Matejko And Nirmala Acharya Analysis

The purpose of the assignment was to interview an “elder” member of society to gain valuable information and insight into an individual’s experiences and development, and how they pertain to biosocial, cognitive, and psychosocial development. I had the pleasure of interviewing a woman aged 68, who provided a glimpse of the wisdom she has gained over her lifetime as well as her daily interactions and age-related topics.

Albert Namatjira was born on the 28th of July 1902 in Hermannsburg (Ntaria), Northern Territory. In 1905, the family received into the Lutheran Church, this was the beginning of a transition. Albert was born as Elea, however later on his name was changed to Albert after being baptized. After being baptized, Albert’s father was given the name Jonathan and his mother was blessed with the name Emilie. During Albert’s school years, he attended Hermannsburg Mission School. He lived in an all boys’ dormitory away from his family. Growing up, Albert sketched many things. He mainly sketched all his surroundings, the landscape around him and in some cases he even made artefacts out of wood. During the Aboriginal expedition people became extremely attracted to his great landscapes due to his undeniable talent. The first time Albert left Mission School was at the age of thirteen for six months (what did he do??). After

For more than 300 years, immigrants from every corner of the globe have settled in America, creating the most diverse and heterogeneous nation on Earth. Though immigrants have given much to the country, their process of changing from their homeland to the new land has never been easy. To immigrate does not only mean to come and live in a country after leaving your own country, but it also means to deal with many new and unfamiliar situations, social backgrounds, cultures, and mainly with the acquisition and master of a new language. This often causes mixed emotions, frustration, awkward feelings, and other conflicts. In Richard Rodriguez’s essay “Aria: Memoir of a Bilingual Childhood”, the author

Frequently, we do not put too much attention to our own cultural values and traditions until we are exposed to a different culture, and start comparing. In order to have a more productive and fruitful life I believe we need to become more self-aware and more sensitive to the culturally and ethnically diverse community we live in. Two cultures that have been sharing the same living space for centuries are the Hispanic and American culture. In this paper I would be analyzing each culture giving a brief background and pointing out some aspects in how they differ, like the perception of time, family, orientation, and others. American culture has a couple of aspects in which it differs from the Hispanic culture, which for the

Joan Smetana is an eighty-four year old, four foot ten, Catholic-German woman. She is sister to Mary-Ann Koenig wife to the late-Robert Smetana, and mother to Therese and Mary. She has five grandchildren, one of them in me. I love my grandmother, or as I call her: “Nana.” She is one of those woman that everyone loves, whether you know her or not; however, those who are closest to her, her family, tend to love her more from a distance, but love her none the less. She is literally the center of her family, as her house is in between the homes of her two daughters, otherwise known as my backyard and two streets over from my Aunt Mary. Eighteen years of growing up, knowing she was watching out her window for any sign of trouble and having

Part III: theme analyses of Farewell to Manzanar 1)Title-Farewell to Manzanar, published in 1973, was written by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James D. Houston. It is a classic memoir of the life and struggles of a young Japanese internee and her family at Manzanar during World War Two. The title, "Farewell to Manzanar," automatically sets a theme of grief, sadness, and loss. The significance of the title throughout the book, is that Jeanne is forced to say "farewell" to her father, friends, and previous lifestyle atone point in time. During the time she lived at Manzanar, she had become a different person with a different perspective on life. Once she had left Manzanar, she had realized that her life there was the only life she knew how to

The "Public and Private Language", by Richard Rodriguez and "Mother Tongue", by Amy Tan are great examples of how two immigrant families can have their similarities and differences. For a long time, the American people have looked at immigrants through their own eyes and perspectives. Never do people think to change gears and walk in the footsteps of a stranger. In this case, people need to look through the eyes of an immigrant and see that one immigrant family is not the same as the other. The different people may have connections with the same or different cultures, however, they have different obstacles and hardships with adjusting to a new way of living.

