After reading “Wordsmith” by Susan Young‚ and “The Gold Mountain Coat” by Judy Fong-Bates‚ one can easily verify the differences in the relationships between the children and their fathers in the two stories. Everyone has a different relationship with their father than the next person‚ however some of these relationships are more negative than others. This is the case for the two sons‚ John and Ken in “The Gold Mountain Coat”. Compared to the daughter’s relationship with her father in “Wordsmith”
Premium Family English-language films Mother
In the short story “The Gold Mountain Coat” by Jody Fong Bates‚ the narrator remembers her childhood in a small town somewhere in Ontario; “The small town that was my home.” The story is told through the eyes of the little girl‚ from an immigrant Chinese family; “I was the only Chinese child in town.” By telling the story from her point of view there is no judgement‚ no analysis on what is happening or what will happen‚ which gives the reader a wide space to reflect on the story. Her tone is light
Premium Fiction Narrative English-language films
In the story “The Gold Mountain Coat‚” By Jody Fong-Bates‚ Sam Sing is a stingy‚ demanding and controlling man‚ whose actions posed the question‚ was Sam Sing capable of compassion? Each evening‚ after his restaurant had closed‚ Sam‚ a tall and a bleak Chinese elderly man with many wrinkles wearing gold rimmed glasses that matched his gold teeth‚ would be found sitting alone in a booth in the back‚ carefully calculating his daily profits of his prosperous business. If the day’s profits were successful
Premium Suicide Ernest Hemingway The Old Man and the Sea
“On Sunday (March 1)‚ a small group of armed civilians killed a Serbian wedding guest and wounded the priest.” The war broke out between Sarajevo and Pale after the attack of armed civilians from Pale on Sarajevo. Comparing to Zlata’s Diary with the book The Freedom Writers‚ both the books has wars in different issues but has similar consequences. Zlata’s Diary has a conflict between two countries which created the war. The Freedom Writers Diary has gang wars because of discrimination between races
Premium Freedom Writers War High school
“The Gold Mountain Coat” The poem “Wordsmith” is talking about a boys father who is constantly working on their house. To perfect it. It mentions how he “ he fills and smooths and sands as filling in all of the empty crevices.” While the boy is watching though I can sense some sadness‚ maybe for the fact that his father spends more time on the house rather than with him. He might feel as if the imperfections of the house are more important then him. The short story “The Gold Mountain Coat”
Premium Family
On Gold Mountain: The One-Hundred-Year Odyssey of My Chinese-American Family written by Lisa See is an inspirational narrative depicting her Chinese families experiences and struggles immigrating to the west coast of America during the 19th and 20th century. The author was effective in telling her families story. There were similarities and differences between the Fong family’s experiences and the Chinese community’s immigration experiences as a whole. Immigration to America was a phenomenon for
Premium Overseas Chinese United States Chinese American
homeland? Many people make this decision on a daily basis. However‚ which traditions and values would you choose to teach your children? Would you teach your children their homeland traditions or their new country traditions? In the book‚ On Gold Mountain by Lisa See‚ Fong See struggled in being accepted publicly as a member of American Society and he also struggled with trying to keep his Chinese traditions and values with his families. In his second marriage‚ he succeeded in being accepted by the American
Premium China Chinese language Overseas Chinese
Issues 1. a. What would you tell Bates concerning her accounting needs‚ emphasizing the uses of the accounting information for all stakeholders within and without the business? 2. a. The boatyard operates how many businesses? b. What are the accounting information needs for managing these businesses? Facts Sarah Bates a returning Navy civilian decides to buy a business with the money she has saved along all this time. Bates buys a small boatyard in a town on the coast
Premium Cost Costs Cost accounting
MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING BATES COURTYARD Brief Summary After several years in Navy and upon returning to civilian life‚ Sarah Bates sought for a small business. He then finally located a small boatyard for sale in a town on the coast of Maine. Since business was somewhat larger than she could finance alone‚ she had borrowed the additional funds required and mortgage the property as security. Bates realized the need for adequate accounting records to manage the business successfully. She
Premium Finance Business Accounts receivable
Norman Bates: Two Lives Within A Soul Sigmund Freud ’s Psychoanalytic Theory of Personality Development states that there is a structural model of the psyche‚ which splits the human identity into three instances of Ego‚ Superego‚ and ID. In Psychoanalytic Stage of Development‚ there are five stages: Oral‚ Anal‚ Phallic‚ Latency‚ and Genital. Even though Sigmund Freud never was writing about the movie _Psycho_‚ theories of Freud‚ have a great connection with the personality of Norman Bates. According
Premium Sigmund Freud