able to finally get back into the daily grind and adjust to their new lifestyle at some point. Ha and her family came from South Vietnam, but had to flee due to the war coming closer and closer. She had a happy life in Saigon, even though her father was captured when she was little, but when the war came close, she couldn’t do the things she loved anymore. Coming to America on a…
logical thinking. When we make decisions, we often consider the advantages and the harms of each choice. But most of the time, our emotion overtakes our logical, and this is when we take risk s instead of following our logic. In the novel, Waiting by Ha Jin, the main character Lin is constantly making choices such as dealing with the unhappily arranged marriage to Shuyu, the unexpected affair with Manna, and the mixed feelings with the newborns. Lin fails to take control of his own life.…
In “The Bridegroom” by Ha Jin, the struggle about family, reputation and homosexuality within the cultural norms. Ha Jin shows a good example for the Eastern people because it opens their eyes by showing them conflicts between the value of society and individual preference. Because the Eastern culture is different from the Western on society and the peoples understanding. In the Asian countries often society effects on the way people think. This short story is about a girl named Beina who was…
Of the stories, “Saboteur” by Ha Jin is a prime example of literature. Irony, foreshadowing, and plot structure are three very evident forms of literary elements in the story, and these prominent elements prove the story to be a work of literature. Plot in any written work is very important. It gives…
Everything has Order (Structure of Beowulf) Beowulf is a story about a viking who comes from a land far away, he sales to the king to ask if he could take care of a monster that has been terrorizing the village. When he goes to see the king he doesn’t bring any weapons in with him, he wants to show respect that he's here to help the village not hurt anybody. Vikings back in the old days where all about fighting and taking over land, so when Beowulf lands on there land they all get scared…
Subsequent to a careful analysis of two headlines from the New York Times, and their respective articles, it has become increasingly clear that there are apparent modern racial and ethnic distinctions. Within these particular articles there are quasi-unnoticeable stigmas and fallacies concerning racial and ethnic divisions, that should not remain unapparent. It is imperative that society begins to cognize these seemingly inconspicuous racial and ethnic representations (which are generally…
Zazil Ha, Matoaka, Sacagawea, and Toby “Winema” Riddle are all portrayed much differently than Malinalli, but why is she viewed negatively for doing similar things? Each of these women helped foreigners by mediating between their own native peoples and the foreigners that would later bring destruction to them. Why then, would Malinalli Tenepal be the only one portrayed in a negative limelight? Zazil Ha (1519) was a Mayan who chose a Spaniard as her husband. Although her husband completely…
Hamlet Does Have a Center In the play Hamlet written by William Shakespeare, the main character hamlet has to restore the order of Denmark by avenging his father’s unnatural death. Throughout the play, “Hamlet’s quintessence is never to be wholly committed to any stance or attitude, /He has no center” (Bloom 406), is a theory that Bloom argue about how hamlet has no center. Meanwhile hamlet has a strong motivation of revenge, that he’s will to stick to at all costs and doing everything to…
the Puritan Church, and prove the power of politics over the motivations of individuals. Likewise explores the ramifications of the ‘Cold war’ periods in America and an extensive, paranoid fear of communism ran rampant. Barack Obama’s speech “Change has Come” (2008) similarly explores the conflict between the mirage and reality of the American Dream. Through these…
HA 365 Strategy Review To: Professor Allen Z. Reich, PH. D. From: Matthew McGinnis Due Date: June 27, 2016 Subject: Marketing Research (Web design) Summary This article talks about how to create a website that will be marketable to the clients that visit the website. It goes into detail about how to design your webpage and how to develop the page overall. Technology has always been a way for companies to market their products. By using a website and knowing the objectives of this website it…