Mitali Perkins is a Young Adult and Children’s novel author who has made a name for herself writing highly popular and critically acclaimed novels, which address several contemporary themes. Mitali Perkins was born Mitale Bose in Kolkata India to a Bengali father before she moved to the United States where she spent most of her childhood. However, the United States and India were not the only country she lived in, as by the time she was eleven she had lived in over five countries. Some of the countries that she lived in include Mexico, London, Cameroon, Ghana, and India, before the family settled in California. Given that she moved so much in her childhood, she knows about multiculturalism and identity issues, as she often was the new kid in …show more content…
Berkeley where she studied public policy and then political science at Stanford. After college, she went on to teach middle school, high school, and college before she began writing fiction. Unsurprisingly her fiction was about strong multicultural protagonists looking to promote justice or bridge different cultures. She has written over ten novels for young readers most of which have been published by Macmillan Children’s Books, Little Brown, Candlewick, Charlesbridge, and Penguin Random House. Besides writing, she loves to attend conferences to discuss themes such as the life changing power of storytelling, and books between cultures. She also teaches at the Saint Mary’s College of California as an Adjunct Professor. When she is not writing she has been pursuing her lifelong passion of traveling across the globe and the US, which have taken her to Newton, Southern California, Thailand, India, and Bangladesh. She is currently living in San Francisco Bay area with her husband who is a Presbyterian Church minister. During her free time, she loves to hike the Bay Area trails with her two Labrador retrievers, browse the bookstores and libraries in town, play tennis, and write on her …show more content…
Sameera Sparrow Righton a girl adopted by American political parents represents the feelings of being different felt by immigrants. Issues of how American one is crop up even as one can become American and still love their roots. The author asserts that the pressure is particularly higher and akin to racism, particularly when one is deemed a foreigner. However, the novels do offer narratives that are intended to provide advice on what to do in instances of high pressure. For instance, Sammy starts a blog to connect with her friends during the campaign period that makes for a good outlet for the high emotion. The novels also assert that multicultural person will often lead double or even triple lives that conform to what society expects of them. Such a scenario is clear in the life of Sammy who lives as Sameera a Pakistani girl that will never fit in, as Sammy the sophisticated and bubbly all American teenager to the American media, and as good willed and kind hearted teenage girl to her parents. In the end, the argument is that a person will find happiness when they decide to become themselves and accept that their personality and culture incorporates their multicultural
Kathleen Orr, popularly known as Kathy Orr is a meteorologist for the Fox 29 Weather Authority team on WTXF in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She was born on October 19, 1965 and grew up in Westckave, Geddes, New York with her family. The information about her parents and her siblings are still unknown. As per bio obtained online, Kathy Orr is also an author. She has written a number of books like Seductive Deceiver, The drifter's revenge and many others. She graduated in Public Communications from S. I. Newhouse which is affiliated to Syracuse University.
Success in high school requires years of hard work and dedication to excellence. During her four years at Holy Trinity, Yasmeen Ettrick has proved herself to be a successful, and dedicated member of the Holy Trinity community. Yasmeen Ettrick
Sandra Benitez, birth name Sandy Ables, was born in Washington D.C. March 26, 1941. Due to her father’s job as a diplomat, she lived most of her childhood in Mexico and El Salvador. During Benitez teenage years, she lived with her family in the United States where she assimilated into American culture. In 1979 she decided to leave her job and began to attend a creative writing class. “Her first novel, a murder mystery set in Missouri, was never published. She brought the novel to a writer’s conference, where she was told it was terrible”. (“About”, Benitez) This led her to become the person she is now and focus on writing of her Latina heritage. In 1993 Benitez had published her first novel, A Place Where the Sea Remembers, where she received the Minnesota Book Award and the Barnes and Noble Discover Award.
Rachel Dein is a London Based artist, who studied Fine Arts at Middlesex University . She is most famously known for her tiles made of cement and plaster featuring molds of flowers. She currently runs and owns the Tactile Studio in North London to support herself and her three children. Before setting up her own studio, but after going to art school, she decided to take up an apprenticeship at The Royal Opera House and later branched out to other theaters to continue her prop making career including The English National Opera, The West End Theaters, London Transport Museum and Selfridges Christmas windows. Her time in prop making allowed her to explore her love of theatre, film, and opera while expanding her knowledge of 3d design. She also enjoys gardening, which is where she has gotten some of the materials for her craft.
Mary Bryant was in the group of the first convicts (and the only female convict) to ever escape from the Australian shores. Mary escaped from a penal colony which often is a remote place to escape from and is a place for prisoners to be separated. The fact that Bryant escaped from Australia suggests that she was a very courageous person, this was a trait most convicts seemed to loose once they were sentenced to transportation. This made her unique using the convicts.
