Philip Van Eick ENG 101 Section 3 Professor Sobel “My Hyphenated Identity” 9.25.2013 My Dutch-Indonesian Life I consider my hyphenated identity to be an important part of who I am‚ which is Dutch-Indonesian. This is a distinct group of people from the islands of Indonesia‚ situated across the equator. Although the Portuguese were the first Europeans to arrive in the area‚ the Dutch settled and stayed in Indonesia for roughly 300 years. The Dutch were there a long time and created a unique
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Personal and Cultural Identity in Things Fall Apart and “I Lost My Talk” Identity can be explained as the state or fact of being a specific person or thing. [definition is good‚ but needs to be more specific] A specific person or thing can be defined by his/her personality‚ interests‚ family‚ community or culture. [connect your definition to the novel and poem—that’s why previous sentence was inserted] In both Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart and in Rita Joe’s “I Lost My Talk”‚
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program to Costa Rica. I embarked on a cultural journey that forever changed my life. I was able to experience and embrace in a new and different culture than my own. I lived in Costa Rica for four months. While living there‚ I had opportunity to also travel to two other countries in Central America‚ Nicaragua and Panama. After living in another country for four months‚ I believed that I was culturally diverse; I believed that I knew what it was like to being cultural‚ little did I know that there was
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years old‚ my parents told me we were moving the California. I was absolutely thrilled. California was purely an abstract and conceptual mirage-type of place‚ too far away to know where it was‚ and too far away to really understand. The magical land of celebrities‚ skyscrapers and colossal burgers. A place where everything was possible‚ where dreams could actually become true‚ and where you had the ability to do what you wanted and be happy. This naive and unrealistic vision of California has affected
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My identity is in a jar in the can house. It’s the white breath exhausted over greasy tools in rusty‚ silt-filled drawers. The mountain sounds‚ the back-up sirens‚ and steam whistles are my sounds. Spring is cold in the high country. Where hills imitate islands. Frayed cables will slice hands and give horrifying slivers. Let them rest‚ embedded in the mud. I’m flood waters rising in the night‚ and rafts of firewood and old doors. These chains are too big to reach my hands around but their rust remains
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Wenqing Zhong Professor King English 1A 30 January 2015 My Cultural Lineage As can be told from my face‚ I’m an Asian. To be more specific‚ I’m a Chinese. Unlike many big families in my country‚ my family doesn’t keep a genealogy‚ which is a vital means by which people can record their domestic history. I believe part of the reason has something to do with my family name. My family name is Zhong‚ which is very rare even in China. But thanks to that‚ it’s easier for us to find our ancestors since
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Cancer has affected my life on a personal level: it has taken a toll on my grandfather’s life as well as my great-grandfather’s life. Both of these great men were diagnosed with leukemia. My grandfather lost his battle when I was just four years old‚ yet it is still fresh in my mind even today the the age of 16. Don‚ my great-grandfather has been living with leukemia for several years now‚ partially due to the fact that it has been dormant. Every day it pains me to see my eighty-six year old great
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Growing up‚ I always kept to myself and never got close with many people. My PFO experience has changed this about me. Being able to work with everyone in PFO in a different way this past year has allowed me to build a unique relationship with each person. One of my most memorable experiences was from Night of Gratitude. For this show we rehearsed for only a total of 24 hours before we put on the show. In the 24 hours‚ 20 teens‚ including myself wrote songs and poetry to perform in honor of 10 people
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Basketball has taught me many things in life. Basketball has gave me many friends because I could be social with my family and friends talking about the NBA and the teams.. I ended up dropping the sport until middle school started. Usually I would go to lunch every day at the basketball courts just watching everyone play because I was too shy to ask to shoot around. The day they were short a player a few weeks into school they asked me to play‚ but boy did my elementary school days came flashing
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Music has changed my life forever. In middle school‚ I was extremely timid and exceptionally quiet. I was never involved in school activities or sports. I showed up‚ did my work‚ and went home. One day‚ I heard about the band program and thought to myself “That sounds cool.” The sound of the bright brass trumpet‚ jazzy sounding saxophone‚ and the ravishing tone of the flute. I registered for band class through my school administration. Enthusiastic‚ yet‚ anxious. On the first day of band class I
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