Throughout the readings for Tuesday’s class, there was a common theme of women. The three stories in Ha Jin’s, The Bridegroom, and the short reading in the GHS reader all shared insight into the cultural views on women in Chinese society. The GHS reader discussed how a woman should always have the best interests of …
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Different Music Tastes
I really liked exploring the idea of how different genres of music may sound the same to one person while also being diverse and interesting to another and why that may be. I think that Professor McGrath input that was along the lines of “with familiarity comes noticing those kinds of differences” helped me better …
Class Discussion 10/1/19
Privacy is one ideal talked about in these stories. There is a loss of/ lack of privacy discussed in these stories. In America we value and have the right of privacy, while there is a lack of privacy in China in these stories. We don’t go to prison for affairs, but Chinese do. It is …
Wu Zetian
As I read about the role of woman in Han China, and their role in the household according to Confucius teachings. I always laugh and think of just how rebellious of traditionalism in China Wu Zetian was. There seems to be no aspect of Chinese history she does not counter with her tale. She did …
The Bridegroom: Alive
As I saw someone else comment in a blog, I really enjoy reading the stories in The Bridegroom. I find them interesting and easy to understand. The story “Alive” had some intriguing (and somewhat sad) twists and turns throughout the short plot. The main character, Guhan, was very hardworking as well as loyal to his …
Readings and Video for class 10/1/19
For today’s readings and video that we were assigned, I found a common theme: the dislike/mistreatment of women. In both the stories of “Bridegroom” and “Broken” along with the documentary, there were several comments made about women including saying things about their appearance, sexuality, and their basic self-worth. During the documentary, a woman talked about …
Marriage Reading
After reading, “Alive” I felt confused. He loses his family and gains a new one. He seems to have bonded with his new wife and her son and he wants to have a baby with her. Then when he regains his memory, he leaves to go back to his old life. He devastated two families. …
“Flame” and Our Society Today
Overall, I thought “Flame” was an interesting story with similarities and differences to our society today. In both the story and our society, we tend to want to present ourselves in a better light. This is seen through social media and pop culture. People use photoshop on both their social media and in pictures of …
Helping at Nur-Allah
Today, Anna P., Lauren B., and I went to do our first official service day at the Nur-Allah Mosque. On Sunday’s, we will be helping out with the Sunday school program. The Sunday school program has about ten children enrolled and on Sunday’s the children will learn about Islam, they will pray, and they will …
Are people innately good or innately bad?
Looking back on Tuesday’s class, I continued to wonder whether or not we are innately good, or innately bad. I found an article that talks about a study done at Yale University. In this experiment, the researchers were trying to get a better idea of whether or not humans are innately good though a study …
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