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It has been almost one month since our first exchange. Overall we have nearly 40 posts plus 2 Zoom meetings. A really rewarding experience with you guys!! I have to say it is my first time to do cross-cultural interacive writing or I prefer to call it a peer review program. Though we did not respond...

A Room of Her Own: A Comparative Analysis Taken as two samples, Monalisa Smile&And the Spring Comes trigger some underlying facts in gender and culture. Both movies render the women situation in a special time but feature the characters from different perspectives: As Virginia Woolf imagines a ...

Hello Arifah, Exactly. Your advice is helpful to me. But I think I'm still bewildered at your point that "a new paragraph usually indicates a new introduction of point/claim being discussed"(sorry). Do you mean I should put my analysis including topic statement, examples and conclusions in...

I personally believe that people's expectations come from the norms developed in the culture they belong to. The fetters refer to people's expectation to act according to the 'supposedly' ways. The key here refers to our chance to release ourselves from the need to follow the public ways and instea...

Dear Jacob, Thank you! Indeed I had the epiphany of "idealism and realism" after the second revision of my essay. Before that I regarded SPRING as such a tragedy but I was not sure how to combine it with MONA LISA. To revise is really to learn. I think now my problem is mainly in the part ...

Hello Siti Nur Arifah Mohamad Azhar, Thanks a lot. I admit that I splitted my essay into too many paragraphs and caused somewhat of redundancy. I guess this may be out of habit that Chinese essays show a rather flexible style between paragraph transitions, which is very dfferent than English writing...

Dear Siti Nur Arifah Mohamad Azhar, Okay I think I get your point! From your interpretations as an observer, your hold that the two movies go to great lengths to display cultural diiferences from many ways. You did not mean to hightlight any special respect but rather to show different cultural phen...

Siti Nur Arifah Mohamad Azhar, Obviously, the entire essay displays an vivid, tight style. You begin with a comparative description of the two characters’ life, then wisely pointing out that the two movies are filmed in different demographics and cultural backgrounds. A really impresive introduction...

Dear Jacob, Again we deal with a similar theme! You mentioned "Both women share similar experiences as they attempt to transcend traditional cultural values to pursue their own interests" Exactly, both Katherine and Tsailing journey down their self-awareness throughout their lives. After g...

Cheng Yihan, I'm glad we have come to an agreement on many points. For example, we both think Katherine and Wang posess different backgrounds. And there are social reasons lied behind the two female characters' endings. In your essay, you first ponit out that the two movies both tell about women who...