...A lot of people wonder how Chinese parents raise such stereotypically successful kids. They wonder what these parents do to produce so many math whizzes and music prodigies, what it's like inside the family, and whether they could do it too. Well, I can tell them, because I've done it. Here are some things my daughters, Sophia and Louisa, were never allowed to do: Enlarge Image Erin Patrice O'Brien for The Wall Street Journal Amy Chua with her daughters, Louisa and Sophia, at their home in New Haven, Conn. • attend a sleepover • have a playdate • be in a school play • complain about not being in a school play • watch TV or play computer games • choose their own extracurricular activities • get any grade less than an A • not be the No. 1 student in every subject except gym and drama • play any instrument other than the piano or violin • not play the piano or violin. I'm using the term "Chinese mother" loosely. I know some Korean, Indian, Jamaican, Irish and Ghanaian parents who qualify too. Conversely, I know some mothers of Chinese heritage, almost always born in the West, who are not Chinese mothers, by choice or otherwise. I'm also using the term "Western parents" loosely. Western parents come in all varieties. Ideas Market The Tiger Mother Responds to Readers Chua's Daughter Sophia Explains What Life is Really With her 'Tiger Mom' An Asian Father's GIft: Permission to Fail Ms. Chua answers questions from Journal readers...
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...marie claire - Readership Profile Readership Profile 000's Readership All People All Women All Men Grocery Buyers Grocery Buyers with Kids in HH People with Kids in HH 429 381 49 331 127 169 Profile % % 2.3% 4% .5% 2.7% 3.2% 2.5% Mag. 100% 88.6% 11.4% 77% 29.5% 39.3% Pop. 100% 50.6% 49.4% 65.3% 20.6% 35.5% All People 000's Age 14 - 17 years 18 - 24 years 25 - 34 years 35 - 49 years 50 - 64 years 65 years and over Socio-Economic AB C D E FG Occupation Work Full Time Work Part Time Not Employed State Breakdown New South Wales Victoria Queensland South Australia Western Australia Tasmania Darwin/Alice Springs 27 69 109 124 74 27 123 88 96 73 50 167 137 126 154 122 63 35 49 6 1 Profile % % 2.4% 3.1% 3.3% 2.6% 1.8% .8% 3.2% 2.3% 2.5% 1.9% 1.3% 2.3% 3.6% 1.6% 2.4% 2.6% 1.6% 2.5% 2.4% 1.4% .8% Mag. 6.3% 16% 25.3% 28.8% 17.3% 6.2% 28.6% 20.5% 22.3% 16.9% 11.7% 38.8% 31.9% 29.3% 35.9% 28.4% 14.6% 8.1% 11.4% 1.4% .2% Pop. 6% 11.9% 17.6% 25.1% 22% 17.3% 20% 20% 20% 20% 20% 39% 20.2% 40.8% 33.9% 25.1% 20.1% 7.4% 10.6% 2.2% .6% NOTE: Personal income is based on full time workers only Source: Roy Morgan Readership Survey March 2013 Copyright 2007 Pacific Magazines. All rights reserved. Last Update : 30-Oct-2013 marie claire - Rates Rates Spend Casual 20,601 25,751 22,661 41,202 47,382 12,361 9,270 55,623 24,721 27,811 3x 20,087 25,109 22,096 40,174 46,200 12,052 9,039 54,235 24,104 27,117 6x 19,572 24,465 21,529 39,144 45,016 11,743 8,807 52,844 23,486 26,422 9x 19,058 23...
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...Teacher Love at the lips was touch As sweet as I could bear; And once that seemed too much; I lived on air That crossed me from sweet things, The flow of - was it musk From hidden grapevine springs Down hill at dusk? I had the swirl and ache From sprays of honeysuckle That when they're gathered shake Dew on the knuckle. I craved strong sweets, but those Seemed strong when I was young; The petal of the rose It was that stung. Now no joy but lacks salt That is not dashed with pain And weariness and fault; I crave the stain Of tears, the after mark Of almost too much love, The sweet of bitter bark And burning clove. When stiff and sore and scarred I take away my hand From leaning on it hard In grass and sand, The hurt is not enough: I long for weight and strength To feel the earth as rough To all my length. “To Earthward” by Robert Frost exemplifies the concept of how attraction and love change over the years from youth to bitter love to a love that craves relief from the pain of life. Frost begins the poem’s first stanza with the lines “Love at the lips was touch/As sweet as I could bear”. With this opening phrase Frost shows that youthful love is consumed with simple kissing and the simple...
