1) Topic: ”Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior” Writer: Amy Chua‚ a professor at Yale Law School‚ USA. Reader: Parents from the Western World‚ who are also readers of The Wall Street Journal. Language: Well written text‚ with an extensive vocabulary. It is written to some extent with formal jargon. Circumstances: The writer’s home. She lives with her daughters and husband. There is a flashback into Chua’s childhood as well. Intention: She is trying to clarify the differences between Chinese parents
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Analyzing “How to Read Literature like a Professor” is easy‚ but on the other hand‚ to analyze “The Bonesetter’s Daughter” is a consuming task. The difficulty doesn’t lie in the grammar‚ or the structure‚ but by not being sucked into the story‚ and instead employing the skills learned in Foster’s book. Amy Tan’s novel: The Bonesetter’s Daughter‚ seems to be a novel written for entertainment purposes‚ there seems to be no author’s intent; or use of literary devices that would contextualize a deeper
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Tickets‚” author Amy Tan exposes the disastrous effects of Americanization on a foreign culture. Tan’s exposition lies in the protagonist‚ Jing-Mei‚ a young Chinese woman raised in America‚ refusing to adopt her Chinese Heritage. Tan uses the prevalence of stereotypes and internal conflict to present her theme effectively. As the protagonist and narrator‚ Jing-Mei and her father begin their train ride through China‚ the author establishes both the physical and symbolic setting of the story. Much of what
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The Benefit of English After I read “Mother Tongue” by Amy Tan‚ “The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria” by Judith Ortiz Cofer‚ and “Two Ways to Belong in America” by Bharati Mukherjee‚ I understand that the familiarity with the English language affect the authors a lot. All of those three writers share the same attitude that learning English can affect people’s lives. I totally agree with these three writer’s opinions that English can affect people and I think people who live
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Only Daughter In the essay entitled “Only Daughter” by Sandra Cisneros‚ she wrote about her life growing up in a Mexican-American family of nine; to which she was the only daughter. Although her father did love her‚ he did not show it much at all. The effects on Cisneros’s life due to her father’s lack of attention while growing up were: Spending time alone‚ attending college‚ and becoming a professional writer. The first important effect due to Cisneros’s father’s lack of attention was
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Why not a “Tiger Mother” Nowadays‚ numerous parents connected their strict Asian-American parenting style with their children’s academic success‚ but is this narrow definition of success sufficient for raising an effective member in the society and have the parents pondered the consequences of this kind of parenting? “Tiger mother” refers to Amy Chua‚ a Chinese-American Yale law professor and author of the book “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother”. Her book documents her motherhood experiences
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From Charlie Parker to Amy Winehouse and beyond‚ countless musicians have struggled with destructive lifestyles that ultimately consume them. Using a case study of your own choice‚ discuss why popular music remains fascinated with these tragedies. Tragedies often occur in the world of music. It has seemingly become a pattern‚ over many generations and genres of music‚ for musicians to develop a negative relationship with drugs‚ alcohol and hard partying lifestyles. ‘Charlie Parker was a legendary
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“Mother Tongue” In the essay‚ “Mother Tongue‚” Amy Tan informs the reader of the language barrier matters that she underwent as an Asian American. Various individuals are looked down upon because of their poor english language skills. Tan shared the experience of limitation‚ intimation‚ and the family talk that she had in her life. She feels bad for having a limitations‚ because she was Asian-American. Her mother speaks broken
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1. Douglass reveals he had little to no relationship with his mother during his life. He was a victim of the common practice of separating infants from mothers‚ just like so many other slaves at this time. He explains that this practice was conducted to allow the slave masters a way to rid the natural affection a mother would have for her child; as a result‚ the mother would be more inclined to work rather than tend to her child. 2. Douglass was able to conceive the notion his master‚ Aaron Anthony
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into her blood. She had to have antibiotics through an IV every six hours for two weeks. Along with them coming in and taking her blood every six hours to check her blood levels. She got admitted October 28‚ 2009 and got released November 10‚ 2009 I lived at the hospital for those two weeks. I ate hospital food every day because it was free. I didn’t have any money to go to the vending machines. It was the longest two weeks of my life; but I couldn’t leave my baby girl. She needed me to be there
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