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Borderlands By Gloria Anzaldua Analysis
Borders Beyond the Borderlands.
There are many concepts that Gloria Anzaldua discusses in Borderlands/La Frontera: The New
Mestiza, but there are two that stuck out: linguistic terrorism, nephantla, and la facultad. These
concepts have affected Women such as ElviraPrietoo and Norma Cantu to write from their personal
experiences. To embrace their roots, they came from and never forget the events that shaped them
into the women they are today. Perhaps expand a bit on your introduction. For instance, offer some
context of Borderlands and the other two texts and then teases / a tease / the tease out what it is you
will discuss the themes of memory and identity a bit more.
Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza by Gloria Anzaldua is full of personal narratives
detailing the visible and invisible " borderlands " that exist within a race, gender, sexuality, and
spirituality. Her essays and poems are based on her own personal experiences as a Chicana and
lesbian activist. Through her writing, she challenges the true definition of the borderlands as more
than a simple line that divides different cultures. It calls for those who are oppressors to change their
attitudes and show support to those of the borderlands. By writing in both English and Spanish she
expresses how one language would not be enough to describe her Chicana literature.
Anzaldua refers to the word Borderlands as the area which is in a state of limbo between Mexico
and the United States. It is a place that is
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Borderlands Book Report
Liliana Garcia
Borderlands, by Gloria Anzaldua, has a connection between all of us. As for knowing part of our
past, present, future can be related to most of her writing in many ways. Always having a sense of
doubt can become consuming. As of growing up with four older brothers and two parents, I was the
baby of the house. Pretty much not questioning anything as to why it was not possible to do certain
jobs around the house. In this book it brings great connections between finding relations to some of
those times, and as well as others can relate from a different perspective. If the person ever questions
who they are, then Borderlands has many ways to open a new world to challenge an individual
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We have the religion side being embedded everywhere around us. It might not say it all directly, but
between some of the wording can make the connection. Many of our families have been religious
that we can understand each other. We all have fears that are within us, so for generations, families
like mine are in the Catholic religion. This also includes, when my family did not go to church
people always questioned if my beliefs were still there within me. However, a part of myself
believes, but the other half doesn't like the way fingers get pointed. When visiting a grave site, many
people pray, so they are doing well and visit their loved ones. For a fact, that if someone could not
visit the graveyard where their grandparents who they once were a part of his or her lives can be
heartbreaking to those related because of the fact that the land got taken away. It basically sets the
tone to what can the person do which is nothing. Also, when the family members cannot even visit a
simple place like the graveyard just like everyone else can be quite difficult. However, knowing that
some people want to rest in peace next to their loved ones is a big thing in many of the families just
like
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Borderlands La Frontera Summary
Gloria Anzaldua has always been aware of her progressive self, an inner self that emerged as
lesbian, Mexican American, and oppressed. In Borderlands/La Frontera, the power of Anzaldua's
native tongue emanates from her resistance to Anglo–enforced conventions about culture and
gender. She stresses the criticism of biculturalism in How To Tame A Wild Tongue, arguing that
Anglo Americans subjugate Mexican Americans, because they might fear inferiority. As a Mexican
American woman, her gender defies the normative patriarch, and her ethnicity infringes on Anglo
preeminence –– untamed feats that reassert the power of her tongue. Anzaldua exposes the entitled
behaviors of Anglo Americans by speaking Spanish against their silencing impositions, while
simultaneously broadcasting the language and culture of her people and upholding her bicultural
identity.
Borderlands/La Frontera stemmed from a failed attempt at extending one academic theory across
Anzaldua's multifaceted ideas on ethnic conflict and female archetypes. Chicano scholar Hector
Torres distinguishes the amalgamation of her "critical theory, history, and sociolinguistics" as a
means of honing a "polyvalent voice" that does not adhere to conventional English writing (). She
mixes both English and Spanish into the story's dialect, because she wants to respect her dual self:
the feminist at odds with dismissive men and the Mexican American at odds with dismissive Anglos.
When the dentist says the word "control" in his
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Picturing The Transnational Of Palomar : Gilbert Hernandez...
Jennifer Glaser touches on many topics in her analysis "Picturing the Transnational in Palomar:
Gilbert Hernandez and the Comics of the Borderlands," such as, sex, love, sexism, gender, violence,
and much more. While these areas are all explored in some way throughout Hernandez's stories,
Glaser ties them all in by discussing how a small Central American town named Palomar views
itself versus how outsiders, such as Americans view it. Glaser further explains how the stories
Hernandez tells are used specifically to humanize Latinos and provide a different view and
perspective into the Latin community from what is normally showed by pop culture. Hernandez not
once labels Palomar as a Mexican city in an effort to allow any Latino to feel as if they can belong
there. In her analysis, Glaser explains this by discussing how: Hernandez never explicitly labels
Palomar a Mexican city. It instead becomes a stand–in for a variety of small Central American
towns, a fairy tale "somewhere." In an interview, Hernandez says that "[he] made [his] Palomar
work reflect a more general Latino culture" ("Palomar and Beyond" 227). While Palomar "looks
close to Mexico ... [he] really just wanted any Latino from anywhere to feel like they belonged
there" (227). This resulted in Palomar being a basic town accessible for any Latino to place him or
herself in any story that fits. As mentioned previously, Glaser constantly reminds the reader that
Hernandez's main goal was to compare how things work in the
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Summary Of Borderlands / La Frontera By Gloria Anzalad�a
In the reading of "Borderlands/ La Frontera" by Gloria Anzaladúa we explore the idea of breaking
down our own physical borders as well as invisible borders within as we connect with the narrator
and her experiences. We can draw many parallels between the reading of Borderlands and "A
Different Mirror" by Ronald Takaki. Both readings allow immerse you in the life of being the Other
in society, through stories they share, emotions expressed through their writings and by using
evidence of dominance between races. In Takaki we see the Other as a race, whereas in Borderlands,
we see it as more than just race, it is an identity. In Borderlands we see a prime example of this
when she says "As a lesbian I have no race...I am all races because there is a queer of me in all
races" (Page 181 "Borderlands/ La Frontera" by Gloria Anzaladúa). Takaki describes Other as
"different, inferior, and unassimilable" (Page 4 "A Different Mirror" by Ronald Takaki). As the
readings develop, we are given the opportunity to put ourselves in the Others shoes allowing you to
sympathize with those who may be "different." It is as if the authors do this on purpose, especially
for the white cultures who in the Others eyes like to put themselves on a pedestal. Though many
may argue with this idea of the Other, it is something that people of all races should think about so
that we can effectively work together to break down the borders we have built between cultures,
sexualities, spiritualities and
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Short Story : ' The Borderlands '
Borders are often used to define what a person is or isn't, and when they identify outside of this
border, they are an outsider. They are simply a visitor that does not belong. Occasionally, these
borders do not fit the image of whom it constrains. Then, there are those that are defined as one,
identify as another, but feels as if neither truly symbolizes what they are. People that feel like an
outsider where ever they go, it is those described who fall into what Gloria Anzaldúa describes as
the Borderlands. Specifically, Anzaldúa speaks of her own personal experience living in the
borderlands concerning her where she feels at home and her prevailing sexuality. Growing up in a
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Even though Catholicism was the main religious influence, other religious influence that predate
Catholicism in Mexico were also at work. Through both religious ideologies influence Anzaldúa,
she was forced into a situation where both were at odds with each other, as well as strengthening the
other. Another situation that can present itself is where white culture and Chican@ culture (also
applies to African American, European, and Native American cultures) are both present. In cases
such as these usually how a specific quality is viewed in the separate cultures, or a specific practice
one has that the other does not, are what are different and sometimes at odds with each other. In
Anzaldúa 's case, a strong example of this is the quality of selfishness. In Chican@ culture,
selfishness is incredibly frowned upon, while in white culture, it is frowned upon but not necessarily
discouraged to the point that it is in Chican@ culture. Lastly, another example is that of a person's
sexuality. It 's a rare occurrence where children are not raised in heteronormative households that tell
children that they will eventually marry someone of a different sex Those that realize they do not fit
this cultural ideal, are placed into the Borderlands; they have grown up and lived in the heterosexual
world, but no longer fit there, they are an outsider. Thankfully there is some benefit to these
situations and having a location within the Borderlands. Within the Borderlands,
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The Borderland Identity : Identity And Identity
In George R.R. Martin's A Game of Thrones, his character, Tyrion says, "Never forgot what you are,
for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness" (Identity).
This quote is crucial towards accepting one's identity and allowing that acceptance to strengthen that
person. In Cisneros's "Bien Pretty" from Woman Hollering Creek, the main character, Lupe tries to
focus solely on one part of her dual identity, allowing her to be bothered and insecure about her
place in Mexican heritage as well as in American culture. She has to deal with not only her desire to
belong to one singular culture, but also trying to find belonging in the identity that she exists in, the
"borderland" identity. The "borderland" identity is a concept that Gloria Anzaldua discusses in her
book. Gloria Anzaldua discusses in her book, the concept of the "borderland" identity; the identity
that exists for people are a part of both Mexican and American heritage who are too much of either
to belong to any one specific group. In "Bien Pretty," Cisneros shows the struggle of identifying and
connecting to the "borderland" identity through the character, Lupe, especially in relation to Lupe's
connection to her Mexican heritage and her relationship with Flavio.
Lupe tries to fit in with both cultures of being Mexican and American, but she cannot
simultaneously be a part of one culture without alienating the other. As seen with her interactions
with Flavio, she loves the Mexican side of him, attracting to him for her fantasies of Mexican men
rather than for him personally. She finds that he connects her to her Mexican side, asking him to
show her Mexican dances and loves when he speaks to her in Spanish. From learning about dances
from Flavio to the language itself, she does not have that authenticity to which he learned about
Mexican traditions and customs that he had. She lacks that connection that she desperately wants
with being Mexican, enough to even place her fantasies and expectations on Flavio to be the
"Mexican Lover" she wants him to be. After telling her that he knows who he is and that he is still
Mexican despite not needing to dress like one, Lupe comments on this, saying, "I wanted to be
Mexican
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Borderlands By Gloria Anzaldúa
As human beings we tend to classify others by classifying ourselves (Eide 74 ). Nothing wrong with
that per se, if not for using problematic criteria, such as race, skin color, gender, sexual orientation,
class, religion, or ethnicity, in an often negative and derogatory way. As soon as individuals or
groups are considering themselves superior, they inherently impose inferiority upon others, and
discrimination and bigotry is born. Equality is still far from being common practice. A large part of
the problem is ignorance; ignorance about other cultures, religions, gender range, ethnicity and
many other characteristics. In her book Borderlands: La Frontera, Gloria Anzaldúa describes how
she has hopes for a new humanity, not inhibited by race or gender or any other social, political or
ethical label; a hybrid form, an epitome of all possible confluences: a cosmic race, with a rich gene
pool and a new consciousness (100–102). She believes this can be realized by uprooting all dualistic
thinking and teaching tolerance and openness from a very young age: 'nothing is thrust out, the
good, the bad and the ugly, nothing rejected, nothing abandoned' (Anzaldúa 101) . She uses the ...
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But, as with all resources, it might give rise to exactly the opposite of what is was meant for. It can
isolate the cause it stands for, thereby making the chasm between it and others even larger, instead
of bringing them closer together. It is a tool, nothing more: it can come in handy, but has no
secondary agenda, and is to be used very carefully. Anzaldúa's concept of a new consciousness,
though beautiful and achievable, will need time and willingness to cooperate. And within that
framework people should accept the fact that they can, themselves, be part of the problem and make
an effort to help solve it. In a way Anzaldua's vision has already been in operation for thousands and
thousands of
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Difference Between Border And Borderlands
In this week we mainly discuss about the borderlands. Before this class's study, I didn't think about
the difference between border and borderlands, but I do know that lots of illegally immigration
situation happened in Arizona. When I study in Central High School in Arizona, I had lots of
classmate that came with their parents from Mexico illegally. And I heard lots of story happened on
them and reflect our class's topic.
Arizona passed a bill called SB 1070, this bill was work on Anti–immigrant sentiment and the
borders of belonging and not belonging. Lots of people from Mexico across the border come to
Arizona illegally, and this situation cause lots of social phenomenon. For example, the crime on the
board is very significant, and cartel
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Summary Of The House On The Borderland
In Lauren Jae Gutterman's "The House on the Borderland: Lesbian Desire, Marriage, and the
Household," Gutterman explained how women who are married, have tendencies to be with another
woman, but do not want to tell their husbands. During the 1950s to the late 1970s, many women
showed heterosexual norms. They took care of their families, and expressed unconditional love for
their spouse. However, if becoming close to another woman, they will soon start to become attracted
to them and then form a relationship. The urge to love another woman while loving their spouse was
a difficult task to balance for women. Not knowing if they will get caught or not, women who
shown interest in another woman had to keep it private, to prevent the family structure from getting
ruined. The absence of the husbands allowed the relationships of two women to happen. Gutterman
states "Given wives limited mobility, and free time, most of their lesbian affairs took place in their
own homes. Many took advantage of their husbands' absence to spend time with their lovers, carried
on affairs without their husbands' knowledge" (3). The interaction woman received from another
woman strengthened their relationship and the feelings they had for one another. Women were living
two lives around that time. In the light, they depicted an ordinary life of a woman, as she will be an
outstanding citizen in the community. The role of a woman in the day depicted how the woman took
care of the family, and the household,
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Ethnic Borderland
The 'decades of crisis' between both World Wars in Europe was an armistice lasting twenty years.
