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Amy Tan
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A 6 page paper which examines the life and the work of Amy Tan. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: RAamyt.rtf

Amy Tan - Her Life Like the Red Candle?
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Amy Tan – Her Life Like the Red Candle?: This 6-page essay examines Amy Tan’s short story, The Red Candle and how it can be seen to reflect passages from her own life. The award winning American author of The Joy Luck Club uses her prose to champion the cause of women from the East, and those from the Western World while citing their similarities. Bibliography lists 8 sources. SNAmytan.doc
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Amy Tan and Alice Walker
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A 4 page paper which examines the conflict between mother and daughter as seen in Amy Tan’s “Two Kinds” and Alice Walker’s “Everyday Use.” No additional sources cited.
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Amy Tan and Her Works
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An 8 page paper which discusses the author Amy Tan in relationship to what inspired her to write and how her writing has changed her life. The paper also takes two of her short essays/stories and compares then in relationship to thematic content. The short essays/stories are found in her work "The Hundred Secret Senses" and are titled "The Ghost Merchant's House" and "Young Girl's Wish." The work from which her personal information is derived is "Current Biography Yearbook 1992." No additional sources cited.
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Amy Tan and Nancy McCabe
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This 3 page paper discusses ways in which Amy Tan and Nancy McCabe found their strength and identity through adversity. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: HVTanNan.rtf

Amy Tan's "Rules of the Game"
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A 3 page essay on Tan's "Rules of the Game" in which the writer focuses upon the symbolic meaning of the book's title and its relevance to life and the human experience. A number of insightful points are made and the story's underlying meaning is thematically interpreted. No Bibliography.
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Amy Tan's "The Joy Luck Club" And Alexis De Tocqueville's "Democracy In America": Contrast
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5 pages in length. The primary difference between Amy Tan's "The Joy Luck Club" and Alexis de Tocqueville's "Democracy in America" is that they were written generations apart; other than that fact, however, each author effectively addresses the human ills associated with seeking emotional contentment and economic satisfaction. Found within these two books are specific portions dedicated to this particular aspect of humanity; for Tan, it is "Two Kinds," while for Tocqueville it is "Equality and Materialism." Delving deep into the recesses of Tan and Tocqueville's social conscious, one readily finds that while each author portrays many of the same idiosyncrasies that exist in both past and contemporary societies, they arrive from completely divergent origins. No additional sources cited.
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Amy Tan's "The Joy Luck Club": PsychologicalTheories/Perspectives
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10 pages in length. The presence of cultural heritage in Chinese-American life is not as significant as it once was, with the overall incorporation not being of high priority to the younger generations. One may readily surmise that this unexpected and often unwelcome secularism has virtually everything to do with the manner in which the passage of time becomes such a significantly painful occurrence for each mother's personal experience. The writer discusses psychological theories and perspectives, as well as the concept of age, as they relate to Amy Tan's "The Joy Luck Club." Bibliography lists 8 sources.
Filename: TLCjoylk.doc

Amy Tan's Two Kinds
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This 3 page paper provides an overview of the major theme of Amy Tan's Two Kinds, and relates the relationship between Jing-mei and her mother as it represents this theme. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: MHAmyTanTK.rtf

Amy Tan’s “Joy Luck Club” and the Mother-Daughter Bond in All Cultures:
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This 12 page report discusses the quest for personal identity that is so deeply interwoven in the relationship between mothers and daughters. The reason the Amy Tan book and its subsequent movie were so successful was the fact that those relationships served as examples of how women, young and old, strive to place themselves beyond the control of strong mothers and become individuals. Countless stories throughout history document the evolution of the mother-daughter relationship. In the twentieth (twenty-first) century, the stories have often been set in the context of developments in psychoanalytical and feminist theory. Of equal value, the stories of mothers’ and daughters’ understanding of one another in the context of their unique culture is important. Whether or not that culture is one of first and second generation immigrants or the differences between women born into different generations of the same fundamentalist religion, the relationship of mother and daughter transcends and defines all other relationships. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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