Amy Heckerling

mother gives her the piano as a peace offering. In the end, Jing-mei realized that “Pleading Child”, which represents her childhood, and “Perfectly Contented”, which represents her adulthood, are two halves of the same song. The story “Two Kinds” by Amy Tan focuses on two main things, the American Dream and tension between mothers and daughters. Reading as if you where the narrator gives us the chance to see the stress and struggle of Jing-mei as she try’s to live up to her mother’s…

I am Sam, is a movie about a men who has an intellectual disability, also known as a developmental disability. It is also, about a loving and kind relationship between a father and a daughter. Sam has the IQ, of an average seven old child. In the movie a lawyer says that Sam has autistic tendencies. Sam takes in a homeless woman, because she needed a place to sleep and they have a little girl together. Sam becomes a single father, after the homeless woman leaves Sam. He has a little girl, named…

Chinese Mothers Are Superior” Amy Chua goes on to describe this as “Western” thinking. Is this why the Chinese and a multitude of other Asian countries test scores tower above those of the average child raised by western parents? According to the Organization of Economic Co-operation and Development the United States currently ranks twenty-eighth on the global education chart in math, science, and reading, while Asian countries took the top five spots on the chart. Amy Chua is a professor at…

Personal Narrative “May I help you?” said a shop assistant with fluent Mandarin as soon as my mom and I entered the store of Jurlique in Mongkok, Hong Kong. Although we replied that we only want to take a look, she insisted to follow us. Whenever we mentioned or pointed to a commodity that we were interested, she immediately took it out of the counter, held it like models in the advertisements, and introduced us its functions with flawless Mandarin. She passionately introduced us to a series…

In this essay, we will be focusing on the essential connections between the main characters of three books, and their relation to the course literature, ethnicity and immigration. The title of these books are: The Joy Luck Club, Things Fall Apart and Black Like Me. Let’s begin with the main character of The Joy Luck Club, Jing Mei. Who is Jing Mei? The daughter of Suyuan Woo, Mei is the youngest of her late mother’s three children. When Mei was a child living in China, life was pretty…

notable role she had was in the film Baby Mama. She co-starred with her friend, Amy Poehler. Her performance was noted by critics, many pointing out she understood her character’s emotions well. Fey also starred in Date Night, Muppets Most Wanted, and Megamind, the latter being animated. She then starred in This is Where I Leave You, for which her performance was noted as a highlight of the film. She then co-starred alongside Amy Poehler in the movie Sisters. Fey was also a producer in this…

The American Dream means that with hard work and a little luck we can be anything we wanted to. Amy Tan, the author of “Two Kinds”, seems to say that although Jing-Mei’s mom can be bossy, she probably does this to help her daughter succeed. In this short story, “Two Kinds”, the main character, Jing-Mei Woo, also known as June, is forced by her mother, Mrs. Woo on learning how to play the piano and be the ultimate best. Mrs.Woo doesn’t really give Jing-Mei a choice, she wants to be able to brag…

Suyuan is a strong-minded woman, who finds and creates her own happiness even during the hardest times. The very first Joy Luck Club was founded by her in Kweilin, China in 1944. Suyuan and three other women used to gather once a week to play mahjong and to share food in order to cope with the Japanese invasion of China. Unfortunately, the circumstances get worse and worse as the Chinese army loses the war. When the Japanese army marches into the city, Suyun is forced to leave for her and her…

I felt very fortunate to have Ms. Bear as my piano teacher. When I heard my friends talk about their piano teacher, they complained how strict she was. Although I thought some of them were better piano players than me at the time, I did not relate to the pressure they felt when they had to do recitals or when they told stories of their piano teacher yelling at them when they did not play right. Ironically, those friends are the ones that ended up quitting earlier or to my knowledge no longer…

time where you might've thought to yourself, "I'm not enough," or "I will never be enough." With this mindset embedded into your brain, it's hard to believe that you will ever be proven wrong in these circumstances. In the short story, "Two Kinds" by Amy Tan, Jing-mei tries to fight off who she's not but is compelled by her mother to become the prodigy that she's always hoped for in her daughter. These two forces collide, causing conflict within their relationship where Jing-mei faces the tough…