influence on their lives and the way their strengths and weaknesses come together. In Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club, the lives of four Chinese mothers and their Chinese-American daughters are followed through vignettes about their upbringings and interactions. One of the mothers, An-Mei Hsu, grows up away from her mother who has become the 4th wife of a rich man; An-Mei is forced to live with her grandmother once her mother is banned from the house, but eventually reunites and goes to live in the man’s house
Overall, what people read affect their lives, influence their growth and impact their character. I am no different. As a reader, the books I have read throughout my life have impacted me to a degree and affected my character in some way. As a young child, my reading started off in China where I was born. The books I read were simple books that were meant for me to learn the language. Therefore, I started off my literature background with mandarin picture books. Those picture books were more like cartoon
the fact that this course really going to teach me a lot. I was really scared to take this class because honestly I had no idea what Sociology is? I never took this class but my professor made it easy and he made very clear that how we can keep an A in the class and what he expects from us. The first week of the class was just about the syllabus and what chapter we gonna cover throughout the semester. In total we studied nine chapter. They all helped me a lot to understand the true meaning of sociology
My involvement in Asian Pacific Health Corps has provided me with insight into the health needs of my community. Prior to volunteering at the health fairs, I was unaware of how many people lack health insurance or a doctor that they could regularly visit. Furthermore, performing blood pressure and body mass index screenings have provided me experience with interacting with patients. Educating patients about their screening results have prepared me to be a future physician who takes the time to understand
Communication would be a great major but I am passionate about nursing. If anything I would make it my minor. Of course the major is more important than the minor, but the minor always benefits you somehow. Some might say minors do not matter, but they do. Minors could help to shape one’s future path a career will take or even open a few potential outcomes for professions one may seek after. Once in a while, having the right minor can serve as a kind of sudden death round in the middle of you and
belonging can often be a struggle, since we ask ourselves, ‘who am I’ vs. whom do others want me to be? And where do I belong? This point in our live is subjective, because we want to feel accepted in society we deny ourselves of what we really are. It’s hard to have a sense of belonging when we ourselves are unsure of our own identity. There comes a time where our opinions and beliefs are differentiated from those around us, during this time some people may discover where they belong, where as many others
I was, a brown eyed girl with a faint perception of the world. My surroundings felt concealed and unknown, looking around at people who were parallel to the way I looked and as those tears roll down my cheek to form the ocean I was drowning in; her eyes caught the glimpse of fear in mine, and she drew me close in. I gazed into her sea-green eyes and saw the depths of the ocean I flew across, to arrive at a place where I felt
back to the dawn of civilization, cavemen were painting murals upon the cave walls of the nature that surrounding him and the animals that habituated. The term "landscape" derives from the Dutch word landschap, which originally meant "region, tract of land" but acquired the artistic connotation, "a picture depicting scenery on land" in the early 1500s (American Heritage Dictionary, 2000). All my life, I have lived in small town by the name of Banta. It has the population of roughly 3,000 individuals
personal interests and surrounding environments are all factors that tend to help shape a person’s identity. Some factors may have more of an influence than others and some may not have any influence at all. As a person grows up in a family, they are influenced by many aspects of their life. Family and culture may influence a person’s sense of responsibilities, ethics and morals, tastes in music, humor and sports, and many other aspects of life. Friends and surrounding environments may influence
that they consider to be the most important aspects of their life. For me, these values are family and friendship. In many occasions, it is those who have less, but have strong familial and friendship bonds that seem to be the happiest. Through family bonds and friendship, we are able to have happy, fulfilling lives that money and success can not quite achieve. In the CASL building, during the photowalk, I observed my surroundings to find the photos that I took. In the photos I took, a Macbeth poster