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The writer and teacher, Lindsay Rosasco, creates strong diction through the use of informal word choice. Her diction style relates to her audience, who are teenagers in high school. She is trying to convince them that she is not out to get them, she just wants the best for all of them. Rosasco doesn’t use a higher level of vocabulary or more grandiose style because if she did, then teenagers could turn away from the text and she is writing like how the students talk. By doing this, she lets the readers know that she understands how they live.
“The Face of Seung-Hui Cho,” by Wesley Yang, takes the mass murder of Virginia Tech shooting, Seung-Hui Cho, and the representation of “modern class of losers,” to reflect what it means to be an Asian-American in an environment that appearance, social status, and expression is highly valued. Yang approaches his essay regarding Seung-Hui Cho with sympathy, rather than complete hatred and distaste (a view collectively shared by Americans). He provides a personal account of his own experiences and observations of being an unattractive Asian kid in context towards the similar desperate for love Seung-Hui Cho. In “The Face of Seung-Hui Cho,” the New Jersey writer Wesley Yang brings to light—through a personal look—at the possible causation and origins of the 2007 Virginia Tech massacre. Although highly well-written and thought-provoking, “The Face of Seung-Hui Cho,” nevertheless, left me with some confusion, especially regarding the direction of most of the material in the piece.
The text, “Leaves from the Mental Portfolio of an Eurasian” written by Sui sin Far, is a story about a Chinese European, Eurasian, girl struggling in North America. The girl, Sui Sin Far, lives in North American countries, Canada & the United States of America, with her family-Chinese mother, English father, and her brother and sisters. Sin Sui Far struggled with racial discrimination in the countries of Canada and North America because of her Chinese Eurasian ethnicity. Far first noticed the racial discrimination has a young four year-old child when nurses were examining her about being Chinese. Although the first encounter of racial discrimination against Far did not hold to her mother, Far knew she was different.
After describing her mother’s life in multiple internment camps and the corresponding lifelong PTSD her mother suffered from, Ina queries “I wonder how many lives, just like my mother’s, the U.S. government is needlessly and cruelly damaging today for its ill-advised “family detention” program.” The author makes sure her point -the detention center is a modern internment camp- is clear by her persistent use of adjectives such as “cruelly” and “damaging” as well as using phrases like “just like my mother's.” I agree with Ina’s point; however, Ina alienates her readers by demonizing the U.S. government. While the U.S. government is the controlling force of family detention facilities, and it is important to point out that America is repeating the mistakes made in World War Two, Ina should focus on the connections between Japanese internment camps and the facility, or the horrors of the facility, rather than who is to
Kieu Tran’s offensive diction conveys the destruction American culture wreaks on Vietnamese culture through phrases such as “so-called freedom in the Western culture” and “[m]oreover, by law, parents cannot strike or hit them.” Throughout her entire essay, Tran arrogantly asserts that American culture is bad and Vietnamese culture is good. She starts by explaining that Americans have a misunderstanding of the term “child abuse” and that this term doesn’t even exist in Asian cultures. When Asians come to America, specifically Vietnamese, they are harassed by social workers and the government because they physically discipline their children. While in Vietnam, physical punishment is the standard way of disciplining children, in America, such
Kieu Tran’s assertive tone demonstrates the distinction between Vietnamese and Western cultures using phrases like “Americanized” and “Physical punishment in Asian traditions…”. In the essay, Kieu Tran specifically talks about physical punishment in Vietnamese cultures. The essay depicts the difference between Vietnamese cultures and child abuse. Kieu Tran explains how it’s illegal to hit any child when you are in the Americas because of this many Vietnamese families are punished harshly if the families are found out. Since the cultures in Vietnam and the Americas are very different many vietnamese families aren’t as close as they were before.
AP Chinese Vocabulary Description : AP Chinese means advanced placement Chinese, this program offers college level courses to high school students, so that they can have an opportunity to earn credit for Chinese course at the college level. Like other College Board programs, it is available to anyone worldwide who wishes to participate. Author : Penny The AP Chinese exam consists of two essential aspect : Chinese language and Chinese culture.
