“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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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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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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the sense that he chooses to detach himself from both the forest and court. * Essentially‚ he acts on his potential to challenge social normalcy and the status quo by rendering himself devoid of any affiliation to these communities‚ instead belonging to a ‘melancholy of my own.’ In doing so‚ he is minutely fastidious in the way in which he examines and scrutinizes the human condition; thus‚ by challenging these groups and
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citizens. In some parts of the world‚ it happens all the time‚ and it’s accepted. This also happens in America‚ although many groups are fighting against the laws that allow it. It also was a major issue in the novel we read over the summer‚ Ender’s Game. I believe that‚ in some cases‚ it is justified for the government to involve itself in the private lives of citizens. As I mentioned before‚ government does have a small role in our personal lives in America‚ although some people might not realize
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Step 1: Generating Ideas * Read Destiny by Shalini Akhil * Answer the following questions: The text a) Who are the characters? b) What is a lungi‚ and what are rotis? c) What do you think is the message of this piece? Yourself d) What did you want to be “when you grew up”? Try to remember a really idealistic dream from when you were quite young. Go back to that memory and write a paragraph describing all the details of that dream: why you wanted it‚ how you imagined yourself to look
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Games Have you ever thought about the way people cheat in games? The novel‚ Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card‚ is about a third child that goes to Battle School to learn how to stop the aliens from invading his world. Orson Scott Card demonstrates how the games were used as a way to manipulate the kids and soldiers. The ways he accomplishes this is by the adults changing the rules of the battle room games‚ and when the adults were giving the kids and soldiers promotions to higher rankings. Now let’s
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unjust of Colonel Graff to manipulate kids like Ender because of the physical and mental consequences and frightful exposure to violence and homesickness that would lie ahead for the launches. Throughout time children have always been symbolic of innocence; a reflection upon society’s mindset which is why Colonel Graff’s actions regarding the treatment of the children is such an abhorrent act. Although ability wise‚ children in the military school like Ender are mature‚ their emotional development is
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Sales of video games have more than quadrupled from 1995-2008‚ while the arrest rate for juvenile murders fell 71.9% and the arrest rate for all juvenile violent crimes declined 49.3% in this same period. The 2008 study Grand Theft Childhood reported that 60% of middle school boys that played at least one Mature-rated game hit or beat up someone‚ compared to 39% of boys that did not play Mature-rated games. California passed a law in 2005 that would have required violent video games to include
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