The Struggle of Cultural Assimilation: An Analysis of Cultural Clash in “Shrapnel Shards on Blue Water” In “Shrapnel Shards on Blue Water” by Lê Thi Diem Thúy‚ the narrator expresses her longing for Vietnam‚ her home country‚ and how she feels that she and other Vietnamese people represent “fragmented shards” in the American culture- isolated members of a foreign culture. She portrays her emotions almost as if she is pursuing an actual person by using the pronoun “you” in the first stanza to
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bridge in his village and searched for food.Crane Man was a pure-hearted person and refused to steal‚ even food.Min mesmerized Tree Ear with his master pottery skills.So Tree Ear left his home to see Min.Which was an issue.That’s basiclly what A Single Shard was about. One event was when Tree Ear went into Min’s workplace and looked and held some of Min’s work.Then Min entered the room‚ assuming he was being robbed.Startled‚ Tree Ear dropped and ruined some of Min’s unfinished work.He offered to work
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The Shard The dictionary defines it as “a broken piece of a brittle artifact” and we call it a mind-blowing architectural masterpiece‚ the new monumental signature of London‚ the conception of a genius‚ delicately crafted and poetically christened‚ The Shard. Sky scrapers are known to be the symbol of modern city for a few centuries and The London Shard - known to be the tallest building in Western Europe stands proudly at 310 meters tall with 95 floors of city life i.e. shops‚ offices‚ restaurants
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works)‚ Ischebaeck Titan on most floors 40+ (concrete support) THE CONCEPT • The Shard was conceived as a building with multiple uses: a vertical city where people could live‚ work and relax. • It comprises world-class offices‚ awardwining restaurants‚ the 5-star Shangri-La Hotel‚ exclusive residences and the UK’s highest viewing gallery‚ The View from The Shard‚ offering 360-degree views. • referred to as the Shard of Glass • The glass-clad pyramidal tower has 72 habitable floors‚ with a viewing
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The book A Single Shard‚ by Linda Sue Park‚ is one of the best books I have ever read with the genre consisting of historical drama. Tree-ear‚ the main character‚ is a parentless‚ 12-year-old child who was raised under a bridge by a kind man with a crippled leg who went by the name of Crane-man. Despite this obviously poor life Tree-ear lived‚ he had one day that he looked forward to that he called‚ “throwing day” a day when a very skilled potter named Min spun a beautiful clay vase to Tree-ear’s
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A Yellow Raft in Blue Water We all experience paradigm shifts throughout our daily lives. After I survived cancer my perceptions on life changed. I learned that people should live their lives to the fullest‚ and to just be themselves. These ideas of getting the most out of life and being true to one’s nature may be applied to the characters in the book A Yellow Raft in Blue Water. The author‚ Michael Dorris‚ portrays the lives of three women‚ and as each woman’s life unfolds‚ the reader experiences
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secrets. Over time one can learn whether or not he or she can trust or believe another will hold that confidence. If that certitude is shattered‚ it takes time again to reconcile and to earn it back. In Michael Dorris’s novel‚ A Yellow Raft in Blue Water‚ Ida is a girl who entrusts in her young Aunt Clara with secrets from school to boys. When Clara reveals Ida’s hope about Willard Pretty Dog‚ the trust is broken; despite this‚ Ida still
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The Effects of Patience “Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.” (Saadi‚ 13th century Iran.) A Single Shard‚ by Linda Sue Park‚ is about Tree-ear (M.C.)‚ an orphaned child who lives in the seaside village of Ch’ulp’o‚ a place where potters reside because of the bountiful amount of clay‚ with a homeless person named Crane-man. Tree-ear’s number one dream is to become a potter like Min‚ the best potter in all of their town. Once he is hired as an assistant for Min‚ he goes
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September fourth: the start of a new school year and the start of my first year at Shard Academy. Shard Academy was one the the three biggest schools in Pramm and it was almost a sanctuary to Bent users like myself. I stood on the subway platform with a few other kids my age to wait for the train. The butterflies in my stomach were flying like crazy‚ this was the most suspenseful thing that ever happened then. Might as well forgot if it was real‚ if weren’t the robotic announcements on the train
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Part One: Story Classification Title‚ Author‚ and Date: “Blue Water Djinn‚” by Téa Obreht (1985). Setting: This story takes place at a beachside hotel composed of bungalows located in Sharm el-Sheik‚ Egypt. It seems to be a semi-popular tourist spot even though sharks and other creatures live in the ocean by this shore. The story itself though refers to other areas around this setting that some of the characters go to in searching for the Frenchman or in the Frenchman’s case his various body parts
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