The Mandarins Essays

In the novel The Green Glass Sea, author Ellen Klages writes a story that shares the lives of two young girls, Dewey Kerrigan and Suze Gordon, during World War II, living in New Mexico with their families, as they make an effort to develop the atomic bomb and create new technology to aid in America’s fight. It is apparent that the author’s main purpose of this narrative was to entertain, but to also somewhat inform and give readers some insight on the occurrences that took place during this time

The Tale of the Mandarin Duck The key is to not to judge a book by it’s cover, as you can't judge someone or something on how they look.The lord in a book called The Tale of the Mandarin Duck is from a Japanese folktale.The lord was always looks for beautiful, eye catching things either big or small. On the other hand, this self centered lord pushes away less attractive things. One day, the lord catches a colorful drake, but the lord did not choose the drake's mate, for she was not colorful. Once

The Tale of the Mandarin Ducks is a passage written by Katherine Patterson. In the passage, many different themes appear throughout the story. The main indirect theme is nothing can go the way you want. The lord is told that he shouldn’t take the drake. As day passed, the drake wasn’t lustrous as it used to, and was missing his mate. The lord notices, and still refused to let the drake go. Instead, he ignores the problem and put the cage out of sight. When the lord found a lovely drake, he deicide

The Racial Slur Database associates banana with the phrase, “Yellow on the Outside, white on the inside” (Racial Slur site). This internet slur is used to represents Asians who have lost their heritage by assimilating to other cultures( Racial Slur). Being Asian with Chinese descent myself, I feel my banana story is heavily influenced by the consequences of globalization. This social phenomenal refers to the “expansion and intensification of social relations and consciousness across world-time

and others are notoriously difficult. Alphabets, conjugations, vocabulary, and more all factor into making a language easy or hard to learn. According to this list of the most widely spoken languages, the top six languages to consider learning are Mandarin, Spanish, English, Hindu, Arabic, and Portuguese. If you want to be widely understood and open up many new travel destinations, learning one of these languages is a good start. Which ones are the easiest and hardest to learn for native English speakers

the world has become so interconnected that being bilingual is almost an asset that one must have. . To be bilingual means to be fluent in two or more languages. English is the most widely used language in the world even though more people speak mandarin. By being known as ‘the world language’ it proposes the idea that everyone should have basic knowledge

CRA: Anzaldua Borderlands In her poem “Borderlands,” Gloria Anzaldua strategically exposes readers to the true form of the Borderlands region as she conveys the internal incongruity that is rife with this state. As she characterizes the nature of the Borderlands, extending the idea of the Borderlands from a geographical region to an extensive social phenomenon, Anzaldua emulates an experience that is shared by many; conquered by fear. Anzaldua cogently employs the use of distinct structural elements

“The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named María” by Judith Ortiz Cofer and “Mother Tongue” by Amy Tan depict the endeavors people take on in an attempt to integrate into society. Cofer demonstrates how stereotypes of Latina women have led others to misjudge her and explains the difficulty she had disassociating herself from those stereotypes. Tan demonstrates that the “broken” English her mother speaks has led others to think less of her and disregard her. One’s appearance instantaneously

Fred Westen, the CEO of the Hathaway Jones, wants to open a new store in Shanghai and he believes he has found the perfect candidate, Mimi Brewster. Fred has known Mimi since she was a little girl and knew how hard of a worker she was at such a young age. That exuberant and hardworking attitude remained in Mimi as she graduated from Berkley at the top of her class with a degree in modern Chinese history. After college, Mimi worked with at the largest retailer in America, Elanor Gaston. Here, she

The novel entitled Chinese Cinderella, written by Adeline Yen Mah can be considered by one as an autobiography. Adeline Yen Mah writes about her life during her younger years in this novel. Starting off with the author, Adeline Yen Mah was born in Tianjin in the Republic of China on November 30, 1937. Its whole title, “Chinese Cinderella: The Story of the Unwanted Daughter,” speaks literally of how the flow of the novel is. The novel introduces us to 4-year-old Yen Jun-ling, whose name was changed