Given France's resentment towards German occupation, and postwar peace and economic conditions
placed on Germany by the Versailles Peace Treaty,Karl von Clausewitz referred to the period as 'war
by other means.' The treaty redrew borders to destroy the Austria–Hungary ally of Germany and
once redrawn, thirty–eight independent economic units replaced the pre war twenty–six, and there
were twenty–seven currencies in comparison to the fourteen before the war. These geopolitical
changes gave rise to nationalist upheaval and new waves of hostility among neighboring nations.
Imposed geographical changes affected local politics and occupied local and ... Show more content
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A Biography of No Place: From Ethnic Borderland to Soviet Heartland by Kate Brown, reveals
Stalinism and Nazi history from the perspective of those subjected by the ethnic purification and
imposition of nationalism in the borderland region in the Ukraine, known as the Marchlevsk or
Kresy. There is a sense of conflict in the interwar years. Brown notes that throughout the interwar
period, Ukrainians had been accusing Poles of skewing the census to minimize the Ukrainian
population in the Kresy, which is the eastern half of Poland that was seized by the USSR in 1939. In
1922, Poles living in the Soviet Union accused Ukrainian officials of deliberately undercounting the
Polish population of the western parts of the Soviet–Ukraine border.Furthermore, Brown argues that
gender and class were vital in crafting regional identity, she notes that they were: "tied to locality,
class, profession and social status, rather than to nationality." The Marchlevsk Polish Autonomous
Region in the Soviet Ukraine demonstrates the complexity of nationality, and the ambiguity of any
line dividing Poles from Ukrainians since around seventy percent of population Marchlevsk was
nominally Polish . According to Jan T. Gross, the most important structural feature of the twentieth–
century totalitarianism is the privatization of the public domain. Gross
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Living In The Borderlands/La Fronter The New Mestiza, By
A border is an invisible line created by human beings to separate one group of individuals from the
next group. Borderlands exist because of the borders, and restrictions that we have put into
existence. Borderlands are different for everyone and can vary from things like religion, race, and
language. To live in a borderland means to live in a place where different individuals and cultures
collide with one another. The Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza, Gloria Anzaldua
explained that the borderlands that we have created are not only physical barriers, but mental
barriers as well. She talks about the psychological development that the borders have on the ones
who live in the borderlands. In Gloria Anzaldua's poem, "To live in the Borderlands ... Show more
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That definition is correct, but it is far more than just that; yes, borders separate geographical areas,
but it also separates people, family, and cultures. Borders are unnatural, invisible lines meant to
separate one group of individuals from the next group. A key reason for the existence of the
borderlands is due to the existence of these borders that man has put into place. The people who
happen to live in these borderlands tend to feel trapped. It is difficult to express yourself when you
feel like you live in a place where you are not fully accepted. I can relate to the people who live in
the borderlands, because I am human, and there has been many times where I felt uncomfortable or
like I didn't belong. The only way to fix that inevitable feeling is by learning to accept yourself fully,
and by not being afraid to let the world see you for who you are. In Gloria Anzaldua's poem, "To
live in the Borderlands Means You," she says that the only way to survive the borderlands is to be a
crossroads, and live life without any borders. To live in the Borderlands means you, is a poem about
accepting all of who you are and living at the crossroads, where many different cultures create a new
culture. In the poem Child of the Americas, Anrora Levins Morales concludes her poem by
explaining that living in the borderlands is ultimately about meeting at the
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Handsome Jack From The Borderlands Franchise
There are many kinds of villains in stories with many different motivations. Handsome Jack from
the Borderlands franchise is one example of a villain done right. Not only does he contrast well
against the heros in the story, but he appeals well to the audience. The audience also sees how
changes from being considered a hero by many to being undoubtedly a villain.
When we initially meet Handsome Jack he is the CEO of the Hyperion corporation and claims to be
trying to civilize the crazy bandit–filled lawless planet called Pandora. In the first installment of the
Borderlands franchise Handsome Jack did not directly make an appearance but was responsible for
the events that took place. Four adventurers or, "Vault Hunters"; Roland, Brick, Mordecai, and
Lilith, were searching for an ancient alien vault which they believed contained vast treasures. Jack
made his daughter, Angel, pose as an AI to help them on their way and make sure that they opened
The Vault so that Jack may weaponize what it released when it was opened. Jack was successful and
the vault was opened. The second installment of the borderlands franchise begins with Handsome
Jack trying, but intentionally failing, to murder to the main characters to again manipulate them with
the help of Angel to take down the Pandoran resistance, formed by the Vault Hunters that he tricked,
that is standing in his way and to open the Vault of The Warrior, which would allow him to control
an intelligent super weapon called "The
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Four Major Themes In Borderlands La Frontera By Gloria...
Borderlands Essay
What I'm going to talk about is four major themes from the book, Borderlands La Frontera by Gloria
Anzaldúa. The four major themes I chose to talk about are first, how you shouldn't be ashamed of
yourself, then how Anzaldúa shows deviant behavior throughout the book, also, how she found
herself through poetry, and lastly, America's melting pot.
Don't Be Ashamed of Yourself When reading the book, Borderlands La Frontera, Anzaldúa is
basically telling us don't be ashamed of who you are. In chapter two, Anzaldúa starts off by talking
about how being raised as a Catholic, it was taught that being a homosexual was a "choice" and it is
not something you genetically inherited (Anzaldúa, 2012, p. 41). Anzaldúa, who is a ... Show more
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The woman is supposed to clean, and cook for her family. Also, a woman is supposed to listen to her
husband and not disobey. Women are made to feel like total failures if they do not get married and
have children, so in their culture they are seen as deviant. Anzaldúa talks about how when she was
younger she knew that she something was "wrong" with her. She started talking about her deviant
behavior of how she refuses to take orders from authorities. She wouldn't take orders from her
parents and she wouldn't do chores. There was a rebel in her. She called it "The Shadow–Beast"
(Anzaldúa, 2012, p. 38).
Anzaldúa was seen as a deviant because she was a lesbian. This time, she wasn't just seen as a
deviant to America, she was seen as deviant to her own culture. In her culture, as a woman,
Anzaldúa is supposed to marry a man. Anzaldúa was raised as a Catholic and was taught that being
a homosexual was a "choice" and it is not something you genetically inherited. If a woman does not
marry a man she is a "Mujer mala," meaning a bad woman (Anzaldúa, 2012, p. 38). Anzaldúa felt
like an alien. Who would want to be disowned by their family, or even the whole village? People
usually blame the kid's parents for the kid being a homosexual. You can't come out of the closet
because if you do, then you not only ruin your reputation, you ruin your family's reputation.
Finding Oneself Through Poetry When
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Borderlands La Frontera Essay
Who I am? A question everyone at some point will ask themselves. I personally had asked that
question many times and especially now that I'm getting my U.S residency and later my citizenship.
I trying to answer if I'm Peruvian or American. The Borderlands/ La Frontera by Gloria Anzaldua
had show me to identify myself. This book isn't all a happy story as is life. She shares her
experience in this world were where her heritage and her blood is the cause of an oppression in her
society. There are invisible borders were to exist between cultural groups, where people who have
multiple identities has to break through those invisible borders and regain culture that has been lost.
She identifies herself as a Chicana and a lesbian where she writes
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Borderlands/La Frontera
When reading Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza, I was reminded about the struggles of
being an immigrant in the United States with all of the barriers with learning a new language and
culture. I really saw this when it came to all Spanish words that are written in the book. To be able to
understand her own culture, the reader has to have a basic understanding of Spanish. Culture is
really taught through language, and there is a lot missing if the reader does not have this basic
understanding. When immigrating to the States, people have to learn English not only to
communicate well, but to fill out paperwork, and to understand the culture. For this essay I am going
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This example can be seen in the quote "in the confusion, Pedro ran, terrified of being caught. He
couldn't speak English, couldn't tell them he was fifth generation American," (Anzadua 1987:26).
This quote really resonated with me because of the power of language and how it is learned. They
ended up deporting him to Guadaajara when the furthest he had ever been to Mexico was the
Reynosa a city on the boarder. This really reminds me a lot about many people I know who have
grown up in the States and had to go back. I know many people who have been fighting to get
citizenship for years, people who have grown up in the states but could not get citizenships so at the
age of 18 had to move back to the country they have citizenship even when their lives were always
here. It took my own family ten years to get a green card, and then 17 years to get a passport from
the States (Anzadua 1987). Citizenship is really difficult for many people to get, but there are also
many obstacles that in the way. There are many barriers that the new administration has put on
immigrations. One example the Economic Times says that the new administration is tightening
immigration. There are even reports that the H–1B visa for working immigrants is becoming to get a
lot harder to get. This visa is used for immigrants who are looking to get their green card. There are
many people who are discriminated because of their race (Chaudhury
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Annotated Bibliography Of Borderlands
Julia Glandt October 24, 2017 Borderlands FYS Annotated Bibliography They had no life; they
were not allowed to have a life. They were isolated from not only the white race but also their own
people. Mr. Michael Reed was one of those slave owners that treated his slaves that they were
nothing more than a piece of property. In his files, Mr. Reed had a ledger of daily activities. This
ledger contained hourly and daily record of everything his slaves would do. In some of his
recordings, Mr. Reed would write down very strange things for what activity his slaves were doing.
He would make mention when they were sick, of course so he could know how many hours they
worked; but many of his recording were not appropriate for him to be writing. He acted almost as if
a lion stalking its prey before it killed them, minus the killing. If his slaves went to the restroom, he
would repeatedly write that or the word nothing if he felt that they were not contributing to work on
the plantations. By Reed doing this to his slaves, he isolated them to not allow for them to have any
outside contact. He silenced his slaves from feeling like humans. Being trapped in this isolation
dehumanized the slaves by treating them as more of a research project/business rather than actual
people, even though they were never thought of as people at the time. The treatment these
individuals reported ran the gamut from the most harsh, impersonal, and exploitative to work and
living conditions and environments
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Mexico Borderlands
This historiography will cover published works that deal with the topic, the history of medicine in
the United States–Mexico borderlands. There are three sections that will analyze the history of
medicine in the borderlands in different capacities. The three sections are Transnational Medical
Borderlands Histories, Public Health and The Indigenous Agent, and 'Traditional' Medicine in the
Borderlands. These three sections all use distinct and unique sources that may seem untraditional for
historians, but help tells a unique version of the story from different academic perspectives. This
historiography includes historians and historical sources along with medical journals, an
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These three chapters discussed an intertwining time as well as issues. The three chapters also had
titles that seemed to flow from one to the next. Chapter two titled, The Promise of Progress. In
chapter two Gonzalez discussed the agreement between United States and Mexican health officials
about quarantines being useful and used to protect citizens in each country. Gonzalez also informs
the audience that people in both Mexico and the United States had the idea that all people despite
their class should be medically treated if ill. This would in turn help slow disease spread and out
breaks. Chapter three titled, The Appearance of Progress. In chapter three Gonzalez discussed
transnational employment with African Americans in the South (Alabama) looking for equality and
freedom in Mexico. This is the same story Jacoby told in his article. Just like in the Jacoby piece
Gonzales comes up with the same outcome. Racial equality in Mexico compared to that in the
United States was just an illusion. It is the appearance of progress from the outsider's perspective
with transnational movement of labor from the United States to Mexico and better racial relations in
Mexico, but this appearance is a façade. Chapter four is, The Power of Progress. This section
analyzed the Laredo small pox riots at the turn of the twentieth century. Quarantine camps are setup
in Laredo that discriminated against ethnic
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Analysis Of The Film ' Crossing The Borderlands Of...
Jenny Morales
2/07/15
Crossing the Borderlands of Sexuality and Gender.
The film that I decided to watch was a documentary by Gabriel Baur named Venus Boyz. This
documentary film serves as a critique of gender and sex and how it is perceived in New York,
London, and Zurich, but ultimately the world. In this documentary the world of Drag Kings is
presented to its viewers. Drag Kings are mostly women performers who dress in male clothing in
order to personify gender stereotypes. Normally performing as exaggerated male characters whose
routine may consist of dancing and singing, these characters in the end, become political activists
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We see it again when Dred decides to walk time square hand in hand with a Queen Bee Luscious, a
drag queen. In the background we hear a passerby say a statement referring to God. Viewing this
documentary we realize that cross dressing, as a man, is not as acceptable as many would think. Not
just crossing dressing in generally but even not embodying how females should look is deemed as
being deviant.
Society has this spectrum that every individual as soon as they are born is classified into groups.
There are only two categories. On one end you have the masculine males and on the other the girly
women. There is no in between. Even though there are many people who fall into these middle
categories. This is reinforced through media as we see both men and women trying to conform into
their assigned categories. What Drag Kings do is try to break this concept as it is poisonous to
women and men who don't fit in and suffer trying to conform to the social roles placed on them. For
example, let's look at hair. In the documentary we see some females who decided to shave their head
hair. Angela says "that female sexuality for many men, not all but many, is linked strongly with hair.
