We are Not Created Equal in Every Way

(In this opinion article [argumentative essay] published in the San Francisco Chronicle on December 12, 2000, columnist and reporter Joan Ryan takes a stand on whether the San Francisco Ballet School did or did not discriminate against 8-year-old Fredrika Keefer when it declined to admit her on the grounds that she had the wrong body... Continue Reading →

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Will Your Job be Exported?

(This article is an expository essay – writing that is meant to inform and/or persuade – by Alan S. Blinder, a professor of Economics at Princeton University, USA.) Key Points: The greatest problem for the next generation of American workers may not be lack of education, but rather “offshoring” – the movement of jobs overseas,... Continue Reading →

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My Old Home

Writer: Lu Xun (1881-1936), a Chinese writer Characters: Lu Xun Lu Xun’s mother Runtu Second Sister Yang (the Beancurd Beauty) Honger (Xun’s nephew), and Shuisheng (Runtu’s son) Theme: conflict between memories/expectations and realities Summary: The autobiographical story “My Old Home” by a Chinese writer, Lu Xun, depicts the conflict between memories or expectations and realities.... Continue Reading →

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The Naked Face

Malcolm Gladwell, in his essay “The Naked Face,” talks about how emotions can be read on human face. He follows Paul Ekman, a psychologist who has been studying the art of face-reading. Ekman first got the idea of face-reading from Silvan Tomkins, who was also a psychologist and an expert in face-reading. Ekman and his... Continue Reading →

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The Oval Portrait

The Oval Portrait is a short horror story written by Edgar Allan Poe, an American writer (1809-1849). In the story, an artist wants to make a portrait of his young wife, but becomes so obsessed with his work that he doesn’t realize his wife is dying meanwhile. The story features the relationship between art and... Continue Reading →

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