Cultural And Cultural Diversity In Hey Arnold

Television has a widespread influence on everyone, especially children. Children are impacted so much by the things they have seen and watched on TV. They learn many things from TV, but their social skills and other learning abilities slow down. Watching TV numbs the mind of children and keeps them inactive from daily exercise. Furthermore, speech delays can occur in children who watch excessive amounts of television. Television programming such as MTV, Adult Swim, and Family Guy exposes and promotes negative

Even after hanging out with a bunch of the American people, Arnold still feels attached to his own heritage. He loves his family and his best friend, Rowdy, and he feels that he needs to make amends with Rowdy. He was really scared that Rowdy would hate him and Junior would need to leave his old Indian self. Later he fixed his problems while playing "one-on-one (basketball) for hours..." (pg. 230) and they "didn't keep score" (pg. 230). Also, Junior cares about his family a lot. When two of them died in a row (his grandmother and sister), he didn't know what to do without them. He also thinks that Indians are forgiving of any kind of eccentricity (until the Americans came). "Gay people were seen as magical, too...Gay people could do anything. They were like Swiss army knives!" (pg. 155). He is pretty accepting of his heritage. He knows that he is Indian going to a white

Arnold has a positive and a negative personality. In some ways he is more negative than positive because of his circumstances. This includes living on the reservation and growing up in poverty. He is also negative when it comes to his physical appearance which includes his disability, speech problem, and his crooked glasses. All of this negativity impacts Arnold’s personality which leads him to be bullied and teased. All he see’s is death and destruction. This leads to the positive side of Arnold’s personality. He is positive when it comes to his cartoons because that is his way out of the reservation, and his ambition to make something better of his self. He surprised himself and everyone when he made the basketball team at Reardan because he is not in a very negative surrounding. When Arnold went to Reardan his personality became more positive and now he has a brighter outlook that leads to more friends.

Arnold Friend is a pedophile or in other words, a predator to Connie. He wants to take advantage of Connie and tries his best in order to do so. Not only does his actions opposite of the things in Connie’s fantasy world, but his looks as well. Arnold’s hair is “shaggy, shabby black hair that looked crazy as a wig” (208) which opposed to Connie’s blonde hair. Connie notices that Arnold dresses like the type of guys she usually likes with “tight faded jeans stuffed into black, scuffed boots, a belt that pulled his waist in…a white pullover shirt that was a little soiled…” (209) so at first she thinks that he fits into her own little world. The thing is that all of this is a way for Arnold to cover up his true self. The car Arnold pulls up in; however, is a mixture of both reality and fantasy. The new paint job goes along with Connie’s world in order for him to pull her in, while the model of the car though, is an old jalopy, lining up with Arnold. The color of the car is gold which can represent a way for Arnold to not only lure in Connie, but to attract other kids her age as well. Connie notices the words on the front fender of the jalopy, reading “MAN THE FLYING SAUCERS” and points out it was an “expression kids had used the year before, but didn’t use this year” (210). This shows another way that Arnold tries to fit in with the other

Furthermore, Arnold would not have been able to survive his freshman year at Reardan without the love from his close family and friends. With the compassion and support of his family (which includes his sister, grandmother, and parents), Eugene – and even Mr. P – Arnold was able to become successful during his first year of high school. Mr. P, Arnold’s previous geometry teacher at the Spokane reservation, does not want Arnold to lose all hope for his future and lose his chance to live a good life, so

Throughout the story Arnold's traits change, which makes him seem as though he is not who he says he is. When Arnold first arrives at Connie’s home, he acts as though they had met before. However, Connie repeatedly says, “Look, I don’t even know who you are” (654). Although Connie keeps saying this, Arnold continues to act like nothing's wrong. Later in the story he seems to break his previous character, and Connie notices. “He spoke in a simple lilting voice, exactly as if he were reciting the words to a song” (656). His mannerisms change here because he realizes Connie has figured out that something is off about him. He changes his mannerisms from being an eighteen year old friend to being an aggressive man. “She looks out to see Arnold Friend pause and then take a step toward the porch lurching. He almost fell. But, like a clever drunken man, he managed to catch his balance” (659). His illusion of being an eighteen year old drops here. Oates is able to use Arnold’s mannerisms as a symbol to contribute to the theme because he first acts one way, only to act another the next. First impressions are not always correct and they may not be as they

