Why Chinese mothers are superior Amy Chua a Yale professor who specializes in topics such as ethnic conflict and globalization‚ believes that the American parenting style is weak and cuddling. This article is from her essay titled Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother‚ explains her opinions in more detail. “In one study of fifty western American mothers and forty-eight Chinese immigrant mothers‚ almost 70% of the western mothers said either that stressing academic success is not good for children
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She does not mother Kevin because of a strong love bond between them but out of a model that intensively pervades Western culture. She exposes with her attitude the constructedness of the maternal‚ making vivid the gap between aspiration and practice. Eva’s attempts to play the mother’s role generate an increasing awareness of mothering as an artificial performance‚ and of the child as an abstract concept that the reality often contradicts. Parenting emerges not as a natural ability but as a learned
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At the age of 13 my birth mother got pregnant with me. In September of 1998 3 ½ months early‚ I was born premature with no complications and then a month later in October I was diagnosed with spinal meningitis. Now for a 13 year old mom this was a lot to handle and all this just happened to fall on October 31st‚ Halloween (remember this for later in the story). Shortly after having me‚ my birth mom got pregnant with my sister. Many times me and my sister have heard “You guys are so close in age”
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In the article‚ “Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior‚” the author Amy Chua‚ talks about how “Chinese mothers” identify different than “Western mothers.” Amy has two daughters and was brought into the U.S. at the age of one. She writes this to show how she raises her daughters as westen kids brought up by a Western father and a Chinese mother. She writes this to inform mislead people about the common stereotypes of Chinese kids that tend to be the best at academics. Chua joins the argument that Western
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members have affected me in the sense that I have changed either culturally or religiously. There is one special person who isn’t family by blood but I consider family because of our close relationship. She is my best friends mother whom I consider to also be my mother. I have known her since sixth grade and ever since my life has changed. She has changed my life socially through religion. I am the type of person that finds happiness through the happiness of others. There have been three events
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Name: Institution: Course: Date: “The Mother‚” by Gwendolyn Brooks The poem talks about a mother’s regret for the aborted children‚ she failed to bring into this earth and by extension give life. The poem is a lamentation of the dreams that failed to materialize because of a single decision. In the first line‚ the reader finds evidence of this in the warning about abortion not letting the guilty individual forget. The poet gives a vivid description of what an aborted child looks like‚ describing
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Should mothers work outside the home? Today‚ mothers are working outside the home even though they’ve just given birth to their children. However‚ there are a lot of concerned things that must be considered but the most important things to consider are the lack of caring the children and the economic reasons. The first concerned thing for the working mothers is how to raise their children while they are working. Some mothers want to play the full role of mothers by quitting their jobs and looking
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womenship. She was brought to Maycomb to be a kind of mother figure. The thing is I don’t get that. Calipernia is at least three times as beter of a mother than Aunt Alexandra. Now I will tell you why. I will start with Calpernia first. She is twice as hard on Scout and Jem if they do something wrong than an actual mother. She has a good moral and a good way of teaching the kids and Atticus agrees. The second reason that she is a better mother figure is that she cares for the wellbeing of the kids
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Poem and Song #1: Never Give Up “Mother to Son” by Langston Hughes is a well-known piece written during the Harlem Renaissance. In this poem‚ Hughes uses a mother-figure as a narrator. She is speaking to her son and telling him about her life. She has had a rough life but has persevered to this point and plans on continuing that. She tells her son to never give up and to keep going even when it’s hard. The overall tone of this poem is one of hope and perseverance. When Hughes’ narrator says
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may be that we don’t have any real choice because our family couldn’t survive without the (second) income. Now if we already have a job before becoming a mother‚ it may be a case of deciding whether to go back to work full-time or part-time or to resign. The likelihood is you made the choice to be one of the many working mothers for one of the three reasons; 1. You needed adult interaction; you felt still crazy stuck in the house; 2. You needed to bring in some cash; and 3.
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