Title: Research report on gender differences in conforming behaviour at traffic lights. Abstract This study was carried out to examine gender differences in relation to conformity at pedestrian crossing. The hypothesis of this study was that females were more likely to conform than men at pedestrian crossing. This study involved recording all pedestrians that used the pedestrian crossing at the junction of Aungier Street and Cuffe Street over a 30 minute period. The total number of pedestrians
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Not My Dream In the story “Two Kinds” by Amy Tan‚ we are shown the struggles of a young girl Jing-Mei. Her struggle is that of a young girl growing up and trying to find her own sense of identity. Her troubles are compounded by her mother‚ who convinces her that she can become someone important. Because of her mother’s constant overbearing behavior‚ Jing-Mei does everything she can to annoy and displease her mother even to the point of being a failure. This fight to find
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Amy Cuddy creates a sense of ethos and authority on the topic through citing credible and relevant sources‚ discussing her credentials‚ and by making the speech easy to understand. At the beginning of her speech‚ Cuddy cites research from two well accredited sources. The first was Nalini Ambady‚ a researcher at Tufts University‚ and the second was Alex Todorov at Princeton. Not only does she tell the audience the people she has gotten the information from‚ but the institutions that they are a part
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Two Kinds by Amy Tan A: Synopsis This short story‚ ‘Two Kinds’ is more focused on the relationships between mother and daughter. The narrator of this story‚ Jing Mei recalls of the days when her mother wanted her to be a prodigy in America. Her mother moved to San Francisco when she lost everything in China. At first‚ she thought that her daughter would be like Shirley Temple as they watched how talented Shirley Temple was in acting. And one day when the narrator’s mother saw a young Chinese girl
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A Pair of Tickets Amy Tan Amy Tan’s A Pair Of Tickets is a story concerning family and roots. June May‚ like the author herself‚ was a Chinese born in USA and grew up with an American background culture‚ whereas her mother grew up in China and then immigrated to America. Looking at the repeated words‚ we discussed that one there are many words such as mother‚ sister‚ father and Aiyi. Most of the characters in this story belong to one family‚ June May’s family. It suggests to us that the
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Famed author Amy Tan was born on February 19‚ 1952 in Oakland California. Her father was an electrical engineer and a Baptist minister. Her mother believed in Chinese spirits and left behind three daughters when she immigrated to America. Tan was raised in Northern California‚ but when her older brother and father both died from brain tumors‚ her mother took her and her younger brother to Europe. By the time she graduated high school‚ she had been attended eleven schools. She also got arrested for
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In her essay‚ Scar‚ Amy Tan analyzes and speaks about several members of An-mei’s family. She spends most time talking about her mother and grandmother named Popo. When An-mei was very young‚ her mother was shunned and disowned by the family. For as long as An-mei could remember‚ her mother was even called a ghost by Popo. An-mei grew up with her brother‚ Popo‚ auntie‚ and uncle in a large house in Ningpo. The relationships and personalities of An-mei‚ her mother‚ and Popo can all be seen and analyzed
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The things that make me smile are my friends‚ my family‚ different types of music‚ sports‚ reading books‚ and just being me. Fun group projects make me smile. The sports that I like to play are volleyball and tennis and I also like to dance and they make me excited to do. I am very competitive but I don’t let it get in the way of having fun. The ideas and things that ignite my mind are sometimes ordinary things we do in class or something funny that happened at lunch. For example‚ I like to write
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Having emerged victorious from World War II‚ the United States faced new obstacles to safeguard the nation from communist threats. New polices‚ ideals‚ and regressions of progress defined the years after the war‚ as observed in the film Mona Lisa Smile. The film‚ taking place in a women’s college during 1953‚ adequately portrays the issues stemming from World War II (Mona Lisa). Connections can be inferred between the film and the speeches read on the issues of birth control‚ potential life opportunities
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“A Pair of Tickets” The short story “A pair of Tickets” by Amy Tan is really an interesting story to read. This short story is about June‚ a Chinese girl who travels to China with her father after the death of her mother. June was struggling with herself identity‚ but traveling to China and meting her twin sisters make her realize how much she was missing on her culture. I have experienced many things in life that are identical to this story. June was struggling with her identity because she looks
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