After reading Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior by Amy Chua‚ I learned three key differences between Chinese and Western “mothering.” First‚ Western parents are focused on the physiological behavior of academics and self-esteem issues with their children while Chinese parents are not. Second‚ Western parents view their children to try their best and do not need to repay the parents‚ in contrast Chinese parents view their children to be permanently in debt to them. Last‚ Chinese parents believe that
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1) Topic: ”Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior” Writer: Amy Chua‚ a professor at Yale Law School‚ USA. Reader: Parents from the Western World‚ who are also readers of The Wall Street Journal. Language: Well written text‚ with an extensive vocabulary. It is written to some extent with formal jargon. Circumstances: The writer’s home. She lives with her daughters and husband. There is a flashback into Chua’s childhood as well. Intention: She is trying to clarify the differences between Chinese parents
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proposes a plan to help evoke a sense of pity for Dublin’s poor. A satirical tone is expressed throughout as Swift ‘modestly’ proposes a plan to kill underprivileged children. Through the use of ethos‚ logos‚ pathos‚ and kairos‚ Swift expresses ways to improve his country. Throughout the story‚ Swift uses ethos to help create a sense of credence towards his ideas. Swift’s proposal describes how Dublin could potentially benefit from it. He states how he has “no children‚ by which I can propose to get
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For any mother out there that has a daughter‚ they only want what’s best for them. In this story four Chinese women who all recently moved to San Francisco in the 1940’s. The one thing besides being immigrants to America that these ladies can relate on is that having American-born daughters is not an easy task. Amy Tan allows the readers to relate to the painful‚ and always the deep connection that these women have
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Sinners Analysis Essay In his sermon "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"‚ Preacher Jonathan Edwards proclaims that if the churchgoers do not recognize their sins they will be sentenced to internal damnation by God himself. He uses pathos to strike fear in people’s hearts to make them change their actions. Jonathan’s purpose is to put fear in the people to stop them from sinning in order to get them to keep with the good Christian faith. Jonathan delivers his sermon to those who are lacking in
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and eye witnesses of gruesome experiences. She accompanied her interviews with an array of video clips to back up her interviewer’s testimonies for her film. Cowperthwaite built her argument against Seaworld by using various examples of ethos‚ logos‚ and pathos. She used them with skill to make a strong and convincing argument with solid logic and without using any logical fallacies. In
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Ethos is when a person is making a point based on credibility (CITE). Fred used his own credibility and experience to persuade me to purchase the Apple TV. He advised me to purchase the Apple TV since I am a huge Apple user. Since I own a MacBook and iPhone I have the option to connect all three while I could not do this with the other digital media products. Pathos is used to appeal to a person’s emotions (CITE). For example‚ Fred showed me a demonstration of what type of applications are on
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Kennedy uses specific language to pull emotion and logic into his address. Pathos‚ or an emotional appeal‚ is evident throughout his speech. For example‚ President Kennedy cries‚ “Today‚ there are Negroes...denied equal rights‚ denied the opportunity to eat at a restaurant or a lunch counter or go to a movie theater‚ denied the
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word “mother.” Like anything else all language has an origin. Likewise‚ language is something that comes from a source but changes‚ or is raised‚ over time. Different languages are native to different people and some language is protected over time‚ whether through books or the human mind. In her work “Mother Tongue‚” Amy Tan explores the creation of her language and her mother’s role in it through her literary skills to relate to the reader‚ like me. As a first generation Asian American‚ Amy Tan
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Different paths to success In the article “Why Chinese Mothers are Superior” written by Amy Chua‚ a professor at Yale Law School and author of other known articles‚ she informs the reader how Chinese mothers educate and raise their successful children stereotypically. In response to Amy Chua’s article‚ Christine Carter wrote “Chinese Mother Controversy: Why Amy Chua is wrong about parenting.” With these two articles it compares how Chinese mother and Western American parents both differently teach nd
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