Leonard Wong

2010, the House Armed Service Subcommittee held a hearing on the recent studies on the effects of deployment on military children. The House Subcommittee saw two witnesses, Dr. Anita Chandra, a Behavioral Scientist with the RAND Corporation, and Dr. Leonard Wong, a Research Professor with Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College. Both Dr. Chandra and Dr. Wong reported findings that the remaining caregiver’s mental state was capable of affecting the child’s mental state. In other words, a child with a mother who has depression problems is more likely to have emotional and/or behavioral problems than a child with a mother who has no history of depression. When asked by chairwomen Susan Davis what she thought should be done to assist military families, Dr. Chandra stated “There has been a lot more attention on younger children, younger than 12. There are a lot of development and support programs for them. We hope this starts to identify some of the needs of older youth and teenagers so that we can look at the programs we currently have and figure out if we are aligning our programs with those needs for adolescents” (House, Committee on Armed Services, United States, Subcommittee on Military Personnel, & Congress, 2010). Dr. Wong additionally found that the number one predictor for deployment stress, all the more important than family stability, was whether or not the adolescent participated in sports. This was followed by having a strong family, and whether they felt…

in America, yet raised Chinese, Wong began to form her identity in the middle of this cultural clash. On one hand, Wong witnessed the promotion of individuality from American families, on the other her family taught her individuality is less important than the family as a whole. Various cultural factors pushed and pulled Wong throughout her life – some she embraced, some she fought – which allowed her to form her own unique Chinese-American identity. The Wongs, though they adopted Christianity…

Before I analyze the film Chungking Express, I would like to briefly introduce its director—Wang Kar-Wai, a great master who specialized in describing protagonists’ characteristics by details and the whole environment. Since he grows up in Hong Kong, a former British colony involving Chinese culture and western culture, he has lots of thinking on this metropolis and the people living there. Thus he directs bunch of films such like Chungking Express, telling the love stories happened in Hong Kong…

Death was an ongoing matter during the nineteen forties due to the events of WWII and the holocaust which brought a sense of darkness upon the world as a whole. The thought of despair and desolation was embedded in the mind’s of people as WWII lasted several years. The world witnessed the deadliest wars of all times with the loss of millions of lives. whether it was captured on the news, written in the papers or witnessed in reality, the whole world was alert to it. This brought a gloomy…

For example, the males in The Big Bang Theory are all scientists. Leonard Hofstadter is an experimental physicist at Caltech in Pasadena, Sheldon Cooper works as a theoretical physicist at Caltech, Howard Wolowitz works as an aerospace engineer and former NASA astronaut at Caltech in Pasadena, and Raj Koothrappali is an Indian-born astrophysicist who lives in Pasadena and works at Caltech. Unfortunately, one of the main women characters in The Big Bang Theory is another story. Penny is a…

The edits and revisions of Ayn Rand’s novella, Anthem, strengthen the message that collectivism is oppressive and objectivism is necessary for an individual to function. Rand’s edits of diction and sentence structure assist in developing the meaning of the novella. Ayn Rand, author of the novella Anthem, utilizes diction and sentence structure in order to develop the villainy of collectivism and the virtue of objectivism. Rand’s choice of diction in the edited novella complicates and confuses…

Symbolism in Anthem This story is about how the future could look like in communist Russia, it basically explains in detail what the people in the society are living and how they think of everyone as their brothers and how men can’t look at women and can’t keep their children with them, basically no one knows who their real family actually is in this society. Ayn Rand uses symbolism to show that Anthem truly belongs to dystopian literature by discussing light, names and freedom. As we have…

Connor Boldt Mr. Storsveen Prep LIt and Comp. 1 November 2017 Anthem Essay I’m myself, not a label ( John Bunner). In this quote he means that don’t be put as a label and be who you want to be. Nobody can make the decision for who you are, you have to shape that. This is like Equality 7-2521, he doesn’t get to be who he wants to be. He is forced to be who they want him to be. He is not himself he is a label. In the book Anthem by Ayn Rand, Equality 7-2521 portrays his identity through…

Orthodontics At Clear Lake Dental Care Having crooked teeth can ruin your smile. If you show your crooked smile to someone that you are associating with, it can change the way they look at you. A great example of this would be if you are in a job interview and show your potential boss your crooked smile. Even though it sounds shallow, a potential employer could look at you as a lesser candidate for the job if you have an unattractive smile. A crooked smile can affect you negatively in all areas…

Everyone is told to be themselves. In a society such as our own today, it is easier than ever to be your own person and express yourselves in your own way. Being an individual is something that is very important to people and to society. Although, in a book like Ayn Rand’s Anthem, individualism is taken from everyone and our main character strives for some expression of his own despite it being the greatest sin in his world. With a name like Equality 7-2521 you can tell that he is only being…