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...Why Chinese mothers are superior There are numerous opinions about how to raise children ideally. Everyone want to do what is best for their children, but the description about how to do so, is extremely different from parent to parent. There has especially been quite a lot debate about how Chinese mothers raise their children compared to Western mothers. Many Westerns people describe the Chinese mothers methods of upbringing as strict, pushy and some times directly cruel. The article “Why Chinese Mothers are Superior” deals with these differences between methods of upbringing, written by the 48-year-old Chinese-American mother Amy Chua and it is thereby seen from her point of view. The author Amy Chua is a professor at Yale Law School and has two daughters herself, whom she is raising very strictly with lots of rules and big demands. Chua claims that the way that Chinese mothers are upbringing their children, is superior compared to the Western mothers methods of upbringing. She underlines than in order to achieve success, the children must focus on certain priority areas, and therefore they are forced to give up other things. This is why her own daughters are not allowed to attend to sleepovers, choose their own extracurricular activities and they are demand to be the very best in every subject except gym and drama. This is only a few of the rules, which Chua’s daughters must live by. Chua underlines that one of the most important parts of upbringing in Chinese manner, is...
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...“‘Boy, I got vision and the rest of the world wears bifocals, ’” says the famous Butch Cassidy, played by Paul Newman, from the movie, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Put in theaters in 1969, this western film became a hit amongst audiences across the country. Directed by George Roy Hill, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid qualifies as a western because the film provides moviegoers with large and dry landscapes, old-fashioned crime, and a partner who plays the role as a sidekick. In Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, the setting is a large and dry desert-like landscape. A western is typically known for its’ characters to be in a setting with a hot climate, lots of dirt/sand, and tall dry mountains; this film contains all of that. There...
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...Western Movie Graphics vs. Today’s Graphics Ashford University Vicky Roach Starbuck Social Problems SOC203 Instructor Gina Rollings April 4, 2011 Western movies have been around since the beginning of cinematic history in the US. They are no longer the most common nor the most popular movies presented to audiences. However, they still hold a special spot for those who love adventure and larger than life heroes. Stick around and learn more about the history of western movies and the producers and actors that have created them. Before western films became popular with movie going fans, western books and shows blazed the trail, whetting the appetite of millions for adventure. Although life in the early west was harsh, novels began proliferating in the 1860's which presented a more ideal or glamorized version of the experience. Real-life characters such as William F. Cody ("Buffalo Bill") and James Butler Hickok ("Wild Bill" Hickok) as well as a number of fictional characters were extremely popular. While many early western movies told moral tales of good triumphing over evil and men fighting for a righteous cause some were also comedies and others merely action packed showcases for their smart horses and talented "cowboy" actors. Films like "Custer’s Last Fight" in 1912, "On the Night Stage" in 1914, "Hell's Hinges" in 1916, and "Tumbleweeds" in 1925 were well received. Certainly films about the west have focused on cowboys, gunslingers,...
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...-Why Chinese Mothers are Superior- The essay “Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior” by Amy Chua was published on “The Wall Street Journal” January 8, 2011. The topic of this text is Chinese parenting methods opposed to the western way of parenting. Within the first few lines it is very clear that Amy Chua has a different view on parenting than most traditional western parents. The title itself is a claim, and it sets the tone for how the essay is going to be. From the start we get the hint that this text will try to convince us, that Chinese parenting methods are superior. Amy Chua begins something that she claims is on a lot of people’s minds. The wonders about how Chinese parents are able to raise such successful kids. She then continues to saying that she can give the answer to these wonders, because she has done it herself. Amy Chua gives us a list of things that her daughters, were never allowed to do. This list seems, to us, unusual and maybe even mad. But to her, this is a necessity in her way of parenting. To her this is logical and is what must be done to get successful kids. In her list we see that not only are her children not allowed to get any grade less than A, but also they have to be the No. 1 student in every subject, except gym and drama. This put a really huge amount of pressure on her daughters. Amy Chua is an American lawyer, writer and legal scholar. She is the Professor of Law at Yale Law School. Amy Chua has two daughters Sophia and Louisa. The fact...
