Women Liberation background of film The Joy Luck Club

In December 1968, the Students for a Democratic Society adopted a position paper on women at a National Council meeting. The “National Resolution on Women” states that, “Women are not oppressed as a class but they are oppressed as women within each class…(and) the fact that male supremacy persists in the movement today, raise the issue that although no people’s liberation can happen without a socialist revolution in this country, a socialist revolution could take place which maintains the secondary position of women in society. Therefore the liberation of women must become a conscious part of our struggle for people’s liberation.” From east to west, women’s liberation is affirmed theoretically as just class liberation: in the United States, it was linked to the movement to abolish slavery; in Europe it was linked to worker’s movements; in many third world countries, it has been linked with nationalist liberation; in the Soviet Union and China it was linked with socialist revolution. For almost western women, they have ideological basis for women’s liberation that they have had the desire for development blocked by their gender status are bound to set off an awakening of female subjectivity. However, Chinese women are the exception. They collectively have ignored and avoided this unavoidable stage on the road to women’s liberation. As the result, the Chinese women liberation is a long process of awakening. In the thousand year’s masculine domination society, the van guard oriental females escaped from old China to new west (especially in United States) thoroughly shed themselves as a snake sheds its skin with extreme pain. Finally, they welcome their new birth, new identity and new life. The Joy Luck Club is based on the bestseller written by Amy Tan describing the experiences of four women who emigrated from China to the United States. Each woman's story contains horrendous experiences in China and shows how those experiences affected their relationships with their American-born daughters.

Thoughts about class warfare

After learning about class warfare for almost a quarter,I do have some new thoughts about this whole idea.In the past I merely think the class warfare is only about hatred between the rich and poor.But While I doing research for my ARP paper,I found that class warfare is actually every where.It covers reputation, social status ,life quality and other people's judgment.Working class people envy the rich people can buy whatever they want.Upper class people wish themselves can have more free time like middle class people do.It is actually useless to complain about our social status because it is very hard to change it.What really matters is the way we think about our life and the people around us .For my PSA ,the nokia 7650 is relatively expensive for the working class people. It is like a symbol of classed romance and love that are not available to every one since not many people can afford the phone.Only some with enough money are able to get the chance to experience the special way to propose with their new cell phone.But for my perspective,it does not mean only rich people can show their love to each other. Working class and low-income people may be lack of money ,but they have their own way to create and maintain a pleasant and harmonious relationship with people around them just like the upper class do.There are also many simple moving romance that middle class people achieved .They may not be able to buy a big diamond for their girlfriends but they can spend a whole day with her sharing her secrets and accompany her when she feel lonely. It could be hard for them to buy a house for her as a gift,but helping her clean her room when she was busy also works in showing how much you care about her.If we can evaluate our life properly, we can all find how amazing it is .

Pop Culture and Class Warfare

Throughout the duration of English 110, my mind has been opened to many different perspectives on work and class and how the two are related to one another. In particular, in the process of choosing primary sources, seeing other peoples sources, and looking at blogs related to work and class has made me more aware of how pop culture and the media are able to both reflect and have an effect upon different social classes.

Although my primary source was a comedic sketch produced by Mad TV, there are so many of examples of pieces in which the media or pop culture sources portray class warfare. For example, advertisements, like the Levi’s ad we analyzed in class, are likely intended to appeal to the masses so companies can sell as many of their products as possible. However, they do so by using class association as a motivator. But, regardless of their intentions, advertisements and other forms of pop culture may also be having an influence into how classes interact with one another. The media is often scrutinized for sending negative implicit messages, especially toward children and teenagers—who are considered by critics to be more easily influenced—and the same holds true for class warfare.

I think that in investigating texts which deal with class warfare I have learned that there is an evident relationship between how individuals act and how pop culture portrays people to act in our society. The same holds true for the ways the media presents class, work, and the relationship between people of different social classes to the public. Therefore, I feel that it is important that we as individuals are aware of invested in what we are choosing to read, listen to, and watch, and the messages that our forms of entertainment are sending.

Commonplace essay

I think I will choose my ARP to develop my commonplace essay .My primary source is a video advertisement for Nokia 7650 cellphone . It is a extremely creative and fantastic advertisement that tells a romantic story about a young man takes photos all over the world with his nokia phone to propose to his girlfriend.
I belive this source is easy to develope and appeals to more audience.I will use my information and analysis in my ARP to finish mt essay.Based on my analysis about my primary source,I come up with two thesis.Firstly, I believe while it seems that everyone has own life patterns , the consumption choice and lifestyles of middle and working class people are deeply influenced , positively or negatively ,by the upper class 's way through different means.In addition,I also tend to concede that although it is true that the majority of people today communicate with each other by chatting online or texting through mobile phones,the way we express our feelings and emotion varies from different social class ,which shapes our unique characteristics and defined our identities..In my commonplace essay I think I will more focus on my first thesis since it is more close to middle class people's life and easy to attract people's attention. I will futher disscuss how this influence exist by showing more examples of people's life. I may also use my own experience to convince my audience to belive my thesis.And I am also going to show other middle class people's opinion about this phenomena and analysis it according to different social background.I hope I can make my essay more persuasive and appeal to people among different social status.

