Andrew Pham‚ author of Catfish and Mandala‚ is on a journey of self-exploration. Family dysfunction‚ the illusions of the past‚ and the inability to move forward and find meaning to life when living between two cultures‚ are all catalysts’ for Pham return Vietnam. Contrary to being welcomed with open arms‚ Andrew is referred to as Viet-kieu when he is in Vietnam‚ a derogatory term meaning Vietnamese-American. Vietnamese people feel that the Viet-kieu abandoned everything about their culture when
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The American novelist Thomas Wolfe once wrote‚ "You can’t go home again". Andrew Pham proved that wrong. "Andrew X. Pham‚ who came to the United States when he was ten years old as a ’boat person‚’ returned to Vietnam 20 years later on an extended bike trip in order to understand better his cultural identity" (Pearl 208). Despite the fact that Pham‚ like so many others of his generation‚ were forced to flee Vietnam‚ somehow they never lost the sense of identity with the homeland they only remembered
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Gustav Jung With life come many trials and tribulations. With hope come many wishes and dreams of a life that could be. And with change comes the unexpected transformations that were at once thought impossible. In Andrew X. Pham’s The Catfish and Mandala: A 2 Wheeled Voyage Through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam‚ he tells an autobiography of his life‚ including both the big and little details that helped make him who he is today. On his journey to Vietnam‚ he meets an elderly man named
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Mandala Essay A mandala is an ancient design first made in Tibet 2‚000 years ago. People use mandalas to represent who they are and what they like. Tibetans would use mandalas to calm themselves and to think about the meaning of live. Mandalas are drawn in the shape of of a circle and people draw their symbols in each part of the circle. My first symbol is a heart and a music note. I chose these symbols because it represents my love for music. I colored the heart different colors because
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defines a catfish as‚ "a person who pretends to be someone they’re not‚ using Facebook or other social media to create false identities‚ particularly to pursue deceptive online romances." This is exactly what happened to Nev Schulman‚ a 32 year old from New York. An esteemed photographer who started an online relationship with a girl named Megan. When suspicion stirred up that she might not be who she said she was‚ Nev‚ his brother‚ and a friend decided to make the documentary “Catfish”‚ Released
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A “Catfish” is a person who creates a fake profile online and pretends to be someone they are not by using someone else pictures and information. These “Catfish” use social media sites such as‚ “Facebook” and “twitter”‚ usually with the intention of getting other people or a person to fall in love with them. “MTV” and the producers of the 2010 documentary film “Catfish” send Nev Schulmon and his friend and film maker Max Joseph to help couples who have never met in real life. They want to know if
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11 “CATFISH” Documentary Produced by: Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman Nicole Stone Cinematic Analysis Com 252 Ms. Golliher‚ Somerset Section Spring 2011 In 2007‚ filmmakers Ariel Schulman and Henry Joost starting filming a documentary of Ariel’s brother Yaniv (Nev)‚ who is a 24 year old photographer from New York. This film is an intriguing documentary about love and deception and how Nev gets involved into a internet relationship on the facebook. It all starts when one of Nev’s photos
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Title: Factors affecting Bimodal respiration in the catfish Corydoras aeneus Abstract: The catfish‚ Corydoras aeneus is an organism that respires bimodally ‚ that it is being capable of drawing oxygen from both water and air. It carries out aerial respiration through it’s adapted posterior intestine.This experiment was done in order to determine the disadvantages of aerial respiration by manipulation of oxygen content and depth. The effect of dissolved oxygen‚ when the fish was placed into a cylinder
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the latter for being Viet-kieu. Aside from a weakness for hyphenated compounds like "people-thick" and "passion-rich‚" Pham’s prose is fluid and fast‚ navigating deftly through time and space. Wonderful passages describe the magical qualities of catfish stew‚ the gruesome preparation of "gaping fish" (a fish is
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Mandalas are symbols used in Hinduism and Buddhism that represent reality. They have religious value and are used to represent the cosmos and utilized for meditation. They have geometric or iconic symbols on them which each hold specific symbolic meanings (McFarlane). Mandalas have many mathematical aspects to them in addition to the religious and spiritual characteristics for which they are known. Mandalas have been around for so long that there is uncertainty whether the geometric patterns were
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