Assessment 2: Digger J. Jones Close Reading. Jackie Miller-

The moral message apparent in this coming-of-age novel questions each of the teenage boys, who in various ways show us what it's like to grow up in rural Australia if you are smart or poor or of a different race. This moral message makes me question the past of the Australia I have came to

As an economically disadvantaged, minority student who ventured out of a small, closed-minded town, I have developed a passion to serve the underserved. Throughout my life, I have been associated with and witnessed the consequences of being a minority. For example, with 1% of my high school identifying

Naturally, the narrator feels the pressure of being a minority. At first, he wants to be like everyone else, to be a part of white society. Then, he realizes that such society is not what he imagines it to be. As a result, he wants to reconnect with his family, this time appreciating them as his own. Nevertheless, the narrator is afraid of what his father

The group voiced its concerns in a positive, yet proud, way. It celebrated one another’s personal experiences in a non-elitist manner. The members of the group endeavored to show people around the world that their identity considerations and associations do not score their experience of repression. They emphasized that the oppression they underwent is no more than an experience or even more significant compared to the one of any sideline

The harsh perspective allows the readers to comprehend the immensity of racism and brutality suffered during this time. Although Smasher dies during the brutal massacre of the Aborigines, the massacre itself symbolises his dominating, violent philosophy. If the characters were all as optimistic as some of the other characters such as Blackwood, readers would get an inaccurate and bias description of the events that Kate Grenville recounts in the novel. Smasher’s character is significant because he represents an honest portrayal of the ignorant, cruel and discriminating mindset of many settlers in post-colonial Australia. He challenges the values of many other characters in the text, and in many cases, our own values as readers.

In the United States early history, Native Americans, Africans and Europeans were marginalized by White People, and categorized as the minorities because they were seen as the inferior race. For nearly three centuries, the criteria for membership in these groups were similar, comprising a person's appearance, their social circle (how they lived), and their known non-White ancestry. History played a major part, as persons with known slave ancestors were assumed to be African (or, in later usage, black), regardless of whether they also had European ancestry. Most often these minorities face significant discrimination in various forms whether through voting, law policy, unequal pay, or even implicit racism, minorities of all kinds have been and still are being put down today. The book Between the World and Me is a letter to Ta-Nehisi Coates’s fifteen-year-old son, Samori. He weaves his personal, historical, and intellectual development into his ruminations on how to live in a black body in America. Not only does Coates give his personal experience in how he experience in first hand discrimination, racism, marginalization but he also gives vivid images on how he lived multiple worlds and how those experiences changed him. In “How to Tame a Wild Tongue”, Gloria Anzaldua exposes her feelings about social and cultural difficulties that Mexican immigrants face when being raised in the United States. She establishes comparisons among English, Spanish and their variations on how

An important reason of why studying Australian Narratives is important because it teaches us about Aboriginal People’s beliefs. For example, this can be seen when Sadie and Walter have a conversation with to Aunt Lily and through Waa the Crow, “A man and a crow at the same time,’ said Walter. ‘A messenger from Waa, the Crow. A spirit shaped like a man. A man with a bleeding arm.’ Late in the novel, Sadie is told by Aunt Lily to find the clever man’s things but it was very important NOT to open it. Constable shows us that Aboriginal beliefs are important and are to be respected. Therefore, through studying Crow Country, we are able to know new, important reasons about Aboriginal’s beliefs and spirituality.

America has always been labeled the “melting pot” and the “land of the free,” but when one is analyzing the history and social norms of the country, these statements are far from true. America has thrived through the oppression of minority groups and social pressure towards these groups to conform to the majority culture. In any historical sense, from the near extermination of Native Americans to the racial profiling of Muslim individuals after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, minority groups have always been the victims and have always been viewed as different if they do not assimilate into the “typical” American culture. Numerous works of literature have successfully displayed the struggles that minorities face when attempting to conform. Two works in particular, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Alexie Sherman and When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka, tell stories of two different minority groups: Native Americans living in the 21st century and Japanese-Americans during World War II. While these stories are separated by several decades, it is clear that American culture has not changed, as each story exemplifies how difficult it truly is to leave old cultural norms behind in order to be accepted by the majority.

The lines between right and wrong are blurred. Huge questions about society are raised that students, like myself, can ask themselves. Minorities face injustices, and genocides are happening every day around the world, even today. If every high school student read the memoir Night, then they could be prepared to end similar injustices and prevent another catastrophic event, like the Holocaust, from happening in our world again.

The central idea of this article is about the unfair treatment people are facing because of intersectionality. Such as Nicole, her grades are suffering, shes always late to class,etc. As The teachers dont dig deep into why she is late and her grades are suffering. They believe because she is a female African she is not doing well in her classes. What they dont know is that her socioeconomic status is low, and she has to take care of her two younger siblings.

To create an emotional response from the audience to inspire them to take action, both authors point out the feeling of oppression

In the texts and videos the authors and directors explore the idea of accepting others by providing evidence of discrimination and the negative impact of it when there are riots, beatings and segregation.

Often in today’s society people become “invisible” due to their race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, religion, or social class. They are often shunned away or discriminated against because of these factors. The spirit of this book is defined by the will to overcome personal tragedy and social injustices.

What happened to those Aboriginal children in New South Wales who were taken away from their parents, either living on government reserves and stations, by government legislation, and put in the care of the whites. It is the story of the attempt to ‘breed out’ the Aboriginal race. It’s the story of stolen generation. How has the stolen generation effected the aboriginal and Torres Strait islands. All aspects of their lives are affected. Some enter a lifelong search for their parents, others never succeed as parents themselves and turn to substance abuse. Many feel they are living a life surrounded by ghosts- people they don’t know but

The literary works that have been read and discussed in this class expose the truth about power and marginalization in society. Through their characters and storylines, the works reveal that no person nor group is ever completely in power, the weak can influence the powerful, and that the physical or mental condition a person is in determines which group they are categorized into.