... not understand or care about the old customs and is embarrassed by her mother's traditionalism and somber attitude. She thinks of herself as American and adopts the culture that surrounds her. The differences between mother and daughter make it hard for them to really communicate. Jing-Mei cannot understand the suffering her mother has endured; and Suyuan cannot understand the frivolity of Jing-Mei. When Suyuan finally ... of her horrid past. The entire chapter highlights the theme of "Appearance vs. Reality." Ying-Ying, being a frightened woman herself, makes life appear fearful to her y...

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• Grade Level: High School

... human being: the African American, who links together the African and the American culture. The Crossing of the Ocean The crossing of the Atlantic Ocean is a very important phase of the Middle Passage. It includes a vast number of aspects and elements: the slave ship, the sense of community, the function of the sea, the horrible treatment and condition of life in the slave ship, moral and physical suffering, darkness and the violence towards the women slaves. "Voyage Through Death / To Life Upon these Shores" symbolizes the apex of the construction of the Middle Passage ... have exchang...

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• Grade Level: High School

... his friends) could be transformed from a promising, talented young man into a sociopathic terrorist. I then conducted structured one-on-one interviews with each of the nine informants. During these interviews I presented the concepts of Ivie and Ingram's perspectives on American exceptionalism, and the ideology we've evolved around our war on terror. The third phase of the study employed a group discussion, followed by individual final interviews. ... his fate. And when the second brother was apprehended and Boston College united in celebration, most informants recounted having strong fe...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... always agree.) The death of a martyr is routinely announced in the Palestinian press not as an obituary but as a wedding. ''The Wedding of the Martyr Ali Khadr Al-Yassini to the Black-Eyed in Eternal Paradise,'' said an invitation carried a few weeks ago in lieu of a death notice in Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, an Arafat-controlled paper. The same nuptial theme emerges in the eve-of-battle instructions ... from a columnist in Al Arabi, a weekly that speaks for the remnant of the old Arab nationalists: ''I cannot restrain my joy. For the first time in my life, I witness with my own eyes the defeat...

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• Grade Level: High School