The Importance Of Social Changes In Contemporary Culture

For Play assignment #1 I was fortunate enough to experience a play by the name of “Lydia”, by Octavio Solis at the Blkbox Theater on June 16th 2016. This play portrays a plethora of themes throughout its performance. Perhaps, the most important theme shown throughout this play is family relationships and secrets and it is shown multiple times throughout this play. Other themes like homophobia, sex and the “Perfect American Family” were all seen throughout this play as well. However, they all had one vital connection which was the importance of family and secrecy. During Act 1 the Flores family welcomes Lydia into their home. Lydia is an undocumented woman who is there to take care of their daughter Ceci who is immobilized due to a car accident

The play Distracted by Lisa Loomer talks about a 9 year old boy who has trouble learning in school. He screams at his parents and the teacher suspects the boy may have ADHD. The mom received some advice from her friends and the psychiatrist suggests Ritalin. The father, on the other hand,disagrees. There is a family conflict between the mom and dad. Then, in the other speaker series I attended was Immigrant nation. It is a documentary film directed by Esau Melendaz. Its primary focus was about an undocumented immigrant who was deported back to her country. She refused to go back and was forced to stay in an asylum or one year. As a result,she began the immigration reform movement. People of whom were from different cultures supported her. The third Speaker series, I attended, was Working for our political environment and Personal Health by Jill Stein. There, Dr. Stein pointed the dysfunctional ways of the political system. She advocated for proper attention for these problems such as: free education, healthy food and a pollution free environment. The final event was the Transformative Social Justice through Radical Science Fiction by Adrennie Brown. The speech was mainly about change that could be brought upon the world through sci-fi . She talked about, social, racial and sex justice. After listening to these events, it made me realize that it’s every individual responsibility to bring change to our community.

In America today, we are faced with several different minority groups arriving to the United States. The most common of all minority groups are the Hispanics. America is known for their language being English, but as the year's approach, that language has faded and a new face in English language has taken over, it's called Spanish. We as the people of America have become controversial over this major change, and due to that major bilingualism and political movements that have occurred from the government to the education departments. In this paper, I am going to talk about the four most common Hispanic groups in our country today and the political, social, linguistic, economic, religious, and familial conventions and/or statuses that they

The movie “El Norte “is the one of the most successful and influential movies to represent the immigrants state. Director Gregory Nava’s gives the story of Guatemalan siblings Rosa and Enrique’s journey in a melodramatic way. The movie is divided to three main parts, Guatemala, Mexico and United States. The story of Rosa and Enrique’s shows us community, the power of language and culture in different countries.

The Sound and the Fury, by William Faulkner, is an excellent representation of culture change in America during the 1920s. The interaction between the Black servants and their white employers portray a sense of the feeling that the South was going through because they knew that times were changing, aristocracy was slowly diminishing and Modernism was rapidly rising. One of the strongest characters in the novel is Dilsey, who narrates the last part of the novel. She is represented as a grandmother figure, a black servant to the Compson family. Dilsey was present when the Compson family rose to power and remains during their downward spiral. Dilsey also represents a deeper meaning for the novel, she represents the modern era which is

Stereotypes are the shackles that keep masses of people unable to be free in the world. One of the main themes illustrated through the play is the basis of stereotyping in America and how it has and continues to affect chicanos. Valdez’s definition of actos is “to inspire others to take social action”, the playwright successfully fulfils his definition through the dialogues and events he describes. The dehumanizing way that Valdez introduces all of the characters in the play solidifies the pressure they feel to assimilate and why many resist assimilation. In the play Los Vendidos by Luis Valdez, the author fulfills his own unique definition of actos in the play by showcasing some of the stereotypes and prejudices held against Mexican Americans to illustrate the real social standards that are placed upon them.

During the late sixties and early seventies, a Mexican - American movement was taking place in the United States, The Chicano movement. This movement takes place because of the Mexican American society 's suppression in the country. Indeed, during the years, 1966 to 1981 was a period where the Mexican American society was looking for equality and justice from the Government of the United States. In fact, they will start to organize their own communities, where the Government will accept their new ideas. David Montejano, “a historian and sociologist, and Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley,” wrote about that movement that helps the Mexican - American society being part of the United States. One of his books is Anglos and Mexicans in the Making of Texas, 1836-1986, where he describes the relation that the Anglo and the Mexican American people have in those years. In the same way, he wrote Quixote’s Soldiers: A local history of the Chicano Movement, 1966 - 1981, where he describes the Chicano movement as a way of helping the Mexican American community. By describing the Chicano Movement and the political changes made in San Antonio, Montejano relates the problems of equality and justice, the organization created at that time, and the consequences of this movement.