Arnold’s tribe judges him on his decision to go to a white school, and he reflects on their ridicule, his reflection was that he did not feel okay. After being asked how he felt, Arnold replied “No (Alexie,Pg.114),” Arnold was disappointed that so many people that he knew had turned against him, it felt like for him that he was alone in a fight against everyone. The white society judges Arnold as well, they ridicule him by calling him names such as Chief, Tonto, Squaw Boy, Sitting Bull, and Red-Skin, Arnold reflects on this ridicule, he was scared. Arnold meant that he actually feared for his life as he was not sure whether or not the bullies would beat him to death, bullying can go to any lengths, the bullying was becoming more serious, he was terrified. In conclusion, Arnold was judged by both, his tribe and the white society, and he reflected upon throughout many points in the

Arnold felt “half Indian” in one place and this always made him “fe[el] like a stranger”. In another place he felt like he was “half white” he felt as if he was too Indian for Reardan because “more than half” “graduat[ed]” and moved on to “college “ where as Arnold’s family hadn’t even “gone near a college”, he also felt too white for Wellpinit as he attended a white school in a white town. We see that he feels as if he belongs in neither place, thus will lead to Arnold self limiting, and stopping him from making the right decision and taking a step forward to his goals.Sherman Alexie shows us the affects in not belonging and proves to us the value of

The many trials that he faced helped him to grow as a person and to gain the respect of his peers and teachers. One of the major issues that Arnold faced was how to deal with racism from his fellow students. Arnold responded in the only way he knew possible, by punching it in the face, or at least by punching Roger, the boy who teased him, in the face. This caused him to gain the fear and respect of Roger who was one of the toughest boys in the school and all the other boys that were in Rogers gang. Another problem that Arnold encountered was having no friends at his new school.

In “Capturing the Friedmans” Friendmans is your typical middle class American family. Arnold was a well-respected music and computer teacher, married father of three sons, Jesse one of his three sons eventually inherited his father bad tendency. You can tell by their status, they have more to lose than your average American

The mass medium I have chosen to critique is a new television show called This Is Us and it airs on the NBC channel. This Is Us is a show about a family with triplets and they show how they handle all the different parts of their lives. This particular mass medium addresses many of the different current issues going on in today’s society including; race, diversity, education, religion, and politics. This Is Us addresses diversity in today’s society and portrays many different types of people within this one television show. To prove that this mass medium portrays diversity I will look into how this show illustrates race, different social stances, and different educational backgrounds both positively and negatively. Also, to better the credibility

Once Arnold arrives at his new school he finds it hard to fit in, because he is a Native American. The other kids treated him differently and so did the teachers. Arnold feared of being beaten up by the jocks. He says, “I was afraid those monsters were going to kill me, and I don’t mean kill as in metaphor. I mean kill as in beat me to

Similarly, each character also goes through the theme of assimilating to the dominant culture in different ways. Since Arnold went transferred to Reardan, he sees himself as becoming a white person. Even everyone on the Res calls him a traitor and an apple since he's "Red on the outside and white on the inside" (132). Everyone of the Res believes that only white people can succeed, so if you try to leave, your become white. He also didn't want to be known as the only Indian and poor kid so he tries to disguise his poverty. Unlike Arnold, Jamal assimilates to the most dominant culture in different ways compared to Arnold. At first, he doesn't tell any of his friends about his test scores to fit, but when he gets to his new school he's finally proves his best at his classes and at basketball. Before getting transferred, Jamal wasn't well in school but when he did get transferred he finally started doing well. He showed "Quite a bit of improvement" in his writing when he started going to his new school (Finding Forrester). Jamal has improved a lot when he actually started not caring about what other people would think and getting help from William. Comparatively, Jamal and Arnold both go through different events that show there shared their. They both didn't want people they cared

The view of POCs (People of Color) within mainstream media has always been strewed. From the roles of Flora Robson as a Haitian maid in Saratoga Trunk to Mickey Rooney as I. Y. Yunioshi, the view of POCs in American popular culture has always been warped to portray an often negative or demeaning stereotype that appeases the white audience of American pop culture. Although many races are negatively impacted by the conceptions of the white American public, the portrayal of Asian American stereotypes in television has especially given an illusion to the American public on what to assume when facing an Asian American. Even with the growth of the Asian American voice in television and the increase in representation through new shows such as “Fresh Off the Boat” and “Marco

‘ Hey Arnold!’ was one of my favorite Nickelodeon shows. Helga was secretly obsessed and hopelessly in love with Arnold. But, she flirted how I did when I was younger. ‘Hey, let’s be super mean to him because he’s super cute!’. Anyways, Helga would call him football head in the show’s entrance.