While reading The Latehomecomer, a memoir written by Kao Kalia Yang, there are a number of examples of spirituality that can be found throughout the Yang family's voyage. Spirituality, or matters of the spirit, are a concept often tied to a spirit world, a multidimensional reality and one or more de...

There are three generations in my family, my grandparents, my parents, and myself. My grandparents have six children, three girls and three boys. None of my aunts and uncles died at childhood or adolescence. All of them are well and living. My grandparent was married before they had children. Al...

The Right to Life Should an unborn baby have the write to live? What if the baby is diagnosed with a terminal illness? How about if the woman has an unplanned pregnancy? Many people ask these same questions about the right to life or death. My personal belief is that unborn babies have the...

Introduction The film, Joy Luck Club, was produced in 1993 by editing the bestseller novel, Joy Luck Club. It presents the stories of four Chinese-immigrant women and their American-born daughters. Each of the four Chinese women has her own view of the world based on her experiences in China and wa...

On May 7th, 1993, my eleventh birthday, my mother broke the news. I was going to be a big sister to twins. I was not happy. Being an only child for over eleven years with divorced parents had made me extremely spoiled and I did not want that to change. I had become very accustomed to not havin...

The saga of Beethoven the duck began one summer day when my brother Joel and I were in the process riding down the hill in front of our house as fast as possible on bikes. I was riding my newly purchased Free Spirit, while my brother was riding his old French ten-speed. As was the custom, we raced d...

Black History Month is a great time to celebrate out history, achievements, and accomplishments. February should not be the only time but it is certainly a good time to start. Many blacks have done extraordinary things. I admired Clara McBride Hale. She works with crack-addicted and HIV-positiv...

Black History Month is a great time to celebrate out history, achievements, and accomplishments. February should not be the only time but it is certainly a good time to start. Many blacks have done extraordinary things. I admired Clara McBride Hale. She works with crack-addicted and HIV-positive b...

Mi Abuela I found Ms. Judith Ortiz Cofer's grandmother uplifting and thoroughly enjoyable because the grandmother in Cofer's memoir reminds me of my own granddmother. The way her "abuela" explains things by telling her own story, makes me think about the way my grandmothe...

Children are affected by their parents. Parents are affected by drugs. Therefore drugs affect children. Drugs traumatize children. The drug known as, Crank or meth has become an epidemic in the Western United States. Drugs are not victimless crimes. Drugs affect the addicts' grandparents, par...

The vivid point of view in D.H Lawrence's "Odour Of Chrysenthemums" is fundamental to the success with which Hemmingway has portrayed the complex network of feelings within the Bates household, especially that of the wife, Elizabeth who is trapped in a strained and loveless marriage w...

In the early years of humanity, population growth has not been an issue. This is because of a variety of different environmental factors. Sickness and disease played a large role in keeping the human population under control since the beginning of time, and it seemed that when a population would get...

In Amy Tan's, "A Pair of Tickets", June May is the main character who struggles as she searches through her mother's past and tries to become more in touch with her Chinese roots. Throughout the short story, June's inner conflicts deal with feelings of resentment for her mot...

The conflict in The Joy Luck Club, the mother and the daughters had problems adapting to each other. The novel, The Joy Luck Club written by Amy Tan which was later adapted to a screenplay and became a full length feature film was a dramatic, emotionally charged story dealing with the trial and tri...

China's population started to grow at a rapid rate in 1949. There were ½ a billion people in China and 2/3 of the population were under 24. This shows the increase of births had risen very quickly. There are a few reasons for this sudden rise in the population. China is a Communist country, th...

Personal Response: I Stand Here Ironing In this story, the narrator tells the reader her first major struggle in life, dealing with a newborn baby at the age of nineteen. I cannot say that I can compare to the struggle Olsen is writing about but I can relate to the struggle of "getting b...

Through out my teenage years I always had it made. I had security, support of my family, and other things. When I turned 16 I had found out something that would change my life forever, I was pregnant. As a teenager I was anorexic, therefore meaning I had a problem with getting fat. If I had g...