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Are the Chinese a "model Minority"? or Is This Just a Myth? Why Is This Important for Diversity and Multiculturalism in the Usa and a Postethnic America?
(Kadir Has Üniversitesi, 2009) Korhan, Zeytune Fulya; Drabble, John
Asian Americans are called "model minorities" in the USA. This thesis will assess whether Chinese Americans are model minorities by examining traditional patriarchy, race, class position, gender and mixed cultural identity in the novels The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan and Paper Daughter by M. Elaine Mar. It will examine if the model minority concept is a myth created by white Americans and why the question of whether the Chinese are a "model minority" is important for multiculturalism and diversity in the USA and a postethnic America. These two novels are about the lives of female Chinese immigrants, and their daughters who were born in the USA.The daughters become examples of the model minority at the end of both novels, but one of them thinks that the concept of the model minority is a myth. Whites take themselves to be the models, and the characteristics of the model minority are those that enable other ethnic cultures to assimilate into their culture, white Anglo-Saxon culture. This is the role the model minority plays in the myth of assimilation. In both of the novels, the second-generation immigrant daughters first assimilate into white Anglo Saxon culture, but they cannot be happy trying to be someone that they are not and they find their real identities, at the end of the novels, as Chinese Americans of mixed racial and cultural identities. If all the individuals can acquire mixed racial and cultural identities, then the differences between ethnic groups diminish and they understand each other's cultures better. Assimilation becomes a meaningless word when there are no big differences between ethnic groups. In assimilation, a person should change her habits, tastes, thoughts and behavior totally. But it does not have to be that way. She/He can be multicultural. But there is one problem. Whites do not want to be multicultural since they claim that this country is theirs. As David Hollinger writes, whites should accept that they are Euro-Americans, one of the ethnic groups and a part of the diversity, and that this country does not belong to them, but is a country formed by different ethnic groups and cultures coming together.Only then can there be optional ethnicity and America can go beyond multiculturalism to a postethnic America. For this to become true, all ethnic groups in the U.S. should accept that they formed a new ethnicity and culture called "American". In the novels, we see that the daughters call themselves Americans. This will enable all the individuals in America to live in peace, enjoying diversity instead of living in racism, hostility and violence.
Arm-Wrestling a Super Power: American Representations in Turkish Comedies
(Kadir Has Üniversitesi, 2010) Kahraman, Elif; Akser, Murat
The purpose of this thesis is to analyze the cinematic representations of American characters in Turkish comedy films. It claims that through comedy films Turkish society expresses its feelings and thoughts about Americans. This study suggests that Turkish comedies that represent American characters are not only aimed at providing amusement to Turkish audiences but also express feelings on changing the power relations of the real world. While these comedies turn the power relations upside down, they make Turkish characters superior because of the fact that American representations just include the American military and CIA, which are regarded as powerful institutions. Beating these institutions provides superiority to the Turkish side in representations. From this point of view, this study includes the changing relations between Orientalism and Occidentalism via these films.For the study, five films have been chosen (Five Masqueraders " Iraq, Americans at Black Sea " 2, European, Ottoman Republic and Super Spy K9) to show American representations that are related with the American military and CIA. It explores the three findings of physical, behavioral and linguistic representations of the American characters. This study is important in that it unites American Studies and Film Studies and it also the first that examines American representations in contemporary Turkish comedy films. The main aim of this study is to reveal the hidden thoughts and feelings about Americans in general from the perspective of Turkish comedies.
