Andrew Pham‚ author of Catfish and Mandala‚ is on a journey of self-exploration. Family dysfunction‚ the illusions of the past‚ and the inability to move forward and find meaning to life when living between two cultures‚ are all catalysts’ for Pham return Vietnam. Contrary to being welcomed with open arms‚ Andrew is referred to as Viet-kieu when he is in Vietnam‚ a derogatory term meaning Vietnamese-American. Vietnamese people feel that the Viet-kieu abandoned everything about their culture when
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The American novelist Thomas Wolfe once wrote‚ "You can’t go home again". Andrew Pham proved that wrong. "Andrew X. Pham‚ who came to the United States when he was ten years old as a ’boat person‚’ returned to Vietnam 20 years later on an extended bike trip in order to understand better his cultural identity" (Pearl 208). Despite the fact that Pham‚ like so many others of his generation‚ were forced to flee Vietnam‚ somehow they never lost the sense of identity with the homeland they only remembered
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impossible. In Andrew X. Pham’s The Catfish and Mandala: A 2 Wheeled Voyage Through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam‚ he tells an autobiography of his life‚ including both the big and little details that helped make him who he is today. On his journey to Vietnam‚ he meets an elderly man named Quan. Quan tells Andrew that Chi‚ Andrew’s late sister‚ became “too American” (184). Analyzing Quan’s statement along with other events in Andrew’s life and family‚ since Chi was born in Vietnam‚ the
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A “Catfish” is a person who creates a fake profile online and pretends to be someone they are not by using someone else pictures and information. These “Catfish” use social media sites such as‚ “Facebook” and “twitter”‚ usually with the intention of getting other people or a person to fall in love with them. “MTV” and the producers of the 2010 documentary film “Catfish” send Nev Schulmon and his friend and film maker Max Joseph to help couples who have never met in real life. They want to know if
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11 “CATFISH” Documentary Produced by: Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman Nicole Stone Cinematic Analysis Com 252 Ms. Golliher‚ Somerset Section Spring 2011 In 2007‚ filmmakers Ariel Schulman and Henry Joost starting filming a documentary of Ariel’s brother Yaniv (Nev)‚ who is a 24 year old photographer from New York. This film is an intriguing documentary about love and deception and how Nev gets involved into a internet relationship on the facebook. It all starts when one of Nev’s photos
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Title: Factors affecting Bimodal respiration in the catfish Corydoras aeneus Abstract: The catfish‚ Corydoras aeneus is an organism that respires bimodally ‚ that it is being capable of drawing oxygen from both water and air. It carries out aerial respiration through it’s adapted posterior intestine.This experiment was done in order to determine the disadvantages of aerial respiration by manipulation of oxygen content and depth. The effect of dissolved oxygen‚ when the fish was placed into a cylinder
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is a very honest exploration of what it means to return to a country of your roots but where you no longer fit in. Pham struggles to reconcile his own perceptions of present day Vietnam‚ his guilt at what he has and doesn’t have‚ and where his own family fits both in Vietnam and in the US. While the book covers the beginning to end of his cycling journey‚ there are no simple solutions presented. This is an excellent read. In narrating his search for his roots‚ Vietnamese-American and first-time
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Mandalas are symbols used in Hinduism and Buddhism that represent reality. They have religious value and are used to represent the cosmos and utilized for meditation. They have geometric or iconic symbols on them which each hold specific symbolic meanings (McFarlane). Mandalas have many mathematical aspects to them in addition to the religious and spiritual characteristics for which they are known. Mandalas have been around for so long that there is uncertainty whether the geometric patterns were
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that produce their catfish in countries such and Vietnam. Companies such as these usually use develop good relations with suppliers and are not likely going to purchase a product which is unhealthy‚ dangerous‚ or in some other way liable to cost them a law suit. I believe it is fair business practice for Vietnamese catfish importers to step in and capture market share while the market has been expanded due to the domestic industry. In a reverse situation I feel American catfish importers would have
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Catfish in the Bathtub Response As you walk in past the brown hazelnut colored door‚ the aroma of Chinese herbs fill your nose and like every other Asian house‚ there’s a shoe rack right when you walk in the door. Around dinner time‚ the meter long table would be filled with food—some looking edible while some makes you want to feed it to the dogs. Sometimes the food would be pig blood and liver made into a soup or chicken feet. To me‚ I don’t eat that stuff and if I had a decision you would see
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