adapting to our everyday lives. This emphasizes the overriding link that one’s sense of belonging influences‚ or often dictates‚ individual identity. One’s assigned role in society may be as part of a family unit‚ a daughter. Agheare/Alice in Unpolished Gem emphasizes this‚ as she often struggles under the burden of the role she has self-assigned. Identity can both be influenced by‚ and influence‚ the work we do‚ our education‚ financial and class status‚ the car we drive‚ the home we live in and
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yourself and who you are as a person. It could be said that influences by our family and Peer-Pressure can determine our individual identity. Possibly the 4‚400 deaths a year are said to be brought upon by peer-pressure. Throughout the novel “Unpolished Gem” Alice’s family persist in making Alice choose an Asian Cambodian to have a relationship with‚ Alice growing up in Australia didn’t always want to marry a Cambodian and when she developed a relationship with Michael she had to lie to her Mother
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"Compare the ways in which cross-cultural identity is explored in Alice Pung’s Unpolished Gem and Mira Nair’s The Namesake" The struggle to find self identity within the upbringing of two different and contradictory cultural groups is the main theme for Alice Pung’s memoir Unpolished Gem and Mira Nair’s film The Namesake. The main characters for each‚ Alice Pung and Gogol Ganguli respectively grow up the children of immigrants from developing to western countries who are torn between respecting
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like the other mountain girls‚ having never stepped foot in a city‚ “When she laughed I noticed an untamed quality about her eyes [...] Her eyes had the gleam of uncut gems‚ of unpolished metal.” (24) This is at the beginning of the book‚ before the Seamstress learns about any stories‚ and her “wild” quality makes her “unpolished”. Once she hears about the flower girl’s film‚ and has the novel by Balzac‚ Ursule Mirouet read to her‚ she suggests‚ “‘About those books of his-- what if we stole them
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‘Our identity is influenced by how others view us.’ Our individual identity is determined by what others think of us but only in part. Our identity is also comprised of inner qualities and outer representations of self. It consists of innumerable defining characteristics that make up the whole of who we are in any given moment. These fragments of ourselves include our sexuality‚ gender‚ and sense of belonging to a particular culture‚ nation‚ religion‚ family‚ or some other group. Our identity includes
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Creative Thinking Evaluation Evaluating Angela’s metaphors she has a heart for the homeless and describes in detail their lack of resources and how they are taken for granted. You can tell how she loves the outdoors in the way she metaphorically speaks of bicycling with chasing the breeze. She has a passion for sailing and speaks of riding the wind and floating on waves. Her father is a strong influence in her life when she speaks of him having the heart of a tiger and the voice of a warrior.
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2012 H I G H E R S C H O O L C E R T I F I C AT E E X A M I N AT I O N English (Standard) Paper 2 — Modules Total marks – 60 Section I General Instructions • Reading time – 5 minutes • Working time – 2 hours • Write using black or blue pen Black pen is preferred Pages 2–4 20 marks • Attempt either Question 1 or Question 2 • Allow about 40 minutes for this section Section II Pages 5–8 20 marks • Attempt ONE question from Questions 3–7 • Allow about 40 minutes for
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Some people may not realize that society is changing us but‚ it is helping us understand more of what is out there. Technology has greatly changed our character‚ being it has improved our social life and made thing easier for ourselves. In Unpolished Gem‚ Alice’s parents didn’t have the technology in their own country‚ but when her parents moved to Australia‚ they came a across a street light and had no idea what it was. After understand what it was‚ they feel much safer because they didn’t have
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conflict from the early stages of life through our ancestors and now us. Conflict is a natural element in the world and although we may not notice each and every single time it presents itself‚ conflict is a part of our everyday lives. In the novel Unpolished Gem‚ Alice‚ the main character is a high school student‚ who has migrated to Australia with her family. One starting school Alice couldn’t speak English to her teacher and this backlashes with cultural conflict. She couldn’t answer a simple question
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Expository Essay Prompt- The power to of the group is often the cause of losing our individual identity. The question of identity is always a difficult one for those living in a culture or group‚ yet belonging to another. This difficulty frequently remains in the mind of most immigrants‚ especially the second generations who were born in a country other than their parents. Younger generations feel as if they are forced to change to fit the social standards despite previous culture or group.
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