professionals to work effectively in cross cultural situations. I believe that I am culturally competent because I am able to put my ideas and someone else’s ideas in a way that would benefit the both of us or in any given situation. In the story Dead Men’s Path Michael Obi was not culturally
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oppressor is affected as well. This unspoken bias masks our minds‚ causing us to only realize how harm is being done to one party rather than the other one as well. This moral struggle is depicted in the short stories Dead Men’s Path and Shooting an Elephant. In Dead Man’s Path‚ Chinua Achebe highlights the dangers in our own actions through the character Michael Obi. Obi is recently appointed headmaster of a school but his fatal decision to interfere with the village‚ strips his title away. Comparably
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Chinua Achebe does a great job showing Okonkwo’s identity challenges as a response to the Western culture. Without understanding how Okonkwo changed and why he did‚ it’s hard to actually understand the story line. The collision of the Ibo and Western culture challenges Okonkwo’s identity because he begins to be seen as less strong‚ he becomes more angry and ready to fight‚ and kind of looses respect from his family members because of his actions. Firstly‚ the collision of the two cultures
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King1 Haley King English 4‚ per. 3 Ms. Dietzmann 24 November 2013 Tragedy‚ Social Purpose‚ Language‚ and Family Chinua Achebe introduces his novel with a line of poetry by William Butler Yeats. In this poem‚ Yeats describes an apocalyptic vision of the world‚ in which all order and stability collapses into anarchy because of human faults. This vision works on two levels in this novel. On the one hand‚ we see the protagonist‚ Okonkwo‚ as a great man of Umuofia‚ who because of his own faults
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In the early 1900’s the man was seen as the intellectual individual who takes care of their wife and family‚ who arrives home with the money and who was the supplier. However during the 1930’s this typical idea of the man’s role was extremely hard to keep ahold of due to The Great Depression. While the average woman worked on household dynamics and keeping the family afloat‚ the man was out looking for a job‚ or struggling to keep his current job. As a result‚ the average male came home at the end
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第十届 杯翻译竞赛原文（英语组） Path Robert Macfarlane Humans are animals and like all animals we leave tracks as we walk: signs of passage made in snow‚ sand‚ mud‚ grass‚ dew‚ earth or moss. The language of hunting has a luminous word for such mark-making: ‘foil’. A creature’s ‘foil’ is its track. We easily forget that we are track-makers‚ though‚ because most of our journeys now occur on asphalt and concrete – and these are substances not easily impressed. ‘Always‚ everywhere‚ people have walked‚
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Dead Man’s Shoes – Essay The short story “Dead Man’s Shoes” (1998) by David Evans is an astonishing view into the life of a rural village in South Africa after the fall of apartheid‚ and of the different attitudes flourishing in the community. The story depicts the life of a rich widow‚ Anne Bezuidenhout‚ who lives alone on an enormous farm with only her black workers to help her. She has many offers of marriage‚ all with something to offer her‚ but she ends up surprising everyone with her choice
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There has been many changes in the equality of men over the years. Just like women‚ some things are right. Men usually don’t get much said about them when it comes to equality. It’s usually the women. Well now it’s time to talk about the men. In the Puritan age‚ the men were the more dominant sex when it came to gender roles. Men were more in control in the house. They were not involved with raising the children unless they became problematic. They also farmed and controlled the land that they
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Writing Assessment for Mice and Men Due to poor choices in the 1920’s‚ the dirty 30’s were truly a disaster. In the 1930’s there a big depression which was called the Great Depression. It was a very hard time for Americans because‚ they were losing everything and had nowhere to go. No one had anywhere to turn and this caused so much commotion and issues in America. Day by day things just got worse instead of better. Everyone hit rock bottom. Americans lost their houses and would go to bed hungry
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Since I was a little child I loved sitting in front of the TV‚ with my sandwich and ice tea‚ and just flip threw channels to any interesting sporting event that was on at the moment‚ from baseball to swimming I would just sit there and watch these men talk about sports and it seemed as if they enjoyed it. As the years went by I watched the people on ESPN every night. I said to my self‚ “I could talk about sports and get paid for it”. Right then and there I decided what I wanted to be‚ and what I
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