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...Our Love Tree. Our Love Began As A Nice Story As A Nice Dream As A Wonderful Pure Love … And We Found In Love Problems And Pains But We've Face Them Like No One Did Before … And We've Been Promising Each Other To Stay Together Forever … All That Will Be By Allah's Willing To Stay Together No Matter What's Going To Be Happening Allah will Save Us Keep Us Together Forever No Matter What Will Face In Our Life's … No Matter How Far We Are Now … Since, Love, Trust, Care Such, Sun Water, And Air To Grow To Grow Our Love Tree In Our Hearts And Save It Save It For Future Until The End Of My Life It Will Be Kept Inside My Heart Forever By Allah's Willing. You're Always Going To Be My Love That's For Future Not Only For Now I Know Sometimes You Feel Broken, Lonely, And Sad … And There's No One Understand So You Keep It Inside Your Heart. I Know Sometimes You Feel Life Is Hard To Be Live In This Big World But You Must Know No Matter How Life Is Hard I'm Going To Be With Forever Until The End Of My Life Forever And Never Leave You , EITHER … I Know Sometimes You Feel Broken Lonely And Sad And there's No Understand But You Must Know No Matter How Life Is Hard I'm going to be with Forever until the End of My Life … No Matter What Will Face In Our Life … No Matter How Far We Are Now … Since, Love, Trust, AND Care Such, Sun Water And Air To Grow To Grow Our Love Tree In Our Hearts...
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...company, one has to keep employees happy and make them keep wanting to work. Employees are the backbone of your company, they are the ones who keep the company going; sure the executives have to make some big time decisions but for the most part the employees help run the company. Gary Kelley has kept Southwest traditions by the low fares and great customer service. That is what made Southwest what it is today. He then made a decision that I think changed Southwest in the best way, by making bags fly for free. All of the other airlines make you pay to check a bag. This new strategy greatly gained them customers. Southwest has always been known for its point-to-point flights, but in recent years airports like Houston Hobby and Dallas Love Field have become de facto hubs. Southwest had evolved over the years, it flies longer routes, it flies...
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...Southwest identified an opportunity within Texas for short distance air service between Houston, Dallas-Fort Worth and San Antonio. These Texas cities were often referred to as one single market area, although they were some of the fasted growing in the nation. Southwest recognized that Pacific Southwest Airlines had a similar business plan in California servicing Los Angeles to San Francisco, so they took this similar concept, and set their goals to provide quick, reliable service that local passengers sought to utilize. Within this Texas market included two other airlines, Braniff and TI. Both did not originally specialize in short distance air travel, and most short distance flights started at a larger location such as New York and traveled through the Texas cities as a multiple stop trip. Southwest’s choice to enter the market initiated a quick process to implement their strategy. Within 4 months, they would implement a marketing strategy and begin servicing the area. The problem with the Texas market was as soon as Southwest implanted a strategy and promotion, Braniff and TI would closely follow and form a very similar strategy. Southwest’s third phase of their advertising campaign led to Braniff once again matching the promotion that they are offering, and Southwest’s response to Braniff’s move would help establish southwest as a successful company. Within the Texas market, Southwest has created many strengths that will help set them apart from the current brand...
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...“Row” Analysis Essay The poem presents the experience of quarreling through the use of imagery, with giving personification to a noun to help the reader understand the feelings of a row. ‘the room swayed and sank down on its knees’, this shows the feelings that are occurring within the room itself, not the actual room. The use of the personification creates the idea of how the air or atmosphere in the room is, the air ‘swayed’ as being unstable, changing, attempting to stay normal but fighting to be upright. The ‘sank down on its knees’ (when one is weak, has given up or is in defeat) shows the part of giving up, but did not sink all the way down, this could present that the feelings are still trying to fight back without giving up completely....
