Short Story Jing Kong

First, the Xiongnu kept invading the Han so, the Han decided to pay tribute to the Xiongnu. I know this because in document C it shows the years and how much silk the Han had to give to the Xiongnu as the tribute. Secondly, the Xiongnu kept attacking the Han. I know this because in document E it says, “Heavy fighting against the Xiongnu…” This tells me that the Xiongnu kept attacking the Han and wouldn't keep out.

This insight highlights Mr. Chiu’s egotistical confidence of going free and his gull to demand a “letter of apology” from the chief of the bureau. Moreover, Chiu’s self-absorbed thoughts are exposed when he realizes that his “bookworm” wife sent an amateur lawyer to rescue him. Reluctantly, he signs the confession, and Mr. Chui’s suppressed anger is revealed when he thinks to himself, “If he were able to, he would have razed the entire police station and eliminated all their families.” After ironically rescuing his lawyer Fenjin from a wrongful imprisonment and public torture, the two men travel “from restaurant to restaurant near the police

ake their operation down or a rival who wants to take their business away from them.” John Montgomery, Addie’s grandfather, white-knuckled his hands at ten and two on the thin black wheel. His car hit almost every hole on the rarely traveled road and jostled them like children on a cheap carnival roller coaster. John unnecessarily smoothed one side of his perfectly white hair. “They’re always thinking about how to kill you.

Xiong uses battles, executions, assassinations, and scandals to appeal to readers of any genre. Once a reader gets into the book they are hooked in the epic events of the book and the deep look into the ruling class. Unfortunately, Xiong’s novel might somewhat difficult to get into for many readers with no experience in Chinese history. Xiong also attempts to utilize dialogue that often comes off as underdeveloped or simplistic.

Li Xiu Ying was the few survivors during the cause of Nanking Massacre on December 1937. She was stabbed 37 times, and miraculously survived, becoming the most powerful witness of that tragic history. Li Xiu Ying has been using her personal experience to expose the atrocities of those Japanese invaders. She was 19 years old and seven month pregnant when the attack happened, causing her to not be able to flee, so she together with her father hid in the Nanking International Safety Zone which is under the Mountain Elementary School. But the Japanese Soldiers broke in and attempts to rape her, and while fighting back, she was stabbed, and after those soldier left, her father managed to send her to the Nanking Golou Hospital.

Temporarily, guards and concertina wire secured the perimeter. In the days leading up to the battle, the Soldiers in the unit noticed that some of the locals were acting suspiciously.

"Damnit, Johnny… Oh damnit, Johnny, don 't die, please don 't die." Johnny was the main reason I was still alive. Call him my life tank or whatever but it was the truth. I was proud of him and I never could tell him.

Furthermore, as the relationship has become worse with his girlfriend, Chen is infuriated. He knows he should not beat his girlfriend, the civilization does not allow him to do this, he should calm down and have a talk to his girlfriend. However, he cannot control his ego, his mind is full aggressiveness. Chen strangles his girlfriend and causes her to nearly lose consciousness, even the person is his lover, as Tyler Hayden pointed

She arrested the rioters, protected the missionaries and put a stop to the ridiculous fabrications. This showed that Cixi was indeed trying to repair China’s relations with the foreign powers. With Cixi leading, China was able to change the foreigner’s perception of their country and build a stronger bond. Charles Denby7 wrote of Cixi’s ‘splendid reputation’ (Denby 241) among the Westerners and of her many accomplishments. He observed that their relations have improved, their relationship being ‘tranquil and satisfactory’ (Denby 245).

The quick summary of Menglong’s “The Pearl Shirt Reecountered” is that Jiang Xingge and Sanqiao are a lovely couple. However, Sanqiao was seduced and ended up cheating with Chen Dalang while Xingge is away. When Xingge

They feared to lose their homes and dreaded departing with

Kyle swyers Mills 4th Pre-AP English II 9/3/2015 Summer Reading Double Entry Journal “Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes. You must look into that storm and shout as you did in Rome. Do your worst, for I will do mine!

Stories are the foundation of relationships. They represent the shared lessons, the memories, and the feelings between people. But often times, those stories are mistakenly left unspoken; often times, the weight of the impending future mutes the stories, and what remains is nothing more than self-destructive questions and emotions that “add up to silence” (Lee. 23). In “A Story” by Li-Young Lee, Lee uses economic imagery of the transient present and the inevitable and fear-igniting future, a third person omniscient point of view that shifts between the father’s and son’s perspective and between the present and future, and emotional diction to depict the undying love between a father and a son shadowed by the fear of change and to illuminate the damage caused by silence and the differences between childhood and adulthood perception. “A Story” is essentially a pencil sketch of the juxtaposition between the father’s biggest fear and the beautiful present he is unable to enjoy.

At her first glance at them, she knew exactly who they were because of their resemblance to their mother. However, as she approached them, she realized that there were no evident similarities in features between them and her mother, but that the similarities she noticed at first ran deep in their blood: they were family. And at this brief moment of realization, the most perceptible change in Jing-Mei took place. She said, “Now I also see what part of me is Chinese. It is so obvious.

POV Narrator: The Colossus stars at the magnificent elemental rivers rushing around him. This wonderful sight, for reasons unknown to himself, filled the Colossus with a sense of relief and calm. He felt at home here, but the feeling didn’t last for long. The Colossus felt a strong force pushing against the strange bubble barrier around him.