Asian Ethnicity Vol. 9‚ No. 3‚ October 2008‚ 201–218 Identity development and cultural production in the Chinese diaspora to the United States‚ 1850–2004: new perspectives David Pendery* Department of English‚ National Chengchi University‚ Taipei‚ Taiwan Diaspora studies have grown in importance in the modern world as world travel and relocation have become more feasible; as the numbers of persecuted peoples and those seeking exile or new beginnings in new lands has increased; as globalization
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At the age of 17‚ he left his homeland in order to make a better being of himself. In order to make a good living for his family‚ Gatsby would go without meals and send financial aid home. Indeed‚ Gatsby was a unique gentleman who utilized his environs to his benefit (Sanders‚ 2004).
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(Rushdie‚ pg. 4) To enter the Rushdian post– colonial space‚ the reader needs to be possessed of a vividly romantic and incisively theoretical imagination‚ for reading Rushdie is to imagine with him two different sets of post– colonial spaces— the homeland that is imagined through the medium of unreliable memories‚ and the Vilayet or the land of the white man‚ which is again‚ an imagined city of blinking and nodding dreams. In my paper‚ I have extracted the Bombay out of Midnight’s Children and the
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Growing up in the United States many of us have had the security of having a place to call home as well as a supportive community. Imagining what it was like to lose the community and safe home can be hard to imagine‚ but was a difficult reality for the Native Americans because of termination and relocation. Termination and Relocation was the United States government’s idea on how they could make the tribes life better by assimilating them into what the government consider to be civilized. Termination
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He gives himself a thrill just imagining himself picking a "big bunch of grapes off a bush’" (83)‚ however‚ his feelings quickly change when he announces that he "jus’ ain’t a-going’" (111). His love for his land becomes apparent as he snaps‚ "This country ain’t no good‚ but it’s my
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Night Flying Woman Reflection As Americans of the 21st century it is hard for us to relate to the tough struggles that our ancestors dealt with. In the book Night Flying Woman by Ignatia Broker‚ the story of a young girl facing intrusion on her homeland is told. The book is told through the eyes of Oona‚ who describes for us the long journey to a new home. I thought this book was great because it allowed for children of younger generations to be able to relate to such a troublesome story‚ it taught
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We‚ mankind‚ have slaughtered our homeland‚ by building our own society and destroying the remanence the outdoors bring. Do you remember watching the movie Pocahontas as a child? Do you remember how the lands were as green as mountain tops in the summer‚ and how the waters would stretch beyond the valleys? What happened to that all? Destruction is a powerful enemy to the lands we once knew. In the novel “Into The Wild”‚ my mind did a triple salsa; imagining the beauty of what the Alaskan territories
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life of every Chinese‚ every family‚ every man and every woman‚ every child and every elder‚ the future generations‚ the society…--and the pivot of Amy Tan’s life and novel. A Pair of Tickets is a short memoir of Amy’s first encounter with her homeland and her two twin sisters that her mother abandoned forty years ago‚ because of the destructive war. The passage (“Finding my mother in my father’s story…”) of Amy’s mother’s miserable story triggers me‚ it reminds me of my elder family members. Though
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September 19‚ 2011 THE DANGEROUS DAYS OF DANIEL X James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge I would give this book a thumbs up because it had the ability to keep my attention‚ and most books don’t keep my attention. THE DANGEROUS DAYS OF DANIEL X is about a young boy named Daniel who is 15 years old. He is on a mission to kill aliens following a list until his parents’ killer is finally exterminated. This scientific fictional novel starts off with Daniel being a three year old boy‚ and his parents
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Hopes and Dreams in America The United States of America is also known as the “land of opportunity‚” where hundreds of immigrants arrive pocket-full of hope for a better future. Many come chasing after dreams and looking for success. They arrive imagining a life where they can provide for their families and themselves. What many foreigners don’t realize‚ however‚ is that the “land of opportunity” comes with a very hard-to-see asterisk; the land of opportunity* does not always guarantee success‚ promising
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