...Strayer University ENG 115 Professor: January 15, 2016 “Facing Poverty with a rich girl’s habits” Identify the source (writer and title of essay) and state his or her most important point in your own words. The title of the essay was, “Facing Poverty with a rich girl’s habits” written by Suki Kim. Suki main point of the essay was to explain to her readers that she had experienced some challenges adapting to the beliefs and cultures living in America, versus living in Korea. Summarize the other main points and their supporting details in separate paragraphs. “I thought because in South Korea I had been raised in a hilltop mansion with an orchard and a pond and peacocks until I entered the seventh grade, when my millionaire father lost everything overnight (Suki Kim).” Another main point that Suki was trying to make was challenging accepting a new way of living compared to how she was raised to living in Korea. Also Suki, felt it was important for the audience to know that the way she looked at life had changed since she moved from Korea. Finally, a point of the essay was that she was still the same person and that her culture and beliefs did have to change because she lived in a different part of the world. Discuss the (1) writer’s purpose, (2) genre, (3) audience, and (4) tone (attitude), The writer’s purpose would to tell her audience how she adjusted to life as a rich girl to living in poverty barely making ends meet. Suki’s genre could be classified...
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...The essay that I chose to read was “Facing Poverty with a Rich Girl Habits” by Suki Kim. In this essay the author explains of a life altering experience where her and her family was living a life where money was of no object, a life where they were millionaires. They lived in a hilltop mansion with gorgeous scenery and perks that people of lower financial class were not privy to such as chauffeurs, private school and special aides to assist with homework. The author further explains how her life of luxury takes a dramatic turn. Suki goes into detail about how they lost everything in one quick swoop. Her father’s businesses all failed and were bankrupt. She explains how in her country of South Korea that bankrupts was a crime that was punishable with a jail sentence. In a last ditch effort to avoid him going to prison they fled their country with no money to America. They relocate to Woodside, New York. The realization of her new life shows apparent when she explains how she hated her new brownstone home that they are forced to relocate to. She also takes a moment to introduce us to her first “friends” Andy and Billy. The author then gives the reader the new and different experiences she faces as an immigrant in a brand new place. The young girl who had wealth and opportunity was now no more than another face no special than anyone else. She talks about the racial changes in her life as far as being labeled as Asian and learning that there is a conception that as someone...
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...Assignment 1.2, “Facing Poverty with a Rich Girl’s Habits” by Kim: Revised Brionica Leary ENG 115 Professor Rachel Hays November 18, 2012 Suki Kim is the author of “Facing Poverty with a rich girl’s habits”, by Kim. In the essay she talks about how she learned to adapt to a new way of living after losing everything that her family once owned. She explains how she began to accept who she had become, and how her outlook on life changed after this transition had taken place. Kim realized that no matter where she was geographically in this world, that she was still the same person within her soul. Not only was she still the same person from within, but that her cultures and beliefs did not have to change because of where she resided in this world. Kim also came to peace with knowing that there were more people of her culture, who shared the same beliefs living in America as well. Kim’s main purpose in her writing was to explain to her audience that she had experienced a great deal of challenges adapting to different beliefs and cultures living in America, versus living in Korea. She stressed to her audience that it was challenging accepting a new way of living compared to what she had been taught, and was already accustomed to believing. Kim’s genre in this writing could be classified several ways. Overall, her genre was narrative. It was very explanatory. I would also consider it to be a memo. Her audience consisted of people of her race (Koreans), who had...
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...“Facing Poverty with a Rich Girl’s Habits” Ariel Terrell Professor Kimberly,Sinott ENG 115 January 25, 2013 “Facing Poverty with a Rich Girl’s Habits” By: Suki Kim Reading this essay Suki Kim examined about how you should never get adequate with your style of living because it can change spontaneously. She had to get a mindset that she was no longer going to live in a lifestyle like she did in Korea. She had it utterly made living in Korea. She was treated rich in Korea, but suddenly this flickered. She went from being rich to poor and now she was facing paucity. She had to learn and accept that this is the change and lifestyle she must grow into. One thing I realize is even though she moved to an American State, she will would still abide the same race and she couldn’t change what was within her anima. She also had to comprehend that just because she to move to New York, did not mean she had to change the way she have faith in or her civilization. As she went to high school, she quoted, “Yet it did not take me long to realize that the other students and I had little in common.”( Roen, D., Glau, G., & Maid, B. (2011).). Suki Kim was facing the same thing kids from her school were facing. I trust Suki Kim main purpose in writing this essay is she wanted to explain that she cultivated tough situations conforming to what it was like living in America than living in Korea. She had to realize that how she was living in Korea is not going to be same living in America...
