Reflection Of Americanah Reflection

Such a cold and freezing winter, people naked and willing to survive… “The men began to regain their senses, their locomotion, and their hope”(deVaca 24-25). Do these quotes remind you something? La Relacion is the representative of historical narrative (a genre of writings that converts history into a story-based form) of the first European account of adventures with Native American in 15th century written by Alvar Nunez Cabeza deVaca. The entire story is about building a good relationship between Spaniards and Native Americans. La Relacion itself emphasizes the characteristic of historical narrative story not only by stating author’s opinion

The values of the modern American society have changed drastically from how they were sixty years ago, in the 1950s. The values of today’s society consist of relationships (social), appearances (clothes), and items of possessions (technology).

When learning information about important facts, dates, and the influential people who made up U.S. history, I do not remember learning much of anything regarding the Irish, Chinese, or Japanese. Well, except for Pearl Harbor and the U.S. retaliating against Japan by dropping atomic bombs. I definitely learned that people from around the world immigrated by boat across vast amounts of ocean for a chance to thrive in the land of freedom called America. I learned that millions of people entered through Ellis Island in the late nineteenth century, looking upon the Statue of Liberty, in hopes of finding their right to life, liberty, and happiness. I learned that the majority of these people were stricken of their identities and provided new American names that were easier to pronounce. I did not however, learn about the great discrimination and hardship that these people suffered at the hands of white Americans. The major theme presented is labor discrimination, unequal and unfair pay, long hours, and harsh working and living environments in regards to the Mexican Americans, Chinese, and Japanese. Takaki (2008) paints a vivid picture of discrimination and suffering of the people known as the “others” living and working in the multicultural “melting pot” United States, in his book A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America.

"Writing with a Difference" in Chapter 1 of Mirror on America emphasizes on getting started in writing (14). Writing is a big task for many of us and starting to write is probably the hardest part. They explain a few methods in order to get moving and start writing, such as brainstorming, which includes doing outlines and clustering or webbing. These methods can help us put our thoughts together and narrow down topics giving us an advantage when writing. "Considering Purpose, Audience, and Attitude" are very important concepts to consider before beginning a paper (16). They break the paper into steps explaining and giving examples of each: hooking the reader, identifying a thesis, supporting the thesis, organizing the content,

Kurt Vonnegut suggests that “Americans are forever reaching for love in forms it never takes, in places it can never be. It must have something to do with the vanished frontier.” Vonnegut’s quote conveys that Americans strive for goals, such as love, too far-fetched to be reached. Or simply, people want to have bigger and better things, but they’re not taking the right steps to achieve that. In addition, he expresses that Americans are separated by some barrier like social class, or “places it can never be,” since social class is an element that dictates one’s path to find love and success. Vonnegut also adds that it has “something to do with the vanished frontier,” with frontier meaning the land of America, which

I do not recall learning about reflective practice in my undergraduate studies. Reflective practice according to Barbour (2013), “is the cyclic process of internally examining and exploring an issue of concern, triggered by an experience, which creates and clarifies meaning in terms of self, existing knowledge, and experience; resulting in a changed conceptual perceptive and practice” (p. 7). According to Barbour (2013), reflective process has many positive outcomes to help guide the nurse to become an expert nurse that can make on the spot decisions that do not interrupt patient care. I feel that reflective practice would have been beneficial to help guide me from a student nurse to a practicing nurse with critical thinking skills.

2. The author’s main purpose in writing this book is to present some lies or myths that some people might believe concerning Christianity, and show them the truth of what the Bible says about those topics.

First she tells the story of a Nigerian woman who is completely misunderstood in America. Her college roommate knew nothing of what life in Nigeria was actually like. Adichie uses this story to show not only the naivety of her roommate, but also her roommate’s difficulty fathoming that Adichie was not so different from herself. Her roommate was shocked with the reality of Nigerian culture. This story is also a fundamental part of where Adichie establishes her credibility with her situated ethos.

This semester I learned a lot about writing in English 151. It has been a roller coaster ride with these essays for me this semester. I learned step by step how to write a good essay and how to have your readers be engaged in what you’re trying to tell them. Each essay I did has taught me something valuable I can take to the next level of English. I feel as if as the semester went by I did not take my writing that seriously and that reflected in my grades I received in each essay. It made me a better student and writer and it will reflect next semester. In this essay, I will reflect on what I learned throughout this semester that you should apply in your writing when you begin English 151.

As Ifemelu struggled to assimilate her new environment, she became self aware of the cultural collision that surrounded her. “Ifemelu could not sleep, her mind too alert to the newness of things…”(Adichie, 2014, p.130). She was eager to unravel America and acquire a sense of belonging. Ifemelu attends the library in search to comprehend the American culture (Adichie, 2014, p.166). Moreover, she traveled using the subway trains from Brooklyn to Manhattan in hopes of gasping her surrounding (Adichie, 2014, p.145). In autumn, Ifemelu went to college and was confronted with Cristina Tomas at the registration office. Cristina spoke to Ifemelu as if she “had…some sort of illness that made her speak slowly” (Adichie, 2014, p.163). After this

America the beautiful. With its spacious skies and amber waves of grain. From one shining sea to another lies this relatively adolescent country. An “unestablished” land until very recently, the United States of America was adopted and cultured like one of Brangelina’s children. In crept the “American Dream”, laced with its fierce politics and even fiercer religious perspectives, simultaneously providing its citizens the fire and passion that drives all, if not many cultures. And, with such a rapid development of diversity in such a short amount of time, there arose a particular cohesiveness amongst families that surpassed all its rivals. Memories of sporting events, movie dates, and trips to Disneyland released charges of dopamine

This reflection piece is based on my two months in English Composition Two class. It is a semester that has felt like a roller coaster ride because I had many up and down moments regarding my physical health, which impacted negatively on my academic life. In the following paragraphs, I intend to reflect on the eight weeks of school that I experienced at Concordia College in Alabama. I will also write about my assignments that were given to me in the eight weeks of school and the new words that I learnt when we did a vocabulary exercise in class.

I hope you are having a great weekend. In my paper, I am writing about how and why society changes what we do. I am looking at it from a psychological and sociological point of view, so I will have one or two more sources. I was wondering if I need to summarize the additional sources besides the ones in Mirror in America?

As we begin to wrap up this semester, I reflect on all the learning and achievements I have obtained thus far in the program. Throughout this semester, my communication and relational capacity has grown, driving me to break out of my comfort shell. At the beginning of this year I had wrote a letter to myself, outlining three goals that I wanted to achieve. The three goals were: work with a palliative client, become more assertive, and to integrate family care into my practice. I began the semester off in acute care, on the medical floor. During the second part of the semester, I was assigned to be in the first group of students to start the Trail Outreach Nursing. My new placement has created a new goal of increasing my communication

Aside from issues on racism, which is what is most discussed within the novel Americanah, Adichie focuses a lot on love and marriage in this novel and how it is viewed through the eyes of both men and female, and how each gender in particular react to these certain societal expectations. Throughout Americanah,Adichie the writer holds up a mirror for both men and women in today’s society to view themselves. Ifemelu, Bartholomew, Aisha, Obinze, Ranyinudo, etc, these people are symbols and representations of us and real problems not only immigrants but women face within America.