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Kitchen God's Wife, 2007.
This paper discusses the book "The Kitchen God's Wife" by Amy Tan.
1,642 words (approx. 6.6 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 53.95
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In this article, the writer looks at the book "The Kitchen God's Wife" by Amy Tan. The writer points out that "The Kitchen Gods Wife" concerns a Chinese mother and American-raised daughter whom, like many mothers and daughters across the world, have kept secrets from each other. The writer discusses that as soon as the book opens up, Tan approaches the communication problem between Winnie and Pearl. The writer notes that Pearl, who appears to want to forget her Chinese roots, has had multiple sclerosis for seven years and has not yet told her mother. The writer notes that, similar to other mother/daughter pairs, once Pearl and Winnie do communicate, they are so much the better for it.
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"No one has a childhood without some kind of trauma, and each person handles it differently. Some people do not remember being abused as a child, and in their adult years wonder why they are depressed and have such low self-esteem. With help, they are able to get better as they deal with the past. Other people never face their past, and drown themselves in alcohol, or abuse their own children. Pearl has not yet dealt with her trauma--her father dying. For years, she has been holding in her sadness and anger at his leaving her. Much of this anger is directed to her mother. Why didn't her mother do something to keep him alive? An irrational thought, but children do believe that their parents have the ability to make things right. Pearl's nightmares about her father continue, because part of her refuses to say goodbye once and for all. Also, like the Kitchen God story, she has to admit she was wrong."
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"The Kitchen God's Wife", 2007.
This paper discusses "The Kitchen God's Wife" by Amy Tan.
1,148 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 39.95
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In this article, the writer relates that Amy Tan's "The Kitchen God's Wife" is the moving tale of a daughter finding the roots of her own undiscovered heritage, in a winding juxtaposition between cultural tradition and modern assimilation. The writer notes that the work reaffirms Tan's tradition of building narrative through cultural expressions of change and strong character development, among the young and the old. The writer points out that the family Tan describes could be any Chinese immigrant family, or at least that is the feeling the reader gets from the narrative. The writer concludes that the lives of these women may seem sensational when taken out of context, but woven into this narrative they are at once sensational and very real.
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"There is little more compelling than the reconnection of people who share a past, but who see a very different future because of the difficulty the generations have in communicating the past to the present generations and more importantly the difficulty the present generation has in hearing the messages of such a foreign expression of life."
"The older generations in Tan's works frequently and realistically were forced to make life altering decisions that only years of safety in America can buffer enough to allow to come out. Including unhappy and often violent marriages, unknown and often long dead children and family relationships altered in traditions to make possible the immigration to America."
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Amy Tan's "The Kitchen God's Wife", 2007.
This paper analyzes the book 'The Kitchen God's Wife' by Amy Tan.
1,905 words (approx. 7.6 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 60.95
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In this article the writer notes that the main protagonists in 'The Kitchen God's Wife' by Amy Tan spend several decades fighting each other because of their differences that come from having completely different pasts. The writer explains that Winnie, the mother, was born and brought up in China and her daughter Pearl, lived all of her life in the United States. The writer then points out that when they finally begin to listen to each other, they realize that despite their different upbringing, they share more than they ever realized as women and mother and daughter. The writer concludes that with changing circumstances, the two are eventually able to begin to open up and peel away the layers that keep them apart.
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"Even if these two women were more open, their differences would have created barriers between them. Pearl, due to the death of her father when she was a teenager, has not completely grown up emotionally--despite the fact that she now is a wife and mother, herself. Her trauma has kept part of her from reaching maturity and being more patient and understanding of her mother. As children often do, she has a difficult time tolerating some of Winnie's personality traits and human quirks. Phil, Pearl's husband, who gets along well with his mother-in-law, tries to enhance the communication between the two women. He tells Pearl that she is being selfish and life is not always exactly as you want it. He is no more successful in bringing the mother and daughter together. In fact, in some ways he worsens the situation by making Pearl more resistant to change. Meanwhile, Winnie's experiences in the past have made her more negative and less patient overall with life. Whereas once she was a hopeful and happy young woman, she has turned into a much more fearful, superstitious and cautious individual."
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"The Kitchen God's Wife", 2006.
A summary and review of Amy Tan's novel about an immigrant Chinese mother and her American-born daughter, "The Kitchen God's Wife".
