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PowerPoint of Amy Tan

PowerPoint of Amy Tan. By: Tieley Tsosie. Biographical of Amy Tan. She was born in Oakland California in 1952 to Chinese immigrants. She married Louis DE Mattel at 22. She attend San Jose and Berkeley collage her first year.

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PowerPoint of Amy Tan

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  1. PowerPoint of Amy Tan By: Tieley Tsosie

  2. Biographical of Amy Tan • She was born in Oakland California in 1952 to Chinese immigrants. • She married Louis DE Mattel at 22. • She attend San Jose and Berkeley collage her first year. • Her first book was Joy Luck Club, her second The Kitchen God’s Wife, and her third The Hundred Secret Senses.

  3. What Amy Tan thinks about writing. • Amy Tan writes about personal reasons not to appeal people. • She also said “Writing and reading save me from being miserable. • “I write because it is the meaning of my life”, said Amy Tan. • What does she think creativity comes from. • Form are brain • Psychotic or depression • Childhood trauma • Associating with matter.

  4. One of Amy's accomplishments is finishing her books that talks about her life. • Also, having some of here books into The New York Times Bestsellers list. Accomplishments of Amy Tan

  5. Her Famous Quotes!!! • “Imagination is the closet thing we have to compassion.” • "You see what power is – holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them." • "I think books were my salvation, they saved me from being miserable."

  6. What I’ve learn… Amy Tan had a lot of hard troubles in her life but that didn't hold her back from accomplishing her love for writing. We don’t have to give up when there's hard obstacles standing in are way. She got to understand that everyone ,including her, were special from where they came from. It doesn’t matter what peoples heritage are or what they look Like because everybody is special in their own unique way When she talked about her love for reading , she explained why reading is interested which I can compare to.

  7. Resources Amy Tan:Biographical Information. N.p., 2 May 2007. www.google.com. Web. 12 Oct. 2012. Path: http://www.duluth.lib.mn.us/Programs/JoyLuckClub/Bio.html. Tan, Amy, perf. Where does creativity hid. 2008. Film. Tan, Amy, perf. Writing from Personal Experience. 2008. Film.

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