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...malady reached its acme! The soul-osopher found the worst syndrome; Acquired Soul Deficiency Syndrome! How Satanic Man Has Grown! Who is God and what is God? God is sound and sound is God! Streams and birds drum and hum and pray to God! Men and machines chatter and clatter and prey on God! Who is God and what is God? God is air and air is God! Musk deer and jasmines fill the air with fragrance and please God! People and vehicles spit out foul fumes and tease God! Who is God and what is God? God is water and water is God! The earth and the heaven become the holy home for God! Firms and farms fill that temple with lethal filth! How satanic man has grown! Privatisation of Love As spontaneously, love sprang in me, “Civilize your love,” they told me! As naturally, love sprouted in me, “Culture your love,” they warned me! As I remained still untamed, They got me love-starved! As my heart got love-starved, I let my heart love-rationed! Alas! My love was caste-rated! Alas! My love was adult-rated! As I reached my merry age, I thought of my marriage! So I let myself enslaved by money To enslave a woman as did many! I chained and bound her in gold; And...
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...Topic: Unspoken Love Quote 1 A. Viola (in her disguise as Cesario) comes to Olivia to deliver the speech Orsino has sent her to carry. It is his message of love for Olivia, however, Cesario sets aside the prepared message and proceeds to tell Olivia what he would do if he were in love with her. It sets the stage for Olivia to fall in love with Viola, yet dressed and known as the man Cesario. B. ”Make me a willow cabin at your gate And call upon my soul within the house, Write loyal cantons of contemnèd love, And sing them loud even in the dead of night; Hallow your name to the reverberate hills, And make the babbling gossip of the air Cry out ’Olivia!’ O, you should not rest Between the elements of air and earth But you should pity me.” (237-245) C.”Make me a cabin at your gate and call upon my heart within the house, Write loyal words of true love, And sing them loud even in the dead of night so all can hear, Hallow your name above the hills, And make the babbling gossip of the air cry out’ Olivia!’ O, you should not rest Between the elements of air and earth But you should pity me for my love for you is painfully never ending.” D. Viola (as Cesario) is stating that if she were Orsino, she would be outside Olivia’s gate night and day, proclaiming her love, until Olivia took “pity” on her for the strength of that love (as if she were Cesario). E. Olivia is falling in love with Viola (a woman playing the role of a man) trying to help Olivia fall in love with her Lord....
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...In this article, Salman Rushdie gives a metaphor of the imagination that, “somewhere up there you might find a giant set of faucets, and that the air we breathe flows from those faucets, hot air and cold air and tepid air from some celestial mixer-unit”. In this case, air is something we do not appreciate as much as we do like lets say starbucks, the faucet is basically our brain and how our creativity is put there and censors are the people who clog and unclog the faucets. By people limiting what comes out, all the unknown things are kept from us. Not only is imagination, which is very creative in most cases,kept from our society but it keeps us from expressing our imagination. Writers are people they, “want to talk about how much they get paid, and they want to gossip about other writers and how much they get paid, and they want to complain about critics and publishers, and gripe about politicians, and they want to talk about what they love, the writers they love, the stories and even sentences that have meant something to them, and, finally, they want to talk about their own ideas and their own stories, their things” (Rushdie Page 1). As a contestant of censorship, it does not have the way for writers to give their freedom that they are suppose to have. What seems as everyday talk between...
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...and smelling the crisp fresh and cool air. Fall makes me so happy and I am anxious for it to come every single year. Everything during fall is absolutely wonderful, I love it! Some of the best times that I have had in my life, oddly occurred during the fall season; and I sometimes wonder if that may be part of the reason(s) that I cherish it so much. Fall is such a beautiful and blissful season; it is the best season of the year. Fall is so wonderful mainly because of the beautiful scenery it displays. Here in Arizona, the summers are very hot and dry, and it almost feels dreadful at times; but the fall here is absolutely beautiful. You can start to notice the transition into fall around mid- September because the mornings are sort of wet from the precipitation and you can feel the cool air gently fan across your whole entire body. Not only that, but later in September, the leaves start to turn into the beautiful array of sunburst orange, medallion yellow and cherry red, and when the leaves start to fall onto the cold hard ground, you can feel and hear the crunch of the leaves beneath your feet. The cool air is so crisp and refreshing; you can feel the slight wind of the cool air tingle your cheeks lightly. The weather is not to cold and not too warm, it is just the perfect measure of both. It is lovely. Not only is the sight of fall beautiful, the different aromas in the air are just as pleasing. Fall has such a unique smell in the air. It is a wonderful mixture of sweet pumpkin...
