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between the mothers and their daughters. The four families that are presented in the novel are the Woo family, the Jong family, Hsu family, and the St. Clair family. One of the main characters in the Woo family is Jing-mei Woo, who also goes by June as her American name. Jing-mei narrates her stories but also narrates for her mother, Suyuan, who is recently deceased. Suyuan and some of the other mothers

Culture refers to a lifestyle of a people including all their ideas, values, knowledge, behavior, and materials or objects that they share (Knight 2015). Cultures vary from groups and societies as big as continent to continent, and as small as family to family. A great way to observe cultural differences is to look at two different countries. Saudi Arabia and the United States of America are societies that both have their own independent cultures. The two countries have very different cultures from

Influence of Culture Influence of culture can differ with language, religion, and location. Imagine how a person growing up on a farm and being homeschooled would write, verses a person living in a city and going to a public school. Their writings would be different in style and in the way, they integrate their culture into the story they are telling. Most writers input some of their life struggles into their writings. In the story, “Pilon” by Sandra Cisneros, her cultural background of being born

Early Childhood Language Skills At 18 months, the virtual child had over 50 words at her command that she was able to use to make two-word sentences such as “Mama up” and “Doggie outside.” In their effort to further encourage the child’s development of her language skills, the parents applied B.F. Skinner’s operant conditioning theory (Berk, 2012). They would respond, using slightly longer sentences such as “Yes, the doggie is outside” before introducing descriptive and useful new words. The parents

different families and their perspectives as parents of children with disabilities. Each reading offered a different aspects through the eyes of mothers, fathers, and, most importantly, the person with the disability. Through the experiences of each individual, I was able to gather more insight into the feelings of my own family members and friends that have dealt with the same inner struggles, and in turn, realize my own short comings with understanding and the importance of person first language. In

listening and speaking or sign language skills of a DHH child is heavily dependent on the consistent involvements of the child’s parents and peers. The more engaged a DHH child is in his/her day-to-day communications and interactions with parents, peers, and even siblings, the more adapting they become in listening and speaking or signing. Hence, it is no wonder that the child’s teacher always supports, first and foremost, the establishment and development of family and peer relationships to sustain

the older people than us without using personal pronouns, it is said an unschooled person. As we can see from all the contrast I have made between English and Vietnamese personal pronoun system, it is not easy to find the equivalence of both two languages. Therefore, I would like suggest some discussions about teaching and learning English- Vietnamese. Firstly, because of change of personal pronouns in the process of translation Vietnamese into English and vice versa, we don’t need to translate exactly

be the case. Correspondingly to birth order, the size of the family a child is born into may affect intelligence levels. Many hypotheses, tests, and research methods are available in order to attempt to explain why these general statements are made, but the data is, by and large, very conflicting. The confluence model uses a simple mathematical formula to compute the respective advantages and disadvantages the eldest child in a family has. The first advantage is that the eldest receives the most

When a child comes forward about any type of abuse, it could be very hard for them to speak about the abuse and sometimes a lot of time as passed after the abuse. For this reason it is vital that the interview process is conducted in a way that does not cause more trauma to the child. Several steps are needed to have a successful interview with a victim of abuse. A successful interview will help provide the MDT with information about the abuse, so that the child can get the best resources for recovery

phenomena are widely recognized as immigrant advantage. Many factors influence the advantage foreign-born immigrants experience. Examples of influencing factors are: Family, Bilingualism, Socioeconomic Status, and Education. FAMILY First, we looked at a longitudinal study that analyzes the home environments of infants whose families are new immigrants (Bradley, Pennar, and Glick; 2014). The adult was asked various questions, including demographics, education level, and other measures used to evaluate