YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Becoming an American and Jasmine by Bharati Mukherjee
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country...itll be because I want to be part of it" (Mukherjee NA). In this we see the subtle, yet powerful setting that will be de...
from the traditional customs of her village and adopt more modern, urban ideas. For example, in her village, wives addressed their...
father" (Mukherjee NA). Without even getting into the specifics of this story we can immediately see that the patriarchal society ...
to the United States by way of some illegal documents and the assistance of a smuggler. Once on American soil, Jyoti receives a r...
not only by her circumstances, but by her issues of identification. Within her marriage to Prakash, her name is changed to Jasmin...
In five pages Jyoti/Jasmine/Jane's letter to her daughter who is now an adult is presented in terms of explanation as to why she l...
my learning and my moving through the world. You may remember that I was the fifth daughter of nine children. My mother loved me...
her own future. She is a rebel from the beginning, and her desire to be different could be one of the reasons her life takes on wh...
girl who is rejected by nearly everyone. In fact, so too is her family as the lot of them is cursed with ugliness and rejection. ...
Security to legal resident aliens. It was, thankfully, defeated, but it opened up an angry dialogue between the sisters on their d...
arranges marriages, though she also comes from a culture that, according to Indian standards, "Kerala is well known for its relati...
instead. And she approaches relationships almost from a mythical standpoint. For instance, when she falls in love with Prakash, h...
This paper discusses Hawthorne's "Scarlet Letter," but then focuses on Mukherjee's "Jasmine," as a novel that portrays immigrant e...
respect, everything that brought solidity to an individuals life in their former country, has been stripped from them. It is as if...
The betrayal that Mukherjee felt in Canada 20 years before she wrote the piece echoes the feelings that Mira has, as she finds her...
In five pages this paper examines the importance of irony to Mukherjee's story with other thematic components considered as well. ...
no simple way, for an old culture to adjust to a new one. New and Old World Beliefs The primary character in this story is the...
means that while these organizations serve a public purpose of some sort, they also "meet the interests, needs and desires of the ...
achieved (McDougall, 1996). That goal was and is to establish a strong buffer state to protect the nations of Southeast Asia from ...
legislative body; an executive branch; and a judicial branch of government. Britain came to that change later than did the US, ho...
people are happy to work for practically nothing, low-skill labor is relegated to the food and service industries, which offer min...
such a manner that the employees like being at work far more than they like being at home. In addition, they feel respected and ad...
Security; Governance Rule of Law & Human Rights; Infrastructure & Natural Resources; Education; Health; Agriculture & Rural Develo...
like an angel because she was so caring and helpful, and I couldnt get her, or nursing, out of my mind. I soon realized that nursi...
make solid points concerning all people such as indicating how easy, when watching television or the news, it is to "inwardly" ju...
we had a helper who came in during the day and a nurse at night. Both of them were kind, experienced and very caring, and I could ...
tradition, particularly the tension between the very powerful concept of and drive for individualism and the ideals of civic virtu...
In seven pages this paper examines why Japan became embroiled in the Second World War conflict and its failed effort....
In an essay consisting of twelve pages the process involved in becoming a New York City Police Department auxiliary police officer...
This 10 page paper looks at the way a project to install a computer system in a shop may be planned. The paper focuses ion the pla...