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Malouf's Adult Characters
869 wordsChildren take center stage in a lot of maloufs stories, but the memory of childhood is a deeper, more resonant thread throughout this collection. Pre - adolescence, particularly the ages of nine or ten, carries enormous weight in the writer's imagination. The light from his Brisbane childhood often illuminates his narrative, and the remembered landscape often illuminates his narrative, and the remembered landscape fills in the background, but it is the child's worldview that is the dominant conc...
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Elsa And Jimmy
564 wordsWindflower Gabrielle Roy, the author of Windflower, shows us through her main character, Elsa Kumachuck, that isolation can have unfortunate effects on an individual and the people around them. We, as readers, are in the beginning given the impression that Elsa is a fit mother who is responsible and knows how to raise her child properly. Later on though, we realize that it's the influence of other people in her life and the experience of isolation later on that lead her to make the decisions tha...
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Behaviour And Emotional Development Of A Child
2,140 wordsDoes the attachment theory provide a sound basis for advice on how to bring up children? To answer this question for advice to parents I will explore some of the details of the attachment theory showing, 1) earlier studies and more up to date criticisms, 2) how it proposes family members and day care can affect a child's upbringing. Attachment is the bond that develops between caregiver and infant when it is about eight or nine months old, providing the child with emotional security. Meshing com...
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Living Symbol Pearl
730 wordsThe Living Symbol Pearl. A child born of sin. Conceived by lust. Created by impurity. As the result of her parents fall from grace, she represents the sinfulness of their act, and is a continual tool for the recollection of their dubious deed. Sent, was she, from the Almighty God as a gift, and a burden of the heart". God gave me the child cried she. He gave her in requital of all things else, which ye had taken from me. She is my happiness! - she is my torture, none the less! See ye not, she is...
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Guin's Symbolism Of The Martyr Child
2,045 wordscame to her house for her taxes, Faulkner describes how the house and Ms. Emily looks. 'only Miss Emily's house was left, lifting its stubborn and coquettish decay above the cotton wagons and the gasoline pumps-an eyesore among eyesores', this statement explains how the house gives off such a depressing mood. 'Her skeleton was small and spare;', this line shows us how her appearance showcases death also. When Ms. Emily was younger, her deceased father used to force away all the young men that wa...
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Addition The Kungo Mother
900 words1. The pottery Seated Male Figure from Mali is an example of a non- frontal figure. This Sculpture displays a man sitting with his right leg bent and his left leg pulled up into his chest. He has his right arm over his heart and his left arm across his shoulder. There are many raised bumps on his body. His face id shifted slightly to the left and he appears to be concentrating. The caption explains that he is communicating with the gods. 2. The Orang un Eps Headdress from the Yoraba is a great e...
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Expectant Mother
1,060 wordsSome Aspects of Vietnamese Culture in Child Rearing Practices I decided to focus my last cross-cultural research project on child rearing practices of the Vietnamese people and how they differ from that of my own. Included in my work are notable differences I have found through my reading, research, discussions, interviews, & surveys. I have conducted my interviews not only through live person-to-person speech, but I have also utilized the internet and entered chatrooms to speak to Vietnamese pe...
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Surrogate Motherhood And Adoption
794 wordsSurrogate Mothers The practice of bearing a child on behalf of another woman. This is surrogate motherhood. Is it considered immoral? By some, yes. In some countries it is banned-and in others it is promoted or up for consideration. In recent days, the issue of 'right and wrong' has surfaced in the midst of this argument, sharing different meanings to the opposing sides. To some, it is right only for the woman who brings forth life to raise the child; for it is deemed that she is the only one fi...
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Monkey Island And Missing May
373 wordsMonkey Island and Missing May were both very well written fictional books. I did not think Missing May was believable though. I don't expect a child will relate to a young orphan girl whose uncle is trying to contact the spiritual realm in search of his wife, May. Monkey Island on the other hand was quite believable. It sounds like the thoughts of an 11-year-old boy whose parents deserted him. I feel he should have been angrier with his mother for acting like a child herself but then again he's ...
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Angie's Life
822 wordsAngie is a 1994 film that depicts the life of a feisty woman who more or less had lived her life the way she wanted. Going against the norms, Angie had proven herself to be a strong and liberated woman of the 21st century. Approaching thirty, she had spent her whole life in the same neighbor hood with her longtime boyfriend, Vinnie and best friend, Tina. However, Angie's mind is far from the latter. When Angie gets pregnant, everyone was excited and was expecting that she would marry Vinnie, the...
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Desalvo's Own Relationship With Her Mother
2,322 wordsOne Sunday, no different than any other Sunday, I woke my daughter, Kimberly, up for church. She just turned four, so we are still struggling with communication, so I thought. A few minutes before it was time to leave, she went into one of her occasional tantrums due to having spent the weekend with Grandparents. Spending time with Grandma and Grandpa means no discipline whatsoever. She didn't eat her cereal and wanted a bagel. I had offered her a bagel fifteen minutes prior and she piously shoo...
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Addie's Death
873 wordsAdam CoopeCooper 1 Mrs. Dibble English IV December 7, 1999 In one of William Faulkner's greatest novels, As I lay Dying, the character's selfishness is revealed. As I Lay Dying is a detailed account of the Bundren's family trek across Mississippi to bury Addie, their wife and mother. As Addie is dying, all the characters go through a different state of emotions, all of which are explained in fifty-nine chapters. An analysis of William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying reveals the importance of goals, mi...