1,691 words (approx. 6.8 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 54.95
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This paper summarizes and analyzes the story and main theme of Amy Tan's novel, "The Kitchen God's Wife". The paper explains that while the focus in the novel is on the mothers and daughters in the Chinese-American culture, its themes, and specifically its theme that food is used as a device to convey multiple messages, are universal.
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"Amy Tan creates in the novel the same sense of place and culture that characterized The Joy Luck Club. Once again, food serves many purposes. Among the most ubiquitous motifs in The Kitchen God's Wife is food and the activities that surround its preparation and consumption. In fact, the novel opens and closes with celebratory dinners, and similar feasts and meals mark crucial events in Winnie's story. Throughout the story food provides a sense of continuity, paints distinct images of a remembered past, helps reveal character traits, shows relationships, and establishes boundaries between cultures."
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"The Kitchen God's Wife"--A Review, 2007.
A review of Amy Tan's well-acclaimed novel "The Kitchen God's Wife."
1,729 words (approx. 6.9 pages), 5 sources, APA, $ 55.95
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This book review examines the nature of mother-daughter relationships and the Chinese immigrant experience as reflected in Any Tan's novel "The Kitchen God's Wife." The review discusses the common themes in Tan's novels, such as cultural conflict often seen between the generations. These themes are further analyzed in terms of the characters' personalities and experiences. The reviewer also considers some of the literary devices that the author used to illustrate these conflicts. The paper also cites various literary critics' opinions of the novel.
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"With these two elements in mind, this paper provides a discussion and analysis of the "immigrant experiences" of Weili and Pearl. While Pearl is already considered an assimilated member of the American culture, her identity as Chinese-American persists, making this 'immigrant experience' not only applicable to her mother, but to her as well. This paper posits that the immigrant experience is best demonstrated through two recurrent themes in the novel: cultural conflict and the persistence of reality over 'made-up' history, or fictional personal history."
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Amy Tan "The Kitchen God's Wife", 1995.
Examines the meaning of the mythical kitchen god, narration, Chinese culture and family relations.
1,575 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 1 source, $ 55.95
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"The purpose of this research is to examine the relationship between the figure of the kitchen god and the narrative as a whole in The Kitchen God's Wife (KG) by Amy Tan. The plan of the research will be to set forth the narrative context in which the kitchen god is explained in the novel, and then to discuss the role that the figure plays in elaborating the novel's underlying pattern of ideas and the means by which those ideas emerge.
The symbolic function of the kitchen god is established early in KG. The god is referred to in a more or less offhand manner by Winnie as "only a story," and then as the patron of luck. He is chiefly associated with living spaces--homes or shops--but his influence appears to permeate Chinese culture. As Winnie puts it, quoting the Jade Emperor of heaven upon providing the kitchen god with his divine mandate in the universe: "I make ..."
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"The Kitchen God's Wife", 1996.
Compares mother's & daughter's experiences in cultural (Chinese & Chinese-Amer.), historical & narrative contexts.Tan, Amy
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 1 source, $ 47.95
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"The purpose of this research is to examine The Kitchen God's Wife by Amy Tan, comparing the mother's and daughter's experiences and how those experiences mold their outlook, from a cultural and historical perspective. The plan of the research will be to set forth the narrative context in which the experiences of mother and daughter unfold in the novel, and then to discuss the cultural and historical elements that inform Tan's strategy of characterization.
To understand the cultural and historical features that control the action of The Kitchen God's Wife, it is important to realize the importance of the setting of the novel as a whole. Contemporary Northern California, chiefly San Francisco, provides the environment in which the story within a story can be told about the history of an extended Chinese-American family. The..."
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?Sovereinetee? in "The Wife of Bath?s Prologue and Tale", 2001.
The paper looks at the relation between the Wife's Prologue and her Tale, in the story Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale".
2,170 words (approx. 8.7 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 67.95
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By analyzing the story "The Wife of Bath" by Geoffrey Chaucer in his "Canterbury Tales", this paper examines the Wife?s views on the topic of ?sovereinitee? (or dominance) in marriage as revealed in her Prologue, and analyzes how her opinions on the subject influence her Tale. It analyzes the Wife?s identification with the old woman in her Tale, or rather, how the wife projects her own opinions and concerns on the character of the old woman and includes close readings of passages from the Tale. It also discusses how the Wife?s construction of the old woman reveals the importance she places on female sexuality as a form of agency, as the main tool for gaining power, or ?sovereinitee,? in marriage. Through the character of the old woman, the Wife reveals her fear of growing old and losing her most powerful weapon.