Black and White Guns and Fear :gun Ownership in the U.s.a
(Kadir Has Üniversitesi, 2006) Uygun, Pinar; Mills, Bronwyn
Silah sahibi birçok ABD vatandaşı, silahlarını kendilerini korumak amacıyla bulundurduklarını söylüyorlar. İstatistikler ise ABD’de insanların silahlarını kendilerini koruma amacından daha çok intihar olaylarında ve kasıtsız atışlarda kullandıklarını gösteriyor. Buna rağmen yine de ABD’de kendini koruma duygusunun tahrikiyle yoğun bir saplantıya dönüşen bireysel silahlanmanın temel nedeni, ABD vatandaşlarının paranoyası ve korkusudur denilebilir. Bu paranoya ve korkunun kökleri ABD’nin kuruluş döneminde, vahşetin ülkeyi keşfeden beyazların aktivitelerinde önemli bir rol oynadığı günlere uzanıyor. Afrika kökenli ABD’liler sürgün (ailesinden ayırmak), kırbaçlama, dayak, tecavüz, sakatlama ve hatta bir organı kesmeyi içeren uygulamalara tabi tutuluyorlardı. Bu sert koşullar sayesinde kölelik düzeninin sürekliliği sağlanıyordu. Bazı bölgelerdeki koloni yönetimleri köleliğin devam etmesini desteklemek amacıyla kolonistlere silah dağıtmayı düşünürken, kölelerin ve hatta özgür Afrika kökenli ABD’lilerin hayatlarını kontrol etmek amacıyla “kölelik kuralları” adında yasalar yürürlüğe sokuluyordu. Çalışmamın birinci bölümünde ABD’nin kuruluş döneminde Afrika kökenli ABD’lilere karşı sürdürülen uygulamalara, bazı eyaletlerin yasalarına değindim. İkinci bölümde bu şartlarda silahların beyaz ABD’liler için önemini, Afrika kökenli ABD’lileri silahsızlandırma ve onları beyaz egemenliğine karşı koyma yollarından mahrum etme amacıyla yürürlüğe giren yasaları inceleyerek tanımladım. İkinci bölümde 18. yüzyılın ikinci yarısında Ku Klux Klan ve diğer ırkçı örgütlerin beyaz ırkın üstünlüğünü korumak amacıyla Afrika kökenli ABD’lileri korkuttuklarına, onlara karşı silahlı saldırılarda bulunduklarına değinerek, yeniden yapılandırma döneminde (Reconstruction) Afrika kökenli ABD’lilerin kalıtsal olarak vahşi, hayvani ve yıkıcı insanlar olduklarını, cezayı ve ölümü hakettiklerini ima eden belirli ırkçı stereotiplerin kurgulandığını anlattım. Üçüncü bölümde medya tarafından çizilen bir çok sterotipik davranışın aslında kölelik sisteminin zenciler üzerinde bıraktığı uzun süreli olumsuz etkiler yüzünden kaynaklandığını ama medyanın bunun belirtmeyerek beyaz üstünlüğünü onayladığını vurguladım. Ayrıca günümüz medyasındaki ırkçı stereotipleri inceleyerek zencilere giydirilen olumsuz imajın beyazlarda bireysel silahlanma ile sonuçlanan bir paranoyaya neden olduğunu belirtmeye çalıştım.
Blues and Arabesk a Comparative Study
(Kadir Has Üniversitesi, 2006) Yurdakul, Yasemin; Endres, Clifford W.
Music is a reflection of a culture. There is a vast collection of musical genres in human history as many as the cultures in the history of mankind. Blues and arabesk are only two examples. Is it possible that these two distinct musical genres formed on lands far apart have common traits? This paper examines the parallelism of blues and arabesk in terms of the formation of the genres. Both blues and arabesk are the products of cultures of people located in a new land carrying their cultural traditions of the places they have left. The music is formed through interaction with the culture met, roots in the old tradition. Blues is not African music, it is African American. Arabesk is neither Turkish Folk nor Turkish Art music. When themes are analyzed it reveals that the strength of these two musical genres in terms of the bonds, the solidarity they offer their audiences generates through the use of the ‘‘implied narrative’’(Stokes) which is known by both the singer and the audience. By dealing with the results of the conditions, the music eloquently fulfills its protest characteristic without protesting the authority directly. In determining the parallelism of two musical genres so different, the cultures they were formed in and especially the experiences of people play an important role. Both blues and arabesk are the products of the culture of their people and the setting they were formed in.
A Comparative Study of Turkhish and American Activist Theatre in the 20th Century
(Kadir Has Üniversitesi, 2008) Unal, Ozum; O'Neil, Mary Lou
The essential goal of this project is two-fold: to gain a greater understanding of the role of activist theater in Turkey and in the U.S and discuss the need for activist theater. The research component of this project includes the historical context of activist theater and delves into its purpose in today?s world. The decades of the 1960s and 1970s saw the development of the Theater of the Oppressed and other activist theater movements that sought to creatively expose inequality. My project takes into account the historical setting of modern activist theater and then discusses the urgent need for these types of productions to continue to be staged today. -- Abstract'tan.
A Discourse Analysis of the Abortion Debate in Turkey and the United States
(Kadir Has Üniversitesi, 2009) Komut, Sultan; O'Neil, Mary Lou
Bu tezin yazilis amaci Kurtaj meselesinin Amerika ve Turkiye'deki durumunu din ahlak ekonomi sosyal normlar kadin haklari gibi farkli yazili ve sozlu soylemleri kullanarak gozlemleme ve analiz etme yoluyla bu iki kulturu kiyaslamaktir. Turk toplumunun kurtaja bakis acisinin anlatildigi bolumde: ulkedeki hakim din olan Ýslamiyet ve din olgusunun getirdigi yaptirimlar odak noktasi olmustur. cunku din olgusu toplumun gelenek-gorenek inanc ve tutumlarini olusturmada kacinilmaz bir etkiye sahiptir.
