YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :The Dinner Party by Amy Lowell
Essays 121 - 150
of the nation, America is and was considered a land where someone could be anything they wanted, and they could succeed and be ric...
magazines; these tests are things like name the capitals of the states and so on (Tan, 1989). She hopes that Jing-mei will demonst...
when she fails-according to them-it overwhelms her and undermines her sense of self and her self-esteem ("Meeting Sophie"). The "...
Mothers and daughters are perhaps, first and foremost, women. And, as women they are often stuck in many social categories as well...
the experiences their protagonists have growing up as young, ethnic women in America. However, the relationship between the fictio...
beings can sink. On December 9, 1937, Japanese troops attacked the city of Nanking; on the 13th, the "6th and 16th Divisions of th...
Much has been written about how womens societal roles have changed over the history of our country. One of the more interesting i...
Discusses cultural and sociological aspects concerning different languages through stories written by Amy Tan, Gloria Anzaldua and...
view" refers to whos telling the story, and it can be crucial to a readers understanding. This paper compares the point of view in...
This paper is an analysis that contrasts and compares two piano quintets, one by Brahms and one by Amy Beach, an American. Four pa...
be successful in many ways. For example, at times she seems embarrassed by her mother and her use of the English language which ...
This paper presents discussion of "Everyday Use" by Alice Walker, "Two Kinds" by Amy Tan, "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner, ...
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...
to practice a musical instrument for 30 minutes or an hour each day but Chua requires her children to practice for three four hou...
she thinks her daughter should be doing. She tells her daughter "Only ask you be your best" (Tan). The author who discusses ambi...
her white friends would agree with her that she was about as Chinese as they were, indicating she really possessed little of that ...
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...
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...
back from their daughters until they felt they were ready to understand. The second two sections of the book are from the daughter...
a woman with a very strong sense of the Chinese culture. It is, in these respects, a novel that speaks of searching for identity a...
This 5 page essay analyzes discourse as it manifests in these books. Reality differs according to narrator perception. 2 sources...
in a few short years. Roxanas lone confidant was her trusted maid, Amy, in whom she could confide her innermost hopes and dreams....
These two novels are contrasted and compared in five pages with references made to Richard B. Rice, William A. Bullough and Richar...
In five pages this paper discusses how the author portrays East and West cultural oppositions....
In three pages this essay discusses the symbolism of the novel's title and considers how it relates to the human experience. The ...
In a paper that consists of five pages the Chinese legacy of mothers and daughters that provides them with their identity is discu...
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 is a book review consisting of six pages that discusses how politics impacted upon the early 1980s creation of Minneapolis's ...
The way in which protagonists in these respective short stories discover they are different than what their parents want them to b...