The Joy Luck Club is a story about four Chinese friends and their daughters. ... June sat at the East where it all starts "The Joy Luck Club-. ... She is moved to realize this dream, that she is not even aware of the potential bad outcomes. ... Another symbol in the Joy Luck Club happens between Ying- Ying and Lena. ... In China Ying- Ying was married to a bad man who was what she dreamed for, but ended up to be very bad. ...

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Oy luck Book Vs Movie Rough Draft In the novel, The Joy Luck Club, by Amy Tan, it tells of four Chinese women drawn together in San Francisco to play mah jong, and tell stories of the past. ... The first member of the Joy Luck Club to die was Suyuan Woo. ... Ying-ying St Clair, according to the book, was married at an early age and referred to her husband as a "bad" man. ...

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I am very superstitious so I to have a good luck charm. ... As far as my good luck charm, it is a dollar bill that my grandmother gave to me. ... When Henry's girlfriend broke up with him, his war friends felt that his "good luck charm" would no longer give him good luck and they feared that they would no longer be safe. ... Bad luck for the pals he has left behind?" ... Like I said in the beginning, I am very superstitious person and I do believe in good luck (Stockings) and bad luck (The Third Thing That Killed My Father Off.) ...

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"The Joy Luck Club," by Amy Tan, is about four mothers and four daughters talking about their relationships sharing key points in their lives. ... Clair was always over imaginative and "could see the bad in everything"." ...

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This shows a child that his father or mother is "bad" in the eyes of the other parent, and the child, as an extension of the first parent, feels "bad" too. ... Paul's mother tells him that they are the poor members of the family because, as mentioned before, his father had no luck. She defines luck as what causes one to have money, and states that she is not lucky either. Paul announces at this point that he is lucky, and begins to search for the secret to luck. ... Paul's driving force is his desire to attain luck in order to please his mother. ...

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Lawrence's short story, Master Paul rides his rocking horse to find "luck". ... You might have money and luck, but money eventually does go away. ... Master Paul found his happiness through his luck. ... Paul went through a major part of his life looking for love through luck, and only receiving the short-term luck. The mother, in the short story, gains the winnings of Paul's gambling but loses her son: My God, Hester, you"re eighty-odd thousand to the good, and a poor devil of a son to the bad. ...

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The family lives of the characters from Nights Below Station Street and Joy Luck Club demonstrate that children's behavior is directly affected by the misunderstanding of their parents" love for them. ... She tells her friend, "Joe's a big stupid drunk [ ] Too bad, but that's the way it is- I never mention her as you can see- but it looks pretty grim"(11). ... In the second section of Joy Luck Club, the problem of communication and lack of understanding between mothers and daughters is emphasized. ...

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This is the period, people welcome a new coming year with good health, lucks and success. ... One of the important thing is everyone try to pay off their debts since we believe that debts remain from old year to new one is considered bad lucks. ... People go to the pagodas, temples, and church to pray for good lucks. ...

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Dolly The first time we are introduced to Dolly she is in the company of a Catalina pilot with her dress up and his belt undone. This demonstrates her promiscuous and immoral nature. "She liked the stink of salt. Right now, with the rime of sex on her, she smelt of sex herself. Oh, those Yanks are...

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It is a ritual that tells us that people with "bad eyes" can cause a negative influence on the child. By people with "bad eyes" we mean people who are jealous. Also, Russians don't buy any baby clothing until the baby is born because we believe it is bad luck. On the other hand, Americans are free of any bad or good luck beliefs. ... For example, if a wife comes back home in late hours and neighbors see her, they start talking about her in a bad manner. ...

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May is reserved for the veneration of the Virgin Mary and August was thought to invite bad luck and sickness. ... Some superstitions still believed in today by many include the following: o When entering someone's home, always leave through the same door you cam in from, otherwise you will have bad luck o Never put a new pair of shoes on the kitchen table o Put brand new shiny coins on the window sill before midnight on New Year's Eve- place them heads up for good luck o Bury a mini plastic statuette of St. ...

