Coming out of "My Heterophobia" Closet Growing up in a heterosexual world as a Lesbian who remained in many closets‚ has shape my identity and the way I will transact with people for the rest of my life. Upon coming out of closet‚ or being pushed out (by suspension from parents and friends) at the age of eighteen or nineteen I quickly assumed the bi-sexual title because it meant at least there was hope for me in the future. This proved to be worse for my self-esteem‚ and may have caused the most
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Out of Time By Kieren Hovasapian Out of Time is a poem written by Kenneth Slessor and is one of his personally favorite poems to date he has written. Time is personified in this poem‚ but also associated with the natural phenomenon of water‚ or vessels such as yachts seen on Slessor’s favorite location‚ Sydney Harbor (which is itself personified). Personification gives immediacy to an abstraction such as time‚ and elicits evaluative responses which are more arresting than an address to an abstraction
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humans could discover resources (oil‚ gas‚ coal‚ water‚ diamonds...etc.)on other planets‚ to help sustain the way we live on Earth. The biggest reason why the possibility of future discovery justifies the space program‚ is to find out if there are other living species out there‚ and to uncover the mysteries of space and time. With the space program it is possible that we could find another planet‚ like Earth‚ that could sustain our ways of life‚ which is a great thing because it gives humans a second
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Anthropology The Joy Luck Club Film Analysis The Wayne Wang’s film‚ Joy Luck Club‚ based on a novel by Amy Tan‚ tells a story of eight women. The movie is a tale of four mothers and their four daughters and their struggles through out life. The film is divided into four sections; where each mother and her corresponding daughter tell their story from their perspectives. A theme of pain and suffering encompasses each mother’s story‚ while a fear of being a disappointment is a central theme
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Joy Luck Club is a movie about the fate of four Chinese immigrant mothers; Suyuan‚ An-mei‚ Lindo ‚ and Ying-ying ‚ and their four Americanized daughters; June‚ Rose‚ Waverly‚ and Lena. In The Joy Luck Club the daughters are too young and naive to understand their mothers and the hardship they faced. The mothers want their daughters to break the American habit of only looking at people’s outward appearances. The mothers’ want their daughters to realize that they have a better life in America than
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Ying-ying and Lena’s Dark Side Amy Tan is a Chinese-American and she is the author of the novel The Joy Luck Club. Suyuan Woo‚ An-Mei Hsu‚ Lindo Jong and Ying-ying St. Clair are in The Joy Luck Club. The novel is about these four different characters and their relationships with their daughters. Lena and her mother‚ Ying-ying‚ are similar in many ways. Both can see what others can’t. Lena explains‚ “Because even as a young child‚ I could sense the unspoken terrors that surrounded our house‚ the
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and every obstacle we overcome‚ strengths our expectations in succeeding. Through every step‚ we question our luck‚ some of us fail and when they do‚ the only excuse they give is "bad luck". In my opinion‚ luck does exist but it won’t play a huge roll in us if we worked hard enough. The very well-known novel "The Great Gatsby"‚ told a story about a truly loving and wise person who had no luck‚ he worked hard so hard to pamper his loved one‚ but unfortunately‚ she was too materialistic and selfish to
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Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity I agree with the speaker. I consider luck to be the result of my own decisions and actions. The only forces at work are the decisions and actions taken by me or others around me. A lot of people make important decisions or attend important events according to lucky stars or lucky hour. I’ve heard a lot of people say that they have lucky shoes‚ lucky charms‚ lucky suits and even lucky hair styles. So‚ apparently these things have brought positive
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The Joy Luck Club’ is a touching‚ inspiring‚ and artfully crafted story of four mother-daughter relationships that endure not only a generation gap‚ but the more unbridgeable gap between Chinese and American cultures. Amy Tan represented herself as Jing-Mei Woo in the novel. Her parents are both Chinese immigrants who raised her as a American. In her early teens‚ she learned that her mother had been married before in China. Just like Suyuan‚ Amy’s mother fled China‚ leaving behind her daughters
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supportive towards their children. In The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan‚ the mothers show characteristics of tiger parenting‚ which leads to successful children. Tiger parenting allows children to become skillful‚ successful‚ and perform incredibly in life. Tiger parents tend to have high expectations for their children because they believe that their children are capable of anything they desire. Suyuan claims that “...you could be anything you wanted to in America” (Tan 132). Suyuan has high hopes for her
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