Hymn

Tiger Parenting Gone Wrong Last year I read Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother by Chinese-American author Amy Chua, a book that received an abundance of attention in the media and caused a national debate over parenting. In it she describes her position as a “tiger mother,” one who raises her children in an extremely strict environment in order to foster academic success. Her book could have been written about my family. Back in Vietnam my parents did not have the privileges that my brother and I…

Western versus Eastern has various competitions. Some include, best tourist attractions, best locations to live, and the variety of manners. But now there is also competition for who has the best parenting technique. Battle Hymn of The Tiger Mother by Amy Chua has a unique perspective of how to raise children. This novel had many arguments about how Eastern parenting style is better than Western parenting style. Throughout the novel, Chua’s authoritarian parenting styles had many people…

The Battle Hymn Of A Tiger Mother, a bestselling novel by Amy Chua really added to this stereotype. Amy Chua, the mother in the story, was very strict with her daughters. They wouldn’t be allowed to spend time with friends or go on sleepovers. On the other hand, they…

It has been a long time that people have been thinking which parenting style is most applicable for children. For most parents, the way they teach children is usually determined from their background or their personal experience. In the book “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother”, the author Amy Chua, a Chinese parents who compares the western parenting style with Chinese parenting style. Chua believes that under been teaching by Chinese parenting style, her children are stronger, smarter and more…

contrast to the Eastern. The western parenting style permits children to have an acceptable degree of freedom, allowing them to encounter the demanding situations in life. In Rosin’s essay, she confronts another author, Amy Chua, on her essay Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother. Rosin does not agree with what Chua had to say, as Chua makes the Western style of parenting sound weak and underdeveloped. But in fact, Rosin brings examples of her own life, and her own children, to the front line. She…

The speeches of Hera from Homeric Hymn to Apollo Within the passage, Hera expresses her anger toward her husband Zeus who dishonours her by producing Athena alone. The speech is a consolidation of Hera’s jealousy toward the superiority of Athena and the hatred toward her own failure in childbearing. In contrast with the glorious Athena, Hephaestus who Hera produces alone was “feeble from birth among all the gods, lame and withered of foot,” (H.H. 3g). The shame and the disappointment amplify…

Lulu back to her. If they way she has raised them worked so well for all this time, she shouldn’t change her whole style, just some aspects of it. One of the ways that Amy should change her parenting style comes from textual evidence. In Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, Amy states, “I refuse to cheat Sophia out of praise she deserves, just to ‘protect Lulu’s feelings’” (Chua 187). Here, Amy is explaining how she will not treat her two daughters equally and will continue to praise Sophia…

doing everything whether they like it or not. That is the reason why a lot of Chinese kids are good at everything. In this essay, Amy Chua’s parenting represents Chinese parenting. The evidences are referring to Amy Chua’s book, Adapted From Battle Hymn Of The Tiger Mother, and Ideological Contestation over Parenting Styles: Dr. Spock vs. Amy Chua by Xing Lu. This essay is going to discuss about why Western parents need to use Amy Chua’s parenting style incorporating: Chua’s parenting style…

In Homer’s Homeric Hymn to Demeter she was known to have a “ golden scepter and goodly crops” Being an earth Goddess, her colors are more earth toned, this includes Green, dark brown, gold, navy blue, and pinks for flowers and fruits. She also “taught humans how to sow and…

Elizabeth Kolbert summarizes an excerpt from a book titled “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother” written by Amy Chua. The excerpt was assigned to her children in school, stating that the children’s teacher had been given the article from a friend who received it via a long-shared chain of emails. Kolbert goes over the main essential parts of the essay while maintaining a non-biased opinion of the article. Kolbert uses many of Chua’s more controversial points to invoke thinking in the reader, often…