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1.Going into the border crossing activity, I was excited to see if students from an entirely different culture shared similar perspectives on the two movies we watched. I noticed that we agreed about many of the same themes. 2.Having taken composition courses in another language, I struggled the mos...

Culture and Cinema If we accept And the Spring Comes and Mona Lisa Smile as accurate portrayals of Eastern and Western cultures, respectively, then the two movies offer many parallels between two cultures that initially seem so different. Between the films, the portrayal of gender dynamics and cultu...

If you'd like some further discussion, my email is nlr5191@psu.edu. Unfortunately I don't have WeChat.

I don' t have WeChat, but feel free to email me at nlr5191@psu.edu. I'd love to share some correspondence!

This essay is very clear in its argument. That said, I think it deals in many generalities. The writer opens with general statements about aesthetics without exploring the concept of beauty until much further into the essay. For this reason, I think the essay would benefit from using the discussion ...

Hi, Hu Yi! Your essay is very strong, and especially enjoyed how you used the cinematographic aspects such as the bleak colors in "And the Spring Comes" to support your argument that the two films offer different arguments about the independence of their characters. My main point of critiq...

Nate Ricketts If we accept And the Spring Comes and Mona Lisa Smile as accurate portrayals of Eastern and Western cultures, respectively, then the two movies offer many parallels between two cultures that initially seem so different. Between the films, the portrayal of gender dynamics and cultural r...