The title is important in telling us about the power and status of women in Chinese and Chinese- American society because it seems as if they’re not important in this excerpt. The fact that the grandmother has no name tells us about her status and power in Chinese society that all women are considered unvalued and worthless. In the grandmother’s life, she didn’t seem important by mistakes she made. This story tells us about the power relationships between men and women as if men have the say in everything they want in their women. For instance, what’s right and wrong, like the women have no voice or no control in taking action! The presence and roles of mothers and fathers/ grandmothers and grandfathers in the lives of children and adults are the adults  are teaching their beliefs on the right and wrong doings. The children must obey their adults.

The narrator’s fantasies tell us the status and power of young contemporary Chinese women are useless and taken over. The narrator’s own status and power within the Chinese American context is the experience towards Chinese American’s from year’s past and probably from his parents and his grandparents. Meaning, how the narrator’s experience being Chinese American is still present or on her mind. In both societies I believe men and older generations define the role in women. The story generally says women and girls in both cultures are valued by each society as slaves to me because these men just take over women.

Extension: I relate to the themes and issues in the story because I have seen a movie and a documentary of Chinese men dominating their women as in having all the control over them. The world of the narrator’s isn’t that much different from my world. Themes in the story are universal because people today have the same beliefs as their parents and grandparents.

From psychology we can learn how people differently think and how it affects them. How they’re emotions symbolize them. It’s psychological appeal to viewers are how their mind can control actions and beliefs. The characters in this T.V. show that there past memories can take over how they think and what they want to do for their present and future. I think the psychological issues this show explores is to find each character’s identity as they move on while their High School senior year comes to an end.

Two characters in the show, Peyton and Brooke are great examples who give us an example of the unconscious because they both have a past that traumatizes them in their present and both believe they’re future won’t be at their best because of that past. They pretty much sell there selves short. I think the author constructed the mains texts to be a representation of the unconscious to show that everyone goes through this phase on a daily basis. Desires are represented in a text by the characters wanting love and what they want their present and future to look like, perfect. The desires give these characters a sense of hope dream of whatever they want to be and do whether it’s a fashion designer, NBA player, being in love, to be rich and powerful, to be a parent, to die, etc. In just in general, live life to the fullest.

There are conflicts and dynamics that arise of Oedipal/ Electra complex in a character because some character’s parents abandoned them, had an affair, died in an accident and cancer, etc. Some characters realize they don’t get the attention they’ve wanted. Lastly, dreams are an aspect of the text. They’re used by their reason of struggle and what their conscious depicts. It cures/ improves past and recent conflicts. The unconscious reveals many emotions, hopes, wishes inside and out. They’re used to show how people think and act by what they’re mind, heart, and feelings tell them.

 

 

I do agree with what this article is saying, because I am one of these American high school students at 17 years old, often only taking about 4 hours of sleep. What I think about this article is that their studies show that students do care about what they’re doing daily than 8-10 hours of sleep, and I can connect because I care more about getting my work done than having few hours of sleep. It just surprises me that my school isn’t the only concern here. I’m glad that this article provided concern for their students’ health and that sleep is important to have for us teenagers. I do believe my sleep is important, but getting things done and pursuing my dreams get me to success- my dreams are more important than sleep. Also, this article argues that we are preparing for the real world situations, adult too only get 4-6 hours of sleep. It says that many star students attending universities aren’t able to cope with minor setback, doesn’t this include sleeping too? This is because they don’t have enough sleep. How can we really fix this situation? By getting less homework, less distractions, managing time. Us students need support on all these things. Can this also be the way students are eating too? What if they’re skipping meals…. Children shouldn’t be pulled back because of health concerns, it’s not fair. Students do deserve wiggle room/ time to get their work done but there health does come first overall because that’s how students truly learn, by having themselves physically and mentally focused in any case scenario. I’m glad that this article was published because now people know how most students in America feel and what they’re really up to.

I have currently been reading my first SSR book in Ms. Engel’s class. So far I like the book. I connect with these teenagers thinking about their futures like: looking for colleges, dating and finding the one to marry, and going on social media especially Facebook. The teenagers in this book see a website of Emma, a future Emma and this web page is most accurate. I pay more attention to the teens choosing and finding who they want to date and what college they finally get accepted to attend.

An example from the text is a list, “Emma’s Top College Choices

1. Tampa State
2. University of North Carolina at Wilmington

University of California at San Diego ” (page 129).

I think Emma is in a pretty good spot. Right now, I’m undecided of what colleges I want to. There are so many choices, but not a lot to know which one I would prefer specifically for me. Some colleges are too far or too close, to common or too hard too get into. I want to attend a college I want to be able to call home and I’ll be very satisfied to be and learn from.

This text stood out to me the most,” Come to think of it,any person who was impacted by their relationship, even in the slightest way, will be twisted in countless new direction,” (page 132). I had to read this a few times to understand what this meant, but I think the narrator, Josh(one of main characters) meant relationships impact different paths or different perspectives to others.