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Mildred's Disturbing Devotion To Veda
1,480 wordsSummary: Mildred Pierce, by James M. Cain, begins in pre-Depression California, and ends during World War II times, also in California. The main character, Mildred Pierce, is a very attractive housewife of 29, raising two daughters, Ray and Veda. Although Mildred loves both her daughters, Veda is a particular obsession with Mildred. She constantly slaves away throughout the novel to do whatever she can to make Veda happy, despite the constant abuse and deception Veda inflicts upon Mildred. After...
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Isabel Allende
437 wordsAbout the Author It was fifteen years ago that, Isabel Allende took the literary world by storm with the publication of The House of the Spirits, a novel which chronicled four generations of a Chilean family against the backdrop of Chile's brutal history. The Times of London heralded Allende as having 'the rare ability to blend fantasy and legend with political fact and a well-plotted narrative to produce an enchanted world unlike anything else in contemporary fiction. ' The New York Times calle...
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Mr Frye Needs
1,949 wordsRush 2 I interview my friend, Timothy Frye. Mr. Frye was born on January 08, 1976 Cleveland, Ohio to Mary Johnson and Jordan Frye. Mr. Frye prefers to be addressed as Tim. He is mixed, Tim's mother is mixed with black and white and his father is black. His dad left them when he was twelve years old but still came around every now and again. She remarried when he was eighteen. He is an African American male at the age of twenty-eight. He came from a middle class family, but his had more money tha...
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World Of Female
826 wordsRelations between women in the 18th and 19th centuries. Theme: Relations between women in the 18th and 19th centuries. Thesis: Relationships between women in the nineteenth century America created a web of love and support for women. Mothers and daughters, sisters and friends from childhood formed emotional and sometimes physical bonds that lasted lifetimes. These ties were acknowledged and easily accepted in their societies. Many women survived unthinkable hardships such as geographical isolati...
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Hospital The Doctor
2,012 words"An Event Which Changed My Life " An Event which changed my life, well when, I think back on my life there's Many changes for the good and some were bad but, there were some learning experiences that help make me a better person. The events in my life, was dealing with the Birth and The Death of my first daughter. The First, Event was the birth of my first daughter it, was a joyous event in my life. I remembered one night getting on my knees and asking God to send me a child that will love me un...
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German Irish Ethnicity
873 wordsName: Title: The impact of ethnicity on my family Subject: Due Date: Growing up, my family consisted of my mother, father, and my three brothers. My father was of German decent and my mother was of Irish. There was a stigma attached to being a German American back in the late 1940's and as a result, my father would have nothing to do with this German heritage. He changed his name from Willie to William and as a great disappointment to my grandparents, refused to learn the German language. Even w...
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Angela's Mother
1,780 wordsRepeated images of Angela Bari living an imprisoned life in Voices by Dacia Martini play an important role in book. The internal and external forces surrounding Angela Bari lead her to a life of confinement and domination. If Angela Bari had broken away from her confinement she may have prevented her untimely death by exposing the ill ways of her stepfather, Glauco Elia. Angela's secretiveness, self-doubt, and compliance with others lead her to victimization. It is not until her unfortunate murd...
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Wharton's Roman Fever
1,046 wordsEDITH WHARTON'S ROMAN FEVER Roman Fever by Edith Wharton is a story about two well-to-do American widows who escort their unmarried daughters on a grand vacation. Alida Slade and Grace Ansley are the primary characters in Wharton's tale that incorporates love, mother / daughter relationships and sexuality into a compelling piece of literary work. The story's beginning finds the older women partaking of the glorious view of the Forum from their restaurant seats. The younger ladies, on the other h...
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Dotson And The Guard
366 wordsWas Dotson picking a fight? Had she dressed inappropriately? Was she noisily disrupting other shoppers or shouting obscenities in the bustling food court? No, Dotson was doing the simple act of bonding with her then-5-month-old daughter - she was breastfeeding". The guard approached me and told me that I had to 'cover up,' " recalls Dotson, who was momentarily stunned with the demand. Her daughter, Ruby, was a "gymnastic eater" who did not like to be covered when breastfeeding. Dotson and the gu...
