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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"First Generation American"”.
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The House that Grief Built
… author and her relatives. Through the eyes of a first-generation American (on her mother’s side) and the daughter of a Greek Orthodox priest, the author utilizes imagery of nature and domesticity as she pursues independence and explores the metaphoric bridges that connect dreams and reality, …
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Otherness and Assimilation: The Poetry of Double-consciousness in the Works of Charles Simic, Marilyn Chin, and Susan Atefat-Peckham
… of these three poets writes in English in an American setting but has a different heritage. Simic is a native Yugoslavian (Serbia) who fled Europe during WWII. Chin arrived in the U.S. from Hong Kong as a child, and Atefat-Peckham is a first-generation American raised by Iranian parents. Each …
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Versions of America: Reading American Literature for Identity and Difference
My paper examines how American authors of the South Asian Diaspora (Indian-American or South Asian American) can be read 1) as simply American and 2) without regard to ethnicity. I develop this argument using American authors Jhumpa Lahiri, a first generation American of Bengali-Indian descent, and …
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Year of the Snake
… My personal journey as a young and fearful, first-generation 22-year-old living, abroad for the first time, draws parallels between the struggle to attain the American dream with the struggle of living in Vietnam's impoverished, communist world. My intent is to illuminate all that is both …
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Year of the Snake
… My personal journey as a young and fearful, first-generation 22-year-old living, abroad for the first time, draws parallels between the struggle to attain the American dream with the struggle of living in Vietnam's impoverished, communist world. My intent is to illuminate all that is both …
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Non-Academic Factors that Predict Persistence of Non-Traditional Students Attending Community College in the Commonwealth of Virginia
… of Joliet<br />Junior College in 1901. The American Association of Community Colleges (AACC, 2010) reported that there are 1,173 community colleges in America, of which 987 are public institutions of higher learning. Additional statistics indicate that there are almost twelve million …