The Woman Warrior v.s. Chinese Culture The Woman Warrior‚ written by Maxine Hong Kingston in 1976‚ depicts the stories of five women – Kingston’s “No-Name” aunt; a famous historical female warrior called “Fa Mu Lan”; Kingston’s mother‚ Brave Orchid; Kingston’s aunt‚ Moon Orchid; and Kingston herself. The book integrates Kingston’s lived experience as well as the spoken stories that Kingston’s mother told her‚ combining Chinese culture‚ myths‚ history and beliefs all together. The Woman Warrior
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Look at me. I am totally pathetic. I just don’t want to be alone. Is that too much to ask? I mean‚ I still believe in marriage. I do. (Trisha laughs ruefully.) You don’t? Trisha: To be perfectly honest with you‚ Georgeanne‚ I think any woman who chooses marriage in this day and age is out of her fucking mind. G: Don’t you believe in love? T: I certainly believe in consideration. And respect. And I definitely believe in sex‚ because it’s healthy and necessary. But love‚ what is
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The general argument made by author Elizabeth Weil in her work “The woman who walked 10‚000 miles” is that she seems to be explaining that nowadays women seem to be more independent and better to strive in what they believe in. More specifically‚ Elizabeth weil argue that now women are more likely to be successful and accomplish their goals with full potential. She says that a guy named Robert Falcon set out to antarctica and wanted to achieve two primary goals. They were scientific discovery and
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Kingston’s novel‚ The Woman Warrior‚ she primarily uses her memory to recall the legend of Fa Mu Lan‚ a Chinese girl who took her father’s place in battle illegally (21). Kingston uses this familiar Chinese story that leaves a “direct personal impression” on her and links it to her own imagination (Lanning and Macauley 3). This fabricates the origin of a story that gives the reader insight on how Kingston feels about Chinese society. In the second chapter of The Woman Warrior Kingston positions
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Kelley makes an argument for a mimimum wage in her 1912 article in the Journal of Political Economy. How does she argue that mimimum wage laws are especially relevant to women? Compare Kelley’s advocacy to Helen Keller’s arguments in “Why Men Need Woman Suffrage.” How do Kelley and Keller each suggest that women be “protected”? “History doesn’t repeat itself‚ it rhythms”- Mark Twain Today‚ the world we live is better than it was in the past. As we look back into the past‚ one must remember and acknowledge
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Pretty Woman is a romantic comedy of two people of different social class that meet on the streets of Los Angeles and learn about each others way of life. Edward is a rich businessman who specializes in taking over companies and then selling them off piece by piece. Vivian is a prostitute that works on Hollywood Boulevard. Edward accidentally meets Vivian as he stops to get directions to go to his hotel in Beverly Hills. His offer of ten dollars to get directions goes up to three-thousand dollars
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Understanding the two texts “My fair Lady” and “Pretty Woman” have greatly developed and reshaped the indepth comparison of the both studied texts. Texts reflect the concerns of in time in which they are written. The fantastic team work of Alan Jay Lerner and Frederic Lowe made My Fair Lady‚ an outstanding success in 1962. The story revolves around Eliza Doolittle‚ an unmannered cockney flower girl from Covent Garden‚ who agrees to take speech lessons from phonetician Henry Higgins in order
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In Michael Parenti’s interpretation of “Pretty Woman” I have to say that I agree with his interpretation of how Hollywood usually ignores inequities of class privilege‚ gender bigotry differences between the characters and his view on the moral of the story. Basically‚ the story is about a millionaire that is an educated corporate executive who finds himself lonely in Hollywood so to fulfill his needs; he offers to pay a beautiful‚ low class uneducated‚ non proper prostitute three thousand dollars
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In the novel The Woman Warrior Maxine Hong Kingston uses ghosts to represent a battle between American and Chinese cultures. The two cultures have different views of what a ghost is. The Chinese believe the ghost spirits may be of people dead or alive. Chinese culture recognizes foreigners and unfamiliar people as ghosts because‚ like American ghosts‚ they are mysterious creatures of the unknown. Americans view ghosts as spirits of the dead that either help or haunt people. American ghosts may
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When I look at the topic male-female communication‚ the first thing that comes up to my mind is that man and woman must have a very good communication‚ because there are only men and women in the world. But as I think a little bit deeper‚ there is something different between a man and a woman‚ different types of talking styles‚ different ways of thinking‚ and different point of views. For instance‚ if a guy thinks that he spends too much time on his girlfriend‚ but somehow she might think that he
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