RULES OF THE GAME:
Waverly Jong, Lindo's daughter, is a child chess prodigy who was taught at a young age to play the game by her brothers and an old man that she met using a chess set that she got in christmas and lifesavers as replacements for the missing ones. She starts becoming recognized for her talents and starts to display her set of skills to the locals. One day a man comes up to her and offers a chance for her to compete in a chess tournament. She plays and wins. By age 9 she becomes a national champion. Her mom goes around bragging about her and finally she snaps and tells her mom off. She comes back home and her mother ignores her.
THE VOICE FROM THE WALL:
Lena St. Clair's mother, Ying-ying is a woman from China that was saved by her current husband Clifford, who is of English-Irish descent. Ying-ying spoke mainly in gestures, because her mandarin wasn't very well understood by Clifford or Lena. They move to Oakland and Ying-ying kept moving things around her house because it wasn't balanced. They heard a girl next door who they thought was either being killed or beaten. After moving Ying-ying gets a baby which dies immediately after birth. Ying-ying feels guilty. Teresa comes in and plays a prank on her mom. Lena is confused by the laughing and joy.
HALF AND HALF
Rose Hsu Jordan starts by wondering what to say about her and her husband Ted's divorce. In the story it explains how Ted was dominant in the relationship but after losing a malpractice suit he made Rose make decisions which she resisted. This caused strain in the relationship which led to Ted asking for a divorce. This leads to the story of when Rose was tasked to watch over her brothers in the water, the boys got into a fight and Bing fell into the water and was never found again. An-Mei (Rose's Mother) drove Rose to the beach and made offerings.
TWO KINDS
Jing-Mei speaks again and this time her mom is determined to find an inner talent that she knows is hidden within her daughter. She tried her hand at multiple skills but always fell short of her mother's expectations. Jing-Mei realised one night that her mother was trying to turn her into something that she was not and she wouldn't let that happen again. She took lessons with a deaf man who she got away with playing bad notes to and when she was entered in a talent contest she though her "inner-prodigy" would take over and allow her to play well, even though she had a lack of practice. She played but it proved to be a disaster, she never wanted to play piano again. Later on her 30th birthday she was handed a piano as a gift, after her mother died she played and did well. If she would've trained then she could've become a great piano player IMO.
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Monday, May 21, 2012
FOR MY MISSING POINTS IN JUSTIFICATION...
POINTS:
I think i deserve around a 8-10 on my audience engagement as it is mainly a video that features (hopefully) funny scenes that'll get the audience laughing while also educating them on the topic that I'm talking about. For content i also think i deserve around a 7-8, my quotes aren't that great but what I talk about should give the audience a good feeling on what my push to effect is.
POINTS:
I think i deserve around a 8-10 on my audience engagement as it is mainly a video that features (hopefully) funny scenes that'll get the audience laughing while also educating them on the topic that I'm talking about. For content i also think i deserve around a 7-8, my quotes aren't that great but what I talk about should give the audience a good feeling on what my push to effect is.
Sunday, March 4, 2012
Power Struggle
In Lord of the Flies and also the Power of One there are major power struggles. As most books and stories go there is a power struggle between good and bad, in the Lord of the Flies the power struggle between good and bad was between Ralph's group and Jack's. In the Power of One, the good and bad struggle have more people in it, this time instead of just a group its more of a race against a race. The Africans are displayed as the good guys and the Europeans as the bad. The power struggle is different because PK has to deal with most of the burden in the struggle as the Africans couldn't really do much due to the extreme racism in the area, Ralph never had to deal with that and always had Piggy and the twins by his side.
Sunday, February 12, 2012
HW 2/13/12
In the third passage, Golding uses symbolism with the officer that had just arrived on the island. The officer symbolizes the innocence of mankind, upon arriving the officer was quite optimistic and appeared to think that a couple of kids could not do any bodily harm to each other: "Nobody killed, I hope? Any dead bodies?" when Ralph answers that two had died the officer exclaims and asks the boy assuredly, surprised that two young boys were actually killed. Later on he assumes that they could've done a better job, not knowing the terror the boys had gone through the past. "I should have that that a pack of British boys... would have been able to put up a better show than that.." Golding uses the officer as a symbol of how most people would've reacted upon seeing these children, and how protected society is now from the true terrors that would be faced if our technology and sanity was stripped from us.
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Thursday, February 9, 2012
Analyze pg. 31
In this passage imagery is widely used. "They found a piglet caught in a curtaing of creepers, throwing itself at the elastic traces in all the madness of extreme terror. Its voice was thing, needle-sharp, insistent". The effect of the use of this literary device creates and sets a mood for the reader allowing them to clearly visualize the situation. This makes it better to understand the situation, which is a dark and gloomy part of the story.
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