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'The Hundred Secret Senses': Ethnicizing The Primitive A La New Age." Melus 26.1 (2001): 29. Academic Search Complete. Web. 19 Oct. 2015 Author Sheng-mei argues in this article on Amy Tan’s version of primitivism views rationality. Amy Tan does not give many reasons in the story of happening something. She was always by pass reason to her physical feeling. Sheng-mei was saying that never come up with result until checking reason behind it. Author was telling Amy Tan a resist also because of…

Much discussions on the writing-translation motivation of Legge is evangelical. I suggest to reconsider the writing motivation of Legge from author-reader a prior. Choosing The Story of Abraham is not only to consider the publication year of 1857 which can have parallel reading with his The Notions of the Chinese Concerning God and Spirits, but also we can identify the identity of Legge as co-author-translator-interpreter. A brief introduction of The Story of Abraham is needed. After that,…

Annotated Bibliography McMurrey, A. (2014). Willful ignorance? The dropout crisis and United States public education policy. Journal of At-Risk Issues, 18(1), 27-34. Retrieved from http://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ1029758 This article expressed information regarding the dropout rate crisis in America. There are thousands of students who come from a minority ethnic background who are dropping out of school. McMurrey mentions in this article that the country is now looking at the child’s third grade…

he could not convince anyone, even his brother, to abandon the barbaric tradition. In New Woman, Wei Ming commits suicide, and her legacy is both literally and metaphorically stamped on by the uncaring masses; Tzu-chun leaves Chuan-sheng and later dies, and Chuan-sheng is reabsorbed into the apathetic majority as a consequence of his apathy toward Tzu-chun. Rarely do the protagonists accomplish anything positive, and when this does occur, it is generally temporary, later reversed or negated by…

performance in their overall academic classes like math, history, and science. If the student feels discouraged or feels that he or she are not competent with their high school classes, this increases the probability of dropping out. Another aspect that Sheng et al. (2011) discusses is the student’s socioeconomic status. The socioeconomic status refers to the child 's living condition, neighborhood, family’s income, the parent’s educational level as well as their parenting…

Chang Cheh's "Five Element Ninjas" is one of the most impressive (and weird) martial arts films of all time This was Chang Cheh's first film not featuring the "Venom Mob," but he substituted them with gusto, by presenting ninjas, the animosity between China and Japan, and Cheng Tien Chi. Chief Hong, leader of a martial arts school, once more challenges his archrival, Yuan Zeng, to a tournament between the two schools, for the title of martial arts master. Hong's school has been losing for quite…

Thailand was where it all happen. My parents had met and got married there. But let 's give a little background. In the Hmong community, it was the norm to have many kids. Having many kids meant they can help you around the house or financially, especially farming crops for food. However, my mother didn 't have the same luxury of having a father as she grew up. Her father had gotten sick when she was young and he passed away. Due to this event my grandma (her mother) remarried. In the older…

“Still life”, literally called “Good People of the Three Gorges” by Jia Zhangke is a Chinese film released in 2006 and was a winner of the Golden Lion Award for Best Film (Dargis, 2008). The film shot the scene in the old village of Fengije, a little town on the Yangtze River, which is gradually being ruined by the construction of the Three Gorges Dam. It talks the story about a man searching for his wife and a women searching for her husband. The Three Gorges Dam – the largest dam in the…

et al., 2011; Huh et al., 2011), and anti-inflammatory activities (Kim et al., 2010). Araliae Continentalis Radix has been administered as Du huo Ji Sheng Tang, which is a combination decoction containing Araliae Continentalis Radix, Sang Ji Sheng, Du Zhong, Niu Xi, Qin Jiao, Fu Ling, Rou Gui, Fang Feng, Ren Shen, Chuan Xiong Dang Gui, Bai shao, Sheng Di Huang, Gan cao, and Xi Xin in east…

cultural awareness inhibited ELLs’ academic success (Orosco & Klingner, 2010). In contrast, teachers who acknowledge “cultural differences are more likely to adapt pedagogy to meet the needs of ELL students and help them succeed in school” (Z. Sheng, Y. Sheng, & Anderson, 2011, p. 102). For this reason, awareness of cultural differences is vital to avoid bias and ensure the academic success of ELLs (Lee, Butler, & Tippins,…