English 093/101
fall 2019
american culture
we have read "my life as an undocumented immigrant" by jose antonio vargas,
"hillbilly elegy" by j. d. vance, "why america is self-segregating" by danah boyd, and "on
the front lines of a new culture war" by steve kolowicki. from these articles you should have
de veloped or strengthened your opinions about groups of others': where do you belong? do
you break out and join other groups or is there a tendency to stay with people like yourself?
do you believe people in america are self-segregating or are we learning to work
together? why might this be important?
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your argument will be based on why this is important and where you see our country
heading now. are we becoming more accepting of other groups of people, or more
discriminating? which groups are considered to be 'others'? who do we accept without
question?
you can talk about skin color, first languages, religion, cultural traditions and food - or
other things. you want to make a compelling argument about whether we are heading in a good
direction or not. and why is that happening?
use quotes from the sources, or from your research (on the library database). i
would like to see 3-4 pages, plus a works cited page.
we will work on these drafts this week and next and then they will be due on october 8.
plzz me

if you want me to check your answer i agree with what you put. i read the story

with mrs. linde, nora reveals her insensitivity and lack of shame about the forgery she committed. she implies that mrs. linde has obviously aged since they last met 10 years earlier, which accounts for nora’s inability to recognize her old friend. although nora seems sympathetic to mrs. linde’s plight, she can’t seem to control herself from boasting about her three children, her husband’s recent promotion, and how good she feels to finally have some money to spend. in a way, she seems to be flaunting her good fortune in front of mrs. linde who, deprived of all these benefits, has come to ask nora for . it is also through her interactions with mrs. linde that we realize something deeper lies under nora’s seemingly childish exterior. she reveals the secret of her forgery to mrs. linde and seems to see herself as quite resourceful for having done it.

in the company of dr. rank, nora is freer than she is with her own husband. she openly laughs with joy at knowing that all the other bank employees will be under her husband’s control. she offers dr. rank a macaroon, apparently forgetting that he knows she is forbidden to eat them. she then quickly covers for herself by claiming that mrs. linde brought them. nora seems much more assertive and free with these other characters, as well as unabashedly willing to scheme, lie, and justify her transgressions as altruistic.  

krogstad provides an interesting parallel to nora. like nora, he too is guilty of committing forgery, for which torvald condemns him and decides to fire him. although krogstad is a man and nora a woman, their crimes of forgery unite them. in fact, krogstad might represent what nora would be like if she were a man and were not strictly scrupulous like her husband is. for example, she tells mrs. linde that "a barrister's profession is such an uncertain thing, especially if he won't undertake unsavoury cases; and naturally torvald has never been willing to do that." perhaps nora would have delved into the unsavory, given how opposite she is to her husband. krogstad's is also the only harsh voice of reality that nora is forced to hear, and that is because he blackmails her for her regaining his job at the bank. finally, torvald’s reaction to krogstad’s forgery seems to foreshadow his harsh and cold reaction to nora’s forgery.