...Family relationships are an important piece in many works of literature. In particular, this plays an important role in the three short stories “Everyday Use” by Alice Walker, “Good Country People” by Flannery O’Connor, and “Rappaccini’s Daughter” by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The varying levels of love and care provided by the parents, and the attitude that is projected back by the child in response is what moves the plot forward and provides details for bigger themes in many literary pieces. In the short story “Everyday Use,” Mama doubles as the narrator and the reader sees things through her point of view. She has two daughters; Dee is the oldest and Maggie is the youngest. Dee has moved out of the house and changed her way of life drastically; she has changed her name to Wangero Leewanika Kemanjo...
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...Yamei Chen 1/16/2012 The Joy Luck Club, I’ve watched that movie many times, when I was a lot younger and also recently, because of my age, what I’ve experienced in life, each time I viewed the movie, my mind set are different as well, yet everything I watch this movie it brings tears into my eyes. When I was younger viewing the movie, which was very close to reality to what actually happen to women in China in the time, I think now when I view the movie, I’ve missed the whole point of the movie, it was really describing the relationship between mother and daughter in different time zone and culture background. “As cultural institutions, mass media often reflect some aspects of the society in which they operate. The critically acclaimed film The Joy Luck Club (1993) reflects diaspora experiences of Chinese immigrant women and depicts intergenerational tensions between Chinese mothers and their American-born Chinese daughters. It also reflects the struggles, dilemmas, and conflicts in the search for identity and self-development among Chinese and Chinese American women.” (Yea-Wen, C. (2007). The storyline is centered upon Jing-Mei Woo also referred as June, who struggles to deal with the recent death of her mother Suyuan Woo, throughout the movie. The movie takes place at a reception held on June’s behalf before her trip to China to meet her twin half-sisters who were abandoned by their mother many years ago. June struggles with her mother’s past which she never fully understood...
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...to punch her in the face because he did not know what to do. Joy, Wes’ mother, was furious. While in his room Wes heard his father trying to calm his mother down saying that Wes didn't know what punching a girl like that meant. It is possible that this meant that Wes’ setting influenced his behavior because he sees other people punching women. Wes' father came up to speak to him about his behavior. However, only until years later Wes would finally realize why it affected his mother so much. Joy moved to the U.S from Jamaica and needed learn how to fit in. She experienced many things that created a strong feeling of power in her. She had two husbands, Bill and Westly. Although the relationship with Bill began well, it soon plummeted with Bill's alcoholism. Joy finally left Bill after he had beaten her. Then came Westly. After getting married, they had two children together, Wes and Shani. The memory of his father speaking to him after he had punched his sister was only one of two memories he had of him. The other was of his death. Westly had not been feeling well, and eventually had to be taken to the hospital. Later he collapsed and passed away from an acute epiglottis. His death affected his entire family. "The Other" Wes This Wes only had his mother caring for him as well, but unlike the other Wes, he never even met his father. Mary, Wes’ mother, had job as a secretary and it was just enough to keep her family secured. Although, she knew that this job would not last. Mary...
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...[pic] Chinese Traditional Woman Image --- the Chinese Mother in Joy Luck Club by 陆婉霖 A thesis presented to the School of English Studies of Xi’an International Studies University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Arts May 18, 2011 Class: 2007-19 Advisor: 常莉 西安外国语大学 毕 业 论 文 开 题 报 告 |姓名 |陆婉霖 |性别 |女 |班级 |2007-19 |学号 |0701011921 | |论文题目： | |Chinese Traditional Woman Image --- the Chinese Mother in Joy Luck Club | |《喜福会》中中国式母亲体现出的中国传统女性形象 | |任务起止日期: 2010 年9 月1 日 至 2011 年 5 月27日 | |论文主要内容及参考文献： | |本文从跨文化交际和文学的角度对谭恩美的小说《喜福会》进行了分析。通过认知解读传统文化中的女性角色以及书中主人公的遭遇，使读者理解| |书中上一代母亲们的自我认知历程以及在此过程中所形成的价值观。文中展现了四个母亲和四个女儿的成长背景及人物性格，概述了每个人物所| |经历的不同境遇，分析了单独事件的文化原因及影响，从而呈现出典型的中国传统女性形象。文章从不同角度举出例子概括这一普遍的社会现象| |并且分析了母女冲突的原因并且从积极的角度对其结果给予了分析与展望。 | |参考文献： ...
