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  • Cultural Studies
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    INTRODUCTION The Joy Luck Club retold the lives of four women who came from China and their four Americanized daughters. The protagonist, Jing Mei Woo (June) took over her mother's place at the meetings of a social group called the Joy Luck Club. As its members play mah jong and feast on Chinese delicacies, friends of Jing Mei's mother spin stories about the past and lament the barriers that exist between their daughter and themselves. In this paper, I will discuss briefly on cultural studies an...
  • Daughters In The Joy Luck Club
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    The Struggles Faced in The Color Purple and The Joy Luck Club common bond of struggle links the novels The Color Purple by Alice Walker and The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan. Rape, suicide, death, war, oppression, and racism invade the two novels. In The Color Purple, Celie overcomes racism, violence, and other issues to find dignity and love. In the Joy Luck Club, the daughters struggle for acceptance, love, and happiness. Though the characters endure many hardships they survive not only by not beco...
  • Daughters And The Mothers
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    It is true that all people are created different, and thus no two cultures will ever be the same. Throughout Asian American literature there seems to be a struggle between the Asian culture and American culture. More specifically, there is a struggle between Asian women and their Asian American daughters, and what it means to be feminine, and how a woman should act. The main struggle is between how the American woman should act and how the Asian woman should act. However, the behavior of the Asi...
  • Movie By Tess And Anna
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    "Freaky Friday " The movie that I chose to review was titled "Freaky Friday". It stars Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan as a mother and daughter who switch bodies for a day. In this film, Tess Coleman (played by Jamie Lee Curtis) is a widowed psychiatrist juggling her job and family while planning her second marriage. Anna Coleman (played by Lindsay Lohan), who disapproves of her mother's second marriage plans, is of no help to her mother at all during her stressful situations. Anna is a rebel...
  • 1999 Later Mrs Warren
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    Mrs. Warren's Profession Mrs. Warren's profession, written by Mr. George Bernard Shaw, shows the world how women are being exploited through capitalism. The characters, stage, and themes make this an enjoyable play with a deep-rooted message. For example, during the 1800's women could be employed as factory workers, bar maids, and prostitutes. Many opportunities afforded men were taboo for women. Men were able to attend college take the challenging subjects and get a degree. However, women could...
  • Chinese Mothers And Their American Raised Daughters
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    Everybody is different despite which culture they " re from, religion they practice or beliefs they accept as true. Finding one person of your same culture, practicing your same religion and believing all the exact, same ideas as you do is practically impossible. There are always a few factors that make you different from this person, and this idea is acceptable to most. Why then, if one found they were almost identical in thoughts and feelings as another individual, but found that this individu...
  • Four Mothers Of The Story
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    The Joy Luck Club was her first big success and was translated into seventeen languages and stood at New York Times best-seller list for nine months. The plot follows the lives of four Chinese Immigrant mothers and their American born daughters. Tan weaves an intricate story as the the four families intertwine and reveal their own secrets forming and strengthening the mother daughter bond. The story begins on one daughter, Jing-me, who takes the place of her mother at the Joy Luck Club table in ...
  • Mother Daughter Relationship
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    The Mother (land) as a Mirror: Reflections on Identity in Jean Rhys Wide Sargasso Sea Wide Sargasso Sea is a strangely beautiful and haunting tale of a certain Creole Madwoman locked up in an English attic without a voice and without a past. Jane Eyre provided the inspiration for Rhys novel but the work is not limited to a simple answer to the earlier text. Rhys takes on a multitude of issues concerning the effect of the decaying colonial system onthe Caribbean. Among these concerns is the issue...
  • Lindo Jong And Ying St Clair
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    In the novel, The Joy Luck Club, by Amy Tan, it tells of four Chinese women drawn together in San Francisco to play mah jong, and tell stories of the past. These four women and their families all lived in Chinatown and belong to the First Chinese Baptist Church. They were not necessarily religious, but found they could improve their home China. This is how the woo's, the Hsu's, the Jong's and the St Clair's met in 1949. The first member of the Joy Luck Club to die was Suyuan Woo. Her daughter, J...
  • Amy's Mother
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    WELFARE STATE- A social system whereby the state assumes primary responsibility for the welfare of its citizens. It was created by FDR during the New Deal. TRADITIONAL ECONOMY-It's a characteristic of society. Societies that produce tradition in the old fashioned way where the son inherits the job that the father had. It's harder for that economy to modernize when people are fixed in certain roles and traditional occupations. NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS ACT-In 1935, guaranteed workers the right to ...
