Therefore most Korean mothers experience difficulty when expressing of their own feelings and conveying to others anything they wish to communicate. ... A child can feel that a parent "doesn't speak my language," a metaphor for "you don't understand my ambitions or the pressures I face... Furthermore, this cultural difficulty is enhanced by the halt of the Korean mothers own cultural development, this can add complication to the understanding of their children's culture. ... However, children have learned their own culture naturally, whereas their mothers are trapped between the...

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Protestant and American Dream The Americans for a long time are proud of their American Dream, that is, one can move towards Prosperity through their own hard work, courage, creativity and determination, rather than rely on specific social classes and other assistance. ... American dream has been mentioned in many literary masterpieces; Self-made, self-invented millionaire Jay Gatsby embodies some of Fitzgerald's--and his country's--most abiding obsessions: money, ambition, greed and the promise of new beginnings. ...

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From reading the poem, it's clear that the narrator left his family to pursue an identity of his own, and the first line of the poem suggests that he isn't happy about having to return home out of obligation as the oldest child. ... Now, it seems that she has the ambition to do those things again and cannot, because of health reasons or the fear of breaking social norms. ... Likewise, one would assume that the man's son would be expected to become a farmer in his own adulthood. ... The father in this piece appears to want a different path for his son, one in which he has the abi...

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He was the "first great self made millionaire whose career was made off of the ambitions of young Americans."... In addition to exploiting Native Americans, Astor succeeded in forcing his employees in the western wilderness to buy from company owned stores at exorbitant prices (Meyers 1936; Rugoff 1989). This showed his own unwaveringness for his own people. ... Suppressed by Roman, Byzantine, Arab, Norman, and Spanish, in addition to being exploited by mostly absentee landlords with their armies, Sicilians had learned to survive by relying on the strength of their own families. ... They had b...

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The American Revolution is not only significant to the United States as for Australia it marks the beginning of their own history where Britain's supremacy tries to take over other nations and influence their political ideologies upon them. ... In 1764, Britain passed a law known as the Currency Act, preventing the colonies to print and use their own money. ... Push came to shove as both colonists and imperialists belatedly recognized the contradiction, long overlooked, between the growth in imperial ambition and the persistence of colonial autonomy." 3 In October 1765, nine out of thi...

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