Chapter 1: Sociological Stories and Key Concepts Culture: The symbolic and learned aspects of human society. Culture is not biological but‚ instead‚ is transmitted and shared via social interaction. Globalization: A social phenomenon characterized by the growing number of interconnections across the world. Rather than studying society in terms of various nation-states‚ sociologists today are concerned with multinational and global problems—especially in the face of increasing globalization. Whether
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The central theme in the book “The Joy Luck Club” is about the culture clash between two generations‚ the Americanized daughters growing up under a strong influence of their Asian-American mothers. These conflicts have smothered their relationships and make them be on the opposite sides in almost perceptions. However‚ it is just the outer face of the problems. When we see the issues in the lens of cultural-relativism perspectives‚ we will realize the true meanings of scenarios happening in their
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The Joy Luck Club The Key to understanding Lindo Jong is that she is a very strong and imaginative woman. She thought up a lie to get her out of her arranged marriage as a child‚ while still honouring her mother and father’s intentions for her. However‚ aside from Lindo’s creative and fun personality‚ she is also very proud and narrow minded. Lindo Jong was brought up as a Mandarin Chinese woman. As being so‚ she followed her parent’s plans and tried to be more and more like her mother. Lindo was
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When children have nightmares‚ their mother comforts them. But when the mother is the nightmare‚ they have no comfort. The topics are excerpts‚ one is from Amy Chua’s memoir Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mom and the other is from Amy Tan’s novel The Joy Luck Club are about mother-daughter relationships. The authors wrote about their own memories. Chua is about being the mother of two daughters and Tan is about being the daughter of two Chinese immigrant parents. In Amy Chua’s excerpt “The Violin”‚ Chua
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In Amy Tan’s Book‚ The Joy Luck Club‚ the author portrays the lives and relationships of four different Chinese mothers with their daughters. While doing so she establishes a connection that depicts the daughters to be the American translations of their mothers. Being that they were all subjected to many hardships in their lives‚ both as children and young adults‚ the mothers had wanted to “Americanize” their daughters so that they could seemly have a better life. Unfortunately‚ since all of the
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External Conflict Person vs Person June vs. Suyuan Discrepancy on the continuation of the piano lessons After the fiasco of a talent show‚ “two days later”(Tan 141) Suyuan is back at it again with getting June to continue her piano lessons. But‚ June resists by saying ‘I’m not going to play anymore’(Tan 141) but Suyuan yanks her “by the arm...half pulling‚ half carrying”(Tan 141) her to the piano and the quarrel continues. June ends the argument and shatters Suyuan into pieces by saying‚ ‘I
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Tyler was a normal guy but he had a problem. He did not like his body; he would consider himself “large”. Therefore‚ Tyler would start on a new diet. His diet would go well until a couple weeks in. That is because he really liked sugar. It is not Tyler’s fault. In fact‚ almost everything someone can eat contains sugar‚ and sugar is addictive‚ not like a delicious food kind of addictive‚ it is literally addictive‚ like drugs. Food industries are not helping either. It even seems as though like they
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The response paper written by Elliot Tan is a well-written analysis of the recurring health economics question of whether or not the government should cover prescription drugs. With regards to the assignment‚ I found that the two primary criteria were correctly identified in the paper and were explained in a coherent manner. However‚ not enough emphasis was placed on answering the final two questions assigned. The paper accurately explains the trade off between moral hazard and financial risk spreading;
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Analyzing Waverly (Meimei) Jong Waverly was born on March 17th‚ 1951‚ which as a result‚ makes her a Rabbit in the Chinese zodiac. Waverly corresponds with this sign in many ways. She has a great memory‚ is very efficient in her chess playing and often escapes reality to deal with problems in her personal life. When Waverly was 9 years old‚ she left the house devoid of her chess playing brothers. She arrived at the park with her chess board ready to play. Upon arriving she met Lau Po‚ an
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under the same problems‚ all of them having to work hard. Even though they were so different‚ they learned to cooperate and work together. That is what I had in mind when I first started Joy Luck with my friends back in the ruined peaks of Kweilin. We were so different‚ now held together by this idea of Joy Luck. From the East‚ West‚ South‚ and North‚ the four of us from different cultures able to stay happy together during those dark times by simply
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