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...While reading a story, it is un-noticeable that the theme can coincide with the setting. In some stories, it might be unchallenging, but there are some writers that do make it challenging. For instance, Edgar Allen Poe’s works, describe vivid details. His themes provide emotions and scenery – which gives a better understand or feel. The emotions that Poe shows in the story are generally a dark type of feeling – making the theme to be related to that type of feeling and emotion. In Poe’s work of “The Raven” he describes setting types that benefit in understanding the theme, which is life after a death or grief, loss, madness, and even love. In the beginning of “The Raven” Poe states, “a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary … and a curious volume of forgotten love” (Bayum 637). When he uses the words midnight and dreary those show an emotion of dark as well as eerie. Since, dreary means bleak and lifeless they relate to depression. With the words, weak and weary – they both mean lifeless as well as extreme exhaustion. Feeling tired and the lack of doing anything are the signs of depression too. Grieving shows many kinds of emotions, while during the time of grieving the feeling that will be felt is sadness – that follows in pursuit of...
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...is signed to defend the United States of America. The armed forces has to take care of their soldiers and the families of those soldiers and trying to create a positive environment for all parties has continued to be difficult with the stressors of the world. As a current member of the United States Air Force, holding the position of Staff Sergaent, Security Forces member, the daily tasks of protecting Air Force installations make the job harder than it should be. The duties are not limited but include: “Ensure combat capability through the functions of installation security, nuclear and conventional weapon systems and resources security, air base defense, law enforcement, information security, military working dog activities, and combat arms training and maintenance. Security Forces participate in contingency operations. Personnel in this career field will be deployed and employed in sensitive or hostile environments created by terrorism, sabotage, nuclear, chemical, biological, or conventional warfare. Security Force members perform the military police function within the Air Force” (About, 2011). The job responsibilities include: A fit foot soldier for the United States Air Force, and maintaining vigilance as a patrolman for any installation. A security forces...
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...Tu Hi Tu Tu hi tu har jagah, aaj kal kyun hai Tu hi tu har jagah, aaj kal kyun hai Raaste har dafaa, sirf tera pataa Mujhse pooche bhala kyun hai Naa main apna raha, naa kisi aur ka Aisa mere Khuda kyun hai O.. o.. o.. (repeat x2) Dheeemi dheemi aanch pe jaise Dheere dheere jalta hai dil ye, Beqarari kyun hai ye khumari Kyun hai awaargi kyun hai har mod par Naa main apna raha Naa kisi aur ka Aisa mere Khuda kyun hai O.. o.. o.. Tu hi tu har jagah, aaj kal kyun hai Tu hi tu har jagah, aaj kal kyun hai Raaste har dafaa, sirf tera pataa Mujhse pooche bhala kyun hai.. Huaa nahi pehle kabhi yeh Chuaa nahi dil ko kisi ne Har aarzoo tu hi Chain-o-sukoon tu hi Main toh kahoon Tu hi hai zindagi Naa main apna raha Naa kisi aur ka Aisa mere Khuda kyun hai O.. o.. o.. Tu hi tu har jagah, aaj kal kyun hai Tu hi tu har jagah, aaj kal kyun hai Raaste har dafaa, sirf tera pataa Mujhse pooche bhala kyun hai Naa main apna raha, naa kisi aur ka Aisa mere Khuda kyun hai O.. o.. o.. Hangover Aww.. Jaane kab hothon pe Dil ne rakh di dil ki baatein Samjha nahi yeh dil Isko hum toh rahe samjhaate (x2) Maine dekha tujhe bhula ke Har ek tarqeeb laga ke Har nuskhe ko aazma ke Par dil se kabhi na utre (utre.. utre..) Hangover teri yaadon ka Hangover teri baaton ka Hangover teri yaadon ka Hangover teri baaton ka Jaane kab hothon pe Dil ne rakh di dil ki baatein Samjha nahi yeh dil Isko hum toh rahe samjhate (x2) Maine dekha tujhe bhula ke Har ek tarqeeb laga ke Har nuskhe ko aazma ke Par dil se kabhi...
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...In Ernest Hemingway’s, “Hills like White Elephants,” and “Love Medicine” by Louise Erdrich, main characters, Jig and Grandma Kashpaw share a common interest; to reignite the flame to their once passionate relationships. Suddenly, the two face great adversity as they fight battles within themselves and their loved ones who no longer show any inclination to be with their significant other. Whether it is Jig struggling to convince herself the American will ever love her again or Grandma Kashpaw’s feeling of incompetence as a wife; both are weary and full of dread but in no way ready to lose the fight for love. Grandma Kashpaw is fighting the unwinnable fight. She has begun to notice that her husband is entering the early stages of a mental illness;...
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