Iris Chang

story is read in-depth, one realizes that the interplay between the present setting and actions with the ancient legend holds an underlining meaning—desire in all forms and the disruption between old and new. Through the use of detail and symbols, Chang relates to the true meaning of “Water Names” to the readers. The meaning of Chang’s short story is not revealed until the very end, which forces readers to reevaluate the entire story and realize…

Parents always have a favorite child even if they don 't admit it. In Lan Samantha Chang 's short story "Hunger" Tian and Min have a favorite child. Tian is a musician who moved from China to start his career in New York. Min is from Taiwan but moved to New York to receive an education. They met up one day and eventually got married and had children. Their first daughter was Anna she was nothing special to either of her parents, but she behaved and cared about her parents culture. Ruth, the…

Conjoined twins are two people who are born physically connected to each other. In the United States, united or conjoined twins have been referred to as Siamese twins, named after the conjoined brothers Chang and Eng Bunker of Mekong Valley, Siam, who were displayed worldwide by P.T. Barnum the founder of Barnum and Bailey circus. (Cunningham. (2014)) Conjoined twins are formed in early embryo when an incomplete embryonic division occurs forming two individuals. (Creasy, R. (2014)) Although two…

comprised of fighting off criminals with his super speed, falling in love with Iris who loves Eddie Thawne, attacking metahumans that are different from himself, going back in time to choose whether or not to save his mother, and protect his Earth from Zoom, a speedster faster than Barry, who wants to control every earth in every dimension. While Barry phased through time he erased what happened after: “I’ve kissed Iris West twice, and I have managed to erase both times from existence”…

The Rape of Nanking is a best selling book published in 1997 written by Iris Chang. The story follows the events that took place for six weeks starting on the 13th of December, 1937 through January 1938 within Nanking, China; the capital at the time. The occupation of Nanking lead by the Japanese resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Chinese children, women, men and elderly alike. There was no discrimination in the eyes of the young and obedient Japanese soldiers, their mission…

elites came with their intellectually directed children as well as Chinese of all socioeconomic backgrounds came in the last two decades of the twentieth century. Intended to analyze the rise of Chinese American communities from WWII to post-1965, Iris Chang described the escape of intellectuals from mainland China and Taiwan, the rise of immigration under Regan and Deng’s open political management, political asylum from China, and the appear of “high-tech and “low-tech” Chinese immigrants,…

"Chinese Exclusion Act." Chinese Exclusion Act. April 17, 2008. Accessed August 22, 2013. http://sun.menloschool.org/~mbrody/ushistory/angel/exclusion_act/. Chang, Iris. The Chinese in America: A Narrative History. New York: Penguin, 2004. Congress. "Chinese Exclusion Act, 1882." Chinese Exclusion Act, 1882. Accessed August/September, 2013. https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/chinex.htm. Dundes Renteln…

and forbade the official evacuation of its citizens. He left the city unprotected to the approaching army, and while many fled, those that could not afford train tickets were left to the mercy of the Japanese (“Nanjing Massacre”; “Story of Chu-Yeh Chang”). Money was also a constant complication for the Jews in the Holocaust. For example, in The Book Thief, Max Vanderburg’s family was financially incapable of fleeing to another country. Most Jews shared this fate during the genocide, while the…

Respectively on August 6th and 9th, 1945, the massive nuclear atomic bomb under the command of president Harry S. Truman, hit Hiroshima, a Japanese location of military installment and Nagasaki, which was place with major seaports and industrial plants. This day was marked not only into history, but literally into the beings of the Japanese people. There are countless interpretations that are brought up about the occurred bombings, some being positive and some being negative. President Truman’s…

In The Rape of Nanking Iris Chang tells the story of one of the largest, and most secretive, instances of mass murder on earth. Following the Japanese capture of the capital of the Republic of China on December 13, 1937, the Japanese launched a campaign of violence unlike any other. Chinese civilians were slaughtered by the thousands in some of the most violent ways possible, eventually killing up to 350,000 people in just a little over six weeks. Chinese men were used for bayonet practice,…