The Eclipse of Apollo: Passion and Violence in the Theatre of Break
(Kadir Has Üniversitesi, 2014) Kartal, Esra; Lou Oneil, Mary; Howlett, Jeffrey Winslow
The purpose of this thesis is to claim that even though there are centuries between the plays, they share and display the basic fight of the human nature which happens between the reason and the insanity. The duality of the mind actually gives life to existence of tragedy. However, concept of "madness" which is caused by this duality mostly results in violence that cannot be controlled in spite of the reason. This idea suggests that the ups and downs of the characters in the plays that have a significant effect on the course and the results of the events. For the study, two ancient Greek plays were chosen, Medea, and Oresteia. In parallel to these plays, two American plays were chosen to make the comparison with the Ancient Greek Drama, Mourning Becomes Electra and Street Car Named Desire. These plays all record moments of break-down: times when the system—the family, the state, the social norms—can no longer be seen as effective, functional or natural. The existing order is shown to be false and corrupt. This moment of break applies at all levels: Apollo and the critique of reason, social structures and the epistemological limits they impose, and indeed the genre of drama itself. When these systems show themselves to be old, static and oppressive, this type of theatre emerges to question the old order. Violence, passion and madness are deconstructive. The rational does not always explain power structures that confine us. Indeed, its purpose is to deny them. Reason alone cannot create compelling drama.
Economic Independence of Women in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Works
(Kadir Has Üniversitesi, 2010) Yavaş, Ülkü; Lou Oneil, Mary
This thesis aims to analyze the works of Charlotte Perkins Gilman in terms ofeconomic independence of women in the view of feminism and gender identity. Gilmanadvocated that women should work and take part in the labor market to eradicate their oppression and to contribute to women's improvement. Feminism means to struggleagainst men's patronizing and dominating over women legally, socially andeconomically and to defend that women are humans rather than sex. Feminists defendthat women have the same intellectual and professional capacity to work as men.Accordingly, Gilman believed that women contribute more to human progress if theywere given the same opportunity and freedom as men. She harshly criticized women's being parasite who were not working outside but imprisoned at homes doing onlyhousework and childrearing. In this case, women are economically dependent to men:Husbands are employers while wives are employees.Gilman wrote utopic novels to present solutions for economic inequitiesbetween men and women. She tried to reconstruct new modern gender roles for women,and to clear away the former constructed gender roles of the man-made world. In theirutopic countries, Gilman's strong and independent women characters have no pressuresof this man-made world. Adopting Herbert Spencer's conception of Social Darwinism,Gilman claimed that if women had to fall behind men in time by the social evolution;they can regain their economic, intellectual and social independence by social evolution.For Gilman, a social evolution is essential, and this needs women?s economicparticipation.
Esatern Warriors and Western Lovers: Opera in David Henry Hwang's Work
(Kadir Has Üniversitesi, 2003) Bitigen, Melda; Meskill, Sermin Lynn
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A Freudian Study of Depression in Post World War Ii American Theatre
(Kadir Has Üniversitesi, 2009) Günay, Emre; Gumpert, Matthew
Depresyonu anlamak icin karakterin yetisip buyudugu ve bilincaltinin olustugu gecmis sartlari incelemek gerekir. Gecmisten gelen anilarla dolu olan bilincalti davranisin sekillenmesinde onemli rol oynar. Ve bazidusunceler topluma uyum saglamak amaciyla bastirilir. Bilincaltinin bir parcasi olan bastirma kisinin bilincine surekli baski yapar. Bilincalti ve onun parcasi olan bastirma karakterlerin depresyonunu aciklamada odak noktasi olacaktir. Ýnsanlar kayiplari karsisinda uzulurler ama kayiplari gercekten kaybettiklerinin otesindedir cunku bilincin otesindedir. Bireyin trajedisi depresyonsuzyasama sansi olmayisidir.
Hamurgers and Hand-Holding: Mcdonald's in Turkey
(Kadir Has Üniversitesi, 2012) Üçer, Nur; Lou, O'neil Mary
Many countries are associated with the brands that they produce in this age among these brands. There are not only the consumption goods but also the brands of food and beverage. One of the best examples to the issue is that McDonald.s is the brand that comes to mind first when said America. This thesis of which subject is based on the effect of fast food culture and especially theeffects of McDonald.s which has a leading role in this change on local food cultures. This work also includes a researchwhich investigates the reality of globalization thechange in the eating habits and also socio-cultural effects. -- Abstract'tan.
