Amy Grant

“Speaking to you today, I speak for them, just as each of us speaks for women around the world who are denied the chance to go to school, or see a doctor, or own property, or have a say about the direction of their lives, simply because they are women”(Clinton 1). These words spoken by Hillary Rodham Clinton in her speech, “Women’s Rights are Human Rights,” on September 5, 1995. Hilary pressured the Chinese government and the world to address the problems women face everyday go unresolved because

a girl named Amy. Amy is a Chinese girl who wants to be like her friends, who are American. Amy needs to learn to be the person that Amy is. Amy also is embarrassed because of who Amy is and because Amy’s family isn’t like a “normal” American family. Replicating and embarrassment are two things that are seen in this text. Amy wants to replicate her friends because they are American. The definition of replicate means an exact copy of. In the text “Fish Cheeks” by Amy Tan, Amy wanted to dress

Do Titles Really Matter When Tina Fey Called Her Book “Bossypants”? In her book, Bossypants, Tina Fey uses her unflattering memories and past experiences to teach her readers about the lessons that she has learned throughout her life. Through her unflattering memories, Tina Fey paints herself in a light that perceives her as the person in the wrong in most situations. She wants her readers to know what she has done throughout her life and how she became a better person through her experiences. Her

Well-known author Amy Tan, in her short narrative “Fish Cheeks”, writes about the embarrassment she has because of her culture and ethnicity. She talks about this when a white father and his son, Robert, whom she likes, want to come over her house, and as a chinese-american young woman, she is a little ashamed of the chinese food. She also is ashamed by the type of house and environment she lives in. Tan first begins to portray her embarrassment by describing, throughout most of the story, her

The Joy Luck Club, written by Amy Tan, has many stories within the actual book that describe the relationships between the four Chinese mothers and their American-born daughters. The mothers and daughters hold weekly parties where they play games and enjoy each others company. “And each week, we could hope to be lucky. That hope was our joy. And that's how we came to call our little parties Joy Luck.”(pg.25) However, Jing-mei “June” Woo, the main character, replaced her mother’s seat after her untimely

of comedic writers. Amy Schumer, a 34-year-old writer, actress, producer, and stand-up comedian has become somewhat of an icon in the past year. While Schumer has been around since the early 2000s – coming in fourth on the fifth season of Last Comic Standing in ’07 - it would be an understatement to say that she had a noticeable 2015. In this year alone, Inside Amy Schumer, of which she is the creator and star, aired its third season and Schumer released a new comedy special Amy Schumer Live at the

Sometimes in life, we dream about unimaginable lives we could have, this causes us to disconnect from our reality. In “Chipped Beef”, David Sedaris contrasts his fantasy with his reality to show how living in a fantasy world disconnects you from your family. Throughout his memoir, Sedaris demonstrates how his fantasy disconnects him from his reality, how he portrays his reality in a negative manner, and how he loses his relationship with his family. In the beginning of this memoir Sedaris uses his

When I was a young child I would go with my mother and family to a Buddhism temple for prayer and ceremonies. My family is Vietnamese and in the Vietnamese traditions we have a shared religion with Chinese Buddhism. Many of the practices and gods are the same but with different names and different ways of practice. A famous form of divination in our religion is called Xin Xam, or better known as Chinese Fortune Sticks. In Chinese this is called Kau Cim, it is a fortune telling practice that is performed

Amy Tran’s story of the “Two Kinds” is a story about mother and her daughter who has complicated relationship and the relationship will deteriorate as the mother pushes her daughter to become a best for everything. At the beginning of the story ,Amy give us the impression that mother wants her daughter to become more productive and flourish in the society and to some degree to exceed everything for the best because she did not had the chance that her daughter have today. The mother was born

Relationships have the capacity to teach individuals to be independent and resourceful and allow them to overcome adversity and build resilience. In the autobiographical novel Chinese Cinderella, Adeline Yen Mah uses a variety of techniques to explore ideas about relationships. Chinese Cinderella is the documented life story of an unwanted daughter named Adeline Yen Mah. Adeline has little positive relationships but, to her advantage, shares a sincere interaction with her Aunt Baba. Nevertheless