Chinatown

In O’Connor’s “A Good Man is Hard to Find,” decide whether the Grandmother or the Misfit is good and defend your answer with an example or two from the story. The Misfit was a complicated character, but he was good deep within his soul. He was wrongly accused of the crime of killing his father, although his father died from complications from the flu. Ultimately, the Misfit spent time in prison which gave birth to bitterness and made him question what was right and wrong. He claimed, "I was…

Wearing the dressiest clothes in our suitcases, we were among the first to arrive in the dining room. Other families joined our tables. Excitedly, everyone talked about our long-awaited arrival in New York and seeing the Statue of Liberty for the first time. After the farewell cake was served, the captain appeared at the head of the dining room, commanding our attention. “Soon, we will arrive at our destination in the New York Harbor,” he said. “It has been my extreme honor to take you on this…

religion; another cultural boundary is drawn according to geometry. Example: Based on language, Quebec, and a can be considered a cultural boundary. In Quebec, french is their official language, but the rest of the country predominantly speaks English. Chinatown, which exists in New York City, is another example. Asian’s predominantly inhabit this area, and languages such as Chinese are spoken more compared to English in surrounding neighborhoods. 2. Geometric Boundaries- political boundaries…

Invisible and Struggling Asian Americans are generally known for their diligent work ethics, their high levels of education and the high paying job that follows from their education. This stereotype is even supported with statistical data, Asian Americans holding a higher median household income, $66,000, compared to the general population’s $49,800 (Pew Research Center). With a rise in Asian immigrants and the Asian American populace as a whole and how they are projected to be the largest…

Chinese were so highly scrutinized, they found relief in forming the community within “Y-World”. They would gather here for different cultural events such as educational tours and movie nights. This community has stuck around today under a new name, Chinatown. This community brings in tourists to the San Francisco and New York areas to experience the unique culture and traded goods that were specialized from China. Through this, the Chinese leaders in the area used this as a platform to try and…

Year 1928 and 1929 were important years for Los Angeles born Chinese actress Anna May Wong. News reports about her Hollywood movies were decreased, instead, according to an American gossip columnist visiting Europe during Wong’s tenure, she was “acclaimed by nobility” in several European newspapers (Petersen, 2014). Severely limited by the noxious roles she was offered in Hollywood, which misrepresented Asian women, Wong left United States to Europe (Vechten, 2003). She then spent two years in…

Throughout the course of these 10 weeks, I recorded my experience regarding the worldwide phenomena, Pokemon GO. Released July 1st, 2016, Pokemon GO is a smartphone game that uses GPS and real-time tracking to allow users to virtually traverse the world of Pokemon, collecting new creatures, items, and real-life interactions along the way. While the game is based on the original game series started in Japan in 1996, making its way to the United States in 1998, the game play is quite different.…

Introduction In this essay I will be exploring a topic most deeply embedded in New York’s history, which happens to be a theme widely pertinent and of extensive influence on the characters and the plot of “A Summer’s Reading”, by Bernard Malamud. New York has, since the days it was known as New Amsterdam, been the most prominent port of entry into North America. From the crown of the Statue of Liberty, one could easily make out scores of ship entering her harbor daily, and onboard, millions of…

Chinese immigrants post 1965 face difficulties when coming to America. Chinese immigrants can re-establish ethnic networks but the connected are mainly from strangers instead of family and friends who have the same background (475). One challenge is their connections and networking are disrupted. Those immigrants who is in the middle class and chose to live in white suburbs have difficulties connecting with people of their “kind” (475). The second challenge is things are different in family…

Ridley Scott’s 1982 film Blade Runner is an endlessly fascinating film to dissect. The film while not popular upon it’s initial release has grown a huge following over the years and has captured the minds of filmmakers, students and scholars alike. Even Sir Ridley Scott himself couldn’t stay away from his film as over the last thirty years he has tinkered with and fine tuned his film into what is now known as “The Final Cut”. The 1982 theatrical cut of the film and the subsequent 2007 release of…