Hybridization of American Cosmo Business Women's Image in the Turkish Version of Cosmopolitan and Elele Magazines for 2009
(Kadir Has Üniversitesi, 2011) Emeksiz, Gülçin İpek; Lou Oneil, Mary
Cosmopolitan is an international popular magazine published as 63 editions in 36 languages for women who talk the same `women?s language? worldwide. The ideology of Cosmopolitan is that women should be sexually influencing and satisfying men in terms of their sex appeal. The world for Cosmo woman turns around a modern fantasy empowering women with their sexuality. The Cosmo career woman, a beautiful female with an attractive and proportional body image, represents the ideals that business women should have to achieve success at their business and their sexual relationships. The magazine heavily adorned with a sexual language presents various data on fashion, beauty, and sex so that career women lead a pleasant and qualified life. The American version challenges women?s invisibility at the business sphere where male values are dominated because of her femininity and serves as a guideline for the Turkish version. In this thesis, the hybridization process of American Cosmo business women?s image is discussed in the magazine?s Turkish version and how certain values of the American culture are reflected or culturally borrowed from another Turkish magazine called Elele are shown. Meanwhile, the differences between these women?s lifestyle magazines that result from cultural dissimilarities are revealed.
Individual Freedom and the Position of the Supernatural in Ancient Greek and Modern American Tragedy
(Kadir Has Üniversitesi, 2010) Giritli, Mehmet Zeki; Gumpert, Matthew
The purpose of this master thesis study is to claim that in the tragedy form, it is not possible to interpret all the acts through a fatalistic reading, whether it is an Ancient Greek play or a modern play. It suggests that the psychological conditions of the characters have the major importance in the course of the events throughout the plays, instead of supernatural elements. Because of this, a total individual freedom does not exist in the tragedy, as the characters are restricted by these psychological conditions. The study aims to explore these conditions and for that purpose, Freud?s ideas on this are beneficial.For the study, three plays have been chosen, The Oresteia, Mourning Becomes Electra, and The Family Reunion to make a compare-contrast between the Ancient Greek Drama and Modern American Drama. The study?s importance lies in the fact that, there has been very little emphasis on these plays, by Turkish scholars, and this study suggests an innovative reading for the plays, which is quite different from their traditional fatalistic interpretations. I believe that it would be a useful contribution to the academic field.
The Integration of Turks Into American Culture
(Kadir Has Üniversitesi, 2011) Yıldırım Dayı, Gonca; O'Neil, Mary Lou
The United States has been the land of opportunities and dreams for Turkish settlers since the nineteenth century. Since Turks first began immigrating to the U.S in 1820 almost 300000 Turkish immigrants have arrived in the country according to the immigration and Naturalization Service. This number proves that there has been mass immigration there. Besides this it shows that there are factors which push Turkish settlers to live and work there for an extended period of time. in this study the different waves of Turkish immigration are focused on since the factors which push and pull immigrants are directly related to the time period in which the immigration occurs. Moreover the sociological perception of immigration period in which the immigration occurs. Moreover the sociological perception of immigration this respect settlers' observations of America are applied to the six stages models of assimilation by Elliott Barkan to determine if the Turks have assimilated or integrated into the American way of life.
A Journey To the Terrible Enlightenment in Suzan-Lori Parks' in the Blood and the Fucking A
(Kadir Has Üniversitesi, 2013) Emirsoy, Nalan; Savcigil, Endres Selhan
This thesis will address a comparative investigation of the portrayal of the sin guilt immoral act fault and the search for salvation in the embodiment of the three different female characters in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel The Scarlet Letter and Suzan-Lori Parks’ plays in the Blood and The Fucking A. Contemporary playwright Suzan-Lori Parks is associated with what is called “revisionary” artistic style in which she believes that revising the history of literature is a tool for constructing the new literature. For this reason she has a tendency to use historical figures and refer to famous old writers within the framework of her “revisionary” and “experimental” theatre. This idea is the reason why understanding Nathaniel Hawthorne’s character of Hester Prynne is pertinent when analyzing the characters Hester La Negrita and Hester Smith within the texts in the Blood and The Fucking A. By revising Nathaniel Hawthorne’s literary character Hester Prynne the thesis also aims to reveal the conflicts and nonsensical behaviors of these characters in order for the readers/audiences to understand the absent rather than the present on stage. -- Abstract'tan.
Kurt Cobain : a Messiah for the Rock Generation?
