...It is known that a mother would do anything within her power to protect her child. It is exceptionally difficult when the mother is what the child needs protection from.In the exerpt “The Violin” by Amy Chua and “Jing-Mei Woo: Two Kinds” by Amy Tan both portray mother-daughter relationships “the chinese way”. In “The Violin”, by Amy Chua, also from the point of view of Amy Chua, she is stressing to perfect her daughter’s every move.”I’m not thinking anything,”’ I said indignantly. Actually, I’d been thinking that Lulu’s right elbow was too high, that her dynamics were all wrong, and that she needed to shape her phases better (Chua 47-48).” Amy Chua was presented on the fact that she could not perfect Lulu and Lulu would have to figure it out...
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...Essay Amy Chua is obviously very opinionated. There is a lot of controversy surrounding her memoir, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, in which she was very harsh towards her daughters and made it clear that her parenting methods were better than those of a Western parent. There is no manual on parenting, but how do we know when we as parents cross the line between being concerned for our child’s future and being overbearing? Being a parent myself, I know firsthand that it gets frustrating and sometimes, that inner control can be lost. Amy demonstrated this challenge plenty of times. I acknowledge that Amy may have thought she was motivating her children to be strong, successful women but I don’t think she let them have a proper childhood. It’s sad how not once throughout the entire book was it ever mentioned that the girls went to the movies or to the mall. Amy did not let her girls initiate anything. She didn’t allow them to make mistakes on their own or to be themselves. When they look back on their childhood, they will have no fun memories to remember. It will always be about what their mother wanted. Nevertheless, she did a good job raising the girls. From the beginning of the memoir, Amy compared Eastern and Western parenting. There is no doubt in my mind that most Chinese parents do raise “stereotypically successful” children but anyone can raise a successful child. I also don’t doubt the love that Amy has for her children. My problem with this is that Amy made it...
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...Superior “Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior” is an article from The Wall Street Journal. The sender Amy Chua, a professor at Yale Law School in USA, is comparing the Chinese upbringing to the Western way of upbringing. Mrs. Chua is trying to explain to the receiver, western parents, that there are pros and cons when you look at the Chinese way of educating children, but she also shows, that it leads to good results. The argumentation, in Mrs. Chua’s article is open. By using the open argumentation is gives Mrs. Chua the chance to show of her own opinion. And thereby reveal a little bit of herself to the reader. “For example, my Western friends who consider themselves strict make their children practice their instruments 30 minutes every day. An hour at most. For a Chinese mother the first hour is the easy part. It’s hours two and three that get tough.” Here Amy is arguing which of the cultures that is the strictest when it comes to the children’s after school activities. Later on in the text she even gives an example of how she makes her own children practice. “Lulu could not do it. We worked on it nonstop for a week, drilling each of her hands separately, over and over.” In this paragraph on page 9, we can see how she is clearly in favor of the Chinese method, which she uses herself. Amy Chua uses all of the known forms of appeal to convince the reader. Mrs. Chua starts out with the logos appeal form. “..there are tons of studies out there showing marked and quantifiable...
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...because of a lost game. Because to loose sometimes in life is something everyone will experience once in a while. Some people can not handle this scenario as good as other people. This is because of the differences in the upbringings from child to child/parent to parent. Upbringings are actually very different from culture to culture. The writer Amy Chua wrote an article in The Wall Street Journal, January 8th, 2011 with the title “Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior”, in which she explains how her kids were raised and where she also in general writes about how different upbringings can be in opposite cultures. The sender of this article is the John M. Duff, Jr. Professor of Law at Yale Law School, Amy L. Chua (October 26, 1962). She joined the Yale faculty in 2001 after teaching at Duke Law School. Prior to starting her teaching career, she was a corporate law associate at Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton. She specializes in the study of international business transactions, law and development, ethnic conflict, and globalization and the law. As of January 2011, she is most noted for her parenting memoir, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother. Amy Chua wrote this article about upbringing and parenting with a focus on her own children and her own parenting. The main purpose of this article is to explain to the readers why this strict upbringing method is a good and normal way of raising children in particularly China. The structure of this article is a lot more different than...
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...Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior ”Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior” is written by the Chinese mother of two, Professor Amy Chua. The article was published Saturday, January 8th, 2011 in Wall Street Journal. Wall Street Journal is a well-known American newspaper with a broad range of readers. The article is though mainly intended for what she refers to as “Western parents” – or Western mothers in particular. Mothers, who in Amy Chua’s opinion, fail to bring their children up successfully. The article is expository, as Amy Chua tries to emphasize her view on Western parent’s mentality in contrast to Chinese parent’s mentality. When it comes to a successful upbringing for their children, Amy Chua believes that the Western way has it deficiencies. As a parent, you might have some sort of blindness when it comes to seeing your own mistakes about raising your children. Amy Chua therefore tries to explain what can be changed, in order to achieve a more successful child. By revealing these differences in the way of raising a child, respectively in a Chinese way and in a Western way, Amy Chua makes the reader consider, if the Western way really is the way to prefer. The article expounds the Chinese way of raising children in contrast to the Western way. According to Amy Chua, mother of two Chinese girls, the main problem is the Western parent’s mentality. The parent’s apprehension of emotionally hurting their children prevents the children to fully shape in to a successful person...
