In the essay "Two Cheers for Examinations," author and former English teacher Professor Joy Alonso focuses primarily on the need of examinations in the realm of education. As a response to a debate about the effectiveness of examinations Alonso puts together a paper to persuade the reader that examinations are important; however, her essay is not wholly effective to persuade the reader. The author emphasizes thoroughly on the positive sides of examinations though she also cites few examples revealing the negative side of the process of examination. Going through the essay a reader can definitely understand that Alonso, throughout her essay, has remained inclined towards proving the worth of examinations as a tool for evaluation and as a means for stimulation. With proper logical approach, the author is able to make the readers understand that if examinations have the power to determine which student is progressing academically and which student is not, then they also have the power to infuse within a student an urge for reading and learning to prepare the self for scoring good grades. Alonso points towards the fact that examinations often serve the students and their parents by providing them with the knowledge of where they are standing academically or where there wards are standing from the academic perspective, respectively. Alonso also points out that examinations are tools for evaluating the teachers too because at the end the teachers, in the post exam phase, are able to determine whether they taught their students properly or not. Also, Alonso points out that examinations both compel and motivate students to study and this stimulation is needed on the part of the students not only to succeed in examinations but also to acquire a proper knowledge in the subjects which they are studying in their academic course. .
Alonso establishes the positive sides of examinations, but she also reflects upon the negative ones too.
English 305 Asian-American Film The Joy Luck Club A Semiotic Critique The Joy Luck Club as an exercise in semiotic critique. ... So, as a white American male I am going to deal with the realism in The Joy Luck Club. ... Conclusion I realize I have focused mainly on the good points of The Joy Luck Club. ... The Joy Luck Club is aimed at women. ... Cheers, Mr. ...
Everyone's usual good spirits seem to be destroyed by the dread and excitement of examination time. ... We go into the examination classroom as if we were guilty and waiting for the final judgement. ... We receive the examination questions from that in terror. ... At the moment there are shouts of joy. No matter whether our answers are right or wrong, we just leave everything behind and prepare for the next examination. ...
The main theme of the poem is the contrast between these preceding images and customs, the world we are living in today, and the dramatic passage between the two. Joy Kogawa is known not only for her writing but also for her involvement with Japanese-Canadian activism groups. ... Joy and her family were sent to an internment camp by the Canadian government in 1941, where they spent several years of manual labor. ... Much of Joy's material centers on her heritage and life history, individual identity and cultural diversity. Joy has now written a number of novels, poems and essays -...
There are three characters I choose to talk about and they are Antonio, Alonso and Gonzalo.Antonio is considered a savage. While on the other hand Gonzalo and Alonso are considered civilized people. ... Alonso is the civilized King of Spain and Ferdinand's father who twelve years prior to being shipwrecked on the island, aided Antonio in his plot to set out Prospero. ... This quotation proves that Alonso is a very civilized person because he does not like to blame people on something that they did not do or putting the blame on someone else. ... While on the other hand Gonzalo and Al...
Summary of Joy luck club Jing-mei Woo's mother and father, Suyuan and Canning Woo, emigrated from China to live in San Francisco in 1949. Suyuan revived the Joy Luck Club, a weekly mahjong party she began in Kweilin, China. ... Suyuan created the Joy Luck Club with three other women to escape the fear and uncertainty of the war. ... Two months after Suyuan dies of an aneurysm, Canning asks Jing-mei to take Suyuan's place in the Joy Luck Club. ... Jing-mei is relieved when her first Joy Luck Club party dies down. ...
The Joy Luck Club "Hey, Sabrina, are you Japanese or Chinese?" ... That hope was our only joy." (p. 12) Really, this was their only joy. ... (p. 42) Towards the end of the book, there is a definite line between the differences of the two generations. Lindo Jong, whose daughter, Waverly, doesn't even know four Chinese words, describes the complete difference and incompatibility of the two worlds she tried to connect for her daughter, American circumstances and Chinese character. ...
Joy Luck Club: Nationality "Hey, Sabrina, are you Japanese or Chinese?" ... That hope was our only joy." (p.12) Really, this was their only joy. ... (p. 42) Towards the end of the book, there is a definite line between the differences of the two generations. Lindo Jong, whose daughter, Waverly, doesn't even know four Chinese words, describes the complete difference and incompatibility of the two worlds she tried to connect for her daughter, American circumstances and Chinese character. ...
This however is not the case when comparing Amy Tan's novel The Joy Luck Club alongside Wayne Wang's film adaptation. ... Yet, the need for entertainment does not threaten Tan's already entertaining and captivating Joy Luck Club. ... There are only one or two scenes in the entire movie that show one single collective viewpoint and those occur during the mah-jong club. ... The setting of The Joy Luck Club was set in various locations. ... In comparing both the book and the film of The Joy Luck Club, I can't say that I enjoyed one over the other. ...
