The Northern Song

The Song dynasty was powerful has possessed much of the country's wealth This dynasty helped feed the population through its rich technological advances which helped them advance with cultivation. The Song dynasty excelled in agriculture, artisan, iron, and gunpowder production. The most important aspect of these advances was their ability to

Li-Young Lee in this poem concentrated on memories that provide both joy and sadness as they allow us to recall the happy or sad moments with our loved ones as we prepare ourselves for future. Lee examine his emotional relationship to his father in the past with hoping that remembering all those moments will help him integrate those memories with his father into his own life. “Windblown, a rain-soaked bough shakes, showering the man and the boy. They shiver in delight, and the father lifts from his son’s cheek one green leaf fallen like a kiss.” Lee uses images in this poem to show the readers his idea about the memory rather than telling all at once because he thought this way has more emotional impact because

Ban Zhao, was an unofficial imperial historian to Emperor Ho. She taught history, writings, mathematics, and astronomy to Empress Teng and other women. She wrote this piece, "Lessons for Women", which was meant to instruct women how to behave and in many ways who to be. She was even concerned about her own daughters in these sorts of ways. This impacts the meaning of the piece in that it shows how deep the expected roles of people were drilled into the heads of people across the world. Even a mother such as herself thought that these roles were correct and ideal. It makes the modern interpretation even more shocking because you can see that people who aren't viewed as equal don't even always realize it. She was writing for the empire of China, and for the Emperors and Empresses, and for her daughters. The situation was at a time when women were not necessarily viewed as equals to men. We can see how

In the following poem, “Which Plant Is Not Faded” and “Where Have All The Flowers Gone” we will be comparing and contrasting both of these poems throughout this essay. Furthermore, we will talk about the poem meaning and how it relates to the ancient Chinese. Secondly, we will explain the song and how it relates to the ancient Chinese. Ultimately, the differences and similarities of the song along with the poem.

The author of this passage, Ban Zhao, seemed to be very knowledgeable and influential to young women. Since the setting takes place in Asia, I think that the author may have been influenced to write this piece by other woman of her country. Taking clues from the style of writing I can infer that this piece was written in a past since it uses words and phrases that seem dated. When looking over this writing piece I can heavily agree

In her text Tseng uses the formal element of the text effectively to communicate her experience regarding ‘home’. Each stanza of her poem is formed with 2 lines: 1 print, and 1 italics. Tseng goes back and forth between the print text and the italics to communicate how she communicates her home to others, and how she remembers her own home. Through this action she seems to counteract her perception of her home between how she tells others and how she remembers. Tseng starts off the poem with a line that seems to give no importance to her birthplace, “My birthplace is incidental.”(Tseng) She then continues under in italics and state, “Never forget your Mother Country”(Tseng) which hints her true feelings towards her birthplace and reveals a sense of nostalgia. Throughout the poem she accepts the stereotypes that americans, and outsiders place on the chinese in print text. She simplifies her journey to United States, and life in United States and then she continues to reveal the truth behind the first statement. The poem is a constant battle between the facade she puts on, and the actual author behind the facade. In her poem she talks of her experiences and homeplaces as if they are of no importance in the print text, but you can see that in the italicized text that they are the foundation of who she is today. In the last three stanza of her poem Tseng discards the Print text and stresses her true experience of her hardships, and the journey. In these last texts she creates a very vivid images of couple of her nights on the boat that she was on to get to United States. The last lines of the poem shows that her journey was truly a life or death

Yun Abernathy was born Gao Yun in the popular city Beijing. Her parents were both artists types, with her mother being a dancer and her dad playing in the orchestra. Growing up Ms. Abernathy went to a boarding school in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, only coming home on the weekends. Being the eldest of two in a Chinese society every time she came home for school she had to cook, clean, do laundry etc. Most of Ms. Abernathy’s child consisted of a studying and going to school on a daily basis. Besides studying and going to school one fun pastime Ms. Abernathy remembered was visiting her grandparents on holidays. They lived on the sino-soviet border so winters there were extremely cold. She would make dumplings with them on cold days, and look at ice sculptures. On

negative parts, blinding their view of the beauty. Ha Jin’s poem relates to this because he

