Collectivism In Fine Dead Girls

In collectivist cultures, emphasis is on group success and individual ambitions are generally set aside for the attainment of group goals. Firoozeh’s Iranian culture is principle collectivistic. She shows examples of this quality through the closeness of her family such as shared meals by her aunt, financial support between family members, an uncle that cohabitates with her family, and encouragement of cousins toward success.

The parents have played a very important role in Daniels life. They brought him up always showing him what's wrong and what's right, what choices to make, and who to trust. Being a parent means that you should always be in control of your children for as long as possible. Daniel was said to be the type that needed guidance even though he came across as a strong and independent. His mother knew this, but even she was scared of what he was capable of. When times got rough the parents backed off and let him make his own choices. That wasn’t the best move to make. The parents might have shown love and affection to Daniel but they truly couldn’t see what was going on. If only they had paid enough attention to Daniel maybe they could witness how badly he was coming off the rails. They could of helped him. Helped him to make the right choices.

     Some say that people never change. They may be right, but no one really knows. What people do know is that every living person has one thing in common, something that will never change. Everyone will die, there’s no way around it. Every “new” and “old” generation will succumb to the same ghastly fate. The differences in the “old” generation and “new” generation sometimes collide in life. The contrast between generations in James Joyce’s “The Dead” is similar to the contrast in the generations today. The “baby boomer” generation is the old fashioned generation preoccupied with hospitality and tradition, where as, “generation x” is the new generation, preoccupied with knowledge and intellect.

We know from the first scene that Daniel Plainview is a man who does not give up in pursuit of something he wants. Even after breaking his leg, Daniel still saves a silver piece before crawling out of a mine and back to the place where he would cash in that silver piece. We know from the second scene that Daniel uses people, especially innocents such as children, to promote his agenda and for his own personal gain. He adopts a worker’s son after the man dies on the job at Daniel’s small drilling company so he can be perceived as a benevolent family-man while meeting with potential investors as well as making business deals. I believe that Daniel Plainview has some degree of Antisocial

In the novel The Dead, Gabriel Conroy, who is the nephew of Julia and Kate Morkan, is the main character of the story. One night he and his wife attended a party, which was given by his two aunts, and there were many other members in the party. The story revolves around their life and memories.Gabriel Conroy felt a blur between his soul and the dead. Some people died, but they are still alive because they have true love. Some people are alive, but they are still dead because they never love.I like the story for three reasons.

According to Edgar Allan Poe’s “Single Effect Theory”, “the short story writer should deliberately subordinate everything in the storycharacters, incidents, style, and toneto [the] brining out of a single, preconceived effect” (qtd. in Reuben). In other words, all elements within a short story have to come together to create tone. One such story is the “The Dead”, an exceptional conclusion to James Joyce Dubliners (1914) that is a collection of short stories that consist of natural depictions of middle class Irish men and women in the early twentieth century. The primary focus of “The Dead” concerns not only dead people, but more specifically a dead generation and the living who behave as if they were dead already. Through artistic

O’Brien culminates The Things They Carried with “The Lives of the Dead,” which includes a story about a girl named Linda that is at first seemingly unrelated to the overall plot. O’Brien discusses the story of Linda, a girl who he fell in love with in elementary school who succumbed to cancer. He had a deep connection with her, and found himself relishing sleep so he could dream endlessly about Linda. O’Brien then connects this story to those revolving the occurrences of Vietnam. He reveals yet another purpose of telling war stories: not to simply show readers what war in Vietnam was like, but to “revive…that which is absolute and unchanging” (O’Brien 224). Telling war stories serves as a way of “making the dead seem not quite so dead” (O’Brien

An individual will inevitably relate a personal understanding to a historical event or to a cultural situation. When I travel to my father’s village in Greece, I often find things that people do strange. Although I have been to many Western and Southern European countries, including other places in Greece, I still find the beliefs and customs in my father’s village strange. This is because through the sociological imagination I have come to accept certain types of behavior as normal. In my father’s village, greetings amongst close family friends are always formal.

