Arts of the Contact Zone Q2R#3&4 In “”Arts of the Contact Zone” Pratt gets the point across that cultures should recognize the “contact zone.” By giving examples like Poma’s writing and a homework assignment that her son had‚ Pratt defines the contact zone as the “meeting of cultures with asymmetric power.” (p 487) The word “cultures” refers to every type of group in my eyes‚ groups such as sports teams and even classrooms. A classroom can be defined as a contact zone because the Teacher and
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but the effects of employment are endless. Employment dictates the way of life for most of society. Employment gives each citizen their respective income and dictates items such as a citizen’s housing and meals. The novel Zone One demonstrates the extremes of employment. In Zone One the significant event of a zombie apocalypse occurs and because of the tragic event a man named Mark Spitz ends up being one of the few survivors. After the apocalypse occurs Mark along with a group of other lower end
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known as blue zones – geographical areas that are known to inhabit people that live substantially longer than the global average. During their studies‚ they found some common denominators within each of the cultures they examined. In an effort to educate the general population with tips on how to live longer‚ Buettner and his associates reveal their findings to us through a lecture transcript called “How To Live To 100+.” We can apply the principles found within the blue zone cultures to my
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The term of “contact zone” seems pretty simple to understand at the first look but what does it truly means? Mary Louise defines this term as “… social spaces where cultures meet‚ clash‚ and grapple with each other‚ often in contexts of highly asymmetrical power” (Pratt 575). In a “contact zone” a person meets with two different cultures‚ going through a struggle to maintain a certain identity. As for me‚ I have faced this contact zone when I left my country to study abroad in United States. I have
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Massachusetts Bay Colony government was able to be‚ at least partially‚ simultaneously theocratic‚ democratic‚ oligarchic‚ and authoritarian. It was able to be partly theocratic because of the doctrine of the covenant‚ which stated that the whole purpose of government was to enforce God’s laws. God’s laws applied to everyone‚ even nonbelievers. Everyone also had to pay taxes for the government-supported church. This meant that religious leaders held enormous power in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. They
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Pelican Bay Supermax Pelican Bay Supermax After listening to and or reading the transcripts of Locked Down: Gangs in the Supermax by Michael Montgomery‚ one gets a glimpse of prison life‚ sociological issues inmates and staff face‚ and the subculture of prison life faced by staff and prisoners alike on a daily basis. However‚ instead of delving completely in to the situational circumstances of prisoner life‚ it is more important to understand the history of this Supermax prison and why
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study guide to “Into the Gray Zone: A Neuroscientist Explores the Border Between Life and Death” by neuroscientist Adrian Owen. It is a supplement to the original book‚ to make its main ideas easier to understand and put to practice. The “gray zone” is the twilight region between full consciousness and brain death. People with sustained brain injuries or victims of strokes or neurodegenerative diseases‚ such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s are often in the gray zone. Many of them are oblivious to
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Introduction Kane’ohe Bay is home to a variety of marine organisms. They bay itself is constantly being modified by a variety of factors. The bay is exposed to freshwater input from several streams‚ oceanic influences from water surges over the fringing reef and through the two access channels‚ and experiences terrestrial runoff from the nearshore areas. Input from the freshwater streams provides nutrients‚ sediment and other materials into the bay. Pollutants are added to the bay from terrestrial runoff
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Detention center in Guantanamo Bay. One of the main questions that are being asked is whether or not the detention at Guantanamo bay Is unconstitutional. One other key Point that has been raised in the possible closing of Guantanamo bay is where will the detainees go if it is closed. In order to better understand the reasoning behind this detention we must look at the reason for the detention in the first place. For the detainees that are being kept on Guantanamo bay They are there do to being identified
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Among these attempts included an attempt to poison him and the U.S government even tried to hire the mafia to kill him (Castañeda 264). The closest operation that came to forcing him out of power was an invasion that came to be known as “The Bay of Pigs”. The Bay of Pigs invasion was an unsuccessful attempt by Cuban exiles and the US government to overthrow the Cuban government of Fidel Castro. The invasion was to take place on April 17‚ 1961 by an estimated 1‚400 Cubans that were trained by the CIA
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