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What is Singer? China's 'X Factor equivalent revealed after Jessie J wins competition For years, Jessie J, when not producing popular radio hits, has been well-known to audiences in many countries by serving as a judge on The Voice UK and The Voice Australia. Now, she’s turned the tables, competing in and winning in a singing competition TV show. Jessie J recently won Singer, China’s equivalent of The X Factor. Whereas many TV singing competitions revolve around discovering unknown talent,…

In Gene Luen Yang’s American Born Chinese, there are various stories and media that are alluded to throughout the novel. Young people learn to interpret their lives and their world from watching others, whether through the television or through stories that they are told. They constantly take in new information and different reactions to things just by copying what someone does on their favorite TV show or movie or what the moral of a story is. The very first story centers on the Monkey King,…

Part A The focus of this investigation will be “To what extent did Bruce Lee’s inspiration to make films and perform martial arts impact his life while changing the asian culture?” The years 1940-1973 will be the target for this investigation. During these years was the life span of Bruce Lee. Bruce Lee’s life revolved around martial arts, film making, and learning. A young Bruce Lee was in a street gang in which he then got into fights with english men. Bruce wanted to learn how to defend…

For decades, languages have been changed all the time, because of conquest, migration, trade and so on. Through those ways, speakers of one language would be brought into contacting with speakers who speak different languages. In some cases, people only borrow a few words from their own language to express their though; in others, a new language may be formed by people to communicate with each other. Therefore, different languages can have different outcomes. In China, this contact situation is…

The two texts “Finding Her Way” and “Kylie’s Project” tell about two girls named Angela and Kylie who face cultural differences and misunderstandings about disabilities. “Finding Her Way” by, Linda Sue Park features the main character Angela who immigrated to the US from Korea. Being an immigrant brought many challenges because she stood out from her other classmates. “Kylie’s Project” features Kylie who is a wheelchair bound girl that often feels trapped by not being able to walk or explore…

relatively lower than their Western counterparts. Divorce is a mutually binding agreement acknowledged by law that clarifies the intent to end entirely marital relations. Through this researched analysis I plan to elucidate on the pros divorce has on the Chinese population regardless of the skeptical views we as Americans have on the topic. It takes a powerful couple to endure the hardships of marriage and prevail.…

implication which had risen due to the OCP is the sudden rise in abortions and especially reportedly forced abortions by the authorities. The awful persistence of forced abortions, sterilizations and infanticide in China reflect a contradiction in the Chinese system -- and in the one-child policy itself. The senior leadership in Beijing may set national policy, such as today's relaxation of the one-child policy, but it is local- and provincial-level officials who choose when, whether and how to…

Differences Between Chinese and Western Education Recent attempts to introduce cooperative learning (CL) into English as Foreign Language (EFL) teaching in China have aroused a great deal of comments and debates. Whereas some have emphasized the value of adopting CL in China (e.g. Aibin, 2009; Lee Hui, 2009), others have noted the importance of Chinese traditional education (e.g. Harvey, 1985; Ting, 1987; Sampson, 1990). Why is "the implementation of the cooperative learning" in China so…

For immigrants who have come to America, the line between the desire to assimilate into American culture and wanting to preserve their own beliefs and values of their culture is a hard one to draw. In the short stories, Who’s Irish by Gish Jen, Two Kinds by Amy Tan, and Children of Loneliness, the characters all struggle to accept this new culture and keep their own. The American dream is a predominant idea that immigrants aspire to achieve. All who immigrate to America desire to achieve this…

Chua, a Chinese mother who attended Yale Law school. It should be noted that the title for the inscription “Why Chinese Mothers are superior” was given by the Wall Street Journal. Can a procedure of raising kids with more sophisticated studies be better than letting them enjoy and entertain themselves. This piece has come under fire because the author is quick to categorize all Chinese mothers and all western mothers in a specific way. Amy Chua’s intention was to explain the harshness of Chinese…