All That Matters

Wayson Choy’s novel All That Matters contains many memorable characters, however one of the most important characters in the novel is not a person at all, but rather paper. Choy’s book highlights papers ubiquitous influence in the lives of the Chen family and in a broader sense the entire Chinese Canadian diaspora. In a critique of Choy’s All That Matters it is stated that paper “constitutes false identities, mediates movement across borders and enables alternative though complex, spaces for diasporic

This passage is adapted from Wayson Choy’s ‘The Jade Peony’ and portrays the fear of a young boy who has recently lost his mother. The reader is able to infer the situation from the passage despite it not being clearly mentioned. The reader infers that the passage is about a juvenile boy who sits beside his dying mother and is then taken care of by family friends, predominantly the Chins. The reader is able to assume that the mother of the child has died, by the mention of how ‘my [his] mommy’s

Jade Peony, Poh-Poh is also a driving force of the narrative. The story is separated into three segments; each segment tells a story from the perspective of a different sibling. The siblings are Poh-Poh’s grandchildren. Poh-Poh is a crucial element of all three stories. She forms a bond with each child that helps them develop and she is a key

In “Is Sex All That MAtter ?” by Joyce Garity, she offers up commentary on today’s teenagers that are being bombarded with unrealistic expectations of their sexual behavior. Many of the unrealistic sexual images shown in television, advertisements, and magazines influence these adolescents behavior and dreams. Several of these advertisers trumpet sexuality making the teenagers expectation for their own sexual life unrealistic and unsafe, due to the fact that they are unaware of the consequences that

A sheet of paper can wield more power than an army. In Wayson Choy’s novel All That Matters paper’s power is portrayed as a double-edged sword; where it acts both as a catalyst for change and opportunity, but also as a tool to imprison and constrain individuals. Although paper “represents a significant tool of diasporic mobility” states literary critic Alena Chercover in her analysis of Wayson Choy’s All That Matters, she argues that there is a significant trade-off in its ability to facilitate “survival

titled, “How Did All Lives Matter Come to Oppose Black Lives Matter? A Philosopher of Language Weighs In.” Olasov explains that the debate going on between the “Black Lives Matter” movement and the “All Lives Matter” rally is not based on rather specific lives matter or not. This whole argument is actually stimulated over the use of words chosen by the two groups. Olasov tackles how the use or terms is what’s actually causing the separation of protesters in this division. Not the matter of one ethnicity

Lives Matter Movement (Dalton, The Three Women Behind the Black Lives Matter Movement) . The BLM movement was established to raise awareness of the oppression

Misrepresentation of Words With tensions increasing regarding racial equality, Kelly Coryell's short essay, “All Words Matter: The Manipulation behind ‘All Lives Matter,’” argues how the phrase “All Lives Matter” in response to “Black Lives Matter” shifts focus from the issue Black Lives Matter is trying to address, namely that Black lives are being lost to police brutality. All Lives Matters attempts to elevate all individuals and their lives, but it fails to address the problem of specifically black lives facing

many times by the media. Everyone should support Black Lives Matter because it is a movement that empowers Black people and focuses attention on the problems that they face everyday. Black people have been oppressed in America since the very

concept adequately describes the collective behavior of the “All Lives Matter” movement, and how it allows them to covertly protect their racial interests without making their ideological beliefs come across as racist. For instance, Alicia Garza’s attitude towards the use of the phrase“All Lives Matter”can be closely examined by focusing her central argument and the underlying exculpatory attitude exhibited by proponents of the “All Lives Matter” movement when they are confronted with cases of social