Alexandra Simmons Professor Collum English 1302.0410 February 21‚ 2013 “Saving Sourdi” Part I In “Saving Sourdi” by May-Lee Chai‚ the author creates Sourdi and Nea’s characters using description‚ narration‚ dialog‚ and commentary. Description “Sourdi looked like a statue that had been rescued from the sea. She was smooth where I had angles and soft where I was bone. Sourdi’s face was round‚ her nose low and wide‚ her eyes crescent-shaped like the quarter moon‚ her hair sleek as seaweed.
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international mosaic. Most of these immigrants have difficulty integrating into the U.S. society because their own cultural baggage‚ frames of references and convictions do prevent them from effectively taking on the new culture. The two stories‚ "Saving Sourdi" by May-Lee Chai and “Clothes” by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni‚ are about becoming Americanized through women’s rights and arranged marriages. In the story‚ “Clothes” by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni‚ after the death of her husband‚ Sumita
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101 1-5-09 Compare and Contrast A Sorrowful Woman by Gail Godwin and “Saving Sourdi” by May-Lee Chai are two stories about how family will always be there for you‚ no matter what. The central themes in both of these stories are similar‚ but the methods the authors use to portray them differ. May-Lee Chai was the first of her family to be born in the United States‚ so it wasn’t hard for her to relate while writing “Saving Sourdi”‚ which is about a struggling Asian family living in the south. Growing
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Part 1: Summary Saving Private Ryan takes place at the in in 1944‚ during the second World War. It starts off with American soldiers arriving at Omaha‚ France by boat and engaging in an extremely bloody battle. One of the American commanders‚ Captain John H. Miller is then chosen to lead a new special mission: to find and return Private James Ryan back home because he is the last remaining son out of three who had been K.I.A.. Captain Miller assembled seven men to join him on the mission and
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Saving Private Ryan – Movie Analysis 1. Throughout the movie‚ Captain Miller continues to lead his enemy unit even when he thinks the mission’s objectives are not worth risking the lives of his men and his own life. How and why does he convince his men to continue in this seemingly meaningless assignment? Captain Miller persuades his cooperative men to go above and beyond their assignment‚ inspiring them to see the big objective of winning the war‚ resolving moral conflicts among his men‚ and
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The ‘Saving Nemo- Vanuatu’ is a documentary based on the export of crown fish‚ which became famous since the movie ‘Finding Nemo’ released‚ is fished from the waters of Vanuatu by a foreign company and exported to other countries such as Australia and United States of America. The names of the cultures represented in the documentary are traditional culture that is shown by the people of Vanuatu‚ on the island of Nuna‚ “the magic man declares taboo invoking the spirits to protect sea and whoever defies
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Cheyenne Bautista-Spencer Colorado Technical University Phase 2 Discussion Board “Saving Sourdi” Clare Barker February 25‚ 2015 “Once‚ when my older sister‚ Sourdi‚ and I were working alone in our family’s restaurant‚ just the two of us and the elderly cook‚ some men got drunk and I stabbed one of them. I was eleven” (Chai‚ 2001). The opening statement to‚ “Saving Sourdi” written by May-lee Chai‚ set the tone for the narrative. Nea‚ the narrator‚ clearly expresses her strong feelings of
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Cherlyn Marshall Ms. Webb English 0321-309 Nov. 14‚ 2011 Saving Planet Earth I was reading a story about recycling‚ and what it means to recycle‚ it means to reduce and reuse materials so that we save the raw materials. If you reduce and reuse it saves on greenhouse gasses and emissions. It will keep our
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Caoimhe Gillin 11/3/13 1116 – English 101 Humans are worth saving The world is a crazy place and has evolved from so little‚ into a gigantic world. This world is full of amazing technology‚ the works of creative minds‚ and good people. If anything we should be spared by aliens because of the huge milestones the human race has embarked on. Though coming together and inventing the things we have today‚ the human race has changed planet Earth in a unique way. Although humans are susceptible to make
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Photography: Saving Nature “A good snapshot stops a moment from running away.” - Eudora Welty. There are many different types of photography: Portraiture‚ commercial advertising‚ nature photography and photojournalism. Nature photography‚ in particular‚ can be used to document life and nature on planet earth that could be destroyed within seconds by a natural disaster. It can also be used to help preserve and raise public awareness of the wilderness just like Group f/64‚ Ansel Adams and Imogen Cunningham
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