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...Summary and Personal Response to Tanya Barrientos’s “ Se Habla Espanol” Honey Jupiter Strayer University English 115 Professor Charles Bretan 01/15/15 Abstract This essay “Se Habla Espanol” by Tanya Barrientos really expresses her struggle with being a Latino who does not speak Spanish. Barrientos was born in Guatemala. At the age of 3, her family moved to the United States. When Barrientos got to the States, she immediately stopped speaking Spanish. Now living in Texas, her parents decided that she could only speak, read, and write English. Barrientos made it a point to fit in with Americans. She hated didn’t like being called Mexican and hated what it seemed to mean to her. She stated, “To me, speaking Spanish translated into being poor. It meant waiting tables and cleaning hotel rooms.” (Barrientos) Barrientos saw it as a compliment not be considered Mexican. Her father wanted to show her that Mexican culture is beautiful and she should be proud of her heritage. Barrientos father sent her to Mexico for the summer in hopes that she would learn to be proud of being called Mexican. Surprisingly, her pride emerged and she wanted to learn to speak Spanish. Over the next couple of decades, the worlds’ view toward different cultures changed. It was okay to be of a different race. No one was associating Mexicans with just being waiters or housekeepers. Barrientos started taking classes, listening to tapes, and even hired a tutor. She even asked her parents to only speak...
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...“Facing Poverty with a Rich Girl’s Habits” Suki Kim Nov 2004 a Rich Girl’s Habits” In this essay I will be discussing “Facing Poverty with a Rich Girl’s Habit” by Suki Kim (2004) In the essay Kim talks about how her childhood went from having everything to barely surviving. During the essay Kim will compare the battles of herself and family when forced to move from Korea to America. Kim was born in South Korea in 1970. She was from a wealthy family where she lived in a mansion on a hilltop that had ponds and peacocks. Kim’s dad was a millionaire. Kim’s world came crashing down as her millionaire father lost everything in a blink of an eye. Kim’s dad shipping company, mining business and hotels all tanked which caused the family to go bankruptcy. In Korea bankruptcy is punishable by a jail term. The family fled to America penniless. Once in America Kim’s family called Queens their home. They lived in a two story brownstone that was owned by a Korean family that ran a local dry cleaner in Harlem. She was forced to be friends with the Korean family sons due to Kim’s language barrier. Kim didn’t understand how the kids called her F.O.B “fresh off the boat” when she actually flown on Korean Air to Kennedy airport. {Kim, 2004} At the age 13 Kim was taking public transportation instead of being driven to school by a driver. Kim now had to do homework alone and noticed the house would get messy without any maids around to clean up. Kim felt humiliated by carting the family...
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...Facing Poverty with a Rich Girls Habits Summary of "Facing Poverty with a Rich Girls Habits" Christy G Phillips Strayer University English 115 Alene Morrison 04/17/2014 The essay that I am summarizing is "Facing Poverty with a Rich Girls Habits" written by Suki Kim. Suki tells us how her life changed dramatically overnight. She lived in Korea until her seventh grade year when her father who was a wealthy business man lost everything they had in the 1980's. Her family moved to Queens New York where she was having a difficult time adjusting to her new life in America. When she was 13 she realized how much things to change she no longer had a chauffeur to drive her around so she had to ride public transportation to and from school. She no longer had a governess to help her with her homework, nor a maid to clean up after her. Things are a lot different in school here in America she no longer has to bow to her teachers and the dress code is a lot different. She could not speak any english so in school she took a class called English as a second language. She met other Korean student's, but it did not take her long to realize they had very little i common. She also tell us she would watch the television show Three's Company to help her learn english as well. It was not until years later that she learned that their was a difference in the American-Korean students and the Korean students. In the essay, she explains how quick a person's...
