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English 1102: "Village of Dreams" paper

Paper Topic Ideas

I watched "Village of Dreams" just once, but these topics came to mind.

  • Twin behavior
  • Land reform in Japan
  • History of Japan
  • Role of women in Japanese society
  • Funeral customs in Japan
  • Sex education of children
  • Educational system in Japan
  • Adoption in Japanese culture
  • Outward display of emotions in Japanese culture
  • Japanese food or diet
  • Marriage and family in Japan
  • Treatment or role of elderly in Japanese society
  • Shibaten
  • Japanese art

Recommended Books

  1. Educating hearts and minds : reflections on Japanese preschool and elementary education / Catherine C. Lewis. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1995. General LB1140.25.J3 L48 1995
  2. Food culture in Japan / Michael Ashkenazi and Jeanne Jacob. Westport, CT : Greenwood Press, 2003. xx, 207 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm. General TX724.5.J3 A88 2003
  3. The art of rice : spirit and sustenance in Asia / Roy W. Hamilton with contributions by Aurora Ammayao ... [et al.] Los Angeles : UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, c2003. 552 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. map ; 31 cm. General GR265 .H35 2003
  4. Food of Japan / Shirley Booth. New York : Interlink Books, 2002. 271 p., [12] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm. General TX724.5.J3 B66 2002
  5. A taste of Japan : food fact and fable : what the people eat : customs and etiquette / Donald Richie. Tokyo ; New York : Kodansha International Harper & Row, 1985. 112 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm. General TX 724.5 .J3 R53 1985
  6. Re-made in Japan : everyday life and consumer taste in a changing society / edited and with an introduction by Joseph J. Tobin. New Haven : Yale University Press, c1992. viii, 264 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. General GN635.J2 R36 1992
  7. Unmasking Japan : myths and realities about the emotions of the Japanese / David Matsumoto. Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 1996. xvi, 179 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. General DS830 .M345 1996
  8. The book of tea / Okakura Kakuzo. Boston : Tuttle Pub., 2000. 113 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. General GT2910 .O618 2000
  9. The tea ceremony / Tanaka ; preface by Edwin O. Reischauer ; foreword by Yasushi Inoue. New York : Kodansha International, c1998. 223 p. : ill. (some col.), port. ; 27 cm. General GT2910 .T363 1998
  10. The big book of sumo : history, practice, ritual, fight / Mina Hall. Berkeley, Calif. : Stone Bridge Press, c1997. 143 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. General GV1197 .H35 1997
  11. Word and image in Japanese cinema / edited by Dennis Washburn, Carole Cavanaugh. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001. xxvii, 388 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. General PN1993.5.J3 W67 2001
  12. Age through ethnic lenses : caring for the elderly in a multicultural society / edited by Laura Katz Olson. Lanham, MD : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2001. xii, 300 p. ; 24 cm. General HQ1064.U5 A63327 2001
  13. Parents' cultural belief systems : their origins, expressions, and consequences / Sara Harkness, Charles M. Super, editors. New York : Guilford Press, c1996. xii, 558 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. General HQ769 .P2728 1996
  14. Japanese lessons : a year in a Japanese school through the eyes of an American anthropologist and her children / Gail R. Benjamin. New York : New York University Press, c1997. x, 262 p. ; 22 cm. General LA1314.7 .B46 1997
  15. Japanese childrearing : two generations of scholarship / David W. Shwalb, Barbara J. Shwalb, editors ; foreword by Takeo Doi. New York : Guilford Press, c1996. xxiv, 323 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. General HQ792.J3 J39 1996
  16. Why children reject school : views from seven countries / Colette Chiland, J. Gerald Young. New Haven : Yale University Press, c1990. 229 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. General RJ506.S33 W48 1990
  17. The Japanese educational challenge : a commitment to children / Merry White. New York : Free Press ; London : Collier Macmillan, c1987. x, 210 p. ; 25 cm. General LA 1312 .W44 1987
