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Leonoras Struggle With The Society
2,493 wordsLeonora Alcharisi Individualism in George Eliots Daniel Deronda Although Daniels mother is only in two chapters of George Eliots Daniel Deronda, she stands out as one of the novels most memorable, and shocking, characters. Leonora Alcharisi completely obliterates any preconceptions that Daniel, and the reader, had about what his mother might be like. The crux of why she is so shocking is that her character is bereft of any motherly qualities. Leonoras renouncing of the role that society values m...
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St Therese Of Lisieux
1,347 wordsSt. Therese of Lisieux There are some people that find the great St. Teresa of Avila, the namesake of my Therese Martin, rather terrifying. When you get to know a little about her, she seems very charming and you begin to like her. Little Therese, on the other hand, has never been disliked and has never made anybody in the least afraid. She was characterized by a complete ordinariness and if it wasn't for her being an exceptional person, she would be a "normal" woman. Nevertheless, her main sign...
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Missy's Mother
1,334 wordsThe author of the book, The Ladies of Missalonghi, by Colleen McCullough describes to the reader how Missy, an unattractive woman, in a small town differs from Alicia. Missy, the daughter of Drusilla did not really have any self-confidence in herself. "She would begin by wondering what she really looked like. The house owned only one mirror, in the bathroom, and it was forbidden to stand and gaze at one's reflection. Thus Missy's impressions of herself were hedged with guilt that she might have ...
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Nellie McClung
1,808 wordsNELLIE McCLUNG "She was spirited, she was amazing, she was effective", a few commonly used words to describe Nellie McClung. She was a petit, pretty westerner with strong Christian values and a heart of gold. Nellie spent most of her life as a wife, mother, midwife, teacher, lecturer, legislator and writer. Throughout her long, diverse career she was a potent influence on Canadian society. From a young age Nellie was advanced far beyond her years. She read every book she could get a hold of, kne...
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Esteban's Life
1,266 wordsIn her famous The House of the Spirits, Isabel Allende documents the life of several characters during the Chilean reality in the 1930's. Her notorious feminist ideology is, at times, extremely obvious. Elements such as the clash of social classes and the social, political and economical conditions of Chile during this period of high turmoil are also well portrayed. Isabel Allende achieves to give us a good image of what life in Chile was like during those years. Some particular characters speci...
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Gwen In Movie 28 Days
1,900 wordsCase Study: The Movie 28 Days Shanda Fisher December 5, 2000 PSY-241-01 R. Arndt I. Introduction The person I am doing this case study on is Sandra Bullock or rather her character as Gwen Cummings in the 2000 film "28 Days". My reasons for choosing this character is not that in the movie she is in short already diagnosed as being a full-fledged alcoholic, and place in rehab because of it. Other past experience that were show through out the film led me to look deeper into her past and find the r...
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Typical Saturday Night For Jessie And Mama
1,421 wordsMarsha Normans night, Mother illustrates a central point about the nature of what creates drama in a play: the anticipation of an outcome. In this case, that means that Mama, and the story's audience, learns early on of Jessie's plans. And because of learning Jessie's plans, both Mama and the story's audience are thrust deep into the heart of this story's question: Will Jessie really kill herself, or can Mama find a way to stop her What's at stake in this story is also made very clear: Jessie's ...
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Simone De Beauvoir
1,594 wordsA lot of things happened in Simone de Beauvoir's life, most having to do with women and the way they were treated. She was a very observant person, and her writing reflects that. Simone de Beauvoir's writings attempted to deal on paper with the vast emotions conjured by her life experiences, particularly women she knew who were "assassinated by bourgeois morality". ("Simone") Simone de Beauvoir was born in Paris, France on January 9, 1908. She was raised by a Catholic mother from Verdun, and a f...
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Image Of Dinah's Mothers
5,220 wordsLiterary Analysis: The Red Tent The author and her times Anita Diamant, author of the historic fiction novel, The Red Tent, is a devout Jewish-American living in Newton ville, Massachusetts with her husband and daughter, Emilia. She has written five books about contemporary Jewish life, The Red Tent being her first novel. Diamant may have been influenced by the recent resurgence of creating Midrash im, or stories that attempt to explain the Torah by examining its subtexts. Modern women have take...
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Gun To Lionel's Head
1,118 words... ere, they hold a gun to their heads. they make the son sleep with his mother. if it is a daughter and father, they do the same thing' (p. 12). If they resisted they would shoot them. 'The soldiers held a gun to Lionel's head and ordered him... to become intimate with his mother. Lionel refused. Their mother told him to go ahead and obey the soldiers because she was afraid they would kill Lionel on the spot... Lionel did as his mother told him, crying as the soldiers laughed at him, pressing ...
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Back To Birdee's Home Town Of Smithville
1,776 wordsHope Floats The movie I decided to watch is called Hope Floats. This is a great movie, and it not only should be about love, but it showed me about life. Do you think you can fix your life and get it back on the right track all on your own? All you have to do is just have to give hope a chance and believe that everything will get better someday. There is always a time in everyone's life when something horrible happens. Sometimes it something that changes your very course of life in an instant. T...
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Name L.L. Cool J
1,106 wordsI Make My Own Rules, An Autobiography by L.L. Cool J. I Make My Own Rules, was written by L.L. Cool J. He is better known as L.L. However, his birth name is James Todd Smith. L.L. was born on January 14, 1968 at Southside Hospital in Bayshore, New York. Today he is a thirty-year-old successful singer, writer, actor, and humanitarian. He lives with his wife, Simone and their three children, Na jee, Tally, and Samaria. L.L. wrote his autobiography, I Make My Own Rules, for anyone who has experienc...
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Pepe
606 wordsBecoming a man could not always be pinned down to a certain age. A boy becomes a man when there arises a need. In Flight, Pepe is forced into manhood too soon. When Pepe is sent to town by his mother to perform his first "labor", it does not seem like it is such a big thing to ask. Yes, Pepe is proud, because this is the first time Mama has ever given him any special responsibility. Mama tells him to go and get supplies they need. He is not to waste time or money on frivolities. Pepe tells Mama ...
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Ursula And Jose Arcadio Buendia
1,565 wordsThe innate tendency to commit incest is one of the main ongoing themes in One Hundred Years of Solitude. There seems to be no way of avoiding it from generation to generation of the Buendia family. Jose Arcadio Buendia and Ursula Iguaran flee their native town and found the Utopian town of Macondo in hopes of escaping from their incestuous destiny and the karma of having murdered someone. Like the Greek myth of Oedipus Rex, their actions to prevent a tragedy are actually the means that aid in th...
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Ps From Lila
1,354 words2. "There's a good deal more to Careful, he might hear you than the sad story of a little boy with a strange name". Do you agree Careful, he might hear you is much more than the sad story of a little boy with a strange name, although the story does contain elements of pathos. It is a melange of emotions slowly heating until boiling point is reached. The author, Sumner Locke Elliott, dwells on a number of themes which appear throughout the novel. The story follows the constrained life of a young ...
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Selina's Protected Bajan Community
886 wordsGoing Home Again In Paule Marshall's novel Brown Girl, Brownstones the story takes place in the America of the 1950 ties where union with the ideals, values and traditions that declare one an "American" is only possible beneath one skin, the white skin. Every other skin exists in a fractured double consciousness; lost in duality, vainly seeking a unification which endlessly eludes the non-white experience. W.E. B Dubois wrote in his paper The Souls of Black Folk "Why did God make me an outcast a...
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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...
