Essays on Borderlands

Gloria Anzaldúa’s Borderland: La Frontera is a semi-real-life work that comprises text and poems that detail the indiscernible borders that are between Latinas and non-Latinas, males and females, heterosexuals and homosexuals, and various other contrasting crowds. Anzaldúa expounds that her manner of writing involves picking out images from her personality’s judgment, spinning forth the correct words to reconstruct the images (Anzaldua, 96). She asserted that reimaging of certainty in one’s mindfulness is significant because nothing transpires in the actual world lest it first takes place in the images in one’s heads (109). This ...

Summary of immigrant communities

Summary of Immigrant Communities

The tale of immigration in the US started before the founding of the country and it persist today. In the past decade, there have been continuing efforts to change the immigration system to make certain it meets the needs of the state. Owen et al., notes that when it comes to workforce replenishment, immigrants are essential; unlike Native American who are aging rapidly; when the immigrants come to the United States they mostly in their productive years, thus providing essential blend to the workforce. In essence, the new generations of immigrants are expected to pay ...

The main idea of Gloria Anzaldúa's Borderlands/La Frontera, and Arturo Schomburg's "The Negro Digs Up His Past", is the same – to ensure colored people that they are not worse than the whites and that they should be proud of their ancestors. Both authors wanted to say that the black people and Mexican-Americans should know their history and get empowered by it. Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa told the story of people who lived in a specific geographical area – on the border of the United States and Mexico. There local people were pressured by the Americans and treated by them ...

Abstract

In the pre-colonial era and shortly after the colonial period, border crossing by communities was a common phenomenon and occurrence. The realization of indigenous communities of the presence of an immigrant community amongst them did not come as a shocker to the natives. These immigrant communities moved from one place to another for different reasons. There were those who crossed these borders in search of better lifestyles. There were those who had also been displaced by war activities and, therefore, had to cross these boundaries in search of peaceful settlements. Still, there were those who moved from one boundary to the ...

English

English being the Global Language English is considered as a global language by many people since it has dominated not only the international business, but has invaded media, politics, and culture across the globe. English is considered as the universal language since every person in the entire human history can speak it. It is spoken not only on television by politicians and others from various countries. Even travel signs and advertisements mostly written in English. When I was only 12 years old, I went to United Kingdom to study English since it is not my native language. Coming ...

Amy Tan’s “Two Kinds” is a passionate recollection of her experience growing up in America to immigrant parents whose cultural values and beliefs are at conflict with her own. Tan explores her rebellious childhood under an overwhelming mother who appears to have planned the entire future for her daughter without even taking her opinion into account. Like many immigrants to America, Tan’s mother believes America to be the home dreams where everyone can achieve anything they want. This is depicted in the first line of the essay; “my mother believed you could be anything you wanted in America” ( ...

IT-Game designs and development:

“Borderlands 2” “Borderlands 2” is an action RPG first-person shooter, developed by Gearbox Software and published by 2K Games on September 18 of 2012. It is the second game of the Borderlands series and also the sequel of the Borderlands (2009). This game has a financial success, being sold as for more than 8.5 million copies. “Borderlands 2” was well-met by critics, giving 89 score by Metacritic. The other reviews were high enough: 9/10 by IGN; 4.5/5 by GameSpy and 90/10 by PC Gamer. When DLC for this game was released there were two more playable additional characters (in ...

The Issue of Illegal Immigration of Mexicans to the United States (US) Vis-à-vis Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza by Gloria Anzaldua

Introduction

In contemporary times, many view borders between nations as simply political divisions on territorial definitions. In that sense, it is natural for nations to have borders defining their natural territories because of the fact that governments of each nation are entitled to know the extent to which their sovereignty lies. However, beyond the formal impressions projected by maps, globes and atlases lay very divisive controversies between borders. Historically defined, borders have become subjects of multiple disputes between ...

Introduction

In the late 1960s, around the year 1968 and 1969, university students ganged up into coalitions that consequently came to bear the name Third World Liberation Front (TWLF). These coalitions were made of the African American, Asian American, Chicano and the Native American students who were enrolled in the several universities and colleges in America. These universities and colleges included San Francisco State College and University of California, which is found in Berkeley. The TWLF coalitions organized and led national student strikes, pushing for the establishment of Third World Colleges. Majority of these students were culprits of racism. In ...