Ever since I was a little girl watching the Peony Parade I looked up to the girls who participated in the Peony Pageant. I always told myself after watching that I wanted to be one of the girls who participated in the Peony Pageant, even if I made it or not, just auditioning means that I gave it a chance. I want to be one of the girls that the younger generation looks up to, like I looked up to the girls in the past years. I was always told growing up that I could do anything I put my mind to and this is one of many things I want to achieve. As I got older I was taught the meaning of a Peony Queen, leadership, confidence, courage, and most importantly heart/love. I was born with a big heart, one of the biggest, I always think of others before
myself. I want to be Peony Queen so that I can share my heart not only with the people closest to me but with the people in my community.
The novel “The Jade Peony” is narrated by three different characters throughout the story as it progresses. In part one of the book, it is narrated by a character named “Jook Liang” but usually just called Liang while in conversation. The reader is told the setting and time of the plot, which is in Vancouver, BC and in the time of the Great Depression (In the 1930s). We also learn the names of all the members in Liang’s family. An important figure in Liang’s portion of the story is a man named Wong-Suk. Wong-Suk and Liang become great friends, he occasionally tells her tales from the past. While Poh-Poh was helping Liang tie a ribbon for her tap dance shoes, we learn about her childhood. Poh-Poh was considered disfigured and her mom sold her to a family, where she
In Stevie Cameron’s essay “Our Daughters, Ourselves,” she proclaims “ We tell our bright, shining girls that they can be anything: firefighters, doctors, policewoman, lawyers, scientists, soldiers, athletes, artists. What we don't tell them, yet, is how hard it will be. Maybe, we say to ourselves, by the time they’re older it will be easier for them than it was for us.” My parents raised my sisters and I very congruous with this view. They would always tell us that we could do or be anything we wanted when we got older. However, contrary to Cameron’s apprehension on the matter, my parents always told us how difficult it would be straight from the beginning. They told us how financially strenuous becoming a doctor would be. They told us how
Perhaps one of the biggest issues foreigners will come upon is to maintain a strong identity within the temptations and traditions from other cultures. Novelist Frank Delaney’s image of the search for identity is one of the best, quoting that one must “understand and reconnect with our stories, the stories of the ancestors . . . to build our identities”. For one, to maintain a firm identity, elderly characters often implement Chinese traditions to avoid younger generations veering toward different traditions, such as the Western culture. As well, the Chinese-Canadians of the novel sustain a superior identity because of their own cultural village in Vancouver, known as Chinatown, to implement firm beliefs, heritage, and pride. Thus in Wayson Choy’s, The Jade Peony, the novel discusses the challenge for different characters to maintain a firm and sole identity in the midst of a new environment with different temptations and influences. Ultimately, the characters of this novel rely upon different influences to form an identity, one of which being a strong and wide elderly personal
wisdom my father has shared with me, and I plan to continue his legacy throughout my own life.
the ability to love and how to love. The film Citizen Kane has a lot
from how to treat people who are differnt than me. What I also liked about it was the way they
Cinder's mission was to save her sister Peony from the plague because she loved her sister and she was Cinder's only human friend. Buck's mission was to save John Thornton from the deadly river because he loved Thornton and would do anything for him. Artemis Fowl's mission was to kidnap a "leprechaun" so he could obtain it's gold because he loved gold. However, all three undertook their mission while searching for something or someone they love.
Growing up my parents both worked in the medical field, my mother a nurse, and my father a paramedic. They always had books lying around that I could learn from. I learned a lot from my father about compassion and
From the moment that thought had entered my head, I knew that I could make that aspiration come true. The answer was to crowd surf. It was something I had never done before; getting up over everyone's heads and letting them push you towards the stage. Though at that moment I felt almost immortal, pangs of nervousness balled up in my stomach. Would I make it all the way to the front? What if I fell? But the biggest question I asked myself was should I do something that I have never done before?
values that was instilled in me as a child help guide my daily actions. I was thought to be very honest and
never giving up and always keeping the faith that if they are loyal to their
Bravery is important so a person can do things he or she isn’t comfortable with. Wit is important so someone can think outside of the box, and go out of the way to make tasks easier, and patience is important so people can take time and enjoy little things in life.Keep trying is the last lesson that can be applied to the life of others. People should never give up so what they want will come true.
As a child I always wanted to be in the spotlight. I was always the ham in family pictures, the one who had to excel past my brother, and be in the know of everything. When I was about twelve years old, I realized that entertaining people was what I was all about. Since I wasn’t any good at telling the jokes around the campfire or singing acappella, I thought about trying my dance skills. I liked dancing and I have always enjoyed music videos like Janet Jackson’s “Miss you much”, so I thought why not? What did I have to lose? With the support of my parents, particularly my mom, I went for the gusto.
The many principles that my parents have taught me is to be outgoing, but most importantly an educated person, for allowing me to become what I am today, a respectful mature young lady.
The first value my family taught me at a young age was to act with integrity. This value made me think before I acted and also to be honest with everybody I know. My nana is the one who taught me the value of having integrity which has lead me to understand how to treat others with respect.