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"In Geoffrey Chaucer?s The Canterbury Tales, the Wife of Bath?s Prologue and Tale focus on the power relations between husbands and wives, and on which party should have ?sovereinetee,? or dominion, over the other. The wife herself believes, not in equality between husbands and wives, but in a wife?s control over her husband. She and Janekin struggle for this ?sovereinetee? during their fight at the end of the Prologue. She justifies her belief by insisting that both husband and wife may only coexist in contentment and satisfaction if the wife achieves domination. Once the Wife wins complete control, she no longer needs to manipulate Janekin to gain power; her weapons of manipulation, primarily her sexuality, become pointless and she can give him whatever pleasure he desires. Her Tale is strongly biased by her own, often uninformed, opinions, and mirrors her views on the subject of marriage and ?sovereinetee?. The knight?s wedding night with the old woman, in particular, mirrors the Wife?s power struggle with Janekin, for the old woman in the Wife?s Tale seems to represent an idealized version of the Wife herself. The old woman?s ability to become young again serves as a scenario of wish-fulfillment on the part of the Wife, who has concerns about getting old since her sexuality comprises her main form of agency, serving as weapon for her to gain power in marriage. Without her looks, she is scared of losing power in the struggle for domination. She fully reveals this fear and the desire to remain young in her description of the old woman, who initially has no power over her husband since she cannot control him sexually, but also has the ability to return to youth and thus regain her power."
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"The Wife of Bath" Compared, 2002.
Compares the Wife of Bath's Prologue to Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Wife of Bath" in "The Canterbury Tales".
650 words (approx. 2.6 pages), 1 source, $ 26.95
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This paper compares the "Wife of Bath'"s prologue to the tale told by the "Wife of Bath" in the "Canterbury Tales" and shows that it is clear that her words demonstrate an unfair treatment of wives by their men. In addition, the male characters in both aspects of her story show only a tendency for abuse and for violence unless they listen to their women and grant them respect.
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A Hospital Kitchen, 2006.
A paper describing the design of a hospital kitchen that serves approximately 6000 customers per day.
2,866 words (approx. 11.5 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 85.95
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This paper briefly outlines the design of the storage area, dish washing area, shelving area, baking area and ventilation system of a hospital kitchen. The paper then describes the kitchen's packaging and hazard control operations and explains that the critical control points of the hospital include receiving, storage, preparation and serving the food . Next, the paper describes, in greater detail, how these operations are to be performed and then takes a look at a survey that was conducted to determine whether hospital patients were satisfied with the food they were being served. Finally, the paper describes the type of equipment the kitchen will be using, the food delivery process and the clean-up process.
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"The design is for a hospital kitchen. The kitchen opens at 6 am in the morning. The number of customers serve comprise around 6000 per day. Of these patients more or less 30% enjoy sandwiches and coffee for breakfast. The rest prefer Tea or soup. For lunch, fish and chips is the preferred dish of approximately 60-70% of the patients. Small numbers of the remaining patients enjoy chicken pies, lasagna and pasta bake. Preferred desserts are ice cream, apple pie and chocolate roulade."
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Wife Assault & Personality Disorder, 1996.
Relationship between Borderline Personality Organization & cyclical wife abuse. Historical models of wife assault, three stages of cyclic abuse, abuser traits (anger, jealousy, victim-blaming, self-deception), experimental studies.
4,500 words (approx. 18.0 pages), 24 sources, $ 135.95
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"Although women do abuse men, by far the greatest proportion of abusive incidents are committed by males. Thus, what is often discussed as "spouse abuse," is actually wife assault. According to Straus and Gelles (1990), at least 1.8 million women are battered by their husbands every year in the United States.
Regarding wife assault, Campbell and Lancaster (1994) refer to it as one of America's major community health problems; this because of its greater prevalence than other forms of domestic or partner violence, its greater potential for homicide, its effects on children in the household, and its long-term emotional and physical consequences. In other words, understanding wife assault is imperative."
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The Nature of Chaucer's Wife of Bathions to Justify Desire, 2000.
