Ida Scudder 's Childhood Years

Overall The Absolutely true diary of a part Time indian strongly reinforces the concept of survival through many techniques and quotes. The many situations that the narrator finds himself in have an enormous effect

Just the thought of going to India someday changed Howard Thurman. Looking for a new day of transformation of society but, staying true to himself and what he believed would be difficult. He stood for American Christianity, the Religion of Jesus for all people and were not sure how a foreign country would receive him. The decision for the journey to India was made after much discussion with his wife Sue and Winifred Wygall, a good friend who was a national YWCA secretary. His mindset was preparing him for what would one day be a change of traditional Christianity, social and racial inequality. The journey to India affected Thurman’s view of minorities fighting for their civil rights. It even changed his vocal together with his writings on political topics, as well as, becoming the roadway of African American Christian Nonviolence. The way he remodels these issues in public revealed this action.

This book depicts the national and cultural status of the immigrant mother, who is able to preserve the traditions of her Indian heritage that connect her to her homeland. Ensuring a successful future for her American-born children is coordinated with the privilege of being an American citizen. Ashima yearns for her homeland and her family that she left behind when

     This collection of stories and the autobiographical account of her school days at White's Manual Institute in Wabash, Indiana, and later at Earlham College provide insight into the struggle of Indian peoples in the early twentieth century to protect their heritage while developing a modern Indian identity.

“Mansi, your grandfather was very religious, but he also knew that India is not the same now that it was when his father was a priest,” Dad thought very carefully as he spoke. “He had to admit that no matter how hard I worked, it would be difficult to raise you and your brother here if we wanted secure futures for

A person has always been able to choose to what extent their cultural experiences affect their perspective. Amy Tan’s, “Two Kinds,” Bharati Mukherjee’s, “Two Ways to Belong in America,” and Robert Lake’s, “An Indian Father’s Plea,” all show how the main characters have chosen to let their experiences have an effect on their cultural identity. A person’s cultural experiences shape perception based on their own identifications and they may chose to assimilate to different cultures.

During the Reconstruction era, her father was active in the Freedman’s Aid Society and helped open the Shaw University. This is where Ida received her early schooling. Unfortunately, both of her parents and one sibling died due to a yellow fever outbreak and Ida was forced to drop out at the age of 16 and care for her siblings.

What conversion meant for missionaries and Native Americans often differed. Thus the reasons for converting varied as well. Within the Memoir of Catharine Brown, A Christian Indian of the Cherokee Nation, Rufus Anderson A.M. presents the life of the first Indian convert through the eyes of a devout government missionary.(Anderson) Conversely, the documents Camilla Townsend includes in her book American Indian History: A Documentary Reader “Gandeaktena’s Decision to Become a Christian” and “A Jesuit’s Story of the 1639 Smallpox Epidemic” present the theory of linked phenomena which influenced religious missionaries’ and Native Americans’ approach to conversion.(Townsend 50-54) As Townsend articulates in her introduction of Gandeaktena’s story

She explains her thesis by stating “Others who write stories of migration often talk of arrival at a new place as a loss of communal memory and the erosion of an original culture. I want to talk of arrival as a gain,” (360). The key points of the text include Mukherjee describing her transition between Calcutta and the United States, and what it means to be and American and how culture influences that aspect. The information in the text is significant; the people of America are a part of a melting pot, sometimes it is hard for them to find the distinction between American culture and their own. The information in Mukherjee’s story is clear and specific, unbiased, and is relevant to the purpose of the story. I believe Mukherjee has achieved her purpose of informing her audience about cultural differences; she presents certain strengths and weaknesses within the text.

Young Ida was born on November 5th ,1857, in a small Pennsylvania town. Soon after she was born, her mother, Esther Ann, and her father, Franklin Summer Tarbell, decided to move to Titusville, another small Pennsylvania town to the West. The town was a new center of oil production in the 1860’s, and Franklin wanted to start working in the industry. There in Titusville, he built the family a home where new oil fields were being developed nearby. He first used his skills to build wooden storage tanks, but later went on to become an oil producer and refiner. His business, along with many others like him, was negatively impacted by a price-fixing scheme put forth by the Pennsylvania Railroad and John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil Company in 1872. As a result, many small business owners- Ida’s father included- struggled to keep their businesses afloat.

“Holy Cow, An Indian Adventure,” by Sarah MacDonald, is a book written describing Sarah’s experience living in India. She goes through many tough times and endures life changing experiences that eventually make her the person she is meant to be. In this book Sarah relates India to western perspective several times. India and the United States do have similarities, India and the United States both are run by a Democracy, they both have very strong cast systems; both have their own “Hollywood” films, and both places have many religions mixed within.

Hank’s physician assistant Divya Katdare, is of Indian decent, who’s parents to do not approve of her working in the medical field. Instead, her family sticks to the traditional Indian cultural roles of arranged marriage, which eventually falls apart and becomes shunned by her parents for a time for not obeying their wishes. In this instance, we can see the cultural values of the United States beginning to shine through. Freedom to choose and marry whomever a person wants is a cultural norm and something that is prided upon by Americans. As a culture, we tend to look down on cultural traditions where individuals are forced into arranged marriages. This also goes along with stereotypical views of Indian culture. If their children do not obey the parents, they suffer from being shunned by their

Sindelar suggests that there is a phenomenon known as the Split-Feather Syndrome, in which “social, psychological, and emotional disabilities — among expatriated Indian people, i.e., those who were placed and raised in non-Indian homes” (2004). The Split-Feather Syndrome may be due to the extremities in culture difference between Indian and other cultures. For instance, the ideologies of child-rearing, family bonding,

On Sunday, February 21, Billy and I joined Arjun's father in his trip to the Hindu temple in Orlando—we had to wake up earlier than usual for a Sunday but it was for good cause. We arrived at the temple in Orlando just before 10AM for a prayer service that was difficult to

Which induces comfort among immigrants, other selections display this in a more subtle and intricate manner. The two pieces, "The Treatment of Bibi Haldar" and "The Third and Final Continent" both compare and contrast the role marriage plays within the Indian and American communities by observing a transnational couple and a young woman in India who longs to be married.