Chinese Cinderella is a nonfiction novel by Adeline Yen Mah, about her childhood during World War 2. It describes her struggles with being blamed for her mothers death and living with a stepmother, that swares Adeline is trouble. You could say that this is the chinese Cinderella story because Adeline was excluded from her family, especially by her evil stepmother. Adeline feeds off of the pressure from her family, to create wonderful pieces of literature. After changing from boarding school to boarding school, she wins an award for play-writing. Even though her father asks what Adeline wants to major in, while in college, he still goes against her wish for literature, and states that he wants her to study medicine. Through the beginning of the novel Adeline gets a pet chick, it becomes her dearest friend, someone she could talk to about anything. one day after dinner, the family dog attacks Pete, the chick, and soon dies after. this forces some anger to rise in Adeline, because it was the only thing in life that she felt was dear to her. i would relate this book to the American conderella story, because it tells about a girl that uses her troubles to her atvantage to create something wonderful.
-- a topical antibactirial agent used for cuts and scrapes
-- book sentence: she wiped away the blood, washed my wrist, and dressed the wounnd with mercurochrome, cotton and a bandage.
--my sentence: after i fell of the swing fixed the scratches with some mercurochrome and band-aids
-- book sentence: she wiped away the blood, washed my wrist, and dressed the wounnd with mercurochrome, cotton and a bandage.
--my sentence: after i fell of the swing fixed the scratches with some mercurochrome and band-aids
Without reading Adeline Yen Mah’s novel, Chinese Cinderella, I can infer that it is basically the Chinese Cinderella story. The cover depicts a little girl that looks very lonely and the passage next to the photo says “the true story of on unwanted daughter”, it also has, what I am assuming, is the title in Chinese. There is no photo of the author, although I am thinking that the little on the front cover is Mah. As for the biography, there is an Author’s note and Postscript. These tell about the language, customs and what it was like in china at the time of her own living there. The Preface is very interesting, as it teaches you why and what the names in the book are. For example, big sister, second sister, ect. It also teaches you how to count in Chinese, which is included in the Table of Contents.
The novel starts with the narrator asking about her dead mother, and her grandmother blowing her off and avoiding the subject. It then explains the family tree and who she lives with, it also tells of how her siblings blame the narrator for their mother’s death, because mama died giving birth to Mah. The story also implies that women were still treated badly because Mai Nai has bounded feet, when a woman has bounded feet it is a sign of ownership and sometimes a sign of “beauty”
The novel starts with the narrator asking about her dead mother, and her grandmother blowing her off and avoiding the subject. It then explains the family tree and who she lives with, it also tells of how her siblings blame the narrator for their mother’s death, because mama died giving birth to Mah. The story also implies that women were still treated badly because Mai Nai has bounded feet, when a woman has bounded feet it is a sign of ownership and sometimes a sign of “beauty”
here i am all sad lonely
thinking my life is meloncholy
i need some lust
i need some love
some love to find,
i must, i must
here i stand before you now
standing tall and proud, but how
can i love this dazzling
genesis of mine,
but i do, i do
love this genesis of mine
with our love and hope
then maybe we can cope
with the parting of our love
while i find a wife
with flesh not stone
my dearest dove
thinking my life is meloncholy
i need some lust
i need some love
some love to find,
i must, i must
here i stand before you now
standing tall and proud, but how
can i love this dazzling
genesis of mine,
but i do, i do
love this genesis of mine
with our love and hope
then maybe we can cope
with the parting of our love
while i find a wife
with flesh not stone
my dearest dove
The story of "Sundiata" is very similar to the story of Dick and Rick Hoyt. Rick has never been able to walk, due to ceberal palsy. His father devoted his life to his son and competes in triathalons while pushing and pulling Rick along. Together "team hoyt" has crossed atleast 1,000 finish lines. in "Sundiata", he is unable to walk throughout his childhood, but is still able to suceed as a pwoerful leader.
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/19/father-and-son-across-1000-finish-lines/
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/19/father-and-son-across-1000-finish-lines/
What do you want out of college?
A review of 10 Things Your Employers Want You to Learn in College by Bill Coplin
College. Not just a place to learn, but to explore. If you get nothing out of college but a degree, please become ADEPT in these 10 skills: work ethic, physical performance, speaking, writing, teamwork, influencing people, research, number crunching, critical thinking, and problem solving. Mastering these skills will put you farther up on the list to get a job. Not to be generic, but this book is about important things to do while in college, not only to master at your major and minor, but to become very well rounded. Being well rounded makes you a more likable person, because it shows that you enjoy change and different things.
My definition of success is achieving a goal you may have, whether it is good grades in school, or becoming famous. Bill Coplin says, “learning to defer gratification is part of growing up, and growing up means motivating yourself to get what you want” (Coplin, 10). Coplin is very correct in this quote, it is important to know what gratification is and to know how to receive it. In life, I would like to go to Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD), and become a photographer, preferably famousJ. Money is a big obstacle, photo equipment would put a HUGE dent in the money I have. The novel helped me learn that I don’t just have to take required classes. For example, even if I don’t major in dance, I can still take a dance class to add a little PANACHE to my college life.
