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- 391: Joy Luck Club: Symbols
- ... my fault she is this way. I wanted my children to have the best combination [of] American circumstances and Chinese Character (288)." This statement reflects the hope that Lindo had for her daughter. Lindo escaped China to come to America to obtain a better life for herself and she wants the same for daughter Waverly and her brothers. She has attempted to achieve this all her life, but she feels that ... her daughter to have the spirit to overcome any hardships that she will have to face. She held the distant hope that Lena would find the spirit that she herself had lost before she left China. Ying-Ying lost her spirit, her will to fight for what she believed in with her marriage to her first husband. Ying-Ying used the symbol, concerning the reference about the tiger, when showing her ...
- 392: Confused In America
- ... thrown away. It seems to me that the image of a successful something of the new generation of Chinese students is just like this. Indeed, some people who are more ambitious have gone back to China to invest. but most are staying like this. Some of them may be rich enough to go back every three or five years to meet old acquaintances, eat some genuine Chinese meals and bring home ... their Chinese root, on the other hand they want their kids to be well adapted to the American society. So they spend much effort running Chinese schools, or send their children back and forth between China and America. I wonder how the young heart of a kid can endure such a conflict of cultures. The children of the last generation of immigrants all identify themselves w ith America and according to ...
- 393: Richard Nixon
- ... The Nation was painfully divided, with turbulence in the cities and war overseas. During his Presidency, Nixon succeeded in ending American fighting in Viet Nam and improving relations with the U.S.S.R. and China. But the Watergate scandal brought fresh divisions to the country and ultimately led to his resignation. His election in 1968 had climaxed a career unusual on two counts: his early success and his comeback after ... in 1969, when American astronauts made the first moon landing. Some of his most acclaimed achievements came in his quest for world stability. During visits in 1972 to Beijing and Moscow, he reduced tensions with China and the U.S.S.R. His summit meetings with Russian leader Leonid I. Brezhnev produced a treaty to limit strategic nuclear weapons. In January 1973, he announced an accord with North Viet Nam to ...
- 394: Confucius in the Chinese History
- Confucius in the Chinese History By Bolin Lin More than any other scholar in China, Confucius laid down his ethic and educational thinking followed by more people for more generations than one can even conceive. No matter what religion, such as Buddhism and Taoism, no matter what form of governments ... a common person, Confucius was not a religious leader nor did he claim any special divine status. He was born in 551 B.C. in the county of Lu (in today's Shandong province in China). As the first private teacher in the Chinese history, he once taught thousands of students. Europeans derived the Latin form Confucius from Master Kong, or Kong Fuzi in Chinese, in 16th century. Few people have ...
- 395: Chinese Shih Poetry And Philosophy
- ... expressed both, through their poetry. Confucianism is based on the ideas of Confucius, the man who gave the school of thought its name. The main goal of Confucianists was to return a gentlemanly society to China. The core of Confucianism concerned social structure. Confucius taught that a man should respect and obey those of higher rank than himself, whether they be the father of a family, or the emperor of a ... ancient ideas in Chinese philosophy. The first known Taoist master was the ancient figure Lao Tzu. Perplexed by Chinese politics in his day, Lao Tzu planned to leave Chinese society for the wilderness of western China. But, before he could do this, he was stopped by a man who asked him to write down all of his ideas and beliefs. The result was the Tao Te Ching, or the Book of ...
- 396: A Holiday For Murder - Summary
- ... only talked in spurts. David was nervous and knocked over his glass of wine. David played the "Dead March" on the piano after dinner and the butler thought it was strange. Above him he heard china crashing and furniture falling over. Harry and The South African, Mr. Farr, were already there after they ran upstairs to find that the door to the old man's room was locked. There was a ring at the door. They broke the door down with a wooden bench. Furniture was broken, china shattered. There was definitely a struggle in the room. Simeon was laying in a pool of blood, the rug beside him had caught fire. Part 3, Chapter 4. The door bell rang again. They opened ...
- 397: The Cultural Gap In Joy Luck Club
- The Cultural Gap In Joy Luck Club Amy Tan's "Joy Luck Club" contains a display of the challenges faced by four China-born women and their Americanized daughters. The relationship between these women and their American daughters show the struggle of how loving intentions can be misinterpreted. This is the case for American-born Chinese youth that struggle with parents who are immigrants from China. Raising their children in a country that they're foreign to, makes the job of parenting twice as hard. With the emerging conflict of dual cultures, communication problems arise and create tension in the family ...
- 398: The Joy Luck Club: Differences Between Generations
- ... and experiences of four Chinese mothers and four Chinese-American daughters, I found out the answer to this question. The difference in upbringing of those women born during the first quarter of this century in China, and their daughters born in the American atmosphere of California, is a difference that doesnt exactly take a scientist to see. From the beginning of the novel, you hear Suyuan Woo tell the story ... told the best stories. And each week, we could hope to be lucky. That hope was our only joy." (p. 12) Really, this was their only joy. The mothers grew up during perilous times in China. They all were taught "to desire nothing, to swallow other peoples misery, to eat [their] own bitterness." (p. 241) Though not many of them grew up terribly poor, they all had a certain respect ...
- 399: Christopher Columbus
- ... voyages and sailors' reports of land to the west of Madeira and the Azores. Acquiring books and maps, he accepted Marco Polo's erroneous location for Japan--2,400 km (1,500 mi) east of China--and Ptolemy's underestimation of the circumference of the Earth and overestimation of the size of the Eurasian landmass. He came to believe that Japan was about 4,800 km (3,000 mi) to the ... landing was met by Arawak, a friendly local population that Columbus called Indians. Some days later the expedition sailed on to Cuba, where delegations were landed to seek the court of the Mongol emperor of China and gold. In December they sailed east to Hispaniola, where, at Christmas, the Santa Maria was wrecked near Cap-Haitien. Columbus got his men ashore. The Indians seemed friendly; so 39 men were left on ...
- 400: The Generation Gap in The Joy Luck Club
- ... four Chinese mothers and four Chinese-American daughters, I was able to see a massive difference between their corresponding lifestyles. The generation gap of the women born during the first quarter of the century in China, and their daughters born in the American atmosphere of California, is a quality that doesn't exactly take a scientist to see. From the beginning of the novel, we hear Suyuan Woo tell the story ... told the best stories. And each week, we could hope to be lucky. That hope was our only joy." (p. 12) Really, this was their only joy. The mothers grew up during perilous times in China. They all were taught "to desire nothing, to swallow other people's misery, to eat [their] own bitterness." (p. 241) Though not many of them grew up terribly poor, they all had a certain respect ...
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