Reading and Response HW

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You have to provide as much detail as possible and give thoughtful responses (I would aim for 8 or more sentences per question)

Also provide where you find the answer (example: p.15 paragraph 2)

“The Cult of the Country Boy”

  1. Describe what style Elvis embraced, and why it was important at the time
  2. The role of American suburbia, and who belonged and who did not
  3. Explain the imagery behind ‘trailer park’, ‘vermin’, and those labeled ‘trash’
  4. What threat did integration pose for people like Hazel Bryan?
  5. How does the southern stereotype lend to imagery surrounding the ‘trash’?

Mexicanos: A History of Mexicans in the U.S.

  1. What were the working conditions of Indians in Mexico
  2. Emiliano Zapata
  3. Factors that drew immigrants from Mexico to the borderlands and American Southwest
  4. Asian farmworkers in the Pacific Coast
  5. Campaign to restrict Mexican entry

















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Running head: THE CULT OF THE COUNTRY BOY

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The Cult of the Country Boy
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THE CULT OF THE COUNTRY BOY

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Societies are different, but they also have some similarities at the same time. In most of
the communities, social discrimination is evident regardless of whether the community is
civilized or not. The only difference is the degree of discrimination. In about four hundred years
ago, United States suffered the same challenge of social discrimination (page 236 paragraph 3).
The text, The Cult of the Country Boy, provides a history of what was experienced in the United
States in those days. Where the author has pointed out that there were problems of social classes
and people would be discriminated on that bases. Johnson kept on putting emphasis on the
significance of education as well as social equality. This was aimed at transforming the whole
society.
In the text, Elvis embraced narrative writing as the style. He is communicating a story of
events that once took place on the land of the U.S. On page 232, first paragraph, the author is
seen o narrate a story. This is a clear indication that he used narrative as the style in wring. This
was important since series of events had occurred and the current generation would get to know
only through a story. They could not get firsthand information since they were not there. The
only way to which they would get informed is a story. That’s why the author adopted the st...


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