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...Shane by Angela Day “Shane” is a screenplay that was based on Jack Schaefer's 1949 book of the same name. The film is a classic western tale which is a very familiar and highly regarded in the western genre and the most successful Western of the 1950s and it is also a period piece since it is set in the late 1800’s. The film's rich color cinematography captures the beautiful environment of the frontier which was filmed on location in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, with the mountains as a backdrop. The location and the having been filmed in color is effective in telling the story and had it been done in black and white it would have lost some of the visual impact. This film received six Academy Award nominations including “Best Cinematography” and won one for photography. Many films since Shane have paid homage to the film and used a similar plot and theme. The film used technicolored panoramic angles to create a symbolic myth: the age old story of the duel between good and evil, the social conflict (with families, law and order, and homesteaders) the challenges faced in the era which included an implied love connection between Shane and Marion, lawless gunslingers, and a land-dispute conflict between a homesteader and cattle baron, and the coming of age of a young boy. The film is riddled with classic symbols and conflicts from the uprooting of the stubborn stump in the yard, Torrey's murder in the muddy street and his hilltop funeral, and the climactic finale...
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...Despite the fact that The Battle of Elderbush Gulch (1913) and Stagecoach (1939) were made in two separate generations, there is an immense amount of similarities. D.W. Griffith's silent film was produced in a short amount of time and had a low budget. John Ford’s talkie used innovative camera angles, music and conversation to drive plot and action. Although different stories, during the rising action, both films had settlers surrounded by shooting Indians and were saved at the last second by soldiers. Characters followed a pyramid of importance, where white men were held in the highest regard and Native Americans were seen as primitive savages. Starting at the bottom of the pyramid, there wasn't an individually unique Indian, always being seen in a group. By having Native Americans seen as a setting, it sharpened “the moral issues and dramatic conflicts for the white principles”. The Native Americans were woken up from being passed out drunk and were called to brutally attack the villagers of Elderbush Gulch. Similarly in Stagecoach, they were not seen until the climax but were a constant ever looming threat to the concerned white travelers. Even though the Indians initiated the attack towards the group of travelers in the stagecoach chase, they were portrayed as incompetent, not thinking of shooting the horses. Accuracy did not concern the directors when depicting the Plain Indians. Mexicans are above the destructive Native Americans, but are still below white people. Unlike...
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...John Ford’s The Man who Shot Liberty Valance is one of the greatest American films ever made, and certainly John Ford’s best, the only challenger to this title potentially being the quintessential western inversion, The Searchers. Many would classify The Man who Shot Liberty Valance as a western, and they, at first glance, would be correct to assume so: John Wayne, a gun fight, and a setting of the western territories. At further watchings, however, one can clearly see that The Man who Shot Liberty Valance is lacks the devices defining a film as a western, and shows the death of the “John Ford Western”: this is shown through the setting, the shots, and the overall plot and theme of the film. The Man who Shot Liberty Valance is about Ransom...
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...Number Three The world now a day seems to be split into mainly to worlds - The Western - and the eastern world. It appears to be the idea, in the western part, that people in for example China only are put into the world for ‘our’ delight. That all they should ever do is just work in factories or the tertiary sector and never granting them a single thought. It is this prevailing idea, and the biggest population on the earth, that gives the Chinese leaders a lust for power and a unique opportunity of taking advantages of the lower classes, making them work longer hours and paying them less. It is a great scenario moneywise for the Western firms because it is possible for companies to produce/submit their products to absurdly low prices. But who is affected when western people make extraordinary demands? In the short story ‘Number Three’ Anna Metcalfe (A.M.) tries to give one version of what happens when an employee, on the one hand, has a manager, whom the employee is scared of asking for help and thereby showing weakness, and on the other hand has a ‘customer’, whom the employee is trying to satisfy and comply with the demands there may come. In the short story, we are introduced to Miss Coral. She now lives in the city Chongqing in China. She was born and raised a few hundred miles in the country. In the story, she works as International Hostess for Number Three Middle School since the rival school had employed a “Real English Teacher”...