  18. Understanding Japanese society / Joy Hendry. 3rd ed. London ; New York : RoutledgeCurzon, 2003. xviii, 265 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. General HN723.5 .H46 2003
  19. The mountain is moving : Japanese women's lives / Patricia Morley. New York : New York University Press, 1999. xiii, 226 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. General HQ1762 .M64 1999
  20. The Japan handbook / edited by Patrick Heenan. London ; Chicago : Fitzroy Dearborn, c1998. ix, 329 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. General HC462.9 .J3195 1998
  21. An introduction to Japanese society / Yoshio Sugimoto. New York : Cambridge University Press, 1997. x, 285 p. : ill., map ; 23 cm. General HN723 .S7 1997
  22. Life in a Japanese women's college : learning to be ladylike / Brian J. McVeigh. London ; New York : Routledge, 1997. xii, 264 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. General LC2366 .M384 1997
  23. Unmasking Japan today : the impact of traditional values on modern Japanese society / Fumie Kumagai with the assistance of Donna J. Keyser. Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 1996. xi, 192 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. General HN723.5 .K756 1996
  24. Learning to teach in two cultures : Japan and the United States / Nobuo K. Shimahara, Akira Sakai. New York : Garland Pub., 1995. xii, 259 p. ; 22 cm. General LB2844.1.N4 S545 1995
  25. Japanese education since 1945 : a documentary study / [Edward R. Beauchamp, James M. Vardaman,Jr., editors] Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, c1994. xii, 351 p. ; 24 cm. General LA1311.82 .J39 1994
  26. Japanese business : cultural perspectives / edited by Subhash Durlabhji and Norton E. Marks Albany : State University of New York Press, c1993. xii, 388 p. ; 23 cm. General HD70.J3 J393 1993
  27. The learning gap : why our schools are failing and what we can learn from Japanese and Chinese education / Harold W. Stevenson and James W. Stigler. New York : Summit Books, c1992. 236 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. General LA219 .S76
  28. How the Japanese learn to work / Ronald P. Dore and Mari Sako. London; New York : Routledge, 1989. 158 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. General LC1047.J3 D67 1989
  29. Learning to bow : an American teacher in a Japanese school / Bruce S. Feiler. New York : Ticknor & Fields, 1991. x, 321 p. ; 22 cm. General LA1316 .F4 1991
  30. Transcending stereotypes : discovering Japanese culture and education / edited by Barbara Finkelstein, Anne E. Imamura, Joseph J. Tobin. Me. : Intercultural Press, c1991. ix, 221 p. ; 23 cm. General LB45 .T64 1990
  31. Shogun's ghost : the dark side of Japanese education / Ken Schoolland. New York : Bergin & Garvey, 1990. 207 p. ; 22 cm. General LC191.8.J3 S36 1990
  32. Ghosts and the Japanese : cultural experience in Japanese death legends / by Michiko Iwasaka and Barre Toelken. Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press, 1994. xx, 138 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 22 cm. General GR340 .I868 1994
  33. Entwined lives : twins and what they tell us about human behavior / Nancy L. Segal. New York : Dutton, 1999. xx, 396 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. General BF723.T9 S44 1999
  34. Identical twins reared apart : a reanalysis / Susan L. Farber. New York : Basic Books, c1981. xvi, 383 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. General BF 723 .T9 F37
  35. Parallels : a look at twins / photos. by Harvey Stein ; text by Ted Wolner. New York : Dutton, c1978. viii, 148 p. : ill. ; 25 x 28 cm. General BF 723 .T9 S74 1978
  36. Raising twins : what parents want to know (and what twins want to tell them) / Eileen M. Pearlman & Jill Alison Ganon. New York : HarperResource, c2000. 267 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cm. General HQ777.35 .P43 2000
  37. Twins and their development : the roles of family and school / Sara Smilansky, with David Zohar and Rachel Snir. Rockville, MD : BJE Press, 1992. General BF723.T9 S652 1992
  38. Nudity: A Cultural Anatomy / Ruth Barcan. New York: Berg, 2004. xi, 308 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. General GN298 .B37 2004

Articles

Example of a journal article:

Moilanen, I. ["Are twins' behavioural/emotional problems different from Singletons?"] European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry 8.4 (1999): pS062- .

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