Cholas and Culture

In the case of ELLs their culture and identity are considered constraining factors with respect to academic challenges, but scholars feel that these are due to non-recognition of native cultural dynamics (Gay, 2000; Ladson-Billings, 1995). However, if these aspects are utilized it can contribute to a better learning experience in terms of language and other academic areas. The native cultural background and its linkage has the capacity to motivate and ignite interest in ELLs and it can provide the platform which would facilitate learning new skills and academic content. Research has also shown that measures to improve language skills of ELLs often neglect the interconnected dimensions of the culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) student biography. In particular, understanding the sociocultural, linguistic, academic, and cognitive dimensions of ELLs is helpful for educators in order to attain higher standards of language proficiency and academic success (Perez and Holmes 2010). For instance, a teacher reflects on her personal experience in these words:

Notably, McCurry’s neat and predictable photographs of India, taken over the course of 40 years, are more popular than Singh’s more realistic, chaotic and exciting images. Cole argues that this popularity is because of McCurry’s portrayal of places and people due to orientalism, based on conventional preconceptions of historical India. They are our colorful fantasies of old India realized on glossy

In the majority of stories we read, authors use literary elements such as setting, plot, or point of view, to try and illustrate their ideas and views, such as political views. In our short story unit, we have read many stories whose authors each define culture using different literary elements like the aforementioned ones. In “Saint Chola”, K. Kvashay-Boyle uses literary elements such as symbols, character, setting, and language, to develop cultural ideas about not only one culture, but three different cultures. She develops ideas about Muslims, Americans, and the sub-culture of junior high students in America. While developing ideas about these three cultures, Boyle also

Momaday's book collapses conventional divides between myth and history: by fusing the two he suggests that the conventional white conception of history as an enclosed and protected category is inherently suspect, and without speaking of politics makes a claim for other, equally valuable ways of knowing. However, in this sense his method of storytelling is political, because he suggests that the Indian ways of interpreting experience are just as valid as

Culture is a big part in today’s society. Everyone is worried about the culture, as they follow it to avoid being judged by others. In the memoir, tuesdays with Morrie, by Mitch Albom, culture plays an important part in the story. The way Peter, Mitch’s brother, and Morrie, Mitch’s college professor, act when faced with disease or even death in Morrie’s case. Culture looks down on how Morrie reacts to his “life sentence”, as Morrie should not be happy, excited, and so open with everything. On the other hand, Peter is more culturally accepted, but not fully accepted, as he separates himself from his family and friends during his illness. The way our judgmental culture negatively affects society and how one acts is shown through this

Applebee, Arthur N. “Gandhi's - Civil Disobedience.” The Language of Literature, McDougal Littell, Evanston, IL, 2000, pp. 377–377.

Chola rulers allowed considerable autonomy to their subjects and the towns and villages of Southern India largely organized their own affairs

Kim gives a vivid picture of the complexities in India under British rule. It shows the life of the bazaar mystics, of the natives, of the British military. There is a great deal of action and movement, for Kipling's vast canvas painted in full detail. The dialogue in the novel makes use of Indian phrases translated by the author, they give the flavor of native speech in India. They are also touches of the native behavior and shrewdness.

When Ondaatje first references Ceylon in cartographical terms, the “glances” and “theories” used to describe the first impressions of explorers establishes a sense of uncertainty in their interpretations (45). The author describes these images as “false maps”, and observes that the “shapes differ so much they seem to be translations” (45). The inaccuracy implied by the word “false” and the reconstruction connoted by “translations” suggests that the explorers who created the maps conceived them in bits and pieces, never quite grasping a clear and unbiased image of Ceylon due to their own subjective point of view. Even the title of the chapter itself, “Tabula Asiae” (45), serves to reinforce the idea that

Gandhi was an Indian nationalist leader who was born in India and was the son of the chief minister in western India.

Gandhi’s first hand experiences in dealing with discrimination began in South Africa. In Chapter VII ‘Some Experiences,’ Gandhi recalls on his first days of his arrival the incident at the Durban court

My name is Sai Janaki, and as part of my purpose, I will encourage, support, teach, help, guide, and love the people in my life. I believe that challenge makes you a better person. I always strive to be the best version of myself, and achieve my goals through dedication, diligent work, confidence, and patience.

Curare, or Chondrodendron Tomentosum, is a plant extract from Central and South America. The extract serves as a poison that has traditionally been used by South American indigenous peoples to aid in hunting efforts. By dipping arrows in poison, the hunter could then hunt for food by slowly poisoning it’s prey through asphyxiation. Intuitively, eating a poisoned animal would be unwise, but the toxins in the Curare do not remain in the body. White Europeans took note of this unique property, and in the 1940s modern science had transformed this lethal poison into an effective anesthesia and muscle relaxant (Betcher 1977). Since then, pharmaceutical companies in the United States have patented and made massive profits from Curare while the indigenous

India was administrative regulated by British for practically a century, with independence from Britain not expanded up until comparatively lately in August 1947. British colonization had an amount of momentous influences on the district, and many of which had permanent legacies on the nation’s economic and social positions. Though some of these effects were helpful and positive for India, many rooted in British imperial benefits being prioritized over domestic benefits, which led to an uneven pattern of expansion and feeble central administration. We will explore legacies of British colonialism in India, and concludes that a century of foreign control may have done more harm than good for the country’s development.

Mahatma Gandhi Mohandas Gandhi, known as Mahatma Gandhi. Also known as Mahatma the great soul, was the "father of modern India". He originally came from Western India, a city called Porbandar. He was born on 2nd October 1869. Gandhi was on of the youngest of the three sons of Karamchand Gandhi, who was a Prime Minister successively in Porbandar, Rajkot and Vankaner States.