In “The F Word,” Firoozeh Dumas argues that being an immigrant in America is hard, especially when it comes to names. In her essay, Dumas gives people a sense of what it is like being an immigrant in the U.S. and have a foreign name; the struggle of wanting people to accept them turns immigrants to change the biggest part of their identity, their names. Right from the beginning, Dumas states that people in America need to open their linguistic horizons and give learning new sounds and names a chance.…
The one ‘Charlie, Charlie” Pollie screamed “don't let them do this they can't kill two lives because of one person” Pollie screamed “I will try to make them save you and her” Charlie had said… wait did i got to far, sorry let's start from the beginning. It all started with a girl named Pholliegster (Poll-ie-est-er) Pollie was a young beautiful girl her father, a rich man in Utah named Billie Manhunt and her mother was a beautiful but young and poor Native American woman named Magna Vanilley she was forced to marry Billie where they had five children together, quintuplets. Three girls and two boys which they had named Mahie (ma-ie), Mahima (ma-hi-ma), Pholliegster (Poll-ie-est-er), Billiniamh (Bill-in-ie-em), and Ponantolliumh (pon-en-tall-ie-oom)…
200 years ago far away in a village located in Kansas City lived a young woman who was pregnant, she was a young widow, her boyfriend was killed in a car accident. The young woman was named Tiana Aldo, she was not satisfied with the way she thought her baby would come out. Tiana wanted a mixed baby girl with pretty big blue eyes and soft luscious hair. She complained for days to her father how she did not want just a normal fair tone baby she glorified mixed babies and she wanted one of her own. Her father was a bigot he did not believe in having mixed children.…
The film Babies, that we watched in class, was a very interesting and a great example of how cultures differ in communication. It was amusing to watch the cultures that majorly differed from my own. The most surprising part of this film was the way parents raised children in Mongolian culture and Namibian culture. When going in to the film, I expected exactly what the movie was about, which was exploring very interesting cultures and the different ways of raising children within them.…
A rare baby name could make many parents to blast their head thinking what unique name to give to their future newborn! In the past most of the parents took the easiest way for giving a name to their newborn baby. As soon as they enjoyed by the coming of the baby, they considered the usual list of the acceptable names and came up with John, Alicia, George, Sarah, etc. Today, the situation is very different as the communication spread out and tones of useful information come up in seconds. Even from the early days of woman's pregnancy, the parents spend hours and hours thinking what rare baby name to give to the future child.…
The traditions differ greatly from tribe to tribe. Native people drawn them from nature. Babies names could be chosen as nicknames ,as "small peas". Names also might be based on the gender of the baby. The name would change with adulthood.…
The public broadcasting network says, “Prior to 1900, infant mortality rates of two and three hundred obtained throughout the world. The infant mortality rate would fluctuate sharply according to the weather, the harvest, war, and epidemic disease. In severe times, a majority of infants would die within one year. In good times, perhaps two hundred per thousand would die. So great was the pre-modern loss of children's lives that anthropologists claim to have found groups that do not name children until they have survived a year.…
1."The Name Is Mine," by Anna Quindlen,” according Quindlen, she propose that her name plays a significant part in her life, the surname she inherits at birth, she refuse to give it up at marriage to settle under the identity of or husband last name. "My Name," by Sandra Cisneros, she states the reasons why the name Esperanza do not repents who she is as a person and why she wants to change her name to one that identifies who she really is and represent her identity. One’s name does not have the power to shapes his/her identity and mold one’s destiny in life. A name uses to identify his/her at birth, which our parents given to us are a sense of ownership throughout his/her lifetime. Many stand behind the name because of their self-accomplishment…
“It’s a boy,” an ordinary saying and often welcomed during the fifteen hundreds. Throughout the sixteenth century, many women tried to conceive children. Having a healthy, newborn child was often encouraged by other males, midwives, and maids. Many people possessed their own reasons of having children. The same people would take into consideration the risks of conceiving a child too. Having a child was of high importance, but not safe.…
Although the history of my name goes no further than being named after elder relatives. I find my name to be very meaningful. My grandfather was a role-model in both of my parent’s lives which made…
This film projects the life of babies by varying cultures. The babies are the protagonists. The film is meant to demonstrate the many differences, yet similarities amongst different cultures and how babies experience things. At the beginning and throughout the film I gathered notes. I began by separating the different cultures, but as the film went on it became difficult to distinguish the different characters and cultures.…
Upon starting research, I realized that a name represented a lot, including personality and family.…
The creation and migration stories have clues to common to the Diné culture. The creation story deals with male and female energy, and four in relation to the number two is a ritualistic theme: two ears of corn faced in the four cardinal directions, the corn was breathed on four times to create two beings –man and woman (Sheridan & Parezo, 1996, pp. 4). There is a content tie into duality north needing south, east needing west and the combination of them into four. When the Diné migrated from the northeast and down to the southwest there were four key clans: Tódich'nii (Bitter Water People), Kinyaa'áanii (Towering House People), Ashiihi (Salt People), and To'aheed'ííni (Water Flowing People)(Sheridan & Parezo, 1996, pp. 7). The ties to the…
Salma who narrates the novel speaks perfect English. This is necessary since Fadia Faqir decides to “creat an ‘Arab book’ in the language of the other.” ( Al-Maleh 238) Diya Abdo, while investigating “double agence” in Faqir’s Pillars of Salt , discusses the hybridity of the language Faqir uses to sustain a “transcultural/translinguistic position” (A-Maleh 238). This position creates ambiguity in its relation with the reader. Abdo argues that Faqir’s texts are presented to a western reader since they are written for the British and American markets.…
How should I call you?” “David. His name is David.”. By naming the baby after himself, Tsotsi exposes the emotional connection he feels with it. Overall, Tsotsi accomplishes three of the guidelines.…