depicts the life of a struggling salesman‚ Willy Loman‚ who had high hopes and aspirations that fogged his own reality. In the drama‚ Arthur Miller devises an internal and external conflict through Willie to demonstrate how one must adapt to the changes of society in order to survive. Arthur Miller establishes an internal conflict in Willy that obscure him of the harsh realities of his career. Willy had been a salesman since he was a young man. He accounts of what was once a successful career partaken
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Throughout Paterson’s novel Jacob Have I Loved‚ Sara Louise Bradshaw endures a long internal and external conflicts of transitioning into adulthood and separation from others. Louise’s entire life has been about her and her beautiful twin and because of this 80% (attention to her twin) -20% (attention on herself) relationship‚ she settled for mediocracy in life. The novel beings as Louise is living on an island where she works with her father while her twin sister is attending a better school‚ which
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External Conflict Person vs Person June vs. Suyuan Discrepancy on the continuation of the piano lessons After the fiasco of a talent show‚ “two days later”(Tan 141) Suyuan is back at it again with getting June to continue her piano lessons. But‚ June resists by saying ‘I’m not going to play anymore’(Tan 141) but Suyuan yanks her “by the arm...half pulling‚ half carrying”(Tan 141) her to the piano and the quarrel continues. June ends the argument and shatters Suyuan into pieces by saying‚ ‘I
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Suyuan and Jing-Mei’s relationship in The Joy Luck Club In The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan‚ Jing-Mei and her mother have a very rocky relationship. Tan develops a relationship between Suyuan and Jing-Mei that is distant in the beginning due to culture differences and miscommunication‚ but gradually strengthens with time and understanding. Both of them have different backgrounds and have been influenced by two different cultures. Suyuan grew up in China and behaves according to the Chinese
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Case Summary –Chi Mei Optoelectronics 1. What prompted CMO to diversify from its core petrochemical base? What were the risks involved? In the late 1980s‚ Ho started to think that the future for petrochemicals in Taiwan was not very bright. At that time‚ he made the first visit to the nascent Hsinchu Science-Based Park where he found that everybody was doing pretty well. Then he began to think diversifying into something. Ho’s good friend Wu had been the principal investigator on the first TFT-LCD
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push her daughter‚ Jing-Mei‚ into being a prodigy. Unfortuantely‚ Jing-Mei and her mother do not share the same views on things. Jing-Mei wants to establish her own identity apart from her mother and feels that she can be successful through her own efforts and determination. Jing-Mei’s desire to be an independent person leads to her stubbornness‚ hardness‚ and cruelty. At the beginning of the story‚ Jing-Mei’s mother attempts to dominate and control her daughter’s life. Jing-Mei’s mother presents
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“Two Kinds”‚ Conflicts “Two Kinds” is written by Amy Tan and it was first published in 1989. This short story tells the relationship between a mother and a daughter and the conflicts between them. The protagonist Jing Mei has both internal and external conflicts. The internal conflict is whether she wanted to be obedient. Her Conflict with her mother based on cultural difference is external. All these conflicts are expressed through setting and symbolism. The setting of the short story is in
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Table of Contents 1. Introduction ..2 2. History of Bak Kwa 3 3. Bee Chen Hiang Profile 3 4. Guanxi and Xinyong ..6 5. Patterns of Expansion ...7 6. Business Strategies and its Success 7 7. Societal Effects .9 8. Post-war Singapore .9 9. Chinese Nature in Doing Business 10
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able to see the protagonist’s growth and change in personality throughout the story. The protagonist‚ Jing-Mei and her mother emigrated from China to the US‚ thus the family struggled in adapting to the new culture and lifestyle. Heavily influenced by the opportunities and hopes with a new life in US‚ Jing-Mei’s mother wanted Jing-Mei to become a prodigy like the other girls on television. Jing-Mei was determined and eager to prove to her mother she was a prodigy‚ and thereby had full confidence in
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ght” (Lee 203). This reveals that sometimes events happen that are not expected and these events can be obstacles or aids. In chapter 15 of the novel‚ To Kill a Mockingbird ‚ the author‚ Harper Lee‚ uses setting‚ character traits‚ and external conflict to develop the theme that the small occasions that happen have an effect on the biggest occasions in life. In the novel Lee uses character traits to establish the theme. Lee suggests that the character traits of Scout influenced the characters at the jail scene when he comments
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