Outcast Analysis

Warren St. John’s ‘Outcasts United” is a story consisting of the difficult yet moving journey of Luma Mufleh. Luma was born in Amman, Jordan, and was full of brightness and potential. However, the environment of Amman was poor and didn’t provide enough education to create a successful future. Because her wealthy father, Hassan, had very high hopes of his daughter, him and his wife Sawsan decided to send her to the United Sates for college. After experiencing the amazing opportunities and freedom offered in the U.S, Luma decided to stay there, even if that meant being permanently cut off from her loving Jordanian family and the wealth that came along with them.

"Have you ever woken up late for something important, rushed to shower, swiftly brushed your teeth, hastily gotten dressed, and when you finally make your way to your car its out of gas? Then you quickly, but still abiding by the speed limit, drive to the gas station, grab some money out of your wallet, look up at the big, bold prices and then glance back at the money you grabbed and either you're overcome with joy or you grumble to yourself angrily and grab a few more dollars.

As a child Nate was expected to do adult chores. Nate was expected to plow in the fields from dawn to dusk at the early age of nine and was sawing with a cross cut saw by age twelve with his sister. He was treated very badly by his father who did not hesitate to beat him mercilessly if he wasn’t able to perform a task or was thought to be

Give and Take is a book written by Adam Grant to describe his view of economic drivers and motivations through the lens of his theory of Give and Take. Economics is the study of how people make choices under scarcity and the results of these choices for society and Mr. Grant asserts that success isn’t just achieved by those who take it; but the majority of success goes to individuals who are willing to look out for others at their potential detriment. According to Grant, the perception of givers are often taken advantage, his research indicates that givers make up a majority of those at the top of the success ladder, even though they are more likely to “sacrifice their own interests to benefit others. Give and Take compares to economic theories like scarcity, cost/benefit analysis, equilibrium, and opportunity costs. To better understand the principles of economics through the lens of Give and Take, one must understand the concepts of Grant’s Give and Take as a description of day to day operations as they relate to well established economic theories.

In this lesson, it explained the different act that cause people to pay taxes. In High School, we learned about the Sugar act, Stamp act and Boston Tea Party. The Sugar act was appoint by Georgie the third. The act required people to pay taxes on sugar and other item. I find it hard to believe people had to pay taxes on sugar, I guess sugar was very valuable in that time period. The Sugar act was created to pay for the Quartering Act of 1765. People who fail to pay their taxes had to go to sugar court. In 1765, the British government passed another law that increase the taxes on the colonies. The American people were furious about this. So, the people form a group cause The Son of Liberty. The Son of Liberty boycott against items from England.

The general store offered a huge variety of merchandise that people normally couldn’t get. Whether it was something they couldn’t make, or something that didn’t come from around the town (Hays, “The General Store”, 2012), it was always interesting to people to see just what the general store had. They would get things like medicines, candies, smoking tobacco, and even toiletries like soaps. After a busy week of working on the farm, the mom would pack lunch, and the dad and kids would get ready to head to the general store. They didn’t only go to get what they needed for the week, but they also went because it was a special occasion! The kids would walk in and see toys and candies and all sorts of things that, if they were lucky, they might walk out with. Candy was a delicacy, and though it didn’t really cost a lot, it wasn’t a necessity, thus normally overlooked by the parents. As the mom and the dad would walk around, of course they would see some things that they wanted. Like how the father might want some new tools or the mother would look at glassware (Iowa Pathways, “The General

In Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, society warrants alienation and isolation to remain a constant underlying effect of social conformity. Alienation is the “withdrawing or separation of a person or a person’s affections from an object or position of former attachment” (“Alienation”). The motif of alienation is shown throughout the novel in the characterization of the main characters, the relationships of the characters, and the consequences of the choices made by the characters.

