Amy Carmichael

Amy Tan’s “Two Kinds” is a short story that was written in 1989, that outlines the difficulties with a mother and daughter relationship. A young girl name Jing-Mei Woo who is the main character in the story was a vulnerable nine-year-old girl living in a home with her mother and father. Jing-Mei deals with the high potentials of her mother, to become a genius. After losing everything in China, her mother moved to America for a better living. Jing-Mei shares her mother’s thoughts about America on…

In chapter 52 of East of Eden, Abra talks to Cal about why she no longer loves Aron. She says that, in childhood, their story like dreams of marriage and a happy future satisfied her. But, as she grew older, she grew to realize that she wanted more than to live in a story. This really spoke to me, as the discussion of reality and fantasy intrigues me. I find Abra’s decision to face reality and want to live in it extremely admirable, as fantasy is so often much more appealing and tempting.…

Individual Case Study: Warm Fuzz Cards Kristy Page Professor Nancy Rossiter ENT3004 - 02250 September 17, 2017 Introduction Erica Mills owns a successful greeting card business, Warm Fuzz Cards, and is currently considering various ways to grow her business as she pursues motherhood. She could continue with her current, slow-growth strategy or incorporate a new fast-growth strategy. Opting for the slow growth strategy may cause her to forfeit some significant business…

In the begining of the story , Jing-mei's mother, Suyuan, has just died. "Her father asks Jing-mei to take her mother's place at the Joy Luck Club", which Jing-mei is nervous about doing. At the first meeting, her mother's best friends ("aunties") tell her that Suyuan's twin daughters have been located in China. The aunties give Jing-mei enough money for her and her father to meet the twins in Shanghai. Jing-mei is touched by this loyalty to her mother, but afraid of having to tell her…

In the essay by Amy Tan from The Opposites of Fate, Mother Tongue (2003 p. 20-23) she blends different forms of English to make it more relevant to most people and making the piece easier to read and comprehend. It has it proven that using blended forms of writing can make a successful piece. We tend to elaborate more when we know our audience. When we do not, we use more factual information and formal words. We also use formal methods to get our point across when trying to reach those in…

The Masquerade Would you believe me if I told you that wearing a mask could save your life? For centuries slaves and captives had to mask their real feelings to survive in their new environment. They had to pretend that things were ok and life was good to survive their circumstances. While reading the books Night and Olaudah Equiano there is a reoccurring theme of being in denial and content, during their horrific experiences. Both books tell the personal and tragic stories of the captivation…

Media, in the forms of photography, film, and writing are similar in that they often reveal a particular message, or comment on a societal aspect. For some, these messages may be underlying, while in others, they are evident and transparent. This idea helps distinguishes differences in media. Photography is widely open for interpretation. In the case of Errol Morris’ “Will the Real Hooded Man Please Stand Up?” the lack of context and textual clues make it hard to discern what was true or what…

David Sedaris, author of Us and Them, recounts the events after hearing of a television deprived family who lives down his street, the Tomkeys. Confused, Sedaris sets out to find what they could possibly be doing if not getting their information from a daily dose of T.V. “so [he] began peering through the Tomkeys’ windows.” (799) What he found intrigued him. The Tomkeys were “forced to talk during dinner,” they hadn’t a clue “what dinner was supposed to like or even what time people were…

Tenacious-Actions “tried to cultivate some hidden genius in me”- Tan 37 “she was trying all these years to find her daughters”- Tan 279 Suyuan is tenacious concerning two things: finding her daughter’s “hidden” natural talent and her twin daughters that she sadly had to abandon. Suyuan’s first endeavor of turning her child,June, into a “prodigy” was by watching “Shirley’s old movies on TV as though they were training films”(Tan 132) with her in attempts of making her a “Chinese Shirley…

Amy Chua, a professor at Yale Law School, the author of “The World on Fire”, “Day of Empire”, and “Why They Fall”, in a Wall street Journal on January 8th, 2011, wrote “Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior”. Amy is known as a ‘Tiger Mom”, one who pushes their children to be the best of the best academically. Chinese parents raise their children to meet high expectations. They want them to be very well prepared for the future. Chinese parenting may make your son or daughter a prodigy, but is it what…