Commonplace Essay about films

I will derive a topic from my ARP essay for my commonplace essay. I am so interested in one of my secondary recourses that a black and white film Nanjing!Nanjing! directed by Chinese director Lu Chuan. The film is about one of a horrible and painful contemporary history of China during World War II, we call the war as Anti-Japanese War (1937-1945). The horrible memory is called Nanjing (Nanking) Massacre that a mass murder, genocide and war rape that occurred during the six-week period following the Japanese capture of the city of Nanjing, the former capital of the Republic of China, on December 13, 1937. During the massacre, at least 300,000 Chinese civilians and disarmed soldiers were murdered and 20,000–80,000 women were raped by soldiers of the Imperial Japanese Army. However, the cruel history is denied by Japanese government and major number of Japanese, especially young generation has nothing about this history because they never learnt it from their history text book. For my commonplace essay, I won’t use historical evidence to reveal the truth even I have already collected a mass of undeniable documentary evidence. Because there are a lot of scholars from China, Japan, US, German even all over the world are telling the truth to the public. I want to find out the relevant theme films which narrate the history, the truth and the disaster by using the artistic form, because film is a better way to reveal the truth and attract more people to concern the event. And my essay’s audience can be anyone who concerns this history or would concern it, no matter trusts it, doubts it or denies it, they could watch these films which I mentioned in my essay and think about what the films want to tell the audience. I hope after my essay, more and more people will pay attention to this history which cannot be concealed.

Commonplace Essay

For my Commonplace essay, I am planning to continue focusing on my primary source from my ARP, the Mad TV sketch "Bon Qui Qui at King Burger". "Bon Qui Qui at King Burger" is a sketch starring comedian Anjelah Johnson as a girl who works at a fast food restaurant as part of an "Out of the Hood Program". I feel that this will be an effective source as it will likely be relevant to an audience of college students; I know that many of my peers have seen the sketch, have watched Mad TV, or are at least aware of Mad TV and the manner of its humor. Additionally, some students may even be able to relate to Bon Qui Qui herself, as a young girl working in the fast food industry. (Perhaps I can also use the sketch as a jumping off point to discuss the relationship between young adults and work and, in particular, write about how so many young people work in food service.) Furthermore, I feel that the topic is timely because matters of health, the fast food industry, and ideas of human rights are things that are frequently discussed or debated upon, and I could tie those ideas into my essay.

I hope to use the analysis and research from my ARP and use that information to inform an audience of students about the different possible objectives Mad TV. I feel that, by bringing in information about the stereotypes that Mad TV presents in the sketch it may grab readers attention, make them think logically, and bring their emotions into play (whether it makes them angry, sad, or confused). This is important because it also relates to what the Commonplace guide taught us about pathos, logos, and ethos. Although writing for ones peers is a somewhat daunting prospect, I am looking forward to writing in a less formal and more persuasive manner.

Blog Post #7

Throughout the course of English 110, I feel my writing has improved a great deal, primarily because I have been challenged to think more critically in each step of the writing process. Doing readings and discussions based on Writing Analytically has lead me to really think about all perspectives a text could be coming from; even something as simple as identifying the pitch, complaint, and moment of a piece has made a significant impact on what I write and how I write. Additionally, I feel that I have really developed a skill to analyze a text and discuss it in depth.

One thing I feel I struggled with that I hope to improve in my ARP is developing the relationship between my secondary sources. It may be somewhat difficult to acheive because my secondary texts address different issues within the topics that my primary source brings up. Additionally, I feel I need to pay more attention to relevancy and how a text relates (and conveys messages) to its audience. I also hope to focus on improving the structuring of my paper by ensuring that when discussing the texts I have chosen, I am still focusing on my thesis statements and arguments.

Because I feel I struggled a bit more with my SSI than my PSA, I have decided to begin by improving and extending my PSA by drawing in information from my SSI, and looking for further information from my secondary sources that relate to the arguments I made in my PSA. I also feel this will make it easier for me to discuss the relationship between my two secondary sources by addressing them side-by-side with my primary source.