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...“Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior” Brief summary- Professor Amy Chua at Yale Law School wrote Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother (2011) the article “Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior” found in the Journal relates to her book. In this short excerpt “Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior” the parenting styles of Chinese and Westerns are compared. Western parents try to respect their children’s character, encouraging them to pursue their true passions and providing a nurturing habitat. The Chinese believe that the best way to protect their children is by preparing them for the future and arming them with skills, strong work habits, and inner confidence. Longer summary- The short excerpt “Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior” based on Amy Chua’s Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother (2011) caused controversy over the different parenting between Asian and Western parents. The Chinese parents sets high standards of achievement and strict discipline. Chinese parenting perceives mothers to be highly controlling and punish severely, almost to the point of abuse. Parents focus on ensuring and preparing children for future obstacles in life. Chua describes the Chinese parenting skills she finds productive enforcing hard work and punishment. She implements that children make poor choices and will likely give up. To Chinese parents understanding, nothing is fun until your good at it. To get good at anything you have to work, which is why it is important for parents...
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...child should be raised and disciplined. There is no right or wrong in how a mother takes care of her children. All of them want the best for their children. The only difference is the level of intensity in how to raise your child. An account of the controversy over Chua’s op-ed and the book from which it was drawn. Yale Law professor Amy Chua who wrote a book and an op-ed about her very strict Chinese parenting “(including attend a sleepover, watch TV or play computer games, or get any grade A)” by calling one child “garbage, rejecting an amateurish birthday card as unworthy, and driving her 7-year old to tears after she is unable, after hours of practice. (Chua, 2011 p. 258). Amy Chua let her readers know she is tough and strict Chinese parent. Amy Chua causes national controversy because her parenting is stricter than Western mother. Most Western mother doesn’t make their kids earn their self-esteem nor protect them from failure. Western parents can ask their kids to do their best. Chinese can call them lazy or tell them their classmates are getting ahead them and their kids will start to do better. Some people support her approach of Amy Chua’s promotes higher standards. Who doesn’t want their child to get all A’s or be the best at everything they do. Who wouldn’t want the ideal child? An account of the two different approaches to parenting represented by the “Chinese” and “Western” models: Chinese mother don’t allow their children to watch TV whereas Western mother...
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...Reflective Essay Karen Blanding UMUC REFLECTIVE ESSAY Expanding your writing ability can be difficult and often times frustrating, but when done well can change the opinions of many. In English 101, I learned the first steps to writing an advanced essay. I learned the importance of asking questions. I also learned how important it research author’s backgrounds. Any author with an extensive background on the information covered in your essay can help establish a stronger credibility .Another important element of an essay is the thesis statement. Over the course of the semester, I have written various type of essay and in each essay the thesis is always the most important sentence. I have learned the necessity of combining the most important information out of an article into one sentence; the thesis statement captures the reader’s attention and sets the tone for the rest of the essay. I also learned that there are different types of thesis statements associated with individual essays. This semester, the class focuses on creating the most effective and appropriate styled thesis statement for each essay. As a whole, I feel that my ability to form thesis statements has gotten stronger, yet I still struggle a bit with pulling them together. I can pull specific points out of an article and recognize commonalities’ with other articles. English 101 have made it easier for me to formulate a well thought out thesis statement and essay. I just spend too much time over thinking...
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...mother, Amy Chua, writes a flashback/ argumentative article as to why a Chinese parenting method is better than a western parent's. The rate for Chinese women in college is 45%, in the 2010/2011 school year the rate for international students in college and universities increased by 5%. Chua's purpose is to clarify why a Chinese mother's way to raising their children is better than a western parent's methods. She adopts a very authoritarian tone in order to scare her kids and to teach them that failure is not an option, to succeed and to be the best you need to be taught strictly and harsh. She doesn't want her daughters to be weak minded and sensitive to criticism so Chua being so petty and hurtful...
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...In the short newspaper article, “Immigrate Assimilate” by Amy Chua published on February 3, 2008 in the Seattle Times Opinion is in response to the immigration problems the United States has and how we should solve the issue. She includes Samuel Huntington in her article to help support her ideas because he thinks the future wars will be fought not between countries, but between cultures, and she agrees with what he says. She thinks there is a major issue with the United States and our view on immigration. She thinks we should take it more serious and be accepting of everyone. Chua knows what it is like to be an immigrant because her family arrived to the United States in 1961. She provides examples from other countries of what happens if the...