Sammy's immaturity and lack of experience were largely to blame for his wrestling with conflicting roles in his transition from child to adult. Updike's protagonist was at the same time an imaginative, observant young man who stood by his convictions, defending the girls to the end. Sammy was perhaps more intelligent and more gutsy than one would like to give him credit for, however. He knew what he did not want out of life. On that Thursday afternoon in the A & P, his name game caught up with him. Quitting his job was to be a turning point for him, a time for him to confront his own issues of sexuality, social class, stereotyping, responsibility, and, on a deeper leve, authority.
Sammy’s decision in the end to break away from the conformity that is in the A&P to establish himself is a raw truthful decision. He has chosen to follow his heart which Updike shows is what every person should do. This story is great for readers of all ages, because Sammy could be any person in modern contemporary society who is struggling to find themselves in a world dominated by conformity, rules, and standards of norms. Updike’s story is a powerful message to seek individualism. Although sometimes the road to self-identity is not known the journey getting there is worth all the while.
Lahiri, a second-generation immigrant, endures the difficulty of living in the middle of her hyphenated label “Indian-American”, whereas she will never fully feel Indian nor fully American, her identity is the combination of her attributes, everything in between.
As we grow up one of the most important things we wish to discover is who we are as a person. Thus our understanding of our identity is vital in order to find our place in the world and is emphasised significantly in or modern culture. However trying to discover your sense of self can be a difficult time for any adolescence. Yet it can become even more complicated and stressful when you have to compete with drastically different cultural expectations. This is apparent in the children born to Asian Migrants in Australia; Author Alice Pung makes this abundantly clear in her memoir Unpolished Gem. This essay will explore how Pung has incorporated her struggle not only for own identity, but the strain of having to juggle the cultural expectations of her Asian family that she was raised with and the Australian culture she must live in, into her story.
Sammy begins to notice how different the girls are since they are walking around the store in just bathing suits and begins to talk about his manager Mr. Lengel and coworker that’s working beside him Stokesie. Saying how Mr. Lengel hides in his office. Which some can incur that Sammy doesn’t want to have that life where he’s hiding who he is as a person. Next, he goes and mentions Stokesie, who is married and has two kids already at the age of twenty-two. To him it seems neither of the men seems happy. Just off my observation of Sammy, he likes the idea of being an individual rather, than being the same as everyone else who just come and go every day with not much to change to their day. Sammy begins to realize that, he doesn’t want to be stuck in the grocery business for the rest of the life. Finally, when Sammy see’s Mr. Lengel ridicule the girls for dressing in just bathing suits. After that situation Sammy takes it upon himself to try and stand up for the girls against his boss, seeing that he was their unsung hero. In which after he does that, he quits his job. Making a big decision like shows a lot of growth and dedication. Instead of just standing like a Stokesie was, he takes a stand. After that Sammy leaves the store and sees the girls are not there waiting to see him but instead sees just a mother and her kids that are crying. Sammy begins to see how the world is and that even good deeds can go
A child of mixed parentage will seek to identify with both parents’ cultures, but undoubtedly finds it easier to understand the culture that they are consistently immersed in. Holly struggled with her cultural, racial, and ethnic identity for some time before becoming comfortable with the designations she now gives. However, she would still like to cultivate some stronger ethnic ties to her Indian culture in the
Jennifer Hurley is a published author and an editor of children's books and young adult books. She has eighteen books where she explains the subject of the topic is about just like the book Racism. Hurley has written all her books though Opposing Viewpoints which is a series of books on current issues of a specific subject. The author has wrote many books like American Values, Woman’s Rights, The Rights of Animals, making me feel confident that she ...
Faye Carey is a 16 year old girl that has managed to re-home more than 60 dogs. News Hub says that ¨She wants to have a career in animal control.¨ ¨She has made a Facebook page called Animal Re-Home Waikato.¨ Says News Hub. Her Facebook page has nearly 300 likes and a loyal following of new parents. (Of animals). News Hub also said that ¨With Faye being there, when an animal comes into the shelter or animal control, the animal goes right into a new loving home. ¨
As the student develops his essay, Sammy begins to compare the girls to other customers in the store. From “houseslaves in pin curlers” to “an old party in baggy gray pants” (2192 ), Sammy negatively characterizes customers in contrast to the leader of the girls, Queenie. To Sammy, the girl is someone that is not from their town. She is everything that every girl envies and wants to be. In contrast to Sammy, she will spend her summer vacationing while he spends it working. It is clear to Sammy that their worlds are different, however it is also obvious that he would like to explore hers.
For a long time, women’s potential in Science was little to none. However, over the years, it has now changed because of the outstanding breakthroughs and encouraging accomplishments women have done through the years. It is because of them, women’s potential in Science and other realms of studies has now evolved with more understandings and discoveries. It is for the reason of Maria Mitchell, one of the first female astronomers to be recognized in Science, that women’s potential were essentially respected. Her discoveries during her time as a student, a teacher, and an astronomer paved the way for many others, not just in Science, but also for woman’s rights and potential to be seen.