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    American Dream: Joy Luck Club The American Dream represents diverse aspects of the millions of people in the United States. Being different for every individual person‚ the dream has no way of really being categorized or labeled under a single thought or idea neither can it be considered good nor bad. Amy Tan underlies her book Joy Luck Club with the American Dream message‚ how it is different for each person‚ how it disappoints them and also how the dream allowed them to find their true selves

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    Who Packs Your Parachute? On July 11‚ 2011‚ In Who Packs Your Parachute?‚ Gratitude for each member of your team critical for success I recently read about the ordeal of US Navy jet pilot Charles Plumb‚ whose plane was destroyed by a surface-to-air missile on his 75th combat mission.  He parachuted out but was captured and spent six years in a communist Vietnamese prison.  He somehow survived the nightmare and now teaches leadership! Years later‚ when Plumb was at a restaurant‚ a man came up

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    Zak Wegweiser 6/6/14 平衡木: Píng héng mù – Balancing Wood The Joy Luck Club‚ a novel by Amy Tan‚ conveys the conflicts between Chinese immigrant mothers and their American born daughters. These relationships are demonstrated through four stories about each family. Each set of stories displays disconnection between the mothers and daughters. Rose Hsu and her mother An-mei have many disparities. Their major difference is the amount of “wood” they have at different points in the story. In the novel‚

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    Compare and Contrast Media Essay: “The Sing the Body Electric” Ray Bradbury’s “I Sing the Body Electric” is a science fiction story about a family who‚ after the death of the mother‚ replaces her with a robot. In Rod Serling’s Twilight Zone episode‚ “I Sing the Body Electric‚” Anne must learn to understand and accept that her new grandmother can be tender‚ loving‚ thoughtful‚ and caring. The Grandmother’s ability to love changes the tone of the story‚ which in turn‚ changes the reader’s level of

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    The poem “Where There’s a Wall” by Joy Kogawa describes the historical event of internment or concentration camps using a wall as a metaphor. The author does not outright identify and describe this unfortunate historical event but readers can use the imagery and symbols along with their historical knowledge to be able to determine that the author could be writing about a person in an internment or concentration camp. The poem is universal in the fact that it may not be interpreted in a historical

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    The use of guilt is an effective tool as a means of controlling people. By instilling a sense that one is responsible for certain deeds and actions‚ it makes that individual seemed tied down. In George Orwell’s "Such‚ Such Were the Joys ..."‚ the schoolmasters utilize this emotion as a persuasion device towards the young‚ gullible boys. Through this exercise‚ the schoolmasters were able to effectively control their pupil’ actions and emotions. The main schoolmasters Bingo and Sim‚ used this technique

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    power to assist in both healing‚ and conversely‚ bringing on "disease" as well. Two such examples of mind and body healing are hypnotherapy and meditation. There are others such as ionization‚ which focuses on thinking positive instead of negative. But first‚ I will describe the reasoning behind the mind-body connection. Psychoneuroimmunology is the name for the study of the min-body connection‚ or PNI for short. PNI has been around for the last 20 years or so and has revolutionized the

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    things that may affect themselves and focus more on others and their problems. This can make the conversations between parent and child become scarce. Even without the difficulty of language in the way like with the mothers and the daughters of “The Joy Luck Club” by Amy Tan; we still have difficulty communicating with our parents. My mother and I do not speak all the time‚ yet in our tame relationship we still know of each other’s unconditional love. Even though‚ we could be called distant‚

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    She uses the daughters to reflect herself throughout her own novels. Therefore‚ all the daughters are composed to show little to no interest in men belonging to Chinese descent. For instance‚ in The Joy Luck Club‚ Waverly Jong states “I wasn’t too much afraid as I was for my mother‚ as I was for Rich. I already knew what she would do‚ she would attack him‚ how she would criticize him (191).” The remaining bits and pieces that Waverly has of her culture

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    In " The Right Way to Pack for a Hot Air Balloon Race" the informative and concerned tones reflect the author’s thoughts of Cheri White. Although the author is writing for a newspaper article‚ a reader can tell that Hilary Potkewitz‚ the author‚ shows that she is interested in White’s hot air balloon life. Potkewitz’s diction reflects how interested she in sharing Cheri White little biography of her hot air balloon life. The author refers to Ms. White as "a decorated pilot of a no-so-precision

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