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    Identities and Belonging

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    potential. One’s identity is formed and influenced by the groups one belongs to. Humans are by nature sociable beings that must learn to cooperate for peaceful existence to occur but are also individual personalities who seek their own self fulfilment. Belonging to groups; family‚ social or environmental groups‚ can have immeasurable benefits. But while groups do provide one with a sense of identity‚ security and protection it can however result in sacrifices to selfhood and can entail certain inevitable

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    “A CRITICAL SOCIETY MAKES IT DIFFICULT FOR CHILDEREN AND TEENERGERS FROM MINORITY CULTURES AND GROUPS TO FIND A WAY TO BELONG” Good morning ladies and gentlemen Today I’d like to discuss and persuade you that a critical society makes it difficult for teenagers and children from minority cultures and groups to find a way to belong to a foreign country. I am discussing three characters( Simon tong‚ Hoa pham and Diana ngyuen) in Alice Pung’s text Growing up Asian in Australia and experience of my

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    ‘Our sense of self is very vulnerable to external pressures’ In everyday life‚ humans are surrounded with pressures that can influence the formation of their identity. External pressures such as the environment we live in‚ the culture we belong to and the presence of other people‚ are often uncontrollable and can have a crucial impact on our sense of self. This idea is explored in great depth in Ray Lawler’s classic Australian play‚ “The Summer of the Seventeenth Doll”‚ where it is reflected how

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    people easily assume that she is black by her appearance. So families who we come across initially in life have a huge impact on us and shaped our identity and make who we are and what we become. Without them‚ there is no me. On the other hand‚ the belonging to a wider society determines our identity. Sometimes‚ it plays a more significant role on determining who we are than what our family gives us. My cousin as an Australian born Chinese‚ in the white society‚ she is considered to be an Asian‚ but

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    The End of the Road

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    The End of the Road “Hell‚ And How I Got Here” by Brenda Medina and “Puzzle Pieces” by Barbara Parsons Lane are two short stories from the book Couldn’t Keep It To Myself by Wally Lamb. Medina and Lane are two women who are serving time in a maximum security prison. Brenda Lane is serving time for homicide and Barbara Parsons Lane is serving time for manslaughter. Brenda was involved in a gang-related killing while Barbara was convicted of killing her abusive husband. Each of these women lived

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    Belonging to America My grandfather always used to explain to me how lucky I was to be able to be an American. He would inform me on how valuable it was and how I should never take it for granted. He expressed that I should feel honored to be able to have all the opportunities I do. I never understood him growing up. I did not understand how growing up somewhere‚ like America‚ versus another country could be any different. I understand now. When I was younger‚ my mother would tell different stories

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    the sense that he chooses to detach himself from both the forest and court. * Essentially‚ he acts on his potential to challenge social normalcy and the status quo by rendering himself devoid of any affiliation to these communities‚ instead belonging to a ‘melancholy of my own.’ In doing so‚ he is minutely fastidious in the way in which he examines and scrutinizes the human condition; thus‚ by challenging these groups and

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    'The End Of Solitude'

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    Solitude is the state of being alone or feeling lonely in an inhabited place. The definition of solitude has evolved since technology was introduced to us humans. In “The End of Solitude‚” Deresiewicz says that electronics have made us incapable of being alone – that we no longer appreciate solitude because it causes fear in us. He also argues that we are replacing solitude by being in constant communication with social media. “This is what the contemporary self wants. It wants to be recognized‚

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    Creative Writing - Belonging The clear‚ bright and enlightening blue skies greet my face as I ponder through my thoughts in my head. The sun blossoms it’s radiating sunlight‚ which glisten and reflect off the tranquil‚ wavy sea to reveal elements of a mystifying‚ inexplicable‚ yet convivial world. My heart beat pulsates through my ears… so silent and blissful this world of beggaring-description‚ words could not hope to utter moments like these. It was the idea of confronting‚ change and experience

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    Identity and Belonging

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    Step 1: Generating Ideas * Read Destiny by Shalini Akhil * Answer the following questions: The text a) Who are the characters? b) What is a lungi‚ and what are rotis? c) What do you think is the message of this piece? Yourself d) What did you want to be “when you grew up”? Try to remember a really idealistic dream from when you were quite young. Go back to that memory and write a paragraph describing all the details of that dream: why you wanted it‚ how you imagined yourself to look

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