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- 261: The Joy Luck Club 4
- The Joy Luck Club The Joy luck club was a book written by Amy Tan. The story is set here in America and in China and is set in the 1940 s and also takes place now. The book is about four Asian women who fled china and their Americanized daughters. There are eight main characters four of which were mothers and four of which were daughters. They were Suyuan Woo, Ying-yang St. Clair, An-mei Hsu, and Lindo Jong, who ... she reminisced about her mother and heard new stories about her mother she had never heard before. She hears stories of how it was her mother came to America and what she left behind in China. The book starts off in China with a woman imagining what life in America raising a daughter would be like. Hoping that she would be an American but still have her Chinese heritage. But ...
- 262: Theme In A Pair Of Tickets
- Amy Tan s A Pair of Tickets is the account of Jing-mei, an American woman on a pilgrimage to China to meet her half-sisters, abandoned by her mother in China during World War II. Jing-mei s mother always hoped of reuniting with her daughters she left behind long ago, but she died of an aneurysm before the opportunity arose. Through chance, a friend of Jing-mei s mother, still in China, spied the twins while shopping. The mother was already deceased, so with encouragement from her aunts, Jing-mei made the journey to China with her father to meet her long lost family. Ms. Tan ...
- 263: Typical American By Gish Gen
- ... Do you like it?' 'Sure!' He beamed." (Typical American, 11) The American name was the first step to his Americanization. Even though Ralf came to America to study engineering and was supposed to return to China afterwords, things went differently. When, in 1948, China collapsed and the Nationalists were fighting the Communists, Ralph was not allowed to go back there. However, he was not really sure if he would like to go back. He wondered if he "[w]ould ... her, and saw the way she nestled her plump cheek into her shoulder, as though she had no neck. And then they could not imagine how parents drowned their daughters, as they knew farmers in China often did - bathing the baby, it was called. (Typical American, 116) Ralph got his Ph.D. and was working as a scholar. Even though it was what he wanted to do when he came ...
- 264: Canada's Foreign Trade
- ... its foundation, Canada has relied upon trade with foreign countries to generate employment and increase the wealth of its economy. Many other countries rely upon the products with which Canada supplies to them through trade. China, a communist country, with the largest population in the world, relies heavily on Canadian food products to feed its enormous population. If Canada were to suddenly sever trade with China, not only would Canada lose a large portion of revenue generated from that trade, but also many Chinese people would starve, as China does not have the means to produce enough food for its peoples. Advocates for trade with all countries, regardless of a country's human rights issues, argue that trade sanctions do not harm the ...
- 265: Amy Tan - The Joy Luck Club
- ... for her Daughter June, the swan feather also represents these hopes, it represents all of her good intentions. Suyuan wants the very best for June "She had come here in 1949 after losing everything in China…and her two daughters, twin baby girls. But she never looked back with regret. There were so many ways for things to get better." Even Suyuan's name speaks of her hope for her daughter ... given up playing the piano, she was trying to force her to play more. June was also angry and as she was fighting with her mother she remembered the babies her mother left behind in China, she shouted "I wish I had never been born…I wish I were dead! Like them." This stunned Suyuan, she backed out of the room, and never said another word about playing the piano. The ... all of Suyuan's hopes and good intentions. The relationship that June and Suyuan had between each other was far from perfect. This is partially because of Suyuan failing the babies she left behind in China, it affects her and the relationship she has with June. The swan feather represents the dreams Suyuan hoped for when she left China. The swan feather shows that Suyuan has always hoped for the ...
- 266: Ford Motor Company
- ... One of the key strategies behind the realignment has been growth. Ford has launched a variety of new initiatives throughout the world, with joint ventures for the assembly of vehicles in countries as diverse as China, India, Thailand and Vietnam. In China, Ford expects to begin production of light trucks with a company named Jiangling Motors in the near future. In India, Mahindra Ford India Ltd. will begin manufacture and distribution of Ford products, beginning with the ... with two companies in Korea, one to supply automotive air conditioning units and the second as a new joint venture to produce electronic components later this year. In addition to the 20% of Jiangling Motors, China, acquired by Ford in 1995, four further manufacturing joint ventures in China have been set up to produce radiators, glass, plastic and electronic components. Ford has also acquired a 45% equity in South African ...
