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My Mother A Lot
690 wordsPersonal Writing About My Mother and Her Stay In the Hospital by Master of ZoulDuring second period math class, the PA comes on. I hear 'David Higgins to the office for an early dismissal, Please'. Being as I was only in the second grade, I rushed to the office, only to see my God Mother waiting for me. She tells me that we have to go pick up my other two brothers at pre-school. I asked her why, but, she only responded with 'I'll explain later'. So I followed her to the car and hopped in. We rus...
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Lavinia Alone In The Mannon Estate
1,451 wordsThe House of Mannon Eugene O'Neill's Mourning Becomes Electra is a play of revenge, sacrifice, and murder conveyed through visible references to Aeschylus' House of Atreus. O'Neill alludes to The House of Atreus in order to ground the play; attaching the plot to well-known aspects of history. As well, it brings a certain significance that otherwise would be neglected if their underlying manifestations went unnoticed. The most prominent of these allusions is that to Aeschylus' House of Atreus. O'...
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Great Deal Of Larrys Mother
1,113 wordsThe story My Oedipus Complex by Frank OConnor deals exclusively with a little boy named Larry and his feelings towards his father. When his father returns home from World War II, Larry is resentful and jealous of losing his mothers undivided attention, and finds himself in a constant struggle to win back her affections. I really enjoyed My Oedipus Complex, because it reminded me a great deal of my elementary school days. My brother Brian was born when I was five, and from that day on there was n...
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Quentin And Jason
1,323 wordsSeveral times throughout The Sound and the Fury, as in other novels, are scenes in which the family, or parts of it, is sitting down at the dinner table for a meal. In Jason's section, there is a particular scene in which this occurs. At this point in time, the Compson family consists of Jason, his mother, Quentin and Benj y, and Dilsey and Luster. The scene begins by Jason refusing to eat dinner, or even go to the dinner table, until his mother and Quentin come down to accompany him. This situa...
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My Best Friend's Mother
1,419 wordsGrowing Pains Growing up I was an abused child who wanted nothing more than to break free of the horrible torture that was imposed on me every day of my childhood. My mother hated me, and she was not shy in saying so. She would belittle me as if it gave her some kind of sick pleasure in destroying my fragile, developing ego. Naturally, I would grow up to be a person who didn't have any ambition or goals for the future. This was because I focused all of my energy on the thought of getting away. I...
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Boys Mother
727 wordsHumor "The ghost that got into our house on the night of November 17, 1915, raised such a hullabaloo of misunderstandings that I am sorry I didn't just let it keep on walking, and go to bed". Humor is writing intended to evoke laughter. A writer can use many techniques to make his work amusing. James Thurber creates events in the story that make the reader realize how ridiculous the situation is and laugh. The main three situations that appear to be funny are: The boys mother throwing a shoe thr...
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Back To Life And My Mother
1,337 wordsThe Stroke Every second, of every day, something happens to someone in the world. Sometimes it is for the best, and sometimes it is not. I truly believed that the bad only happened to those who deserved it. The human population lives in their safe little world believing that nothing bad will happen to them. Or at least this is what I believed. Unfortunately, as the saying goes "shit happens". On July 31st, of 2004, Judy Kol stad was walking back to the bed from the bathroom. Without warning she ...
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Christine's Mother's House And Christine And Rayona
1,724 wordsThe novel is divided into three sections narrated by three different Native American women: Rayona, Christine, and Ida. Rayona's narrative begins at the hospital, where she is playing cards with her mother, Christine, who drinks heavily and is frequently hospitalized. Rayona's father, Elgin, arrives and argues with Christine. Rayona leaves for the parking lot and finds Christine trying to break into their car. Christine says she is going to crash the car so Rayona can collect the life insurance ...
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Khadijah's Mother
755 wordsKhadijah and her brother was home alone on a Monday night. No they were not trying to have a wild party. They were waiting by the phone expecting a call from there parent. I know this sounds strange, teenagers waiting for a call from their parents. But this was not a 'Is the house okay' call. There Aunt Marla was in the Hospice House for the terminally ill. They wanted to know how she was doing and was every thing okay. When the phone rung they ran to it like horses at the race track. It was the...
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Half Hour The Doctor
555 wordsIt all started on a warm Saturday afternoon. My parents decided that we should go out on the boat that afternoon. So we changed into our swimsuits, got our beach towels, and finally piled into the van for the drive to the cabin. The cabin, where my grandparents live, is where we park our boat. Their house is about a mile from lock and dam fourteen on the Iowa side. My grandparents were away on a lustrous journey when we arrived. My dad went to fuel the boat, my mom loaded the boat with food for ...
