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reflection: I didn’t know what to expect for the border crossing activity because I have very little experience corresponding with people from outside of the U.S. I guess I was surprised at how similar my interpretations of the films were to the interpretations of the Chinese students. This was the ...

No problem! As far as the markups on the pdf I emailed you are concerned, most are small errors with commas etc. but I did occasionally mark something that was technically grammatically correct but was phrased in what I interpreted to be an awkward manner. That is just me as the audience, and I thin...

revised essay I would like to explore the concept of marriage in the films Mona Lisa Smile 2003 and And the Spring Comes 2007 in relation to women’s empowerment and mobility. Marriage acts in similar ways in both films as a socially valued institution that universally inhibits the movement of charac...

Dear Miao Lv and Ting Xuan Liu, Thanks for examining my paper and taking the time to give me some feedback. I definitely plan on fixing the last paragraph to my essay—thanks for suggesting the last two sentences be moved to a new paragraph. I appreciate the specific advice and the typo spotting as w...

Dear Xinyi Yu and Xin Zheng, Thanks for your comments on my essay. My last paragraph was definitely the one that I was least confident in :o and I'm glad you offered some advice on how I can break it up to make my ideas more distinct! I'm glad that you learned something from reading my essay. Thanks...

Hi Lu, I appreciated how you began with geographical movement and related it to social movement and women's empowerment in your exploration of both films. Cailing Wang must deal with never reaching Beijing, the destination of her dreams, and professor Watson has to struggle to make a difference at W...

Hi Zheng! I appreciated the character comparison between professor Katherine in Mona Lisa Smile and Wang Tsai-ling in And the Spring Comes . I also liked that you provided a brief cultural summary of second-wave feminism in the U.S. to support your arguments in your essay. Your analysis of camera sh...

Steven Toomey I would like to explore the concept of marriage in the films Mona Lisa Smile 2003 and And the Spring Comes 2007 in relation to women’s empowerment and mobility. Marriage acts in similar ways in both films as a socially valued institution that universally inhibits the movement of charac...