My two texts are “The Namesake” and “Bend it like Beckham”. Our prescribed text‚ Jhumpa Lahiris “The Namesake” explores the link to belonging in detail. The emphasis is on Gogol Ganguli. Gogol struggles with a sense of belonging to his family and his Bengali culture and heritage throughout his life in the course of the novel. Born and raised in the U.S.‚ while his parents spent their entire life in India following Bengali culture and practices and moved on to America as young adults. Gogol must try
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It’s interesting when we look at media and wonder if it all Depends on the Attitude of the author‚ producer or publisher when it comes to looking at certain issues or points relating into the world. What we don’t realise in the 21st century is that year 12 students studying supplementary material in standard English may find it difficult to understand and come to terms with it. ‘Educating Rita’ was voted ‘Best Comedy of the year’ when performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1980. By 1983
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and theme of each scene of Bend it like Beckham. Gurinder Chadha displays her techniques through a variety of shots while maintaining a steady wide shot and a medium shot of the scene. Theme includes Family‚ hardship and parental expectation. This creates a realistic shot making the scene entreating to watch. This technique is shown throughout the shot where a scene of Jess is practicing to become a good housewife as it was expected by every Indian parent. Another scene like a long shot of the soccer
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Bend it like Beckham and Educating Rita could relate in these ways • In Bend it like Beckham the Indian tradition of women getting married‚ having children and taking on domestic duties-e.g. cooking etc. relates to Rita how she is expected to live in the same sort of way but wants to break away from that social status and live her own life. • The scene where Jesminder first plays soccer with the team. The coach asks her "where do you play?" and she replies "in the park.” It shows her naivety this
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Report for Cultural Understanding The main aim of this report is to describe‚ analyze and understand Indian culture and integration Indians with British culture in a connection to movie: “Bend it like Beckham”. The aim is also to assign every character to stage of intercultural sensitivity and define what kind of cultural development is possible for each of them. Findings: Jess: In my opinion she is on the fifth level of intercultural learning‚ she adapts to the british culture‚ she knows
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Black Like Me: Reflection #3 "For years it was my embarrassing task to sit in on the meetings of whites and blacks‚ to serve one ridiculous but necessary function: I knew‚ and every black man there knew‚ that I‚ as a man now white once again‚ could say the things that needed saying but would be rejected if black men said them...for the simple reason that white men could not tolerate hearing them from a black person’s mouth" (Griffin 177). John Howard Griffin pivoted in and out of an African American
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The United States during the time of this reading‚ "Black Like Me" African Americans had been abolished from slavery for almost a full generation. They may have not been classified as slaves in the south during the 1950’s and 1960’s‚ but socially they were still treated horribly. Griffin experienced a great amount of that social inequality that was still present during 1959. The language that the white people approached him with was terrible. Griffin felt a complete change on how white society
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Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquirel explores the lifestyle that many woman of Mexico were faced with during the Mexican Revolution around the years of 1910-1920. Published in 1989‚ the book gained so much support that a movie was produced to go along with it. Three years later‚ the book was translated to English and released in America. The film representation of this story also become increasingly popular. As a consequence of this publishing‚ many authors who had written similar stories
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For this reading reflection I read two chapters from the book Steal like an artist. The first chapter is called Side Projects are Important. The main idea in this chapter is that even though hobbies might not make us money they are important because they keep you happy. They are a massive part of who we are. They let us take time to stop from our busy life and relax. People often hid their hobbies if they feel that it does not match everyone else’s ideals of us. This chapter also talked about how
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River as a Symbol in “A Bend in the River” Rivers within a well written novel are a representative of a great variety of things. Within the book “A Bend in the River” by V.S. Naipaul‚ as the name implies‚ the river is a very significant symbol throughout the novel that shows representation for many aspects of the plotline‚ ranging from an ever-changing lifestyle to the vitality of the country in which it resides and the people affected by its welfare. The town by the bend in the river is an isolated
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