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...Joy is a more simpleminded and less ambitious work than writer/director David O. Russell’s last effort American Hustle, but that doesn’t mean that it’s a worse film. American Hustle was a slight, and kind of funny story that couldn’t really work because none of the world that it had built up seemed to be very authentic. It wasn’t the 70’s. It was a cheesy and stupid looking version of the 70’s that seemed boring in contrast to other films that had presented this period in time. Joy almost solves this problem by completely throwing out any type of outside existing world whatsoever. This does mean that it completely sacrifices any sense of weight or any really existence beyond its frames, but that’s not bad. The fact is Joy is a film chiefly...
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...Income and Family Happiness Xueqing Feng Business 652 QBA-Research Harding University June 19, 2012 Abstract This study proposes to know whether the family happiness correlated to salary, and whether the family happiness is correlated to satisfaction on living conditions or family members' relationship. The study will be for the family in Little Rock, AR. Hypothesis testing and regression analysis will be used to analyze the data gathered from 50 subjects. PROBLEM FOR STUDY INTRODUCTION Which factor is the strongest one to affect the family happiness? Most people would think about the income at the first time. Because of the strong purchase power enable a higher quality of life, family be able to enjoy a better life including the life style, food, living condition, things for use and better to pursue the family gold. As one of the basic foundation, income is seems likely considered an most important factor to develop the family happiness. Financially richer people tend to be happier than poorer people, according to sociological researcher Glenn Firebaugh, "We find with and without controls for age, physical health, education, and other correlates of happiness," said Firebaugh, "that the higher the income of others in one's age group, the lower one's happiness. Families whose income earners are in jobs with flat income trajectories are likely to become less happy over time. Thus the relative income effect...
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...Erika Kansas Harvey Com 484 Final Discussion Prep The Code of Respect in The Joy Luck Club A cultural code of communication is “a socially constructed and historically transmitted system of symbols, meanings, premises, and rules pertaining to communicative conduct” (Lecture #2, 10/1). We can find these codes in speech communities everywhere. A speech community is “a community sharing the rules for the conduct and interpretation of speech, and rules for the interpretation of at least one linguistic variety” (Lecture #3, 10/3). There are many different ways to interpret these codes depending on the speech community you belong to. For example, the Code of Dignity could be very different in one speech community or culture to the next. These codes are found in many places including our movies, books, and daily lives. In the book The Joy Luck Club there are several different codes of communication, one of which is the Code of Respect. The Joy Luck Club is a book that shows the connections between four friends and their daughters. The main characters in this book are predominantly Chinese, which is a culture that is known for its devotion to respectfulness. Respect is displayed in a variety of ways and to a variety of objects. They pay respect to their elders, their parents, their traditions, and their superstitions among many other things. When Lindo Jong is getting married to the husband that she was arranged to marry, she has to show an incredible amount of...
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...Inside out movie is one bizarre, imaginative and authentically psychedelic animation as anything produced animation directed and co-written by Pete Docter and Ronnie del Carmen as a co-director. This 102 minutes story is about a girl named Riley Andersen who was born in Minnesota. The headquarters in her mind automatically installed as she was born. In the headquarters, there are five emotions such as Joy, Sadness, Disgust, Fear and Anger in her mind that created over time. As she grows up, all her experiences become memories which are saved in the crystal balls with different colours. Different colours of crystal balls indicate the different five core of emotions. All the crystal balls of memories will be sent to the long term memories every...
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...Good Country People: Tension in Relationships In the short story “Good Country People”, O’Conner used dialogue between Joy/Hulga and her mother, and narrative point of view, to illustrate the tension between the two protagonists and how their actions affected their relationship. In an attempt to ignore the pain and suffering of the traumatic accident, Mrs. Hopewell would treat Joy/Hulga as a child. When Joy/Hulga was only ten years old her leg, from just above the knee down, was completely blown off in a hunting incident. As a result, she would be a completely changed person, as she was conscious for the entire horrific accident, for the rest of her life. Months following the event, she used a wooden prosthetic that would fit snugly over...
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...The Joy Luck Club: The Generation Gap “The old woman remembered a swan she had bought many years ago in Shanghai for a foolish sum. This bird, boasted the market vendor, was once a duck that stretched its neck in hopes of becoming a goose, and now look!—it is too beautiful to eat.” (The Joy Luck Club). The Joy Luck Club, written by Amy Tan, takes you on a rollercoaster ride of emotions with the heartbreaking truth of the harsh realities of the world around us. Bringing serious topics to the attention of her audience, she is informing them through her work, what the hardships of life are. As this story progresses, the viewer will see a various amount of themes, but the generation gap is visibly present. With her mother nearly dying,...
