shooting‚ many of the typical arguments for and against gun violence are again in public view. One contributing factor largely remains in the background of this controversy and relates to America’s cultural literacy. The gun has come to symbolize nostalgia for the ideal image of frontier life in America. The history and evolvement of gun usage has altered the way Americans view society and life. Guns have tampered with American morality‚ justice and ethics as proven through historical events such
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Ethno–Racial Identity Configurations in American Narratives. Cross–Cultural Encounters Instructor: Dana Mihăilescu (dmihailes@yahoo.com) This course investigates different stances of ethno-racial identity configurations and cross-cultural encounters in American literature throughout time‚ focusing on the relations between collective and individual memory and trauma‚ mainstream and minority tensions‚ as well as ethno-racial and ethical dilemmas. The course looks at identity as a contextually based-fluid
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There is a fine line between holding on to something sacred to you and becoming obsessive over it. Nostalgia can be a beautiful thing. Afterall‚ it triggers a sense of happiness and bliss within the individual reminiscing on the past event or thing. Though in some cases nostalgia can be quite crippling to one’s life. It can prevent an individual from being able to move on from the past as a result of the euphoric feeling it gives off. In the documentary‚ The Rock-afire Explosion‚ a man by the name
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Africa and Beyond”‚ Lewis argues that Isak Dinesen’s book Out of Africa demonstrates the exploitation of Africa and Africans. Lewis suggests that the book‚ along with its film adaptation realized in 1985‚ commercializes this sort of safari image nostalgia that portrays Africa as a vast wilderness of splendor and then sell this “exotic chic” to Europe and other Westernized audiences. Lewis also asks us to examine the ideology of colonizing Africa and question the very notion of culture. He explores
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Anthropology Jan15th‚ 2008 Cultural Anthropology -Margaret Mead went to eastern Samoa in 1925 when she was 23‚ and spent nine months in the field studying childrearing patterns and adolescent behaviour -Renato Rosaldo the Ilongot Head-hunters -Clifford Geertz: the Balinese cockfight -Douglass Drozdow-St. Christian: what Samoans consider “good and proper body” and the meanings of making babies into “good and proper bodies” Anthropology 025 Introduction to Socio-cultural Anthropology
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pagers. The result of this ‘millennial fever’ is a yearning to turn back the clock‚ to return to simpler times. This yearning has in turn produced a massive nostalgia wave to which marketers of all kinds have responded by re-creating products and images that help take consumers back to ‘the good old days’. Examples of such flirtations with nostalgia include retro roadsters such as the Porsche Boxter‚ DaimlerChrysler’s PT (personal transportation) Cruiser and the new Mini. The singer Aretha Franklin re-recorded
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2000. Print. Hardy‚ Ann. "Return Of The Taniwha: The Re-Spiritualization Of Land And Film In Aotearoa". British Review Of New Zealand Studies. Vol. 14‚ pp 84-104‚ 2003. Paterson‚ Lachy. "Maori Conversion To The Rule Of Law And Nineteenth Century Imperial Loyalties". Journal Of Religious History. Vol‚ 32‚ 2‚ June‚ 2008. Stewart‚ Don. What Do We Know about Jesus ’ Earthly Parents: Joseph and Mary? Pearson and Dwight‚ 1993. Print. The English Standard Version Bible: Containing the Old and New Testaments
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the author‚ F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ portrays Gatsby and Daisy’s nostalgia for their past love‚ but not for the lies that accompanied it. In the past‚ James Gatz‚ Gatsby‚ was poor and lived in a more austere environment than daisy; because of this disparity‚ they were unable to be in a relationship. This nostalgia causes drama and tension between them‚ leading to Gatsby’s death and Daisy’s departure from the East Coast. Gatsby’s nostalgia causes him to rekindle old flames with Daisy. “Some part of himself
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people believe they cannot find it in the time they are in. No matter what era a person is from they will never think that their era is the greatest time in the world. Some people believe they should be from a time before their own; this is called nostalgia‚ which is the theme to the move Midnight in Paris. People look for flaws in things around them. Gil‚ the main character‚ is a screenwriter trying to write a novel‚ so he sees everything in a deep perspective and looks for every flaw possible. He
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politics among others. This story uses these characters‚ primarily the Gentlemen and the Champion‚ to represent political views that were present in Japan during the Meiji Period. Of the many themes discussed among them is the idea of novelty versus nostalgia‚ which grew into a central argument. “Novelty” or new‚ in this case‚ represents the Western influence that was entering Japan at the time; these ideas became popular with
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