Contrast- Rough Draft March 22‚ 2011 Maasai Culture v. American Culture In the tribal villages of eastern Africa the Maasai marriages are arranged by the elders without ever first consulting the bride or the mother of the bride to be. Unlike‚ that of my own culture in the United States of America‚ where I am free as a citizen to choose whomever I may choose to marry and when and if I may marry. Polygyny is that of which is practiced in the Maasai culture‚ as an ideal that is achieved only by that
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“Rather than unreflexively adopting a lifestyle‚ through tradition or habit‚ the new heroes of consumer culture make lifestyle a life project and display their individuality and sense of style in the particularity of the assemblage of goods‚ clothes‚ practices‚ experiences‚ appearance and bodily dispositions they design together into a lifestyle.” Pg 35. Growing up as a teenager‚ brands made a huge impact on I felt about myself and others. I thought that kids who had cooler brands than me had a higher
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Automobile and American culture. The automobile is one of the most important inventions that changed the United States. Paving the way for a future dependency on the automobile. For example‚ Henry Ford Model-T is what truly brought the Automobile to the growing nation of America during the 1920s. The Automobile changed the daily lives of Americans‚ in both rural‚ suburban‚ and urban areas. The automobile provided a new means of transportation for people living in these areas to use and get around
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Analysis of Metaphor in an Area Outside of Literature essay “Life is a Journey” vs “Life is a Game” This week we’ve learned about the impact that metaphors have on our lives. In Lakoff’s “The Family”‚ he discusses how metaphors have shaped our moral and political views. He compares the “The Strict Father Model” to “The Nation-as-a-Family” and explains the role they have in shaping our nation’s political views. This comparison encouraged me to analyze other metaphors that seem similar‚ but are
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ideology of bureaucracy around the globe? Well‚ the four key elements that have contributed to McDonald’s critical global success have certainly manifested itself into the American culture. These four foundations make up what is called‚ McDonaldization‚ which essentially the process of McDonald’s increasing influence over sectors of American society and the world. It is most obvious looking through the spectacles of fast-food restaurants‚ apparel industry‚ or even sole-proprietors. My sister just launched
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As an American culture we thrive on gratification As Eliot Aronson says‚ “We Americans seem to thrive on competition; we reward winners and are disdainful of losers.” When the United States was hunting for Saddam Hussein and Osama Bin Laden‚ they were determined and were not going to give up; they were the “alpha male” in pursuit of win. When they “killed” Osama Bin Laden‚ the subsequent reaction of the public personally sickened me. The gargantuan number of people in the streets celebrating the
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The Loom Writing Assignment: My Grandma is a Wolf Make a list of at least 20 elements of culture. From that list‚ create a series of questions for an interview. Choose a parent‚ grandparent‚ or relative to interview. He or she must be at least the age of your parents. Interview them‚ using the questions and elements you have chosen. For your writing‚ you will need a metaphor. The metaphor in our book was the loom- the author used it to weave together all the elements of her mother’s life
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Metaphor—a literary technique used to clarify the “darkness inside a cloud” (Selection 2). The power of metaphor is utilized throughout the world of language on a daily basis to clarify‚ explain‚ and act as a moral instrument. Metaphor can be described‚ as it was by Cynthia Ozick‚ author of The Shawl‚ as “the mind’s opposable thumb”: just as one cannot grasp objects without an opposable thumb‚ one can also not write successfully without the aid of metaphor (Selection 1). Metaphor evidently has great
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What is a Metaphor ? A Metaphor is an “expression of an understanding of one concept in terms of another concept‚ where there is some similarity or correlation between the two” according to the LinguaLinks Library. Metaphors are used by anyone trying to convey an idea in an indirect manner. We use them daily without realizing it. Metaphors put a twist in daily language in that they are a unique way of describing a concept. There are common metaphors that we use everyday and
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In what ways are Ethnic identities important in contemporary Britain‚ and to whom‚ and why? The concept of ethnic identity calls for definition. The adjective “ethnic” relates to the fact of belonging to a certain human group‚ as defined by anthropological and cultural features. With such a wide meaning‚ the word and its derivative “ethnicity” raise issues as to their definition: there is no universally agreed definition on the term ethnicity. “Ethnicity refers to a group or community that is assumed
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