This part of family guy is showing Peter at an asian man’s dry cleaning store and his experience in which there are many stereotypes about asians being brought up in this part. I chose the clip just because as an asian man I find it quite funny the way that they represent this Asian man in the society, specifically with the name of the dry cleaning place. They are representing the typical dry cleaner store and the way that asians run the store, from the name of it to his form of english. What I found noteworthy about this interpretation is how most of comedy is based on something that is making fun out of sensitive subjects, as Family Guy is a show that almost all Americans have encountered and is extremely famous for it’s dark and edgy humor.
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How to Tame a Wild Tongue Assignment
In the essay “How to Tame a Wild Tongue”, Gloria Anzaldua in her subsection “Overcome the Tradition of Silence”, she introduces the issues coinciding with how people are silenced through language. Without being able to express our own opinions we have many problems in society with not being able to approve upon the problems we have. Ideas from certain people would be shut down simply because of their authority in society that they may be unable to control. This is rather evident in our own experiences and we have all been shut down at least once in our lives due to the American educational system.
When we are kids, and throughout our schooling, we are always taught to listen to the higher authority and not to question the decision making of the adults that are telling us a direction. Maybe it is to stop talking at lunch, or to walk in a certain way to get to your next class. Although we are unaware, this is a method that we are being taught that in certain scenarios, we should stop expressing ourselves in our own individual way. When we are taught to listen to any adult that is giving us direction, we are taught that our opinions as kids are less than them and our thoughts are less important than them.
In my life, I specifically deal with this mainly due to the limitations of my age. My parents do not believe many of the ideas I express, whether it is reasoned by their relations to the evidence I tell them on certain topics, or if it is due to their ideas on a certain topic because of their previous experiences. Many believe that due to the longer life experiences of the eldest, that they are the wisest, and this is the idea that we are taught to stand by in school and even in our own households. Are we just supposed to blindly follow the older generation’s ideas because their ideas worked twenty years before we were born? There would be no generation of customs, ideas, art, even math. If the founding fathers did not question the ideas being brought about by the English kingdom, America would not stand today as an individual country. Our experiences in modern day society should not be silenced due to the stereotypes brought upon the “rank” of our language or dialect or any background for that matter, and rather should be open to discussion so we can make the world push further towards creating new culture and ideas.
Daniel Glavan Introduction
Hi I am Daniel, I live on Long Island but I was born in South Korea. At Baruch College I am planning on studying Actuarial Science. I have the typical two parent two child household in which my mother is a teacher, my dad a custodian, and my sister and I work in the restaurant industry. We need to get our money somehow to be able to go through college. Throughout my life I had done a lot of different extracurriculars that have made me who I am today. Starting the summer before Kindergarten I remember my first piano lesson on an upright piano my parents were lucky enough to find on Ebay for two hundred dollars starting my career as a musician. I have been playing piano ever since and have joined the band and the jazz band at my high school. Throughout my life like many other kids in music, I have gone through the treacherous levels of NYSSMA trying to make your parents happy while you spend countless hours practicing your one piece of classical music, scales, and sight reading. This is just one part of me though. Although I do not exactly look the part, I love sports. I spend too many hours watching Soccer, Football, and Basketball, but I tell my parents maybe I’ll be doing sports analytics one day so maybe this is important for me to be watching. During high school, I played basketball and soccer in which our Soccer Team won the country championship in my senior season. Although it is sad to say goodbye to that part of my athletic career, I plan to pursue powerlifting in the winter. With my genetics, my squat is extremely strong, but we do not talk about the deadlift. Academically I have always been interested in mathematics and philosophy, weird combo right? I have loved the definite answers of mathematics and mainly just because it is interesting to learn the different methods we can solve problems in the world as mathematics is in all aspects of everyday life. With philosophy I have been interested in the ambiguity of the answers about how we look at life in which we do not have the answers to everything. This picture is of my mom and I before prom. The most important thing in my life I believe is family, and that is why I treat the time I have with my parents very important.
Daniel Glavan The First Day
In the short story, The First Day, Edward P. Jones demonstrates that mothers are willing to fight for their kid’s success through the eyes of a young girl starting Kindergarten using imagery and dialogue. Jones describes as they are making their way to the first school that she sees “none of” her friends “as my mother and I walk”, compared to her description that “Walker-Jones is a larger, newer school and I immediately like it because of that” (1). His use of sensory imagery through the girl’s eyesight proves what the girl wants: the social life and the new school. With her mother, she wants her into the smaller school. She was worried about her quality of education as her mother says “If I’da wanted her someplace else, I’da took her there” (1). Through this dialogue we better relate to the story through the dialect as this creates an image of a mother from New Jersey just wanting a better education for her daughter. This short story most importantly demonstrates our lack of appreciation as kids of our parents actions as Jones states “I learned to be ashamed of my mother” (1) in the first sentence.