The Good Daughter by Caroline Hwang is an essay about the author’s identity and dual culture as an American and her ethnicity as a daughter of Korean immigrants. She starts her anecdote with her trip to the dry cleaning store wherein she met a woman who is also of Korean ethnicity. She tried to identify herself as a fellow American-Korean by doing a customary Korean greeting. When the woman asks Caroline her name‚ she is inclined to ask if she is Chinese. The reason being is because Caroline mispronounces
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They have the cultural gap with their original cultural heritage. This essay called ’The good daughter’ written by CARoline Hwang is about the Korean girl Hwang’s endeavor to make herself fulfill the need of her personal recognition in American society and what impacts the procedure has made on her life And personal character. Firstly‚ cultural gap makes Hwang hard to understand others and herself. Though Hwang has lived in America
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02/15/2011 The Good Daughter By: Caroline Hwang Caroline Hwang’s essay is a perfect example of someone expressing his/her feeling and sending the message out that growing up between two different cultures is a difficult life style to live. I can relate with Hwang when she says ‘children are living paradoxes’; it reminds me a lot about
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or education. In Caroline Hwang’s essay defiantly her parent wants the best for her‚ but the need to give her advices and let here make her Owen choices‚ like what she wants to be or who she wants to married. As we all know the Korean parents don’t give the kids Independent at all‚ and they can’t decide what they want to do in their life. As a parent I want the best for my kids. I feel for Carolin’s parents wants the best for her too‚ however it always good to teach you kids everything
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In the case‚ Caroline Weese‚ the CIO of North American Financial‚ was in a bind with the head executives and it was her time to present to them her justification of the IT budget. The executives didn’t see the value in the IT investments after pouring millions of dollars into it‚ and was looking to Caroline to answer the problem. Caroline had great IT management that followed every standard that ensured IT processes were efficient‚ cost effective‚ and on par with industry regulations‚ but had no
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Both son and daughter are a blessing for the parents. It is a fact that the strongest and the most sincere love exists in the relation of the parents and their children. No child is born good or bad‚ it is the qualities he/she adopts with the passage of time that make him/her stand good or bad. A good son or a good daughter would be obedient to his parents. It is religious obligation‚ a social norm and an indication of refined behaviors and a peaceful family set up for the children to be obedient
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Hwang (play) At first when I read the play I was surprised to complexity of both the characters. Benjamin is a Caucasian Asian American‚ and Ronnie is a fully assimilated Asian American both has different ideas of race. Benjamin sees race as something we learn from our environment that we were brought up in and not just our looks. While Ronnie sees heritage as mostly the features we have and not just what we learn about our races history. I have been mistake for many different races based
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Caroline Chesebro’ was a novelist‚ storyteller‚ and teacher‚ who was one of the female writers of the genre of domestic fiction during the 19th century. Her real name is Chesebro’ is her pen name‚ and her real name is Caroline Chesebrough. Born in Canandaigua‚ Ontario County‚ in New York‚ she was raised by her mother‚ Betsey Kimball Chesebrough and father‚ Nicholas G. Chesebrough. Her relationships with her parents and her seven other siblings are not clear- there are not much information that could
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influenced by the society around them. That fact is why some nice parents don’t have good children‚ or some people are good sons or daughters even though their parents are bad. A good son or daughter should have certain qualities. Being hard working‚ sympathetic‚ and respectful of parents are the most important qualities of a good son or daughter. First of all‚ a good son or daughter should be a hard working person. A good child usually makes parents happy‚ and parents are happy when their children
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the important qualities of a good son or daughter? Have they changed or remained the same over time in your culture? Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer. Within a family‚ children have their own roles including their behavior‚ their rights and their responsibilities. As to respond to these roles children are expected to obey as well as to be helpful and willing. It is really important for the family structure‚ the sons and the daughters to have the quality of obeisance
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