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The poem "A Song of Changgan" is very poignant, as it starts with a bashful girl who does not even smile around her husband and ends with her almost heartbroken, as her husband is far away. The poem shows the different stages of the relationship of the speaker and her husband, and it is an excellent example of long-distance relationships before modern communication systems.

In Linda Sue Park’s When My Name was Keoko, personal struggle is essential for cultural freedom. The novel takes place during World War II, when Korea was under Japanese rule. The main characters are faced with laws made to destroy Korean culture and replace it with Japanese culture. The book is told through two siblings’ points of views. Sun-hee, an 11-year-old, and Tae-yul, a 13-year-old, are forced to change their name to a Japanese name because of a countrywide law. They discover that their uncle is printing a resistance paper for the illegal independence movement after they hear their father and uncle arguing with each other. Sun-hee receives subtle warnings about her uncle from her friend, Tomo, and mistakenly perceives it as danger

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At the end of the story, Lae Choo is finally granted the paperwork to collect her son after ten harrowing months. However, her expectations of a perfect reunion would soon be crushed. As the caretaker walks Lae Choo to Kim, she discusses his behaviors at the mission nursery school. She mentioned how difficult he was to manage at first, but how “’children so soon forget, and after a month he seemed quite at home and played around as bright and happy as a bird’” (Far 1727). With this change of behavior, Far draws a parallel between Kim and the American rejection of Chinese culture. His difficult behavior when he arrived at the mission nursery could be seen as his retainment of Chinese culture. However, at the end, he is happy and is compared to a bright and

Characters and Background: I just got in reading this book called variant by Robison wells with a total of 373 pages. This book is about a boy named Benson Fisher Who gets enrolled into a new school program called Maxfield Academy. This is a very suspicious school to Benson because it has a barbed wire fence that surrounds the entire school. There are no teachers or adults in the building at all, and There are three gangs called Variant, Havoc, and the Society, but the thing that makes suspense in the most suspicious, is the fact that everyone seems to be okay with this. Out of the three gangs that are at the school, Benson decided to be a Variant also known as the “V’s”. The V's are the smallest gang That consists of only 18 people. The largest gang is the Society. The Society are

_______ is an understanding of how cultural differences across and within nations can affect the way in

"When a person 's diet lacks the chemical, his or her body experiences abnormal functioning."

The main themes in this novel are family and friendship. For Liang it is the monkey man, for Jung it is Frank Yuen, and for Sekky it is his grandmother. For Chinese-Canadians in the 1930s and 40s, family is more than blood ties, close

In the first few pages of Chapter Three, Kingsolver talks about heirloom vegetables and says “these titles stand for real stories.” What is meant by the title is heirloom plants give off seeds that end up being saved and used for many generations (112). Those seeds have history behind them; family stories that span over several years. For example, on page 144 Kingsolver talked about this heirloom seed exchange in Iowa where one of the founders’ grandfather left a pink tomato plant that his parents brought from Bavaria in the 1870s. The seeds are comparable to a family heirloom. Both get handed down from generation to generation and have a story of what the meaning of the object is and how it all got started.

This book is about young Korean girls and its author is Korean as well. It illustrates to young readers that although the girls pictured my look different than they do, the issues and feelings they face are universal.

1. Coming out of the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, different views of federalism were carried: (1) Alexander Hamilton believed that the national government was the superior and leading force in political affairs, since the people created it and its laws were the “supreme law of the land;” (2) Thomas Jefferson believed that “the people” were the ultimate sovereigns, and since the states was a result of agreement among the states, the states were supreme over the national gov’t.

One day, Josh was inside the book store reading the book that he published. When Josh and his little sister Maggie left the book store they saw something blue following them. They ignored it and went home. The next day, Josh went to the woods for a walk, and found Maggie there. When the two siblings decided to leave the woods, they saw something blue following them again. They found out that the blue things following them were actually faceless creatures that wanted to go to planet Yastol to get a precious rock they called aafth. The blue guys put a crown on Josh, which they called a circlet, and when the staff of the blue creatures attached to the circlet, Josh, Maggie and the blue guys fell into a pit. They were now in Yastol with the blue

미국. With the character 미 meaning beautiful and 국 meaning country, the two come together to form the word beautiful country, or America. Like many others who have not been raised in the United States, I have grown up with the perception that America is a utopian society, a land where the grass is always green and the water always clear. However, after immigrating to the United States at nine years old, I have come to realize that living in America is not as perfect as I had always thought; from daily microaggressions to just the reality of being part of a minority group, my self consciousness about my race and culture gradually heightened. This idea of struggling to finding one’s place between differing lifestyles could also be seen in the short story “Paper Menagerie” by Ken Liu. This story held the most personal meaning for me because as a minority, Jack’s struggle to find himself as well as the symbolism of Laohu, the tiger, were meaningful to me and left me thinking about my own life in relation.

11. The narrative abruptly changes to first point of view in the beginning of this chapter. The narrator seems to be a fellow soldier during the war in chapter one as he recalls many events and expresses relativity to many of the familiar names of those in combat in chapter one. It is later revealed to be Tim O’Brien, the author.

Chapter seven opens with Hiram and his Grampa driving to and through the "Hillburn land and Hillburn crops" (68). Hiram's grandfather begins talking about Harlan and how much his grandson reminds him of his father. Here, the readers are presented to a softer side of ol' Grampa Hillburn. To this point of the book, Hiram's grandfather and father fought like cats and dogs. It was seemingly like they hated each other. Perhaps it is his older age and the realization of the fraility in lifem, but Grampa admits to Hiram that he misses his son and doesn't really know why they fell apart like they did. After their sentimental moment, the two men travel to their old fishing spot on the Yazoo River so that Hiram will be able to find it on his own.