COM 263 Cultural Event Analysis – Cultural understanding through experience There are two parts to this assignment. First this assignment asks you to learn about and participate in three local activities involving people from other cultures. The second part of the assignment consists of an analysis written in response to your attendance and observations of the three different intercultural events. I want you to "field test" some of the knowledge you are gaining in class. Part One: You will select
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Thomas Swiatek Football vs. Soccer “When I meet a European‚ the first thing I say is‚ “I’d much rather watch football than football.” But I’m just teasing them‚ and they know I’d really rather watch football than football.” (Jarod Kintz). Football and soccer are two very different sports but at the same time they do have some similarities. Football is very much a contact and strength sport and soccer is more of a technique sport. But football does require technique as well‚ and soccer requires more
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Different Attitudes on Cultural Identity Cultural Identity is a person’s background and also how you can refer to a person. A person’s culture is usually what they are from‚ what language they speak and their religion. Alice Walker and Sandra Cisneros both have similar attitudes towards the idea that one should never forget ones cultural identity‚ no matter the circumstances. They both believe that one’s cultural identity is exceedingly important. In Walker’s work "Without Commercials"‚ Walker
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wings ( Williams‚ I can remember riding in the car on my home from school as a little girl and listening to the lyrics of the song titled Black Butterfly by Deniece Williams and wondering to myself “ Is she talking about me?!” Much of my ethno-cultural heritage is tied up in the fact that I was born in the south as a l black girl and am part of a family that had an active pioneer in the civil rights movement in our mist. I have been raised to always believe that I was just as smart as‚ just as
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Mark Twain’s fictional novel‚ the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn‚ tells the tale of a young‚ wanderlust stricken white boy from the south‚ Huck‚ who aids an escaped slave‚ named Jim‚ find freedom. The story is set before the civil war during the 1830s-1840s. Throughout Huck and Jim’s adventures together‚ the contrast between both their daily struggles and freedoms is immense. Huck being a white person moves through life with much more ease than Jim is able to even imagine experiencing. Racism affects
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Minhui Li ENG151 Prof. David Essay#1 Final Draft The facts are always more than what we thought. According to " What We Really Miss about the 1950s" by Stephanie Coontz‚ she strongly stated that the 1950s is not quite good enough for people want to go back even though more people picked the 1950s as best decade beside other decades. People feel the 1950s is good because the finance and communications between families were best‚ then it was best decade for children to grow up. However‚
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During the Romantic Era‚ many cultural problems lurked within society’s belief towards women and the impoverished. These problems included the women’s role as a submissive human being and the poor conditions of the commoners. The culture of England in the years 1800 to 1850 had a profound effect on the novel Frankenstein written by Mary Shelley. During Romantic England‚ the people were still divided into different classes based on social and economic status;the hierarchical structure is composed
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Michelle Fanaselle Mr. Heikes College Writing 1101 Classification Essay 10 February 2015 Three Types of FastFood Customers The fastfood industry is known to serve millions of hungry customers per day‚ but the types of people who eat at these establishments were unknown to me until I worked at one. Most customers don’t pay a lot of mind to the crew members at these sort of restaurants‚ but the workers notice them and are mindful of their patterns. Through my work in this enterprise I’ve
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Being ignorant of the world around oneself is worse than being blind. The truth is hard to observe if one is not thinking critically and be open minded. When one is self absorbed in his own hubris‚ he will lose track of values that are much more important to him‚ including his own prophesized fate. In Oedipus Rex‚ Oedipus’s “blindness” towards the decisions he made and his past added to his inevitable downfall. One of the many aspects that Oedipus failed to perceive were the clues of his own past
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Darby‚ Misty English 12 Mrs. Brown 5 February 2015 Always Be Cautious One hot summer evening in June‚ my family and I decided to go on a camping trip to Bluestone State Park. We would be staying in a cabin‚ out in the middle of the woods in the park‚ for a whole full week. During this week‚ my family and I would be doing various things such as hiking‚ fishing‚ biking‚ and spending time on the lake. I had never been this excited to go on a trip with my family. The last place we went‚ Myrtle Beach
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