Hung Liu was born in 1948 in Changchun, China, however, she grew up in Beijing. There, she experienced the Cultural Revolution under the power of Mao Tse-tung. Around the age of 20, Hung Liu went to live in the countryside where she had to work with peasants in the fields. When schools finally reopened, she started thriving chose to study. Later she became a teacher at an elite Beijing school.…
She captured the lives of women who worked in the home, raised children, visited their friends and families and adventured in the great outdoor spaces of Utah. One example of her work in photographing women is her Sewing Machine (fig 2). Here, a woman sits, apparently in the studio, at a sewing machine. An apron covers her dress and she stares ahead at the camera. This photograph is posed, a stylistic choice she picked up from her actor uncle, Don Carlos Johnson, and represents a traditional chore for women.…
This picture is black and white of young boy called Flavio, feeding rice to his younger brother Zacarias. My first impression of Flavio’s archive was that it seemed to be a very sad story. This photo shows the horrors of poverty and Flavio’s strength to survive, and even the courage to accept death without even thinking about himself but of his brothers and sisters. I did some research and found out that Flavio is a 12-year-old boy who has the huge responsibility of being an adult. He is able to accept this responsibility while still remaining vibrant and hopeful even though Flavio is suffering from a physical illness, poverty, overwork and worry.…
Observation: In this activity, Wan Yi was asked to walk without stepping onto the hoops. Wan Yi took one step at a time, pausing in each hoop. She took careful steps during her first attempt, focusing on the hoops on the floor. During her second attempt, Wan Yi walked a little faster with her eyes focusing on her friends at the sideline.…
The struggle of finding yourself is difficult enough, but finding yourself in a continuously pressuring society makes it harder. For Alison Bechdel and the time period in which she came out, she was able to do so in a more welcoming environment than her father, albeit with some struggles regardless such as being made fun of and the pressures from her father to be a “girl.” For Hong Kingston, she struggles to find her own voice and identity growing up in a strict Chinese-American family and what it means to be a strong woman. Bechdel’s Fun Home and Kingston’s Woman Warrior come to terms differently with how women (and men) are treated, but they both aim to break the heteronormative, patriarchal stereotypes by embracing their identity and their…
When placed in a monotonous, tedious situation, it is only mankind's instinct to defer from the experience and find comfort in another. One desires a gateway to fulfilling their inclination, whether it is in a way to reminisce or to fantasize. In the novel The Things They Carried, O’Brien implements women as a metaphor for an idealist fantasy. It states that during an uneventful environment, one will be inclined to fantasize their own personal desires, to escape from the sad reality.…
On the first page alone you learn of her parents dysfunctional relationship and struggle with alcoholism, and also the hardships of living with the disease Diabetes (Type 1). From the start you realize how tough her life was, as in the portion of the novel…
The gifts Heaven bestows are not by chance The convictions of heroes not lightly formed. Today I summon all spirit and strength, Urging my steed forward ten thousand miles.” a poem written by Dr. Feng Shan Ho. Feng Shan Ho was a doctor who saved countless lives in World War II. The lives he help saved were Jews that were trapped in the concentration camps.…
The three images that I viewed are in the psychology / human services field. All the image could portray professions in the human services field. One of the images in the set of three is more business casual then the other two images. All of the image shows people talking or silencing to someone else and being concerned with the information that they are hearing. The first picture in the set of three is of two women talking and one of the women has their hand on the other women shoulder.…
The ! Kung are a group of San people who are indigenous to Southern Africa bordering the Kalahari Desert. They speak a click language and live in bands of hunter gatherers. The men of the camp are short and they wear leather breechcloths while the women have necklaces,arm bands,hair ornaments and wear aprons made from beads yet both men and women remain naked from the waist up. The !…
In Tim O’Brien’s novel, The Things They Carried, he shows the struggles that American soldiers’ experience in the Vietnam war. In one of the short stories the “Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong” one of the soldiers, Mark Fossie, brings over Mary Anne Bell, his high school sweetheart, from back home. She quickly becomes curious about her surroundings in a foreign country far from home and what occurs around them in Vietnam, where she learns of the power and destruction of war. Mary Anne Bell represents the innocence that has been stolen from the soldiers, which dehumanizes them after exposure to war. Mark Fossie’s girlfriend, is seventeen years old just as young as the rest of the soldiers in Vietnam.…
She starts out as a young 12 year old girl that develops into a woman over the course of the book. Natasha is expected to come into her true self in the midst of war and family crisis. This character study will analyze Natasha’s development in War and Peace by exploring her beginnings, intermediate stage, reversion stages, blind moments, downfall, and her eventual coming to self. In the beginning of the novel, Natasha is not allowed to attend the initial party because of her youth.…
Parental expectations often differ greatly from the child’s expectations and perspective of life, and future plans. A vivid picture of this idea is presented by Richard Maury in the image “Lorenzo Plus”. The focal point of the image is the mirror, in which one can see the apparently disappointed and exasperated father who plays half the role in defining the visual representation of this father-son relationship. It can be assumed that the younger man in the image is the boy, perhaps named Lorenzo, and he is a struggling writer. There is crumpled paper all over the floor, and filling the waste basket.…
The Crucible: Act 1 Brief Plot Summary: The Crucible takes place in Salem Massachusetts in 1692. Within the first pages of the book we learn that Betty, the daughter of Reverend Parris, is very sick. Parris is struck with grief, as rumours of witchcraft have been suspected due to her “unnatural” sickness. He kneels by her bedside praying for her to get better. It 's at this point were Parris’ niece, Abigail, is introduced.…
In Shakespeare’s play, Romeo and Juliet, the star-crossed lovers are swept into a tragic storyline with revenge, luck and thwarted love. They are challenged with many powerful obstacles in their relationship including their families not approving of each other, Romeo being exiled from Verona and Juliet being engaged to Paris to marry. These obstacles ultimately result in death of the Romeo and Juliet and the death of their relationship. Similarly, in Waiting, Ha Jin explores the many obstacles that stifle and eventually will end the many relations in the novel. In Ha Jin’s novel, Waiting, he illustrates thwarted love to show how when there are many obstacles in a relationship, in fact there is no real relationship at all.…