If you shave it, it means that you are denying your female sexuality". It is not just simply shaving
your head that is the reason that you are making a statement. It is the way Angela uses it in her
shows that demonstrates
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Literary Analysis Of Gloria Anzaldua's 'Borderlands'
There are many different styles of writing that authors use to achieve a certain affect. For example,
how a writer chooses words, languages and structures certain sentences and or paragraphs. An
author's different strategies influence the audience by giving them or taking away a certain
understanding that the author is trying to achieve. Gloria Anzaldua in "Borderlands", explains a
large portion of geographical history and of her own history through just one chapter. She wants the
readers to understand the struggles she has had both internal and external, and she does this through
her rhetorical strategies. While doing so from the begging of the opener for the first chapter "The
homeland, Aztlan: El otro Mexico" the reader will encounter various literary discourse. The usage of
writing mostly in English, with Spanish lines used strategically and together throughout, will offer a
historical and universal path, that affectively opens the borders at times for the reader of
misunderstanding. Over nearly two full pages of text, Anzaldua takes the reader on a frustrating,
historical journey. The readers are exposed to a variety of Anzaldua's struggles and her points of
view. She takes us through multiple styles of writing in just a few pages. In the world today, people
are faced with many obstacles and borders that causes frustration, as Anzaldua does through writing.
Anzaldua shifts rhetorical strategies which causes the reader confusion and a desire to understand
more deeply,
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Gloria Anzaldua's Poem 'To Live In Borderlands Means You'
The poem "to live in borderlands means you" written by a Chicana woman, Gloria Anzaldua, who
was raised around the U.S. and Mexican borderlands, an area where there are millions of people that
have not quite defined their actual culture or identity (Martinez 154). The poem explains the author's
pride of different elements such as race, politics and culture. Throughout the poem the author gives
several descriptions and manly focuses on not only herself living in a borderland, but also the way
the border includes other human beings composed of a unique combination of various races.
Anzaldua defines her life as a mestiza like being a person who transcends borders, and as having no
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It is a powerful poem that exposes readers to a new paradigm (Michael 4). The author also expresses
what mentality women have, in wanting to be in several cultures simultaneously. In the first line of
the poem, Anzaldúa, clearly states that a woman can not be defined as belonging to one race or
another. The poem talks about how different people see their own racial identity. Identity is
important and relevant because of how we view today's notion of "real Americans." The United
States is a fairly young country in comparison to other countries. Families in the United States have
been around for several generations, and we know that people will often ask themselves where their
roots actually come from, and are willing to learn more about themselves. Intermarriages have
caused people to have different identities or ethnicities such as Chicano, mestizo, Hispanic and
several others (Holmgren 6). As we know, there are many cultures in the world, and in countries like
the United States and Mexico people will often wonder where their family comes from and wil start
to think that their culture makes them different to other people. Anzaldua makes us realize that these
thoughts are not really true and that no matter what culture they are from, everyone will always be
the
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Fresa y Chocolate and The Borderlands
Identity is the essential core of who we are as individuals, the conscious experience of the self–
inside.
(Kaufman cited in Anzaldúa, 1987, p.84)
The objective of this essay will be to interpret the contradictions of identity produced in the movie
Fresa y Chocolate and The Borderlands. When personal identity, is stifled and shaped by
nationalistic discourse. By examining the polarised dichotomies of self–identity, juxtaposed against
the internalised and dominant hegemonic discourse of imposed National and cultural identity. The
paper will endeavour to expose how, the holding and wielded of power creates conflict and revolt
between ones individual identity, when set against a dominant and oppressive structure. The paper
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Here we see an inkling of David's desire to learn more than what is prescribed by the polity. Diego
primes the situation further. Nonchalantly removing contraband books from his bag and placing
them on the table. Although still defensive and uncomfortable, David is intrigued by the appearance
of a book by Vargas Llosa. This first interaction between David and Diego, gives us a clear
indication of David's internalised dichotomy. Of self–expression battling against national identity.
Under false pretences, David is lured back to Diego's apartment. Its decor adorned by cultural and
religious iconography. Initially David is undoubtedly repulsed, yet clearly captivated by Diego's
cultural life style. After an embarrassing interaction between the two men, David retreats back to his
university dorm room. Still rattled by his meeting with Diego, David confides in his roommate
Miguel. He tells of Diego's planned religious exhibition in an embassy. Agitated, Miguel deems this
a serious deviation from the prescribed communist doctrine and needs to be reported. David agrees
with Miguel to return to Diego's apartment. All with the intention of uncovering more information
which may be of interest to the authorities (Gutiérrez Alea 1993). This paper argues, that
subconsciously David was looking for a reason to return to Diego's.
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The Relationship Between Humans And The Machines In Alex...
Alex Garland's 2015 directional debut Ex Machina explores ideas that are parallel to the themes
theorized in Donna Haraway's 1985 essay titled Cyborg Manifesto. Furthermore, both pieces of
work explore the relationship between humans and the machines that we create, in this case, a
humanoid robot believed to containing Artificial Intelligence. Since most modern human experience
is constructed, there is almost nothing to separate us form the machines we create. The film also
represents the borderlands in which cyborgs live in. The borderlands are the productive spaces that
are intended for research and the building of knowledge. In Ex Machina, Nathan's compound is the
borderland. To be more specific, the borderland is the room that he confines his robot experiments
to. As Caleb was watching the security footage of Nathan's past experiments, he comes across a clip
of one of the robots banging on the glass and asking why can't she be released. Ava grew to hate
Nathan because of the way he treated her and because she was confined to the one room in the
house. During the Ava Sessions, Caleb goes down to the room and talks with Ava as part of the
Turing test. Caleb and Ava talk through a translucent wall and never come into physical contact
throughout the entire film. Caleb is conducting his research inside of Ava's borderland. Ava's
permanent confinement and her realization that Nathan can and will switch her off whenever he sees
fit, acts as the catalyst of her desire to escape. At one point in the film, Caleb is talking with Ava
about Frank Jackson's thought experiment titled Mary's Room. Mary is a brilliant scientist, who
specializes in color. She knows everything that there is to know about colors, except what it feels
like to actually see color. Like Mary, Ava has never left her room. She is not allowed access
throughout the inside of the compound or outside. Even though she has a lot of information about
what the world is like, can she ever actually know about the world if she has never seen it? There is
an extra piece of knowledge gained through experience and Ava is searching for this experience. A
cyborg would have elements that would qualify it it as an "alive being" and will also feature
elements that
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Borderlands History Essay
In the recent past, the history of frontiers has become more relevant; spatial mobility, situational
identity, local contingency and the ambiguities of power among others are some of the elements of
borderlands history in the new millennium. Hämäläinen & Truett propose an examination of
borderlands history beyond a traditional view. They point out borderlands history should be studied
from the interior of America and its connection with imperial, national, indigenous, and Western U.
S. histories and transnational approaches as well. Hämäläinen & Truett provide an overview
regarding the beginning of borderlands history which supports the reader in the understanding of the
root system of such area and how it has expanded. Such expansion has
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Equiano's Borderlands
Often we consider racial disparities as a fixed and instantaneous issue, rooted in a single layer of
time: either it is thought of as an occurrence of the past and no longer relevant, or a contemporary
uprising whose ancient sources, which continue to reincarnate, are disregarded. In fact, the racial
suppression of marginalized groups is a continuous and ever–evolving structure, its white–
dominated pillars rigidly maintained throughout history, while the means by which minority
communities are disparaged and how race itself is perceived continues to mutate. In the memoir of
abolitionist Olaudah Equiano, he describes the "enormous cruelties" committed by white slave
traders on captured Africans during the eighteenth century transatlantic slave trade, which still
flourished as he penned his 1784 narrative (Equiano, 5). While Equiano seeks to characterize the
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While both Equiano and Walker characterize eighteenth and nineteenth century racism, respectively,
as primarily based on differences in skin color, Anzaldúa explores how of twentieth–century society
systematically isolated, categorized, and oppressed marginalized groups based on differences in
language. Furthermore, she indicates the destructive internalization of the dominant culture's
obsession with language subtleties by pointing out the manifestation of not only interracial
hostilities between whites and others, as identified by Equiano and Walker, but intraracial
degradation within the Latinx community. She says "because we internalize how our language has
been used against us by the dominant culture, we use our language differences against each other"
(Anzaldúa
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Borderland: La Frontera And The Women Warrior
The call for feminism marks the beginning of an extensive journey with the quest to inspire women
and to advocate women right in a male governed the world. Gloria Anzaldúa and Maxine Kingston
both scrutinize feminism in the framework of "Borderland: La Frontera: The New Mestiza" and
"The Women Warrior" encouraging women to occupy a strong position in the post–colonial male led
civilization. The author both traces the journey of women struggle to achieve rewarding role within
the structure shaped by men. The alliance of different voice from disregarded women gestures a
strong theme that inspires Maxine Hong Kingston and Gloria Anzaldua to write enthusiastically
within the feminist topic to dispute the patriarchal society.
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It is men who have the freedom of choice.
Anzaldua describes how she experienced the feeling of being deviant towards society and not
belonging to the community she lives in, "The queer are the mirror reflecting the heterosexual tribe's
fear: being different, being other than and therefore lesser, therefore sub–human, in–human, non–
human" (Anzaldua, 1987). Acknowledging that someone is different from you in their thoughts,
opinions, behavior, and appearance is not as easy as it may seem when these qualities matter to you.
But acknowledging that being different is not better or worse–it is simply not the same–is what
many people fail to do, often without even realizing how intolerant they are. The author herself,
however, shows that she is in every way broadminded about her beliefs, her opinions, and even the
language she speaks–the book is written equally in English and Spanish. The author naturally
switches from one language to the other, showing not simply that she is bilingual, but that she is a
human being above all other qualities, and it is the content, the meaning behind words that matters,
not the form or language in which they are written.
Maxine Kingston in "The Women Warrior" presents a traditional Chinese society that anticipates
women not to decide what is best for them all by themselves. Kingston creates a woman who goes
beyond this ritual culture constraint and who take up
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Dangers Of Boundaries And Borderlands: The US Mexico Border
2. Boundaries and Borderlands
The U.S.– Mexico border policy influences the lives and opportunity options of individuals within
both sides of the borders. Illegal immigration remains to be a major issue in the United States. The
government attempts to control this issue of the influx of illegal immigrants, who are in search of a
better life. There are several effects that arise with this issue including the negative effect on
economic development. The immigrants face great dangers as they make their way across the
border. The relative location of borders between countries influence economic development and
migration. The United States constantly experiences a decline in the economy, which in part is
caused by illegal immigration. For example,
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Borderlands: The Chicano Movement
The reorganization of borderlands does not only evoke geographical change, but also the emergence
of minority groups. Segregation, discrimination, and physical violence are usually suffered by such
groups. However, the imposition of a different legal system, language policy, religion, education and
economic system and racial hierarchy seems to be the most difficult concern for minority groups'
members. The social movement held by Mexican–Americans in the US Southwest and Midwest
between the 1950s and 1980s was known as the Chicano Movement (CM). It pursued the
eradication of ethnic stereotypes and equity for Mexican–Americans. José Ángel Gutiérrez analyses
five major strategies employed in the CM to bring about social change. For such purpose,
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The 's Borderlands / La Frontera
Anzaldúa's Borderlands/La frontera is a very interesting piece of writing to read because it covers a
lot of issues such as identity, language, and gender. The fact that she combines several genres in her
writing offers another amazement. Like a powerful concoction, her writing which embodies
personal, cultural, and political realities, in a way, reflects not only the richness of her multiple
cultural backgrounds but also her efforts in cultivating those cultures. In terms of language for
example, she identifies herself (and her community) as a complex and heterogeneous people. As a
result, they speak many languages (1586). In addition, her claim that 'ethnic identity is twin skin to
linguistic identity' elucidates her freedom to write bilingually and that she is not ashamed to use her
native language. Somehow, it reminds me of my own native language, Javanese language which
consists of three different levels namely low, medium, and grand. As I live in a region located in the
coastal area in the north part of Java Island, I happen to use the low level Javanese in my everyday
life. However, it does not necessarily mean that my community and I do not use the medium and
grand level. It is just more common for us to use low Javanese on daily basis. People tend to use
medium and grand Javanese especially when they talk to strangers and elders. Moreover, we have a
very distinguished accent that people from different region can easily identify us. Like Anzaldúa and
other Chicanas
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Sandwich By Gloria Anzaldua Summary
Gloria Anzaldua concept of borderlands is one of many aspects. To begin it is a place that is
consistently transitioning, full of multiple people who are seen as different. The borderlands is also a
territory where the third world and the first world meets, specifically it is located in the US –
Mexican border. Its where cultures collide, it is what separates us from them and determines what
we view safe and unsafe, but most importantly it is an unnatural boundary, made to separate us. The
people here are troublesome, they are the queer, the perverse, the mulato, the half breed, in short
those who live here are considered different. The Chicanos, Indians, Blacks, the queer, and all those
who are not white are those who dwell in the borderlands. They struggle enough as it is, but even
then, they are seen as transgressors, aliens, sometimes in their own land because they are not white,
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In a Rice Sandwich we see a similar situation when the nun doesn't want Esperanza to be a part of
the kids who eat in the canteen. She states that the nun told her to, "Go for today not for tomorrow"
only after making her cry(45). The canteen can be seen as a borderland, Esperanza feels like she
doesn't belong because she is not like the other kids, the nun only lets her sit there out of pity. Most
importantly it's a reminder of her place in society, it shows Esperanza that she is different, not
legitimate like those in the borderlands and still part of the marginalized like those in the tracks. All
of this shapes her position in the world, reminding her she is still part of the outsiders and still not
belonging anywhere, even when she makes it in the canteen she realizes its nothing special and she
still feels
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Borderland
SOC 248T: Post–Soviet Paradoxes Ryan Kelley Professor Shevchenko November 16, 2016
Response to "The Bulgarian Borderland" by L. Melishkevich SUMMARY Main Claim of Paper:
Religious divisions in Madan (and other Bulgarian towns in the Rhodope region) are produced by a
religious borderland in which individuals grapple with ideological conflict and tension,
characterized by Eastern vs. Western influences. Support: Factual information and quotes from
Muslim Lives in Eastern Europe; Supportive information (for comparisons) from other books/places
examined this semester. CONSTRUCTIVE FEEDBACK (with some complimentary questions)
Argument: Pushing back against Ghodsee's notion that Madan is unique due to the combination of
its large Muslim populations and the collapse of GORUBSO, the paper builds off past discussions of
borderland (with Where the World Ended and Consecution and Social Change) to argue that a
religious borderland is responsible for divisions in the Bulgarian Muslim population. I have little
critique of the broad argument (I think it's rather brilliant!) BUT I think it suffers from
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Is this borderland signifiant for the rest of Bulgaria? How? I admire how you took your paper road
the road that Ghodsee appears hesitant to travel: You focus on the religious experience itself as
significant rather than drawing connections to economic and political life. Why do you think
Ghodsee expands her argument to include gender and ethnicity? How could your argument benefit
from these other lines of
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Difference Between Gloria Anzaldua's Borderlands And La...
