Analysis and Interpretation of Crickets

This chapter describes the story a Vietnamese boy Lac Su. His father was a Chinese and now his family is settled in America. Lac Su from the chapter seems to be an extremely sensitive, timid and scared kid who is finding difficulty in settling in such a different culture. This chapter is divided into two parts. The first one describes a horrible situation for the kid when he has to stay alone in the house and take care of his sister as his mother has left the house without telling any reason. Next morning he receives a call from his mother when she informs him about the reason that his father is hospitalized as he was beaten up and robbed by some Mexican thugs.

Continuing with the views of Nguyen and his parents, Nguyen’s split identity of being Vietnamese and American is fueled by the way he interacts with his family. The aforementioned disagreement between Nguyen and his parents on fighting the

”The grasshopper and the bell cricket” is a short story, written by Yasunari Kawabata, written in a narrative perspective of someone watching children searching for insects using colored and decorated lanterns. I would like to think that the author is trying to symbolize life, and that it is not only one path to go. We are all aiming for acceptance and to fit in to the society, but this story tells us that

A published playwright, poet, and novelist, David Okita, composed the poem “Response to Executive Order 9066”. He describes himself as “Japanese, American, gay, and Buddhist” (Matsunaga). Held in confinement for four years at a Japanese-American concentration camp, Okita’s mother serves as the inspiration for the poem. Okita’s father is a World War II veteran, and this war plays a significant role in the poem. The Japanese-American concentration camps system was a result of unrestrained prejudice during WWII.

Ha’s mother is grieving the disappearance of her husband and the fall of Vietnam to Communism. The fallout of the Vietnam War causes separation for Ha and her family. Once in America, Ha finds that many in the small township move to ignore her culture and her heritage. Vietnamese culture and

This study was undertaken in order to compare the 〖CO〗_2 output of a cricket (Acheta domesticus) as a way to indirectly measure its respiration. This was done by observing the 〖CO〗_2 output of a cricket (μL/min⁡) over different levels of DNP, 2,4-Dinitrophenol. It was shown that the crickets subject to DNP (n=10) had a significantly higher 〖CO〗_2 production rate (p= 7.4e-10) than the control crickets(n=10), that were not exposed to DNP. This indicates that the presence of DNP induced a greater of respiration rate in crickets. There may be several factors that contributed to these results such as the cricket’s physical size and its health conditions. These factors vary between individuals and may affect the degree of respiration. A better insight

The American dream is an ideal that every immigrant strives to attain. It's the promise of wealth, security, and a future for one's family. The pursuit of this dream isn't always why people come to America; some people come because they are fleeing danger or poverty in their home country. The U.S, with it's tempting opportunity and freedom, then becomes the best place to escape to. These people leave everything behind to travel abroad and start a new, more opportune life. They risk their lives when they make the often perilous journey to America and, upon arrival, face struggles that they've never even heard of. Struggles such as cultural assimilation, discrimination, and identity. In the book The Gangster We Are All Looking For, by Le Thi Diem Thuy, a Vietnamese refugee recalls her experience as a young girl when she first arrived in the U.S. In it she tells of various struggles her and her parents, her dad is called Ba and her mom is called Ma, had while living in America. The Vietnamese girl's name is never told in the book, so she will be

What is the true American Dream ?
In Ta-Nehisi Coates Between the World and Me, he writes a series of letters to his son

In Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong, Tim O'Brien gives a dynamic example of how even the deep roots of ones culture can be modified. The focus is on the young lady, whose boyfriend manages to have her shipped over to Vietnam from the U.S. She is then thrown into a completely foreign culture that thousands of American GI's were experiencing. This change in culture affected the strongest and most skilled of America's ground troops. The affects on a civilian are almost unfathomable.

The topic of house cricket aggression in response to residency has been previously studied. (Alexander 1961) split this aggression behavior into five levels: 1) no aggression, dominance, or retreat; 2) no aggression with a retreat by one cricket; 3) mild one-sided aggression with mild repercussion; 4) moderate to intense aggression from both crickets; or 5) sustained combat. Interestingly, in Polistes wasps (Pardi 1948a), Sphecius wasps (Mr Norman Lin, personal communication), and crayfish (Bovbjerg 1953; Lowe 1956) aggressive behavior has been split into four or five levels. (Alexander 1961)

"If baby Hung and I and my father's spirit were to survive the death of Vietnam, we would have to turn our eyes elsewhere—to the West…" (239). Le Ly had married an American, who many see as the enemy, and most of her family members did not approve of this. Marrying an American was only a part of the problem. The difference in ages, with Ed being much older, and marrying so soon after the death of her father went against traditions. "You betray your ancestors" (347)! Even knowing all of this, moving to America is what needed to be done to protect her family and their futures. When Le Ly's father was alive, he had told her to take care of her son, whatever that entailed. "Raise him the best way you can. That is the battle you were born to fight" (201). Now, honoring her dead father, she remembered his words. The future was not bright for her in Vietnam. And with a growing boy to think of, she had to make the hard decision to leave everything and everybody she knows behind. With Ed as her husband, she knew she could give her son a better future where endless opportunities await him and he will not know the hardships of war. "…he would see to it that I would never have to work again; that my little boy, Jimmy, would be raised in a nice neighborhood and go to an American school; and that neither of us would have to face the dangers and travails of war again. …the

Vietnamerica A Family's Journey is a graphic memoir written and illustrated by GB Tran. GB Tran is a Vietnamese American that grew up distant and indifferent to his family’s history. This story talks about many tragic history of this family and homeland they left behind. One important topic emphasised through the illustrations and words was the Vietnam War and its effect on their family.

People only focuses on where they are but forgets where they came from. In “The Trip Back”, Robert Olen Butler criticizes self and family importance on cultural perspective through the story of Khánh, a Vietnamese man living in Louisiana, who is on a way back of picking up his wife’s grandfather. Butler sets cultural difference viewpoint as the crucial aspect of the story through Khánh’s behavior.

In the book The Quiet American Phoung, the beautiful Vietnamese girl caught in a love triangle with an American spy and a war correspondent, is seen as a commodity, something to be bartered, without actually taking her feelings into consideration. She is treated as a delicate victim who needs saving by the men in the book but although it seems like Greene is portraying Phuong as nothing more than an object, he means for her to represent much more than that. Greene’s portrayal of Phuong as an object represents the treatment of the Vietnamese people in the hands of the Americans. She is meant to be symbolic of her country, both men, American and British want to possess her, much like the war raging in Vietnam.

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