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    Win Sandy Oo English 1A Porter RODRIGUEZ’S EXPERIENCE IN THE IMPACT OF CULTURAL SEPERATION IN PERSUING EDUCATION AND THE RESULT ON WHAT HAD GAINED AFTERWARDS From the essay The Achievement of Desire by Richard Rodriguez what Rodriguez had experienced help him pointed out the fact that cultural difference separates him from his family but later‚ education helped him realized the separation and the valuable thing he had missed in life‚ his family. Rodriguez had a hard time adjusting

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    Social conformity can destroy your health in many ways. It can suppress the immune system and cause stress‚ lead to depression‚ cause emotional deprivation‚ prevent you from making healthy decisions‚ and lead to you doing thoughtless‚ dangerous acts. Although there are only five here‚ there are more physical and emotional consequences of conforming to group expectations due to fear and disapproval. Conforming to a group that’s against or unsure of your beliefs and values you believe in just because

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    The Influence of conformity on society through religionmore by John Chaaya 2‚137 Download (.doc)   The Influence of conformity on society in religion Religion has influenced societies on an epic scale for millennia. Even the mostprimitive people on the planet created gods to worship and use their teachings toform the basis of their society going back as far as the Paleolithic period wheremother earth was worshiped as a goddess. Through time people have stayedtrue to a belief or a religion

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    Can’t We All Just Get Along? Liberal vs. Conservative Growing up in a home that could be characterized as a political battlefield was traumatic. I spent the first decade of my life living peacefully with two left- winged hippie parents. My mother had hair like Rapunzel and my dad worked as a jazz musician. Life was simple- then in came the 80’s. Making a living as a musician in the Catskill Mountains wasn’t quite panning out well for our family. Luckily my parents were both educated and

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    of writing‚ I grew to hate writing and so I began to write just enough for what my teachers were requiring and what they wanted to hear‚ so I guess one could say that I am a scholarship boy (or girl?). In Richard Rodriguez’‚ “The Achievement of Desire‚” he looks back on his childhood and realizes that he was so enthralled in school that he wasted his childhood. Rodriguez wasn’t always so enthralled in school‚ when he was in the second grade‚ he didn’t see the point of going to school‚ but his

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    Marie Gordon Studying a Modern Play What does the play’s setting contribute to its dramatic effect? A Streetcar Named Desire shows the extent to which the American South is less a geographical expression than an entire way of life. Even today‚ the South’s distinctive culture‚ food‚ literature and music have influenced the rest of the country immensely. Tennessee Williams explored the cultural and spiritual experience of the South‚ to which he belonged and in Streetcar he dramatizes

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    Rebellion or Conformity? An Evaluation of the Two Throughout life‚ an individual is faced with many instances of change and reform that he or she can adapt to‚ rebel against‚ move beyond‚ or conform to. Although conforming may be the quickest‚ safest and easiest route to take‚ it may not always be what is best. But what is a person to do when everything that he or she came to know and love is morphing into a new‚ unrecognizable world? I think what it comes down to is a personal choice‚ a decision

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    judgments on the subject. Brooks is probably used to this because she was raised in Australia as a Jew. Knowing about the Jewish background and how they were discriminated against could have been an important factor in the writing of Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women. It also contributes to the concept of gender identification. This book suggests that Islam is a patriarchal religion where the women have no status and the men rule over all. For example; a married woman cannot

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    ’deposited’ information into the minds of their students - "education thus becomes an act of depositing (information)‚ in which the students are the depositories and the teacher is the depositor." (Freire 318) In his essay ’The Achievement of Desire’‚ author Richard Rodriguez categorizes himself under Hoggarts definition of a ’scholarship boy’ who according to Hoggart "must move between environments‚ his home and the classroom‚ which are cultural extremes‚ opposed." (Rodriguez 517) As the son

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    for the diversity of students‚ and lessen behavioral issues; which results in better learning environments. Even though uniforms promote conformity‚ the focus of school shifts from fashion to education. Not only do students start to concentrate less on what they are wearing‚ but they become more aware of the purpose for being at school; to learn. The conformity of uniforms also correlate with the reduction of bullying‚ because students are all wearing the same

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