Abstract This paper explains that Cathy Song understands the predicaments Asian immigrants must encounter in American society because she grew up as an American of Chinese and Korean descent, which she expressed in "Picture Bride", a poem collection about Asian immigrants' concerns with their decisions to migrate to the United States The author points out that, in the poem "Lost Sister", Song compares the contradictions in Chinese and American cultures faced by a Chinese immigrant woman because American laws allows freedom for everyone; whereas, the ancient Chinese tradition oppresses women's rights. The paper relates that Song depicts, in this poem, the immigrant woman choosing to adhere to American traditions, leaving her original cultures in order to express herself in spite of her Chinese identity. Many quotations.
From the Paper "Ending her poem, Song highlights the immigrant woman's choice to follow the American traditions while disobeying her own culture. Song begins the last stanza with "you find you need China/ your one fragile identification" (lines 53-54) to restate the woman's original identity as a Chinese person. The word "fragile", however, emphasizes the intensity of her connection to her Chinese identification. By saying "fragile," the woman admits that although she cannot deny her ethnicity that runs in her blood, she does not practice her Chinese identity further."
Abstract Cathy H. suffers from anxiety disorders, mood disorders and personality disorders. Often there is high comorbidity among these different forms of disorders. In the following, this paper will explicate my "diagnosis" of Cathy's disorders step by step. The author discovers the likelihood that Kathy has cognitive theory of depression.
Abstract This essay paraphrases the stanzas in the poem "The Grammar of Silk' by Cathy Song and critically analyzes each with insight through the use of imagery and language.
Abstract This shows how the author depicts Tongan migration to the United States in a unique way. The author focuses on a "transnational" perspective in that she emphasizes both cultures involved. In so doing, the author reveals how Tongan immigrants are able to integrate their lives in America. The author's approach helps us get away from an Americanized view of immigration and to get a greater understanding of other cultures and values.
Abstract The paper explores the conflicts between love and social class in Emily Bronte's novel "Wuthering Heights," focusing on the relationship between Heathcliff and Cathy Earnshaw. The paper explains how love was subordinate to class in the era of the novel.
From the Paper "Love And Social Class: The Central Conflict of "Wuthering Heights." In Emily Bronte's "Wuthering Heights" the reader is introduced to the characters of Heathcliff and Catherine, Cathy Earnshaw Linton, two people who despite significant differences in their social class and relative status love one another with a passion that defies convention. As Deborah Epstein Nord suggests, Heathcliff is depicted by Bronte as the romantic yet dangerous gypsy, a person who enters Wuthering Heights as a parentless street urchin."
Tags: Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte, Heathcliff, Cathy Earnshaw, romantic ficiton
Abstract This paper discusses a poem "Lost Sister" which is found in a poem collection called "Picture Bride" written by Cathy Song. The paper describes the ways in which the poem collection describes Asian immigrants' concerns with their decisions to migrate to the United States. The poem, "Lost Sister," more specifically compares the contradictions in Chinese and American cultures faced by a Chinese immigrant woman.
From the Paper "By acknowledging that jade stone can only be found in several mountains in China and nearby, Song applies the stone to symbolize China, the nation and its culture. Further, by describing the preciousness of jade stone to Chinese people in line 6-9, Song conveys that Chinese culture is very important to Chinese people. They hold their culture so strongly that they pass it on to their descendants and it becomes the family's identity, as stated in lines 3-4. Identifying themselves as Chinese not only shows their pride in being as valuable as jade stone, but also their power to make impossible goals become achievable as they can "move mountains" (line 7). The significance of the word "daughters" in line 3 is an image relating to the intense connection between Chinese women and their identities as Chinese."
Tags: heritage, culture, immigration, Asian, Chinese
Abstract This paper discusses Cathy Small's book about a second generation of Tongan immigrants to America. The paper looks at Small's description of these immigrants and how they did not keep their traditional ways because of moving further or dislodging their connections with Tonga. The paper explains that Small's
book provides insights of mixed race marriages and children, a family experience and approach, and the necessary arrangements of migrating.
