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Here is my reflection: 1) What were your expectations for the border-crossing activity? Are your expectations met? Why or why not? The first aspect of this assignment that stood out to me the most was the quality of the writing by the other students. I did not really have any expectations heading in...

Wangshu, Jiaxin, and Spencer: Thank you for your comments, especially regarding the confusion in the last paragraph. Here is a revised version of my essay, with your comments in consideration. And the Spring Comes and Mona Lisa Smile take place in different environments with their characters holding...

Another student in our group wrote about what the movies say about success and how it is defined, settling on individual stability playing more of a role than economics. I think that topic and yours are two of the biggest takeaways about culture from these films. 1950s America definitely limited soc...

Comparing what the movies say about success and culture is a great topic for this essay, and you communicated your intention to write about that well. Your first point in your third paragraph -- that success is correlated with metropolitan life -- is an idea that is not unique to China, I believe. E...

And the Spring Comes and Mona Lisa Smile take place in different environments with their characters holding different professions, but the challenges they face and the flaws that haunt them are the same. An outside phrase that connects them is “the grass is greener on the other side” and especially ...