females. The theme I am going to analyze is the journey that the women in two stories experience as they search for their personal identities. Both “A Pair of Silk Stockings” by Kate Chopin and “The Chrysanthemums” by John Steinbeck deal with the journey to one’s identity‚ but they do so in different ways. In 1896 Kate Chopin wrote the story‚ “A Pair of Silk Stockings”‚ it takes place in an unnamed city large enough to have a department store‚ a fashionable restaurant‚ a theatre‚ a cable car and most
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The statue of Liberty first arrived in America in 1886 and took up permanent residency on Bedloe’s island in New York Harbor. The statue weighs in at 280 tons and is visible for more than 42 miles on a clear day. The statue of Liberty is without a doubt‚ among the most monumental figures in American history. The Statue of Liberty is made of an aluminum scaffolding‚ an iron framework and metal skin made from copper. Originally‚ she was to be made of bronze‚ but weight problems required a switch to
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Considering the two statues‚ Seated Statue of Gudea and Statue of Memi and Sabu‚ it can be seen that the cultural context in which the statues were created plays an important role in the finished work of art. This idea that the context can play a role in the work of art being considered is first introduced to us in the Art History: A preliminary Handbook (Belton‚ 1996.). Dr. Belton notes two types of context‚ Primary and Secondary. Primary context refers to the context of the artist’s life‚
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Statue of Memi and Sabu shows to persons‚ one man and one woman standing beside each other. The man is taller and in both people only part of their body is covered. Seated Statue of Gudea represents a person who is seated and his cloth covers all his body. The person is a man. In the first one‚ the sculpture is lighter and uses a brighter color. In the second one‚ the sculpture uses curvy lines and it sounds like they have used more advanced tools or techniques to make it since it is clear the second
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Marble Statue of a Wounded Warrior Marble Statue of a Wounded Warrior is a Roman statue‚ crafted in the second century A.D.‚ as a copy of a bronze Greek statue cast between 460 and 450 B.C. Though sculpted with obvious technical aptitude‚ Wounded Warrior is riddled with anatomical imprecision and is inhibited by a reluctance to depict the unsightliness of injury in combat. The first time I laid my eyes on this exquisite artifact‚ I was astonished by its fierce presence. The orientation
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the misconceptions are compared to the truth. Surrounded in the confusion‚ people than develop tainted perspectives about other cultures and even their own‚ often leading to struggles in self as well as cultural identity. In Amy Tan’s short story‚ A Pair of Tickets‚ the main character Jing-Mei struggles with her cultural and self-identity but ultimately learns to rethink her misconceptions leading to her understanding of what it truly means to be Chinese. In the first section of the story Tan introduces
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A pair of tickets is a short story written by Amy Tan (1989) in which connects people who don’t feel connected with their culture becoming a loss of their identity. (Kire‚ 2014‚ p. 87). Their actual identity is based on a drastically changes between the transition of their family from an Indian culture and a typical American lifestyle. Ruma felt lost in this rare and unknown standard of living. In contrast‚ with her family which retained and respected their traditional culture. Furthermore‚ Ruma’s
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night at foot locker just to get the latest Jordan’s‚ I find this shocking to believe what people are willing to do just to get a new pair of shoes. Some of my friends have a collection of Jordan’s stacked up against their wall of a value roughly around 3 to 4‚000 dollars shocking I know. I sit back and laugh at my friends for wasting so much money on so many pairs of shoes that’s they don’t need and only wear them like once. Advertisements’ takes a big role in shoes by making athletes wear certain
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The two stories I felt were the best to compare and contrast the theme of long lasting love was th A Pair of Tickets by Amy Tan and A Haunted House by Virginia Wolf. In the story by Amy Tan‚ the family who was separated by a war is finally brought back together when the daughter and her father journey back to the China after the death of her mother. Once they arrive in China‚ her father has a flashback and tells his mother’s story of bravery who left her home with her two babies to avoid being killed
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My poem is titled “Pairs of Mandarin Ducks”. It utilizes structure‚ point of view and diction from both books to show the way the girls’ lives are interwoven. The title is a reference to Snow flower and the secret Fan. On many occasions Lily and Snow Flower referred to themselves as a pair of “mandarin ducks mated for life” () and since both their characters mirror those of Mariam and Laila‚ I changed the pair to pairs to incorporate all four of them. I used an ambiguous point of view‚ to emphasize
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