A sense of belonging can emerge from the connections made with people, places, groups, communities and the larger world. To find where one belongs isn’t always a pleasant journey. It depends on your personal experience, to whether you find it pleasant or not. Peter Skrzynecki shares his personal experience of migration and the years after through poems not all so pleasant, which I would like to show you parts of his journey today. I would also like to explore the picture book The Arrival by Shaun Tan also about migration experience.…
In the excerpt “Staying Put: Making a Home in a Restless World” the author Scott Russell Sanders states “Our Promised Land has always been over the next ridge or at the end of the trail, never under our feet” (Sanders 6). Scott Russell Sanders uses this quote to start off his argument of whether migration is useful in the idea of creating human beings or not. Throughout this persuasive passage the author refutes many points on migration brought up by Salman Rushdie. He does this throughout the passage to prove to the audience that settling would have a highly beneficial effect on human beings. Not only does he refute these points, but he uses them to his advantage by explaining what is wrong and right about them, which overall improves his…
Salman Rushdie writes an intelligent and convincing argument about migration and the idea that people root themselves in ideas rather than places. Scott Russell Sanders sees that it is not all good and disagrees with him. In his passage to counter Salman Rushdie’s viewpoint, he uses many rhetorical strategies to develop his perspective.…
Modern discussions of migrations and people seeking refuge in other countries challenge how people view moving, as well as where people move. In his editorial response, Scott Russel Sanders uses appeals to tradition and parallelism in his writing to strengthen his argument against people being rooted in ideas.…
In “Staying Put: Making a Home in a Restless World”, Scott Russell Sanders refutes Salman Rushdie’s thesis that mass migration is beneficial. By following Rushdie’s argument, and then countering it, Sanders effectively structures his own argument. He begins by feigning agreement with Rushdie, then switches to casting a shadow of doubt over Rushdie’s argument and the celebrated idea of movement as a whole. In “Staying Put”, Sanders does more than simply refute Rushdie, he calls out to the American populace, to the teeming nation of immigrants, and tells them to grow roots in a land that glorifies…
He talks about people's roots how migrants have a hard time planting them in a new place, saying, "these migrants drag their exposed roots and have trouble putting them down in new places" (Stegner 200). He uses this to argue his point that people should stay put for a while and let their roots grow and become planted before picking up and moving again. However, he goes on to say that, "some people don't want to put [their roots] down The American home is often a mobile home" (Stegner 200-201). Our way of life is one where we are restless and "hooked on change" (Stegner 204). Americans enjoy the constant change of scenery and do not mind that our roots never take hold in the soil, as Stegner wants us to do. We just pick up and move, never allowing ourselves to get to know the land on which we lived or are living. He then makes a comparison of a "displaced person" and a river's current, saying, "[A displaced person] has a current like the Platte, a mile wide and an inch deep" (Stegner 200). A displaced person moves quickly like the river current, though never stays in one place for a long time, similarly to the inch of water skimming over the rocks. Stegner goes on to say that the displaced person is, "acquainted with many places, [but] is rooted in none" (Stegner 200). The person does not believe he is lacking anything. On the contrary, he is content…
Maybe having hero in the title is a bit of a stretch and an exaggeration. Have you ever indulged in a book that has your attention every minute of every page you read? I am sure the answer is yes. I think most people have related to this feeling at some point. Dave Dravecky, a book written in 1993, is the book that stole my mind from page one. A book that was so fascinating to me, I used it for my book report in school at least three times. As I reflect back on that, perhaps writing a book report on the same book in three different grades is a bit excessive…or just pathetic. After I finished reading this book the first time (I read it at least two times), I am almost certain that this is all I talked about. My family could attest to this. “Gee whiz Britton, stop with the Dave Dravecky talk”, I can hear them say. School friends so tired of hearing me rave about this book. “You have got to read this book”, I would say. Actually, come to think of it, most everybody around me could quote the book without ever reading it, thanks to my nonstop blabbing about every detail.…
Explore how this is evident in you prescribed text and at least ONE other related text of your own choosing.…
Understanding, in the form of relationships with others, allows individuals to establish a sense of belonging within their communities. However, in order to form these bonds, an individual’s understanding of their own individuality will become obscured as they are moulded to fit societal expectations, rejecting their true identities and preventing belonging within themselves. This paradoxical nature of belonging presents a conundrum to the individuals in Anthony Minghella’s film, The Talented Mr Ripley (TTMR) and the Shakespearean play As You Like It (AYLI), as their intrinsic desire for belonging shape their understanding of their identities and relationships with others.…
Millions of people from over the world leave their homelands to migrate to countries other than their own. People are forced to leave because of personal, financial or political situations. People’s decision to migrate can bring either happiness or difficulty. People may find it hard to adjust or settle in a place they have not seen before. These people are introduced with new laws, locations, and cultures.…
Immigrants are torn by contradictory social and intellectual demands, while facing the confront of entry into a strange intimidating environment. The migratory progression, for whatever the reason, seems to improve the sense of harmony among those who migrate, who are often united by ties of affiliation, community and customs, as well as class. Symbols of ethnicity, such as language and religious behavior serve as reminders of their origin to the migrants themselves, while at the same time marking these people as outsiders in their new locale. Some migrants make a conscious decision to abandon an old unsatisfactory way of life for what they believe will be paradise on earth, land of the free, the place to find the American dream, never thinking about why or what the leave behind.…
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First of all I’d like to start with a definition of migration. I looked it up in the dictionary and found this:…
It is an interesting conundrum to view ourselves through the prism of place and our sense of belonging. We, none of us, can change the place where we are born. It is impossible to translate the horrors of a child growing up in war torn or impoverished Africa, with a child of privilege in Melbourne, London or New York. The impact of place– be they negative or positive- creates some part of the identity that will endure for an entire lifetime. The same can be said for our sense of belonging, that it helps create a part of our identity that will last a lifetime, whether it is as a result of family, friends or groups. However, a person's sense of individual identity is always changing in response to the experiences in life. How we feel, how we act and how we…
Is displacement a likely outcome of any situational crime prevention initiative? The short answer to this question is no. I will illustrate this answer in more detail by drawing upon three required readings.…