In Gloria Anzaldua's Borderlands/La Frontera, she uses her own personal experiences growing up
and living near the border that separates the United States and Mexico. Anzaldua makes us
reexamine the purpose of a border and the negative effects that come with it. Since she lives close to
the border, she cannot completely identity herself as an American nor would she be able to call
herself Mexican. As a Chicana, she did not know where she belonged in society. The two cultures
she lived under put her in this constant state of transition. The struggles she faces strongly resembles
the ones that Piri Thomas faces in his novel Down These Mean Streets. Despite the fact that Thomas
was actually of Puerto Rican and Cuban descent, many people failed to recognize him as such and
saw him as an African–American. In the first chapter of Anzaldua's novel, she describes her
homeland and what it means to live by the border. "Borders are set up to define the places that are
safe and unsafe, to distinguish us from them. A border is a dividing line, a narrow strip along a steep
edge" (25). The purpose of this boundary was for the whites and "those who align themselves with
whites" to feel safe and secured from the "half–breed" or multicultural people of the south (26). This
separation creates this belief that one side is superior to the other. When retelling the history of
Mexico's colonization, Anzaldua recognizes how, "the Gringo, locked into the fiction of white
superiority, seized complete political power, stripping Indians and Mexicans of their land while their
feet were still rooted in it" (29). The Natives and the Mexicans had control over the area way before
the Europeans came but now their land was being taken away. After losing the war to the United
States, Mexico was compelled to give roughly half of its territory to them; the area that is currently
Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico and Texas. "Separated from Mexico, the Native
Mexican–Texan no longer looked toward Mexico as home; the Southwest became our homeland
once more" (29). Once the area was controlled by the U.S., the vast majority of its occupants looked
with disarray as they could never again consider Mexico as their home. This new border that the
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Analysis Of Borderlands By Gloria Anzaldua
Speaking of Texas–U.S. Southwest/Mexican border, the first thing appears in many people's mind is
a horizontal line with US on the upper side and Mexico on the lower, as depicted in maps. However,
in reality, a border serves more than just to separate states. In many occasions, it witnesses and
bridges social networks that stretch across border. These two functions seem to contradict each other
but in fact they exactly reflect the complex nature of borders, or, more realistically, borderlands, a
term coined to uproot in people the misleading image of a line. In her book Borderlands, the author
Gloria Anzaldua, as a descendent of Indians and Mexicans living close to the America–Mexico
border in Southern Texas, defies such dualistic and simplistic thinking about the border/double–
sided or multi–sided dilemma, suggesting a new "mestiza consciousness", a tolerance of ambiguity
and a way of creating new personal culture from her accounting with all three cultures, as opposed
to adopting only one of them without independent thinking and confronting against the rest. This
new way of thinking stems from the reality of borderlands but instead of stopping there the author
expands its application to establishing both cultural and sexual identities.
For Anzaldua, any borderland is "a place of contradictions" (preface 19), rendering border residents
to suffer from constant insecurity and perplexity as they struggle to keep their multiple identities
intact. Nonetheless, as she writes
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Sierra Club Borderlands
As an Environmental Protection Representative, I am responsible for preservation of the land and its
inhabitants. The Sierra Club Borderlands Campaign has more things going against them then for
them. Their greatest weakens, most officials are for building the wall and given that a partial wall
has already been built, it will take that much more man power to keep the rest of the wall from being
constructed. Their strength? Fighting for a worthy cause and migration of illegal immigrants have
decreased over a fifteen year study. When it comes to the Sierra Club Borderlands Campaign
leadership styles, it Competitive because their/our main goal is to stop the wall from being built. The
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Safe keeping of the El Paso/Ciudad Juarez Javelina population. Animal inhabitants in other areas
have become endangered due to the fact that the Javelinas are not able to roam freely and carry
seeds from flowers to flowers that are needed for the ecosystem to flourish and survive. Any future
construction would cause further harm, so any proposal involving continuation of the wall; the
group would not be able to agree on. As far as the group, I am hoping to make an alliance with
Lomas de Poleo resident(s), Pedro Zaragoza and Global Business Developer. If the wall is built on
the land that would hinder in investments of monetary value. The text refers to a difference of
opinion between who rightly owns the land but I hoping to convenience the Lomas and Zaragoza to
put their differences aside to cooperate. Knowing that if the wall is built either one lose out on any
deal that Global Business Developer's would have offered. The group would argue the point that in
recent years, the relationship with Mexico and the United States has changed. Using Exhibit T, "The
net migration flow from Mexico to the United States has stopped and may have reversed"; as result
of decreasing U.S. economy. Also, point out that the increase border patrol has detruded illegal
immigration. Hopefully some of these facts can help come up with an agreement that does not
involve a
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Borderlands La Frontera Summary
In this Chapter I feel that Anzaldua is trying to get the reader to understand the differences and
atruggles amongst cultures. The clash of cultures results in mental and emotional confusion. Living
inbetween more than one culture, you often get opposing messages from these cultures. Sometimes
when living within the Chicana culture common white beleifs conflict with the beleifs of the
Mexican culture. They both hold beleifs of the indifinous peopel and their culture. It creates a
problem that the dominant cultures views and beleifs are defiant to the others. This is very wrong
because it creats the problem of one being superior to the other. This especially relates to the
Mexican culture and white culture. This creates the assimilation problem when one culture is not
accepted or considered below another. In the book Borderlands La Frontera it states that "El choque
de un alma atrapado entre el mundo del espiritu y el mundo de la tecnica a veces la deja entullada.
Cradled in one culture, sandwhiched between two cultures, stradling all three cultures and their
value systems, ..." People are feeling torn between the culture they have always known, and a
culture they are trying to fit into. The author explains how this is seperating people and that we are
going to have to accept what is and come together, or put dominant culture in the past as a lost cause
all together. She goes on to discuss the different baggage that comes from certain cultures. Thare are
different things that
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Borderlands And Identity Essay
Kinjal Patel Professor Gearhart American Literature February 12, 2017 Reflection paper 2 The
materials that impacted me the most were race and borderlands and identity. Like I had mentioned in
my discussion blog, being different from others had a tremendous affect on me as a child. Being a
different race wasn't much of a deal when we were kids, but as we started to grow up and gaining
knowledge, everything changed. My classmate started to realize that I'm different from them and
started to treat me differently based on that. At the time we were all facing a challenge when it came
to being a different race because of certain events like 9/11. When something goes wrong, it's
always so easy to blame those who are different. For example, today's
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Mexican Borderlands Essay
The border region has seen "rapid transformation in a short span of time, changing from a cattle
ranching and mining area that attracted U.S., Mexican and European capitalists...to the center of a
lucrative vice and pleasure–based tourist industry, to a region that ...attracted an extraordinary
amount of international capital to its manufacturing and services sector". (Ganster/Lorey 2) Events
and years such as the implementation of the railroad, the years before the Mexican Revolution, the
land reform in 1936 and 1937, the implementation of the maquiladora program and the 1994 North
American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) has had a significant impact on the U.S. Mexican
Borderlands.
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(Ganster/Lorey 37) As the value of resources grew so did the number of U.S. investors. Ganster and
Lorey assert that "U.S. investors owned several million acres of land... [and] they controlled the
larges mining enterprises in the state [Sonora]". (Ganster/Lorey 40) Therefore, the completion of the
railroad system was an imperative step to the early economic development of Mexico. The years
from 1880 until The Mexican Revolution of 1910 contained issues that had an enormous effect on
the border region. Diaz's plan to establish "order" meant "political centralization". (Ganster/Lorey
54) Diaz would offer a certain amount of freedom to settlers in return for preventing confrontations
with "nomadic indigenous groups". (Ganster/Lorey 54) Eventually, Diaz took away its citizens right
to elect government officials and began to appoint them himself. (Ganster/Lorey 54) Soon after
conflicts between communities and property owners, local citizens and politicians began to develop
and in time "conflict over power centered on resources, the fencing off of woods and prairies
became the focus of the struggle". (Ganster/Lorey 55) Diaz's plan to institute "progress" meant "the
rapid commercialization of agrarian and extractive activities". (Ganster/Lorey 55) Land was a major
contribution to the Mexican Revolution. In 1905 a new law was passed, under Enrique Creel
administration, stating that all community
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Battle of Ideals: USA and the Borderlands
U.S.A and the Borderlands. There has been tons of contentions and conflicts in the second largest
country in europe and while the news presents us all these ideas about what going there, the truth, as
it always is, is much more complex. The recent turmoil in the Ukraine has brought up a lot of issues
remembered in the cold war. Russia Annexing the crimean peninsula from the Ukraine scaring
western powers, specifically the United States, into the old policy of Soviet containment and using
any means to put negatives towards the "eastern block" preventing the spread of its influence.
Although the United States and it NATO/European Union current policy's towards the eastern block
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Its quite debated, but many historians agree that the Cold War started in 1947, a couple years after
the second world war. The president of the time was Harry S. Truman, and he had quite the
challenge on his plate. As 1947 rolled on in, Truman's advisors were pushing for actions to counter
the ever growing influence of the Soviet Union. During the mass confusion and chaos after the war,
Stalin had been attempting to undercut the U.S. by supporting rivalries between different capitalist
country and possibly causing more conflict. Truman eventually gave in, after the British government
announced in February 1947 that it could no longer support a Greek monarchical military regime in
its civil war with communist led insurgents, and pronounced that that the U.S. would adopt the idea
containment (of communism) and pulled the democratic curtain revealing the Truman Doctrine5.
Both of these polices set the conflict as a competition between free people and autocratic regimes6.
The Soviet Union and its ways were a threat to western ideals and thus should be prevented by any
means wether they be diplomatic or militaristic. The Marshall Plan was one diplomatic attempts that
the U.S. made prescribed from the Truman Doctrine. The plan was a pledge promising to provide
economic assistance to any European country wanting to participate. Its goal was to rebuild and
solidify the economic and democratic systems of the European
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Essay about Anzaldúa’s Genre Borderlands
Anzaldúa's Genre Borderlands
Gloria Anzaldúa writes of a Utopic frame of mind, the borderlands created in and lived in by the
new mestiza. She describes the preexisting natures of the Anglos, Mexicanos, and Chicanos as seen
around the southwest U.S. / Mexican border, indicative of the nations at large. She also probes the
borders of language, sexuality, psychology and spirituality. Anzaldúa presents this information in
various identifiable ways including the autobiography, historical/informative essay, and poetry.
What is unique to Anzaldúa is her ability to weave a 'perfect' kind of compromised state of mind that
melds together the preexisting cultures while simultaneously formulating a fusion of genres that
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Anzaldúa finds that combining the two distinct forms adds a new dimension that is necessary to
fully comprehend the history of a people.
Sexuality and spirituality thrives as other topics in which Anzaldua combines genres. In this instance
she combines history and autobiography. Again this gives a more humane look at history. However,
this use is more distinctly personal whereas the previous combination of history and poetry provided
a more universal personal approach. This talks about Anzaldúa's part in history. Anzaldúa writes,
"Being lesbian and raised Catholic, I was indoctrinated as straight, I made the choice to be queer
(for some it is genetically inherent)" (41). This line is found in a section dealing with homophobia
that resides heavily in the cultures she identifies with. While this phobia exists in the culture at large
and is recorded as such, Anzaldúa provides a personal account as an example.