During our lives, serval blissful, traumatic, culture event that established the transformations during cognitive, social, physical, and characteristic changes in our lives from the time of birth through our death. A person’s existence is shaped and molded by the experiences that have set us physically and mentality. The interview conducted for this project for an understanding of, Mrs. Candi Jones, is a mother, daughter, and sister. She was the middle child of in a physically disable household where father and sister hearing-impaired; a mother who is deaf. They are a mixture of a sibling through birth, adoption, and foster. During the interview with Ms. Jones, she discusses experienced numerous events in her life that play a major influenced

Her eyes are a twinkling, light brown color and her dark, gorgeous hair was tied up, out of her face. She’s slim and has a straight posture. Many smiles were filled up on her young face, “I never really talk about myself.” I could hear the sound of the nervousness in her voice, she appeared to slightly stutter, but other than that she seemed thrilled. Aldina was born in Bosnia in the year of 1987. She had arrived in America at a very young age with life in a different perspective than her peers, throughout

Dr. Cieslicka is from Poland, and both of her both parents are Polish. Her grandmother comes from Georgia, which is currently, the Russian Republic. Dr. Cieslicka came to Laredo in 2009 to teach at TAMIU; furthermore, she teaches at TAMIU, she is an academician, a researcher, and the director of the MS in Psychology program at TAMIU. Dr. Cieslicka’s Polish family roles are very contemporary, and both partners work due to the difficult financial situation in the country. Both salaries are needed to survive). Dr. Cieslicka’s role is that she is her parent’s daughter, and her parents are both retired doctors. She supports them; therefore, Dr. Cieslicka only family in the United States is her cats. Dr. Cieslicka is the mother of several cats, and they are all gorgeous and unique.

I have chosen “Mother Tongue” for the subject of my essay. I chose this essay because Amy Tan has a unique writing style which has tone that is clear and identifiable. Tan makes her arguments in a way that is easily understood. While her tone is sometimes humorous and captivating, it still clarifies some serious issues. These qualities among others leave Tan’s work to be desired by almost any reader because her tone and style are both genuine and upfront. This essay will talk about how Tan’s work in her essay “Mother Tongue” uses several different styles and tones to make her point of regarding the differences of her communications with her

Anzaldua strongly emphasize how identity is interlaced with the way we talk and for the ways in which people can be made to feel ashamed of their own tongues. She had always struggled with her identity. She tells us about her experience in her school, “I remember being caught speaking Spanish at recess, that was good for three licks on the knuckles”. She describes a moment where she is sent into a corner for trying to pronounce her name to the teacher, the teacher told her “If you want to be American, speak American. If you don’t like it, go back to Mexico where you belong” (Anzalduas 34). In other words she is describing her experience how she was treated by her teacher and the society for not speaking English. The teacher showing racism

As part of the course requirements, I had the privilege to interview four individuals, who belong to the age group of above sixty years. The interview was structured to identify the issues that they face, the most disturbing issues that they encounter and the comfort factor that they have.

Assessing and planning care of the elderly is important in enabling the older adult to have the best quality of life in their later years. Understanding their views on living day to day with what they hold dear, will help in planning care for the older person. In this paper, I will interview an older adult and describe various details as well as cultural relations surrounding my interviewed individual. I will perform functional assessments using the Tinetti, Katz, Home Safety, and Barthel tools, which will be included in the Appendix. I will compare any age-related changes and identify more than six preliminary issues that need to be addressed. Lastly, I will propose more than three alterations and

“The best classroom is at the feet of an elderly person,” said by a famous American radio and television writer, Andy Rooney. Elderly has so much to teach the younger generation because they have been through an array of events in life that are worth sharing and knowing. The purpose of the study is to understand the experience of aging and late adulthood by using case study method through interview and informal interaction with an older adult. Given the circumstance of long distance, Skype is used to conduct the interview and informal interaction. Mary, is a vibrant and healthy Chinese elderly woman who turned 75 last summer. She is an atheist who has lived in Hong Kong for her entire life and would be classified as middle class lifestyle. She is widowed and lives alone but she has four children and eight grandchildren. Since she is active, healthy and independent, the “young-old” would be the best term to describe Mary according to gerontologists (Berger, 2014, p.675).