Chinese thought

Some time ago, Vera and I had a conversation about identity. We were catching up after some time of not seeing each other and she asked me what I thought of a friend that we both knew. Curious, I asked her what she meant by “what I thought of said friend”. I wasn’t sure if she was trying to dig up some juice or if she encountered a certain situation with said friend and needed my verification for the judgement she had formed on her. “No, I mean like, when someone asks you if you know L. What…

worry about paying for college, Most colleges and universities provide their students with financial aid in the form of a single institutional scholarship and the option to either pay out of pocket, or to take out a loan. I became overwhelmed at the thought of having to take out a loan because once I enter the workforce, I would like be able to live off of my salary. When I became familiar with the details of No Barriers, my worries subsided because I always dreamt of having the possible…

The Crow in the Woods The Crow in the Woods by John Updike is unlike any other story I have read before. The author does an odd but wonderful job in describing in detail the thoughts and surroundings of an average married man. This story meets course goal number seven as it enhances the students’ understanding of the value of holistic thinking in making informed judgments and in applying values as they become increasingly conscious of what is at stake if we fail to understand the relationship…

The color filled me from my nose to my toes. A deep consuming color. Every thought of air, food and warmth left me at the surface. The cave walls beside me rushed by as I pushed and pushed down. More memories began to surface around me in the blue like escaped bubbles from the seafloor. Images and moving pictures of my husband holding…

Yinyi Zhong, a 41 years old Chinese woman who immigrated to California with her family in 2012, challenged the gender role of traditional Chinese value but faced the dilemma of balancing her social identity between a Chinese and an American. Her experience as a Chinese immigrant woman in the United States demonstrated Takaki’s concept of twice a minority and the transition of challenging her gender role,…

Searle, did an experiment to refute the strong AI thesis, which is the claim that an appropriate programed computer is really a mind and can have cognitive functions such as beliefs, understanding and feelings. The experiment involve understanding the Chinese language with formally rule rather than just with symbols which results showed that “computer program is nothing like the human mind because its states are different from our cognitive states.”(Lawhead 106) What Seale is trying to say is…

Back, but I know for a fact, they've all thought it. Wait, one thought comes to mind. "So, you're Puerto Rican... so that means you have a green card?" Anyone who has a hint of knowledge on the states know that back in the 1890's, USA was at war with Spain, we won and acquired Puerto Rico as territory in 1896, so no, I don't have a…

Ruling collaboratively does not allow for corruption and dictatorship to infiltrate the government, for multiple opinions are at play. Having one ruler commonly, if not always, leads to unethical behaviors and thought processes, for only one person is in charge and may do or think freely. Their concern is not for the country that they are leading, but for their own self and their own greediness. Macbeth, written by Shakespeare, portrays a perfect example of the…

Phí Thị Thái Hà _ DOB: 13/07/1993 _ MSSV: 11032034 1 Full name: Phí Thị Thái Hà Class: GTLVH-ENG2054 02 Title: Intercultural Reflection Intercultural Reflection This essay considers the popular concept of culture shock that occurs in a famous film named “The Karate Kid” (2010). According to Kalervo Oberg, culture shock is “precipitated by the anxiety that results from losing all our familiar signs and symbols of social intercourse”. It involves “a sense of confusion and uncertainty sometimes…

The Chinese New Year is at the beginning of each new year, from February to March; at this time my family get together for the New Years. Several days before the New Year, people begin to prepare. Farmers slaughter pigs, sheep, cocks and hens. City dwellers buy meat, fish and vegetables. Houses need to be cleaned, and couplets are posted on the door. Colorful lanterns are hung at the gate. On the eve of the New Years, people needs to make food. So I make dumplings for my family, and the…