Taien Ng’s Shun Wai tells the story of a Christian Canadian mother who criticizes her Hong Kong parents because they have a Shun-Wai. A Shun Wai is a shrine to honour a dead ancestor. We should be free to believe what we want to believe and another person cannot say that what we believe in is wrong. The freedom of thought‚ belief‚ opinion‚ and expression is a human right and nobody can take that away from us. In the story Shun Wai the mother criticizes her parents for having a Shun Wai. The mother
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AN OVERVIEW ON NOODLES PRODUCT… Instant noodles are dried or precooked noodles fused with oil and often sold with a packet of flavoring. Dried noodles are usually eaten after being cooked or soaked in boiling water for 2 to 5 minutes‚ while precooked noodles can be reheated or eaten straight from the packet. Instant noodles were invented by Momofuku Andō of Nissin Foods‚ Japan. Page 1 History Instant noodles were first marketed by Momofuku Ando‚ who was born in southwestern Taiwan
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(interpretation)‚ AO2 (analysis) and AO3 (comparisons). According to the mark-scheme‚ a top band response will show:-an insightful understanding of the task and the text Does your answer actually focus on the exam question? DO NOT SIMPLY RETELL THE STORY OF THE POEM -close analysis of detail to support opinions Is your analysis based on examples from the poems? -analysis of the writer’s use of language/structure/form and its effect on the reader Have you written in PEE paragraphs? Do you use
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The New Chinese Generation The story “SHUN-WAI” by Taien Ng investigates the changes and differences of the Chinese culture over time as well and between generations. The narrator Taien is Chinese-Canadian‚ and talks about her experiences in life and how they affect her. In the story Taien first describes her mother as being a strong woman‚ and how her mother would only say “You see? Mothers know best!” (Taien 54). Her mother also then switches the topic to the problems of Taien’s vegetarian
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Taien Ng’s short story Shun-Wai. She maintains that she is Chinese‚ even to the point of accusing her daughter of being like a "gwua-mui"a white girlwhenever she disagrees with her. This behavior is hypocritical since the mother has been acting more like a Christian Canadian than a Chinese woman since her arrival in Canada. The first thing that separates the protagonist’s mother from her Chinese identity is the very fact that "she turned to Jesus." It is insinuated in the short story that the mother
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Wai Kru Day Wai Kru Day is an important day for students which the students pay respect to teachers. The teachers are like second family. They are advising everything. Besides‚ they teach students to be good people and virtue. The ceremony was on Thursday in June. There are many things about arrangement for Wai Kru Day. I realized on three stages: preparation for ceremony‚ activity between ceremony‚ Wai Kru ceremony. There are lots of preparations for ceremony to be perfect. There are decorating
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INTRODUCTION Shun Electronics Company is a medium-sized firm with in the Malaysian electronics industry. Currently there are two operating divisions‚ the KB Monitor division which manufactures computer monitors‚ and the KL Radio division which makes radios. For this case‚ we will be presenting the side from the KL Radio division. The KL Radio division currently makes two basic radios- a shelf model and a portable model. Each of these models is available in three different versions; a bathroom
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Interpretive Report of WAIS—IV Testing Examinee and Testing Information Examinee Name Francisco R Violante Date of Report 11/28/2012 Examinee ID Education M.D. Date of Birth 02/11/1963 Home Language Spanish Gender Male Handedness Right Race/Ethnicity Hispanic Examiner Name Carmen Adriana Torres Test Administered WAIS—IV (11/28/2012) Age at Testing 49 years 9 months Retest? No WAIS—IV Comments Score Summary WAIS—IV Scale Score Verbal Comprehension 118 Perceptual
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Wong Kar Wai: A Top View "When did everything start to have an expiration date?" That ’s a question posed by a lovelorn cop in Wong Kar-Wai ’s 1994 film ChungKing Express‚ and in a sense that line is a conveys what Wong ’s films are all about. Wong Kar-Wai’s body of work has an immanent sense of flowing time and space that creates a blend that gives us the sense of fleeting time‚ memory and the chaos of the contemporary urban life. He is one of the most influential directors of Hong Kong with
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Yao‚ Shun‚ and Yu (Three Sage Kings) “The Point of View that underlies the Yijing of I Ching is that instead of trying to understand events to past causes‚ it understands events by relations to their present pattern… we do not understand something by what went before so much as we for by understanding what went with it.” China is greatly fashioned today by traditions and customs from ancient times. Some of the greatest influence on Chinese culture is the Three Sage Kings Yao‚ Shun and Yu
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