Author’s Firoozeh Dumas and Mawi Asgedom both tell their experiences of coming to America. While both Dumas and Asgedom discuss valuable stories of coming to America‚ they use different strategies to convey their perspectives. In “Funny in Farsi” Dumas focuses on her experience in America‚ she explains how so many people asked her questions. She also tries to entertain the reader while explaining her story. Dumas uses an Idiom to tell her encounter with two boys. They wanted to know curse words
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the better but what incoming immigrants do not realize is that their personal view point is most likely unrealistic. The following sources: “Stories of Migration“‚ “Stories of Immigration“‚ Personal Interview‚ Picture Bride‚ New Kids in Town‚ “Funny in Farsi”‚ and Lou Dobbs article are going to help me support my view on the lives and experiences of the people immigrating to the United States. Immigrants coming from their native land to the United States are difficult already. Then once they
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The ‘F’ Word written by Firoozeh Dumas is a passage full of humor and seriousness. Throughout the passage figurative language and rhetorical strategies are used‚ such as ethos‚ sarcasm‚ analogies and diction. Dumas uses these devices in such a way though the topic is serious they lighten up the mood to not made it seem so heavy. Dumas uses ethos to create a mood of accomplishment. The introduction lets the reader know all that she has accomplished and where she has graduated from. “She has received
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The triumph of love over death and destruction is at once an inspiring and timeless theme. This theme is thoroughly examined in both Khaled Hosseini’s A Thousand Splendid Suns and Sarah Gruen’s Water for Elephants. Despite their subtle differences in writing style‚ both novels have protagonists who undergo similar experiences and have similar settings. The authors of both novels succeed in telling a moving story through their different writing styles. The writing in Water for Elephants is replete
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is the sentence "Agar Ferdows dar jahan ast hamin ast o hamin ast o hamin ast"; - ’If there is a paradise on earth it is here it is here it is here.’ Although the name of the language has been maintained as Persian or Parsi or its Arabic form Farsi (because in Arabic they do not have the letter P) the language has undergone great changes and can be categorized into the following groups. 1. Old Persian 2. Middle Persian 3. Classical Persian 4. Modern Persian Old Persian is what the original
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symbolism of Zach and Cammie’s relationship (previously mentioned in “The Shifty Sort”). Let’s take a closer look‚ starting with small moments. One small moment is the mere fact that the language of Farsi is used frequently. Often‚ when characters are speaking in a foreign language‚ the author chose Farsi. Farsi is a language used in the Middle East. When more deeply considered‚ the current events there (and relationships with other countries) related to what Gallagher Girls face every day. It seemed as
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is meant to be." This quote represents Firoozeh Dumas’s view on learning and becoming the person that she is today. Through her hardships‚ struggles‚ good times and the bad times‚ she has matured and learned a great deal. In the autobiography Funny in Farsi by Firoozeh Dumas‚ the themes or clashing cultures‚ new environments‚ and learning through experience comes into play. The story begins as Firoozeh moves with her family to the United States in 1972‚ as a seven-year-old. From the moment her
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References: Alikhani‚ N. (1997). A contrastive rhetoric of Farsi an Engilish Rhetoric with regard to writing ability‚ Topic‚ L2 proficiency‚ and gender performance. MA thesis in University of teacher education‚ department of foreign languages‚ Tehran. Amirian‚ Z. Tavakoli‚ M. (2009). A Contrastive Intercultural
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UNIVERSITY OF THE PUNJAB NOTIFICATION NO. 215 /COND.D.S. DATE SHEET FOR THE M.A./M.Sc. PART-I‚ ANNUAL EXAMINATION‚ 2013 TO BE HELD IN JULY/AUGUST 2013. WRITTEN EXAMINATION Date & Day July‚ 2013. 16th‚ Tuesday Subject Applied Psychology Diplomacy & Strategic Studies Economics Gender Studies Kashmiryat Mass Communication Mountain Conservation and Watershed Management Psychology Social Work Urdu Arabic Chemistry English Geography Mathematics Persian Philosophy Physical Education Physics Political Science
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struggles to belong in the city of Los Angeles as he cannot speak proper English. The opening scene of the movie shows Farhad’s alienation from society as the shopkeeper of a gun store insults him racially for conversing with his daughter‚ Dori in Farsi while attempting to buy a gun. “Yo‚ Osama! Plan the jihad in your own time. What do you want?" Although Feliks does not belong to Australian society he however has found a positive way to belong by creating a place to connect with‚ his garden. The
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