Discussion 2 2828 unread replies.3737 replies. This week’s discussion takes Chimanda Ngozi Adichie’s video “The Danger of the Single Story” (Links to an external site.) and the Al Jazeera video “How does colonialism shape the world we live in?” (Links to an external site.) as its primary focus. You should engage with other course materials as well your own experience/expertise as you respond to the following questions. In your own words, what does Adichie mean by a single story? Think of a time where you realized your idea of someone/something was based off of a single story. How did you realize you were trapped by the single story? How did it make you feel? What did you learn? Is there a single story of colonization? Of development? What is it? How does the Al Jazeera video attempt to challenge the single story? What is the danger of the single story and how might we avoid falling into its trap? “Adichie refers to the single story as skewed depictions of an unfamiliar place a person has never been to or learned about. When she asked her roommate in a college in the US about Nigeria, the people had no idea that English was the official language in Nigeria, and Adichie was shocked (TED). In my personal experience, I first thought that Rwanda was not a technologically advanced country. I knew that Rwanda has a horrible past with genocide and colonization by Belgium. When I learned that Rwanda was a technologically advanced country with high emphasis in IT, I was really shocked. Although I learned this fact from a Netflix show, this has forced me to reconsider whether the single story of Africa is true, which is Africa is not a developed continent and there is continuous wars, and democracy is very fragile. There is a single story of colonization and development. For example, after World War II ended, Japan became a prosperous country with a booming economy with the help of the US. However, many people do not know that Japanese economy did not start booming after the Korean War started1. The Aljazeerja video attempts to challenge a single story by gathering a group of excerpts from various backgrounds by giving their viewpoints on various topics such as national identity and long term effects of colonialism in a specific country, which cannot be learned from a history textbook. Knowing a single story about colonization and development does not necessarily give a holistic view point and accurate context about a country. In order to avoid getting into the trap of a single story, it is important to learn history from multiple points of view in a foreign country in order to avoid falling into the trap of a single story and orientalism. For example, if I want to know what the US did to help reconstruct Japan after WWII, it is important to learn about post-war construction efforts in Japan, US, and another country. In addition, it is important to promote cross-cultural exchange especially among the young people, so that they can learn and experience a different country that does not necessarily match a single story” #2 to respond to: ” I’ve watched Adichie’s ted talk a countless amount of times and my ever changing view on the single story changes every time I listen to it. She mentions how she grew up as a creative individual writing stories and having each character in her story be what her imagination wanted it to be. Her idea of a single story is of a single story of catastrophically. She mentions her single stories of writing of American children’s books, her roommates response, and her from being from Africa. Single stories are formations of stories that only have one view or side to a total concept. She takes the time to show the importance of knowing both sides of a story and to be educated on others before assumptions are made. This will yield a better response and understanding of others in the way we are able to perceive a single story. A time I took advantage of a single story was of my roommate freshmen year. He would sit around all day, wouldn’t go to class, sleep in, as well as never take out the trash. I saw him as a lazy person who had no drive motivation or saw anything for himself. One day after seeing things so pied up I just sat down and had a conversation with him. I found he was lost, he didn’t know what he wanted to do with his life, and wanted to take new classes that made him excited in things he wanted to study. My assumptions I made of him were wrong. He wasn’t lazy, rude, and gross, but yet these were in effect of him not doing things he wanted to do. These were his way of expressing himself as he didn’t want to do what he wanted. It was exciting to talk to him to see what he was doing and how I could see him grow over the rest of freshmen year. I believe there is a single story of colonialism and development as they are each difficult in the way we choose to describe them. Deepening on your culture, where your from in the world, and how you are raised, this will change the way these are defined. This is why it is so difficult to describe these concepts as we look at each one and see it a different way. Al Jazeera’s video Challenges the single story in a way that exploitation has changed colonialism. We are all now becoming more involved in learning and traveling to new parts of the world to really understand how and why countries are ran as they are, as well as how they came to be. One of the major contributors to this is the individuals who lived in that country. One of the guys in the video describes how he only knew this one side to his county as that is all he was told through his political and well up being. The danger of single stories ranges from our upbringing to what we know about others. It is critical to take the time to to venture out, learn, and become educated on all aspects of the concept to then make an assumption about it. In being close minded and not learning about the full issue will raise problems as raised by Adichie. ” Tags: stereotypes and discrimination elementary school teacher Chimamanda The single story Roman infrastructure User generated content is uploaded by users for the purposes of learning and should be used following Studypool’s honor code & terms of service.
