Ling, Helen (née Dalling), (1901-1982) was a well-known connoisseur of Chinese art in Singapore.
In 1928, she married Dr. Ling Tien Gi, a graduate in industrial chemistry from Cornell University. They lived in China, Hong Kong and Singapore. She owned a few antique shops in Shanghai from 1938 to 1949. When the communists came to power, she and Dr. Ling left China for Hong Kong. In 1951, they moved to Singapore. While residing in the city-state, she developed an interest in Southeast Asian antiquities. In 1969, she became one of the founding members of the Southeast Asian Ce-ramic Society whose first president was William Willetts.
Apart from china, Helen also had “a softness” for Thai silk. She got to know Thompson in the 1960s, and was
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Her shops were located on Tanglin Road, at the former Hotel Singapura Inter-Continental, and at the Cathay Hotel Shopping Arcade (now the Cathay Building).
In the mid-1970s, two of her shops had to make way for urban devel-opment in the Orchard Road area. Towards the end of the 1970s, her flagship shop at 101 Tanglin Road began to run out of space. In 1980, she moved her business to Park House, 21 Orchard Boulevard.
Since coming to Singapore, Helen was active in the promotion of Chi-nese art. Her shop – Helen D. Ling – was a well-known outlet in Tanglin, as what China Art House was, on Orchard Road. Before she died on May 15, 1982,4 she was one of four shareholders of her company. The others were Dr. Ling Tien Gi, Carole Y. Wong and John Wong Cheung Ching.
Mangskau, Constance (Connie) (1907-1990) was born in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Her English father, Charles Bernard Ainslie, was a manager with the Borneo Company in Bangkok; her Thai mother, Kunkaew, was a homemaker.
Mangskau spent her early years of education in Thailand. Later, she furthered her studies in Singapore at Raffles Girls’ School. In 1924, she joined the Singapore General Hospital as a nursing
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For instance, after Thompson went astray, there was talk that Thompson hired his taxi and instructed him to wait for him near the “T” junction of Jalan Kamunting. This is incorrect. According to Ng, Thomp-son never made use of his services while he was residing at “Moon-light”. What actually transpired was this: when the police declared that Thompson was lost, Ng went into the woods with two friends to look for him. While doing so, they got lost. Thereafter, Ng’s family members were told his taxi was abandoned at the “T” junction of Jalan Kamunting. Sensing something was amiss, they engaged the services of a few aborigines to look for him. A week later, Ng and his friends were found at a tea plantation near Gopeng. After this incident, Ng became known as “Thompson”, the taxi
She overcome traumatic events and accomplished many great achievements.
Madam and her daughter A’Lelia moved to Indianapolis, India to start their factory for their product in 1910. Madam has traveled to a lot of place which were to the Caribbean,Latin America. She also beend to conventions for African American organizations, civic groups and churches. Her daughter encouraged her to buy a property in New York City in 1913. She made an estate called Villa Lewaro and has constructed her own home in
Throughout her childhood life her mother, Suyuan, was continuously pushing her to be her best. Jing-Mei purposely tried to fail at everything to prover to her mother that she could never become a great and famous person. Then after a piano recital that went horridly wrong, her and her mother had an argument and their relationship was never the same. Many years later Suyuan tried to give Jing-mei the piano that she had as a child. She refused the offer, but than a year later her mother died and Jing-Mei was cleaning out her mother’s house and decided to play the piano and she was surprised that she still knew how.
She received her BA in 1902 and joined the Nationals’ Consumers League. Which is an organization that worked to abolish child labor and the sweatshop system. She was unable to hold her dream job in New York as a family visitor with the Charity Organization Society in New York City. Therefore, she taught at an all girls’ school in New England.
Barbara Kingsolver is a world renowned American novelist, poet, and essayist. She has written many literary works including, but not limited to, controversial subjects such as politics, nature, and social issues. Kingsolver’s many unique experiences in life have made her the author she is today and ultimately inspired her to write The Poisonwood Bible; one of the most complex and controversial novel out of all of her works. Kingsolver was born in Annapolis, Maryland on April 8, 1955. Shortly after her birth, Kingsolver’s family moved to an alfalfa farm in Carlisle, Kentucky, where she spent the majority of her early youth.
Jing-Mei has this mother who lost her husband and twins back in China and is now trying very hard to get a fresh and better start on her new life with her child. Now this could mean many different things to different people, but
“Her actions remind me that, even under unbearable circumstances, one can still believe in justice,” in David Henry Hwang’s foreword, in Ji-Li Jiang’s memoir Red Scarf Girl, commemorated even during the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution anyone can overcome adversity (9). Ji-Li Jiang was a young teenager at the beginning of the Cultural Revolution, and living through a very political time in China’s history made Ji-Li into the person she is today. Ji-Li’s intelligence, her choices, and family devotion made her into the headstrong and successful person she is today. Even when Ji-li thought she was unintelligent, others saw she was wise. There were many moments when Ji-Li was reminded she was very smart.
I tried to get my revenge on him. After all he killed my dear wife! Boy I was wrong, turns out Tom had just retuned back from the city. He told me everything. He was not behind the wheels of that damned car.
After marriage came a forced and dangerous (due to her age) pregnancy for this pre-teen. After going through this situation seen as normal in her culture, she fought vigorously for the rights of education for young women like
Perhaps it takes courage to raise children”. This quiet bravery led her through her life as a mother, her career as a teacher, her service to her community, and her mission to protect her country by selling Liberty Bonds during World War II. Every one of these actions is also evidence of
In the words of Jing-Mei in the last line of the story, “Together we look like our mother. Her same eyes, her same mouth, open in surprise to see, at last, her long-cherished wish” (Tan 159). Throughout her life, Suyuan, their mother, held onto the hope that she would see her daughters again. In this hope, she named Jing-Mei in connection to her sisters, keeping the “long-cherished wish” that someday her daughters would reconcile and complete their family circle. The occasion that
She had given the sons to Wang Lung, she worked endlessly, but to Wang Lung she didn’t have the beauty which was enough to make him loose interest in her. Nonetheless O-Lan remains loyal and
After a long month, Helen and Sullivan had a huge success; Helen made her first connection with sign language and the objects around her. It all happened on April 5, 1887, when Sullivan spelled “W-A-T-E-R” into Helen’s hand while running water over her other hand. Thanks to Sullivan, Helen learned approximately 600 words, most of her times tables, and to read Braille within months! News of their success spread and Helen became a celebrity. As a result of their work, Helen went on to Radcliffe College and despite her own bad eyes Sullivan helped her with her studies there.
Helen Keller was an extremely courageous woman. She did some great things in this world while trying to overcome many challenges and turned out to be an amazing inspiration to many people. Her lifetime was filled with many exciting things from the beginning to the end. Helen Keller was born on June 27, 1880 in Tuscumbia, Alabama.
Considering the fact that she was born without the ability to hear or see but remained passionate and working towards achieving greatness. 2. She was awarded many honorary doctoral degrees from Harvard and Temple University in the US among any others she received in other Countries. Helen also was named inspiration for the documentary about her life, where she was gifted an Academy