Fat Greek Wedding GDUFS SEIB1104 Nicole Guan As a typical intercultural movie‚ My Big Fat Greek Wedding is about Toula‚ a lower middle class Greek American woman who fell in love with a non-Greek upper middle class “white Anglo-Saxon Protestant” Ian Miller. They overcame a series of difficulties and eventually held a big fat Greek wedding. This movie shows us how Greek Americans live‚ reflecting the conflicts between Greek culture and American culture in a humorous way. Guided by Hofstede’s cultural
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to my English teacher‚ Madam Mastura binti Suhaimi and my fellow friends. Today‚ I am going to talk about my special friend named Azraai Ian for my oral assessment. I choosed him because we are close friends. He also was a great friend of mine. First of all‚ I would introduce you his full name. His full name is Azraai Ian bin Azlan Johan. I used to call him Ian‚ but sometimes people call him Nyot. He was born on 20th of October 1997. He lives in Bandar Country Homes‚ Rawang Selangor. He has one
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her family tremendously‚ but at times they can be overbearing and overly opinionated. They view the world through the Greek culture and they have many Greek customs that they practice. One day Toula meets a man named Ian Miller who comes to eat in her family restaurant. Ian Miller is a professor at a college in town. Toula reacts in a very shy manner‚ but
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cast also includes a priest. Opposite the Portokalos family is Ian Miller and his small traditional family made up of Harriett and Rodney Miller. Also in the plot is Ian’s friend‚ Mike. My Big Fat Greek Wedding is about a traditional Greek family who wants their 30 year old daughter‚ Toula Portokalos‚ to be married. While working in the family restaurant‚ Dancing Zobra’s‚ Toula meets Ian Miller with whom she falls in love. Ian Miller is not Greek but in order to marry Toula‚ he agrees to embrace
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China in Africa International Programmes Stellenbosch University 2013 (first semester) Lecture / Seminar time: Tuesdays 10:00 -13:00 Lecturer: Steven C. Kuo stevecykuo@yahoo.com Course Description This course introduces students to the study of China in Africa and the relations between Chinese and African states as well as Chinese and African non-state actors. The re-emergence of China has begun to affect most facets of the current western-dominated international system. For Africa
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a Grecian man. With the assistance of her mother and her aunt‚ Toula is able to attend college and work for her aunt’s travel agency‚ despite her father’s original disapproval. During this time‚ she meets her fiancé‚ Ian Miller. Though disapproving at first‚ her family accepts Ian‚ because he demonstrates great lengths to be with Toula‚ including being baptized in the
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of North Carolina‚ my brother Ian and I have been waiting for this day for months now. It was Christmas. Ian and I ran downstairs at 7 in the morning hoping Mammy and Daddy were awake. Unfortunately they weren’t so we woke them up. Mammy and Daddy slowly stumbled down the stairs till they finally made it to the living room. Where they presented us with two gifts‚ one for each of us. My gift was the latest Meccano set‚ in Ian’s gift was a baseball glove and ball. Ian was always the sportier one of
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computer diploma under her belt‚ a rebellious Toula emerges. She manages her aunt’s travel agency and starts dating Ian Miller‚ a white high school English teacher. They date secretly for a while‚ before she has the courage to introduce him to her family. Her father is livid over her dating a non-Greek. The climax of the story occurs when both sides try to adjust to each other. While Ian has to let go of his rigid white individualistic upbringing and learn to accept her collective big family and Greek
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David Reje The Milieus of Adolf Hitler’s Courageous Struggle for Power Adolf Hitler’s dogged determination for power was because of the people he had associated with‚ the books‚ magazines and newspapers he read and his passion for German nationalism. Born in April 20th‚ 1889‚ third of five children‚ to Alois Hitler and Klara Polzl‚ greatly influenced by family upbringing for his obsessed power struggle for German nationalism. His contact with the likes of Georg Schonerer and Karl Lueger’s
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According to Ian Hacking Making Up people‚ based on historical analysis‚ where it refers to the simultaneous process whereby new ideas serve to create newly categorized kind of people. In order to illustrate the ways in which how people are made up‚ Ian proposed a new theory called dynamic nominalism‚ a middle ground between traditional nominalism which contends that “all categories‚ classes‚ and taxonomies are given by human minds rather than nature” (165) and traditional realism which contends
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