In the story "The Jade Peony"�‚ the author‚ Wayson Choy makes us realize importance of having filial duties by telling the story of one Chinese - Canadian family with three children in Vancouver "" especially about the youngest child‚ Sek-Lung and his Grandma. One day‚ the grandmother told him about the juggler whom she loved in the past and he said that he would come back "" he never did so she was still waiting for him; grandma also showed a broken piece of the pink jade peony which was hung on
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Comparison: "The Jade Peony"‚ "Horses of the Night"‚ Masque of the Red Death" I noticed that i enjoyed most of the storys not only for the obvious reasons such as good characters ‚ mood‚ and imagery but also because of writing style and fluency. I noticed some storys I enjoyed reading even thought nothing in it really interested me too much‚ while other storys that were about topics I usually enjoy reading about I had to put down because I would end up going over every sentence two
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21 March 2013 Chinese traditional thinking affect Jook-Liang in The Jade Peony Can you imagine that everyone rejects you just because you are a girl? That actually happened universally in the last century‚ specifically in the old China. The gender discrimination was deeply rooted in people’s minds and became a traditional Chinese thinking. Wayson Choy illustrates this kind of discrimination really well in his novel The Jade Peony. In the novel‚ Grandmother continually reminds Jook-Liang that girl-child
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In a 350 to 400-word essay‚ describe which archetype(s) the character is most similar to. Sek-Lung‚ third brother from The Jade Peony is an important character because he further develops the themes of belonging and discovery that Choy has introduced in the first two parts of the novel. To achieve this elaboration his character has a wide range of emotions and attributes. Sekky’s character archetypes vary from orphan to warrior to wanderer‚ demonstrating his personal growth. Sekky passes through
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The Jade Pendant had gathered around it a number of myths‚ some of which were quite absurd‚ such as the one that it was worth half-a-million dollars‚ but the reality was astonishing enough to raise gasps of admiration and envy. The jewel‚ as big as the palm of a child’s hand‚ consisted of a thick circular piece of intricately carved jade of the most brilliant and lucid green‚ surrounded by the innumerable diamonds arranged in floral designs. It was worn on a chain round the neck‚ but the sheer weight
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“The Jade Pendant” (Catherine Lim) In THE JADE PENDANT‚ Ah Soh is an older lady living in her rich relatives’ house. She is treated like a servant to the family and lives in the shadow of Mrs. Khoo‚ the house owner. Mrs. Khoo is rich‚ Ah Soh is not. Mrs. Khoo is well respected in the city whereas Ah Soh is mostly unknown. All the money Ah Soh makes by selling homemade pudding and cake‚ she saves. Ah Soh and her daughter live frugally‚ living off the leftover food and past down clothes of the
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What is the closed-form expression for the below sum of Geometric Progression (GP) sequence‚ S n ? S n a aR aR 2 ... aR n (1) where R is called the common ratio (between consecutive terms) of the GP sequence. The reason why we want to derive a closed-form expression for S n is for the sake of calculating the summation‚ or otherwise we need to add all terms one-by-one together‚ which does not make a sense if the number of terms is huge‚ say a million terms! Most importantly
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[pic] Carl Gustav Jung: Analytic Psychological (1875-1961) Carl Gustav Jung was born in Kesswil‚ Switzerland. His father‚ Johannes Paul Achilles Jung (1842-1896)‚ was a pastor – a profession that had traditions in the family. He married Emilie Preiswerk (1848-1923) in 1874; Carl Gustav remained a single child for a long time before the birth of his sister‚ Gertrud. Jung’s study on schizophrenia‚ The Psychology of Dementia Praecox‚ led him into collaboration with Sigmund Freud; they
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TIME VALUE OF MONEY SUMS 1. A finance company advertises that it will pay a lumpsum of Rs 8000 at the end of 6 yrs to investors who deposit annually Rs 1000 for 6 yrs. What is the rate implicit in this offer? 2. You want to take a trip to the moon which costs Rs 10‚00‚000-the cost is expected to remain unchanged in nominal terms. You can save annually Rs 50000 to fulfil this desire. How long will you have to wait if your savings earn an interest of 12 percent p.a.? 3. Suppose a firm borrows
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Ethan Barnett AP Govt. & Political Science 9/2/14 In his excerpt The American Commonwealth‚ James Bryce talks about equality in America when he visited the United States in the 1880s. Bryce provides his own view of the different equalities that all Americans possess. He states that in America‚ equalities are present as listed: legal equality‚ material conditions-wealth‚ education and intelligence‚ social status‚ and estimation. Legal equality is that all are equal under the law whereas material
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