Option A: Watch My Big Fat Greek Wedding (the movie is not available via YouTube, so you have to find the movie yourself) and respond to the following questions. 1) Based on your understanding of cultural variations, please compare the U.S. American culture and the Greek culture in the following dimensions. You need to define each dimension and use specific examples from the movie to support your arguments (350 to 500 words): OR Option B: Watch Outsourced (the movie is posted under this assignment) and respond to the following questions. 1) Based on your understanding of cultural variations, please compare the U.S. American culture and the Indian culture in the following dimensions (400 to 550 words): Assignment 2 (30 points) You have two options for this assignment. Please choose either Option A or B, NOT both. (Please specify in your response whether you choose Option A or B) Option A: Watch My Big Fat Greek Wedding (the movie is not available via YouTube, so you have to find the movie yourself) and respond to the following questions. 1) Based on your understanding of cultural variations, please compare the U.S. American culture and the Greek culture in the following dimensions. You need to define each dimension and use specific examples from the movie to support your arguments (350 to 500 words): • • Individualism/collectivism (10 points) • • Assimilation: abandon one’s own cultural habits and values in order to accept the new host culture totally. • Integration: espouse cultural values and practices from both one’s own culture and the new cultural environment (bicultural identity). Power distance (10 points) 2) Previous studies have found that there are 4 major acculturation strategies that immigrants use in cultural adaptation. They are: Separation: maintaining own cultural values and avoid contact with the majority culture as much as possible. • Marginalization: don’t hold on to your original culture, nor integrate in the new culture Of course, any one individual may use a variety of strategies in adaptation. For example, a Chinese immigrant may choose to only speak English to his/her children, so the children grow up not knowing how to speak Chinese. This represents the assimilation strategies. However, in social life, he or she tends to socialize only with Chinese individuals and may insist that the children marry only a Chinese individual, representing separation strategies. What do you think are the major acculturation strategies that Toula’s father uses? For example, how is that reflected in his child-rearing practices and attitudes toward Ian at first? (150 to 200 words) (10 points) Option B: Watch Outsourced (the movie is posted under this assignment) and respond to the following questions. 1) Based on your understanding of cultural variations, please compare the U.S. American culture and the Indian culture in the following dimensions (400 to 550 words): • • • • Individualism/collectivism (5 points) Power distance (5 points) Polychronic/monochronic (5 points) High-context/low-context (5 points) Please explain each dimension and use specific examples from the movie to support your arguments. 2) Previous studies have found that sojourners go through some stages while adapting to a new culture. According to Lysgaard (1955), ‘adjustment as a process over time seems to follow a U-shaped curve: adjustment is felt to be easy and successful to begin with; then follows a ‘crisis’ in which one feels less well adjusted, somewhat lonely and unhappy; finally one begins to feel better adjusted again, becoming more integrated into the foreign community’ (p. 51). These predicable stages are known to be 1) honeymoon, 2) culture shock, and 3) adjustment. What are the stages that Tod went through in adjusting to the Indian society? (100 to 150 words) (10 Points) Purchase answer to see full attachment Tags: cultural differences Americans and Greeks dimensions of individualism American culture strategy of separation Church wedding User generated content is uploaded by users for the purposes of learning and should be used following our company’shonor code & terms of service.

MLA In-Text Citations: The Basics

Guidelines for referring to the works of others in your text using MLA style are covered throughout the MLA Handbook and in chapter 7 of the MLA Style Manual. Both books provide extensive examples, so it’s a good idea to consult them if you want to become even more familiar with MLA guidelines or if you have a particular reference question.

BASIC IN-TEXT CITATION RULES

In MLA Style, referring to the works of others in your text is done using parenthetical citations. This method involves providing relevant source information in parentheses whenever a sentence uses a quotation or paraphrase. Usually, the simplest way to do this is to put all of the source information in parentheses at the end of the sentence (i.e., just before the period). However, as the examples below will illustrate, there are situations where it makes sense to put the parenthetical elsewhere in the sentence, or even to leave information out.

General Guidelines

• The source information required in a parenthetical citation depends (1) upon the source medium (e.g. print, web, DVD) and (2) upon the source’s entry on the Works Cited page.
• Any source information that you provide in-text must correspond to the source information on the Works Cited page. More specifically, whatever signal word or phrase you provide to your readers in the text must be the first thing that appears on the left-hand margin of the corresponding entry on the Works Cited page.

IN-TEXT CITATIONS: AUTHOR-PAGE STYLE

MLA format follows the author-page method of in-text citation. This means that the author’s last name and the page number(s) from which the quotation or paraphrase is taken must appear in the text, and a complete reference should appear on your Works Cited page. The author’s name may appear either in the sentence itself or in parentheses following the quotation or paraphrase, but the page number(s) should always appear in the parentheses, not in the text of your sentence. For example:

Wordsworth stated that Romantic poetry was marked by a “spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings” (263).

Romantic poetry is characterized by the “spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings” (Wordsworth 263).

Wordsworth extensively explored the role of emotion in the creative process (263).

Both citations in the examples above, (263) and (Wordsworth 263), tell readers that the information in the sentence can be located on page 263 of a work by an author named Wordsworth. If readers want more information about this source, they can turn to the Works Cited page, where, under the name of Wordsworth, they would find the following information:

Wordsworth, William. Lyrical Ballads. Oxford UP, 1967.

IN-TEXT CITATIONS FOR PRINT SOURCES WITH KNOWN AUTHOR

For print sources like books, magazines, scholarly journal articles, and newspapers, provide a signal word or phrase (usually the author’s last name) and a page number. If you provide the signal word/phrase in the sentence, you do not need to include it in the parenthetical citation.

Human beings have been described by Kenneth Burke as “symbol-using animals” (3).

Human beings have been described as “symbol-using animals” (Burke 3).

These examples must correspond to an entry that begins with Burke, which will be the first thing that appears on the left-hand margin of an entry on the Works Cited page:

Burke, Kenneth. Language as Symbolic Action: Essays on Life, Literature, and Method. University of California Press, 1966.