Kung Xiu's Stereotypes

Sarah Breedlove which name she was born into on 12/23/1867 in Delta Louisiana on a cotton plantation.Sarah Breedlove parents name was Minerva and Owen Breedlove.Sarah Breedlove had 5 siblings.In all 6 kids Owen and Minerva had,Sarah Breedlove was the first one to be born-free.Sarah Breedlove was born-free because she was

In Delta, Louisiana Sarah Breedlove was born to parents Minerva and Owen Breedlove on December 23, 1867. Sarah was the first unrestricted child to her recently freed (from slavery) parents. Sarah’s parents worked on a cotton field, when Sarah was old enough she worked with them. Although Sarah had a lot of work she managed to have fun with other children. They went to fish fries where people sang and danced, in addition they went to church on Sundays with their families. When Sarah was about 5 years old her mother unexpectedly died and less than 2 years later her father died. Sarah went to live with her sister, Louvenia and her husband, who was very cruel to Sarah. In 1878 the 3 moved to Vicksburg, Mississippi because of the yellow fever outburst.

Ann Fessler tells about her personal experiences with adoption during the 1950s and 60s in the beginning of the book. The author writes about herself being adopted and dealing with the difficult reality of finding her birth mother. Within the first couple of pages, Fessler says, “My adoptive mother and father were offered very little information about my biological parents.”(2) and “...after forty years of life as an adoptee I was hearing the other side of the story for the first time.”(3). Fessler explaining her past and her personal experience with adoption is one of her examples that give her ethos. Fessler was never given the chance to meet her birth mother which shows again how the lack of control caused these women's situations to worsen. After having the credibility to tell these girls’ stories, Fessler continued to bring the issue to light.

story of when she was once poor, homeless and the daughter of two drug addicted parents. The

There was a couple named Kiowa and Muraco. They've been together for 8 years. They had a beautiful, healthy baby girl. Her name was Cherokee. Kiowa and Muraco loved Cherokee so much but they knew they couldn't keep Cherokee because they were poor. They had no money to take care of Cherokee. Everyday they struggled to find food and water. Days went by and Kiowa was starting to get sick. Each day it got worse and worse. Her skin was turning red, her eyes were puffy and she constantly coughed and sneezed. Kiowa told Muraco she didn't feel good and she felt like she was going to die soon. On the fourth day, Kiowa died and Muraco was left to raise Cherokee by himself. Muraco knew nothing about raising kids. He was scared. He didn't know what to do so he decided to find help.

After having at least two illegitimate girls Sarah is believed to have married, for a time, a man by the name of Hartley and may have been the man who was the father of the blind child. Sarah's time as a domestic, along with her younger siblings were all in Weyburn Saskatchewan some 350 km south east of Rosetown, well away from their father. At some point she lost her husband and lived alone with a severe case of diabetes that would become the cause of her death. Again Florence was the only sibling to attend the burial.

Once upon a time, there was a lost girl, and a lost boy. The lost girl faced many challenges, having been abandoned by her parents, leaving her on the side of a desolate road for her to die and only with a blanket with the name Emma etched on was covering the little baby girl. After someone had found her with the baby blanket covering her tiny baby body, she was stuck in a foster home close to a city until someone had adopted her.

Page 2: Loulou, also known as Lou, was a thirteen year old who was adopted at a very young age. She was in a car accident with her birth-parents on their way home from a summer trip. She was safe in her car seat, but what she didn’t know was that her parents were badly injured. When they were sent to the hospital, Lou never saw them again. Lou was sent to an adoption center. After a couple of months, her current parents, Mary Tye and Sam Tye, adopted her.

In the play “Trying to Find Chinatown”, David Hwang makes it possible to turn Asian stereotypes backwards. Benjamin, a Caucasian from the mid west, and Ronnie, an ethnic Chinese from New York City, are both "Chinese" differently: Ronnie is genetically and ethically Chinese; Benjamin is Chinese because he has been raised by Chinese parents, since he was adopted as an infant and nurtured in a Chinese household. Truth being, one can discuss that Benjamin, rather than Ronnie, shows more stereotypical "Chinese" attributes than Ronnie does.

Mary Braxton a 38-year-old married woman who has four children and lives in Megget, South Carolina went to China five times. She is a member at “Bring Me Hope” a nonprofit company in California that helps orphans in China with adoption and places the orphans in summer camps. The company is not a religious group it only made to help thousands of needy-orphaned children in China. Mary became troubled about the orphans in China when she and her husband-to-be watched a documentary called “The Dying Rooms”. When she was almost thirty, she searched adoptions in China and learned about “Bring Me Hope” and soon in 2011; she was going to travel to China. Therefore, Mary relies on donations to help fund her trip to China. So far, she has made

She was thrown into a orphanage in Haiti and hurt there too. At seventeen she ran away and got pregnant, she found her birth mom but her father had died a few years earlier. Her birth mom let her stay with her until they got in a fight, which ended so badly Anabel lost the baby. After she found

Growing up Sam, was a very athletic and unfortunate child. She was born with a brain tumor. When her parents found out that the brain tumor was 90% likely to kill Sam, they lost all hope. They knew they could never pay for it. Her father was completely concerned because, it would be the second child who would have died in the family. Several months in the hospital killed mom and dad. But a stroke of luck hit them. Since her father was the most liked man in their town. And saved the mayor from a burning building, the mayor set up a charity donation, asking for donations for people all around Georgia and eventually getting nationwide and earning enough money to go through and get Samantha’s brain tumor removed. She had a very tough life growing up. But with the tumor,

The Story of Edith Gru: the middle child. At a young age, Edith Gru was brought to an orphanage, where she called her home until the age of 9.

In China, women were put in subservient positions to society. They were quiet, obedient creatures who "gathered patience". Song speaks of how women learned to provide for their families, as they were "learning to stretch the family rice". Women were expected to serve a purpose and be seen and not heard.

Nowadays, some chinese culture are misrepresented by people in other countries.In the essay,I will talk about three kinds of misrepresentation of Chinese culture.