To make her point clear she uses a lot of pathos and a lot of examples from experiences with herself and her two daughters, Louisa and Sofia. At the beginning when she tells the stories about her daughters trying to fight back you think ’what a terrible mother’, but she uses this feeling to support the view the readers have on the Chinese mothers as being mean to their kids so that afterwards she can tell how it turned out good and therefor the way she raises her kids is the best. Amy Chua has a high ethos because she is a professor at Yale which is a very respected job, and as a parent it makes her more reliable because she tells the reader that her parents treated her the same way that she treats her daughters, and as we can see she has been very successful. Also she uses loghos: ”In one study of 50 Western American mothers and 48 Chinese immigrant mothers, almost 70 % of the Western mothers said either that ”stressing academic success is not good for children” or that ”parents need to foster the idea that learning is fun”. By contrast,
Authors have successfully used the dialogue between mother and daughter to say they have absolutely become a family. By using this method, the conversation between Leah and Joan reveals the love of mother and child has been greatly improved. The statement of Leah “Yeah, sorry” indicates her transformation to stop arguing with her mother. It also shows the realization of Leah and starts to accept her fault during the time in China. The statement of Joan “My father was asking me, and your father was asking you.
It reminds me of Diary of Anne Frank. 5.) I think this book is like an Autobiography and an eye-witness book as well. I think that because Anchee witnessed this with her eyes, everything that has happened in her life. I think it’s also an autobiography because it’s mainly about her life, and what she has gone through growing up in China during that period.
Mulan is an outcast in a society that values feminine beauty, which is shown when her father Fa Zhou says, “I know my place. It is time you learned yours” and when he prays to “help Mulan impress the matchmaker today.” (Mulan). Mulan is a story of a young Chinese girl who tries to find herself and goes on an adventure to bring honor to her family. Mulan is an example of a monomyth because it contains a Departure, Initiation, and a Return, archetypes, and the universal theme of growing up. The Departure begins with the “call to adventure.” According to Campbell, “the adventure begins with someone from whom something has been taken or who feels there’s something lacking in the normal experience available or permitted to the members in society.
The CBC has made a very impactful footprint on a national level in Canada. It has expanded to suit the needs of Canadians as the age of technology progressed and strived to improve the lives of Canadians in terms of national and local knowledge, social culture and politics. The CBC has succeeded in making Canada an independent nation by reforming and improving the trends, opinions and overall national connection within the population. Overall, the power of the CBC to provide and share information to Canadian citizens has greatly contributed to the Canadian identity as an independent nation. The CBC has assisted Canadians in becoming more connected with each other on a national level by helping others understand the conditions of the country as a whole.
Miri Song’s study on British Chinese found that Chinese parents were very influential in reinforcing Chinese values by positively sanctioning children who choose to help out in the family business. These children were seen as more ‘Chinese’ as they adopted the Chinese cultural characteristics of family solidarity and collective loyalty. Another way in which ethnic identities are created and reinforced is through the secondary agent of socialisation, religion. Religion can also be considered as a primary agent of socialisation as many ethnic cultures are heavily influenced by religion; these beliefs are passed down through the family from generation to generation. Charlotte Butler in her 1995 study of Muslim girls found that their religion was central to creating their ethnic identity.
During the sections, all the stories were chosen from Song dynasty, one of the well-known dynasty in Chinese history, and a lot of important events happened during that period such as, the famous minister and literati Wang Anshi who took reforms. Bao Zheng was an incorrupt and an honest official who respected deeply and widely from the public. The Four Grand Invention- powder, papermaking, printing, and compass were shown
Through research it is noticeable that the Jews had important contributions in the Silk Road in many areas such as the business activities, and also spread the Jewish religion and culture throughout the areas involved. When researching many of the sources and materials point the Chinese as the key influence of the Silk Road, and this can be argued because it was named after the silk coming out of china which was extremely profitable, and desired. Through research it was also pointed out specifically in Trudy Ring, Robert M. Salkin, Noelle Watson, Sharon La Boda, & Paul Schellinger who showed that while it was the Chinese merchants that carry silk and other items from the east, “they sold or bartered their goods to the Asian middlemen who in turn traded the merchandise to Persians, Syrians, and Jewish merchants” which then sold the good throughout the Roman Empire. This is the
Ha Jin – The Bridegroom Described as utopian in nature, the Chinese culture is often in pursuit for the perfect individual, a harmonious and structured society where the citizens as a whole create the ideal culture. In a collection of short stories entitled The Bridegroom, author Ha Jin documents this aspect of reality in homeland China. Primarily for the purposes of instruction and satirical verse, Ha Jin, shows how people are trying to find themselves in a society that focuses on the ‘whole’ of the country rather than the individual. He is able to interconnect this theme of individualism through four major stories in the book while presenting ‘Chineseness’ or satire of fictional verse as a way to focus on the changes throughout China and the political discourse that its citizens face. In the short story Alive, Ha Jin depicts individualism, or the loss thereof and its impact on a Chinese family.
With this wide range of choices, a family can get to choose with their own preference. Old time radio favorites influenced many important entertainers we have in modern times. Canada emerged from its colonial past with a unique political art, music, and literature. Ironically, at a time when Canadians have the most confidence to make a virtue of their diversity, their cultural environment is rapidly becoming a piece of the American "entertainment" market. The order in council through which the Massey Commission was formed stated "it is in the national interest to give encouragement to institutions which express national feeling, promote common understanding and add to the variety and richness of Canadian