The world is in a constant state of change. There is no moment on Earth that is stagnant, and America is no exception. Even in the small recesses of the United States, a change is rolling in and sweeping little towns into a whirlwind of activity. One such town is explored in Outcasts United by Warren St. John. The residents of the “sleepy” town of Clarkston, Georgia, a town that has become a hub of cultural diversity thanks to refugee resettlement programs, live in a state of liminality that eventually allows xenophobia and contempt to flourish amongst its citizens. This is primarily because the “old” Clarkston residents fear the change and differences that their refugee counterparts bring with them in their search for a safe place to call

Julian was a college graduate who wants to be a writer after college. He is taking his mother to her appointment at the YMCA. Julian's mother reminisced about how “Your great-grandfather had a plantation and two hundred slaves.” (O’Connor 2) Julian's mother dislikes blacks however she loves black children, whenever she sees a child she would hand them a nickel for whatever they want to do with it. The bus stops and a black woman and her young son step on. They ride for a bit but at the end of the stop Julian's mom has no nickel so she offers the boy a penny, in which the boys mom claimed

Logan, Alison and Ava are sitting at the table. The children were pretending that they are the owner of a grocery store. They used the pretend money to buy or to sell products. In the grocery store there are many different kinds of products on the table. For example, "Food", "Hats", "Books", "Drinks". Each product has a label with the name and its price. The children started to pretend to be the businessman. By using the pretend money to buy or to sell products. “I want to be the cashier” says Alison. “But I want to be the cashier too” says Ava. L.W says, “Me too!”. Then, they had a conversation and decided to let Alison to be the cashier first, and they will be the customers. They all have a turn to sell products. Logan and Ava are using the pretend money to buy the foods. “I want to buy this chips. How much is it?” says Ava. Alison looks at the price tag and point at it, she says ”It is $3.” Ava takes out a paper bill. She says ”Okay, Here is $5.” Then, Alison looks at her hand and says, “Here is your change. Have a nice day.”

I personally believe that some writers are focused in studying minority because there are different cultures and races. Also, the minority older populations have grown in size and in proportion to the dominant older population. This will continue to growth in the future. By a normal growth it will be significant to study aging of altogether populations. Minority people often have lower incomes, poorer health, shorter lives, than other older people, the studying the growing minority populations it can lead to more programs and a better quality of life. Also we learn something about the minority groups because they show us many ways of growing old. They keep and pass on many of the traditions of their cultures and add to the richness of American

Once upon a time there lived an elf: Chu Chu. Chu Chu worked with his mother, father, and younger brother on a truck, “The Toy Truck” where they would sell toys. When the Christmas season would be near, in November and December, Chu Chu and his family would work for Santa Claus. Working for Santa Claus just during the Christmas season was not enough and they needed to earn more money to make it through the rest of the year. In that case Chu Chu made and important decision, to buy “The Toy Truck” in where he became the main worker and handled the business finances, allowing him to continue making and selling toys.

Hyde calls ours a traditional gift economy. It is deliberately impersonal but the whole purpose of the gift economy is to strengthen relationships. But for Hyde gifts are both material and immaterial- for example a gift for music etc . He talks of the transformative gift where a teacher or a mentor can change the direction of a student's life . As opposed to that beneficial giving he contrasts that with The Church of Scientology which distorts giving until it becomes an ugly arm of exploitation. Negative reciprocity is an act in return to a negative act so overall in simpler terms no one is winning but their could be a lesson learned through this process. The gift is punishment some advantages of this is an individual learning lesson but

Insurgencies strive to escalate friction between different groups in a society and attempts to recruit support from any group that shares common elements with their organization. These groups may be aligned along religious, racial, social, or ethnic lines. Traditions and language similarities can also be a reason for alignment amongst these terroristic groups. To be successful against insurgents in a particular area and to avoid alienating the public, counterinsurgents must understand the local environment. This includes local social and national issues that effect the local environment. They must also understand if these groups have extreme devotion or significant hatred towards a particular group, the enemy is typically willing to die

We as humans tend to relate to those that are similar to us, and tend to alienate those that we deem as different than us. Whether it is by race, gender, culture, or religion, it is something that is almost always present in human interactions, and often times can be completely subconscious. In our textbook Interpersonal Communication by Kory Floyd, an ingroup is defined as “A group of people with whom one identifies.” An outgroup is conversely defined as “A group of people whom one does not identify.” Henri Tajfel first coined this terminology while he was working to devise his social identity theory. These ideas of classifying people into ingroups and outgroups can lead to many