Is family something we’re born into or something we choose? Ana’s parents want her to be an All-American rather than a Filipino-American girl. When she signs up for the Filipino community’s Debutante’s Ball against her parents’ wishes, she puts her family relationships on the line an...
Welcome to Saturday Night Noir, a one-way trip into the doom-laden heart of a new kind of American cinema featuring life-beaten men and dangerously seductive women, born of the expressionistic camera-work of German and Austrian emigres, and the pulp imaginations of the great Hammett, Chandler...
I’ve read many picture books about the Japanese American internment (my mother was one such person forced to relocate during WWII) but Nagai’s novel in verse is the first to really make me feel and understand the racism that my mother, who was born in San Francisco’s Japantown, faced...
For baby boomers, born between 1946 and 1964, attempts to achieve the American Dream have centered on traditional milestones of stability, such as purchasing a home and car, getting married, and having children. However, their ability to achieve that dream varied starkly depending on race. Baby...
born and raised Southeast Asians as most of the existing scholarship deal largely with the heath and mental health concerns of first generation adult refugees. We have virtually no information on the developmental impact of camp conditions on children conceived or born in the refugee camps and who...
He was born of Anglo-Americanparentage. 他是英美混血儿。 柯林斯例句 You will be paid inAmericandollars. 你的报酬将以美元支付。 《牛津高阶英汉双解词典》 NorthAmericanliterature is the main theme of this year's festival. 北美文学是今年艺术节的主题。
Of these the chief are :—The social caricatures of Judge Brackenridge (who, though born in Scotland, lived in America from infancy), and his doggerel but vigorous lines on Bunker's Hill ; the once popular humorous lyric entitled M'Fingal, by J. Trumbull, also the author of The Progress...
with an artwork by the Chongqing-born artist Xu Bing. To create his 天书 (Tianshu), orA Book from the Sky(1991), he spent four years carving out of pear-wood – in reverse – a set of 4000 moveable type characters. The pages of the book he printed with them look, from afar, like...
In 1775, Daniel Boone, a hunter and trapper born in western Pennsylvania, led a party of about 30 men across the Appalachian Mountains through the Cumberland Gap into the Kentucky Territory, blazing what became known as the Wilderness Road. After the Revolutionary War, England ceded to the Unit...
, the work of European ethologists like Konrad Lorenz and Nikolaus Tinbergen showed that even very complicated animal behavior was innate. If the honey bee was born knowing how to do the “waggle dance” that tells other bees where to find food, what possibilities might people be born with?