He commands her to take her pants off, and when she doesn’t, he silently threatens her and their son’s lives. She begs him to stop as he begins to speed on the rain slick road and details the vehicle’s defects. He is vindicated when Phyllis apologizes for not being good enough for him because he and his family are “[...] all such big deals of suffering” (Doctorow 59). He doesn’t stop, though because even though his suspicions have been confirmed, that isn’t really what he desires at that moment: he wants to frighten her, to control her. Daniel goes on to humiliate his wife in the privacy of Susan’s car, her nakedness blurred by the rain that streaks the windows, their son sleeping soundly in the back seat. He brands her ass with the cigarette lighter, with no apologies or explicit regret, he simply changes the subject. He further abuses Phyllis when he involves their infant son, with whom he obviously has no emotional connection, frequently referring to baby Paul as an “it”. While on a walk through Riverside park, Daniel tosses the baby up in the air, continuing to do so even after baby Paul’s laughs turn into cries. He revels in the look of “absolute dumb dread” on his son’s “Isaacson face” as he ignores Phyllis’ pleas for him to stop his madness. Once again,he doesn’t stop because he “enjoyed the moment it left [his] hands and hated the moment it returned

I can understand why he is so outraged with him. Daniel is naturally a psychopath and constantly mocks and insults his son because Daniel lacks sympathy with others. Daniel feels betrayed that Harvard is the closest thing that he knows as a family and that Daniel only knows how to be an asshole to everyone. You have to understand that Daniel is in fact a psychopath,he is manipulative,lacks remorse or shame,anti-social behavior and more. HW (Harvard) was adopted so he does not carry the "psychotic" gene or traits. If you noticed like in the beginning during the quail hunt scene. HW knew that Daniel was cheating the farmers from paying a fair price for the oil on their land and felt bad about it while Daniel did not. It's a good thing HW left his father because he only took the good parts from Daniel and refused to become the horrible monster that he really is. He knows that it is simply better to walk away than to fight him and simply start his own life better than Daniel ever could have.

Fundamental beliefs surrounding the very idea of culture separate the cross-cultural and sociocultural approach, which may seem to suggest incompatibility. Sociocultural psychological understanding of culture is that it employs a “mutually constitutive” or “cyclic model”. (Eom & Kim, 2014) The idea of culture in the sociocultural model is that culture influences people on a

Most people do not think their family has a culture. They associate culture with countries and ethnic groups. But the family for most people is just a group of family people who do what they always do. Directly and subtly, children are shaped by the family culture in which they are born. At the stage of growth, their assumptions about what is right or wrong, good and bad, reflect the beliefs, values, and traditions of the family culture. Most take their family manners for granted and bring into adulthood numerous attitudes and behaviors acquired in childhood. Even those who later reject all or part of the family culture often find that they are not totally free of their early influences. 1

A collectivist’s values and beliefs are consistent with and reflect those of the in-group. Moreover, a collectivist’s association with his or her in-groups may last a lifetime. In many collectivistic cultures, the primary value is harmony with others. Triandis observes that because group harmony is so highly valued, obedience to, and compliance with, in-group pressures is routine. One’s behavior is role based, and deviations from the prescribed role are discouraged and often negatively sanctioned. A person’s behavior is guided more by shame than by personal guilt. A collectivist who stands out from the group disrupts the harmony and may be punished. Most collectivistic cultures value social reciprocity, obligation, dependence, and obedience. But by far, the primary value stressed by many collectivistic cultures is harmony.

A country’s national culture dictates almost everything that is done on a daily basis within that specific country. Everything from the way people eat, the way they speak and the holidays they celebrate are all dictated by these established beliefs and traditions. Culture can be described as “the characteristic way of behaving and believing, that a group of people have developed over time and share in common” (Tarique). This can be easily

Every culture has a set of cultural patterns, and it is possible for that culture to not be conscious of their patterns. Cultural patterns are a set of values, beliefs, and norms practiced in one’s culture (Lustig & Koester, 2013.) An example of a cultural pattern is having individualism or collectivism. In a collectivistic society, there is a level of dependency on a group. One is affiliated with a group and they all care for each other, physically and mentally. These groups are tight-knit and there is a strong sense of loyalty (Harms, 2007.) A collectivism culture is where it would be common for extended family members living under one room. For example, if a culture had grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins living together. However, in an individualistic culture, members tend to think and act independently.