“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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It’s the seventeenth century in early America. I’m Peter Fuller‚ me and my family of four have come overseas from London‚ England to start a new life in the colony of Massachusetts. Back in London we were just your average middle class family who worked very hard to make money. We were not poor but we were far from wealthy. I worked as a shopkeeper and my wife was a school teacher. While we were content with our lives in England we wanted a chance to start over and have a chance to get wealthy quickly
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Finding a good man to marry is one of the pressures women go through. From a young age‚ little girls expect to marry a strong‚ courageous‚ and honest man to form a family with. Women have to select someone who will provide and protect their family. To find someone who will be all these characteristics is a challenging task and not often accomplished. In “Sunday in the Park” by Bel Kaufman‚ the challenges a woman goes through when finding a good man to marry is explored by spending a day in the park
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This play is considered as a one-act-play and it was written by Sacha Guitry. It is a comic play that delights the audience. It starts with a comic conversation between the maid and her lady "Joliet". This conversation reveals how the relationship between the master and his servant was at that time. It seems simple and somehow comic since the maid offers her lady act with here in a film as a cooker despite the lady was rich. In addition‚ the maid says that lady seems comic when she wears a dress
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In the Greek play Medea‚ there are two protagonists‚ Medea and Jason. Medea‚ who is the wife of Jason has fallen in love with him and has left her country to be with him. After all this loyalty‚ Jason decides to divorce Medea and marry the king’s daughter; Glauce. Medea becomes filled with fury and anger and wants to kill her husband and the king’s daughter. We can also say that she becomes suicidal. Jason on the other hand‚ only seeks his own benefits because he has married the King’s daughter just
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Sociology 113AE Reaction Paper 10/20/05 Selective Perception in Paul Haggis ’ Crash Prejudices are the strong backbone to the concept of racism. They are the labels and images that we designate to a group of people on the basis of what we imagine to be the characteristics of all members of that group. More often than not‚ they are incorrect and incomplete. The film Crash‚ directed by Paul Haggis‚ addresses the strong existence of prejudices against many groups from various perspectives
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The cat seems to be a big focus in Hemingway’s story In his short story Cat in the Rain‚ Ernest Hemingway uses imagery and subtlety to convey to the reader that the relationship between the American couple is in crisis and is quite clearly dysfunctional. In other words‚ the reader has to have a symbolic reading of the images. In fact‚ what seems to be a simple tale of an American couple spending a rainy afternoon inside their hotel room serves as a great metaphor for their relationship
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The Lottery Ticket Anton Pavlovich Checkhov (1860-1904) Anton Pavlovich Checkhov (1860-1904) stands out as one of the greatest short story writers of the world. He was educated as a doctor of medicine but preferred writing to doctoring. In his short story‚ “The Lottery Ticket”‚ he demonstrates that the mere thought of money can severely impact a personal relationship. Characters: Ivan Dmitritch – He is the major character and he is protagonist. He is from a middle-class. He does not care about games
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The Gold of Tomas Vargas and Clarissa Almost anywhere in the world‚ one would agree that family is one of the most important aspects of life. In Chilean author Isabel Allende’s short stories’ The Gold of Tomas Vargas and Clarissa‚ these values and roles are shown through her unique style and her feminist touch. The comparative analysis of the two stories reveals Allende challenging the traditional roles of men in Chilean culture. Because of the patriarchal society‚ men have the role of supporting
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What is the "Abilene Paradox" and do you think that it is prevalent in organizations as Harvey seems to think? The Abilene paradox occurs when organizations take actions contrary to the desires of its members and defeat the purposes they want to achieve. The Abilene paradox happens when everyone agrees on a basic matter of a situation and fails to communicate correctly. For example‚ as shown in Jerry Harvey’s movie‚ an organization was working on this particular project that was taking up significant
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