For both the well-being of Asian Americans and Asian immigrants living in the United States, as well as the growth of the country as a whole, this long-standing problem must be fixed. The Buddha in the Attic, by Julie Otsuka, is entirely useful because it offers readers a new awareness of the history of Japanese people in the United States and the discrimination they faced in the early 20th century. The novel examines sabotage in the farming industry, racially motivated bullying, and segregation. Although Otsuka only explores a part of the much bigger problem of anti-Asian racism, her novel is still incredibly valuable as it promotes empathy and understanding, which inevitably leads to a more tolerant and just society. The first aspect that The Buddha in the Attic analyzes is the brutality that many Japanese families endured at the hands of resentful farmers for their success in the United States agriculture industry.
In many ways an author uses diction, imagery, syntax, and tone to elaborate parts of the story, and to contribute to the novel as a whole. In The Blind Side, the author, Michael Lewis, tells a story of how an everyday family in Memphis comes together and takes in a homeless 16 year old, who later becomes a famous football player. Although each literary device helps convey different things, when they all come together they are able to create the emotions, tones, relevance, and the purpose of the novel. Michael Lewis uses diction to emphasise particular words that he feels are important and the reader should pay attention to. He also uses italics for certains words such as, “...maybe I am good,”(Lewis 139)
Frank Borzage’s 1958 film China Doll: Time is a Memory details a redemption story of an alcoholic American pilot, Captain Cliff Brandon, during his time fighting the Japanese in China in WWII. The plot centers around his romance with Chinese native Shu-Jen-- their meet-cute being when he accidentally purchases her from her destitute father in a drunken stupor. After employing her as a housekeeper, he falls in love with, and consequently, impregnates her before both die when their military base is attacked. I argue that the popular Hollywood film China Doll reveals the ways in which war as a form of sexual imperialism contributed to an American imagination of Asia as a land of upset sexual morals in need of white saviorism.
Kieu Tran’s emotional tone creates a sad truth about child abuse from Asian parents with phrases like “Physical punishment does not work in America, but it does in Vietnam.” and “There is no question of hatred between parents and children. Children never talk back because of the strict punishment.” In this essay it is hard to see what type of message the author is trying to get across. Sometimes he is supporting the abuse of children from their parents and other times he is giving examples of why it is a negative approach to punish your children.
Tran’s subjective diction portrays her thoughts about child abuse in the U.S. with phrases such as “physical punishment in Asian traditions is not considered child abuse” and “Western culture and customs has destroyed the Vietnamese family structure very quickly.” In Asian countries, it is okay to strike your child to discipline him or her. It is a tradition and it is part of the hierarchy. Children must submit, obey, and respect their parents. In the U.S. striking your child is illegal.
New cultural environments reflecting new and inconsistent values and practices from their traditional ways in their country of origin will result in different acculturation rates in parents compared to children (Renazaho & Vignjevic, 2011). Due to the lack of cultural competence parents can also run into issues within the system. If it is customary to hit their children when they have done something wrong, they may not understand that that is unacceptable in the United States. If someone were to witness this event they may report it and child protective services could get involved. Many refugee families come into contact with child protection systems before they have the chance to learn new parenting styles (Lewig, Arney, & Salveron,
With this, it is surprising to note that despite of the several methods teachers can use to lessen or control misbehaviors of children, some teachers and countries still adapt this approach in modifying challenging behaviors of children. A depressing truth shows that “Physical abuse can also be a result of parental and/or school discipline in which a child is punished by beating or other forms of corporal punishment. It should be noted, however, that there are large cultural differences in the interpretation of corporal punishment as abuse.” Many Western countries classify corporal punishment of any kind as physical abuse, although this is not true for the US or Canada. However, according to CNN.com 31 nations fully ban corporal punishment.
I. Introduction A. P. J. O 'Rourke once said “Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them” (O’Rourke, Pg.10). Parents always want their children to be better than what they used to be when they were at their age; that is why they care about every detail in their children’s life especially when it comes to behavior, obeying them and listening to their words. B. Background Information: i. People came to realize that physical punishment is a rough, atrocious, unacceptable mean of punishment that should be banned for its appalling, horrifying effects. ii. Facts about physical punishment (sources used) 1.
