Everyday Use by Alice Walker and Eudora Welty in A Worn Path are two short stories that share many similarities. One similarity between the two stories that caught my attention was protection and love. Both women take care of a child that went through an incident. In the story Everyday Use by Alice Walker, Mama is a poor African American woman who is considered to be very strong and manly.
Culture affects how humans view themselves, others and the greater world around them. Therefore, having a culture to call one's own allows an individual to form a unique identity which can also grow to be a source of comfort. One can also be prideful of their culture, using it as a motivator for their actions. All these qualities can be exemplified by protagonist Bugz, in the novel, "Walking in Two Worlds" by Wab Kinew.
B) Provide support using examples from the movie. Example of Conformity from the movie: The social-psychological principle of conformity is a huge focus in the movie. In the beginning of the movie, the white and black players would not even speak to one another. In fact, the white players threatened to boycott football entirely when they heard that their coach would be black.
One example of that is a girl in a town called Weed. The girl was wearing a red dress, lennie thought the dress was pretty so he reached up to touch it. The girl panicked and Lennie held not knowing what else to do, held on and ripped her dress. She ran
Culture defines us and how we are as we get older, it plays a big role growing up. In Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston, the main character Janie goes through many different challenges to find herself and others. No matter how difficult things got, she always had a positive attitude, or stood up for herself. That's how she was raised. The people around her too, had positive outlooks.
Soccer is the most popular sport. It is influential in America, by looking at it; it is mostly effective to children. It is mostly popular for women’s soccer than men and soccer had gained popularity due to the influence of David Beckham. Soccer seems to lack of academies which causes to gain no talent at all. At youth, children love to play soccer, but as they grow old it might be possible chance they might grow out of it.
The first example is from page 32. Miranda’s mom says, “I had a lot of cash on me, so I filled a wagon and then I went back and for Mrs. Nesbitt and then Jonny and you so we could each
Every day we use our culture. Whether it be to argue claims, express opinions, or make decisions, culture plays a part in each area. Culture is who we are, one’s identity, its extent is enormous over our views and actions. A person grows up surrounded with culture at a young age. This can affect how they learn and what they learn.
Gurinder Chadha's Bend It Like Beckham is one of the most successful British-Asian movies ever made. (Rings, 2011) The movie shows us the struggle between an Indian girl who wants to play football as a first step to modernity and her family who wants to protect its traditional values. There are many behavior and reasoning changes during the movie that lead to a shift from tradition to modernity and those behaviors should be analyzed in detail to make it clear.
“Bend It Like Beckham” is a 2002 British movie of two eighteen-year-old girls from two different cultural background living in London with a passion for football (soccer) and a dream of becoming a professional football players. One of the two girls, Jess Bhamra (Parminder Nagra), came from a traditional Indian family while the other, Jules Paxton (Keira Knightley), belonged to a native British family. Both girls’ mothers did not like them playing football. The movie also shows that the race and gender inequality still exists in today’s.
“Bend it like Beckham” is a comedy movie about Jess – a 18-year-old girl who belonged to two different cultures. She was born and grew up in London but was raised by an Indian traditional family. Therefore, she herself always tried to balance among inner contrary cultural values. Jess had great passion for football and desired to become a star like her hero, David Beckham, whose posters she adorned her room with. Like her friends, she craved for freedom and her own interest.
Culture is the building block for life. It sets society's standards, it sets our own standards, and everything we know is all because of our culture. Culture is a way of thinking, a way of behaving and learning. We express our opinions based upon our beliefs, and define ourselves by what aspects of our culture we choose to show. Culture's impact on someone's perspective of others and the world is greater than its other influencers because it can change how you interact with people, your ability to change, and your opinions of the world.
Definition of the word worldview can vary greatly, ranges from “we are all what we think” which has been inspired by Buddha, to a more current view being that it is a set of assumptions and beliefs that have an all-powerful effect , both on cognition and behavior. In brief, worldview influences and impacts the way a person view their surroundings, their lives as well as other people in their environment (Sue & Sue, 2003). Culture is only a single word that besets a plethora of categories which can influence a person’s thoughts, beliefs, actions and morals. Enclosing a myriad of life experiences, family values and lessons into a single word is quite a challenge. I am a product of Italian American culture.
The media has long been recognized as important source of gender related information, television and cinema specifically influences its audience in a considerable way. (Denmark and Paludi 2008). With regards to the concept of gender cinema can offer a space where ambiguities of identities are played out; understanding the play of the categories of femininity and masculinity is very important in evaluating our own understandings of gender and how we react to different representations of it (Tasker 2002).If a film can show different individuals and we can recognize how social forces shape and constrain the individual according to classifications of gender it narrates an experience where we experience the film as gendered viewers. Film reflects and generates out own experience of gender over and above out own recognition and observation of it. (Pomerance 2001).
SUMMARY Bend it like Beckham is a comedy focusing on sports as well as on the British and Indian culture and way of life. It is the story of two ambitious 18 year old girls that both want to pursue a future in professional football. Teenager Jessminder Bhamra (Jess) is crazy about football and has big dreams of playing football professionally, just like her idol David Beckham. Though she only plays football in the park with her friends, she is naturally talented.