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...successes based on the most recently collected data as at 2012. The current percentage of people born through ART (assisted reproductive technology) living in the United States is at 1% which, quite frankly, is a lot of people (Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART), 2014). In the case of surrogate parenting, an agreement is reached typically between an infertile couple and a woman who is to carry a baby for this couple. There are two main types which are gestational surrogacy and traditional surrogacy. In gestational surrogacy, conception takes place by means of IVF (in vitro fertilization) which would mean that the surrogate mother will have no genetic relationship with the resultant child. In traditional surrogacy, conception will take place either naturally or artificially which would mean that there will be a genetic relationship between the surrogate mother and the pregnancy. Sperm and egg donation as the name implies is a practice in which sperm and eggs or embryos have been donated by a third party to enable the infertile individual or couple to conceive. The donors are usually screened before they can donate and are usually compensated for the donation. All these are various types of fertility treatment and have become more commonly used around the world, but they still raise some ethical concerns which will be discussed further along. Ethical Dilemmas surrounding Surrogate Parenting A lot of ethical concerns have arisen and I think that these questions will always be...
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...boyfriend, and the in love African-American daughter standing behind her boyfriend reflects one the most important details that illuminate in the movie poster. The daughter of the house brings her white, Caucasian boyfriend home to meet her parents on the occasion of her parents’ 25th wedding anniversary. Her father dislikes him almost immediately because of his race. The movie poster reflects how he is guarding and controlling the door of the house symbolizing how he doesn’t want his daughter’s boyfriend to enter and become part of the family nor part of his daughter’s life because he belongs to a different race. It seems that he believes that if the white, Caucasian man enters the house, he is approving an interracial relation between his daughter and her white boyfriend. While the Caucasian boyfriend is entering the house with his daughter, the father’s facial expression seems of mistrust towards the white boyfriend, while his daughter is full of joy and excitement. Back then, black race people where mistreated because racism was controlling the world. White people believed they...
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...festival is celebrated with songs, dances, regional games, kite-flying, ox, fighting or reciting of poems with all their regional traits and festivity.Pahela Baishakh marks a new beginning, a new hope, a year full of joy, well-being and prosperity. The day is spent in feasting and participating in cultural activities. People wish each other "Shubho Nabo Barsho!!".Pahela Baishakh is indeed a momentous occasion in the life of each and every Bengalee. It is the first day of Bangla calendar year. To every Bengalee, young and old, rich and poor, wise and ignorant, it is a time of gaiety to be celebrated with great merry-making. The main event of the day was to open a halkhata or new book of accounts. This was wholly a financial affair. In villages, towns and cities, traders and businessmen closed their old account books and opened new ones. They used to invite their customers to share sweets and renew their business relationship with them. This tradition is still practised, especially by jewellers. PAHELA FALGUN” The 1st day of spring is a traditional festival in Bangladesh. Tune to the colorful life with the flavour of spring is the fartival theme. Bangladesh is the most attractive for the six season? and the most loving and attractive is spring which sing love ,joy, happiness with all the glomourous color.Nature shows her beauty with various known unknown colorful flowers weather touch loving way. With a great receiption mood Residents of capital Dhaka poured out of their habitual...
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...part of a system, that helps contribute to the system as a whole. Using the example of the Wes Moore family as a system, the subsystem would then be the mother,...
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...A Fortune How would you define wealth? Is it when you have a lot of money stored in the bank? Or is when you a feeling of joy in your stomach every time you see you family and friends. Are such famous quotations as “enough is as good as a feast” true or just empty word for those who aren’t that fortunate? This large debate, provide a basis for the short story “A fortune” by Joy Monica T. Sakaguchi. In the short story we meet a young man, who lives on pickpocketing. Mainly because he grew up in a less fortunate environment, with a dad who wasn’t caring, and a mother who only focused on the problems and worst things in life. But after all the times the father had let his boy down, the boy still came to him every time, he had snatched a wallet. This was a boy who was seeking the feeling of presence and love from his parents, this might be the the reason why he started pickpocketing for his father; because when he did that he felt like he had something in common with his father, and by doing it he (sometimes) made his father glad. But he was still worried about his father’s view on him; this is obvious where he thinks ”I should have counted the money I just didn’t want to know how much Pop thought I was worth” (p. 1 l.13) The mothers influence on this kid has not been much better, I guess that it must have been more...
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