Analysis: The Horn Player

When Ruth, Beneatha, and Mama see Walter acting like this, they are shocked and are disappointed in how he is acting. Walter tries to cope with the current situation he is in, and he realizes that his family is by his side and that is what matters to him in that moment.

Living in a culture that is unfamiliar to one’s own can be both overwhelming and a challenging process regardless of what country you are from. The Western traditions, values, and social norms can be quite different than those from back home. Oftentimes, when individuals relocate from their homeland to a new and more developed nation, they carry their own background, life experiences, and traditions with them. For this reason, these factors shape how they perceive and adapt to their new surroundings. To be precise, individuals commonly experience what is known as “cultural shock”, which describes the stress, disorientation, and the feelings of confusion that arise when entering a strange or foreign culture.Therefore staying committed to ancient family traditions can be difficult, which may then turn cultural transition into an ongoing battle for many. In particular, this paper will be analyzing the film, the Split Horn, through a social anthropologist's perspective and with the help of the Holistic model of health, including alternative understanding methods to further examine what certain families go through.

The Split Horn, narrated by a young Shaman’s daughter, illustrates the journey of a Hmong Shaman; a healer and spiritual leader, Paja, and his family moving from their motherland, Laos, to Appleton, Wisconsin. Along with numerous difficulties they face trying to keep and practice their family's ancient traditions in an unfamiliar environment. His daughter, Chai Thao, gives us an insight into what the family goes through as several of her siblings completely lose correspondence with their family’s long-established customs. However, as Paja’s children embrace and grow to learn the American culture, including: computer games, TV and Christianity, his concerns and worries for his family’s integration also increases. As the leader of the group, Paja must attend to the needs of friends and family with elaborate rituals that connect the natural and spirit worlds together. With that being said, Paja Thao, spirals into depression because of both his family and because he is unable to perform his rituals and heal his people. Ultimately, towards the end of the movie, after several obstacles he had faced, with the help of one of his relatives who performed a ceremony for Paja and his wife, he is able to heal himself and continue performing his rituals on others which further helps restore his strength and reunite his family members. Therefore, the filmmaker's thesis is that families who relocate from their homeland to the Western culture experience various

As Loren Hall was traveling men tried to jump his claim but Walt wouldn’t let that happen. “He was only a boy, but in the face of the threatened injustice against old lame Loren Hall he felt that he must do something.”(London Paragraph 19). Walt was not going to let the men steal the claim and so Walt took the men's dogs and went to Dawson. On the way the men tried to kill him and get their dogs back but Walt knew how to outsmart them. “He struck at their faces, and men must save their faces with their hands. So there was not shooting just then. Before they could recover from the hot rain of blows, Walt reached out from his sled, catching their wheel-dog by the fore legs in mid spring, and throwing him heavily. This brought the whole team into a snarl, capsizing the sled and tangling his enemies up beautifully. “ (London paragraph 44). Walt knew to be a good friend and keep his promise he had to save the claim. In the end Walt saved a claim, learned how to outsmart grown men that tried to kill him and be crowned king of Mazy May,“And because of what Walt Masters did on this night, the men of the Yukon have become very proud of him, and always speak of him now as the King of Mazy May“ (London paragraph 48).

The venti, iced, nonfat, light ice, chai latte tumbles off of the counter and spills onto the man’s loafers. Naturally, I grab the mop and set up a recovery card for the man with chai all over his shoes. “I’m so sorry, sir! Please take this card and use it for a free item off the menu! We can pay for your shoes to be cleaned as well,” I apologized. The man scowled at me and then rolled his eyes. He growled, “I expect a fresh drink in my hand! What a pain! God, this is what happens when these high school dropouts start thinking they can do whatever job they want!”