The book is structured like a textbook. It will say a skill and quote, then information pertaining to the quote, then things to do within your courses and out of them. The author describes college as “… a place to learn how to determine the accuracy of information, and now perceptions and values bias much of the information you receive” (Coplin, 94) this quotes tells how about 2/3’s of what you learn in college are not needed in everyday life, and it’s important to tell what is needed to know and what is not. The topic for each chapter is a different skill. The first 10 chapters, of course, are about the ten skills I stated in the first paragraph. I would say the writing was effective and powerful. It attempts to motivate you into succeeding at what you want to do and preparing to succeed while in college. In the book 10 Things Your Employers Want You to Learn in, I learned the importance of being self motivating and deciphering important things from unimportant ones.
I would recommend this book to college students, and maybe even high school students if the thing ahead. Readers should care about reading this book because it teaches the importance of being able to succeed easily. The “textbook”, describes the 10 things as good points. When your employer sees you have that, the light bulb and thumbs up go off in his head.
A review of 10 Things Your Employers Want You to Learn in College by Bill Coplin
College. Not just a place to learn, but to explore. If you get nothing out of college but a degree, please become ADEPT in these 10 skills: work ethic, physical performance, speaking, writing, teamwork, influencing people, research, number crunching, critical thinking, and problem solving. Mastering these skills will put you farther up on the list to get a job. Not to be generic, but this book is about important things to do while in college, not only to master at your major and minor, but to become very well rounded. Being well rounded makes you a more likable person, because it shows that you enjoy change and different things.
My definition of success is achieving a goal you may have, whether it is good grades in school, or becoming famous. Bill Coplin says, “learning to defer gratification is part of growing up, and growing up means motivating yourself to get what you want” (Coplin, 10). Coplin is very correct in this quote, it is important to know what gratification is and to know how to receive it. In life, I would like to go to Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD), and become a photographer, preferably famousJ. Money is a big obstacle, photo equipment would put a HUGE dent in the money I have. The novel helped me learn that I don’t just have to take required classes. For example, even if I don’t major in dance, I can still take a dance class to add a little PANACHE to my college life.
The book is structured like a textbook. It will say a skill and quote, then information pertaining to the quote, then things to do within your courses and out of them. The author describes college as “… a place to learn how to determine the accuracy of information, and now perceptions and values bias much of the information you receive” (Coplin, 94) this quotes tells how about 2/3’s of what you learn in college are not needed in everyday life, and it’s important to tell what is needed to know and what is not. The topic for each chapter is a different skill. The first 10 chapters, of course, are about the ten skills I stated in the first paragraph. I would say the writing was effective and powerful. It attempts to motivate you into succeeding at what you want to do and preparing to succeed while in college. In the book 10 Things Your Employers Want You to Learn in, I learned the importance of being self motivating and deciphering important things from unimportant ones.
I would recommend this book to college students, and maybe even high school students if the thing ahead. Readers should care about reading this book because it teaches the importance of being able to succeed easily. The “textbook”, describes the 10 things as good points. When your employer sees you have that, the light bulb and thumbs up go off in his head.
10 THINGS EMPLOYERS WANT YOU TO LEARN IN COLLEGE, A BOOK ABOUT SUCCESS, TALKS ABOUT WHAT LOOKS GOOD WHEN YOU APPLY FOR A JOB. IT TEACHES YOU TO BE VERY ADEPT IN THE MAJOR YOU CHOOSE TO STUDY. THE TEN THINGS ARE: WORK ETHIC, PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE, SPEAKING, WRITING, TEEMWORK, INFLUENCING PEOPLE, RESEARCH, NUMBER CHUNCHING, CRITICAL THINKING, AND PROBLEM SOLVING.
In the movie Il Postino, it expresses love, class and poetry. I liked this movie, it taught a story of friendship and the importance of making your wishes come true. Parts of the movie remind me of Romeo and Juliet, just as in the play, Beatrix’s mother forbids her and Mario to see each other. Later in the movie, after the two lovers get married, Mario dies.
There are many types of love in the video. It expresses patriotism, friendship, romantic, lust, and family love. You could say one of the themes is “you don’t appreciate something until it is gone”, because when Pablo leaves Mario with his wife, and after Mario passes away, Pablo becomes very melancholy and goes to the many places where they spent time together to reminisce.
In the movie, the rich people wore light colors and the poor people wore dark colors. This is an example of class, and how the richer people felt they were more important than everyone else. A theme for class could be “don’t judge a book by its cover”. This would come into play when Mario stands up for what he believes in and shows the politicians that even though he is not as wealthy, he is able to read and write.
There are many points of view and various opinions for poetry, but there is one thing in common with all poetry, a meaning and the motivation to write it. for example, when Mario thought he couldn’t write poems to his love, Pablo kept helping him and making him try harder to do it.
There are many types of love in the video. It expresses patriotism, friendship, romantic, lust, and family love. You could say one of the themes is “you don’t appreciate something until it is gone”, because when Pablo leaves Mario with his wife, and after Mario passes away, Pablo becomes very melancholy and goes to the many places where they spent time together to reminisce.
In the movie, the rich people wore light colors and the poor people wore dark colors. This is an example of class, and how the richer people felt they were more important than everyone else. A theme for class could be “don’t judge a book by its cover”. This would come into play when Mario stands up for what he believes in and shows the politicians that even though he is not as wealthy, he is able to read and write.
There are many points of view and various opinions for poetry, but there is one thing in common with all poetry, a meaning and the motivation to write it. for example, when Mario thought he couldn’t write poems to his love, Pablo kept helping him and making him try harder to do it.