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    In the story “Chinese Cinderella” It tells about this Girls life. Her name being “Adeline-Yen Mah”. A ten year old who lives in China you get to read about her life of living without a mother or a father. Also having a family that hates her and consenters her “bad luck”. The mother of Adeline died giving birth to her. The mother of Adeline Died From a high fever three days after Adeline was born. Adeline mother died two weeks after Adeline was born. Even Adeline’s own sister hated her…

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    Adeline is like a broken toy, forgotten and not loved. The novel Chinese Cinderella explains how a young girl fights through her heartbreak and suffer. Chinese Cinderella by Adeline Yen Mah tells a story about a young Chinese girl who has a depressing life, and her siblings accusing her of killing there mother. Her grandmother dies of a massive stroke, and her mean step-mother slaps her and physically abuses her throughtout the entire book. Also, her first pet is brutally murdered by her…

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    and their hopes for the future. Three movies that capture this bond and all that it implies are Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood, Steel Magnolias, and Sweet Home Alabama. In each movie, the mothers are effected by the confinement of their lifestyles, which in turns effects the wishes and dreams of their own daughters. Meanwhile, their daughters struggle with trying to shed…

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    Chinese Cinderella

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    Imagine being forgotten by your father, bullied by your step-mother, and tormented by your siblings. Adeline Yen Mah endured these things every day, with her only escape as school and her roommate, Aunt Baba, and her grandfather, Ye Ye. In the memoir, Chinese Cinderella by Adeline Yen Mah, Adeline has a troubled youth. The people that she looks towards for support are Ye Ye and Aunt Baba, and they help her to overcome her abusive childhood. Adeline’s grandfather Ye Ye cares for Adeline in a…

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    Having grown up with a supporting family, I have become ignorant to the hardships experienced in other households. However, after having read the novel Chinese Cinderella written by Adeline Yen Mah and interviewed Sarah Marcello, my outlook on this subject has been influenced. Chinese Cinderella follows the life of a young Adeline as she struggles through life as the unwanted child of the Yen Mah family. Sarah Marcello was sent to live with her grandparents in Italy following the discovery of…

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    Without a stable family, life for Jeannette Walls and Adeline Yen Mah was disastrous. Though they both come from different cultural backgrounds, they share similar experiences of a tragic childhood. In Yen Mah’s autobiography, Falling Leaves, she recaps her life in a disunited family under a strict step-mother, Niang. Yen Mah tries desperately to distance herself from Niang by traveling to America, only to discover that Niang did not care enough about Adeline to leave a portion of her money in…

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    The book A Chinese Cinderella begins in the fall of 1941. The main character is a young girl named Adeline and she is in kindergarten. Adeline has 4 birth siblings, Lydia, Gregory, Edgar, and James and 2 step siblings, Franklin and Susan. Adeline's meanest sibling is Edgar. Edgar goes out of his way to make Adeline's life miserable. He enjoys hurting her and making her feel like she is less than him. James, the youngest of the boys, is sometimes compassionate towards Adeline; however, he is in…

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    to a dude named Marlow recount his journey into Africa as an agent for the Company, a Belgian ivory trading firm. Along the way, he witnesses brutality and hate between colonizers and the native African people, becomes entangled in a power struggle within the Company, and finally learns the truth about the mysterious Kurtz, a mad agent who has become both a god and a prisoner of the "native Africans." (Concrad, 2012). In the “Secret Agent” by Joseph Concrad is somehow similar to the Hard of…

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    Give some examples of how the Stasi and KGB used double agents during the cold war. One example on how the Stasi used double agents is the story of Kim Philly. He was one of Stasi’s best double agents. He got into Britain's heart and was getting information for them for 3 decades. The way he was able to get so close and get so much information is that he was a very important part of Britain's secret services. He was able to climb his way up the ladder of importance very quickly. He was…

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    debate about it to this day. The assassination of President John F. Kennedy could have been prevented because secret agents would have obscured Oswald's shot, or he could have survived if he did not have his back brace on, and even if Oswald shot at the door and hit President Kennedy it would not have been a fatal shot. President Kennedy would have survived the shot if the secret service agent were standing in the back of…

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