1987‚ after her mother recovered from a serious illness‚ they took a trip to China where Tan reunited with her half-sisters. The trip offered Tan a new perspective on her mother and inspired her to write her first book‚ The Joy Luck Club in 1989. Two Kinds is one of the short stories in The Joy Luck Club. The story takes place around 1960’s‚ where the narrator talks about her childhood and 1980’s towards the end when she had grown up to be an adult about thirty years old. In the sixties‚ many Chinese
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Notes on Emily Dickinson Poems This is my letter to the world Theme- nature holds beauty‚ truth‚ love Speaker – nature lover‚ poet Imagery/ Symbols – hands = people of the world Figurative Lang. – metaphor letter = poem‚ personification (world cannot write to her) Sound Device – slant rhyme – world and told‚ dashes – pauses for effect Structure – 2 quatrains Tone – hopeful Mood - hopeful Hope is a thing with feathers Theme – hope endures‚ hope sustains us through life’s hardships Figurative Lang
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Two Kinds is a story about a Mother’s relationship with her daughter. Jing Mei’s mother came to The United States in 1949 from China and resided in San Francisco‚ California. Her time living China‚ she had lost all hope when she had lost her entire family. She had remarried with her second husband and had Jing Mei. When she moved to the United States she was in the hopes of pursuing her dreams in her daughter. She imposed upon her daughter Jing Mei her high expectations for her. “At first my mother
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The poem “War is Kind” written by Stephen Crane in 1897. The title of the poem is ironic because war is not kind and in the poem a list all of the bad things about war. The theme of the story is completely different than the title. This poem however has more than just one theme there are actually three. Warfare is one of the themes of this poem‚ war is not kind and it is mean. War takes away families it makes them lose their loved ones. All what war is‚ is nothing but lose and heartbreak it only
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material to read‚ but there are also many different types of readers. Readers can be labeled either by what they read‚ or why they read. There are the people who read because reading is something they love to do. These Lovers of Literature do not care what the material is they are reading‚ or what kind of prose it contains; they just read to be reading. I think I belong in this category because I enjoy reading and it is something I do for all sorts of reasons: when I am bored‚ when I am about to go
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fact that he loves his daughter very much‚ though‚ to me‚ it was an instant shock. I always believed that marital love is eternal and perfect. Doesn’t a marriage start by promising eternal love? Isn’t it even considered as a sin if you break the vow? I have come to think recently that my view on marriage is just an idealised imagination. I always refused to face reality. Looking at our society very carefully‚ it seems that not all marriage partners share a strong passionate bonding of love‚ especially
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reasonable belief. Two broad kinds of errors are examined—errors affecting the truth of your ideas and errors affecting the quality of your reasoning. A step-by-step approach to evaluate arguments is also included. B ecause your main objective in addressing an issue is not to find the most effective action but to determine the most reasonable belief‚ your main task in refining an issue is to evaluate your argument to be sure that it is free of error. Two broad kinds of error must be considered
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Stephen Crane’s Writing “The Open Boat” and “War is Kind” has an amazing realist writing in these stories. Stephen Crane is one of the most influential realist writers in America. As Tony Moore biography his life‚ “ Crane was born on November 1‚ 1871‚ in Newark‚ New Jersey. As where he left college in 1891 to work as a reporter and writer. Which brings Crane to the Commodore and where the “Open boat” was created”. “The Open Boat” is based on an incident that occurred when he was a reporter where
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“Kind words can be short and easy to speak‚ but their echoes are truly endless.” This quotation was from Mother Teresa of Calcutta and demonstrates the positive effects of speaking kindly. Speaking kindly can encourage people and it can make you new friends. Kind words can also solve conflict and other various problems. With that being said I believe that kind words can and do help people with problems like loneliness and anxiety. The reason I believe so is because it had happened to me before
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