White Tiger By Jane Donawerth

Being culturally proficient means that you are able to effectively respond to issues that arise from diversity in many cultural settings (Lindsey, Robins, & Terrell, 2009). A person's level of cultural can be described using the Cultural Proficiency Continuum (Lindsey et al, 2009). In the book White Teacher, the author Vivian Gussin Paley, explores her experiences as a teacher and how these experiences helped her gain cultural proficiency and move upwards on the cultural proficiency continuum.

One of my favorite things in any type of literature is the setting. I love how the setting can change and how the characters change with it. I also enjoy how the setting can give insight to how the author was feeling and thinking while writing. Settings also help develop the themes of the work and provide the reader with the ability to understand the story. I have found that I am draw towards stories of which are set in the natural world. I think this is mostly due to my love of nature and the outdoors.

This analysis will focus on femininities and masculinities of gendered ideals and their alternative outcomes of the short story “Woman Hollering Creek” by Sandra Cisneros. In this short story we have the protagonist by the name of Cleófilas whose father has agreed to let Juan Pedro Martínez Sánchez take his daughter for a bride. Cleófilas is a traditional Méxican women and her husband was from “the other side”, Texas. Juan Pedro Martínez Sánchez later becomes her abusive, unfaithful husband. “Woman Hollering Creek” recreates the representation of La Llorona except in this story the mother does not drown her children and she does not cry in search for her dead children. Instead it highlights alternative possibilities for women when she encounters Felice, and Graciela who act as new role models for Cleófilas, and help her escape the hardships of her marriage.

The central idea from “Desiderata” by Elizabeth McCracken is communicated through facts, examples, anecdotes, and observations. For instance, in her first sentence, McCracken provides a definition, which is a type of fact. This supporting detail is so important because it leads to the central idea of the selection. It does so by providing the meaning of desiderata. Next, McCracken states an example; I come from a family strong on documents. This will help to show how the author communicates her central idea and even give background information to help support why McCracken thought what she thought. To illustrate, McCracken uses anecdotes, brief stories that illustrate a point, to help show the central idea. She writes about her sisters and

I recently read the book White Fang by Jack London. The story is a work of realistic fiction and it tells the story of a wolf as he grows up from a pup. It is a story of maturing and how life affects you as you grow. It tells of the strife something must experience as it grows in the wild. This story is considered a classic among many people and it is written in the traditional style.

The Oxford dictionary defines a leader as “the position or function of a leader, a person who guides or directs a group of others.” Qualities of a good leader include, but are not limited to: being honest, fair, having good communication skills, having intuition, and so much more. Everyone has a different sense as to how they demonstrate leadership; whether it be within the household, the workplace, or even in politics; we see it everywhere. In Amy Chua’s, The Battle Hymn of Tiger Mother, she demonstrates her leadership qualities throughout her book in to how she chooses to raise her children vs. “western-style” of parenting. She takes on a very

The article “Why Chinese Mothers are Superior” is an excerpt of Amy Chua’s book, The Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, which was published in the Wall Street Journal on January 8, 2011. In this article, Chua argues that Chinese parents raise their kids better compare to Western parents. Their extremely strict parental techniques result in their kid’s academic accomplishments and success. Chua’s strict parental method puts too much pressure on kids and it takes away their freedom to express themselves, therefore, Chua’s parenting approach is completely wrong. Kids need their parents to be loving and supportive of their choices, rather than being critical and controlling. Amy Chua is a Lawyer and author. Currently, she is

The Civil War was a pivotal event in American history. It drastically changed the American outlook on life and liberty, while also being the bloodiest wars in American History. The Civil War also inspired authors to write about the war. One of the most famous of these authors is Stephen Crane, whose The Red Badge of Courage depicted the war from the eyes of a common soldier, Henry. Crane uses Henry and the setting of the Battle of Chancellorsville to accurately depict the Civil War in all its brutality. In Red Badge of Courage, Stephen Crane shows a unique perspective on the true nature of war, both physically and mentally, by graphically depicting war both through the setting and through the point of view of Henry and his comrades, thusly making Crane a true historical writer.

The White Tiger by Avarind Adiga is a satire on the reality of India and the life of the people who live there. The author’s intent is to illustrate the darker side to India that is not part of the original Western idea of India. Issues such as corruption in government and the police and sexual violence are highlighted in this novel. Although this work is realistic fiction the issues presented in this novel are relevant and are present in India today. Newspapers such as the Guardian and the New York Times cover the issues of violence, corruption, and poverty which is present in India. Therefore to break out of the perpetual cycle of poverty and injustice violence and corrupt means are used.

If you loved someone would you rather have them dead or marry someone else? In The Lady or The tiger by Frank R. Stockton there is a princess who is in love with a commoner. Her father, the king, found out and put him into jail. He was sent to trial where if he opened one door he’d be married to a stranger or the other would unleash a hungry tiger to kill him. The princess knew which door had which outcome and led him towards one. One perspective is that the princess led the man to the door with the tiger. Another perspective is that she led him to the door with his new wife. While arguments can be made that she led him to the lady, it is more conceivable that she led him to the tiger.

The Lady? The tiger? Who came out you may be wondering? Was it the beautiful maiden or the blood thirsty tiger. In the short story “The lady or the tiger” by Frank Stockton, a man’s fate was tested.

If a person doesn’t want to be an insignificant ordinary sand in perpetuity, then try hard to be a resplendent star. In the short story “Tiger mom” by Annie Murphy, Paul and “Two Kinds” by Amy Tan, both of Amy’s mother and Amy Chua hope their children will have a bright future, but Amy Chua was born in the USA also raised in the USA. Despite Amy’s mother is compelled to leave China because of the chaos caused by war and afterwards she immigrated to the United States. Firstly, Amy’s mother yearned Amy to be a prodigy likewise Amy Chua desires her daughter to be a successful person in the future, therefore Amy’s mother sign up the piano class.

“The Fish” by Elizabeth Bishop is a very colorful poem filled with lots of different outcomes than our usual expectations. The poem is very symbolic through its use color and the fish it describes. The poem is also written in free verse, which you could relate to the nature of the fish. It is set on a boat in the middle of the ocean, with the ocean symbolizing chaos, the nature of the poem.

The debut fiction novel ‘The White Tiger’ by Aravind Adiga provides a dark, humorous perspective of the class struggles that exist in India. The novel is based on the life of village boy Balram Halwai who narrates the difficult problems that exist in Indian society for the ordinary citizen. The book is written from his point of view as a letter addressed to Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, and it highlights the problems that Balram has experienced throughout his life. The letter paints a grim picture of the lives of people living within the lower social classes because they are constantly discriminated against by the elite in society.

The text I have decided to do a critical review on is “The Celtic Tiger: the myth of social partnership in Ireland” written by Kieran Allen. In this book Kieran looks at how the Celtic Tiger brought wealth and opportunity, but also talks about the majority of people in Ireland at the time of The Celtic Tiger who did not share the same experience, and did not gain anything in wealth. At this time Ireland was going through increases in salaries, there was now a rise in sales, a productivity increase, these were all due to US investments because they believed that there would be tax cuts. During this time the social services in the country were growing weaker and were failing, and also the quality of life was deteriorating. Due to the lack of effort put into public transport to make it more efficient and well organised, this made towns and cities all over the country suffer a lot of traffic congestion, also 150,000 individuals were left looking