Wednesday, November 3, 2010

"Two Kinds" by Amy Tan

In this story, the mother's high expectations have a negative effect on the narrator. When can high expectations have a positive effect? Explain drawing on your own experiences.

29 comments:

  1. High expectations can have a good effect when you have the same expectations for yourself as somebody else does. When somebody has high expectations for you and your expectations for yourself aren't as high, that's when they aren't positive anymore.

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  2. It can effect people in a positive way if they achieve them or if it's something they really like to do.

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  3. its can help by making you work hard as you can to achieve those goals

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  4. High expectations can have a positive effect.when you have negative effect it is bad effect.

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  5. High expectations have a positive effect when you actually try to live up to those expectations and have a positive attitude towards those expectations. For example if your parents want you to take up another activity you should consider that because they are helping to get you better and have higher expectations then you do now.

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  6. In the story Jing is lazy and doesn't have any expectations for herself. Her mother has very high expectations because she is the only child she has left. I think that high expectations can be positive when you have high expectations too.

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  7. Work hard in life and good things will come out

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  8. Having high expectations can have a positive effect when you enjoy doing it and other people get enjoyment out of it.

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  9. High expectations can be good because it can push you to do better.

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  10. If you are an unmotivated person, high expectations impact you in a positive way rather than negative because they motive you to do better, and actually give an effect, and too high of expectations could result in what happened in this story. Rebelling.

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  11. High expectations have a positive effect when you have those same expectations of yourself. I feel that if you don't have expectations of yourself then when someone else has expectations of you expectations have a bad effect.

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  12. High standards can make you want to do something more then if it's nobody cheering you on.

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  13. High expectations have a positive effect when the person that is trying to achieve those expectations lives up to them and actually tries. My parents have high expectations for me, but I also have high expectations for myself. I try to achieve the things I do because I expect myself to do them. Being the best that I can be and working hard are two things that I expect out of myself. You have to be motivated about achieving your expectations or your parent's expectations in order to have a positive effect.

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  14. I understand high expectations like good grades and being good at sports because my parents expect me to have good grades and to be good in band, I always try to make myself try hard in school even though lately I have been failing at that lately I'm now doubling my efforts. This girl's mother took it a little to far.

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  15. High expectations can be good because it can push you to do better.

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  16. High expectations can be good, because then some people know you can do better. When you also have high expectations you try harder yourself.

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  17. High expectations can be good, because they can push you to do the best that you can, and push you to be the best that you can be.

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  18. High expectations have a positive effect when you have those same expectations of yourself. They can be good because it can push you to do the best you can.

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  19. there is only a positive outcome of expectation if they practice and practice and practice. its the same in my house.

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  20. High expectations can have a positive effect when you actually try to live up to them. High expectations push you, so that you get better.

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  21. High expectations can have a positive effect when they are reasonable and push you to do your best. They can be positive when you have high expectations for yourself and you set goals to work towards.

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  22. High expectations can be good when people use them to motivate you to do better, or if you have the some high expectations for yourself as other people do for you.

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  23. High expectations can have a positive effect on only the people who try to meet those expectations. If you're lazy and don't try, high expectations will bring you down and get you no where in life. People expect a lot out of me and I push myself to fulfill those expectations the best I can.

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  24. High expectations can be a good thing because they will push you further in life and make you more self-reliant, I have been in one of these situations before with my dad. He wanted me to build my own project make me do my own things and that pushed me to make things better and on my own.

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  25. I think that her mother had way too high of expectations. She was only a little girl and not everybody is perfect. The daughter didn't even WANT to do any of those things. I think that parents should expect their kids to do good things, but they should not pressure their kids into being something that they might never be.

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  26. High expectations can be good if you have the same expectations for your self and if you like the expectations you have

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  27. High expectations can be good only if have the same good expectations for yourself and have good expectations that you like and that you have.

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  28. High exceptions can only have a positive effect one someone only if they are willing to try to meet them. If they don't try then it will just have a negative effect.

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  29. High expectation can be good in life because you will actually be someone and push your self in life

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