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...Suki kim is the author of the essay “Facing Poverty with a Rich girl habit. The main focus within the essay, Kim wants to describe her struggles as a young Korean exchange student adjusting to life in the United States. The essay discusses the struggles she had as a child being in the 7th grade and moving from South Korea to Queens, NY. She went from being rich to being poor almost overnight. Her world as she knew it was changed in an instant and it became hard for her to cope. Her father went from being a billionaire to having nothing. As a result of her father going bankrupt her family was forced to leave Korea and her father faced jail time. Her main purpose is to describe what she faced while trying to adapt to different beliefs and cultures. She recalls their first home of a two-family brownstone in Woodside (Kim page 62) owned by a Korean family. When she came to America her lifestyle changed in a major way. She went from having a chauffeur to taking public transportation. She had to get used to being called an Asian when she had only heard that term in school in South Korea. She no longer had a maid and she was forced to take her clothes to a laundromat to wash them on her own. In South Korea, she had the assistance of a governess helping her with her homework. She now had to do homework by herself. She wanted to explain what she went through relocating to the United States and becoming accustomed to the American lifestyle she now had to live. She adjusted...
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...Striving For the Better Shelly Rucker ENG 090- Writing Fundamental Professor Courtney Wooden March 14, 2015 The reasons for deciding to return back to school are financial, personal, and emotional reasons. Being financial stable plays an important role in their life because being able to take care of their own bills and not worry about how bills are going to be paid while maintain going to school every day and also being able to work a full time job with little help on the outside. Working for minimum wage with no raises or bonuses can put a dent in their pocket. Being able to be the second person out the family to actually finish college overcomes joy in a person life. Walking across the stage receiving their diploma and furthering the education to earn a master’s degree to be able to make twice as much as an average person that makes a regular salary of 45000 a year. Lacking where they want to be in life and where they are at now I see that they have a long way to go in order for them to finish and be where they want to be in life. Going back to school is a wonderful opportunity to enhance knowledge, understanding, and apply wisdom. Learning to educate and enrich a better educating and understanding of different concepts of modern living. As of going back to school are very challenging and hard, but with a right mind and a strong drive anyone can make it. Having the opportunity to return to school open up doors that the world would thought that was not possible...
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...“Facing Poverty with a Rich Girl’s Habits” KHADIJAT NAFIU Strayer University “Facing poverty with a rich girl’s habits” Suki Kim appeared in the New York Times on November 21,2004 where she wrote an article on “Facing Poverty with a rich girl’s habits”. Kim was raised by wealthy parents in South Korea who lost everything overnight and became bankrupt. In South Korea bankruptcy is punishable by jail time so they fled to America. Kim and her parents moved in an meteocre house where the people who owned the house had two sons who became her friends. She wondered why she was called F.O.B. (fresh of the boat) when she flew from Korea to the U.S.. Kim never did anything for herself or on her own such as homework, dishes, cleaning, washing clothes etc... All these things were new to her so she didn’t like doing any them. Kim realized that do to the color of her yellow skin tone she was now labeled Asian. Kim noticed that in Korea Schools were different from American Schools. She asserted that slippers were worn in Korea to keep the floors clean why graffiti were on the walls of American Schools. In Kim ESL (English as second language) class, she hoped to find others like her but the rest of her race had nothing in common because they were poor when they came to the states. Kim learned that her and her fellow F.O.B.’s were separated by generations. According to Kim, coming to America as a teen she felt she was in the middle of the two generations...
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...friends were moved to a labor camp in Bolkenhain. Even though the circumstances of her life were lonely and sad, Gerda came to find this camp comforting. "How gladly i would have stayed in Bolkenhain until the wars end.", page 144. The work load was not so hard, the people were harsh but humane, and she was able to be creative, writing plays for the girls to perform, she was even allowed to write and recieve letters once a week. one came from her father and few from Arthur,...
