Qian Qian Chen is my classmate for English 1010 at Brooklyn College. Before I got the chance to interview her for this assignment, I assumed that Qian Qian was the typical quite kid in class and I wasn’t completely wrong. Before I interviewed her I assumed that our lives would be similar in many ways, but it turned out it was different in both personality wise and the way we grew up. The first time I met with Qian Qian to conduct interview was on the campus, but it seemed as if she didn’t want to talk face to face. In fact, the first time we were supposed to conduct our interview she ended up canceling it. The second time we met each other to conduct the interview it seemed if she didn’t really want to do the interview and just wanted to finish it up as quickly as she could. For instance, most of the questions I asked her, she ended up replying in a one word response and didn’t want to go explain or go in-depth. So we ended up deciding to follow-up via email instead of the face to face on the campus. The majority of the interview took place via email, where she seemed to be more talkative. I didn’t receive one word responses for the questions I asked, and she seemed to be more open. Qian Qian Chen and I are similar in a few …show more content…
When I asked her how she thinks people see her as her response was, “They probably see me the same way as I see myself” which seemed to be true. Before I met Qian Qian for the interview I thought the same thing, I saw her as the typical quiet shy kid in class. When we tried to conduct the interview face to face it seemed as if she didn’t want to talk and seemed shy, which is why the majority of our interview ended up taking place via email. She didn’t seem to lie about the way she saw herself, such as, she wasn’t one of those kids who thought they were the funny or loud kid when in reality they
For example, in this article Tan recounts several times in which she was challenged by both professors and students about her portrayal of Chinese culture and Chinese men. However, she seems to have garnered the most criticism from other authors. On this topic, Tan
The transition from childhood to adulthood can be challenging. There are many things to learn and let go. Sometime teenagers can dramatize certain events to make themselves seem defenseless. Amy Tan, Chinese-American author, makes her Chinese Christmas seem insufferable. In Tan’s passage “Fish Cheeks”, Tan uses diction and details to exemplify the indignity caused by her Chinese culture.
Her principal was described as "maniacal" (Wong 1). Wong identified speaking Chinese as an "embarrassment" (Wong 2). The words she chose
The first interview I scheduled was with the Assistant Village Manager, Ms. Jablonski. We had a phone conversation that made it seem like she did not have time for the conversation. She had my questions ahead of time and was able to prepare. She mentioned that she was busy and only had twenty-five minutes to talk and said she would not have any other time to speak to me. I felt rushed and pressured into picking the most important questions from my list. The fact that it was a phone conversation made it even more difficult because I barely had time to prepare to take notes and that put a damper on the excitement I had for the interview. It made me feel like she didn’t have time for me or, even more so,
Imagine feeling and looking different from all those around you. Imagine if you weren’t understood the same way as the majority. In the book “American Born Chinese”, two characters, Jin and Monkey King who went through the same situations, but in different societies. The Monkey King insight into the impact of society on Jin as they both face social exclusion through experiencing internalized racism. Further as Monkey King transforms into another character, Chin-Kee, which Jin sees as an embarrassing Chinese culture.
Much of Ai Weiwei’s activism and artwork has been influenced by his experiences growing up. Ai Weiwei lived through a tumultuous time in Chinese history, with the Cultural Revolution, the Tiananmen Square Massacre and the Opening Up of China by Deng Xiaoping. Ai Weiwei’s father, Ai Qing was a famous poet during the Cultural Revolution. However, he was targeted in the Anti-Rightist campaig...
Examination to get in the Hong Kong University. So I stayed in Hong Kong and studied.
The interview is one of the most critical parts to successful police work, there are many things to take into consideration before beginning an interview, such as preparation, barriers to communication, listening, verbal and non-verbal communication, proxemics, and the location. An interview is usually the first opportunity for the officers to gather facts and information about the occurrence. Throughout the analysis of the following interview between an elderly lady that was assaulted and an interviewing officer, I am going to demonstrate the interviewer’s strengths, weaknesses, the pros and cons of the interview, the seven steps of a successful interview, and some suggestions the interviewer can better from for future interviews.
