The Life of Amy Winehouse

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Amy Ruth Tan was born in Oakland, California, on February 19, 1952. Her father was a Chinese-born Baptist minister; her mom was the daughter of an upper-class family in Shanghai, China. Throughout Amy tans childhood, Tan struggled with her parent 's desire to hold onto Chinese traditions and expectations and her own beliefs and desire to become

Amy Tan struggled with many issues caused by her dual cultures, which she expressed thoroughly in her works. Daisy and John Tan were post war immigrants and the parents of Amy Tan (Amy Tan). Tan was given the Chinese name An-Mei, which stands for blessings from America (McCarthy). To them she was the blessing that they had received after their own struggles. Tan’s father came to America after WWII to become a minister (Amy Tan). Even though it seemed like Tan’s life was running smoothly tragedy struck. Both Tan’s father and older brother died of a brain tumor when Tan was only fifteen years old (Wiener 27). In her works, Amy Tan focuses on the struggles that Chinese-American women face in mother-daughter relationships, their struggles to

Amy Tan was born in China on February 19, 1952. She was one of three children to her parents. Amy was born to her mother’s second husband. Later on, her family escaped China on the last boat before the Communist takeover of China in 1949. Her mother left behind three other kids from a previous marriage. Amy finished high school in Switzerland, and fought with her mom the whole time. She went to college at a Baptist college. She then defied her mother by leaving that college and following her boyfriend to San Jose State University. She further defied her mother by abandoning her pre-medical degree for an English and linguistics major. She eventually married her boyfriend, Louis DeMattei, and they moved to San Francisco. Amy Tan started to repair her relationship with her mother, once she was deathly ill and in the hospital. Amy made a promise to take her mom to China to find the children that she left behind. This allowed for Amy to finish her book and get closer to her mother. She went on to write many books and essays after her time with her mother. What caused that dramatic of a change in major for Amy? What caused the rift between her and her mother?

One of the first questions most people ask Amy Witherite when they meet her concerns why she does what she does. In other words, why did she become an attorney and then specialize in truck wrecks? For Amy, the answer is not as simple as saying she always wanted to be a lawyer. In fact, she never wanted to be a lawyer at all. The story of how it happened starts with going to college on a swimming scholarship.

Influence can cause some behavior in some person for a specific purpose based on a power base.

Amy Tan was born in 1952, in Oakland, California to Chinese immigrants John and Daisy Tan. Her family eventually settled in Santa Clara. When Tan was in her early teens, her father and one of her brothers died of brain tumors within months of each other. During this period Tan learned that her mother had been married before, to an abusive husband in China. After divorcing him, her mother fled China during the Communist takeover, leaving three daughters behind who she would not see again for nearly forty years.

Touring with her father gave her important performing experiences, but it was also a very tough time for her (Moritz 132). Her brother told a Time Magazine interviewer: “Driving eight or ten hours trying to make a gig, and being hungry and passing restaurants all along the road, and having to go off the highway into some little city to find a place to eat because you’re black- that had its effect” (Moritz 132).

Angela “Angie” Robin Drury is the second daughter to father, Ronald Baxley, and mother, Mary Baxley. Born in Thomaston, Georgia, Angie grew up on a farm with her two sisters where she lived for 20 years. Growing up, her father being a former Navy officer, she experience a very strict household with little attention being given to her. Aside from home, Angie also experienced hardship in school being as her mother is Hispanic and father is White; growing up in the 60s and 70s was filled with no tolerance of different races, so her darker complexion made her a target a various racial terms as opposed to her older sister who inherited paler features and thrived in social settings. On top of her biracial background, Angie grew up in a household that held two different branches of Christianity, Catholic and Baptist. Though forced to practice both religions, as adult she decided to become a Baptist though she did not believe in any religion. Being that she did not like the feeling of having no control, Angie’s forced regular attendance caused her a lot of anger.

To begin, Amy Tan struggles through an awkward dinner but ends up learning about herself at the end. For instance, when Amy’s crush, Robert, has his family invited over for their Christmas dinner, her mother arranges a peculiar menu. Amy is embarrassed of the food, and her

Josephine, as many people call her Jo, is a tomboy with quit a temper. She gets very angry easily. Jo expresses her feeling with writing. Books are her pride and joy. Jo loves writing them also while reading them. Jo sees herself as a leader in the March home, when her father is off at war. She is an outrageous young woman that wants to be a leader and leave a mark on this world. Amy on the other hand, is a little girly and snobby. She is treated as the baby of the March family and she knows it. Amy almost always gets her way. Amy has many talents just like Jo, perhaps painting

After high school, she was given a partial scholarship to Julliard School in New York City. She left Julliard, due to lack of funds, began to play jazz and blues, and made ends meet playing in night clubs. Shortly after, she took on the stage name Nina Simone. She was able to release her first album, “Little Blue Girl”, in 1958. With this album she was able to gain influential African Americans, like Langston Hughes and James Baldwin, as fans of her work.

A lot of social factors can influence a person’s behavior and that person’s behavior contributes to large scale social issues. Take obesity for example. In the U.S. society obesity is a huge problem and the NCHS states that “more than one-third of the adults in the United States are obese.” Obesity can lead to an abundance of health problems as well, which is why many people exercise to avoid it. Therefore, obesity is a large force in society that encourages people to exercise. With more and more people

Normally parents withhold encouragement during these phases. But Amy was rather than being praised by her parents felt constantly compared to a perfect, fictional image of herself in “Amazing Amy”. Which resulted to a complex while she was

Habits 4, 5 & 6 and involve learning new methods of influence. No control problems are those that we can do nothing about but accept them so that “we do not empower these problems to control us” (page 86). It is how we change our habits, methods and