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...In the article, “Why Chinese Mothers are Superior,” Amy Chua stresses the supremacy of stern Chinese parenting over tolerant Western parenting. Chua begins by providing the reader with the rules she imposed to raise her own academically outstanding children. She contradicts the belief that Western parents are strict by giving an example on how the Chinese require their children to practice music for three hours while Western parents prefer only thirty minutes. Furthermore, Chua includes statistic about the agreement on whether “stressing academic success is not good for children” and seventy percent of Western parents agree but about zero percent of Chinese parents do. Also, Chua claims repetition is vital for children to flourish and once...
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...Comparison and Contrast Essay March 22, 2015 Parenting: Amy Chua vs. Hanna Rosin Is there a right way to raise your child? There are really no set rules on how to raise your child, as we can see throughout the articles written by Amy Chua, a self-described “Chinese Tiger Mom” and Hanna Rosin, a “Western Mother,” in The Wall Street Journal in January 2011. These articles show that the two authors have completely different parenting styles. On one hand, Amy Chua believes kids should not go to sleepovers, be in school plays, and get anything less than A's in school except for gym. Meanwhile, Hannah Rosin believes that children need some freedom to express themselves. There are many differences between the two styles but each has had its own success in raising children. On January 8, 2011, Amy Chua wrote an article entitled, “Why Chinese Mothers are Superior” to explain how Chinese parents raise successful kids and produced so many math wizzes and music prodigies. In response to that article, Hanna Rosin wrote an article dated January 15, 2011, entitled “Mother Inferior?” with the subtitle “Amy Chua has the diagnosis of American childhood exactly backward. Our kids don’t need more drills and rules. They need to lighten up and roam free.” “Western parents are extremely anxious about their children’s self-esteem.” (Amy Chua) Chua in the following statements definitely makes it clear that grades are first priority then feelings. Chua says that Chinese parents are not as concerned about...
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...A columnist and editor, David Brooks has written for the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Times and edited for the Weekly Standard, the Atlantic, and Newsweek. Brooks begins his essay with criticizing Amy Chua’s parenting with showing how hard she is on her daughters. He’s reasonable throughout but still questions Chua and calls her “soft”. In “Amy Chua is a Wimp,” David Brooks argues that Amy Chua is too soft when it comes to parenting, leading her to ignore the importance in her children acquiring social skills, and that those skills are just as important as academic skills. Brooks begins with highlighting some cringe-worthy situations from Chua’s book. Amy Chua, a well-known “Tiger Mom,” believes western parents...
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...In her article “Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior,” Amy Chua asserted that children raised by Chinese mothers are more successful than children that are raised by Western mothers. Chau claimed that the strict and direct nature of the Chinese parenting style allows their children to have excellence in everything that they do. She noted there are many parenting studies that showed measurable differences between Western and Chinese immigrant mothers. In particular, she described one that consisted of 50 Western mothers and 48 Chinese immigrant mothers which revealed a majority of Western mothers believed that emphasizing academic success was not good for children, and that Chinese mothers consider the academic success of their children a direct consequence of their good parenting and that any failures were a result of parents not “doing their job” (Chau, A. 2011). Chua also stated that Chinese mothers spend ten times longer working with their children on academic activities compared to Western mothers, and noted that Western children are more likely to be involved in sports. According to the Chau, there are three differences between Western and Chinese views on parenting. First, Western parents are overly concerned about their child’s self-esteem and are constantly trying to comfort their children, whereas Chinese parents presume their children are strong enough to take criticism for anything less than perfection. Second, Western parents believe it is their responsibility...
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...In her article “Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior,” Amy Chua asserted that children raised by Chinese mothers are more successful than children that are raised by Western mothers. Chau claimed that the strict and direct nature of the Chinese parenting style allows their children to have excellence in everything that they do. She noted there are many parenting studies that showed measurable differences between Western and Chinese immigrant mothers. In particular, she described one that consisted of 50 Western mothers and 48 Chinese immigrant mothers which revealed a majority of Western mothers believed that emphasizing academic success was not good for children, and that Chinese mothers consider the academic success of their children a direct consequence of their good parenting and that any failures were a result of parents not “doing their job” (Chau, A. 2011). Chua also stated that Chinese mothers spend ten times longer working with their children on academic activities compared to Western mothers, and noted that Western children are more likely to be involved in sports. According to the Chau, there are three differences between Western and Chinese views on parenting. First, Western parents are overly concerned about their child’s self-esteem and are constantly trying to comfort their children, whereas Chinese parents presume their children are strong enough to take criticism for anything less than perfection. Second, Western parents believe it is their responsibility...
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