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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 alon...

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 th...

Hi, Xu Xinyue and Tang Zirui. Hope you are well. Sorry for the late reply. I completely agree about using the character's names. I wrote the essay after watching the movie so I forgot some of the names. I will put them into my paper. And social background is not something I thought about so thanks f...

Hi, Xie Ting and Xiao Junqi. Thank you for your advice. I completely agree about my lack of analysis for "And the Spring Comes". This was most likely done subconsciously due to me not connecting as much as I did with "Mona Lisa Smile". I need to go back and watch it again and per...

Xie Ting and Xiao Junqi: Perhaps it is not far-fetched but it is simply just not the main theme. Which is okay. I just believe you should state that initially. I think the idea of feminism as the connection between two movies is a great idea and allows you to analyze one central theme from two diffe...

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Xu Xinyue and Tang Zirui: I'm glad you found my advice valid and helpful. In terms of the connections, in the first paragraph you stated "This essay is going to state the main plot in these two movies, and compare their aspects of social backgrounds, narrative techniques, images of characters, ...

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Hi Xie Ting, your analysis was thorough and enjoyable. I especially liked your first paragraph detailing the conservative ideology. It seemed passionate and relatable. While I feel like your analysis in “And the Spring Comes” is a little far-fetch due to the feminism theme, I can see your point of v...

Hi Xu Xinyue, hope you are well. I enjoyed reading your short essay from a Chinese perspective. Your analysis is similar to mine. It was very well written and I enjoyed your comparisons between the two movies. In terms of critique, I noticed some preposition miss-use such as the “in’ from “From the ...