On some level he knows he can't control others, and that learning fills his edginess. In "The Fly," Breaking Bad's most clearly ruminative scene, Walt miracles provided that he can uncover a way out of the profound mess he's in. “I truly believe there exists some combination of words,” he tells Jesse. “There must exist certain words in a certain specific order that would explain all of this. I just can’t ever seem to find them.” Walt imagines that provided that he can uncover a succession of expressions as flawlessly requested as the gem designs he uncovered in graduate school, he can legitimize all his movements to Skyler and repair his broken family — maybe much adjust the unalterable wrongs he has done. However Nietzsche's cautioning about dialect rings a bell again: expressions can't catch what we without a doubt feel, and we can't control how others will hear even the most.

The focus was the tavern in particular because there are five types: skid row, the downtown bar/lounge, drink and dine, club and neighborhood dive (102-103). The types of interactions that each of these locations presents is unique in its own way, for example the club is ideal for couples and attractive to women because of the location and aesthetics the location provides, unlike the club the skid row tavern is known for business exchanges among prostitutes and those that go solo to the bar. These locations present clientele that is specific to what that location provides to the social structure, the neighborhood dive will consist of typical regulars but the club has a regular crowd of strangers (105). The interaction can be further discussed by the concept of subordinate and superordination between waitresses and those that work in these places. The bartenders have the position of the top dog since they are the ones that are providing the liquor to the clientele, they chose how to make the drinks and in end the waitresses/waiters will have to deal with whatever the bartender chose to hand them in regards to service and honesty of the product

In chapter 5 Walter and his friend shocked the pasture by trying to lynch Richard. It shocked the pasture because he came from a town that lynching people was serious. When Walters laughed at him when he read, Walter had realized that he had a speech problem. On page 38 Walter’s uncle came to live in Harlem with Walter. All Walter knew was that his Uncle Lee has been in jail for a very long time. On page 38 the author explains that Uncle Lee talked outside of his mouth because “so the screws can’t see you talking” in other words, so the prison guards couldn’t see you talking. Also in chapter 5 Walter got caught reading comics under his desk, so Mrs. Conway (his teacher) gave him a book called “East o’ the sun and West o’ the moon” to read.

During the summer of 2015, Officer Onoja had an encounter with Mr. Young and other individuals drinking in a different alley (81:2-5, 14-15; 861611-13). When he approached the individuals, Mr. Young had a beer

​On Walt’s birthday, Walt’s brother-in-law Hank, a DEA agent, tells Walt of his most recent drug bust. Hank casually tells him they recovered seven hundred thousand dollars’ worth of drugs and money from the scene. The day after his diagnosis, Walter yells at his boss at the car wash for making him clean one of the student’s cars. The student takes a picture of his teacher cleaning

His pride of his superior intelligence towards Jesse makes him behave that certain way. The climax of his pride reaches when he says: “Say my name!” Walter’s wrath make him take revenge against Jack and his gang. Above all, his lust for money and power is what finally destroys his family. Walt’s posture of a cold-blooded, intelligent, but violent military man

Another scene in which the character of Walt deals with the prejudices of ageist yet

A former retired auto mechanic, Walt Kowalski (Clint Eastwood) is a disgruntled person, prejudiced against almost everyone and believes that society and himself have gone to hell. In his modern days, Walt was a Korean War veteran as a soldier. Throughout his time, he was with his longtime wife, but in the present, she passed away leaving him in despair. Instead, he spends all of his days sitting outside on his front porch with his elderly dog Daisy, chugging beer and a disgusted gaze across his troubled neighbourhood. Walt is like a security guard, protecting his own property. When someone steps in, his dander gets up and tersely commands through gritted teeth 'Get... off... my... lawn', symbolising that he doesn't want anybody lay a toe on

As opposed to the verbal message, the bartender was able to decipher the nonverbal messages being sent by the customer - the disturbed balance in his movement, his glassy eyes, smell of alcohol, sweat on his face, and the muddled speech. all these indicated to the bartender that this customer is drunk.

Clint Eastwood depicts a sense of transformation in protagonist Walt Kowalski from a racist tormented character to a compassionate father figure through characterisation. Protagonist, Walt is perceived as a tough, worn, old man who has had enough of the people around him. He is viewed as a stereotypical irritable old Korean war