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    In the 2002 movie release of My Big Fat Greek Wedding‚ the writer Nia Vardalos‚ director Joel Zwick and producer Tom Hanks‚ tell the story of a real life scenario that is increasing in our ever diverse world. Vardalos‚ basing the movie on her real life marriage‚ gives the audience an inside view as to what goes on inside an interfaith marriage and how to make it work. Yet in today’s society‚ the typical view of a marriage is seen as either a fairy tale or ball and chain. However‚ after watching this

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    Collectivism in my big fat greek wedding: • All the Greek families from the neighbourhood are very together‚ as they all join up together at the Greek restaurant. • When the main character asks her father if she can go to University he gets very upset and says no‚ as he doesn’t want her to leave the family and get on with her life. • The father offers money to Thia Voula for her travel agents business; this shows how they help each other within the community. • Tula asks to her boyfriend‚

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    analysed in study guides. If you use a pre-prepared analysis for your related texts realise you will be competing with the thousands of other students who used the exact same text and analysis. Edward Scissorhands My Big Fat Greek Wedding Into the Wild Looking for Alibrandi Shrek The Arrival Mean Girls The Rabbits The Catcher in the Rye Bra Boys Bend it

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    1 Location: Blackboard—Course Materials—Assignments  Watch My Big Fat Greek Wedding‚ and respond to the following questions. http://ffilms.org/my-big-fat-greek-wedding-2002/ 1) Based on your understanding of cultural variations‚ please compare the U.S. American culture and the Greek culture in the following dimensions (Word limit: Short Answer): Individualism/collectivism Power distance Please use examples from the movie to support your arguments. 2) Previous studies have found

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    In My Big Fat Greek Wedding‚ I analyzed the scene where Toula’s family is having a party‚ and Ian Miller’s parents are going to come and meet the family for the first time. This is an extreme clash of individualistic vs. collectivistic culture. Ian’s parents seemed to be a traditional white‚ American couple with no sense of foreign food‚ customs‚ or culture of any kind. When the parents originally start walking up to the house‚ and there have to be at least 30 people outside partying‚ it is an

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    out of the love for daughter and the young man’s inclusion‚ he helped them hold a big weeding and bought a house as a gift to this couple. Key Words:intercultural marriage‚ Greek culture‚ self-surrender‚ inclusive‚ religious Part 1: Introduction My Big Fat Greek Weeding is a romantic comedy film which is centered on Fotoula“Toula” Portokalos‚ a middle class Greek American woman who falls in love with a non-Greek upper class “White Anglo-Saxon Protestant” lan Miller. Toula is a dull girl‚ being

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    because it sustains a free enterprise system which allows people to be free to go into business on their own. Historically‚ the U.S. government policy toward business was summed up by the French term laissez-faire - "leave it alone." The concept came from the economic theories of Adam Smith‚ the 18th-century Scot whose writings greatly influenced the growth of American capitalism. Smith believed that private interests should have a free rein. As long as markets were free and competitive‚ he said‚ the

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    Monica Manuel 4/24/2013 My Big Fat Straight Wedding hopefully won’t be straight anymore There is much controversy on the rights of same sex marriage ranging from religious viewpoints to the rights as individuals being able to obtain the same rights as heterosexual couples. In the essay “My Big Fat Straight Wedding” written by Andrew Sullivan‚ he asks his audience to see the option of gay marriage through the eyes of each person’s own individuality. In his essay‚ his language‚ tone‚ and arguments

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    Big Fat Gypsy Wedding Audience and Representation Analysis My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding was a programme broadcasted on channel 4. At it’s peak Big Fat Gypsy Wedding drew in an audience viewing of up to 8.7 million people‚ making it Channel 4’s eighth highest viewed programme. There are many different opinions as to what makes the programme so popular‚ that it is able to draw in audiences of half a dozen million and more week in week out. One theory as to why the programme is so popular could be due

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