(Kadir Has Üniversitesi, 2008) Kertmen, Esra; Howlett, Jeffrey
Kurt Cobain is a dead rocker who helped grunge music to have been discovered in 1990s. Having been the child of divorced parents he had a very difficult life in which he often dealth with his physical and psychological problems. He was not a perfect powerful example for the music industry. He was not a bright shiny star yet some people recognised a light in Kurt Cobain. They shared something with him and they felt close to him. Therefore he became popular and after his death he became an icon and a martyr. This thesis will examine the interpretations of Kurt Cobain's life and death made by rock fans within American Society. it also includes why people saw Kurt Cobain close and sincere to them investigates what meaning people find in him and how people perceive him and analyzes the reasons for this groups acceptance of Cobain's martyrdom. -- Abstract'tan.
Mametian Paradoxes in "american Buffalo" and "glengarry Glen Ross"
(Kadir Has Üniversitesi, 2013) Üzümcü, Bahar; Savcıgil Endres, Selhan
This thesis examines how the characters in David Mamet's plays, "American Buffalo" and "Glengarry Glen Ross", experience an inner conflict in their attempt to survive/succeed in the American business world. The plays feature male characters only and reflect a social criticism of the American Dream. Both "Glengarry Glen Ross" and "American Buffalo" present a quandary in that the characters must trick one another in order to survive. They fail to realize that the American business world tricks them as part of the system. Mamet highlights the paradox of the characters simultaneously winning and losing. In addition, he criticizes the capitalist system by utilizing a masculine code in language. As a result of income disparities within society, the characters are desperate and are forced to engage in immoral actions such as deceiving others at all costs in order to close a deal. This thesis focuses on the social dilemma of the degenerated human relationships that stem from the necessity to achieve financial success.
Melancholy and Infinite Sadness: a Comparison of Jim Morrison and Kurt Cobain in Terms of the Romantic Hero and the Modern Anti-Hero
(Kadir Has Üniversitesi, 2005) Cengiz, Nuran Buket; Endres, Clifford W.
The Romantic hero represented the last ring in the long chain of heroism. With the Romantic hero the idea of heroism began to be transformed into the idea of anti-heroism. Thus the Romantic hero was on the one hand the last of the heroes and on the other hand the first of the anti-heroes. in the Modernist literature of the 20th century the anti-hero came onto the stage. in a similar way to what happened in literature a transition from the Romantic hero to the modern anti-hero emerged in the popular culture. This can be seen in Jim Morrison and Kurt Cobain. Jim Morrison emerged as the hero of the neo-Romantic 1960s bearing the characteristics of the anti-hero but still being a hero. in his time the neo-Romantic zeitgeist of the era together with the idea of spectacle in rock concerts laid the groundwork for a hero to emerge. in the post-punk era of rock?n?roll history there was no room for a hero. The icon of the post-punk era could only be an anti-hero. This anti-hero was Kurt Cobain. Kurt Cobain did not fit the stereotypical punk anti-rockstar model but instead bore Romantic characteristics as well although this did not turn him into a Romantic hero. Jim Morrison as a Romantic hero embodied the characteristics of both the hero and the anti-hero. in this thesis it is discussed that Jim Morrison and Kurt Cobain were both similar to and different from each other in terms of heroism and anti-heroism. -- Abstract'tan.
A postmodern readıng of paul auster:the paradoxıcal characters of paul auster: the quest for metaıdentıty ın Paul Auster's novels
(Kadir Has Üniversitesi, 2013) Alptekin, Aslıhan; Endres, Selhan
Paul Auster uses the fundamental paradox of representative reality and representative illusion to convey a quest for identity through multiple identities of the characters. His novels highlight this quest and its steps and thus question the issue of identity by displaying the responses of the characters to stages. Paul Auster questions the issue of identity by means of his characters’ quest stages such as objectification, coincidence, solitude, and encounters with alter ego which finally ends up with a kind of metaidentity that brings the writer/reader/character trio all together.
The Presentation of Women in Blues and Arabesk Song Lyrics
(Kadir Has Üniversitesi, 2008) Oral, Gülrenk; Endres, Clifford W.
The Presentation of Women in Blues and Arabesk Song Lyrics mainly tries to bring light to the images of woman in the so called mens music. This thesis explores the representation of women in both blues and arabesk music lyrics to show how both music forms portray the female character and the reasons why she is presented in that way. The overall type and the most compelling images that emerge from both blues and arabesk lyrics are negative: the unfaithful women the deserting women and the gold-digger women. However the larger implication of this thesis is the reason why men depict her as evil: it is the wish to control her. -- Abstrac'tan.

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