my little sister has grown up. We were wiping each other’s tears as June May’s dad took a photo of us. We stood around as the picture June May held developed. I remember when we first learned about our real mom. Mei Ching‚ who we thought was our mother‚ told us how she saw us on the side of the road when we were babies. “How could I resist?” she later said about that day. It was when everyone was fleeing when the Japanese were taking over Kweilin‚ and we were left on the side of the road. Mei
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Club‚ by Amy Tan‚ centers on the interconnected story lines of four immigrant Chinese-American mothers and their now grown‚ adult daughters. The mothers meet every month to play Mahjong and enjoy Chinese delicacies in their social group‚ the ‘Joy Luck Club’. When Jing-Mei “June” Woo’s mother Suyan Woo dies‚ June takes her mother’s place at the meetings. At June’s first meeting‚ the older women tell her stories about the past in China and lament the barriers between The other three mothers worry
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necessary for success? These are the two major forces driving‚ parenting techniques today. Raising a successful child becomes an important matter as numerous controversial opinions concerning parenting spring up from time to time. Amy Chua‚ in her article‚ “Why Chinese Mothers are Superior”‚ argues that to a great extent that the Tiger Mom approach to parenting is the best way to raise a successful child. In contrast‚ her western critics believe that nurturing a child’s self esteem propels them into
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during his school years‚ “Hair’’ from the Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcom X and Alex Haley focuses on how it can be hard to accept oneself when society tries to say different‚ and “Two Kinds’’ from The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan tells about a distraught relationship between a mother and daughter over piano lessons. Culture Clash is
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national or international language‚ it is recommended that children experience at least five to eight years of education in their mother tongue while gradually being introduced to other dominant languages (Thomas & Collier‚ 2002 in Oredina‚ et al 2015). The strategy of beginning school in the first language and eventually adding other languages is commonly called Mother Tongue-Based Multilingual Education‚ or MTB-MLE. A UNESCO report (Baron‚ 2012) on the importance of language to the Millennium Development
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[THE IMPORTANCE OF THE MOTHER TONGUE ON LEARNİNG SECOND LANGUAGE] -THE MOTHER TONGUE AS A VİTAL POINT- The language is the most important tool in human life to survive.We use language in order to inform the people around us of what we feel‚ what we desire‚ and understand the world around us. We communicate effectively with our words‚ gestures‚ and tone of voice in a multitude of situation. Not only is it a means of communicating thoughts and ideas‚ but it
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I. Introduction Background of the Study Before we discuss the so-called Gullas bill or the proposed act strengthening and enhancing the use of English as a medium of instruction‚ let’s get a backgrounder on the state of education in the Philippines. For every 100 children that start grade one in our country‚ only 65 will reach Grade 6‚ the others having dropped out along the way (with 18 of the dropouts occurring between Grade 1 and Grade 2). What this means is that even before these children
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that they are portrayed in US media‚ where they get straight A’s‚ aspire to become doctors‚ and have strict parents who starve and beat them. So when I came across the New York Times article “Why Chinese Mothers are Superior” by Amy Chua‚ it made me wonder‚
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Chinese Mothers Are Superior” by Amy Chua. Mrs. Chua explained in her essay how Chinese mothers use tactics of obedience‚ discipline and etc. to raise their children in a way that differs the way western parents do. In the beginning of this essay‚ the readers are told that the author Amy Chua‚ Is a professor at a university called Yale Law School and she has two daughters that she raised in her Chinese way. Furthermore‚ the audience read that Mrs. Chua sees herself as a so-called “Chinese Mother” (Chua
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Social settings in “Rules of the Game” by Amy Tan The physical and social settings of “Rules of the Game” create an atmosphere which helps to bring out the true essence of the story [The rest of the paper continues from here] Arora 2 Assignment 2 “Rules of the Game” written by Amy Tan is a short story that focuses on the conflict in identity that Chinese Americans
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