There is a quote that I think is fitting for the challenge that Benedict was given in writing The Chrysanthemum and the Sword‚ which is “There are two kinds of opportunities: one which we chance upon‚ the other which we create. In time of great difficulty‚ one must not fail to create his opportunity”‚ (Takamori Saigo‚ 1989: 28). When Benedict was given the opportunity to do an ethnography‚ she was made to do so during a time of great difficulty. She was unable to go on a field trip to Japan to observe
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In the folktale‚ The Chrysanthemum Vow‚ the characteristics of friendships are tested‚ and the folktale makes the audience realize they should choose their friends wisely. If a person just randomly picks someone without getting to know the true person‚ the person could have invited someone in their lives‚ who do not value loyalty or respect. Everyone is not a perfect fit in someone’s lives because of timing‚ but sometimes‚ a person can hide the wicked ways very well. The author Ueda Akinari ended
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be finished by lunch time. There would be a black wooden box that had papers inside of it to be drawn for one person to be killed for no apparent reason. No one could figure out why the town did this‚ it was a routine they did every year. The Chrysanthemums is about a young woman who maintains her time to her house and garden and nothing else. It takes place in Salinas Valley by her house and garden which she is not able to socialize with anyone outside of her home unless they visit her or her husband
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allowed to live accordingly as they wish; However‚ in The Chrysanthemums‚ Elisa struggled trying to express herself in society. She is an intelligent‚ interesting and passionate woman who yearns for adventure; but during the time period of the story‚ women weren’t allowed to venture beyond the societal expectations: a house-wife. Therefore‚ she finds a way to express herself through caring for her house and tending her garden filled with chrysanthemums. Elisa is often stopped or ignored at every turn. Her
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A bibliography is a list of books‚ scholarly articles‚ and other sources you use when researching a topic and writing a paper. The bibliography will appear at the end of your paper. The bibliography is sometimes called Works Cited or Works Consulted. Bibliography entries must be written in a very specific format‚ but that format will depend you the particular style of writing you use. Your teacher will tell you which style to use‚ and for most school papers these will be either MLA‚ APA‚ or Turabian
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John Steinbeck’s "The Chrysanthemums" is a story that is full of symbolism. After the first read‚ it might seem like an innocent tale about a woman and her garden. However‚ upon further examination‚ the reader learns it is actually a story about a woman’s desires and frustrations in her life. Steinbeck uses many examples‚ such as the flowers to symbolize the thoughts and ideas of the main character‚ Elisa‚ in this story. Elisa Allen is a lonesome woman who gets pleasure from growing
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Megan Dean 8 May 2013 Johnson / per. 1 TKMB annotated bibliography Annotated Bibliography: American Education in the 1930’s Bondi ‚ Victor. "The Depression and Education (1930 ’s)." American Decades . Galenet ‚ 16 Dec. 2007. Web. 7 May 2013. . In his article‚ Victor Bondi explains how the depression effected education‚ and includes important and stunning facts about American education during the 1930 ’s. He explains how education as a whole went from a big increase to a huge decline
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characters‚ in the three stories: This Blessed House by Jhumpa Lahiri‚ The Chrysanthemums by John Steinbeck‚ and Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller. The defining moment can change the view of the situation‚ problem‚ themselves‚ or about life in general of a character or characters. I show that the defining moments of This blessed House and Death of a Salesman are quite similar‚ but the defining moment in The Chrysanthemums is a different one to the other two stories. In both‚ This Blessed House
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Steinbeck wrote The Chrysanthemums‚ but in the end it had nothing to do about a flower. It was about a women Elisa who felt trapped in another marriage‚ and how she was mistreated by her husband. The central idea of the text is how women could not
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Rahim Uddin SP13-BPH-023 April 02‚ 2014 Submitted to: Amir jafri Blood Donation Annotated Bibliography http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_donation Wikipedia is a collaboratively edited‚ multilingual‚ free Internet encyclopedia that is supported by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. Volunteers worldwide collaboratively write Wikipedia’s 30 million articles in 287 languages‚ including over 4.4 million in the English
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