MAS 10B (also known as Mexican-American 10B) is a course that helps students’ become exposed to a different perspective by using a historical, cultural, and political approach within readings, discussions, and group work regarding about the ongoing Mexican struggle and how it affects us. The course examines this in a chronological order of the Mexican struggle with the capitalist in 1848 to the May Day 2006 marches. Overall, the course presented through a different perspective and provided us with tools to analyze each event, whether it would be the strike of the local-890 mill to the 1992 Los Angeles riots that all these events are linked to the present day and the impacts it has had for Mexicans.

For my third and final cultural event this semester, I attended the screening for the Mexican play, El Censo, which was shown during the Liberal Arts Symposium. The play is about a lower income family of tailors in the 1940’s who find themselves horrified and confused when confronted with having to respond to the Census, which largely relates to taxes which they have not paid and cannot afford to pay in the poor economic conditions. In many ways the issues which the play deals with, including modernization and people’s reactions as well as economic difficulty, are pertinent not only to every country in one way or another, but to every time period in one way or another. I will thus be comparing the situations and fears expressed in the play

Ernesto Quinonez 's novel is very influential and gives insight into the harsh reality of being a minority in America. Quinonez also speaks on the history of the Latino culture and the life experiences. The fabricated stories based on true events, affected Latinos as well as other nationalities. This book has served its purpose and is speaking to families, friends, wives, husbands, and children on being aware and conscious of the reality that surrounds them. This novel amazed me with the political and historical content surrounding the Latino community, and it is extremely powerful as it shows independence in its own culture. The novel uses its content to bring awareness of Latino ethnic identity, their way of life, and defines social factors from within. (Barajas 2014)

A cultural analysis is a combination of many elements. Cultures have traditions, customs, habits, beliefs, practices, and values. Each culture can have different traditions in their own essence. These traditions can come from their ancestors ' and passed down the generations. However, some people don’t like to continue their ancestors traditions and adapt others customs from another culture. The culture change depending on the time and place. The enrichment of cultures consists of adaptation and acceptance of another culture 's beliefs. Not all of the people can tolerate other cultures, traditions, languages or stereotypes. Cultures attack or support other cultural values The Mexican culture is hard-working and are strict in their values and traditions. The power and oppression of the cultures are current; social and economic conditions in the people in cultures. The Mexican culture has social and economic conditions oppressed by the power of its Government. In the play “Los Vendidos” Luis Valdez, talks about the multiple accent and background of Mexican people.

David Montejano in his book Quixote’s soldiers: A local history of the Chicano movement, 1966 - 1981, describe the Chicano movement as a way of helping the Mexican American community. The book is divided in three parts: “Part One: The Conflict Within, Part Two: Marching Together Separately, and Part Three After the Fury”. Each part talks specifically about how the movement transform the city of San Antonio and how it keep changing different cities today. It talks about the problems of degradation that the Mexican American society has, the inequality and injustice. At the same time, talks about the women and the youth and their develop in this movement by creating different organizations. Montejano with a clear interpretation of what the Chicano

The narrator before the play clarifies what the Theater Society of Aztlan is about. The narrator is costumed as the Aztec sun god in an Aztec elevated structure sanctuary. The range around the sun god was the old Aztec schedule. It demonstrates that the Aztlans have a decent learning about their past. They are pleased that they are from the territory that the Aztecs started from. The play

The pornification (or alternatively pornographication) of the social world has created lasting effects in the lives of people that they must deal with every day (Dines 1998, p. 164). Pornification is the process by which the social and cultural world is sexualised. This occurs through the expansion of media technology and the pornography industry, as well as changes in media regulations and restrictions which allow pornographic imagery to intrude into public spaces (Tyler 2011, p. 79). This essay will offer explanations for why the pornification of the social world is occurring, how the phenomenon differs from a freedom of expression issue and is instead considered a sociological issue, what consequences and harm arise from these explanations, and will offer social measures that can be adopted in order to deal with the issue. Pornification has occurred in almost every realm of the social world, including in its unaltered form on the Internet, social media, marketing, advertising, music, fashion, sport, and art. However, this expansion of easily accessible pornified content is a stark and confronting challenge for our social world.

It’s hard to say that comparing two individual’s lives is an easy task. When looking at my life and Esmerelda Santiago’s life, the sociological imagination could be used to assist in doing that. The following concepts will be used to better understand the surprising similarities and differences: immigration, doing gender, conformist, double consciousness, deviance and traditional authority. I will start by analyzing Esmerelda Santiago’s life. Following that, I will analyze my life and will finish with a conclusion that draws out the comparisons and differences of both.