The scene is always the same: the three of us sitting in a room together, talking. I see her from the corner of my eye, glancing for only a second or two, but always long enough to notice the look on her face, the expression I’ve become so painfully familiar with over the years. I am forced to turn away; the conversation resumes. She is a few feet from us. She hears everything, and understands nothing except what she can gather from the expressions on our faces, the tone of our voices. She pretends not to be bothered, smiling at us and interjecting random questions or comments in Chinese—a language I was raised to speak, a language I’ve slowly forgotten over the years, a language that is now mine only by blood. It is an earnest but usually futile attempt to break through the invisible barrier that separates her from us, and in spite of all her efforts to hide it, that sad, contem...
Upon meeting someone, and after the usual introduction, has there ever been a thing, maybe a trait they possessed, that seemed to stick out? If the trait that was visible in them was one of a shy, timid nature, then that person was probably not Kianna Xue. She is a very outgoing person, eager to speak her mind and express her soul. Always trying to absolutely love life, she accepts who she is and embraces it. Her most prominent trait is creativity, followed by her being goal-oriented as well as being indecisive. She is a person of many qualities, as she is a person of many flaws, but a select few definitely stand out.
In Maxine Hong Kingston’s autobiographical piece “Silence”, she describes her inability to speak English when she was in grade school. Kindergarten was the birthplace of her silence because she was a Chinese girl attending an American school. She was very embarrassed of her inability, and when moments came up where she had to speak, “self-disgust” filled her day because of that squeaky voice she possessed (422). Kingston notes that she never talked to anyone at school for her first year of silence, except for one or two other Chinese kids in her class. Maxine’s sister, who was even worse than she was, stayed almost completely silent for three years. Both went to the same school and were in the same second grade class because Maxine had flunked kindergarten.
The traits of a friend have never truly been defined. Some are motherly, some are funny, others to kind for their own good. The bonds of friendship are built upon these traits and though not always a perfect match, but sometimes they fit like two pieces of a puzzle. In American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang, the readers are taken on a trip through the life of a boy named Jin and his secret encounter with the chinese folktale of the Monkey King. Though they might not understand the true meaning of friendship, ultimately, Jin and the Monkey King both attain a new perception of what it is to be a friend.
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The selected candidates would be called for the interview process. The interview process would involve the task to find out about the previous experience, and to explain about the working ethos and to know the technical know how about the candidate in the form of a structural interview. The HR will plan and decide on the structured questions to be interviewed for the candidates. The interview will also be about the group dynamic of working as a team and getting referrals from the previous workers about the candidates on the working habits and his conduct and character. The candidates will be asked about why he/she thinks that they are the most appropriate candidates to be selected. The candidate will be assessed of his/her confidence to taking up the job from this question and assessed to know about them from a personal, professional qualification that stands out for him to be most suitable for the job. Then the candidate would be asked about what they would offer to the company or job if they were appointed. This brings out their experience to the company from the professional point of view and the technical knowhow of the candidate that is required for the particular job. Then the question is to assess the biggest strength of the candidate and the weakness of the candidates. These questions would be to assess the candidates for the communication skills with the recruiting personnel so that they could have a better understanding of the person and if it is appropriate to appoint him /her to the company (www.jobsearch.about.com).
Most people find that going to a job interview can be one of the most stressful events in a person’s life. For some, a job interview is vital to one’s future, therefore the outcome of the interview can be of great importance to that person’s life. However, with a few helpful steps, a job interview can be quite simple. In order to succeed at a job interview you need to: conduct research on the employer and the job opportunity, review common interview questions and prepare responses, dress for success, arrive on time for the interview and be prepared, ask questions, make good first impressions, and thank your interviewer(s) in person and by email or postal mail.