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This paper explores the idea of culture and forming a cultural identity,as seen in David French's play "Leaving Home." According to the paper, French's work reflects the idea of traditional perspectives towards the significance of belonging. paper explores these issues. The paper includes a plot summary and character analysis.

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"The idea of culture - and, through a cultural identity, community - in David French's play Leaving Home reflects the idea of traditional perspectives towards the significance of belonging. The play focuses on the character of Jacob Mercer, a Newfoundland immigrant who has relocated his family to Canada, who forcibly imposes his native values upon his two sons; in response, his sons gradually become more distant as they integrate themselves into the new and more welcoming culture of Canada. In Leaving Home, Mercer presents his view of the clash between generations, where the children recognize the opportunity for change and are willing to..."

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This paper relates that the idea of culture, in David French's play "Leaving Home" reflects the idea of traditional perspectives towards the significance of belonging. The paper explains that French's play focuses on the character of Jacob Mercer, a Newfoundland immigrant who has relocated his family to Canada, who forcibly imposes his native values upon his two sons. The paper then examines how Mercer presents his view of the clash between generations, where the children recognize the opportunity for change and are willing to participate in it while the parent holds tight to the old ways.

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"The modern mainstream cultural landscape of Canada is one in which the concepts of shared values overcome cultural limitations (Angus, 21). Yet where Ben and Billy are indicative of the transformation within the mainstream, Jacob represents the fringe cultures; were the play written twenty years later, this would perhaps have been an ironic commentary on French's part, as Jacob is himself an immigrant into Canada and major resistance to the Canadian national project has come from immigrant communities (Chambers, 50). These fringe cultures are formed mainly from immigrants who have purposefully moved into limited geographic areas in order to preserve their cultural identity (Chambers, 50; Mackey, 71). "

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The paper discusses the creation of the group of people referred to as the Puritans and what led them to leave Britain for the New World. The paper goes into detail about the political, religious and economic factors behind their decision to leave their homes. It then discusses the Reformation in England and the reasons behind it.

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"For example, seventeenth century England certainly saw challenges to the sacred aura surrounding society, which began earlier when Henry VIII secularized many things besides the church's lands, wealth, and powers (Sommerville). If by secularization, one considers what it meant then, the separation of anything from its religious associations, then one must speak of a secularization of "space and time, language and art, play and work and power; of personal, social, and national identity, even of flags and military technology" (Sommerville). Thus, religion reasserted itself not as a new religious culture so much as a religious faith, a conscious reaction to the disenchantment of ordinary life (Sommerville)."

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This paper shows how children's literature portrays how it is essential for young adults to leave home in order to mature. It explores this theme in relation to books for very young children like "The Tale of Peter Rabbit" (Beatrix Potter), novels directed at male audiences like "The Tale of Huckleberry Finn" (Mark Twain), and literature aimed at female readers such as "The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle" (Avi).

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"The process of maturation in children's literature is often characterized by a character's departure from the family home. Frequently this change of environment acts as a catalyst for the character's growth. This is in part created because authors of children's literature often portray the family home as unstable, strict, and at times even abusive. Due to this fact, the protagonists must venture out on their own in order to find themselves as individuals and experience life to its fullest. This is true in many forms of children's literature, from picture books, such as Beatrix Potter's The Tale of Peter Rabbit, to novels written primarily for boys, like The Adventures of Huck Finn, and to those for girls, like The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle. Frequently the characters in literature for young adults need to explore outside the family home, which is often characterized as threatening and stifling, in order to begin the maturation process."

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The paper offers an analysis of Hemingway's short story "A Soldier's Home," that deals with a veteran returning to his boyhood home. The paper explains that this is a home he must struggle to leave when he discovers its values are empty and he no longer relates to family or friends.

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"Someone once said that war talk by those who have never been to war is dull. In other words those who have been through a war are totally changed and harmed in such a way that they can never share it with anyone who has not been to war. In a way this accurately characterizes the dilemma of Harold Krebs, the protagonist in Ernest Hemingway's short story of a man returning from combat."

