A Comparative Study of Initiation Theme Between The Color Purple and The Joy Luck Club Abstract The Color Purple (1982) and The Joy Luck Club (1989) are two distinguished works of American minority literature. Under a comparative study‚ these two books tend to enjoy a similar initiation mode. First of all‚ the women in the two books similarly face the difficulties sparked by the confusion of cultural identity‚ the racial discrimination‚ and the sexual discrimination. Second‚ the novels develop
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“The Joy of Reading and Writing: Superman and Me” Reading “The Joy of reading and Writing: Superman and Me‚” gave me a different perspective of reading and writing. Sherman Alexie‚ who grew up on the Spokane Reservation in Wellpinit‚ Washington‚ explains his life as an Indian boy‚ and how reading and writing helped his life to succeed. Alexie purposes is to discuss how he first learned how to read and write‚ his intelligence as a young Indian boy‚ and Alexie as an adult teaching creative writing
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Amy Tan portrays Lindo Jong‚ mother of Waverly Jong‚ as a brave‚ intelligent woman who uses her wit in order to get out of a restrained marriage. She shows an unwavering loyalty to her family as she sacrifices her‚ “life to keep [her] parents promise‚” (42). Lindo deals with the harassment from her in-laws‚ as well as the childlike nature of her husband. She eventually receives abuse from her own daughter when she doesn’t fit the expectations of both Waverly and the society. Even through all these
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to live their lives. They may always tell their children “you need to learn from your own mistakes”‚ but when it comes down to it‚ they want to keep their children from possibly making the same mistakes they did. In the short story‚ “ Aren’t you Happy for Me?” by Richard Bausch‚ Melanie’s father‚ Jack‚ is not too thrilled about the idea of his young daughter marrying a much‚ much older man. Later in the story‚ we learn that Jack is divorcing Melanie’s mother. Jack overacts about his daughter
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Hall-Evans 1 Susan Hall-Evans S. Fong English 1a 09/25/2014 What Makes You Happy? Advertising is tricky. The challenge facing most advertising groups is creating the allure to get the consumer to buy their products. In advertising the lay out is just as important as the context of the ad. The advertisers use all forms to entice us: color‚ typography‚ catch words‚ and of course things that appeal to our vulnerabilities. These catch words are words which are
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The Joy luck Club The Joy luck Club is an amazing Asian American movie. This movie is about four Chinese women‚ who created a club during a war to have fun.. The story line up based on their past life‚ struggles and how they got abused by men. It’s also shows us the conflict between immigrant mother and their American raised children. The title of the movie didn’t give us that much information but we can get a basic idea that this film is about a club. The transition of the movie was incredible
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Hillel Schwartz‚ author of Never Satisfied‚ observes in the short essay “Fat and Happy?” that in the United States‚ “a fat person’s prior identification is with fatness; as a status‚ fatness comes before religion‚ race‚ sexual preference‚ income‚ gender. Only in a society so content with doing away with fatness could it become such a distinct and negative stigma” (par. 10). Schwartz’s comment gives a brief glimpse into what could be described as the fat society; a never ending series of fat discrimination
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When was the last time you took inventory on your happiness? Find out how you stack up with Dr. Robert Holden’s Be Happy Index (or jaw crusher). Once you have your results‚ you can examine 10 different areas—self‚ relationships‚ work‚ attitude‚ gratitude‚ forgiveness‚ humor‚ health‚ spirituality and now—to increase your happiness‚ starting right now‚ with this step-by-step guide. Happiness is your original nature—it is what you first experienced before you began to identify with a body‚ a family
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in men belonging to Chinese descent. For instance‚ in The Joy Luck Club‚ Waverly Jong states “I wasn’t too much afraid as I was for my mother‚ as I was for Rich. I already knew what she would do‚ she would attack him‚ how she would criticize him (191).” The remaining bits and pieces that Waverly has of her culture will be lost as she shall become further Americanized in her mother’s perspective and this idea does not seem to make her happy. Correspondingly‚ when Pearl’s husband is forced to go to
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Comparing and Contrasting the Joy and Misery of Adolescence. Compare and Contrast both the joy and the misery of adolescence as depicted in J.D Salinger Catcher in the Rye‚ Dead Poets Society (film) and the poems‚ Adolescence by Aidan Foster-Carter and Class Discussion by Gloria Yates. Adolescence is the process of changing from a child into an adult. During this period of change young people mature physically‚ begin to take responsibility for themselves‚ and start to deal with the world of their
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