From the Paper " At times, "the migrants later adjust the motivations they gave originally, or give different emphases to their reasons for leaving than they did previously" (Small 92). However, the focus will be on three key reasons for their migration through culture changes, current political status, migration, history, and revenue aspects. The Tongans culture stems from song, dance, gender roles, and respect. Yet, the government felt that the tradition is not lasting, or shall I say, not worthy of current political status. In other words, traditional values have to be transformed or blended..."
An examination of literary characters who are regarded as "outsiders" shying away from the norms of society and a proposition by the author of this paper that it is this behavior that makes these characters so interesting.
1,496 words (approx. 6 pages), 0 sources, 2001, $ 49.95
Abstract In this paper the author presents the idea that in literature, those who live on the fringe of society are often the most intriguing. In pursuing this idea, the author examines what he contends are three of the most notable "outsider" characters in modern literature; John Steinbeck's Cathy/Kate in "East of Eden"; Albert Camus? Meursault in "The Stranger", and Septimus Smith in Virginia Woolf?s, "Mrs. Dalloway".
From the paper:
?However, he clings to live at the end, remembering his mother's "fiance"? and her desire to start over again even at her old age. He finally opens himself up to the tender indifference of the world. For him to feel less alone, he wishes for a great many spectators at his execution, and that they greet him with cries of hate. For Meursault sees that in his isolation to the rest of the world that he certainly is guilty. For Camus, Meursault is the epitome of existentialism and the folly of humanity, and the absurdity of life.?
Abstract A critical analysis of the complexities of good and evil in John Steinbeck's novel, "East of Eden", and a discussion on the way Steinbeck kept the depth of the biblical Cain and Able story with first the characters of Charles and Adam, and later with Cal and Aaron. The paper makes the reader question who is really evil, and who really is good.
From the Paper "In John Steinbeck's East of Eden, Adam is much like Abel, and has the love of their father. Charles is like Cain, and desires their father's love. The father loves Adam while Adam does not love his father. Charles loves his father, and desires love from his father back. Charles is jealous of the love Adam receives from their father. Charles shows he is jealous when he worked for a present for their father, which gets rejected, like the fruit from Cain. Adam gives a puppy which his father loves. Charles tries to kill Adam at one point out of jealousy. Charles is a hard working, and seasoned man. Adam is a drifter that is nice to everyone, and chosen as the favorite child by their father."
From the Paper "By the end of the last decade, there were 35 or more women facing execution and living on Death Row in the United States (Baldauf, 1998). If statistics are any indicator, America's justice system is often very reluctant to execute female felons. Baldauf (1998) has reported on studies demonstrating that while women account for one out of every eight Americans arrested for murder, they also represent only one out of seventy of the people who are sentenced to Death Row. Though women are screened out of the process all the way through the criminal justice system, in recent years, the execution of Karla Faye Tucker has fostered renewed attention to the question of how the justice system treats female felons convicted of crimes sufficient to warrant the application of the death penalty. This brief report will consider the question of two women currently on Death Row - both in Texas -..."
From the Paper "The term, ?corporate culture,? is one that has gained popularity in recent years without gaining a universally agreed-upon definition. It is used as a type of popular shorthand to describe the system of shared values and the symbolic representations of shared meanings within a corporation, or an organization within a corporation. In her book, Power and Shared Values in the Corporate Culture, Cathy Enz explores the issues surrounding corporate culture, the various subcultures that can exist within organizations, and the way that shared values are communicated throughout an organization. In addition, the author considers the effect that such shared values have on the organization as a whole.
Enz speculates as to why corporate America is now so interested in new management techniques. She suspects that..."
Abstract This paper provides a brief insight into utilitarianism, the philosophy that stems from the teachings of John Stuart Mills and Jeremy Bentham which holds that even when the motivation behind an act is bad the consequences can be good. The purpose of utility is to maximize pleasure or eliminate pain. It examines how the theory of utilitarianism can be related to sports by looking at the pleasure and the pain that an athlete and a sports fan gets from participating in and watching sports. It looks at how in the case of the sports fan, pleasure is increased when the team that they are rooting for wins. On the other hand, the fan will experience pain if their team looses. It evaluates how in sports there is no way to know the outcome of the game and so there is no way to completely eliminate the feeling of pain.
