http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/authors/14/scott-berghegger Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Sat, 13 Jun 2026 07:02:28 -0400 Sat, 13 Jun 2026 07:02:28 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/39/the-great-war-the-similarities-and-differences-of-print-and-television-media By Scott Berghegger - News is more likely to be reported if meets one of the following characterisitics: It concerns elite personalities;  It is negative; It is recent; Or it is surprising (Fiske 96). The story of the Bush Administration’s “regrouping” attempt after a “bad week” is all of these things. The President, after a volley of defeats and scandals in the past week including Harriet Miers’s dismissal, Scooter Libby’s indictment, and the death toll in Iraq passing the 2,000 mark, needs to “regroup” and “excite America,” according, respectively... Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:24 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/39/the-great-war-the-similarities-and-differences-of-print-and-television-media http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/33/life-as-art-as-life-dramaturgy-as-psychology By Scott Berghegger - However, Aristotle’s notion of drama as life has not gone completely unheeded in modern times. Figures such as Stanislavsky, Moreno, Goffman, and Sarbin have, through a historical continuum, flipped Aristotle’s hypothesis to compare drama, a defined, concrete concept, to life and how we go about living it—a much more abstract idea. In other words, no longer do we celebrate the pure mimesis of life on stage, but we appreciate that life—consisting of a central character with many roles, other, supporting characters, and plot—is a drama, told as a narrative that may... Wed, 04 Nov 2009 04:23 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/33/life-as-art-as-life-dramaturgy-as-psychology http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/31/sublime-inauthenticity-how-critical-is-truth-in-autobiography By Scott Berghegger - In the autobiography, time and history, at first glance, seem paramount. After all, autobiography is the account of the things that have happened in a person’s life, selected and made ready for public consumption, usually written in the first person. However, the understanding of autobiographical narratives can vary from story to story. Is the purpose of the autobiography to deduce truth from the myriad of subjective experiences surrounding history? Is it a self-searching exercise taken on by the most poetic and self-indulgent among us? How critical is memory, that fragile function of the... Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:58 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/31/sublime-inauthenticity-how-critical-is-truth-in-autobiography http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/27/yo-soy-yo-y-mi-circunstancia-the-socioeconomic-origins-of-machismo-and-the-macho By Scott Berghegger - The simultaneous allure and repulsion of Mexican machismo belies its ambiguous nature as an identifying characteristic of the nation itself and as a phenomenon that some claim is unique to Mexico and others say is endemic throughout patriarchal societies worldwide. Macho behavior is defined as “vulgar language, sadistic insults, the utter degradation of women” (Peña 1991: 31), but a macho can also refer to “a real man, good drinker, lover, singer, fighter, brave and willing to defend what he believes in” (Stevens 1965: 849) and as a man who is “fuerte, feo... Mon, 02 Nov 2009 09:21 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/27/yo-soy-yo-y-mi-circunstancia-the-socioeconomic-origins-of-machismo-and-the-macho http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/22/henry-parks-identity-through-selves-and-space-in-native-speaker By Scott Berghegger - How does a person define what he is? Homeland? Henry was born on an airplane over the Pacific. Upbringing? His childhood home was founded in Korean morals but built on American capital. Residence? Henry asserts that he is American, but he becomes Korean in some parts of the cultural amalgamation that is New York City. Deficient of cultural root metaphors and myths, Henry Park’s story has no place anywhere in the canons of strictly Korean or strictly American narrative except within itself. Everyone, save Henry, is defined by place in Native Speaker. But Henry is an anomalous category, not... Wed, 28 Oct 2009 09:05 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/22/henry-parks-identity-through-selves-and-space-in-native-speaker http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/21/machismo-and-the-reaction-formation-of-the-mexican-man By Scott Berghegger - Américo Paredes, in his 1971 article “The United States, Mexico, and Machismo” (Marcy Steen, trans.), defines the macho as “the superman of the multitude,” a “national type” by which Mexico, as a nation, is often classified (Paredes 215). Through this decidedly folklorist definition, Paredes makes machismo out to be an aspiration handed down from generation to generation of Mexicans in the laments of songs “addressed to a woman who has gone away with another man ‘who is no doubt more of a man than I am’” (215-216). There is no... Wed, 28 Oct 2009 07:09 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/21/machismo-and-the-reaction-formation-of-the-mexican-man http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/17/reconstructing-bridges-heritage-language-education-of-asian-americans By Scott Berghegger - Language use is a major factor in defining one’s cultural identity. People learn slang, lingo, jargon, idiomatic phrases, and other language tools, and with them participate in a cultural, social environment in which they can thrive. For ethnic minorities, however, there is the additional problem of the “heritage language.” A heritage language refers to “any ancestral language such as indigenous, colonial, and immigrant languages, which may or may not be a language regularly used in the home and the community” (Kim, 2003). For Asian Americans, and in particular Asian... Mon, 26 Oct 2009 08:58 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/17/reconstructing-bridges-heritage-language-education-of-asian-americans http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/13/a-contrast-of-issei-and-nisei-as-illustrated-by-king-kok-cheung-hisaye-yamamoto-and-emiko-okori By Scott Berghegger - Hisaye Yamamoto’s double-telling stories, according to King-kok Cheung, convey “two tales in the guise of one,” one woven from the explicit words of the narrator, the other from the softened and sometimes pointedly silent characters that surround the narrator (Cheung, 29). However, Yamamoto’s double-tailed method not only exhibits the muted voices of the Issei, but the dichotomies of these immigrant-internees’ lives in America, sharply divided across lines of gender, race, generation, and citizenship. The Issei had to raise their children in a “free prison,&... Sun, 25 Oct 2009 10:37 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/13/a-contrast-of-issei-and-nisei-as-illustrated-by-king-kok-cheung-hisaye-yamamoto-and-emiko-okori http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/11/sermons-in-sociolinguistic-skins-an-analysis-of-wharrys-study-on-discourse-markers-in-african-american-sermons By Scott Berghegger - In her article, “Amen and Hallelujah preaching: Discourse functions in African American sermons,” Cheryl Wharry examines the use of “sermonic expressions” by African American preachers to denote textual changes, to mark rhythm (a feature commonly associated with traditional African American culture-speak), and to maintain an atmosphere of spirituality. Wharry refutes the assumption that Black preachers’ spiritual expressions are markers for a call-and-response technique, noting that call-and-response “is displayed in the overall service and in congregational... Thu, 22 Oct 2009 08:31 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/11/sermons-in-sociolinguistic-skins-an-analysis-of-wharrys-study-on-discourse-markers-in-african-american-sermons