The Industrial Revolution was the shift from handmade goods to machine-made products. One positive effect of this change was that the price of goods dramatically decreased. Products that previously been time-consuming and tedious to make were made more efficiently and in less time. Textile factories are one example of where this occurred. Prior to inventions such as the spinning jenny and the power loom, the production of cloth was a multi-step process that took place in the home using a hand loom by one person. With mechanized weaving, the time needed to do this was dramatically reduced, which eventually led to a decrease in price.
"Two Kinds", written by author Amy Tan, is a short story from the book "The Joy Luck Club" that was published in 1989. The story is about the childhood of the main character Jing-mei Woo and the too-high expectations that Jing-mei´s mother has of her daughter.
In this particular passage from "Two Kinds", Jing-mei´s mother and Jing-mei are fighting over the expectations and disappointments that both mother and daughter have of and from each other. It is important to understand that Jing-mei´s mother, having come from Communist China, and having left behind her former family, has not changed her cultural views and expectations. These she tries to impose on her American-born and culturalized daughter, Jing-mei. In essence, the passage shows the conflict that Jing-mei has with her mother regarding these cultural expectations but also the impact on the main character when her true thoughts and temperament arise in the face of this impasse. Jing-mei never expected to have such anger and conflict with the views of her mother and she definitely did not expect to lash back in such a manner. The correct answers then are: A. Jing-mei did not expect such a response towards her mother and thus has an internal conflict and B. An external conflict as well between mother and daughter over the desire by the daughter to gain her independence.
Answer: A. In dance competitions, judges use a separate scoring system for single dancers.
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