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Reflection: 1) What were your expectations for the border-crossing activity? Are your expectations met? Why or why not? Going into the border-crossing activity I wasn’t fully sure what to expect. I expected to interact with Chinese students and to be able to share ideas with one another. I also expe...

My Revised Essay: In watching the Chinese move And the Spring Comes and the American movie Mona Lisa Smile, I noticed a similarity between the two in that they both exemplify women’s empowerment through their main characters and in that they use pathos to cause the audience to sympathize with the ch...

Xiaoxi, I appreciate your further explanation of the art paragraph in your essay. I think that it would be beneficial to add this extra analysis to your paper, particularly the sentence where you said “In both films, art plays an important role to directly show the audience how the dream comes true ...

Jiamin, I have reread your essay, in particular the paragraph about the romantic partners of the women, and I can now see how it connects back to your original statement about feminism, and in particular the quote at the beginning of your paper, which I think is a really interesting framing device f...

Jiamin,
Thank you for your response. I agree with you that I need to draw a stronger connection between the paragraphs about women’s empowerment and pathos. While I do think that the paragraphs themselves are focused, I could add some more analysis throughout.

Xiaoxi,
Thank you for your response. I like the idea of incorporating cultural aspects, particularly the cultural differences between the two different movies, and will try to add a bit about that in my revision.

Hi! I thought that this essay was successful in pointing out a lot of aspects of art that come into play in the movie, especially the art of the actual movie in promoting the difference between the two women and their stories. I believe that the focus of the paper was art and feminism. The paper mov...

Hi! I really enjoyed reading this essay and thought that you made a lot of valid points and had a lot of unique ideas. I especially liked the part where you talked about the different socioeconomic statuses of the women in the movies and how that lead to a different outcome. One aspect of the paper ...

Sarah Swinderman Women’s Empowerment and Pathos in And the Spring Comes and Mona Lisa Smile The characters and a lot of the context for the Chinese movie And the Spring Comes and the American movie Mona Lisa Smile are similar. Both Wang Cailing and Katherine Watson are teachers of the arts first and...