Tags:God, religion, marriage, love, combat, war, small-town

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This paper is on the topic of domestic violence and why wives do not leave their husbands. Many women leave their abusive husbands temporarily, but nearly "three-quarters of women who left eventually returned home" Cultural beliefs form the reasons that women do not escape from the abusive situation, and economic realities are the products of those learned cultural beliefs.

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The transition of leaving home for young women can be frightening, especially if the person is leaving his or her own country to come to America. I would like to share my experiences that I had when I went through during the transition of leaving my country to come to America. I will share some advice for young women who are going through the transition process of leaving home whether it is to go to college, take a job, or to come to America.

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Young Women Can Be Successfully Independent What is it like to leave the security of home to become an independent young woman? What advice would I give to other young women who are about to leave home to go to college or to take a job? What advice would I give to other young women who immigrate to America? The transition of leaving home for young women can be frightening, especially if the person is leaving his or her own country to come to America. I would like to share my experiences that I had when I went through during the transition of leaving my country to come to America. I will share some advice for young women who are going through the transition process of leaving home whether

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Speaking of his homeland, India, Salman Rushdie once wrote, "if we look back, we must also do so in the knowledge - which gives rise to profound uncertainties - that our physical alienation from India almost inevitably means that we will not be capable of reclaiming precisely the thing that was lost; we will, in short, create fictions....imaginary homelands" (10). In essence, the past is an alien territory and our ancient homelands are world that exist only in the chambers of our mind; we cannot go home again. Over the next few pages, I will explore the idea of "Home" as something irretrievable by looking at works by Elie Wiesel, Janice Mirikitani, and Lan Samantha Chang; in each instance, the past is irretrievable and perhaps better off as irretrievable - though only Mirikitani seems to eagerly embrace discarding what was. Beyond that, one may say that it is foolhardy to live in the past because it gnaws away at the present and future; certainly, looking at the case of Wiesel in particular, it seems as though returning to the past brings him only sorrow while the embattled Chinese family in Chang's tale suffer because they find themselves in a world that wants them to discard the old one even as they cling to a homeland - a homeland of the mind - that is simply no longer in existence. When all is said and done, transformation is the one constant in life and that makes returning home a sheer impossibility - even if it is also true that "home" never really leaves your side.

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20587 Outline The outline of my final paper is actually quite simple: in his text, Imaginary Homelands, Salman Rushdie talks about how immigrants who leave one place to head to another place tend to construct an image of the place they left behind - an imaginary homeland that, for all intents and purposes, exists only in the mind. In this paper, I will use that as a theme to highlight how memories shape our current-day lives and can cause us pain and also hope for the future. To accomplish the aforementioned goal, I will discuss three works of literature - Elie Wiesel's, "The Watch," Janice Mirikitani's, "Breaking

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The paper discusses how a large number of immigrants or their children have few or no ties left with their birthplace, but have yet to find a "home" in the true sense of the word, in America. The paper looks at Jhumpa Lahiri's first novel, "Namesake," that deals with this subject of alienation and uncertainty. "Namesake" is the story of Gogol's finding the meaning behind his name and a satisfying place in his two separate worlds of India and America. The paper depicts how it takes a lifetime for him to accept and appreciate that he is different. The paper shows how the novel reflects the search that people from many different cultures and backgrounds undergo when leaving their roots behind.

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"Although Gogol is born in Cambridge, Masschusetts, his parents, as those of Jhumpa Lahiri, had a feeling of exile despite the fact they left Calcutta on their own volition. Gogol's mother, Ashima, left behind all family, friends and support to come to America with her husband from a Bengali arranged marriage. Young and naive, she finds unique ways to keep her Indian ties--such as making Rice Krispie treats with red onions and chili peppers. Gogol's father, Ashoke Ganguli, is an MIT electrical engineering doctorate who came to the U.S. to make a better life, but still retains much of the Bengali traditions."

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This paper focuses on the issue of middle class runaway teenagers. The paper further explores why middle class teenagers leave home. In modern society it could be contended that the Internet has a direct influence on this group of individuals and their decision to leave unpleasant situations.

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