After listening to the radio story "Help! I Can't Communicate with My Mandarin-Speaking Grandpa," I cannot help but feel overwhelming for Yowei Shaw, who was telling the story. The reason why I feel this way is because she cannot communicate with her grandparents meaning that she cannot speak Mandarin Chinese and when she is talking to her grandfather YeYe, their conversation are brief. She only knows 3 simple questions in Mandarin that she asks him, which are: how are you, how are you doing, and are

As an international student, Hobby Lobby is one of the companies out there that I have never heard of before. In my research to find a company that meet the requirements for this assignment, I came across the Hobby Lobby company. The company draw my instant attention not only by their mission statement, but also with what they are known for which is the offering of arts and crafts for home renovation. Their mission statement read to: -Offer our customers exceptional selection and value. -Honoring

monolingual and bilingual speakers (Guitar, 2013). According to Gordon (2005), Mandarin is the most widely spoken language in the world, with more than one billion speakers worldwide. In the United States, over 60 million people speak a language other than English (Ryan, 2013), among which Mandarin is the second most common spoken language (about 2.9 million). Statistics shows that increasingly more people have started to speak Mandarin in the United States over the past three decades (345.3% change) (Ryan

ungood and good trait. The character, the mandarin, by Ray Bradbury changes from being competitive and melancholy to being forgiveful and makes peace with the other city. At first when the reader first meets the mandarin, (whom is the emperor) he is furious with the other city of making their wall a pig. After a messenger tells the mandarin Kwan-Si is building a pig shaped wall, he got mad and somewhat worried about their own city wall. The mandarin answering to his daughter, “Our city wall

Should K-12 Students in the United States Study Mandarin? During the last century, the world has had some significant political, economic, and industrial changes, which lead to the advancement of multicultural and multilingual practices. With the development of globalization, nowadays, more and more people are learning foreign languages to better prepared for the fast-changing international situations. Among all the languages, Mandarin Chinese has the most potential to become another dominant global

The military is what can make Mandarin Chinese a viable threat to the English language. How did English become so big in the first place? By taking over countries. Forcing them to speak it. If they could do something similar with the Chinese military, that is most likely the only way for them to actually make Mandarin Chinese a viable threat against the English language. A reason for why this might be a possibility is that

raised with traditional upbringing. Mandarin is my mother tongue, and it is still the language that I can best transmit my thoughts and feelings. My diary, a record of my emotional states, whether it is joyous or sentimental, are written in Chinese. My parents do not speak English; they only know a few basic vocabularies. Sometimes they make fun of themselves saying that the only English word they can speak is “bye”, but in fact, the word “bye” and the Mandarin slang “拜拜” (derived from the English

Shanghainese, which is a form of Chinese dialect. It is a language that sounds very delicate and exquisite, but unfortunately there are less and less people speaking Shanghainese, as most of the people would only speak the mainstream Chinese, called the Mandarin Chinese. Shanghainese is very special for me, as it could unofficially be regarded as my mother tongue. It was the only language that I knew, until I started to learn English in the kindergarten. This was the first time that I had a chance to interact

with black powder. Mandarin crackers produced a less loud, a duller thud, compared to modern flash light crackers. Mandarin crackers produced a dimmer, less brilliant flash when they exploded also. Individual mandarin crackers were most often braided into “strings” of varying lengths, which when ignitied, exploded in rapid sequence. Generally, the strings (some times containing as many as several thousand crackers) would be hung from an overhead line before ignition. Most mandarin crackers were colored

This week, I have read Aneta Pavlenko’s article, Stop Doing That, which discuss the language choice in parent-child communication in bi- and multilingual families. In this article, Pavlenko opens his discussion by talking about overall choice, which is “the language choice or choices consciously made by the parents for daily communication with the child or children” (Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 180). Throughout the first section, he addressed two kinds of choices: “a careful