She was a prominent early educator. Not only was she intelligent, she was also brave that faced several life threats during her political time. As a woman, and as an African American, she had to deal with double discrimination. When she announced to join presidential nomination, she was ignored and received little support from her black male colleagues at first. She struggled in the difficult time, "When I ran for the Congress, when I ran…
Chinese immigrants started coming to the US due to the gold rush of the 1848 and were at first received with open arms. However, within a few decades public opinions towards the Chinese as a whole shifted dramatically, climaxing at the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 which forbade all immigration to the United States by Chinese people. This law was the first piece of legislation that discriminates against people from a certain country of origin that was on the federal level. The irony comes from the fact that this was during the Progressive Period, where people actively tried to better the lives of everyone in society through reforms and protests, yet they tried to destroy the lives of Chinese workers. The reason that the Americans who had initially welcomed the Chinese turned on them was due to their own negative stereotypes of the Chinese that portrayed as anti-American, a concern for their livelihoods due to the economic troubles and large number of jobs being taken by the Chinese, and misdirected…
Many Chinese aphorisms are present in this memoir because Adeline’s life revolves around them. When Niang felt embarrassed that Adeline friends witnessed Niang’s tyranny, she scolded Adeline, “Family ugliness should never be aired in public” (Yen Mah 70). This aphorism restricted Adeline’s freedom by forcing her to reject help from others and to not share her pitiful family life to other. Thus, Adeline is unable to gain the courage to rebel against Niang’s tyranny until she becomes mature enough to see the exceptions to those rules. By utilizing this aphorism, it adds a pitiful and dark tone to the entire memoir by emphasizing that Adeline had to abide by these strict rules.…
Benefits of Hardships "Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength." (Arnold Schwarzenegger). People need to go through hardships to become stronger, so they can have a better future.…
“ The wip started to snap at me harder and harder leaving only pain in my body,”Said Adeline p. 37. Some people might know how these emotions feel. In the novel, Chinese Cinderella, by Yen Mah it has very depressing emotions for these reasons. This memoir is depressing because Adeline is physically abused, her siblings pick on her, and she is unwanted by her family.…
Fairytales’, being around for several generations, have evolved through time and caught the attention of many folklorists, and demands an explanation of how feminism plays an essential role in today 's culture. Folklorist and author, James Poniewozik wrote, “The Princess Paradox” to raise an attempt to explain the “girls-kick-ass culture” (323). Peggy Orenstein published, “Cinderella and the Princess Culture” to examine and identify the belief of feminism within fairytales. Even though two different authors studied and evaluated the same topic, being feminism in fairytales, their approaches and conclusions on the topic tend to differentiate slightly, but also come to an agreeance in other areas.…
James J. Braddock, son of Irish immigrants, is a well-known example of a man who experienced prosperity and success during the Roaring Twenties and the hardships of the impoverished Great Depression. Braddock is a boxer from New Jersey who flourished during the beginning of his career, and he is known as the “Bulldog of Bergen” because he is tough fighter and is never knocked out. After a hand injury that ruins his winning streak, Braddock is asked to resign from the boxing profession. James J. Braddock’s resignation occurs during the height of the Great Depression, and this left his children and wife, Mae, without a father and husband to support them. Braddock has to turn to hard labor in the shipyards to try to make ends meet.…
Commonly known to most people, Asia is recognized to be the largest and most populated continent throughout the entire world. The reason behind this actuality lies within many different aspects, including: Resources, business, agriculture, farming, and so on. In today's world, the most populated country of Asia is People's Republic of China. In the 2nd place ranking, India is the next most populated country of Asia.…
The last time she leaves behind a golden shoe on the staircase the Prince had covered with pitch. When the Prince brings the shoe around looking for his true bride, as only the woman whose foot fits into the slipper can be his true bride, the evil stepsisters both cut off a part of their foot in an attempt to fool the Prince and in the end neither sister was truly his bride. When passing birds, which had helped Cinderella with the tasks her stepmother had given her to prevent her from going to the ball and also presented her with the wardrobe each night she went to the ball, also informed the prince each time he passed with one of the step-sisters that they had a bloody foot in the slipper and each time he took them back. At last he asks the stepmother if she has any other daughter and she says no, but the father mentions Cinderella and even refers to her as “a little stunted kitchen-wench my late wife left behind her, but she cannot possibly be the bride.” The prince insists she try on the shoe, which fit of course.…
Responding to the Critic’s idea: Young girls tend to imagine and dream of being whisked away by a charming and wealthy prince because of fairytales like Cinderella that show and encourage it. I agree with Jack Zipes’ analysis on the decisions that women in fairy tales make. This supports the fairytale Cinderella and the decision that Cinderella made. Jack Zipes says that “comic endings call upon young females to value communal stability over individual needs.” meaning that the women in fairy tales made the decision to chose communal stability which is marrying a wealthy and handsome prince instead of individual needs, which is being an independent woman who looks after herself, provides her herself and creates her own wealth instead of…
Perrault version of Cinderella Vs the Grimm brothers’ version of Cinderella. “Fairy tale” is the term also used to describe something containing unusual happiness, like “fairy tale ending” a happing ending, or “fairy tale romance”, though not all fairy tales have a happy ending. According to Arthur Schlesinger, classical tales “tell children what they unconsciously know-that human nature is not innately good, that conflict is real, that life is harsh before it is, happy-and thereby reassure them about their own fears and their own sense of self” (229). Despite the fact that both Perrault and the Grimm brothers versions of Cinderella are fundamentally similar to each other, but the differences between them show two different moral universes.…
The story of the poor, but beautiful girl, Cinderella was meant to teach children a moral. In every culture, we can find some type of Cinderella, with different cultural backgrounds, however the message still remains the same, no matter the language, or alteration of the story” (Baum). As Linda Holmes informs in her web article, “There have been various version of the tale of…
Living in China was everything I expected it to be, and more. It was late on a Friday night and I decided to go out with friends for a change of scenery from my boring apartment. They decided that we were going to a bar to relax. While there I met a guy named Shan, we had met before at school we just never really talked. He did not speak much English, and I spoke little Chinese.…
Several countries have their own culture deeply rooted with history and tradition when they celebrate the cultural wedding. A marriage of Thailand and China also are extremely complicated ceremony celebrated with various processes since the beginning until the end. While some countries have practiced similar ceremonies, some other countries have practiced different and similar directions. In Thailand, 12% of the Thai people are Chinese or have some Chinese ancestors. The community is estimated to have been 230,000 in 1825 and 792,000 by 1910.…
I watched Cinderella (1950) on Friday, October 14th 2016 at 9:30pm. I borrowed the DVD from the Monrovia Library. The message that I did get while watching it, after already keeping in mind the curriculum we’ve been given in class to indentify certain “Isms” or ideologies. I do see Cinderella as a Blonde hair, blue eyed young woman, who at one time had wealth and love.…