1. Overview Chou Chu Wang is a distinguished artist‚ recognised for his ¬¬¬¬¬¬¬oil paintings created from using his meticulous memory. He created this hyper realistic painting in style of trompe l’oiel. The Four Bliss Stones (2014)‚ using only minuscule paint specks with a fine calligraphic brush. As the title suggests‚ the painting contains four river stones‚ each in an individual frame. Each piece is fairly small‚ 41 x 27 cm. Wang’s overall body of work comprises mostly of scenery from his hometown
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the three alternating stories all had separate themes that helped bring the stories together at the end of the novel. The idea of the first tale is about the monkey king who’s a hero of Chinese folk tales. The theme of the second story is about Jin Wang‚ an Asian American boy who tries to fit in at an all-white school. The subject of the third story is about chin-kee‚ an embodiment of all negative Chinese stereotypes. The most important thing is to realize how all three stories relate to one another
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Wang Lung’s social rise shifts him from predominantly producing to predominantly consuming‚ and to the the addictive pleasures of a more culturally marked set of activities. The acquisition of wealth infuses Wang Lung’s world with increasing signs of chineseness: silk garments‚ polygamy and concubinage‚ opium‚ culinary delicacies‚ bonded female servants‚ and a generally increasing hierarchization of gender relations. In their early peasant existence‚ Wang Lung and O-lan have a marriage that is‚ despite
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Fear affects many in life; it comes in all different forms and can etch itself on to some one and never let go. Amy Wang tells us of a girl that was scared in a way for the majority of her young life. In "The Same Difference"‚ we are able to see how the fear of her own nationality led her to set up barriers against the world unlike her own. When we are young‚ we are very naïve to all that is around us‚ so when we are faced with taunting children we are very likely to over interpret and get hurt
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The Community Compact for Southern Ganzhou is an excerpt written by Wang Yangming in the 1520’s that served the purpose of producing a shared responsibility of the creation of an ideal society between officials and citizens. Yangming‚ using Zhu Xi’s community compact as a model‚ attempted to influence every member of the community and urged them to pledge to act in a moral fashion and police their own behavior. During this time‚ the Confucian scholar served as an official and general whose responsibility
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In Gail Godwin’s short story‚ "A Sorrowful Woman"‚ we are introduced to a woman who just as said in the title‚ is a sorrowful woman. She is described this way because she has some sort of problem mentally and quite often emotionally. She has a three year old son who‚ just like any other three year old‚ wants and needs the attention of its mother. She also has a husband‚ who is loving and very much devoted to her‚ her needs‚ and of course‚ the needs of their child. His undying loyalty towards her
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Speech Situation: The poet recalls a visit to an old couple; the old woman is helpless‚ and dying slowly. It is clear from the description that she has no quality of life. She is cared for by her husband who prays for her release from this life. Significance of the title: no definite article emphasises the universal nature of the experience Degradation of the old woman as this suggests she needs help. Simply eating to stay alive. Animal connotations. Simile – like an old horse. Useless
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The Strength of a Woman Zora Neale Hurston’s famous novel Their Eyes Were Watching God tells the compelling story of an African American woman‚ Janie Crawford‚ and her journey to find herself. In the time period of this novel‚ women are stereotypically seen as inferior to men. They do not speak their mind‚ they are reliant on their husbands‚ and they do as they are told. However‚ this is not true of Janie‚ the novel’s protagonist and narrator. Janie is a strong female role model who defies the
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realises there is more to Alice Drablow than he originally thought. At the funeral‚ he sees a woman dressed in black and with a pale wasted face with dark eyes‚ who is watched in silence by a group of children. Over the course of several days‚ while sorting through Mrs. Drablow’s papers at Eel Marsh House‚ he endures an increasingly terrifying sequence of unexplained noises‚ chilling events and hauntings by the Woman in Black. The hauntings included the sound of a pony and trap in difficulty‚ which were
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The ’Fallen Woman’ A Familiar Feature of Victorian Writing Victorian social conventions placed the female inside the male domain‚ a domestically cultivated flower rather than a wild one‚ uncontrollable and free to roam. Woman was idealised: the angel in the house‚ the wife complementing her husband‚ the helpmate of man. Social conditions offered the Victorian woman little in occupation so her aim in life was to secure a husband‚ succumbing to the political propaganda. As Foster states: Because
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