Alice Munro - Alice is Colonel Munro’s second daughter with his second wife. She has an older half sister who is the opposite of her. Alice is a girly girl with blond hair and beautiful skin who loves Major Heyward. When she gets stressed she faints. At times Alice can also have an opinion about certain things. Pg 48 (Digital) - “If he has been my fathers enemy, I like him still less!”…
Anna Frith’s transformation over the novel demonstrates that from bring a ‘timid girl’ she has drawn her strength from the events in her life, tragic and joyous, and became ‘a woman who had faced more terrors than many warriors’. With this strength she survives the plague and her determination enables to better herself through education. Anna’s thirst for knowledge and genuine love for ‘high language’ leads her to become the town’s healer and midwife. However Anna would not have gained this strength without Elinor Mompellion. Elinor becomes the emotional lynchpin in Anna’s life, helping her to overcome despair and reclaim a sense of purpose after the loss of her children. However a person with real courage such as Anna also readily admits to her fears and underestimates her own strength for example when she turns ‘pale’ at the thought of delivering a baby or going into the mine to risk her life to help Merry Wickfords. Nonetheless through Elinor’s encouragement Anna was able to accomplish such tasks. However such tasks did take a toll on Anna and even someone who is strong…
The Munro sisters, Cora and Alice, are as different as their mothers. Cora has her mother’s West Indian fire, her father’s courage, and the independence and strength of having grown up bridging two worlds, English and west-Indian,, old world and new. She is passionate like Uncas; and like him she also loves and respects her father both as a man and as a soldier. Her clever manipulation of Magua and her concern for everyone in her captured party, shows her father’s influence. Just as Hawkeye is more like Chingachgook than is Uncas, Cora is far more like her father than Alice, who is an outlier in the new world, frail and nervous, as unlike her father as Uncas, with his ranging and impetuous warrior nature, is unlike his. Yet Alice also grows up influenced by her father and so she soldier’s on despite her fears. Chingachgook and Colonel Munro both suffer the loss of a beloved child. Munro is left with Alice and Chingachgook with Hawkeye. All are forever bonded by war and…
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She enters the house to freshen up before going out to dinner with Henry. She puts on her finest outfit, "which was the symbol of her prettiness". This also, is a symbol of her femininity. Henry sees her and is stunned by her beauty and femininity. He says, "You look so nice!" She tenses up and asks for what he means by it, his definition of nice. He goes on to say, "I don't know. I mean you look different, strong and happy." She is eyes widely interested in this and asks "What do you mean 'strong'?". He is taken aback by her response. Henry was just trying to compliment her and she still would not allow him to enter her heart, almost as if he has offended her with his praise. As they continue their way to dinner, Elisa discovers something quite tragic to her. She sees her treasured chrysanthemums discarded on the side of the road as if a pile of unimportant garbage. She is distraught at the sight of them lying there mercilessly. She is brought to tears as she realizes that they surely mean nothing- symbolic to her self-worth. The repairman had only saved the pot, which was of far more value to him. The poor flowers are left to wilt and die, unable to survive on the side of the road. Sadly, that is such the case of her identity. She pulls up her coat collar to hide her tears, in which she cries; handling the situation with the weakness of a woman, rather than the strength of a male. Her strength has no match now. She will always be a female at the root no matter how strong it appears…
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In the 18th centruy, a war takes place in Colonial America known as the French and Indian war. British and French troops fight against eachother for control of the American colonies. The Mohicans assist the British while the Hurons assist the French. Chingachgook, his son Uncas, and Nathanial or Hawkeye, his adopted white son, are the members of the Mohican tribe. They were told by the British to travel to New York, where they would join Fort William Henry. Meanwhile, Cora and Alice Munro, Colonel Edmund Munro's daughters, were told by their father to meet him at Fort William Henry who were guided by Major Duncan Heyword and Magua.…
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The thought of creating something out of nothing seems very complicated because nothing is not usually actually nothing. The absence of anything, not a thing, is indeed a simple and straightforward concept when thought of subjectively. Every day, modern human beings continue on throughout their day completing their normal routines. Most of the time they see nothing out of the ordinary, whether it be sitting at home, walking down the street , or engaging in a conversation with a friend. Even though these actions seem uneventful, they relatable as every human being goes through such experiences. This meaningless experience can be given value by the memories created and the worth that is built upon the moments that are shared with other individuals.…
A) As you read in this unit, self-efficacy is extremely important during this developmental stage. The book states, “The key to self-esteem, then, is the amount of discrepancy between what the child desires and what he hinks he has achieved” (p. 250). Relate this information to your own experience as a child (ages 6-12). How did your family influence your self-efficacy during this time of your development? How did your peers influence your self-efficacy during this time of your development? If you could go back in time, what advice might you give yourself during this age to help develop greater self-efficacy and why? Please provide specific examples from your own life story throughout the essay.…
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As seen in American history, there have been several presidents in which their significance were not greatly acknowledged, compared to the more well-known presidents such as George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, etc. Of these includes President James Monroe, the fifth president of the United States of America. Although there have been various opinions regarding Monroe and his presidency, he was in fact a successful president due to his achievements in office.…
You are the Chief Operations Officer a midsized window frame, aluminum siding, and tire recycling equipment manufacturing company located in the northeastern United States. Your company is organized along product lines, and you directly supervise the three people in charge of each of these product lines. The plants for these products are geographically dispersed over a two state area; the nearest plant is located only ten minutes away but the farthest plant is a two hour drive from the company headquarters. Although your company has been financially sound over the past ten years, over the past four months your company has been experiencing a serious cash flow problem. You believe part of this problem stems from the recent downturn in the local, regional, and national economy. However, you also believe this problem may be due to inefficient plant operations. You have called in the heads of the three product lines to determine whether plant operations can be improved to help alleviate the cash flow problem. The following is a more complete description of the three product lines and the people responsible for running these operations.…