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...of the book revolves around Big ranchers, new comers, trying to take control over more of the west and taking it from cowboys, who have held control for many years. Many people within the industry did not like how much power the cowboys had, especially big ranchers. The cowboys band together and form a "union", ahead of its time and before any actual workforce unions had been established, against the push of the big ranchers. Elmer Kelton was born in Andrews, Texas with a population of 15,000. He was born raised on the Five Well Ranch, and adopted the culture very well, which could be one of the reasons he has successfully written many western novels. Kelton served in the United States Army from 1944-1946, serving in World War 2, which helped him portray a theme of courage throughout many of his novels. Elmer Kelton was downed the best western author of his generation. The book opens with a dispute, between Rascal McGinty and a Figure 4 member named Dayton Brumley, over a strayed cow that’s brand has faded and is no longer visible. Hitchcock was asked to be a neutral judge in determining who the cow belonged to. The other cowboys gravitated towards Hitchcock and followed him, mainly because of his character. After much debating and arguing Hitchcock concluded that the Cow belonged to Rascal McGinty and had been branded a LR. This fueled the Figure 4 cowboys, while the W cowboys were having supper around the campfire. A Figure 4 ranch manager rode up and began accusing them...
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...The first common western trope used in True Grit is the good guy vs. bad guy. In this film, there are several “good guys.” First, there is Rooster whom at first seems mysterious and cold. However, his bravery and nobility shine through as he rescues Mattie from the snake pit and and tirelessly carries her to safety after her horse falters. The other obvious good guy is LaBouef, who returns to helps to rescue both Mattie & Chaney towards the end of the movie. Our two protagonists spend the movie hunting down the “bad guys”, who in this film are Chaney (the heartless renegade who murdered Mattie’s dad), and Ned (his boss and fellow renegade). The second common trope used in this movie is a final showdown. In a grassy pasture, Rooster comes face...
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...G is the letter C with an L-shaped end stop. It’s the shape of a device welded onto many bridges to keep the girders from falling and breaking into pieces of concrete and twisted steel. Something shook inside my heart when I saw the handless vet. He crossed the stumps of his arms and cried, “Help me! I’m a vet.” He shivered as the clerks ushered him out of Starbucks on that December night. Then, a man wearing an Airborne cap led him back into the store. He bought the vet coffee and a sandwich. He gave him an old sweat-shirt. As the man in the hat stood guard, a woman approached them. She held her pumpkin latte topped with whipped cream and a drizzle of caramel. “It’s hopeless,” she told the kind man. She’s worked as a social worker in east...
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...Unforgiven is a 1992 American western film directed and produced by Clint Eastwood, who also starred in the lead role. This movie is interesting as it shows how people without power try to gain it. The acting was good and the movie exceptional. The movie is about William Munny, an aging outlaw and killer who takes on one more job years after he had turned to farming. Two cowboys disfigured a prostitute. The prostitutes got mad because the sheriff did not punished the two cowboys appropriately and the prostitutes decided to raise money and to punish the two cowboys the way they wanted. A lot of westerns are boring; usually with an exciting shoot out scene or two, but this one was slightly different. The story was full of excitement and perfectly...
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...The southwestern story reflects the larger western one—the powerful narrative of being drawn to a dream of paradise. The cowboy, dominant icon of the frontier myth, is primarily a Texas and southwestern figure. After the Civil War, when enterprising Texas veterans discovered their homes destroyed and herds of cattle roaming wild, they rounded up the cattle, beginning the trail drives of cowboy legend that lasted from about 1870 to 1895, when barbed wire, railroads, and economic declines ended trail driving. Still, the cowboy is internationally identifiable as an American symbol—an image of frontier freedom and independence. In Virgin Land, Henry Nash Smith traced cowboy narrative’s popularity in late nineteenth-century dime novels, reinforced...
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...“A cowboy lives in a world apart and has since the first herdsman climbed astride a horse, waved his hat and let out a yell, and chased down a stray”( McDowell 5). The cowboy was an American folk hero that many have portrayed like a modern knight, driven to conquer the wilderness and rescue people from evil. The film industry glamorized the cowboy’s life so much that they became known and loved in every community with a theater. The most significant qualities of the cowboy to the American people was their clothing, their real purpose, and abrupt demise.` In the decades after the Civil War and long before there were fenced ranches, ranchers would use the full open ranges of the western United States grasslands to allow their cattle to graze. Whether it was a herd of cows, horses, or goats, there was a propensity for these grazers to wander off into the wilderness. Therefore, a need arose creating an occupation whose title became known as the ‘cowboy’. The job description of this new found career was quite merely to herd cattle and prevent the animals from wandering astray or being devoured by predators. During the 19th century, 20 million cows were thrust into the infamous cattle drive headed to railheads and more extensive ranges to be sold for meat in order to help feed an expanding...
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