The movie My Big Fat Greek Wedding is a very clear example cultural diversity. Cultural diversity is differences based on cultural‚ ethnic and racial factors. This movie was about a Greek female‚ named Toula Portokalos‚ who was embarrassed by her culture. Her father‚ Gus only wants her to do three things: get married to a greek boy‚ have kids with a greek boy and cook greek food. Gus is ethnocentric‚ this means that he believes that being Greek is better than being in any other culture. In the beginning
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My Big Fat Cross-Cultural Encounters Essay When you come from a different culture‚ especially when you are so attached to that culture‚ like in My Big Fat Greek Wedding‚ it becomes very difficult to have to go against your usual cultural ways. Trying to please your parents and yourself can even become a challenge‚ when the two of you want alternative things‚ and have such contrasting point of views. When it comes to flowing in with mainstream society while being raised a certain way‚ life becomes
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MYP4 Midnight‚ 14 June 2012. I was awake in my bed‚ excited or maybe depressed. I did not know. The night seemed weird‚ because it was much darker than before and I heard the owls hoot louder. They seemed hungry. Hungry for meat and for love. Every time I closed my eyes‚ I would see a thin light pass by and I opened it at my highest to identify what it was. I missed it each time. What was it? When sunrise grew closer‚ I heard weird thuds that pierced my ear deeply. What on earth was it? Was it somebody
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ringing in my ears. The message was just half absorbed when I realized the magnitude of what I had done .It seemed like yesterday when I answered daddy back .Now‚ in the eyes of my family ‚in the eyes of society even in my own eyes. I was a misfit ‚doomed to be goner .Tears welled in my eyes as the words were recalled‚ ‘Child‚ you have taken the wrong path .You are lost Here I was just 17‚ an age when teenagers were just being exposed to the realities of adulthood and I had thrown my life away wasted
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Prologue: The Sin of An Cold‚ it’s so cold here. I trace my hand along the grassy ground‚ it’s dark‚ the smell of fire and blood fill my nostrils. Find the Light‚ Find the warmth. The two voices are pounding in my head‚ the screams hurt my ear. Where am I going? What am I doing? The Beating Heart turn away. I can’t tell who is saying what...which girl...they sound so familiar. I turn and reach out but all I catch is the smoke around me. The air around me is growing colder and colder‚
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Slowly‚I got down from my bed and tiptoed to the window.A slight of cool breeze whipped to my ears.Dead leaves rattled in the wind.There was a stony prickling silence except for the eerie sound of chilly wind howling in the air.Goosebumps sprouted on my skin all over my frail body.A sliver of moonlight glimmered through the wind‚slicing my pallid face.Slowly‚I swept my dry face and sighed heavily.I had same dream that haunted me for years .A streak of remorse jabbed into my soul.A purged of guilt
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Write out his diary entry . Dear Diary ‚ I have to ask you to excuse my handwriting ‚ I know this is probably illegible . My hands are shaking so violently but I feel like if I don’t write this down and get it out of my head that I will explode like a bomb . I have been mad before ‚ I have been angry and I have experienced emotions of hatred but never like this . My soul ‚my very being is so full of pure rage . It goes beyond the most destructive kind of anger ‚ goes way
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It was a beautiful fall weekend; the sunlight shined enough to provide just the right amount of warmth to make it the perfect picnic day. I was on my way to meet my parents for the annual South Florida Police and Fire bar-b-que. I knew that there was a chance that he would be there since a good part of his family is fire fighters. I have been organizing‚ planning‚ helping‚ running‚ and attending this event ever since I can remember‚ and there had only been a few times that he showed up because the
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YouTube‚ Netflix and Television… Have you ever been so overwhelmed with the pandemonium of the 21st century lifestyle and just needed time to unwind‚ unplug‚ regroup‚ or just take a deep breath? When I am in this state of mind‚ I know what I have to do. My security lies with the familiar sent of farm animals‚ small family owned shops‚ rocky back-roads flattened by cars playing country songs‚ and houses smeared across acres of fields. Our roots lie in our hometowns. Mine lie in a peaceful little town nestled
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9/11 I was late again. I remember rising from my slumber with great regret and ordering my zombiefied body to make its way toward the bathroom. I hated my job‚ it’s not like I was important just an assistant‚ running around being everyone’s slave and taking orders. And what made it worst.. It was my first day at this new job in the north tower of the world trade centre. The time was half eight when I finally managed to start making my way towards the tower. I had to scurry though large crowds of
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