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Final Essay Appreciation of Smile of Mona Lisa and And the Spring Comes from Feminism For a long time, men in the west and the east have a higher position and voice in the family and society, while many women in subordinate positions have been taught traditional and conservative ideas since childho...

Reflection After several weeks of repeated revisions and improvements to the film review, we realized that a film review is not a boring simple analysis of the film or a simple sentimental expression, and it is not a copy of the movie plot. A really good movie review is the perfect combination of f...

Reflection My expectations were for us to be more like pen-pals in a traditional sense: writing letters back and forth through mail. While I don’t know if this was the initial plan, I did enjoy the forum correspondence with the Chinese students. I thought we would have more personal interaction alo...

Final Essay The two movies, “Mona Lisa Smile” and “And the Spring Comes”, depict two different languages and two different cultures, yet, they both follow the same critique on old conservative values. “Mona Lisa Smile” looks at the conservative ideology toward woman and its shift to liberal. “And t...

And the Spring Comes and Mona Lisa Smile are two films that deal with similar subject matter and deal with very similar themes. Each protagonist, Katherine Watson in Mona Lisa Smile, and Wang Cailing in And the Spring Comes, face central conflicts related to issues related to individuality, feminis...

Just responding briefly one more time to let you know that reading your reply just now gave me the biggest smile. You're wonderful people and I'm proud to know you. All the very best to you my friends, you deserve it, you'll earn it, and it's been an honor! -Max :) Glad to hear from you! We wish yo...

Reflection Two weeks of communication across the ocean is almost over and we have many thoughts about it. At first we feel a little bit of resistance for it takes us too much time and energy to wait replies across seas. However, with time elapsing, by interacting with students in U.S. and other cla...

Final Movie Essay Xu Xinyue and Tang Zirui And the Spring Comes and Mona Lisa Smile, although from different countries--China and the U.S., all reflect protagonists’ processes of revolting against tradition and struggling between dreams and realities under similar age’s social background. This essay...

Reflection Two weeks of communication across the ocean is almost over and we have many thoughts about it. At first we feel a little bit of resistance for it takes us too much time and energy to wait replies across seas. However, with time elapsing, by interacting with students in U.S. and other clas...

Hi Max, we forgot to ask for your email or wechat in order to have deeper communication because we don't have facebook. Our wechat: xxy2057230076 and email: 2057230076@qq.com. Hope hear from you soon. Xu Xinyue Tang Zirui Sure, I don't have wechat but you can email me at mts5487@psu.edu. It's a ple...