Put simply‚ the Two-Step Flow Theory is about how KEY PEOPLE affect other people. This hypothesis was first introduced by Paul Lazarsfeld‚ Bernard Berelson and Hazel Gaudet in a 1944 study which focused on the process of making decisions around the time of a Presidential election campaign called ‘The People’s Choice’. The expected result was that the mass media’s messages would have a direct influence of people’s votes however the researchers were surprised to find out this was infact not
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Belonging or not belonging is a perception‚ or something that we feel. We are influenced by many factors to feel that we belong or don’t fit in‚ including our knowledge and understanding of the place where we are in the present and how that it is influenced by our prior experiences of other places. Our perception of belonging can also be affected by how much others know and understand of the places we have come from in relation to where we are now. These ideas are explored extensively in Amy Tan’s
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The poem ’Memories’ is by an Indian poet called Trilokesh Mukherjee. The poet grew up in India and this influences the poem‚ he brings his culture into the poem by using imagery and senses and other literary devices. Also‚ he refers to the Gods from the Hindu religion and mythology. Hindu religion‚ mythology and family are all very important to the Indian people and this is all shown in the poem when they are sitting around the fire at night. The theme of this poem is childhood memories and how they
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“We can choose to belong or not to belong. The forces that shape all our decisions vary from individual to individual‚ but our context and experiences play a significant role.” Belonging would seem like an expected thing‚ as we belong to many groups in society‚ ranging from groups we are born in to‚ such as family‚ our town‚ our country even‚ and to groups which we choose‚ such as friendship circles‚ sporting clubs and many more. However‚ to belong to something requires a great amount of effort
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There Are Now Two Americas. My Country is a Horror Show1 by David Simon America is a country that is now utterly divided when it comes to its society‚ its economy‚ its politics. There are definitely two Americas. I live in one‚ on one block in Baltimore that is part of the viable America‚ the America that is connected to its own economy‚ where there is a plausible future for the people born into it. About 20 blocks away is another America entirely. It’s astonishing how little we have to do with each
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Bharati Mukherjee‚ one of the leading diaspora writer is noted for her writings based on the themes of expatriation‚ immigration‚ cultural alienation‚ assimilation and multiple displacements. She has written eight novels including short stories and two autobiographies along with her husband‚ Clarke Blaise‚ the Canadian novelist and professor. Her novels can be divided into different phases such as expatriates’ perspective in first two novels‚ The Tigers Daughter (1972) and Wife (1975). Her second
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BSCS 2 students‚ the researchers will use two important theories which will also introduce the main variables of this study. The first theory to be considered is the “Need to Belong” theory (Baumiester & Leary‚ 1995) which asserts that all humans share a common need to be connected with others‚ and common sense signals that individuals’ lives are better for being connected. Furthermore‚ Baumiester & Leary (1995) proposed that the “need to belong” has two aspects: (1) people want a stable and enduring
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In “American Dreamer” Mukherjee talked about coming to the US and becoming a citizen and how she had to find her own definition of a family culture. This was because she could not go back to live the way she did before her marriage. As an Indian student‚ she had a lot of restrictions imposed on her by her family. The culture she lived in was tightly controlling. There wasn’t a problem of culture and identity in her home: “In Calcutta in the ’50 s I heard no talk of identity crisis-communal or individual”
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our nation was founded upon. I think a lot of people would agree with this considering how far our nation has got with it‚ but then again you have those who oppose. On the other hand she expresses how she feels about being called Indian-American. The way she conveys her opinion about it makes me want to agree with her more. Her writing is very persuasive and I have to say I not only agree with her because opinion‚ but for the reason that if I were to go to another country‚ and have to work as hard as
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It is important to read and discuss Mukherjee’s "A Wife’s Story" as an integral part of twentieth-century American literature and not as an "exotic" short story by a foreign writer. As the essay accompanying "A Wife’s Story" points out‚ Mukherjee identifies herself very strongly as an American writer writing about twentieth-century Americans. Although most of her stories are about South Asian-Americans (South Asia in the contemporary geopolitical arena usually consists of Bangladesh‚ India‚ Pakistan
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