  • Wood Through Mother Daughter Transference
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    Confucianism and Taoism The constant struggle between women and the Confucian system and the use of Taoism to manipulate it and their tension with American values, exemplified in Rose's broken marriage and her mother's opinion of it, is the cause of the tension between the American born daughters and their immigrant parents in the Joy Luck Club. Confucianism is a rigid set of social guidelines and rituals based on one's place in a mainly patriarchal society. Taoism is based on the harmony of the...
  • Power Of Suyuan's Love For Jing
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    A Mother's Dream For a lot children growing up, our mothers have been an complete part of what made us who we are. Mostly all good mothers want the best for their child and they are determine to do whatever it takes for them to get it. The central struggle in Amy Tan's story 'Two Kinds' is a battle of wills between the narrator, a young Chinese-American girl, and her mother, a Chinese immigrant. 'Two Kinds' is a coming-of-age story, in which the narrator, Jing-me, struggles to forge her own sens...
  • Little Girls Mother
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    Ballad of Birmingham In the poem Ballad of Birmingham, by Dudley Randall, written in 1969, Mr. Randall uses of irony to describes the events of the mothers decision, and also her concern for the welfare of her darling little child. It seems odd that this child would even know what a freedom march is, but this would be considered normal back in the early 1960's, when Mr. Martin Luther King Jr. had rallies and freedom marches to free the African American people from discrimination and segregation ...
  • Father And Daughter Relationship
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    The love between father and daughter. Sometimes it's shared, however most often the father loves the daughter unconditionally whatever might happen. This peach story is very sad and colorless, to a point where if we did not have the peaches one would not be able to finish reading it. One day we have this father and daughter relationship. The girl whom from what we get in the story rarely comes to see her father: 'although she couldn't remember when they had been together before' pg 60. The fathe...
  • Argument Between Rosaura And Her Mother
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    The characters in the short story, "The Stolen Party" demonstrate striking differences in their values and beliefs. Each character displays unique traits. It is these unique traits, which illustrate different aspects of society. Each character then, represents a portion of the values and beliefs of todays society. Rosaura is the main character of this writing. The story revolves around her from start to finish. Rosaura is an inexperienced young girl. This story opens with an argument between Ros...
  • Good Parents To Snow White
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    When one thinks of parents, one thinks of parents as the source of protection and love. However, in many fairytales, parents are portrayed as unreliable, and sometimes the biological mother or father is the actual culprits of their children's ill fate. For example, why would Little Red Riding Hood's mother actually let her young daughter travel in the woods, in winter, by herself? The mother knows there's a chance that her daughter could get raped, beaten, or killed. In "The Tiger's Bride", the ...
  • Mother Daughter Relationship Character Of Mrs Dietrich
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    A well-developed character is an important element in a short story. It stirs up emotions in the reader, making for a powerful story. The success of a short story depends greatly on the strength and authenticity of the characters. In interpreting a story, the reader must be able to understand the characters behind the events of a story. The mothers in Amy Tan's "Two Kinds" and Joyce Carol Oates' "Shopping" are contrasting examples of such traits. In Amy Tan's "Two Kinds", we are introduced to a ...
  • Mother And Daughter
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    She was dark and thin and foreign-looking in a world where the prestige went to blondness and curly hair and dimples, she was slow where glibness was prized. She was a child of anxious, not proud, love. We were poor and could not afford for her the soil of easy growth. I was a young mother, I was a distracted mother. There were the other children pushing up, demanding. Her younger sister seemed all that she was not. There were years she did not want me to touch her. She kept too much in herself,...
  • Mildred's First Husband
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    Mildred Pierce is a gloomy yet captivating murder mystery. The story line leads up to the crime scene presented in the opening scenes. The drama explores the unsound relationship between a helpless mother and an unappreciative daughter. Both of their obnoxious personalities add to the insanity of this melodrama. Multiple flashbacks and weary shadows are responsible for keeping its viewers intrigued throughout the movie. The society back after World War II was based on ethics and the economy. Thi...
  • Joy Luck Club
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    "The Joy Luck Club": A Review of the Novel by Amy Tan Amy Tan's novel "The Joy Luck Club" is outwardly the story of friendship, trials, and tribulations. The story serves a much greater function than simple entertainment, however. It also provides an opportune window into a particular time in history, a time in which the feminist movement was just beginning to gain momentum and a time in which the concept of cultural diversity and its impact on even the most basic aspects of life was beginning t...

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