From the Paper "Utilitarianism also ignores the concept of passion. Passion is something that can not be contained and sometimes people will seek to fulfill their passion even if it does not result in pleasure. Athletes tend to be very passionate people and feel a need to engage in the sports that they love. Many of these athletes will never become great athletes and change history like Jesse Owens and Cathy Freeman?they simply have a passion that drives them. The passion of these athletes may not lead them to the happiness that utilitarianism exerts but it will provide them with their own since of happiness and well being. Many believe that personal happiness is more important than simply trying to make everyone around you happy. Utilitarians seem to believe that the absence of pain automatically creates pleasure. However in the case of the sports pain is pleasure because it allows the athlete to live out their passion."
Abstract Bronte establishes dynamic characters by employing a very complex form of doubles in her novel, "Wuthering Heights". By incorporating doubles into the novel, Bronte has executed a reflection of life itself. From Catherine to Heathcliff to Edgar to Cathy to Hareton to Lockwood to Isabella, we enjoy a delightful mix of complexities coupled with originality. By also creating the novel around an interesting structure with unique points of view, Bronte engages us as readers on all levels. This paper examines the variety of doubles Bronte employs in "Wuthering Heights" and how these doubles work in connection with structure and differing points of view to create a fascinating novel.
From the Paper "Bronte structures the novel in an interesting way. This is most evident in the very worlds that the novel exists in, Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange. These two worlds oppose each other. Similarly, the Earnshaws and the Lintons also serve as doubles for each other in many aspects. The Earnshaws represent a simpler life than the well-mannered Linton's do. The Earnshaws are dark with dark eyes and the Lintons are fair-skinned with blue eyes. Wuthering Heights sits on the north while Thrushcross Grange is in the south, complete with a chapel and a churchyard. The two worlds, separated by moors and Gimmerton brook contain all we need to form this story."
Abstract This paper discusses how "Wuthering Heights" by Emily Bronte is arguably one of the best classics ever written by an English author. In particular, it examines how the emotional climate is portrayed very vividly and contributes greatly to the success of the novel as a whole. It analyzes how this emotional climate which is presented throughout the novel rapidly changes and how the first three chapters typify the climate of the novel as a whole.
From the Paper "Bronte sets out her novel in a very structured way by including elements of each of the main themes in every chapter. Some of these themes include nature, love and loneliness. Bronte seems to have great experience in writing about themes such as loneliness and nature as she encountered them very often in her life. It is known that Bronte spent many hours of her days walking alone in the Yorkshire Moors, taking in the immense beauty of the nature surrounding her and sharing it with only herself."
This paper reviews Cathy J. Cohen's "The Boundaries of Blackness: AIDS and the Breakdown of Black Politics", which discusses the debate regarding the absence of a strong African-American vote.
1,820 words (approx. 7.3 pages), 0 sources, $ 58.95
Abstract This paper explains that Cohen challenges the notion of a cohesive African-American vote by noting that African-Americans failed to become a strong political force because their political, business, and church leaders focus on imbibing the values of mainstream, middle-class America. The author points out that Cohen argues that, despite the growing threat of AIDS, African-American leadership failed to galvanize the population around this issue, which affects African-Americans as a group, despite categorical differences. The paper states that the Cohen believes that the attitudes of black leaders resulted in a secondary marginalization of gays and lesbians, who, due to their race and sexual orientation, remained among the most disenfranchised citizens.
From the Paper "Cohen begins by dispelling the notion of a politically-cohesive African American community, one wherein race supposedly overrides differences spawned by class, gender or even ethnicity. Instead, she maintains that this cohesion is "being challenged and sometimes replaced by cross-cutting issues and crises rooted in or built on the often hidden differences, cleavages, or fault lines of marginal communities" (9). There is thus no strong ?black vote,? because the African American community is highly fragmented and factionalized."
