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A Summary of Amy Tan’s Mother Tongue (802 words, 2 pages)

Summary for Amy Tan's "Mother Tongue" The essay is chiefly about the writer's own rumination and judgment about how "broken English" compared to Standard English. Moreover it came to her sense that language not only "authorizes" individuals to participate as members of a designated community, it is also a essential ... Read More

An Analysis of the Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan (2155 words, 4 pages)

My mothers expression was what devastated me a quiet, blank look that said she lost everything. (p. 143, The Joy Luck Club) In the novel, The Joy Luck Club, by Amy Tan, the characters Suyuan and Jing-Mei (June) have a tumultuous mother-daughter relationship one that ultimately is composed of conflict ... Read More

A Comparison of The Rake: A Few Scenes from My Childhood by David Mamets and Jing-Mei Woo: Two Kids by Amy Tans (520 words, 1 pages)

In David Mamets essay The Rake A Few Scenes from My Childhood and Amy Tans story Jing-Mei Woo Two Kinds, the authors describe their personal experiences. The essay and story are based upon the authors childhood memories. There are many similarities and differences in Mamets and Tans works. Both authors ... Read More

An Analysis of Lindo Jong, a Character in The Joy’s Luck Club by Amy Tan (752 words, 1 pages)

Lindo Jong Childhood is the foundation of who we become when we've grown. In Amy Tan's novel "The Joy Luck Club" we see the journey to adulthood in the lives of four mothers and their daughters. These women all made sacrifices. Some earlier on in life, and some later. One ... Read More

A Book Report on Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters’ First 100 Years by Sarah Louise Delany, Amy Hill Hearth, and Annie Elizabeth Delany (760 words, 1 pages)

History from eyes I can see through is the first thing I thought after turning the last page. The book took me for a ride through time with the Delany sisters it talked about there brothers and sisters (Lemuel, Julia, Henry JR, Lucius, William, Hubert, Laura, Samuel) there struggles as ... Read More

A Rhetorical Analysis of Amy Lin’s Article “Barbie: Queen of Dolls and Consumerism” (1040 words, 4 pages)

Amy Lin, author of the article Barbie Queen of Dolls and Consumerism, begins her article by saying that as a child she was a fan of Barbies and had various amounts scattered throughout her childhood home (Lin 37). Like most young girls, Lin was no exception to the Barbie doll ... Read More

Is Amy Chua a Bad Mother? (1513 words, 5 pages)

Is Amy a good mother or a bad mother or both? Amy Chua is a good mother. A good mother is defined as someone who loves their kids and is willing to do anything to see them succeed. This is exactly what she did her entire life. The book Battle ... Read More

An Analysis of Amy Tan’s Joy Luck Club (1458 words, 4 pages)

Oscar Wilde once said, What seems to us as bitter trials are oftenblessings in disguise''. By getting through their bitter trials, oneis awarded with blessings that come in different forms and shapes. Thesebitter trials can range from a wide variety of tasks. One example ofthis, is learning to change one's ... Read More

An Analysis of “Why Chinese Mothers are Superior”, an Essay by Amy Chua (687 words, 2 pages)

Chinese Mothers seem cuckoo, especially Chua the author. Never allowing her children to have a playdate, and attend a sleepover. (1).Instead of explaining Chinese Mothers, she targets the Western parents that they dont come close to being Chinese mothers (1). This article being bias will not go far with reaching ... Read More

A Summary of Amy Tan’s Mother Tongue (373 words, 2 pages)

In Mother Tongue, Tan writes about the awareness and discrimination about broken English compared to Standard English. In Tans essay she quotes her mothers speech to demonstrate her mothers broken English, it was a very trivial story but the thing that is worth looking at was her mother's grammar. The ... Read More

An Analysis of Amy Tan’s Novel The Joy Luck Club (646 words, 1 pages)

Many cultures follow the preaching's of Confucius. Filial Piety, theimportant virtue and primary duty of respect obedience, and care forones parents and elderly family members, is used, even today, by manybackgrounds. ? Transition? One well known family in Two Kinds''and excerpt from the novel The Joy Luck Club by Amy ... Read More

Why Adolescent Relationships Are Important to a Person’s Happiness in The Sleep Over Question by Amy Schalet and Advice to My Son by Peter Meinke (1170 words, 4 pages)

A persons happiness is one of the most important aspects of life, happiness has been linked to how long a persons longevity and overall mental health. However for most American parents this is a huge gray area and many dont know how to deal with young adults that begin participating ... Read More

The Authors’ Portrayal of Dilemmas and How They Overcame Them in Looking Things Over by Zora Neale Hurston and Mother Tongue by Amy Tan (723 words, 3 pages)

Both Looking Things Over by Zora Neale Hurston and Mother Tongue by Amy Tan are autobiographical essays written from a first person point of view. Although both portray the authors struggles, I preferred Looking Things Over. In my opinion, Hurston did a better job of articulating her idea through her ... Read More

A Comparison of the Characters in Everyday Use by Alice Walker and Two Kinds by Amy Tan (1186 words, 4 pages)

Even with all the differences and similarities the characters in both stories share, they still strive to do the best for one another, and even though they may not understand each other, they begin to understand themselves. The most important relationship in life is the one a child and their ... Read More

Love in the Kitchen in The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros and The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan (3360 words, 10 pages)

The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros, Krik? Krak! by Edwidge Danticat, and The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan all have one thing in commonfood. Each novel from within the heart of their own history magnifies the important and culturally diverse association between the importance of interactions in ... Read More

An Understanding of the Concept of Manifest Destiny and American Territorial Expansion Ideology by Amy Greenberg (1206 words, 5 pages)

