Reclaiming America: the quest for home in Shawn Wong’s Homebase

ABSTRACT

With its dynamic narrative, Shawn Wong's Homebase recounts the story of four generations of a Chinese family searching for a homebase on the land of the United States. Personal experiences, family chronicles, and Chinese American history are portrayed through various forms, including short stories, correspondences, student essays, memories, and dreams. A major theme of the novel is geographically and spiritually “reclaiming America,” or attempts by Chinese Americans to make the United States their “real” home. The protagonist's way to reclaim America involves revisiting landmarks and other places in the United States where his father and grandfather had traveled, through which he tries to discover the meaning of his own life in the United States and thereby to find his personal identity and home in this country. In drawing the topography of Chinese American history, Shawn Wong not only inscribed Chinese American presence on those places where the protagonist's forefathers had lived and worked, but also used legends to implant their heritage into those soils. Shawn Wong hopes that through his writing he can build for Chinese Americans a history, a cultural foundation with myths and legends of their own. Only when a people's myths spread over the land they inhabit can the land truly be considered theirs. The Chinese American identity shaped in Homebase is heroism, rooted in the ethnic identity of the male Chinese American in the American West, and this is the “home” that the protagonist as well as many other Chinese Americans ever quest for.     

中外信息咨询服务比较分析

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异域写作与本土批评

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Language play in the classroom: encouraging children's intuitive creativity with words through poetry

This article begins by identifying that children have a spontaneous predilection for playing with language, engaging in poetic discourse even before their first poetry lesson. Although children's language play is relatively unresearched in the classroom, in a case study of two groups of pupils aged between 10 and 11, it was observed that children engaged in creative word play, and that this was generated in response to interaction with poetry and each other. This article suggests that children's poetical experiences may best be nurtured by building bridges between children's existing knowledge of language play and the specialised knowledge of poetry taught in the classroom through a teaching methodology based on socio‐constructivist principles.     

运动竞赛的主场效应研究进展

采用文献资料法,对国外已有的有关主场效应的研究成果进行了综述分析,阐述了观众、环境、裁判、运动员的心理状态、旅行、行为等因素与主场效应之间的关系,并指出未来研究需关注的问题。     

Relative Age Effect and Gender Differences in Physical Education Attainment in Norwegian Schoolchildren

The relative age effect (RAE) refers to that children born early in their year of birth show higher performance compared to children born late in the same cohort. The present study evaluated whether RAE exists within non-competitive physical education (PE) attainments, change in RAE magnitude with age, and possible gender differences. The results show a drop in PE attainment and a difference in number of high and low marks between the first and second half-year. Of the pupils who attained the highest mark, 73% were born in the first 6 months. In lower-secondary school, RAEs were larger in girls compared with boys. A possible explanation for the results is that the PE-teachers might be inspired by product-oriented criteria.     

新农村沼气能源建设的环境经济效益和制度保障实证分析——南充个案

通过燃烧薪材、秸秆等生物质获取能源的做法在中国农村历经数千年,几乎没有实质性的变化。进入新世纪以来,中国农村能源技术和使用模式实现快速转型。四川南充市农村沼气能源建设起步于20世纪70年代,在四川和全国有一定示范和影响。十五期间,南充市结合当地新农村建设实际,大力推进市辖高坪、顺庆、嘉陵区改善农村能源结构,以生态家园富民沼气工程为着力点,使农村生态环境质量明显提高,农民得到可观的经济效益。"厕所、猪圈、沼池"联合为一个系统,产出的沼气作为农户的生活用能,沼液、沼渣作为肥料进入农田,无有害物质排入环境,成为农业循环经济模式的一个典范,促进了农村生物质能源使用效率的提高和农民健康状况及卫生条件的改善。同时,农村生态家园富民沼气工程还实现了当地农村剩余劳动力就地转移。政府在农村沼气能源建设中扮演重要角色,政府主动营造良性的市场化环境,通过价格、税收、财政补贴、优惠信贷等多种手段,激发农民修建沼气池的积极性。南充市农村生态家园富民沼气工程的成功经验,值得各地在新农村能源建设中学习借鉴。     

Where words collide: social class,schools and linguistic discontinuity

The prestige accorded to standard language varieties, particularly within the field of education, together with language management role of schools with respect to the variety and the extent to which linguistic differences construct discontinuous relationships between the school and specific social groups provide the rationale for this paper. This qualitative study, based on a friendship focus group design, was conducted with two groups of 12-year-old children from contrasting ‘ideal type’, socio-economic groups over the period of one school year. Findings outline specific practices where the linguistic expectations and demands within school-space create different implications and outcomes for middle-class and working-class children as a result of their linguistic experiences in non-school space. The implications of these linguistic interactions on patterns of engagement with the school among the children in the sample are also considered.     

中外男子网球双打比赛技术情况分析

通过对中外网球双打技术情况进行分析得出,男子双打多场比赛主要集中在前五拍,发球方通过对一发二发的调整,以及接发运动员在比赛中由被动到主动的过程都反应了男子选手在比赛中不仪要保证发球的质量、落点,还要注意提高击球的落点、线路等.     

国内外图书情报领域用户研究内容分析

本文以我国图书情报领域18种CSSCI源刊及《图书情报学文摘数据库》（LISA）为信息源,分别检索2007-2010年间国内外图书情报领域发表的与用户研究相关的学术论文。而后利用JDK1．6和MySQL Server5．0等软件,开发共词矩阵生成、关键词粘合度计算、关键词类团密度和向心度计算等程序。在此基础上通过共词分析和粘合度计算方法确定国内外图书情报领域用户研究的主流研究主题,并通过绘制主题战略坐标图考量不同研究主题的发展情况及其研究地位。最后通过对国内外相关研究内容的对比分析,对我国在该领域的研究提出发展建议。