Although many readers see the Wife of Bath as a feminist with shaky moral views, this paper contends that the depiction of the Wife exemplifies attributes that are inherent in all people.
800 words (approx. 3.2 pages), 1 source, $ 28.95
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"The key characteristic demonstrated by the Wife that is responsible for so many common human attributes, is that the convictions of an individual are never completely fixed, but rather are ever-changing in order to support the desires of the individual at a given moment in time. This is why the Wife often seems to be contradicting herself as she relates her stories."
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"The Doctor's Wife", 2004.
Looks at the use of symbolism and how it relates to racism in John Updike's book, "The Doctor's Wife".
870 words (approx. 3.5 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 30.95
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This paper looks at John Updike's treatment of racism in his book, "The Doctor's Wife". The discussion between the doctor's wife and Ralph and Eve is examined, and examples from it are used to demonstrate the division between Caucasian Americans and African Americans. Also examined are the meanings associated with some of the symbolic words Updike uses in his story.
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"John Updike?s short story ?The Doctor?s Wife?, illustrates the division between African Americans and white people shortly after the end of segregation. In Updike?s story, a doctor and his wife are visiting a family in the Caribbean. The doctor?s wife carries on a conversation at the beach with a married couple, Ralph and Eve. The conversation between the couple and the doctor?s wife is sought with powerful symbolism, which relates to racism. The use of the word white is consistently used throughout the short story to show superiority."
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"The Wife of Bath" as an Anti-Feminist, 2005.
This paper argues that, unlike the common assumption, a section from Geoffrey Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales", "The Wife of Bath", is anti-feminist.
1,645 words (approx. 6.6 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 53.95
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This paper explains that, in Geoffrey Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales", the Prologue and subsequent Tale of "The Wife of Bath" section make the most blatant use of a persona, or mask, in comparison to the other pilgrims' sections when The Wife presents herself as a feminist; however, she is actually an anti-feminist. The author points out that, before the Wife begins the story of her experiences with men, she inserts a disclaimer that gives more insight into her possible motives: She tells the pilgrims not to be annoyed at what she says because it is all according to her fantasy. The paper argues that the Wife is hiding behind a facade of feminism, which is the very persona that she presents through her personal experiences by using the textual authority and the undertones of her story to present her true feelings about women's subservience to men.
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"After reading the Prologue and Tale, some could arrive at the aforementioned feminist conclusion. Unfortunately, they wouldn't be reading into the true heart of things if they did. In the Prologue, there is an excerpt that totally turns things around. The Wife makes quite an observation after she mentions the book of wicked wives; "Who peyntede the leon, tel me who? / By God, if wommen hadde writen stories, / As clerkes han withinne hire oratories, / They wolde han writen of men moore wikkednesse / Than al the mark of Adam may redresse" (III, ls. 692-695). She is referring to an old Aesop's Fable, in which a lion and a man come across a stone portrayal of a hunter killing a lion; the lion tells the man that if a lion would've portrayed the scene, it would be the other way around ("The Man and the Lion")."
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I Want a Wife, 2001.
This paper looks at Judy Brady's article "I Want a Wife," that was published in Ms. Magazine in 1971, about the role of women in marriage.
1,010 words (approx. 4.0 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 35.95
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This paper compares and contrasts the female and male perspectives on the roles of a husband and wife in marriage, by using two articles, one written by a man and the other by a woman. The articles examined by the author are, "I Want a Wife," written by Judy Brady and published in Ms. Magazine in 1971, and ?Help! I Want My Wife Back," written by "Guardner", that was published on the internet in 2001. Some of the topics discussed are gender issues, grievances, needs of both partners and how expectations are different depending on your sex.
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"Second issue is whether all married woman share the same feeling of neglect and exploitation as expressed in Judy Brady?s article. Well there can be a long debate about the issue, but I think that the alteration in the attitudes of partners after getting married as discussed in Guardner?s article is logically attributable to the grievances expressed in Judy Brady?s article since the otherwise cannot be proved. The reason is the same, expectations. Husband and wife have, most of the times, too high expectations from each other. It is not at times possible for the other partner to continuously come up to the expectations of his or her spouse when in fact, invariably they want to. The lack of communication and unawareness of the problem adds fuel to the fire and the relationship gets more and more strained."
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