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Pg 116 Ssif
355 wordsThe Comforts of Home Character Description! V Sarah Ham:" +/-! SS Nymphomaniac!" Pg. 117 SS! K only nineteen years old. !" Pg. 119 SS Congenital liar. !" Pg. 121 Sshe hair was cut like a dog's or an elf's and she was dressed in the latest fashion. !" Pg. 122 Thomas:" +/-! Ssif was the first time in his thirty-five years! K!" Pg. 116 SSThomas loved his mother. !" Pg. 118 SSThomas had inherited his father's reason with his ruthlessness and his mother's love of good without her tendency to pursue i...
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Back To Al's Mother
1,155 wordsOn February 11, 1847 Thomas Alva Edison was born to Samuel and Nancy Edison in the tiny back room of their quaint brick house. The family lived in the canal village of Milan, Ohio, where Samuel was a successful wooden shingle manufacturer and Nancy was a retired school teacher. Known as "Al" in his youth, Edison was the youngest of four children. His mother had given birth to six before Al, three of which were sickly and died in infancy. This, coupled with the fact that he was the "very image of...
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Storm Look 2
1,086 wordsSSN#ENC 1101 Narrative Word Count: 90309/19/02 Twisted Audience: General Audience / Instructor Purpose: Literary work To explain how a tornado can affect a family. Thesis Sentence: Although an event may be traumatic it is not necessarily life changing. Outline: I. Describe the setting A. Where / When. What was heard 1. What did the tornado sound like 2. How did parents direct usC. What was seen 1. How did the storm look 2. What did the tornado look like II. What was on the farm. House. Storm Cel...
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Adoniram's Lack Of Interest In The House
1,073 wordsAnalysis of "Revolt of 'Mother' " In Mary Wilkins Freeman's "The Revolt of 'Mother' " Mother is the typical woman of the late 1890's, who was brought up to be subservient to men, as was common during the era. America was a completely patriarchal society at the end of the nineteenth century. Women had always been perceived as lesser beings than men; women were thought to be less intelligent, weaker, and generally less important than men. "The Revolt of 'Mother' " was written just around the time ...
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My Favorite Saint
326 wordsReport My favorite is St. Teresa of Availa who I the patron saint of people in need of grace. Such as sickly people, those who have loss their parents, and. I chose her as my favorite saint because her childhood self reminds me of my present day self, and here's why. She was born March 28, 1515, as a sickly baby. She was a Spanish noble, the daughter of Don Alonso Sanchez de Cep eda and Do~na Beatriz. She grew up reading the lives of the saints, and playing in the garden. She hated killing small...
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Lavinia In Mourning Becomes Electra
780 wordsHouse of Atreus is an Ancient Greek myth that has been passed from one generation to another for endless centuries. The lessons taught from this myth to the humanity at large about the meaning if being human are numerous and very interesting. The famous writer, Eugene ONeill recognized this and rewrote the Greek myth by creating his trilogy, Mourning Becomes Electra. It is a more modern version of the same story. Within each story, there exists a very important daughter-figure who plays an impor...
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Mother In The Rocking Horse Winner
914 wordsA Comparison and Contrast of D.H. Lawrence's The Rocking Horse Winner and Graham Greene's The Destructors The similarities and differences in D.H. Lawrence's The Rocking-Horse Winner and Graham Greene's The Destructors (reprinted in Laurence Perrine and Thomas R. Arp, Literature: Structure, Sound, an Sense, 6th ed. [Fort Worth: Harcourt, 1993] 291-303 and 49- 60) are easy for the reader to see. The settings of these two stories are different but two characters, mother in The Rocking-Horse Winner...
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Sharon And Her Mother
1,587 wordsThere it was again. She got up to investigate, walking towards the window she had the all to familiar feeling that there was someone outside her window, gently wrapping on it. But once again she was frustrated to find that there was no mystery person hiding in the bushes, beneath the flower box of creepers that hung below her window. Five foot ten, well toned muscles, and the temperament of a cut snake. Sharon is not the kind of woman you would want to mess around with. Her brushed and styled bl...
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My Mother And The Three Fathers
5,307 wordsI once thought that everyday was Wednesday. I was na " ive; I was three. In my fresh, three year old mind it made sense. One day as I was enjoying Sesame Street, a question a rose in my head: I wonder what day it is? This show's so good; I never want to miss it. I asked my mother- the knower of all knowledge (isn't this what children thought of their mothers?) She replied "Wednesday". The next day as I was playing with 'guys', (a name I gave my fisher price little people toys) I realized out of ...
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Alicia's Mother
526 wordsAlicia: My Story, by Alicia Apple man-Jur man, is about a young girl who lives through the horrors of World War II. Through her journeys, her and the many people she meets teach you to help others when they are in need. Even if this means putting your life on the line. One man, Wujcia, let Alicia and her mother live and hide in his house so the Germans won't find them. Alicia met Wujcia while she was looking for work. She saw a house and went there to ask if help was needed. What she found was a...
