“A CRITICAL SOCIETY MAKES IT DIFFICULT FOR CHILDEREN AND TEENERGERS FROM MINORITY CULTURES AND GROUPS TO FIND A WAY TO BELONG” Good morning ladies and gentlemen Today I’d like to discuss and persuade you that a critical society makes it difficult for teenagers and children from minority cultures and groups to find a way to belong to a foreign country. I am discussing three characters( Simon tong‚ Hoa pham and Diana ngyuen) in Alice Pung’s text Growing up Asian in Australia and experience of my
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‘Our sense of self is very vulnerable to external pressures’ In everyday life‚ humans are surrounded with pressures that can influence the formation of their identity. External pressures such as the environment we live in‚ the culture we belong to and the presence of other people‚ are often uncontrollable and can have a crucial impact on our sense of self. This idea is explored in great depth in Ray Lawler’s classic Australian play‚ “The Summer of the Seventeenth Doll”‚ where it is reflected how
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beings theoretically exist. Many people claim that aliens influenced some of the technology of ancient cultures. There is proof of alien intervention in ancient architecture. The structures of some Mayan and Egyptian temples may have been shaped by advanced extraterrestrial individuals‚ with certain Mayan cities being laid out similar to modern day circuit boards. The Egyptians‚ intentionally or unintentionally‚ arranged
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people easily assume that she is black by her appearance. So families who we come across initially in life have a huge impact on us and shaped our identity and make who we are and what we become. Without them‚ there is no me. On the other hand‚ the belonging to a wider society determines our identity. Sometimes‚ it plays a more significant role on determining who we are than what our family gives us. My cousin as an Australian born Chinese‚ in the white society‚ she is considered to be an Asian‚ but
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A Psychoanalysis on Ridley Scott’s Alien In 1923 Sigmund Freud noticed the clash within thought and mental processes which led him to identify three parts of our psyche. He referred to these as the Id‚ Ego and the Superego. The Id is ‘the primitive‚ unconscious basis of the psyche‚ dominated by primary urges’ *. It comes from the initial instinct to satisfy our needs and desires what can be known as the pleasure principle. The uncontrollable repressed part of our psyche‚ for example a newborn child
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Belonging to America My grandfather always used to explain to me how lucky I was to be able to be an American. He would inform me on how valuable it was and how I should never take it for granted. He expressed that I should feel honored to be able to have all the opportunities I do. I never understood him growing up. I did not understand how growing up somewhere‚ like America‚ versus another country could be any different. I understand now. When I was younger‚ my mother would tell different stories
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Would you like hostile aliens to take over our planet or be peaceful by ending World Hunger? The government should choose to end world hunger because the aliens from another planet could be hostile and not be nice. Three reasons why we should not explore more of this planet is because we can end world hunger for ever and be peaceful‚ if the life on this other planet is far more advance than us they would have found us earlier‚ and finally they might not be peaceful and they might be hostile and try
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short film‚ “Lifted” animated by Pixar‚ I could not help but be reminded of being sixteen years old again. The younger alien in the film resembled me as a new driver‚ eager to take my test. I can recall having an instructor who gave no inclination of any emotion on his face. The older alien in the film that seems to be playing the role of a teacher is much like my evaluator. The alien that was learning to drive the spaceship was so eager to exercise control. The facial expression on his instructor
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Anne Bradstreet and Phyllis Wheatley: Pioneers for Women’s Rights Anne Bradstreet (1600’s) and Phyllis Wheatley (1700’s) wrote poetry in two different centuries. Their topics‚ themes and the risks these women took in their writings are groundbreaking in that they paved the way for women’s rights today. Both women are known as the first published poets of the new world. Bradstreet’s writings were first published in 1650 and her poetry included controversial subjects such as the relationship between
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Alien Remains Or Wishful Thinking? An anthropologist believes he has excavated remains of foreign beings right here on Earth in Andahuaylillas Are they really aliens? The reason for this theory is that the two sets of skeletons discovered by Renato Davila Riquelme in Peru‚ South America are like no other before. For the fact that they have abnormally large skulls- almost as big as the size of their 20 inch bodies! Plus‚ their eye sockets are very large. They are as big as how we think of aliens
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