The Joy Luck Club Quickwrite

Shuyuan Woo changes her story about Kweilin various times. On one note, she ends the story talking about how the Joy Luck Club came to be and what they were all about. She spoke of how the women formed the club in times where they were struggling. The Joy Luck Club was a place where she got support from 3 other women and they felt close like a family. They would play games of mahjong and Shuyuan Woo was the main one who always won.

Another version to the ending of the story was when Shuyuan Woo abandoned her babies. June Woo, her daughter was complaining that she wanted a radio and Shuyuan Woo got angry. She finally told her the truth to her story at that point. When in Kweilin, an officer arrived at Shuyuan's home and had told her to run away before the Japanese came to take over Kweilin. After 4 days of running away, Shuyuan Woo's hands were bleeding from carrying two bags that held her belongings. After a while, she just dropped the bags that contained the food and clothing. Then, her story ends with her telling her daughter June that she left her two babies that she carried in her arms because she was tired. She told June that it was not her so that she had nothing to worry about.

I think that Shuyuan ended the story with different changes and hid the truth from her daughter to protect her in some way. I assumed that she did not want her daughter to know that she was capable of doing that in the past: abandon her kids.

She only told June the real side of the story when she was somewhat angry at her. June wanted a transistor radio and Shuyuan told her, "Why do you think you are missing something you never had," (25), referring to the fact that she had her babies and had to give them up. Shuyuan Woo made a tough decision in leaving her children. The message that she is trying to pass on to her daughter is that she is lucky that she was not one of those babies that she had to leave behind. June does not realize how much good of a life she has. She is blessed, she lives in America unlike the two babies without their mother.

Chinese Parents Suck!

Wow! Why Chinese Mothers are Superior by Amy Chua.

What Chinese parents understand is that nothing is fun until you're good at it. To get good at anything you have to work, and children on their own never want to work, which is why it is crucial to override their preferences. This often requires fortitude on the part of the parents because the child will resist; things are always hardest at the beginning, which is where Western parents tend to give up. But if done properly, the Chinese strategy produces a virtuous circle. Tenacious practice, practice, practice is crucial for excellence; rote repetition is underrated in America. Once a child starts to excel at something—whether it's math, piano, pitching or ballet—he or she gets praise, admiration and satisfaction. This builds confidence and makes the once not-fun activity fun. This in turn makes it easier for the parent to get the child to work even more.

Personally, I think that the Asian method that this lady talks about is CRAZY! In her words, Chinese parents are tough and that is the way they got their children to do what they want them to. Their way of motivating their children is by talking smack to them and degrading them. She talks about having fun only when the children become good at something. Children are supposedly lazy and they do not want to do their work to improve on something. In turn, the Chinese or Asian parents have to be tough and 'encourage' them by being rude and calling them names for' motivation'.WTF!

Asian parents do not want to comfort their children, they want their kids to do as they say and go with it no matter how they feel about it. Chua is trying to demean the Western parents by saying that they are not tough enough and that Chinese parents are better in terms of being strict. That's so dumb. My mom does a great job wiht me and she isn't rude to me or call me worthless if I don't get something right.

The thing that kind of tipped me off the most was the fact that I almost got the vibe from this article that the Asian parents will only love their kids if they do something right. She says that the child will get praise and admiration for their good work. Parents should be there for their kids no matter what. Even if their child were to fail at something, then the parents should give support instead of the Chinese version of 'encouraging words'. I would hate my parents if they acted like these Chinese parents. I'm just saying.

Quickwrite- Animal Farm and Egypt

The main similarities between Animal Farm and Tunisia and Egypt were that both of the revolutions lead up to something bad. Even though the revolution was meant for a good cause they had they both led up to something unreasonable. In Animal Farm, we know how it ended and it was not a good ending how the rest of the animals could not recognize the difference between a human and a pig. They both did so much bad things to the animals that after they had the revolution it was like if they had it for no reason.

In Tunisia and Egypt, we do not know the ending of it yet but so far it has had its negative effects. For example how people were willing to burn themselves to death to be able to show what they think of their government and starting up riots that show they hate their leader in Egypt. Also how people were ending up sleeping on the wheels of a tank so the tanks would not be able to move an inch with out killing them. People in this revolution are willing to give up their lives and some all ready did a hope to God no one else would die do to the fact of the revolution.

So over all the fact that both revolutions in Animal Farm and Tunisia and Egypt had their bad effects. This is something that both of this revolution has in common.

Another thing that this two revolution have in common is that they both trying to over throw their leaders. In Animal Farm the animals wanted to overthrow the humans, Mr. Jones, who basically ruled them and had made the decisions of the animals. So basically, the humans control the animal’s faith. While in Egypt they also wanted to overthrow their leader. In this case it was the government and their leader. They were tired of him not doing anything about the economy of their country and did nothing to help them get better jobs. He did the opposite and took their jobs away. The people were getting tired of not seen a change so the decided to make their own change and the first step to this was to overthrow their governor.

These are some similarities that both the Animal Farm revolution and Tunisia and Egypt revolutions had in common.

Chapter 11- Vanessa and Carly

Me and Carly worked together on this thang!


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