The Educated Single Mother “A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take.” (Mermillod) This quote emphasizes one of the many meanings of the word “mother”. This quote can especially relate to single mothers. When faced with the difficulty of raising a child by yourself‚ you sometimes have to play the role of mom and dad. Mothers may never be able to fill the void of the missing father‚ but given the chances‚ they will try. To say the least‚ being a
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MOTHER TO SON: VIDEO PRESENTATION ‘Mother to Son’ is an ecstatic poem composed by Langston Hughes. The poem is structured in a form of a conversation between a mother and her son. Hughes assures her son that her life wasn’t crystal stair‚ she also had to face several struggles in her life. Hence‚ she commands her son not to look back and keep climbing higher in life even if he thinks climbing is hard. He should try not to fall and climb the stairway of success without any fear because his mother
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Dear Mother Teresa: “Holiness is not a luxury of the few‚ it is a simple duty for each one of us.” - Mother Teresa of Calcutta (“Announcing the Beatification of Mother Teresa of Calcutta.” – Mother Teresa.) I have been a fan of yours for a long time‚ believed you always did extraordinary work‚ even though you were far away from Macedonia your hometown. You felt in loved while you worked in Calcutta‚ India. There are so many things I admire about you. You were a nun that had a mission‚ but you
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In the story “Aria” by Richard Rodriguez and “Mother Tongue” by Amy Tan both authors write about their experiences and struggles as a bilingual child. In “Aria” and “Mother Tongue” they describe their private language as an expression of intimacy with their loved ones. Growing up at one point they felt embarrassed and ashamed of their parents inability to speak English fluently. Tan writes “My mother’s “limited” English limited my perception of her. I was ashamed of her English‚” (Tan 543). They
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The Mother by Gwendolyn Brooks There are a good number of issues in the world that stand unsolved. The debates on some of them are on for ever and ever but a feasible solution has never risen in the horizon. The most prominent among these perennial issues is abortion. It is a topic that has been subjected to serious debate across all the parts of the world. However‚ so far we have arrived at a convincing answer to believe abortion to be secure and justified or as a heinous crime of the humanity
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EXTENSION ENGLISH: HERO WORDS:2079 DASSI. KASTEL Hero assignment What is a hero? Throughout the ages the concept of a hero changes and transforms into what a person people typically find heroic. The hero figure changes over time. One would imagine a hero to be a strong‚ intelligent and charismatic character‚ typically a knight or prince riding on a gleaming white stallion to save a maiden or city from a dangerous threat. There is a quote by a man of
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Vladyslav Bondarenko Doctor Contreras English 10 H Period 2 September 9 2012 The View of a Russian Mother on American Education Today My mother‚ Maryna Bondarenko lived in Sverdlovsk‚ Russia for the first 6 years of her life. The Ural Mountains was a home to her‚ she clearly enjoyed the bright crisp of the air in the chilly mornings of fall. It would snow early‚ somewhere around November and the snow will keep falling and lay until beginnings of March. Then her dad‚ Sergey Kaldyaev‚ had to
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Forgive me mother Its strange how memories of the past can be so terrifying. The thoughts and the occurring dreams are always similar. I would remember longing for a summer where the summers light would beam on my body with the warmth of the sun. Winter was worse because I was terrified by the cold thick air that I would inhale inside my thin body until it feels I was shivering to death. The feeling of being alone ‚ I couldn’t even sleep at night without being terrified; not because of being
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Five Mother Sauces Béchamel‚ the classic white sauce‚ was named after its inventor‚ Louis XIV’s steward Louis de Béchamel. The king of all sauces‚ it is often referred to as a cream sauce because of its appearance and is probably used most frequently in all types of dishes. Made by stirring milk into a butter-flour roux‚ the thickness of the sauce depends on the proportion of flour and butter to milk. The proportions for a thin sauce would be 1 tablespoon each of butter and flour per 1 cup of milk;
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Necessity is the mother of invention The meaning of the proverb is self-evident. We invent what we need; unless we feel the pressure of needs‚ we are not likely to invent anything. The fable of the thirsty crow which collected pebbles and threw them into the jar to raise the level of water to the bird’s reach of lips is well-known. Mere necessity would not help us much if we are not moved by thought. Animals have their needs but because they lack the power of thinking and ingenuity‚ they cannot
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