In Dai Sijie’s Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, women are portrayed as China’s cultural feminine ideal of being demure and compliant. The novella takes place during China’s Cultural Revolution where two urban youths, Luo and the narrator find themselves sent to the countryside to be “re-educated”. The two protagonists encounter the Little Seamstress—the epitome of beauty—and fall in love. They civilize the Little Seamstress through Western literature allowing her to realize a woman’s true beauty. Although the Little Chinese Seamstress gets “re-educated”, her re-education only teaches her the true meaning of beauty, convincing her to abandon her repressive village, and declare her feminine identity by leaving the city.

...Three months after KK built his army, he got most of the section poor’s people to fight for him against the government. The army is well trained by KK, by now all of the army knows how to use a gun correctly and accurately. The next KK do with his army is to attack the area “Rich” to get more money to share with all the people in the area “Poor” and to test out how strong his army really is. Three weeks later, KK and his army conquered the whole “Rich” area, by attacking the Rich KK and his army got more resource and land for people in the area “Poor”. After attacking the Rich, KK let his army rest for 1 month and get some of the people in the area “Poor” to the area “Rich” and everyone got land from KK.

Nebraska is the 37th state. It became a state in March 1st, 1867. The states flower is a Goldenrod. The bird is Western Meadowlark. Cottonwood is Nebraska’s tree. The animal is a beautiful White-Tailed Deer. Nebraska’s nickname is the Cornhuskers. Equality Before the Law is the motto. The colors of the state are Scarlet and Cream (Net State). Song of Nebraska is Beautiful Nebraska (Av2 book). There is no plant for Nebraska. There are 93 counties in Nebraska (Google). The population is 1,826,341 but that was in 2010 (Av2 Books). The biggest cities in Nebraska are Omaha and Lincoln. Nebraska was once called The Great American Desert (Av2 books).

As she recalls back on this time by telling her daughter what she calls her Kweilin story, Suyuan describes her feeling during this horrible time as “And inside I was no longer hungry for the cabbage or the turnips of the hanging rock garden. I could only see the dripping bowels of an ancient hill that might collapse on top of me. Can you imagine how it is, to want to be neither inside nor outside, to want to be nowhere and disappear?” (22) At this point in her life Suyuan was separated from her husband who is in the military and eventually is forced to abandon her two young daughters. This aspect of Suyuan’s life parallels the life of Amy Tan’s mother. Daisy tan was also married to a military man during the Chinese Civil War and like Suyuan was forced to abandon her two daughters in Shanghai. This was an experience that would affect her mother for the rest of her life and a story she would continue to tell and never forget. The life of Amy Tan is also a parallel to the life of Jing-Mei Woo of “June”. As a young girl June was forced to play the piano and practice constantly to become the best like Amy Tan was as a child. Along with playing the piano Suyuan also had high expectations for June as far as her future. She wanted her daughter to be the best in her class and go off to medical school to become a well educated doctor, the same expectation’s Amy Tan’s mother had for her. Both daughters decided to follow their dreams and

The song is about conclusions and about seeing back on what you did in the past, without worrying about the mistakes you might have committed. This song embodies the ideas that Suyuan would have had if she had been there to meet her daughters, but, through her daughter Jing-mei, she gets to experience the meeting that her daughters have. Suyuan had always hoped that her daughters met in the future, as even Jing-mei’s name can mean little sister, and through Jing-mei she gets to complete her wish even if Suyuan never got to see it with her own eyes. This ties up her story completely just like the man in the song gets to tie up his story as

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.

Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang provides a thoughtful and beautifully painful chronology of three generations of women through some of China’s harshest periods in history. This book review will proceed in two parts. The first will address the significant themes present in Chang’s novel. The second will go beyond literary analysis and delve into identifying the author’s own bias, and comment on the structure and perspective of Chang herself. This review will overview the themes and then critically comment on the efficacy of the author’s development of those themes. Chang shows how adversity can bring out the best in people; and how love, loyalty, and self-sacrifice are imbued in their family.