Language represents both unity and pluralism because the writers are united due to the fact that they are all writers but they are different in the sense that they all write about different things in different ways. In Amy Tan’s “Mother Tongue”‚ Tan uses in the way that peoples language helps shape the way of life for many people as wells as their developmental stages. In the story‚ Tan’s mother speaks “broken” Chinese‚ so it’s her responsibility to translate her language into proper English. Tan
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John Steinbeck’s novel‚ The Grapes of Wrath‚ is a moving account of the social plight of Dustbowl farmers and is widely considered an American classic. The novel takes place during the depression of the 1930s in Oklahoma and all points west to California. Steinbeck uses the Joad family as a specific example of the general plight of the poor farmers. The Joads are forced off of their farm in Oklahoma by the banks and drought‚ and they‚ like many other families of the time‚ head out for the
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“music” we owe to the Greeks. Greek poets‚ architects‚ mathematicians‚ and philosophers‚ founded a culture that we still identify with today. These are the people that introduced the world to democracy‚ the beginning of recorded history‚ politics‚ and even our very own vocabulary. To some extent‚ we even owe the start of theatre and comedy to the Greeks. The Greeks taught us a lot of things‚ good or bad‚ these things are still being used centuries after the fall of Greece. They Greek people lived in
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Between the Romans and the Persians they both have their different outlooks on women but‚ they also share some things whether it be politically‚ cultural or just their beliefs in general. Also‚ having values and power privileges about their sexuality in two different ways such as emphasizing or de-emphasizing. When dealing with the Romans in the time period of (c. 150 or 164-235 CE) Dio Cassius the Roman senator wrote his eighty-volume history of Rome in Greek. “His political position gave him personal
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In Aeschylus’ tragedies The Persians and Agamemnon‚ the interactions between messengers sent forward by their army and the queens ruling the land in their king’s absence play a pivotal role in the plot structure of the ’return of the king’. The ’return of the king’ revolves around a chorus‚ anxiously hypothesizing about what could have possibly happened to their king‚ a queen awaiting her son or husband’s return‚ a messenger announcing both the king’s arrival and the outcome of the king’s conquests
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Jonny Ortiz Western Civ. 1 Professor Pomares Midterm Essay Questions Compare and contrast the Assyrian and Persian empires. The era before Christ was filled with kings that wanted an empire like no one has ever seen before. Throughout history we hear about many empires that tried to take over territories to become great but only a few succeed. Both Assyrians menacing ways and Persians new approach to conquering both lead great nations in their time. Though like everyone else their era eventually
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continents. The great Persian empire of the yore‚ also endured invasions from the Greeks‚ Arabs‚ Turks and the Mongols. Islamization in Iran took place during 8th to 10th century and that led to the eventual decline of Zorastrian religion in Persia. Although‚ Persians adopted Islam‚ after being ruled by Muslim conquerors‚ yet they protected their distinct culture‚ heritage and customs. . According to Bernard Lewis‚ “Iran was indeed Islamized‚ but it was not Arabized. Persians remained Persians”. The Mongols
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Unity or Diversity Two of the poems which I found myself fascinated with are “Child of the Americas” by Aurora Levins Morales and “To live in the Borderlands means you” by Gloria Anzaldúa. These two poems talk about the pride of each of the author’s cultures and races. The authors do not want to make excuses for being the way they are but want to tell about the pride they feel for being the way they are‚ and they found no way to change themselves but show that history has made them the way they are
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Civilization of the Greeks-Chapter 4 The sea influenced Greek society. Greece had a long seacoast surrounded by bays and inlets that provided numerous harbors. The Greeks also inhabited a number of islands to all points (north‚ south‚ east‚ and west) of its mainland. So it is no accident that they became skilled sailors. They used the Aegean and Mediterranean Seas to establish colonies with the outside world and to spread Geek civilization to those areas. Mycenae was the first of the Greek states. Mycenaean
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Myths Shaping Greek Identity Greek myths helped the people who composed and listened to them shape their identity through a variety of ways. During the Archaic period‚ writing began again. During this period of history‚ there were a variety of communities and each Greek community developed into a city-state or polis. Each polis had classes or social ranks which were the aristocracy‚ the poor‚ and the middle. They also didn’t have kings which lead to politics. During this period‚ women did not have
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