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Selfishness: An Inescapable Plague As humans, we are inconsiderate, egoistic, greedy animals who proceed down the most revolting and corrupt path in order to achieve our desired goals. Gone are our ethical values when our hunger for success and power is unleashed. Unconcerned with the wellbeing of others, our lethal daggers plunge into our vulnerable prey. Why is it that even with many witnesses, no one dares to take a step forward to save the victim? Many may feed you the generic response…

Healer of Olive Avenue by Manuel Muñoz, is a book with several short stories. Even though “home” is related in all of the stories, one of them has particular evidences of how home can be seen differently from the previous examples. The short story “Lindo Y Querido” describes the moments after a motorcycle accident and how a mother deals with her son death post-accident. Concepción, or Connie, is a single mother, earlier abandoned by her husband that works as a housemaid. Always busy with work,…

of it anyway? The narration was in present tense even though the story revolves around in Past tense. Jing Mei perspective of this story is in the present tense but during the shift of timelines, the tense also changed. When explaining the Auntie Lindo conversation with Mei, the verb was changed to past tense so in my opinion, Amy tan did a fantastic job in shifting the verbs with the timeline. In perspective view of narration, the writer used present tense and shifted accordingly during…

Book Talk: The Joy Luck Club “Now the woman was old. And she had a daughter who grew up speaking only English and swallowing more Coca-Cola than sorrow. For a long time now the woman had wanted to give her daughter the single swan feather and tell her, ‘This feather may look worthless, but it comes from afar and carries with it all my good intentions.’ And she waited, year after year, for the day she could tell her daughter this in perfect American English” (Tan 17). A Chinese woman migrates to…

‘knowledge, benevolence, and harmony of the group’” (Lu 101). The University researched happiness and found that the Chinese values were based off intellectual leaders such as Confucius, explaining the emphasis on intellect. In The Joy Luck Club, Lindo Jong finds great happiness in feeling that she accomplished something when her daughter, Waverly, is successful at chess. “But there was one duty [Waverly] couldn’t avoid. [Waverly] had to accompany [her] mother…

Rhodes – the clear skies, the deep blue ocean. What is there not to love? Whether you be a student looking to party the night away, or a traveller wanting to experience the world, this island offers everything to everyone. As I walked along the pebble floor on the street and gazed into the shining eye of the sun, I thought to myself; this is paradise. Rhodes felt like a walk through antiquity, dotted with Greek castles and churches as far as the eye could see. However, the island is not…

There exists a stereotype about the children of immigrants: their parents press them hard to be successful, to be more than the ordinary, to avoid the struggles they themselves once faced. Those parents, perhaps, see the success of the future generation as the fruits of their own labor. People often hold the idea that immigrant parents are living vicariously through their children. In many ways, as they sometimes are, this stereotype is not far from the truth. Such behaviors are observable in…

The Delian League The question here is "Was the Delian League successful?". My question is, was the Delian League successful in what? The Delian would be considered successful if you believe its mission was to save Greece from a Persian invasion. The Delian League could be considered victorious if you believe that it was designed to help Athens rise to power. If you were from the other Greek polis that was subjected by Athens using the Delian league, I doubt you would think the Delian League was…

7. Bob Marley and The Wailers’ exceptional harmonizing skills came from their voice teacher Joe Higgs (June 3, 1950 to December 18, 1999), who was a popular reggae artist for 40 years (1950s to 1990s) and he trained other reggae artists to sing, also. Joe taught Bob how to play the rhythm guitar that kept the 2/4 timing for the Wailers. Additionally, Chris Blackwell (1960), and the Federal (1961), Coxsone Dodd’s Studio One (1962), Bob Marley’s Tuff Gong (1965), Lee “Scratch” Perry’s Black Ark…

The U.S. Office of Management and Budget’s (OMB) refers to Asian individuals as “having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, or the Indian subcontinent, including, for example, Cambodia, China, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippine Islands, Thailand, and Vietnam” (as cited by Hoeffel, E. M., Rastogi, S., Kim, M. O., & Shahid, H., 2012). From 2000 to 2010 the Asian population grew 43 percent, from 10.2 million to 14.7 million, which is four…