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

shtetl, the Jewish ghetto, had become unbearable under Tsarist rule. Chernin recognized that the women of her family had an abund...

pick the right kind of prodigy" (Tan 53). Her mother tried different roles on Jing-mei to see which would fit. At first, she tried...

Communism, many in this new generation of Chinese-Americans wanted nothing more than to distance themselves as far as possible fro...

In five pages this paper relates scenes from the The Joy Luck Club film to Race, Class, and Gender An Anthology in order to provi...

In five pages this story featured in The Joy Luck Club is analyzed in terms of the connection that exists between characters and c...

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

This 5 page paper gives an overview of the themes within the book The Joy Luck Club. This paper includes a discussion of strong wo...

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

truths with incredible power. For example, Hitler used language in an incredibly powerful way, playing on the truths of the people...

on the outside. Her only exposure to American lifeways, in fact is that she sees infiltrating her home through my daughter and in...

duality of the cultures are reflected in various ways by Kingston, the constant switching between myth and reality, Chinese emotio...

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

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...

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...

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...

Discusses cultural and sociological aspects concerning different languages through stories written by Amy Tan, Gloria Anzaldua and...

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...

In eight pages Asian Americans are examined in terms of the contemporary issues that affect them and their images with cultural as...

Relationships between mothers and daughters are contrasted and compared as they are represented in Bastard Out of Carolina by Doro...

not acknowledge Pecola as her daughter, and Pecola does not avow Pauline as her mother. Distance is quite evident in this so-calle...

hymns that were written during that era (Wheeler). Each chapter in the book discusses a different hymnist (including John Calvin ...

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

In six pages this paper discusses the profound influence exerted by dead mothers upon their daughters in these examples. Two sour...

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...