In another way, language also provides this dynamic that Anzaldúa aims for. Anzaldúa takes the
separate Spanish and English languages and her own Chicana tongue and creates a book that makes
uses of both. Both languages are vital in some way. While the book is primarily written in English,
often titles, sentences, and poetry parts are in a Spanish that more than likely is not easily
translatable to those who are not bilingual. Language seems to best sum up the importance of her
borderlands in genre and life. Anzaldúa says,
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Gloria Anzaldua's Borderlands Concepts

  • 1. Borderlands By Gloria Anzaldua Analysis Borders Beyond the Borderlands. There are many concepts that Gloria Anzaldua discusses in Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza, but there are two that stuck out: linguistic terrorism, nephantla, and la facultad. These concepts have affected Women such as ElviraPrietoo and Norma Cantu to write from their personal experiences. To embrace their roots, they came from and never forget the events that shaped them into the women they are today. Perhaps expand a bit on your introduction. For instance, offer some context of Borderlands and the other two texts and then teases / a tease / the tease out what it is you will discuss the themes of memory and identity a bit more. Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza by Gloria Anzaldua is full of personal narratives detailing the visible and invisible " borderlands " that exist within a race, gender, sexuality, and spirituality. Her essays and poems are based on her own personal experiences as a Chicana and lesbian activist. Through her writing, she challenges the true definition of the borderlands as more than a simple line that divides different cultures. It calls for those who are oppressors to change their attitudes and show support to those of the borderlands. By writing in both English and Spanish she expresses how one language would not be enough to describe her Chicana literature. Anzaldua refers to the word Borderlands as the area which is in a state of limbo between Mexico and the United States. It is a place that is ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 5. Borderlands Book Report Liliana Garcia Borderlands, by Gloria Anzaldua, has a connection between all of us. As for knowing part of our past, present, future can be related to most of her writing in many ways. Always having a sense of doubt can become consuming. As of growing up with four older brothers and two parents, I was the baby of the house. Pretty much not questioning anything as to why it was not possible to do certain jobs around the house. In this book it brings great connections between finding relations to some of those times, and as well as others can relate from a different perspective. If the person ever questions who they are, then Borderlands has many ways to open a new world to challenge an individual maybe not in the way everyone expects, but has ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... We have the religion side being embedded everywhere around us. It might not say it all directly, but between some of the wording can make the connection. Many of our families have been religious that we can understand each other. We all have fears that are within us, so for generations, families like mine are in the Catholic religion. This also includes, when my family did not go to church people always questioned if my beliefs were still there within me. However, a part of myself believes, but the other half doesn't like the way fingers get pointed. When visiting a grave site, many people pray, so they are doing well and visit their loved ones. For a fact, that if someone could not visit the graveyard where their grandparents who they once were a part of his or her lives can be heartbreaking to those related because of the fact that the land got taken away. It basically sets the tone to what can the person do which is nothing. Also, when the family members cannot even visit a simple place like the graveyard just like everyone else can be quite difficult. However, knowing that some people want to rest in peace next to their loved ones is a big thing in many of the families just like ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 9. Borderlands La Frontera Summary Gloria Anzaldua has always been aware of her progressive self, an inner self that emerged as lesbian, Mexican American, and oppressed. In Borderlands/La Frontera, the power of Anzaldua's native tongue emanates from her resistance to Anglo–enforced conventions about culture and gender. She stresses the criticism of biculturalism in How To Tame A Wild Tongue, arguing that Anglo Americans subjugate Mexican Americans, because they might fear inferiority. As a Mexican American woman, her gender defies the normative patriarch, and her ethnicity infringes on Anglo preeminence –– untamed feats that reassert the power of her tongue. Anzaldua exposes the entitled behaviors of Anglo Americans by speaking Spanish against their silencing impositions, while simultaneously broadcasting the language and culture of her people and upholding her bicultural identity. Borderlands/La Frontera stemmed from a failed attempt at extending one academic theory across Anzaldua's multifaceted ideas on ethnic conflict and female archetypes. Chicano scholar Hector Torres distinguishes the amalgamation of her "critical theory, history, and sociolinguistics" as a means of honing a "polyvalent voice" that does not adhere to conventional English writing (). She mixes both English and Spanish into the story's dialect, because she wants to respect her dual self: the feminist at odds with dismissive men and the Mexican American at odds with dismissive Anglos. When the dentist says the word "control" in his ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 13. Picturing The Transnational Of Palomar : Gilbert Hernandez... Jennifer Glaser touches on many topics in her analysis "Picturing the Transnational in Palomar: Gilbert Hernandez and the Comics of the Borderlands," such as, sex, love, sexism, gender, violence, and much more. While these areas are all explored in some way throughout Hernandez's stories, Glaser ties them all in by discussing how a small Central American town named Palomar views itself versus how outsiders, such as Americans view it. Glaser further explains how the stories Hernandez tells are used specifically to humanize Latinos and provide a different view and perspective into the Latin community from what is normally showed by pop culture. Hernandez not once labels Palomar as a Mexican city in an effort to allow any Latino to feel as if they can belong there. In her analysis, Glaser explains this by discussing how: Hernandez never explicitly labels Palomar a Mexican city. It instead becomes a stand–in for a variety of small Central American towns, a fairy tale "somewhere." In an interview, Hernandez says that "[he] made [his] Palomar work reflect a more general Latino culture" ("Palomar and Beyond" 227). While Palomar "looks close to Mexico ... [he] really just wanted any Latino from anywhere to feel like they belonged there" (227). This resulted in Palomar being a basic town accessible for any Latino to place him or herself in any story that fits. As mentioned previously, Glaser constantly reminds the reader that Hernandez's main goal was to compare how things work in the ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 17. Summary Of Borderlands / La Frontera By Gloria Anzalad�a In the reading of "Borderlands/ La Frontera" by Gloria Anzaladúa we explore the idea of breaking down our own physical borders as well as invisible borders within as we connect with the narrator and her experiences. We can draw many parallels between the reading of Borderlands and "A Different Mirror" by Ronald Takaki. Both readings allow immerse you in the life of being the Other in society, through stories they share, emotions expressed through their writings and by using evidence of dominance between races. In Takaki we see the Other as a race, whereas in Borderlands, we see it as more than just race, it is an identity. In Borderlands we see a prime example of this when she says "As a lesbian I have no race...I am all races because there is a queer of me in all races" (Page 181 "Borderlands/ La Frontera" by Gloria Anzaladúa). Takaki describes Other as "different, inferior, and unassimilable" (Page 4 "A Different Mirror" by Ronald Takaki). As the readings develop, we are given the opportunity to put ourselves in the Others shoes allowing you to sympathize with those who may be "different." It is as if the authors do this on purpose, especially for the white cultures who in the Others eyes like to put themselves on a pedestal. Though many may argue with this idea of the Other, it is something that people of all races should think about so that we can effectively work together to break down the borders we have built between cultures, sexualities, spiritualities and ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 21. Short Story : ' The Borderlands ' Borders are often used to define what a person is or isn't, and when they identify outside of this border, they are an outsider. They are simply a visitor that does not belong. Occasionally, these borders do not fit the image of whom it constrains. Then, there are those that are defined as one, identify as another, but feels as if neither truly symbolizes what they are. People that feel like an outsider where ever they go, it is those described who fall into what Gloria Anzaldúa describes as the Borderlands. Specifically, Anzaldúa speaks of her own personal experience living in the borderlands concerning her where she feels at home and her prevailing sexuality. Growing up in a land that prevents her from thriving, holds her down to the ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... Even though Catholicism was the main religious influence, other religious influence that predate Catholicism in Mexico were also at work. Through both religious ideologies influence Anzaldúa, she was forced into a situation where both were at odds with each other, as well as strengthening the other. Another situation that can present itself is where white culture and Chican@ culture (also applies to African American, European, and Native American cultures) are both present. In cases such as these usually how a specific quality is viewed in the separate cultures, or a specific practice one has that the other does not, are what are different and sometimes at odds with each other. In Anzaldúa 's case, a strong example of this is the quality of selfishness. In Chican@ culture, selfishness is incredibly frowned upon, while in white culture, it is frowned upon but not necessarily discouraged to the point that it is in Chican@ culture. Lastly, another example is that of a person's sexuality. It 's a rare occurrence where children are not raised in heteronormative households that tell children that they will eventually marry someone of a different sex Those that realize they do not fit this cultural ideal, are placed into the Borderlands; they have grown up and lived in the heterosexual world, but no longer fit there, they are an outsider. Thankfully there is some benefit to these situations and having a location within the Borderlands. Within the Borderlands, ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 25. The Borderland Identity : Identity And Identity In George R.R. Martin's A Game of Thrones, his character, Tyrion says, "Never forgot what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness" (Identity). This quote is crucial towards accepting one's identity and allowing that acceptance to strengthen that person. In Cisneros's "Bien Pretty" from Woman Hollering Creek, the main character, Lupe tries to focus solely on one part of her dual identity, allowing her to be bothered and insecure about her place in Mexican heritage as well as in American culture. She has to deal with not only her desire to belong to one singular culture, but also trying to find belonging in the identity that she exists in, the "borderland" identity. The "borderland" identity is a concept that Gloria Anzaldua discusses in her book. Gloria Anzaldua discusses in her book, the concept of the "borderland" identity; the identity that exists for people are a part of both Mexican and American heritage who are too much of either to belong to any one specific group. In "Bien Pretty," Cisneros shows the struggle of identifying and connecting to the "borderland" identity through the character, Lupe, especially in relation to Lupe's connection to her Mexican heritage and her relationship with Flavio. Lupe tries to fit in with both cultures of being Mexican and American, but she cannot simultaneously be a part of one culture without alienating the other. As seen with her interactions with Flavio, she loves the Mexican side of him, attracting to him for her fantasies of Mexican men rather than for him personally. She finds that he connects her to her Mexican side, asking him to show her Mexican dances and loves when he speaks to her in Spanish. From learning about dances from Flavio to the language itself, she does not have that authenticity to which he learned about Mexican traditions and customs that he had. She lacks that connection that she desperately wants with being Mexican, enough to even place her fantasies and expectations on Flavio to be the "Mexican Lover" she wants him to be. After telling her that he knows who he is and that he is still Mexican despite not needing to dress like one, Lupe comments on this, saying, "I wanted to be Mexican ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 29. Borderlands By Gloria Anzaldúa As human beings we tend to classify others by classifying ourselves (Eide 74 ). Nothing wrong with that per se, if not for using problematic criteria, such as race, skin color, gender, sexual orientation, class, religion, or ethnicity, in an often negative and derogatory way. As soon as individuals or groups are considering themselves superior, they inherently impose inferiority upon others, and discrimination and bigotry is born. Equality is still far from being common practice. A large part of the problem is ignorance; ignorance about other cultures, religions, gender range, ethnicity and many other characteristics. In her book Borderlands: La Frontera, Gloria Anzaldúa describes how she has hopes for a new humanity, not inhibited by race or gender or any other social, political or ethical label; a hybrid form, an epitome of all possible confluences: a cosmic race, with a rich gene pool and a new consciousness (100–102). She believes this can be realized by uprooting all dualistic thinking and teaching tolerance and openness from a very young age: 'nothing is thrust out, the good, the bad and the ugly, nothing rejected, nothing abandoned' (Anzaldúa 101) . She uses the ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... But, as with all resources, it might give rise to exactly the opposite of what is was meant for. It can isolate the cause it stands for, thereby making the chasm between it and others even larger, instead of bringing them closer together. It is a tool, nothing more: it can come in handy, but has no secondary agenda, and is to be used very carefully. Anzaldúa's concept of a new consciousness, though beautiful and achievable, will need time and willingness to cooperate. And within that framework people should accept the fact that they can, themselves, be part of the problem and make an effort to help solve it. In a way Anzaldua's vision has already been in operation for thousands and thousands of ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 33. Difference Between Border And Borderlands In this week we mainly discuss about the borderlands. Before this class's study, I didn't think about the difference between border and borderlands, but I do know that lots of illegally immigration situation happened in Arizona. When I study in Central High School in Arizona, I had lots of classmate that came with their parents from Mexico illegally. And I heard lots of story happened on them and reflect our class's topic. Arizona passed a bill called SB 1070, this bill was work on Anti–immigrant sentiment and the borders of belonging and not belonging. Lots of people from Mexico across the border come to Arizona illegally, and this situation cause lots of social phenomenon. For example, the crime on the board is very significant, and cartel ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 37. Summary Of The House On The Borderland In Lauren Jae Gutterman's "The House on the Borderland: Lesbian Desire, Marriage, and the Household," Gutterman explained how women who are married, have tendencies to be with another woman, but do not want to tell their husbands. During the 1950s to the late 1970s, many women showed heterosexual norms. They took care of their families, and expressed unconditional love for their spouse. However, if becoming close to another woman, they will soon start to become attracted to them and then form a relationship. The urge to love another woman while loving their spouse was a difficult task to balance for women. Not knowing if they will get caught or not, women who shown interest in another woman had to keep it private, to prevent the family structure from getting ruined. The absence of the husbands allowed the relationships of two women to happen. Gutterman states "Given wives limited mobility, and free time, most of their lesbian affairs took place in their own homes. Many took advantage of their husbands' absence to spend time with their lovers, carried on affairs without their husbands' knowledge" (3). The interaction woman received from another woman strengthened their relationship and the feelings they had for one another. Women were living two lives around that