Maya Lin

Maya Ying Lin was a twenty-one-year-old attending college at Yale studying architecture. This young woman entered her idea for the memorial as a school project. That very same project was the winner of the Vietnam War memorial contest. Brent Ashabranner wrote “Always to Remember: The Vision of Maya Ying Lin”, which is about the Vietnam War memorial contest. The author, Ashabranner chose “Always to Remember” for the first part of the title so that we would always remember the war and the…

the lives that could not come back home. In the reading “Always to Remember: The Vision of Maya Ying Lin” Brent Ashabranner, the author, chose to make the title two parts. Brent Ashabranner made the title “Always to Remember: The Vision of Maya Ying Lin” two parts because he wanted to show that all soldiers who lost their lives in the Vietnam war should have a memorial that was created by Maya Ying Lin. Brent Ashabranner as a World War II veteran knows that war is not about glory and reward,…

This paper is about the life and teachings of Lhamo Dondrub. Lhamo Dondrub was born in Takster, China on July 6th, 1935. His mother’s name is Diki Tsering and his father is Choekyong Tsering. Lhamo has five siblings, Jetsun Pema, Gyalo Thondup, Thubten Jigme Norbu,Lobsang Samten, and Dolma Tsering. When he was two years old he was picked as the rebirth of the 13th Dalai Lama. He was chosen because he was born the closest to the day the previous Dalai Lama died. They also put out toys owned by…

Because farmland was used to build factories on, the production of crops started to decline which resulted into the Great Chinese Famine. After the failure of that, Mao gathered a group of people including his wife Jiang Qing and defense minister Lin Biao in order to take back control and spread his ideologies. He then properly launched the Cultural Revolution at the Eleventh Plenum of the Eighth Central Committee in August 1966(Lieberthal). He then ordered to shut down all of China’s schools…

a future press picture taker (and a character whose purpose behind existing is probably going to ventriloquize the sensibility of Paulo Lins, on whose novel the film is based), and Li'l Dice, who takes after his criminal work with the energetic earnestness of a minister - the last renaming himself, having notionally created to man's endowment, as Li'l Ze (Lins et al…

The Chinese Cultural Revolution in the mid 19th century brought a forced wave of reverting to traditional values, resulting in “approximately 12 million” (Allen “Dai”) people to be forced into villages. Because of the repetition aspect of history, many writers have written about concepts and ideas that people who are currently suffering will relate to. When writing about issues, authors tend to allude to other literature works. Relying on other authors to help explain characters’ desires or…

Analyzing the Book War by Wang Ping No one knows how being controlled by the government feels like, until you experience it. In the Book War memoir, Wang Ping is a writer that grew up in China in the late 1960’s in which there was a chaotic “Cultural Revolution”. Ping didn 't grew up reading or even seen fairly tales. She didn 't know about them until she found her neighbor outside her house reading The Little Mermaid. A book she had always wanted to read completely, yet if the government found…

Bo, Mo. “I Was a Teenage Red Guard.” New Internationalist Magazine, Apr. 1987, newint.org/features/1987/04/05/teenage/. Accessed 2 Feb. 2017. This website describes Mo Bo, a Red Guard, who shares his personal experiences, showing the reader the atrocities the Red Guards committed. Although the source is a magazine, it provides a different perspective into the life of a Red Guard. At the same time, while this primary source doesn’t provide straightforward information, it allows for…

Clendinnen recounts the history of the Yucatan peninsula once the Spanish arrived. She splits her recounting into two sections: the Spanish’s perceptive and the Mayan’s perspective. Clendinnen’s recounting the Spanish side of history demonstrates a struggle not only between the Spanish and the new land and its inhabitants, but also the internal conflicts between the Spanish settlers and the friars. At first she tells us how the Spaniards’ interactions with the natives consisted of tribute…

This poem talks about how women should show dignity and pride of being an African American women. In this, Maya shows that women should believe in themselves and know that they are worth something. Women also should not change or try to make themselves noticeable to be confident. The tone of the poem is confronting because she is telling women that they should…