Introduction Manifest Destiny and American Territorial Expansion ideology is one of the most heated topics of discussions in American history. The ideology is justified on the basis of the need for expanding American territories in the antebellum era. This era is traced back from the period before the civil war, ... Read More

A Review of A Pair of Tickets, a Chapter in Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club (1368 words, 4 pages)

A Pair of TicketsAnd now I see her again, two of her, waving, and in one hand there is a photo, the Polaroid I sent them. As soon as I get beyond the gate, we run toward each other, all three of us embracing, all hesitations and expectations forgotten. Mama, ... Read More

The Impact of Cultural Differences Depicted in Gish Jen’s Who’s Irish, Amy Tan’s Two Kinds, and Flannery O’Connor’s Everything That Rises Must Converge (1685 words, 6 pages)

This essay will effectively highlight the overall importance as well as generalized impact of Cultural Differences in addition to, gaps in ideologies between generations as well as the overall importance of remaining true to yourself while at the same time remaining loyal to family.By its own definition Culture is best ... Read More

The Good and Bad Side of the Internet in What’s the Matter with Kids Today, an Essay by Amy Goldwasser (978 words, 3 pages)

Whats the Matter with Kids Today by Amy Goldwasser is a short essay arguing whether or not the internet is a good or bad thing these days. Goldwasser using a commentary themed essay to make her point. A commentary is an expression of opinions or offering of explanations about a ... Read More

The Online Dating Story of a Data Analyst in How I Hacked Online Dating, a TED Talk Speech by Amy Webb (1630 words, 6 pages)

How I Hacked Online Dating The TED talk, How I Hacked Online Dating, was an informative and extremely funny speech about the real world applications of data analysis. Amy Webb, the speaker, is a digital strategist who was an award winning reporter for Newsweek and the Wall Street Journal, and ... Read More

Issues of Multilingual Childhood and Linguistic Assimilation in Amy Tan’s Mother Tongue and Richard Rodriguez’s Aria: Memoir of a Bilingual Childhood (1644 words, 5 pages)

In the United States, there are many immigrant families, and even international students such as me, who have to decide whether their native language or English should take a greater precedence in their lives. Sometimes paying attention to just one of them means by abandoning the other, for example, my ... Read More

The Concept of the Evils of Society in The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison, Two Kinds by Amy Tan, and I Want to Be Miss America by Julia Alvarez (1182 words, 4 pages)

"Two Kinds" "TBE" "Miss Amer"A person can change themselves or the people around them due to the pressure of societys interests and expectations. Throughout The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison, Two Kinds by Amy Tan, and I Want To Be Miss America by Julia Alvarez, the main idea of the ... Read More

A Review of Mother Tongue, a Short Story by Amy Tan (2552 words, 4 pages)

Mother Tongue Amy TanI am not a scholar of English or literature. I cannot give you much more than personal opinions on the English language and its variations in this country or others. I am a writer. And by that definition, I am someone who has always loved language. I ... Read More

The Misconception on the Negativity Surrounding the Use of the Internet by Children in What’s the Matter with Kids Today?, an Essay by Amy Goldwasser (430 words, 1 pages)

Technology Isn't ScaryIn 2006, Amy Goldwasser wrote her essay Whats the Matter with Kids Today?, about the increasing use of technology by adolescents and how it has been perceived to be a negative thing amongst older generations. While somewhat outdated, the essay still provides some points about the youth of ... Read More

The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan: An-mei Hsu’s Attempts to Find Her Self-Identity as a Hero’s Journey (2090 words, 6 pages)

The Heros Journey An-mei HsuHeroes can be found in almost every genre of literature from every time period. What makes heroes entertaining is that each hero finds a different way to complete daring, superhuman feats to reach his or her end goal. Joseph Campbell, a prominent writer, describes heroes as ... Read More

Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan: Ying-Ying’s Self-Identity (1005 words, 3 pages)

In the book Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan, there are many characters that faced obstacles in finding themselves. One of these characters is Ying-Ying St. Clair. Throughout the various stages of life, as a child, adult, and a mother, Ying-Ying St. Clair has struggled with Chinese and American culture ... Read More

The Effects of World War Two in China as Shown in the Works of Amy Tan (2035 words, 7 pages)

The Effect of World War II on the People of China, as Shown in A Pair of TicketsAmy Tan was born on February 19, 1952 in Oakland, California. Tan was born to Chinese immigrants her father, John, was a minister and engineer, while her mother, Daisy was a nurse (Werlock ... Read More

The Definition of a Democratic Education in Amy Guttmann’s Democratic Education (1432 words, 5 pages)

In the first chapter of Amy Guttmanns Democratic Education, she begins to outline what a democratic education means. Democratic education, according to Guttmann, is a vast ideal that encapsulates a number of different aspects pertaining to the success of students, as well as their futures. Students who are currently in ... Read More

Amy Chua’s Critique on the Parenting Styles of Westerners Compared to Chinese Parents (1163 words, 4 pages)

Critiques from Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother Amy Chua a pedagogia at Yale Edifier opined that Chinese mothers otherwise kenned as non-westernized parents, parenting styles are more efficient than westernized parents. Chua comes to this conclusion through firsthand experience growing up in a Chinese household and while raising her ... Read More

The Different Parenting Styles of Chinese Parents and Its Influence on the Chioldren in Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother by Amy Chua (1179 words, 4 pages)

Can we endeavor it a different way? In an excerpt from Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, Amy Chua, who is an editor at Yale Law school, describes how the parenting styles of Chinese parents differs from that of Western parents, and she argues that it is much more efficacious. ... Read More

Published: Friday 25th of January 2013