Ronald Takaki’s goal in writing A Different Mirror: a History of Multicultural America was to show that American history may not be as black and white as most people think it is. He wants to inform people that our history has more than one perspective to it. Like when he points out that even though he was born in the U.S‚ yet when people see him they assume he’s not American. He wants us to consider what makes someone an American our appearance or‚ were we can trace our lineage? He is trying to make
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The writer‚ Lucy Montgomery‚ has an impressive sense of humor and her way with words is exceptionally awesome; after reading about Montgomery’s life I think that Anne represented her in fantasy world‚ the reason why I think that is because she has a lot of similarities with Anne I mean like they both were orphan and like Anne‚ Montgomery was particular about the spelling of name‚ and both of them loved green gables (which is Prince Edward Island in real life.) In the book the author has used a third
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The photograph I chose to do an analysis on was taken by Ansel Adams and is titled Mirror Lake‚ Morning‚ Yosemite National Park. This photograph was taken in 1935‚ in Yosemite National Park which is located in California. Ansel Adams was born on February 1902‚ in San Francisco‚ California. Ansel Adams rose to a prominent photographer of the American West‚ particularly capturing photos in Yosemite National Park. Ansel Adams used his work to promote conservation of wilderness areas. His iconic black-and-white
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“Hall of Mirrors: The Great Depression‚ The Great Recession‚ and the Uses-and Misuses of History” by Barry Eichengreen is an analytical book that compares and analyzes the two biggest financial crisis in history; the Great Depression and the Great Recession. The author is one of the few people that has gone to such great lengths to both explained and speculated as to why things happened the way they did during the two crisis and how society learned from most of their mistakes during the Great Depression
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The two readings I decided to connect are the Fredrickson‚ Models of American Ethnic Relations reading and our book A Different Mirror by Ronald Takaki‚ Chapter Four. In Fredrickson’s reading‚ they talked about cultural pluralism; in this‚ they seek to create diversity and want everyone to be included; “cultural pluralists celebrate differences among groups rather than seek to obliterate them” (Fredrickson 6). In the Takaki book‚ it talks about how President Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson wanted
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Explain how Lucy could be viewed as “the missing link” Australopithecus Afarensis‚ commonly known as Lucy‚ can be seen by many scientific and historic facts as ‘the missing link’. Anthropologists show that Lucy is a transitional fossil which helps prove the way hominids changed throughout the ages. Bipedalism is the biggest and most important evidence that Lucy has shown to tell one how she lived in the chain of evolution. The morphology of Lucy’s skeleton has so many different characteristics
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miserably and is told she will never bring her family honor. She brought dishonor to her family due to her unlady-like behavior and went home crying. As she was walking and happened to look at the lake and shiny tombstone of her ancestors‚ serving as the mirror‚ she took time to look at herself at her reflection. She was asking herself when her reflection will show who she is inside. Her views on accepted marriage tradition are different. She is wondering why must she conceal what she thinks‚ how she feels
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The Man in the Mirror Drugs‚ alcohol and other addictive substances can change our way of not just thinking‚ but on the way we act towards other people and ourselves as humans. We become very different if we ever abuse the objects that can modify our lives forever. For Mr. Ewell alcohol was his addiction. But for Miss. Dubose she was addicted to Army issued morphine. This produced an extreme high that is only used to block pain for soldiers in extreme pain during World War I and World War II.
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Looking in the mirror- English Assessment task- Term 1 Part A-Mum Ahoy By Kent McMahon Q1. Write about the article’s content- explain in your own words what has happened? A.This articles is about a young female career sailor of the Royal Australian Army who has been separated from her three-year-old daughter for six months due to her tour of duty in the Middle- East. Zanda Furnell-Hall‚ 26-year-old single mother‚ is an electronic warfare director with the Royal
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Jasmine Tea‚ a mirror of Ailing’s life As the late-Qing poet‚ diplomatist and politician Huang Zunxian first presented the idea that “I write based on my own experiences and feelings” (“我手写我口”)in his poet‚ whether poems dated back to the Tang dynasty like Wang Wei’s ‘One-hearted’ (相思) or contemporary Chinese film like Chen Kaige’s ‘Farewell‚ My Concubine’‚ literary works and films are believed to be the reflection of authors’ and screenwriters’ real life to some extent. While reading Zhang
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