Amy Grant

Ideas are never – at least fully – one’s own, but rather an expression of correlating thoughts in daily life with one another. In John Patrick Shanley’s Doubt, a Parable, readers are introduced to Father Flynn a priest that conducts the sermons within the congregation, sermons form from the ideas he has throughout his days. Each one containing a message that the congregation can take from and in at the same time expressing himself through them. As the play progress readers see the conflict between

Cultural Encounters A culture is defined as the “way of life of a group of people - the behaviors, beliefs, values, and symbols that they accept, generally without thinking about them, and that are passed along by communication and imitation from one generation to the next.” www.tamu.edu. As well the definition of Cultural Encounters “is a concept which is often used in current public and academic discussions on the conditions of modern societies”. Www.en.cgs.aau.dk. Cultural Encounters spotlight

Freudian(Psychoanalytical) Literary Analysis of Doubt Doubt by John Patrick Shanley is about a nun who is entirely convinced that a priest had done something inappropriate to one of the students and taken advantage of the fact that the student (Donald Muller) is an African American. Sister Aloysius Beauvier, the nun, concluded that Father Flynn, the priest, had been forcing Donald Muller to drink wine and molesting him. With the help of a naive nun named Sister James, Sister Aloysius attempted to

relationship on the planet is the relationship between the mother and the daughter. There are such a variety of elements required in this relationship. There is a unique and unmistakable connection amongst mothers and daughters. The short story "Two Kinds" by Amy Tan outlines the principle character Jing-mei's childhood and the impacts of her mother’s high expectation for her life. The mother pressures Jing-mei to exceed in America where everything is possible. However, they come into a conflict when her mother

Effects of Education through Culture Clash My skin should not define me… but it does. My proficiency should not determine my intelligence but it does. Judith Cofer once said, “The way our teachers and classmates looked at us that day in school was just a taste of the culture clash that awaited us in the real world.” Not only does culture clash affect people on a personal level but the effects of education can be affected on an academic and personal level. Culture clash causes a chain of events

problems or situations. I’m an avid reader that can get enthralled into a good book that sparks my interest. Some books that I have read were, First they Killed My Father written by Luong Ung, Night written by Elie Wiesel, and The Joy Luck Club written by Amy Tan. I really enjoyed these books because they are novels that give strong narratives on real world situations that the characters experience. However, I was not always fond of reading when I was younger. Frankly, I despised it. It wasn’t until I met

“How has Amy Heckerling used film techniques to portray the transformation of ‘Cher’ in her film, ‘Clueless’?” In the hit film of 1995 -Clueless, director Amy Heckerling effectively uses film techniques to further portray the deep meaning of the story. The film tells the story of a selfish teenage girl who transforms into a responsible woman. In the beginning of the story, the main protagonist, Cher, is depicted as a narrow-minded, extravagant teenager. Heckerling uses vivid colour and extremity

Wayne Wang's adaptation of Amy Tan's Joy Luck Club combines literary and cinematic devices by adopting the novel's narrative techniques and strengthening them through image and sound. The adaptation exemplifies not a destruction or abuse of Amy Tan's novel, but the emergence of a new work of art, not hindered but enhanced by the strengths of its literary precursor.              Incorporating her family's own experiences as Chinese immigrants to the United States, Amy Tan tells the story of four

"A mother is best. A mother knows what is inside of you," said An-Mei Hsu to her daughter Rose (188). And this is true for all four of the mothers in the Joy Luck Club, by Amy Tan. Unfortunately it was much more complicated than that, because the daughters had minds of their own, to a certain extent, minds that were part American. "The emphasis on honor, obedience, and loyalty among women are immense in this novel" (The Joy Luck Club: An Overview). In America, these characteristics were not emphasized

History, Culture and Identity of Mothers and Daughters in Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club     Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club is a novel that deals with many controversial issues. These issues unfold in her stories about four Chinese mothers and their American raised daughters. The novel begins with the mothers talking about their own childhood’s and the relationship that they had with their mothers. Then it focuses on the daughters and how they were raised, then to the daughters current lives, and