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...Essay #3 December 3, 2015 Living Comes With a Price There is a price every person must pay in order to be successful. Becoming rich comes with a price. Building a family comes with a price. Even your dreams need to be paid for. In order to achieve your goals or in this case, become filthy rich in rising Asia, you must work hard. In the book “How To Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia” by Mohsin Hamid, the protagonist of the novel, whom remains anonymous narrates his journey of becoming successful. The narrator’s lack of a stable relationship, no family support and bankrupt business; are the prices he must paid for being successful. The narrator after working part-time at a DVD’s shop after school, and falling in love with “the pretty girl”, he starts to think about his future. Being the youngest of the family, the protagonist is able to further his education obtaining a scholarship for the university. Joining a political organization became the only way he was able to secure his safety. The “pretty girl” becomes successful, being advertised on billboards around the city. Thinking about his future becomes crucial, thus he starts selling expired cans of food to small street vendors. During that time he is able to learn about the business and soon he is able to set up his own bottling water business. Although his business grows his lack of a stable relationship is tested. The narrator get married and has a son. The price he pays is not having a stable relationship. He got married...
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...on a young girl Daisy, who is full of life and innocent at the same time. This one particular aspect of the novella that focuses on this young girl has left the novella to analyze from a feminist point of view. Therefore we can say that Daisy Miller focuses on the nature of women, and Henry James portrayed the character of Daisy in order to do that. Daisy is introduced to Europe, and she deals and copes up with the society as well as she lives on her freewill. Unfortunately the consequence of her freewill does not prove to be a very good one. Perhaps this is how Henry wanted to depict the societal position of women. The response for this character Daisy can have a lot of dimensions. Many could easily call Daisy a flirt, many could be confused just like Winterbourne, and many could also support her freewill. Here we should also keep in our mind that although the narrator of the story is unreliable, unnamed and omniscient, yet every detail about Daisy as well as every other character is told from the point of view of Winterbourne. Many readers may get influenced by the comments that Winterbourne and Mrs. Costello makes regarding Daisy and her family. Here we should understand that Winterbourne himself is a confused person, and till the end of the story he is not able to understand what Daisy actually is. On the other hand Mrs. Costello’s remarks on Daisy and her nouveau rich family is nothing but the reflection of prejudice that she holds because of being an “old rich”. Today even...
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...“How I contemplated the…” and “Boys and Girls”, the two demonstrate the adolescence of two teenagers girls. In the stories, both girls had gone through some troubles in searching their identity, desire for attention, but they have completely different approach to it. First of all, both young girls in the stories had gone through some difficulties in defining themselves. In “How I contemplated the…” the central character does not feel the belongingness toward the society and the home she lives at. She thinks everything was ugly and she sees herself as a misfit in there. “All ugly. She eases over to the gloves counter, where everything is ugly too” (Joyce), she states while at the excellent store. She lives in a wonderful home with maids and her parents are very wealthy, but she’s not happy, she does not feel the love from her parents. Similarly, the main character in “Boys and Girls” was struggle in searching her identity between the definition of a girl and herself. Her gender, her mother, and the society had pressured her to become someone against her will. She didn’t want to stay inside the house doing housework like her mother for her entire life. “A girl was not, as I had supposed, simply what I was; it was what I had to become” (Munro). Moreover, both of the young girls in the stories are desire for attention. In “How I contemplate...” the young girl has done many silly things to simply get her parents’ attentions. She’s rich and she can easily ask her parents to get...
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...the opposite sex and a keen observational sense. Sammy notices everything around him, and he drinks in every detail of the girls’ physical appearance, from the texture and patterns of their bathing suits to the different boundaries of their tan lines. Sammy goes beyond the surface details to glean insights about the people he observes. For example, Queenie’s dangling bra straps are intensely interesting in a purely sensual way, but they are also clues from which he begins to construct an image of her inner life. Once he hears the girls speak, his image becomes even more detailed, as he is able to get an impression of Queenie’s social status. Sammy’s focused observations and descriptions reveal his own prejudices and blind spots. For example, Sammy’s frankly lustful ogling of the girls reveals a certain immaturity, and he is dismissive and contemptuous of the A&P customers, seeing them as “sheep” and “houseslaves.” He is equally dismissive of his coworker Stokesie, whom Sammy sarcastically presents as an unimaginative drone. The irony of Sammy’s sense of superiority is that he realizes that, in the eyes of the rich, carefree Queenie, he must seem just like Stokesie and the straight-laced Lengel. His desire to set himself apart from them—to prove that he is different—compels him to quit his job. However, he announces, “I quit” primarily because he wants the girls to overhear him, and the gesture loses resonance when he realizes they didn’t notice it. It seems less wise when he is left...
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