Reference List: Basic Rules
Note: This page reflects the latest version of the APA Publication Manual (i.e., APA 7), which released in October 2019. The equivalent resource for the older APA 6 style can be found here.
This resource, revised according to the 7th edition APA Publication Manual, provides fundamental guidelines for constructing the reference pages of research papers. For more information, please consult the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, (7th ed.).
Note: Because the information on this page pertains to virtually all citations, we’ve highlighted one important difference between APA 6 and APA 7 with an underlined note written in red.
Formatting a Reference List
Your reference list should appear at the end of your paper. It provides the information necessary for a reader to locate and retrieve any source you cite in the body of the paper. Each source you cite in the paper must appear in your reference list; likewise, each entry in the reference list must be cited in your text.
Your references should begin on a new page separate from the text of the essay; label this page “References” in bold, centered at the top of the page (do NOT underline or use quotation marks for the title). All text should be double-spaced just like the rest of your essay.
Basic Rules for Most Sources
- All lines after the first line of each entry in your reference list should be indented one-half inch from the left margin. This is called hanging indentation.
- All authors’ names should be inverted (i.e., last names should be provided first).
- Authors’ first and middle names should be written as initials.
- For example, the reference entry for a source written by Jane Marie Smith would begin with “Smith, J. M.”
- If a middle name isn’t available, just initialize the author’s first name: “Smith, J.”
- Give the last name and first/middle initials for all authors of a particular work up to and including 20 authors (this is a new rule, as APA 6 only required the first six authors). Separate each author’s initials from the next author in the list with a comma. Use an ampersand (&) before the last author’s name. If there are 21 or more authors, use an ellipsis (but no ampersand) after the 19th author, and then add the final author’s name.
- Reference list entries should be alphabetized by the last name of the first author of each work.
- For multiple articles by the same author, or authors listed in the same order, list the entries in chronological order, from earliest to most recent.
- When referring to the titles of books, chapters, articles, reports, webpages, or other sources, capitalize only the first letter of the first word of the title and subtitle, the first word after a colon or a dash in the title, and proper nouns.
- Note again that the titles of academic journals are subject to special rules. See section below.
- Italicize titles of longer works (e.g., books, edited collections, names of newspapers, and so on).
- Do not italicize, underline, or put quotes around the titles of shorter works such as chapters in books or essays in edited collections.
Basic Rules for Articles in Academic Journals
- Present journal titles in full.
- Italicize journal titles.
- Maintain any nonstandard punctuation and capitalization that is used by the journal in its title.
- For example, you should use PhiloSOPHIA instead of Philosophia, or Past & Present instead of Past and Present.
- Capitalize all major words in the titles of journals. Note that this differs from the rule for titling other common sources (like books, reports, webpages, and so on) described above.
- This distinction is based on the type of source being cited. Academic journal titles have all major words capitalized, while other sources’ titles do not.
- Capitalize the first word of the titles and subtitles of journal articles, as well as the first word after a colon or a dash in the title, and any proper nouns.
- Do not italicize or underline the article title.
- Do not enclose the article title in quotes.
- So, for example, if you need to cite an article titled “Deep Blue: The Mysteries of the Marianas Trench” that was published in the journal Oceanographic Study: A Peer-Reviewed Publication, you would write the article title as follows:
- Deep blue: The mysteries of the Marianas Trench.
- …but you would write the journal title as follows:
- Oceanographic Study: A Peer-Reviewed Publication
- So, for example, if you need to cite an article titled “Deep Blue: The Mysteries of the Marianas Trench” that was published in the journal Oceanographic Study: A Peer-Reviewed Publication, you would write the article title as follows:
Please note: While the APA manual provides examples of how to cite common types of sources, it does not cover all conceivable sources. If you must cite a source that APA does not address, the APA suggests finding an example that is similar to your source and using that format. For more information, see page 282 of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 7th ed.