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Adeline was always know as bad luck ever since she was born, because of her mothers death she was treated poorly by her siblings and her father. After her father married "Niang" she turned out to despise Adeline and treat her like an outcast from all the time she knew Adeline. Adeline had...

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In Bed by Joan Didion Vital Concern--The vital concern of the poem is what I feel Joan came to realize, accept and anticipate. It is the fact that she appreciates her migraines, She uses them to flush out her tempers, attitudes and wrong doings that occur in her average week. Inform--In the ...

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"Then what is luck, mother?" ... Paul rocking-horse, was the key element to getting his "luck". ... The uncle's words of hypocorism, subsequent to his bid: "My God, Hester, you"re eighty thousand to the good, and a poor devil of a son to the bad. ...

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And the mussel dreams that of all the mussels in the world for some reason, for some bad luck reason or other, he was chosen for this awful adventure."" (587). Lou seems to connect her mussel to her own life, considering her family to have been pried apart and what bad luck she has received. ...

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Bastard out of Carolina was a heartbreaking story about a child Ruth Anne or "Bone" rather. "Bone" a nickname given to Ruth Anne at birth because her uncle thought she was no bigger than a knucklebone when she was born. Bone was lucky that she was even born in the first place, after experiencing a t...

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She was always in debt and blamed their poverty on the father for the unluckiness, as it's demonstrated like this: "...she said slowly and bitterly, "it's because your father has no luck"". ... It shows that he cared the money more after he died as it's demonstrated: "My God, Hester, you"re eighty-odd thousand to the good, and a poor devil of a son to the bad." ...

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Widowed Loretta Castorini (Cher) feels she has bad luck because she eloped instead of a Catholic Church wedding, so she agrees to marry a man she does not love, Johnny Cammareri (Danny Aiello). ... At the kitchen table Cosmo replies, "A man understands one day that his life is built on nothing, and that's a bad, crazy day" (Gardenia, V. 1987). ... "Haven't spoken in five years" (Aiello,D. 1987) as he looks at his left and cringes; "there is some bad blood.... After a conversation of life, loss of love and luck, they end up sleeping together. ...

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We had called my uncle that morning to wish him luck and that we would see him close to the finish line. ... The whole time I just had my eyes closed, praying that nothing bad was going to happen. ... I knew that something bad was happening but I didn't know how serious it was. ... My mom finally got a hold of my uncle and he said that he was on his way back to the finish line when he felt the explosions and just started running away from it all cause he could tell it was something bad. ...

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"My Grandmother, she was a horse woman too, born like me in the Chinese year of the horse- which is supposed to be bad luck if you are born a female- but I think this is a Chinese lie because the Chinese, like the Mexicans, don't like their women strong."... All are strong women, some are just cursed with their bad choices, or just dealt the wrong hand. ...

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Her main finding was that parents of normal children attributed their successes as ability and their failures as bad luck. In contrast, parents with mentally handicapped children attributed their successes to luck and failures to lack of ability. ...

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Another time is when Edmund has a bad experience with a crow in the day so later that night Charles places a stuffed crow on Kingshaw's bed " Kingshaw lay stiff, and did not scream he was dry and faint with fear of the thing . ... At once he knew that he had pushed his luck . ...

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The purpose of Upton Sinclair's The Jungle was to bring the grim conditions of Chicago's meatpacking industry and its workers to the American public's attention. After Sinclair was commissioned to investigate labor conditions in the Chicago stockyards he wrote about his observations in The Jungle. ...

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MY IRISH HERITAGE Five generations ago my ancestors, John and Mary Coin, journeyed to America, leaving behind their homeland of Knockbraugh, Ireland. A few years later, my Great, Great Grandparents, Patrick and Maryanne O"Toole, made their way to America and joined their parents in North Braddoc...

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We get out walk probably three quarters of a mile down a fence row, sat down and called for coyotes with no luck, the whole time the wind is blowing unusually hard. ... Also I guess that I myself am a lot like the child in the story, never really saying dad this is a bad idea, but always ready to say HA that was dumb I knew that was going to happen. ...

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