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    especially affects the Vietnamese American youth community. Gangs‚ racism‚ poverty‚ and depression; others often overlook these four factors when it comes to identifying Vietnamese American youth. Vietnamese American youths are typically described as “model-minorities‚” or are often held to an extremely high standard when it comes to education‚ though it is highly unknown of what truly goes on in the lives of the youth. In fact‚ numerous gangs have risen from the Vietnamese American community due

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    Thomas Clayton Wolfe‚ a native of Asheville‚ North Carolina‚ wrote his most well-known work‚ Look Homeward‚ Angel‚ from an autobiographical standpoint. Though structured as a fiction‚ it has been widely accepted since its publication that the novel was intended to be a roman à clef that mirrored Wolfe’s own life from birth until he left his home state for graduate school at Harvard University. The two decades portrayed in his seminal novel detail his experiences growing up in Asheville at the beginning

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    Elaine Tyler May’s Homeward Bound Paper Assignment Elaine Tyler May’s Homeward Bound weaves two traditional narratives of the fifties -- suburban domesticity and rampant anticommunism -- into one compelling historical argument. Aiming to ascertain why‚ unlike both their parents and children‚ postwar Americans turned to marriage and parenthood with such enthusiasm and commitment‚ May discovers that cold war ideology and the domestic revival [were] two sides of the same coin: postwar Americans’

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    Analytical Essay Elaine Tyler May‚ Homeward Bound “May sets a new standard for social history by linking intimate family life of the 1950s with the larger imperatives of the Cold War.” – Barbara Ehrenreich‚ author of The Hearts of Men. I found this statement on the back of my edition of Homeward Bound to be an accurate depiction of this book because Elaine Tyler May provides a unique perspective of how the Great Depression and the Cold War impacted family life in suburban America. May offers

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    Name: Ngoc Phuong Vy Nguye Student ID:2432855 THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE LIFESTYLE OF THE VIETNAMESE YOUTH AND THEIR PARENTS Vietnam is one the Southeastern Asian countries where the relationship between the young people and their parents play an important role in the culture and society. Because of this‚ Vietnamese young people frequently trend to learn and follow their parents ‘experience. However‚ everything has changed following the period time. In the past‚ the parents frequently taught

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    Homeward Bound” P206 Section I: Analysis of theme Paragraph 2 line 3 Feet Binding Paragraph 6 line 5 Language isolation Section II: Analysis of rhetorical technique 1. Simile a) (Para1 L1) My grandmother has bound feet. Cruelly tethered since her birth‚ they are like bonsai trees. b) (Para 6 L4) My grandmother sat on my hotel bed‚ shrunken and wise‚ looking as if she belonged in a museum case. 2. Allusion a) (Para3 L3) My father was a young man when he left his family’s village in northern

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    1. How does Look-Look use technology to gain insights on the teen and young adult markets? Lee and Gordon felt the that younger people themselves were not given a very large part in the to play in the market research process‚ even though they were in the best situation to give complete accurate information about youth trends. So they created an internet communication system and enlisted young people to provide up to date information‚ right from them source. 35‚000 handpicked youths‚ from all over

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    6/25/12 Paper One Vietnamese Immigration Supposedly‚ the history of Vietnamese immigration to the United States is “relatively recent.” (Povell) Prior to 1975‚ most Vietnamese residing in the US were wives and children to American servicemen in Vietnam. In 1975‚ the ‘Fall of the Saigon’ marked the end of the Vietnam War‚ which prompted the first of two main waves of Vietnamese emigration towards the US. The first wave included Vietnamese who had helped the US in the war and “feared reprisals

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    Informative speech. Speech 1311 The Vietnamese culture‚ is a rich heritage on many different levels‚ one of the best ways to view Vietnamese culture is to look at the system of yin and yang. On one side you have the yang the more male side that has more of a fondness towards hierarchy where the father or the eldest male is the leader of the family with conventional rules to follow depending on their social roles. On the other hand you have the yin moving towards human equality‚ female contribution

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    In most Asian families‚ most kids’ first language is their native language. My first language is English but my second language is Vietnamese. It has always been equally important to me in my life. My parents spoke English‚ but little of it. As I was getting a little older‚ one day I heard my parents talking in Vietnamese and it was something about me because they said my name‚ I got really curious and asked them. They would not tell me anything and would just laugh so it made me angry. I realized

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