- 267: An Explication Of Love Poem
- An Explication of “Love Poem” My clumsiest dear, whose hands shipwreck vases, At whose quick touch all glasses chip and ring, Whose palms are bulls in china, burs in linen, And have no cunning with any soft thing Except all ill-at-ease fidgeting people: 5 The refugee uncertain at the door You make at home; deftly you steady The drunk clambering ... first stanza portray a woman's awkwardness with daily tasks. For example, the woman is a person "whose hands shipwreck vases, /At whose quick touch all glasses chip and ring, /Whose palms are bulls in china, burs in linen" (lines 2-4). In this hyperbole, the woman's hands are personified as if they move of their own volition. By doing so, Nims absolves his beloved of blame. The continuance of ... shipwreck vases" suggests a force spun out of control, as if her hands were chaotically destructive, as storms are to ships. This image is again reinforced by the idea of wild bulls breaking glass in china shops. In the china shop, her hands are powerful but out of place. The woman's ineptness is further described as "A wrench in clocks and the solar system" (line 13), making her clumsiness ...
- 268: The Crucible
- ... course; the paranoid, real or pretended, always secretes its pearl around a grain of fact. From being our wartime ally, the Soviet Union rapidly became a expanding empire. In 1949, Mao Zedong took power in China. Western Europe also seemed ready to become Red--especially Italy, where the Communist Party was the largest outside Russia, and was growing. Capitalism, in the opinion of many, myself included, had nothing more to say, its final poisoned bloom having been Italian and German Fascism. McCarthy--brash and ill-mannered but to many authentic and true--boiled it all down to what anyone could understand: we had "lost China" and would soon lose Europe as well, because the State Department-- staffed, of course, under Democratic Presidents-was full of treasonous pro-Soviet intellectuals. It was as simple as that. If our losing China seemed the equivalent of a flea's losing an elephant, it was still a phrase--and a conviction--that one did not dare to question; to do so was to risk drawing suspicion on ...
- 269: Joy Luck Club
- ... with an optimistic view on life. In the novel, The Joy Luck Club, by Amy Tan, Ann-Mei Hsu, Lindo Jong, and Ying Ying St. Clair are all women who grow up in a traditional China, where there is sexism. They deal with serious problems that corrupt their lives. Through perseverance and the passing of time their lives return to normal. Ann-Mei, Lindo, and Ying Ying subjugated by males because ... wealthy merchant named Wu Tsing. During the night he comes into Ann-Mei’s mother’s room and rapes her. Despite emotionally scaring Ann-Mei this demonstrates the lack of respect for a woman in China. Ann-Mei’s mother is forced into concubinage because of her lack of power as a women. She becomes the third wife. As a third wife she maintains very little status in the home of Wu Tsing. Ann-Mei’s family disowns her mother because by becoming a third wife she has brought shame to her family. "When I was a young girl in China, my grandmother told me my mother was a ghost". Ann-Mei is told to forget about her mother and move on in her life. The fact that Ann-Mei is told to forget her ...
- 270: Software Piracy
- ... copies of Rebel Assault and Myst that were being sold at 25% of the retail value -Both men were free on bail Pirated Software in Asia and the Rest of the World Pirate Plants in China The Chinese government says there are 34 factories in China producing compact discs and laser discs. produce legal CDs. But production capacity far outstrips domestic demand. According to the International Intellectual Property Alliance, a Washington, D.C.-based consortium of film, music, computer software and publishing businesses, China produces an estimated 100 million pirated CDs a year, while its domestic market is only 5 million to 7 million CDs annually. Where is the oversupply going? To Hong Kong, and then overseas. Another ...
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