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I understood the essence of this quote after watching the film Following the Ninth: In the Footsteps of Beethoven’s Final Symphony. It is a very powerful film that illustrates the impact of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony on individuals from different places in the world. This film is not the type of documentary that I expected. It is one of the best film that I saw. Following the Ninth presents the significance of humanity. The director, Kerry Candaele acknowledged that it was the third movement of

In our everyday lives, joy has become synonymous with both happiness and pleasure. We have diminished the meaning of the word by using it in place of the more appropriate terms in order to provide emphasis. C.S. Lewis takes more literal definition of joy, and so assigns it more significance in his mind, separating it from any other emotion. Though he acknowledges that oftentimes happiness and pleasure occur simultaneously with joy, they are not the root cause, nor are they the same emotion. I think

that asks, “If a tree falls in a forest and nobody's around to hear it, does it make a sound?” Artists of all types, from poets to painters, strive to answer this question by preserving and bringing this sound to light to the best of their abilities. Joy Harjo and Art Spiegelman attempt to preserve a moment in time with their own work. In Source 1, Spiegelman attempts to save a legacy by jotting down his father’s memories while they’re shared with him. Harjo pulls a story out of the dust and ashes after

What makes us tick? The question intrigues me because of the power its answer holds. On the individual level, the things which we enjoy seem personal and specific. We proudly pursue our passions publicly in follows on Instagram, retweets on Twitter, and likes on Facebook while displaying them on t-shirts, mugs, and key chains. These overt expressions of interest are so common that the mere phrase “I love Chick-fil-A” is mundane and unimportant. “Of course you love Chick-fil-A,” we say. “Doesn’t

shows that people can be well educated and not be wise. Joy and Mrs. Hopewell think that they have the world figured out, but when they encounter Manley Pointer, a “simple country boy”, they will finally see the world as it is: manipulative and more complex than they ever imagine. Mrs. Hopewell believes she is wise by being so accepting of others, but she does not realise that she is neglecting the person that needs her acceptance the most, Joy. Joy thinks she is wise and smart for attending college.

organized, while others would say that plot structure tends to add too much order to a piece of work and hinder the reader from exploring true creativity. A great example of these two contrasting ideas is illustrated in Amy Tan’s well-known novel “The Joy Luck Club”. Although some could argue that there is no definite plot structure portrayed at all within the book, this is not true. A slight plot lies within each individual short story. While there might not be an overall rising and falling action

everyone is seeing the same landscape. A prevalent theme in The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan, The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, and Flight by Sherman Alexie is the potency and prevalence of diversity on the American dream. In each of these compelling works, connoisseurs get a taste of life from different demographics’ viewpoints and a measure of what it means to be yearning for the diverse definition of American ideals. To begin with, The Joy Luck Club centers its content around the lives of eight women

Churchill English 2 Honors, Period 0 6 September 2015 Reconciliation Swan feathers. Hopes and dreams. Broken relationships and healing. Though these concepts might initially appear incongruous, they are all depicted in the book The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan and The Joy Luck Club film directed by Wayne Wang. Both modes of interpretation show how the mothers help their daughters solve their problems by explaining the formers’ pasts. However, while the book leaves each of the daughters’ stories open

Jing-Mei Woo and her mother are the major characters in Amy Tan’s “Two Kinds.” The two have a complicated mother-daughter relationship at the beginning of the story, but later, as an adult, Jing-Mei realizes the intentions of her mother. “Two Kinds” is told from Jing-Mei’s point of view as a mature adult who is reflecting on her childhood. Jing-Mei’s thoughts and feelings are revealed, but she and her mother, the antagonist, have conflictingly opposite desires. Jing-Mei’s mother desires for her

The Cusp of Success A common theme we see in the two stories, “Two Kinds” by Amy Tan, and “The Rocking Horse-Winner” by D.H Lawrence is the detrimental effects that a forcing a bar of success can have on developing adolescents. Recognizing that the product of success is generally good, clouds the notion that there is in fact a wide range of effects that chasing success can bring about. Some of these effects have positive repercussions, teaching adolescents discipline and work ethic. However, some