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- 1. S1 E1 Jan 11, 2022
- A death at her workplace forces COO Sam to check the series of events that led up to that moment.
- 2. S1 E2 Jan 12, 2022
- Maya digs into the company's past, and Sam questions her own culpability.
- 3. S1 E3 Jan 18, 2022
- Sam struggles to keep her home and work life togehter. evidence threatens to upend the company.
“Rules of The Game” - Amy Tan I was six when my mother taught me the art of invisible strength. It was a strategy for winning arguments, respect from others, and eventually, though neither of us knew it at the time, chess games. "Bite back your tongue," scolded my mother when I cried loudly, yanking her hand toward the store that sold
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The narrator, Waverly, learned the art of invisible strength at the age of six from her mother. It was a strategy for winning, which involved refraining from speaking. Waverly grew up in San Francisco’s Chinatown in a two-bedroom flat over a Chinese Bakery. The alley led to a small playground, but Waverly and her older brothers preferred the alley ...
Waverly is an American born girl with a Chinese born mother. As such, she feels the force of both cultural influences. The earliest lesson she relates to us, “the art of invisible strength”, is based on a Chinese proverb about a strong wind being unseen. Her mother instructs her to hold her tongue. This is different from the American way of asserti...
Waverly has a “sly thought” and says she’s being wicked when she intentionally brings up something she knows could bother her mother—Chinese torture. Waverly manipulates her mother into letting her enter the chess competitions by saying she doesn’t want to compete with American rules. As her mother is all about learning the rules so you can succeed...
Learn about the plot, themes, and cultural clash in "Rules of the Game", a short story from The Joy Luck Club. Follow Waverly, a chess prodigy who grows up in San Francisco's Chinatown and faces challenges from her mother and society.
A summary and analysis of the short story from The Joy Luck Club, about a Chinese American girl who becomes a chess prodigy. The story explores the themes of chess as a metaphor for life, the clash of cultures, and the invisible strength of Chinese women.
The Rules of the Game (original French title: La règle du jeu) is a 1939 French satirical comedy-drama film directed by Jean Renoir. The ensemble cast includes Nora Gregor, Paulette Dubost, Mila Parély, Marcel Dalio, Julien Carette, Roland Toutain, Gaston Modot, Pierre Magnier and Renoir. Renoir's portrayal of the wise, mournful Octave ...
A classic comedy of manners that exposes the hypocrisy and corruption of French society in 1939. Learn about the film's history, restoration, and reception from essays, interviews, and commentary by Renoir and other filmmakers.
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Feb 29, 2004 · A classic French comedy by Jean Renoir that satirizes the French ruling class and exposes their hypocrisy and adultery. The film was controversial and banned in 1939, but now restored and available on Criterion DVD.
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