The most we can each do is to not have bias ideas on races‚ and try to see each other as unique different individuals. I don’t think that I would consider myself a character of the film‚ during High School I was the Vice President of the Diversity Club. I can say that I only see the human race and I wish that people could see each other in this way also. I don’t judge people depending on their “race” I see that we can each bring our cultures together to make a better world. I know that when
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nineteenth century Norway. Each does something important for her husband involving personal sacrifice‚ for which she expects certain treatment in return‚ but when this is not forthcoming‚ how do they react? Do they accept the roles of conventional wives‚ demure and weak? Or do they rebel and behave unconventionally? Medea’s culture dictated that women had almost no rights‚ and were regarded as little more than possessions: "we have to buy a husband [and] what we buy is someone to lord it over our
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Many women find that their mothers have the greatest influence on their lives and the way their strengths and weaknesses come together. In Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club‚ the lives of four Chinese mothers and their Chinese-American daughters are followed through vignettes about their upbringings and interactions. One of the mothers‚ An-Mei Hsu‚ grows up away from her mother who has become the 4th wife of a rich man; An-Mei is forced to live with her grandmother once her mother is banned from the house
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building‚ and he has to call the only man he knows to ask for a place to stay. He moves in with the mysterious man named Tyler‚ to a run down wooden house in an area full of factories on Paper Street. After a series of events the two men found ‘Fight Club’‚ a secret society‚ that exist only on night a week in the basement of a bar‚ where young men can set themselves free by fighting each other bare-knuckled.
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Throughout The Joy Luck Club Amy Tan inserts various conflicts betweens mothers and daughters. Most of these relationships‚ already very fragile‚ become distanced through heritage‚ history and expectations. These differences cause reoccurring clashes between two specific mother-daughter bonds. The first relationship exists between Waverly Jong and her mother‚ Lindo. Lindo tries to instill Chinese qualities in her daughter while Waverly refuses to recognize her heritage and concentrates on American
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Returning to One’s Roots and Understanding Chinese Culture in The Joy Luck Club Cultural divides are difficult to overcome in storytelling because understanding another culture is a not an easy task. However‚ in The Joy Luck Club‚ Amy Tan does a wonderful job of making the Chinese culture comprehensible for the American reader. With a culture that is exceedingly different from American way of life‚ Tan presents both cultures side by side in order to draw attention to their differences and benefits
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Joy Luck Club” book deals mainly with the relationship between mothers and daughters. From the point of view of the Chinese mothers‚ a mother passes on her strengths and weaknesses and most importantly‚ her Chinese heritage and values to her daughter‚ while the daughter is expected to respect‚ listen to and learn from her mother. In this manner‚ Lindo Jong makes sure to teach her daughter Waverly Jong two important Chinese values‚ since the latter was a child. The first Chinese value
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In The Breakfast Club‚ Claire and John are two of five students who have been detained in school on Saturday morning. Claire was here for skipping school to go shopping while John was here for pulling a false fire alarm. At the beginning of the movie‚ it’s easy to see that Clair and John have so many differences. During the journey of self-discovery‚ there are more and more similarities appear between Claire and John and they try to face these facts. From all‚ their families‚ their social life and
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Book report of The Joy Luck Club‚ by Amy Tan Author ’s biography and awards‚ Amy Tan was born in Oakland‚ California‚ in 1952‚ and now lives with her husband‚ tax lawyer Louis DeMattei‚ in San Francisco. The Joy Luck Club was her first and perhaps most well known book. It brought her great success and made her name known around the world. The book was made into a movie by director Wayne Wang‚ which Tan produced and wrote the screenplay for. Tan ’s other novels include The Kitchen God ’s Wife‚
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Dear Women’s Club Scholarship Committee‚ Many people have inspired me to become who I am today‚ but the one who I feel has inspired me the most is my powerlifting coach‚ Mrs.Timms. My junior year she asked me if I would be interested in joining the team. I had my doubts about joining‚ for instance; would I get super big‚ would I actually be able to lift a lot of weight‚ would I even be a contender? Mrs. Timms has taught me many things these past two years such as confidence in myself and the weight
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