time. In the light, they depicted an ordinary life of a woman, as she will be an outstanding citizen in the community. The role of a woman in the day depicted how the woman took care of the family, and the household, ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 41. Ethnic Borderland The 'decades of crisis' between both World Wars in Europe was an armistice lasting twenty years. Given France's resentment towards German occupation, and postwar peace and economic conditions placed on Germany by the Versailles Peace Treaty,Karl von Clausewitz referred to the period as 'war by other means.' The treaty redrew borders to destroy the Austria–Hungary ally of Germany and once redrawn, thirty–eight independent economic units replaced the pre war twenty–six, and there were twenty–seven currencies in comparison to the fourteen before the war. These geopolitical changes gave rise to nationalist upheaval and new waves of hostility among neighboring nations. Imposed geographical changes affected local politics and occupied local and ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... A Biography of No Place: From Ethnic Borderland to Soviet Heartland by Kate Brown, reveals Stalinism and Nazi history from the perspective of those subjected by the ethnic purification and imposition of nationalism in the borderland region in the Ukraine, known as the Marchlevsk or Kresy. There is a sense of conflict in the interwar years. Brown notes that throughout the interwar period, Ukrainians had been accusing Poles of skewing the census to minimize the Ukrainian population in the Kresy, which is the eastern half of Poland that was seized by the USSR in 1939. In 1922, Poles living in the Soviet Union accused Ukrainian officials of deliberately undercounting the Polish population of the western parts of the Soviet–Ukraine border.Furthermore, Brown argues that gender and class were vital in crafting regional identity, she notes that they were: "tied to locality, class, profession and social status, rather than to nationality." The Marchlevsk Polish Autonomous Region in the Soviet Ukraine demonstrates the complexity of nationality, and the ambiguity of any line dividing Poles from Ukrainians since around seventy percent of population Marchlevsk was nominally Polish . According to Jan T. Gross, the most important structural feature of the twentieth– century totalitarianism is the privatization of the public domain. Gross ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 45. Living In The Borderlands/La Fronter The New Mestiza, By A border is an invisible line created by human beings to separate one group of individuals from the next group. Borderlands exist because of the borders, and restrictions that we have put into existence. Borderlands are different for everyone and can vary from things like religion, race, and language. To live in a borderland means to live in a place where different individuals and cultures collide with one another. The Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza, Gloria Anzaldua explained that the borderlands that we have created are not only physical barriers, but mental barriers as well. She talks about the psychological development that the borders have on the ones who live in the borderlands. In Gloria Anzaldua's poem, "To live in the Borderlands ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... That definition is correct, but it is far more than just that; yes, borders separate geographical areas, but it also separates people, family, and cultures. Borders are unnatural, invisible lines meant to separate one group of individuals from the next group. A key reason for the existence of the borderlands is due to the existence of these borders that man has put into place. The people who happen to live in these borderlands tend to feel trapped. It is difficult to express yourself when you feel like you live in a place where you are not fully accepted. I can relate to the people who live in the borderlands, because I am human, and there has been many times where I felt uncomfortable or like I didn't belong. The only way to fix that inevitable feeling is by learning to accept yourself fully, and by not being afraid to let the world see you for who you are. In Gloria Anzaldua's poem, "To live in the Borderlands Means You," she says that the only way to survive the borderlands is to be a crossroads, and live life without any borders. To live in the Borderlands means you, is a poem about accepting all of who you are and living at the crossroads, where many different cultures create a new culture. In the poem Child of the Americas, Anrora Levins Morales concludes her poem by explaining that living in the borderlands is ultimately about meeting at the ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 49. Handsome Jack From The Borderlands Franchise There are many kinds of villains in stories with many different motivations. Handsome Jack from the Borderlands franchise is one example of a villain done right. Not only does he contrast well against the heros in the story, but he appeals well to the audience. The audience also sees how changes from being considered a hero by many to being undoubtedly a villain. When we initially meet Handsome Jack he is the CEO of the Hyperion corporation and claims to be trying to civilize the crazy bandit–filled lawless planet called Pandora. In the first installment of the Borderlands franchise Handsome Jack did not directly make an appearance but was responsible for the events that took place. Four adventurers or, "Vault Hunters"; Roland, Brick, Mordecai, and Lilith, were searching for an ancient alien vault which they believed contained vast treasures. Jack made his daughter, Angel, pose as an AI to help them on their way and make sure that they opened The Vault so that Jack may weaponize what it released when it was opened. Jack was successful and the vault was opened. The second installment of the borderlands franchise begins with Handsome Jack trying, but intentionally failing, to murder to the main characters to again manipulate them with the help of Angel to take down the Pandoran resistance, formed by the Vault Hunters that he tricked, that is standing in his way and to open the Vault of The Warrior, which would allow him to control an intelligent super weapon called "The ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 53. Four Major Themes In Borderlands La Frontera By Gloria... Borderlands Essay What I'm going to talk about is four major themes from the book, Borderlands La Frontera by Gloria Anzaldúa. The four major themes I chose to talk about are first, how you shouldn't be ashamed of yourself, then how Anzaldúa shows deviant behavior throughout the book, also, how she found herself through poetry, and lastly, America's melting pot. Don't Be Ashamed of Yourself When reading the book, Borderlands La Frontera, Anzaldúa is basically telling us don't be ashamed of who you are. In chapter two, Anzaldúa starts off by talking about how being raised as a Catholic, it was taught that being a homosexual was a "choice" and it is not something you genetically inherited (Anzaldúa, 2012, p. 41). Anzaldúa, who is a ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... The woman is supposed to clean, and cook for her family. Also, a woman is supposed to listen to her husband and not disobey. Women are made to feel like total failures if they do not get married and have children, so in their culture they are seen as deviant. Anzaldúa talks about how when she was younger she knew that she something was "wrong" with her. She started talking about her deviant behavior of how she refuses to take orders from authorities. She wouldn't take orders from her parents and she wouldn't do chores. There was a rebel in her. She called it "The Shadow–Beast" (Anzaldúa, 2012, p. 38). Anzaldúa was seen as a deviant because she was a lesbian. This time, she wasn't just seen as a deviant to America, she was seen as deviant to her own culture. In her culture, as a woman, Anzaldúa is supposed to marry a man. Anzaldúa was raised as a Catholic and was taught that being a homosexual was a "choice" and it is not something you genetically inherited. If a woman does not marry a man she is a "Mujer mala," meaning a bad woman (Anzaldúa, 2012, p. 38). Anzaldúa felt like an alien. Who would want to be disowned by their family, or even the whole village? People usually blame the kid's parents for the kid being a homosexual. You can't come out of the closet because if you do, then you not only ruin your reputation, you ruin your family's reputation. Finding Oneself Through Poetry When ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 57. Borderlands La Frontera Essay Who I am? A question everyone at some point will ask themselves. I personally had asked that question many times and especially now that I'm getting my U.S residency and later my citizenship. I trying to answer if I'm Peruvian or American. The Borderlands/ La Frontera by Gloria Anzaldua had show me to identify myself. This book isn't all a happy story as is life. She shares her experience in this world were where her heritage and her blood is the cause of an oppression in her society. There are invisible borders were to exist between cultural groups, where people who have multiple identities has to break through those invisible borders and regain culture that has been lost. She identifies herself as a Chicana and a lesbian where she writes ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 61. Borderlands/La Frontera When reading Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza, I was reminded about the struggles of being an immigrant in the United States with all of the barriers with learning a new language and culture. I really saw this when it came to all Spanish words that are written in the book. To be able to understand her own culture, the reader has to have a basic understanding of Spanish. Culture is really taught through language, and there is a lot missing if the reader does not have this basic understanding. When immigrating to the States, people have to learn English not only to communicate well, but to fill out paperwork, and to understand the culture. For this essay I am going to focus on one story that resonated a lot with me when I was reading ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... This example can be seen in the quote "in the confusion, Pedro ran, terrified of being caught. He couldn't speak English, couldn't tell them he was fifth generation American," (Anzadua 1987:26). This quote really resonated with me because of the power of language and how it is learned. They ended up deporting him to Guadaajara when the furthest he had ever been to Mexico was the Reynosa a city on the boarder. This really reminds me a lot about many people I know who have grown up in the States and had to go back. I know many people who have been fighting to get citizenship for years, people who have grown up in the states but could not get citizenships so at the age of 18 had to move back to the country they have citizenship even when their lives were always here. It took my own family ten years to get a green card, and then 17 years to get a passport from the States (Anzadua 1987). Citizenship is really difficult for many people to get, but there are also many obstacles that in the way. There are many barriers that the new administration has put on immigrations. One example the Economic Times says that the new administration is tightening immigration. There are even reports that the H–1B visa for working immigrants is becoming to get a lot harder to get. This visa is used for immigrants who are looking to get their green card. There are many people who are discriminated because of their race (Chaudhury ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 65. Annotated Bibliography Of Borderlands Julia Glandt October 24, 2017 Borderlands FYS Annotated Bibliography They had no life; they were not allowed to have a life. They were isolated from not only the white race but also their own people. Mr. Michael Reed was one of those slave owners that treated his slaves that they were nothing more than a piece of property. In his files, Mr. Reed had a ledger of daily activities. This ledger contained hourly and daily record of everything his slaves would do. In some of his recordings, Mr. Reed would write down very strange things for what activity his slaves were doing. He would make mention when they were sick, of course so he could know how many hours they worked; but many of his recording were not appropriate for him to be writing. He acted almost as if a lion stalking its prey before it killed them, minus the killing. If his slaves went to the restroom, he would repeatedly write that or the word nothing if he felt that they were not contributing to work on the plantations. By Reed doing this to his slaves, he isolated them to not allow for them to have any outside contact. He silenced his slaves from feeling like humans. Being trapped in this isolation dehumanized the slaves by treating them as more of a research project/business rather than actual people, even though they were never thought of as people at the time. The treatment these individuals reported ran the gamut from the most harsh, impersonal, and exploitative to work and living conditions and environments ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 69. Mexico Borderlands This historiography will cover published works that deal with the topic, the history of medicine in the United States–Mexico borderlands. There are three sections that will analyze the history of medicine in the borderlands in different capacities. The three sections are Transnational Medical Borderlands Histories, Public Health and The Indigenous Agent, and 'Traditional' Medicine in the Borderlands. These three sections all use distinct and unique sources that may seem untraditional for historians, but help tells a unique version of the story from different academic perspectives. This historiography includes historians and historical sources along with medical journals, an anthropologist and a sociologist to give a multidisciplinary approach ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... These three chapters discussed an intertwining time as well as issues. The three chapters also had titles that seemed to flow from one to the next. Chapter two titled, The Promise of Progress. In chapter two Gonzalez discussed the agreement between United States and Mexican health officials about quarantines being useful and used to protect citizens in each country. Gonzalez also informs the audience that people in both Mexico and the United States had the idea that all people despite their class should be medically treated if ill. This would in turn help slow disease spread and out breaks. Chapter three titled, The Appearance of Progress. In chapter three Gonzalez discussed transnational employment with African Americans in the South (Alabama) looking for equality and freedom in Mexico. This is the same story Jacoby told in his article. Just like in the Jacoby piece Gonzales comes up with the same outcome. Racial equality in Mexico compared to that in the United States was just an illusion. It is the appearance of progress from the outsider's perspective with transnational movement of labor from the United States to Mexico and better racial relations in Mexico, but this appearance is a façade. Chapter four is, The Power of Progress. This section analyzed the Laredo small pox riots at the turn of the twentieth century. Quarantine camps are setup in Laredo that discriminated against ethnic ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 73. Analysis Of The Film ' Crossing The Borderlands Of... Jenny Morales 2/07/15 Crossing the Borderlands of Sexuality and Gender. The film that I decided to watch was a documentary by Gabriel Baur named Venus Boyz. This documentary film serves as a critique of gender and sex and how it is perceived in New York, London, and Zurich, but ultimately the world. In this documentary the world of Drag Kings is presented to its viewers. Drag Kings are mostly women performers who dress in male clothing in order to personify gender stereotypes. Normally performing as exaggerated male characters whose routine may consist of dancing and singing, these characters in the end, become political activists who break the boundaries that society has set on every individual's sexuality and gender ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... We see it again when Dred decides to walk time square hand in hand with a Queen Bee Luscious, a drag queen. In the background we hear a passerby say a statement referring to God. Viewing this documentary we realize that cross dressing, as a man, is not as acceptable as many would think. Not just crossing dressing in generally but even not embodying how females should look is deemed as being deviant. Society has this spectrum that every individual as soon as they are born is classified into groups. There are only two categories. On one end you have the masculine males and on the other the girly women. There is no in between. Even though there are many people who fall into these middle categories. This is reinforced through media as we see both men and women trying to conform into their assigned categories. What Drag Kings do is try to break this concept as it is poisonous to women and men who don't fit in and suffer trying to conform to the social roles placed on them. For example, let's look at hair. In the documentary we see some females who decided to shave their head hair. Angela says "that female sexuality for many men, not all but many, is linked strongly with hair. If you shave it, it means that you are denying your female sexuality". It is not just simply shaving your head that is the reason that you are making a statement. It is the way Angela uses it in her shows that demonstrates ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 77. Literary Analysis Of Gloria Anzaldua's 'Borderlands' There are many different styles of writing that authors use to achieve a certain affect. For example, how a writer chooses words, languages and structures certain sentences and or paragraphs. An author's different strategies influence the audience by giving them or taking away a certain understanding that the author is trying to achieve. Gloria Anzaldua in "Borderlands", explains a large portion of geographical history and of her own history through just one chapter. She wants the readers to understand the struggles she has had both internal and external, and she does this through her rhetorical strategies. While doing so from the begging of the opener for the first chapter "The homeland, Aztlan: El otro Mexico" the reader will encounter various literary discourse. The usage of writing mostly in English, with Spanish lines used strategically and together throughout, will offer a historical and universal path, that affectively opens the borders at times for the reader of misunderstanding. Over nearly two full pages of text, Anzaldua takes the reader on a frustrating, historical journey. The readers are exposed to a variety of Anzaldua's struggles and her points of view. She takes us through multiple styles of writing in just a few pages. In the world today, people are faced with many obstacles and borders that causes frustration, as Anzaldua does through writing. Anzaldua shifts rhetorical strategies which causes the reader confusion and a desire to understand more deeply, ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 81. Gloria Anzaldua's Poem 'To Live In Borderlands Means You' The poem "to live in borderlands means you" written by a Chicana woman, Gloria Anzaldua, who was raised around the U.S. and Mexican borderlands, an area where there are millions of people that have not quite defined their actual culture or identity (Martinez 154). The poem explains the author's pride of different elements such as race, politics and culture. Throughout the poem the author gives several descriptions and manly focuses on not only herself living in a borderland, but also the way the border includes other human beings composed of a unique combination of various races. Anzaldua defines her life as a mestiza like being a person who transcends borders, and as having no sense of belonging. She also claims to be transcending the cultures, ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... It is a powerful poem that exposes readers to a new paradigm (Michael 4). The author also expresses what mentality women have, in wanting to be in several cultures simultaneously. In the first line of the poem, Anzaldúa, clearly states that a woman can not be defined as belonging to one race or another. The poem talks about how different people see their own racial identity. Identity is important and relevant because of how we view today's notion of "real Americans." The United States is a fairly young country in comparison to other countries. Families in the United States have been around for several generations, and we know that people will often ask themselves where their roots actually come from, and are willing to learn more about themselves. Intermarriages have caused people to have different identities or ethnicities such as Chicano, mestizo, Hispanic and several others (Holmgren 6). As we know, there are many cultures in the world, and in countries like the United States and Mexico people will often wonder where their family comes from and wil start to think that their culture makes them different to other people. Anzaldua makes us realize that these thoughts are not really true and that no matter what culture they are from, everyone will always be the ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 85. Fresa y Chocolate and The Borderlands Identity is the essential core of who we are as individuals, the conscious experience of the self– inside. (Kaufman cited in Anzaldúa, 1987, p.84) The objective of this essay will be to interpret the contradictions of identity produced in the movie Fresa y Chocolate and The Borderlands. When personal identity, is stifled and shaped by nationalistic discourse. By examining the polarised dichotomies of self–identity, juxtaposed against the internalised and dominant hegemonic discourse of imposed National and cultural identity. The paper will endeavour to expose how, the holding and wielded of power creates conflict and revolt between ones individual identity, when set against a dominant and oppressive structure. The paper will first examine ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... Here we see an inkling of David's desire to learn more than what is prescribed by the polity. Diego primes the situation further. Nonchalantly removing contraband books from his bag and placing them on the table. Although still defensive and uncomfortable, David is intrigued by the appearance of a book by Vargas Llosa. This first interaction between David and Diego, gives us a clear indication of David's internalised dichotomy. Of self–expression battling against national identity. Under false pretences, David is lured back to Diego's apartment. Its decor adorned by cultural and religious iconography. Initially David is undoubtedly repulsed, yet clearly captivated by Diego's cultural life style. After an embarrassing interaction between the two men, David retreats back to his university dorm room. Still rattled by his meeting with Diego, David confides in his roommate Miguel. He tells of Diego's planned religious exhibition in an embassy. Agitated, Miguel deems this a serious deviation from the prescribed communist doctrine and needs to be reported. David agrees with Miguel to return to Diego's apartment. All with the intention of uncovering more information which may be of interest to the authorities (Gutiérrez Alea 1993). This paper argues, that subconsciously David was looking for a reason to return to Diego's. ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 89. The Relationship Between Humans And The Machines In Alex... Alex Garland's 2015 directional debut Ex Machina explores ideas that are parallel to the themes theorized in Donna Haraway's 1985 essay titled Cyborg Manifesto. Furthermore, both pieces of work explore the relationship between humans and the machines that we create, in this case, a humanoid robot believed to containing Artificial Intelligence. Since most modern human experience is constructed, there is almost nothing to separate us form the machines we create. The film also represents the borderlands in which cyborgs live in. The borderlands are the productive spaces that are intended for research and the building of knowledge. In Ex Machina, Nathan's compound is the borderland. To be more specific, the borderland is the room that he confines his robot experiments to. As Caleb was watching the security footage of Nathan's past experiments, he comes across a clip of one of the robots banging on the glass and asking why can't she be released. Ava grew to hate Nathan because of the way he treated her and because she was confined to the one room in the house. During the Ava Sessions, Caleb goes down to the room and talks with Ava as part of the Turing test. Caleb and Ava talk through a translucent wall and never come into physical contact throughout the entire film. Caleb is conducting his research inside of Ava's borderland. Ava's permanent confinement and her realization that Nathan can and will switch her off whenever he sees fit, acts as the catalyst of her desire to escape. At one point in the film, Caleb is talking with Ava about Frank Jackson's thought experiment titled Mary's Room. Mary is a brilliant scientist, who specializes in color. She knows everything that there is to know about colors, except what it feels like to actually see color. Like Mary, Ava has never left her room. She is not allowed access throughout the inside of the compound or outside. Even though she has a lot of information about what the world is like, can she ever actually know about the world if she has never seen it? There is an extra piece of knowledge gained through experience and Ava is searching for this experience. A cyborg would have elements that would qualify it it as an "alive being" and will also feature elements that ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 93. Borderlands History Essay In the recent past, the history of frontiers has become more relevant; spatial mobility, situational identity, local contingency and the ambiguities of power among others are some of the elements of borderlands history in the new millennium. Hämäläinen & Truett propose an examination of borderlands history beyond a traditional view. They point out borderlands history should be studied from the interior of America and its connection with imperial, national, indigenous, and Western U. S. histories and transnational approaches as well. Hämäläinen & Truett provide an overview regarding the beginning of borderlands history which supports the reader in the understanding of the root system of such area and how it has expanded. Such expansion has ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 97. Equiano's Borderlands Often we consider racial disparities as a fixed and instantaneous issue, rooted in a single layer of time: either it is thought of as an occurrence of the past and no longer relevant, or a contemporary uprising whose ancient sources, which continue to reincarnate, are disregarded. In fact, the racial suppression of marginalized groups is a continuous and ever–evolving structure, its white– dominated pillars rigidly maintained throughout history, while the means by which minority communities are disparaged and how race itself is perceived continues to mutate. In the memoir of abolitionist Olaudah Equiano, he describes the "enormous cruelties" committed by white slave traders on captured Africans during the eighteenth century transatlantic slave trade, which still flourished as he penned his 1784 narrative (Equiano, 5). While Equiano seeks to characterize the innocence and humanity of his African brethren and therefore justify the unethical nature of their ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... While both Equiano and Walker characterize eighteenth and nineteenth century racism, respectively, as primarily based on differences in skin color, Anzaldúa explores how of twentieth–century society systematically isolated, categorized, and oppressed marginalized groups based on differences in language. Furthermore, she indicates the destructive internalization of the dominant culture's obsession with language subtleties by pointing out the manifestation of not only interracial hostilities between whites and others, as identified by Equiano and Walker, but intraracial degradation within the Latinx community. She says "because we internalize how our language has been used against us by the dominant culture, we use our language differences against each other" (Anzaldúa ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 101. Borderland: La Frontera And The Women Warrior The call for feminism marks the beginning of an extensive journey with the quest to inspire women and to advocate women right in a male governed the world. Gloria Anzaldúa and Maxine Kingston both scrutinize feminism in the framework of "Borderland: La Frontera: The New Mestiza" and "The Women Warrior" encouraging women to occupy a strong position in the post–colonial male led civilization. The author both traces the journey of women struggle to achieve rewarding role within the structure shaped by men. The alliance of different voice from disregarded women gestures a strong theme that inspires Maxine Hong Kingston and Gloria Anzaldua to write enthusiastically within the feminist topic to dispute the patriarchal society. The author of ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... It is men who have the freedom of choice. Anzaldua describes how she experienced the feeling of being deviant towards society and not belonging to the community she lives in, "The queer are the mirror reflecting the heterosexual tribe's fear: being different, being other than and therefore lesser, therefore sub–human, in–human, non– human" (Anzaldua, 1987). Acknowledging that someone is different from you in their thoughts, opinions, behavior, and appearance is not as easy as it may seem when these qualities matter to you. But acknowledging that being different is not better or worse–it is simply not the same–is what many people fail to do, often without even realizing how intolerant they are. The author herself, however, shows that she is in every way broadminded about her beliefs, her opinions, and even the language she speaks–the book is written equally in English and Spanish. The author naturally switches from one language to the other, showing not simply that she is bilingual, but that she is a human being above all other qualities, and it is the content, the meaning behind words that matters, not the form or language in which they are written. Maxine Kingston in "The Women Warrior" presents a traditional Chinese society that anticipates women not to decide what is best for them all by themselves. Kingston creates a woman who goes beyond this ritual culture constraint and who take up ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 105. Dangers Of Boundaries And Borderlands: The US Mexico Border 2. Boundaries and Borderlands The U.S.– Mexico border policy influences the lives and opportunity options of individuals within both sides of the borders. Illegal immigration remains to be a major issue in the United States. The government attempts to control this issue of the influx of illegal immigrants, who are in search of a better life. There are several effects that arise with this issue including the negative effect on economic development. The immigrants face great dangers as they make their way across the border. The relative location of borders between countries influence economic development and migration. The United States constantly experiences a decline in the economy, which in part is caused by illegal immigration. For example, ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 109. Borderlands: The Chicano Movement The reorganization of borderlands does not only evoke geographical change, but also the emergence of minority groups. Segregation, discrimination, and physical violence are usually suffered by such groups. However, the imposition of a different legal system, language policy, religion, education and economic system and racial hierarchy seems to be the most difficult concern for minority groups' members. The social movement held by Mexican–Americans in the US Southwest and Midwest between the 1950s and 1980s was known as the Chicano Movement (CM). It pursued the eradication of ethnic stereotypes and equity for Mexican–Americans. José Ángel Gutiérrez analyses five major strategies employed in the CM to bring about social change. For such purpose, ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 113. The 's Borderlands / La Frontera Anzaldúa's Borderlands/La frontera is a very interesting piece of writing to read because it covers a lot of issues such as identity, language, and gender. The fact that she combines several genres in her writing offers another amazement. Like a powerful concoction, her writing which embodies personal, cultural, and political realities, in a way, reflects not only the richness of her multiple cultural backgrounds but also her efforts in cultivating those cultures. In terms of language for example, she identifies herself (and her community) as a complex and heterogeneous people. As a result, they speak many languages (1586). In addition, her claim that 'ethnic identity is twin skin to linguistic identity' elucidates her freedom to write bilingually and that she is not ashamed to use her native language. Somehow, it reminds me of my own native language, Javanese language which consists of three different levels namely low, medium, and grand. As I live in a region located in the coastal area in the north part of Java Island, I happen to use the low level Javanese in my everyday life. However, it does not necessarily mean that my community and I do not use the medium and grand level. It is just more common for us to use low Javanese on daily basis. People tend to use medium and grand Javanese especially when they talk to strangers and elders. Moreover, we have a very distinguished accent that people from different region can easily identify us. Like Anzaldúa and other Chicanas ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 117. Sandwich By Gloria Anzaldua Summary Gloria Anzaldua concept of borderlands is one of many aspects. To begin it is a place that is consistently transitioning, full of multiple people who are seen as different. The borderlands is also a territory where the third world and the first world meets, specifically it is located in the US – Mexican border. Its where cultures collide, it is what separates us from them and determines what we view safe and unsafe, but most importantly it is an unnatural boundary, made to separate us. The people here are troublesome, they are the queer, the perverse, the mulato, the half breed, in short those who live here are considered different. The Chicanos, Indians, Blacks, the queer, and all those who are not white are those who dwell in the borderlands. They struggle enough as it is, but even then, they are seen as transgressors, aliens, sometimes in their own land because they are not white, and they do not align themselves with whites. This makes ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... In a Rice Sandwich we see a similar situation when the nun doesn't want Esperanza to be a part of the kids who eat in the canteen. She states that the nun told her to, "Go for today not for tomorrow" only after making her cry(45). The canteen can be seen as a borderland, Esperanza feels like she doesn't belong because she is not like the other kids, the nun only lets her sit there out of pity. Most importantly it's a reminder of her place in society, it shows Esperanza that she is different, not legitimate like those in the borderlands and still part of the marginalized like those in the tracks. All of this shapes her position in the world, reminding her she is still part of the outsiders and still not belonging anywhere, even when she makes it in the canteen she realizes its nothing special and she still feels ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 121. Borderland SOC 248T: Post–Soviet Paradoxes Ryan Kelley Professor Shevchenko November 16, 2016 Response to "The Bulgarian Borderland" by L. Melishkevich SUMMARY Main Claim of Paper: Religious divisions in Madan (and other Bulgarian towns in the Rhodope region) are produced by a religious borderland in which individuals grapple with ideological conflict and tension, characterized by Eastern vs. Western influences. Support: Factual information and quotes from Muslim Lives in Eastern Europe; Supportive information (for comparisons) from other books/places examined this semester. CONSTRUCTIVE FEEDBACK (with some complimentary questions) Argument: Pushing back against Ghodsee's notion that Madan is unique due to the combination of its large Muslim populations and the collapse of GORUBSO, the paper builds off past discussions of borderland (with Where the World Ended and Consecution and Social Change) to argue that a religious borderland is responsible for divisions in the Bulgarian Muslim population. I have little critique of the broad argument (I think it's rather brilliant!) BUT I think it suffers from organizational and evidence deficiencies. ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... Is this borderland signifiant for the rest of Bulgaria? How? I admire how you took your paper road the road that Ghodsee appears hesitant to travel: You focus on the religious experience itself as significant rather than drawing connections to economic and political life. Why do you think Ghodsee expands her argument to include gender and ethnicity? How could your argument benefit from these other lines of ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 125. Difference Between Gloria Anzaldua's Borderlands And La... In Gloria Anzaldua's Borderlands/La Frontera, she uses her own personal experiences growing up and living near the border that separates the United States and Mexico. Anzaldua makes us reexamine the purpose of a border and the negative effects that come with it. Since she lives close to the border, she cannot completely identity herself as an American nor would she be able to call herself Mexican. As a Chicana, she did not know where she belonged in society. The two cultures she lived under put her in this constant state of transition. The struggles she faces strongly resembles the ones that Piri Thomas faces in his novel Down These Mean Streets. Despite the fact that Thomas was actually of Puerto Rican and Cuban descent, many people failed to recognize him as such and saw him as an African–American. In the first chapter of Anzaldua's novel, she describes her homeland and what it means to live by the border. "Borders are set up to define the places that are safe and unsafe, to distinguish us from them. A border is a dividing line, a narrow strip along a steep edge" (25). The purpose of this boundary was for the whites and "those who align themselves with whites" to feel safe and secured from the "half–breed" or multicultural people of the south (26). This separation creates this belief that one side is superior to the other. When retelling the history of Mexico's colonization, Anzaldua recognizes how, "the Gringo, locked into the fiction of white superiority, seized complete political power, stripping Indians and Mexicans of their land while their feet were still rooted in it" (29). The Natives and the Mexicans had control over the area way before the Europeans came but now their land was being taken away. After losing the war to the United States, Mexico was compelled to give roughly half of its territory to them; the area that is currently Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico and Texas. "Separated from Mexico, the Native Mexican–Texan no longer looked toward Mexico as home; the Southwest became our homeland once more" (29). Once the area was controlled by the U.S., the vast majority of its occupants looked with disarray as they could never again consider Mexico as their home. This new border that the ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 129. Analysis Of Borderlands By Gloria Anzaldua Speaking of Texas–U.S. Southwest/Mexican border, the first thing appears in many people's mind is a horizontal line with US on the upper side and Mexico on the lower, as depicted in maps. However, in reality, a border serves more than just to separate states. In many occasions, it witnesses and bridges social networks that stretch across border. These two functions seem to contradict each other but in fact they exactly reflect the complex nature of borders, or, more realistically, borderlands, a term coined to uproot in people the misleading image of a line. In her book Borderlands, the author Gloria Anzaldua, as a descendent of Indians and Mexicans living close to the America–Mexico border in Southern Texas, defies such dualistic and simplistic thinking about the border/double– sided or multi–sided dilemma, suggesting a new "mestiza consciousness", a tolerance of ambiguity and a way of creating new personal culture from her accounting with all three cultures, as opposed to adopting only one of them without independent thinking and confronting against the rest. This new way of thinking stems from the reality of borderlands but instead of stopping there the author expands its application to establishing both cultural and sexual identities. For Anzaldua, any borderland is "a place of contradictions" (preface 19), rendering border residents to suffer from constant insecurity and perplexity as they struggle to keep their multiple identities intact. Nonetheless, as she writes ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 133. Sierra Club Borderlands As an Environmental Protection Representative, I am responsible for preservation of the land and its inhabitants. The Sierra Club Borderlands Campaign has more things going against them then for them. Their greatest weakens, most officials are for building the wall and given that a partial wall has already been built, it will take that much more man power to keep the rest of the wall from being constructed. Their strength? Fighting for a worthy cause and migration of illegal immigrants have decreased over a fifteen year study. When it comes to the Sierra Club Borderlands Campaign leadership styles, it Competitive because their/our main goal is to stop the wall from being built. The partial wall has already caused damage to the ecosystem for ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... Safe keeping of the El Paso/Ciudad Juarez Javelina population. Animal inhabitants in other areas have become endangered due to the fact that the Javelinas are not able to roam freely and carry seeds from flowers to flowers that are needed for the ecosystem to flourish and survive. Any future construction would cause further harm, so any proposal involving continuation of the wall; the group would not be able to agree on. As far as the group, I am hoping to make an alliance with Lomas de Poleo resident(s), Pedro Zaragoza and Global Business Developer. If the wall is built on the land that would hinder in investments of monetary value. The text refers to a difference of opinion between who rightly owns the land but I hoping to convenience the Lomas and Zaragoza to put their differences aside to cooperate. Knowing that if the wall is built either one lose out on any deal that Global Business Developer's would have offered. The group would argue the point that in recent years, the relationship with Mexico and the United States has changed. Using Exhibit T, "The net migration flow from Mexico to the United States has stopped and may have reversed"; as result of decreasing U.S. economy. Also, point out that the increase border patrol has detruded illegal immigration. Hopefully some of these facts can help come up with an agreement that does not involve a ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 137. Borderlands La Frontera Summary In this Chapter I feel that Anzaldua is trying to get the reader to understand the differences and atruggles amongst cultures. The clash of cultures results in mental and emotional confusion. Living inbetween more than one culture, you often get opposing messages from these cultures. Sometimes when living within the Chicana culture common white beleifs conflict with the beleifs of the Mexican culture. They both hold beleifs of the indifinous peopel and their culture. It creates a problem that the dominant cultures views and beleifs are defiant to the others. This is very wrong because it creats the problem of one being superior to the other. This especially relates to the Mexican culture and white culture. This creates the assimilation problem when one culture is not accepted or considered below another. In the book Borderlands La Frontera it states that "El choque de un alma atrapado entre el mundo del espiritu y el mundo de la tecnica a veces la deja entullada. Cradled in one culture, sandwhiched between two cultures, stradling all three cultures and their value systems, ..." People are feeling torn between the culture they have always known, and a culture they are trying to fit into. The author explains how this is seperating people and that we are going to have to accept what is and come together, or put dominant culture in the past as a lost cause all together. She goes on to discuss the different baggage that comes from certain cultures. Thare are different things that ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 141. Borderlands And Identity Essay Kinjal Patel Professor Gearhart American Literature February 12, 2017 Reflection paper 2 The materials that impacted me the most were race and borderlands and identity. Like I had mentioned in my discussion blog, being different from others had a tremendous affect on me as a child. Being a different race wasn't much of a deal when we were kids, but as we started to grow up and gaining knowledge, everything changed. My classmate started to realize that I'm different from them and started to treat me differently based on that. At the time we were all facing a challenge when it came to being a different race because of certain events like 9/11. When something goes wrong, it's always so easy to blame those who are different. For example, today's ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 145. Mexican Borderlands Essay The border region has seen "rapid transformation in a short span of time, changing from a cattle ranching and mining area that attracted U.S., Mexican and European capitalists...to the center of a lucrative vice and pleasure–based tourist industry, to a region that ...attracted an extraordinary amount of international capital to its manufacturing and services sector". (Ganster/Lorey 2) Events and years such as the implementation of the railroad, the years before the Mexican Revolution, the land reform in 1936 and 1937, the implementation of the maquiladora program and the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) has had a significant impact on the U.S. Mexican Borderlands. The implementation of railroad throughout the Mexico and its ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... (Ganster/Lorey 37) As the value of resources grew so did the number of U.S. investors. Ganster and Lorey assert that "U.S. investors owned several million acres of land... [and] they controlled the larges mining enterprises in the state [Sonora]". (Ganster/Lorey 40) Therefore, the completion of the railroad system was an imperative step to the early economic development of Mexico. The years from 1880 until The Mexican Revolution of 1910 contained issues that had an enormous effect on the border region. Diaz's plan to establish "order" meant "political centralization". (Ganster/Lorey 54) Diaz would offer a certain amount of freedom to settlers in return for preventing confrontations with "nomadic indigenous groups". (Ganster/Lorey 54) Eventually, Diaz took away its citizens right to elect government officials and began to appoint them himself. (Ganster/Lorey 54) Soon after conflicts between communities and property owners, local citizens and politicians began to develop and in time "conflict over power centered on resources, the fencing off of woods and prairies became the focus of the struggle". (Ganster/Lorey 55) Diaz's plan to institute "progress" meant "the rapid commercialization of agrarian and extractive activities". (Ganster/Lorey 55) Land was a major contribution to the Mexican Revolution. In 1905 a new law was passed, under Enrique Creel administration, stating that all community ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 149. Battle of Ideals: USA and the Borderlands U.S.A and the Borderlands. There has been tons of contentions and conflicts in the second largest country in europe and while the news presents us all these ideas about what going there, the truth, as it always is, is much more complex. The recent turmoil in the Ukraine has brought up a lot of issues remembered in the cold war. Russia Annexing the crimean peninsula from the Ukraine scaring western powers, specifically the United States, into the old policy of Soviet containment and using any means to put negatives towards the "eastern block" preventing the spread of its influence. Although the United States and it NATO/European Union current policy's towards the eastern block have attempted to contain this strong autocratic style of ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... Its quite debated, but many historians agree that the Cold War started in 1947, a couple years after the second world war. The president of the time was Harry S. Truman, and he had quite the challenge on his plate. As 1947 rolled on in, Truman's advisors were pushing for actions to counter the ever growing influence of the Soviet Union. During the mass confusion and chaos after the war, Stalin had been attempting to undercut the U.S. by supporting rivalries between different capitalist country and possibly causing more conflict. Truman eventually gave in, after the British government announced in February 1947 that it could no longer support a Greek monarchical military regime in its civil war with communist led insurgents, and pronounced that that the U.S. would adopt the idea containment (of communism) and pulled the democratic curtain revealing the Truman Doctrine5. Both of these polices set the conflict as a competition between free people and autocratic regimes6. The Soviet Union and its ways were a threat to western ideals and thus should be prevented by any means wether they be diplomatic or militaristic. The Marshall Plan was one diplomatic attempts that the U.S. made prescribed from the Truman Doctrine. The plan was a pledge promising to provide economic assistance to any European country wanting to participate. Its goal was to rebuild and solidify the economic and democratic systems of the European ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 153. Essay about Anzaldúa’s Genre Borderlands Anzaldúa's Genre Borderlands Gloria Anzaldúa writes of a Utopic frame of mind, the borderlands created in and lived in by the new mestiza. She describes the preexisting natures of the Anglos, Mexicanos, and Chicanos as seen around the southwest U.S. / Mexican border, indicative of the nations at large. She also probes the borders of language, sexuality, psychology and spirituality. Anzaldúa presents this information in various identifiable ways including the autobiography, historical/informative essay, and poetry. What is unique to Anzaldúa is her ability to weave a 'perfect' kind of compromised state of mind that melds together the preexisting cultures while simultaneously formulating a fusion of genres that stretches previously ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... Anzaldúa finds that combining the two distinct forms adds a new dimension that is necessary to fully comprehend the history of a people. Sexuality and spirituality thrives as other topics in which Anzaldua combines genres. In this instance she combines history and autobiography. Again this gives a more humane look at history. However, this use is more distinctly personal whereas the previous combination of history and poetry provided a more universal personal approach. This talks about Anzaldúa's part in history. Anzaldúa writes, "Being lesbian and raised Catholic, I was indoctrinated as straight, I made the choice to be queer (for some it is genetically inherent)" (41). This line is found in a section dealing with homophobia that resides heavily in the cultures she identifies with. While this phobia exists in the culture at large and is recorded as such, Anzaldúa provides a personal account as an example. In another way, language also provides this dynamic that Anzaldúa aims for. Anzaldúa takes the separate Spanish and English languages and her own Chicana tongue and creates a book that makes uses of both. Both languages are vital in some way. While the book is primarily written in English, often titles, sentences, and poetry parts are in a Spanish that more than likely is not easily translatable to those who are not bilingual. Language seems to best sum up the importance of her borderlands in genre and life. Anzaldúa says, ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...