During Rabbi Amy Eilberg’s talking workshop‚ we explored experiences of estrangement‚ conflict‚ and enmity in our own interpersonal relationships‚ workplaces‚ communities. The thing I found the most interesting to me was the quality of being a peace seeker. Knowing that she helps synagogues and Jewish organizations place the pursuit of peace in interpersonal relationships at the center of their communal mission‚ she is the ultimate peace seeker. Qualities of a peace seeker are having kindness‚
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Though the two stories “Fish cheeks” and “Two Kinds” have many similarities‚ their differences play a key role in defining each individual story. Both stories have the same basic setup; they are each told from the point of view of a young Asian-American girl‚ who are both the daughters of generation Chinese immigrants. This proves to be a source of conflict in the two stories‚ due to the fact that the cultural and generational differences between both mother-daughter duos. In the story “Fish Cheeks
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Amy Mcgrath mentions that she is a retired marine in the beginning of her political ad as an exertion of Ethos. Often it is presumed that veterans are either heroes and should be treated with respect for their service to America‚ or that they make up a large portion of the homeless and disemployment population. Both perceptions‚ in reality‚ are strongly skewed by the media as less than ten percent of the homeless population are veterans‚ and about 70% of people believe that veterans help America’s
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In the story Speak Melinda is being seen by other students on the bus is very different from how the readers are viewing Melinda. At the beginning of the story Melinda gets on the bus at the first stop and she decides that she will sit in the front in hopes that one of her friends would sit with her. In the story Melinda says‚ “If I sit in the front‚ it will make me look like a little kid‚ but I figured it is my best chance I have making eye contacts with one of my friends‚ if any of them decided
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Acceptance is an important step to communication. The prejudiceness of people can push acceptance away lacking the communication that could bring them together. In Amy Tan’s essay‚ "Mother Tongue‚"� she tells about her mother’s immigrant experience and her feelings towards her mother’s struggles with the English language. Many people come to the U.S. hoping for a better life‚ but are faced with tough challenges. Of all the challenges they are faced with‚ the language barrier is one of the hardest
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Shaun Tan Shaun Tan‚ born in 1974‚ is an award winning illustrator and author of many well-known children’s books. Tan was born and raised in Fremantle‚ Western Australia‚ where as a boy‚ spent his time writing and illustrating poems and stories. Tan was known at his primary school as very talented artist. Through out high school‚ Tan continued his passion for illustrating‚ where he was enrolled in a special art program for gifted students. However‚ Tan eventually took an academic path into university
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Mother tongue by Army Tan employs the aspects of simplicity to appeal to the audience. In her introduction‚ she brings herself to the same level as his audience which makes them attentive and desires to know more. The author uses easily understood English which makes the readers easily relate to what she is saying. The author employs the aspect of the flashback where she tells her audiences about her experience speaking broken English and where this makes today‚ her viewers curious and to listen
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centuries many children have experienced the pressure of fulfilling their parents’ expectations or following in their footsteps. This pressure will oftentimes have a negative effect for the children of those parents. In the chapter of Amy Tan’s Joy Luck Club‚ “Two Kinds‚” the reader is introduced to Jing-mei‚ a young Chinese girl who wishes to become the prodigy that her mother wishes her to be. However‚ her constant disappointment in the many challenges her mother presents her causes her to lose hope
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Out of the Ordinary: On What Makes Yvette Tan’s Horror in “Waking the Dead and Other Horror Stories” Different from the Usual Since the dawn of time‚ horror has already been thriving on the Philippine mainstream (A. Paman‚ 2010). Men and women‚ old and young‚ alike‚ have been fond of being scared by the characters of the child-imitating tiyanak‚ the tree demon kapre‚ the vampire-like aswang‚ the horse-headed-human-bodied tikbalang‚ and the violent spirits‚ among others. When a typical Filipino
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something they are not. Although people are adapting‚ and even accepting gender diversity stereotypes exist. Amy Zimmerman‚ the author of "It Ain’t Easy Being Bisexual on TV‚" states "Our mainstream media reinforces the notion that bisexuality is either a fun‚ voluntary act of experimentation or a mere myth through two tried and true tactics: misrepresenting and oversimplifying bisexual characters until they are either punchlines or wet dream fodder"(p562). She proclaims that bisexual actresses/actors
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