiences can be extremely challenging and testing at the least, and Akhil Sharma’s life, represented in his novel Family Life, is no exception. The semi-autobiographical novel illustrates the hardships faced by an Indian family after moving to the United States and soon after, almost losing one of their sons to an accident that changed all of their lives. The novel, however, focuses mostly on Ajay, and how his life slowly transforms as we read the story from his perspective. Being a member of the Indian diaspora myself, the empathetic connection between Ajay and myself allowed me to understand and relate to the ever changing relationship between him and his parents, and how that shaped Ajay as a person in his future, for better…
Jhumpa Lahiri’s Interpreter of Maladies shows that many struggles of Indian immigration into America. When immigrants come to America, it is believed to achieve the American dream of freedom and success. In her short stories, Lahiri shows how transitioning into American culture is quite a difficult struggle and might not be what each of the characters might have expected. Within the three short stories Mrs. Sen’s, This Blessed House, and The Third and Final Continent shows a variety of ways the “American Dream” has come to be and that sometimes trying to achieve this acceptance and dream is harder than it has been made out to be.…
Love, generations, cultures, and family are the main theme to talk about in shorts stories, and in the story of “Hell-Heaven” by Jhumpa Lahiri, that is not the exception. However, it is an unusual and very enjoyable story where readers can identify themselves with it because the main characters are common people who have the same problems as many of us. If I have to summarize the story in one sentence, I can say that it describes the experiences of people who come from other cultures to the USA, and it is nuanced with an impossible love to make it more interesting and real. Also, the author divided the different parts of it with four important events which mark the transition from one part to another. For that reason, during the story, we find how a Bengali family still attached to their roots, and the different point of views of the life between people who were born here like Usha, an undergraduate student who met the Usha’s family, Kaku, who is from the same country as Usha’s family, and Usha’s parents more specific her mother.…
Introduction Jhumpa Lahiri's short stories accentuate on the lives of Indo Americans, and the short stories in Interpreter of Maladies are set in India or part of the US. In her short stories, characters meet up for reasons that are not cozy and end up winding up in imply circumstances. For instance, in "Mediator of Maladies" the two primary characters Mr. Kapasi and Mrs Das get themselves together in an auto since Mrs Das enlists Mr. Kapasi as a visit manage. Different stories in the gathering include an after-school guardian and her ward, a landowner and her inhabitants, and a wedded couple in emergency. Jhumpa Lahiri recounts a considerable lot of the stories through a startling account point of view of somebody who is indirectly identified with the individual under perception.…
When Jayanti arrives in America and meets her Uncle and Aunt, she feels ashamed to practice her traditional customs openly in the public. As she says, “I touch their feet like a good Indian girl should, though I am somewhat embarrassed. Everyone in the airport is watching us” (72). This is where we see how assimilation begins to contribute to the loss of her customs and who she is.…
The article of Tarun Khanna, Jaeyong Song, and Kyungmook Lee: The Paradox of Samsung’s Rise, published by Harvard Business Review on July 2011, defines a unique situation of a company in competing in international market and becoming a world leader.…