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This film review pertains to the "Joy Luck Club," which premiered in 1993 and was directed by Wayne Wang. The reviewer discusses t...

When Jing-Mei fell short of achieving the lofty goal her mother set for her, her insecurity intensified. After seemingly endless ...

beings can sink. On December 9, 1937, Japanese troops attacked the city of Nanking; on the 13th, the "6th and 16th Divisions of th...

him an hour just to move his head into the room. The protagonist exclaims, "Ha! Would a madman have been so wise as this?" which i...

and how they interpret life and art. In focusing on this subject we incorporate two essays which discuss aspects of art and life f...

An analysis of A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, The Necklace by Guy De Maupassant, Amy Tan's Young G...

A 6 essay comparing and contrasting the film version of Amy Tan's popular book and the book. The essay emphasizes Hollywood's ten...

In five pages this paper discusses how parental understanding is crucial to children's success in a consideration of Gwendolyn Bro...

little pleasure from drafting speeches for corporate executives," working as much as ninety hours a week because she could not see...

structure. "First Confession" recounts the events of a brief period in Jackies life. Therefore, Jackies perspective does not alter...

of the nation, America is and was considered a land where someone could be anything they wanted, and they could succeed and be ric...

Mothers and daughters are perhaps, first and foremost, women. And, as women they are often stuck in many social categories as well...

because when I was growing up, my mothers limited English limited my perception of her. I was ashamed of her English. I believed t...

is the daughter of a white mother and a black father. Although her father does not take an active role in her life his presence i...

reader watches as a mother tries desperately to give her daughter all the advantages that she never had, reliving, to some extent,...

as offer a connecting force to the overall symmetrical representation of their social impression. Mishima utilizes a combination ...

the experiences their protagonists have growing up as young, ethnic women in America. However, the relationship between the fictio...

This essay pertains to "Possessing the Secret of Joy" by Alice Walker. A summary of the plot is given and the writer also discusse...

This essay pertains to common themes found within "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston and "The Color Purple" and ...

In a paper of two pages, the writer looks at themes in "Paradise Lost". The primary themes in question are those of destiny and jo...

reveal different offerings such as health care, optical, and auctions. The auction area for example is something much like eBay wh...

In five pages this poem is analyzed in terms of primary themes as well as its social and religious connotations....

general. Kennedy does an admirable job of demonstrating how the population explosion that the world is currently experiencing is i...

The way in which protagonists in these respective short stories discover they are different than what their parents want them to b...

Iin a paper consisting of six pages this essay discusses the short story in terms of how it reflects the author's own life. There...

written. As the two essays continue they build in their complexity where language is concerned. Tan states, "a speech filled with...

a person tried hard, anything could be accomplished. Therefore, she saw it as her duty to lead her daughter towards becoming an A...

she thinks her daughter should be doing. She tells her daughter "Only ask you be your best" (Tan). The author who discusses ambi...

and sends her to learn to play the piano from a neighbor, Mr. Chong. Jing-Mei resents the lessons but tolerates them because Mr. C...

11). After this section the dinner party clearly moves to the Drawing-Room wherein a woman who sits with fire reflecting her jewel...