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Art And Orchid's Daughter
2,875 wordsThe stories Maus and The Woman Warrior that we read this semester seem very different from each other, but I think that they both contain similarities and can be contrasted readily. The Woman Warrior by Maxing Hong Kingston like Maus by Art Spiegelman deals with storytelling and tradition derived from racial issues. These books are not merely based on race though. Culture, identity, language, heritage, history, and discrimination are all components in the compositions of Maus and The Woman Warri...
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Ten Years Of Marriage And Her Husband
1,585 wordsSince ancient times, families have been an important part of society. Often what family someone was a part of would determine social status and the way that person was thought of. Families were usually well structured with a head and many extended family members. In present times, the family structure has changed to the nuclear family with a husband, wife, and a few children. Often in these times, one could lose sight of the extended family and how they relate to each other. With divorce and rem...
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My Mothers Words
726 wordsIS THAT MY MOTHERS WORDS COMING OUT OF MY MOUTH My favorite phrase during my teenage years was, When I have children I wont treat them like you treat me! Now I am sure every mother on earth has heard their daughters say these words, but at the time I had put all the venom a 13 year old could into those words. I was sure I had deeply wounded my mother and this would send her screaming into the dark Carolina night. I was so wrong. She didnt turn a hair on her permed head. Could it be she had heard...
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Grandfather's Daughter
1,020 wordsenglish English coursework I am going to talk about how relationships in the short stories have been portrayed and see the interesting methods in which the writer presents the relationships. Also to discuss the writers concerns, attitudes and feelings of the main characters. Introduction Superman and Paula Brown's New Snowsuit by Silvia Plath. This story is in first person narrative it is about young girl you looks back to her childhood and it is now thirteen years later and certain incidents re...
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Upsets Mrs Dietrich
1,524 wordsShopping is based on tribulations of a mother daughter relationship that are exposed during their annual shopping trip. Mrs. Dietrich is a middle aged woman whose marriage collapsed due to betrayal by her husband. Mrs. Dietrich's only outlet for giving and receiving love is through her seventeen year old daughter Nola, who she desperately longs to have an intimate relationship with. Mrs. Dietrich hopelessly tries to preserve Nola's childlike image, fearing, she will no longer be needed when Nola...
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True Mother To Jessie
1,786 wordsParents are children's first role models and heroes. They look to their parents for love, guidance and approval. Parents try to shelter and comfort their young from any and every danger. Immediate family ties are supposed to be the strongest bonds of all. Expressions such as, "Like father, like son", and "Momma's boy" are frequently used to describe members of the American family. Yet when vital information is withheld from the family by a parent or child, the communication lines within the fami...
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Left Ying
766 wordsAt age 16, the relationship between my family and I progressed profoundly. Before then, there was hardly any communication, let alone a relationship. How does a nurturing relationship occur between parent and child? In Amy Tan's novel, The Joy Luck Club she explores the relationships of four mothers and daughters. In the relationship between Ying-ying St Clair and her daughter Lena, the mother tries to teach her daughter the value of self worth. Tan tells us the story of Ying Ying's earlier abus...
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Bernarda Alba
404 wordsShort Essay on the play 'The house of Bernarda Alba' Federico Garcia Lorca's last play, completed in 1936 just weeks before his brutal murder, depicts a reclusive household of eight women sequestered by Andalusian codes of honour. This short play is set in rural Spain at the turn of this century. The characters, all women, exist in a cloistered household managed by a newly widowed mother of five daughters. Under the shadow of the church and the tyranny bred from a need to protect the reputation ...
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Ying St Clair
1,913 wordsA Conflict of Culture The Joy Luck Club is a novel written by Amy Tan. This novel happens to be Tan's most widely read piece of work as well as her first published book. This one book has been nominated for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award as well as the recipient of the Commonwealth Gold Award and the Bay Area Book Reviewers Award. The Joy Luck Club was very much influenced by Tan's own childhood. Tan's mother and father moved from China to Oakland, California ...
