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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The English Language- The New Generation

Language is something that the human race can not live without. Without the English language, we would not be able to communicate with each other and we would not have gotten this far into civilization. People take many different forms of the way to speak within their language. The most well-known language used worldwide is the English language. The English language has been abused by many people and it has been adopted by many to be switched up from what it really should be. In George Orwell's speech, "Politics and the English Language," he analyzes the many factors in which the English language has been misused all over the world.

George Orwell's main points about written and spoken English are that humans are the ones who  make the English language seem as he says, "ugly and inaccurate," because we become too careless and lazy with our language and speech. Our language, as George Orwell states, creates foolish thoughts within us. In a sense, our foolish thoughts inhibited by our language can be erased. 

Back to his point, George Orwell states that our English language started on its own and that eventually over time, it developed and grew on its own without any input from the human race. We did not 'shape' our language, but we have supposedly 'damaged' our version of the English language.

I have to disagree with the fact that English developed on its own and that we as a collective race had nothing to do with it. "...the half-conscience belief that language is a natural growth and not an instrument which we shape for our own purposes." If it was not for us building on to the English language, then there would be no form of communication today. Although we have created the English language, George Orwell does have a point when he says that we have permanently damaged what we now consider to be the English language. George Orwell speaks of the Modern English which can be examined through the lives of everyday teenagers.  

Nowadays, we hear kids speaking in a manner in which people did not use to speak like before. This is an example from Orwell's' speech and how he says  that we have done so much damage to the English language that it is irreversible. We, as teenagers have the most informal language. Teenagers do not care what they say or who they say it to. In a sense, teenagers learn to speak their mind from a very early age and over time, they seem to not put a censor on the things that they speak of. They have a tendency to use foul language or as we know it 'cuss words'. I have met a lot of teenagers who must use as cuss word in every sentence in order for them to speak comfortably. For every two words, there is a cuss word. 

I can speak from experience. I am not so good with censoring my thoughts and covering up every cuss word that gets thrown out of my mouth. It is a bad habit and that is exactly what George Orwell speaks about.

Another example is the way teenagers seem to just make up some words. When I walk down the street, I hear so many people speak without them using the English language properly. People, specifically teenagers, use made up words such as "Bruh", "Dude", "N***a", and so on and so forth.

Also, we have sites such as Urban Dictionary, which transform a normal English word into something completely different. Although it is taken as a joke to many people, it does put a dent in the many years that humans have developed for the English language.

If we were to go back in time, we would see that no one would speak the way we do now. We have changed our language drastically. I wouldn't say that we have destroyed the English language, but we definitely have damaged it in some way.

Rebuttal for Carly

In Carlys' opening statement  of her debate topic that she chose, which was the same as mine, Should child actors in shows marketed to younger audiences be expected to serve as role models for people their age?, Carly does have some strong points that I can not disagree with. But at the same time, her thesis or her strongest point was that the child stars should not be role models simply because it strips them of their freedom and that is something I disagree with. 

"The main and most important reason that child actors should not be required to be role models is because it would strip the actors of their freedom."

I agree with her statement that certain child stars should not be role models to younger kids, but at the same time, it has nothing to do with stripping them of their freedom. It is mostly for them knowing what is and what is not the right thing to do when they know that millions of people worldwide can be viewing them 24/7.

"Everybody has done something bad, either by accident or on purpose. Actors' mistakes and faults are magnified and the results are painful to endure when everyone turns against you. Even though Miley Cyrus has committed something inappropriate for teens her age, she should be given the opportunity to learn from her mistakes, just like others are too. Furthermore, if Miley had not learned from her mistakes and commit it multiple times over, who are we- the audience, to tell her to stop? It is true that our youngsters are influenced by her, but they are also influenced by many other kids at school."

Carly is trying to say that we should let the child stars live freely and we, as an audience are not one to judge. Personally, if I had a child, I would not want them to be viewing the disastrous lives of many of the child stars. Yes, Carly is right when she says that we should give stars such as Miley Cyrus the opportunity to learn from their mistakes and that we should give them some space. But I think that they should not have done their mistakes in the first place. It is not like the mistakes that these stars did were too small notice. No! They were a very big deal. For example, Miley Cyrus had recently released some naked pictures of herself and her character in the music industry is not one that should be an advertisement for kids half her age. Child stars turn in to some of the worst people that should supposedly be role models for our generation of kids.

 

 

Child Actors!

Should child actors in shows marketed to younger audiences be expected to serve as role models for people their age?
Yes! Young actors should be able to hold themselves to a higher standard instead of falling through the cracks when they know that younger kids look up to them.


There are many young actors in Hollywood who know how to hold themselves together since they know that they are advertising to an audience who should not have to witness them behaving badly. On the other hand, there are the Disney stars who show up on T.V or in magazines doing things that they shouldn't be doing. For example, now on Disney, we have teenage girls such as Miley Cyrus and Demi Lovato. Miley Cyrus has a history of repeatedly behaving what other people consider bad for their children to view. She showed up in an issue of Vanity Fair, she dated men that were over the age of 18 while she was still a minor, her music videos are too provocative and she pole danced at the 2009 Teen Choice Awards. All this behavior is something that parents would not approve of their child viewing. As for Demi Lovato, she ended up going to rehab for cutting herself. That is also a thing where parents do not want their kids to learn of that kind of stuff.


Both of these young ladies have had their pictures leaked on to the Internet, where they are exposed or there are racy pictures of them. Either they should learn how to have more respect for both themselves and the company that they work for, or in my opinion, they should not be allowed to be in the industry at all. When these girls show up anywhere where their names are being headlined for something wrong that they did, the parents of younger children do not want them to have to witness that for the purpose of keeping them from even learning about those type of stuff that should be left for the adults. If child stars such as Miley Cyrus and Demi Lovato want to act more grown up o taken more seriously by a wider range of audience, the they should be on Disney Channel where there are millions of kids viewing them worldwide.