from Dalhousie University in Halifax‚ Canada and MPhil from Delhi University. She taught at Miranda College‚ New Delhi for over three decades and then took a sabbatical inorder to spend more time in writing. Her first novel Difficult Daughters published in 1998 won the Commonwealth Prize for the best first book in 1999. Her other novels are A Married Woman (2003)‚ Home (2006)‚ The Immigrant (2008) and Custody (2011). She also edited Shaping the World: Women Writers on Themselves‚ a work that documents
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The Explorer’s Daughter Biography of Kari Herbert: The daughter of polar explorer‚ Sir Wally Herbert‚ Herbert spent the first few years of her life living on a remote island in the Arctic with the Inuit of Greenland. Her first language was Inuktun‚ the local language of Greenland. At the age of four Herbert accompanied her parents on a journey that took them through winter blizzards in a caravan to spend time with the Sami of Lapland. She has continued to travel there ever since. Poem description/criticism:
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Kathleen Kent even said herself that "Martha was called the “Queen of Hell” by Cotton Mather‚ Martha was unyielding in her refusal to confess and went to her death rather than join the accused men and women who did so and were spared." (Heretics Daughter‚ WWW). Both Sarah and Martha never believed in the process of the witchcraft and knew that they were not witches‚ while everyone else in the town was terrified and continuing to accuse people of being so. While having a different opinion of the situation
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The Developing Mind of Sarah Carrier In The Heretic’s Daughter by Kathleen Kent‚ the main character is quickly forced to rid her 9 year old views and see the world in a mature perspective. Being exposed to something as horrific as the Salem Witch Trials‚ Sarah learns the difference between acting like an adult and actually thinking like one. Her youthful perspective grows into a mature outlook during the course of her harsh journey that consisted of the problems bore by her family thus resulting
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Rappaccini’s Daughter” shows that there is corruption in the world‚ Beatrice is the only innocent person portrayed in the story. Almost all the characters in the story are corrupt. From Giovanni showing his love‚ but in reality being infatuated with Beatrice‚ to Rappaccini committing the biggest sin‚ which is pride. Everyone is guilty of corruption in the story except for Beatrice. Giovanni lives in an apartment overlooking Rappaccini’s garden and makes the acquaintance of the doctor’s daughter‚ whose
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The prodigal daughter Plot: The story begins with a single mother who has two daughter‚ she works two jobs to meet their necessities. They are dirt poor and struggling. She tries to instill in her daughters the principle of character ( the soul) which only comes through a relationship with Jesus Christ. She always told them that a relationship with Jesus Christ is worth more than silver‚ gold‚ and all the material things the
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Only Daughter In the essay entitled “Only Daughter” by Sandra Cisneros‚ she wrote about her life growing up in a Mexican-American family of nine; to which she was the only daughter. Although her father did love her‚ he did not show it much at all. The effects on Cisneros’s life due to her father’s lack of attention while growing up were: Spending time alone‚ attending college‚ and becoming a professional writer. The first important effect due to Cisneros’s father’s lack of attention was
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How can we fix Afghanistan? Imagine a world with no war‚ no conflict between nations and only prosperity throughout. Today our country is occupying many areas of the Middle East. In the book The Favored Daughter by Fawzia Koofi talks about the life of a young afghan girl growing up in a society full of terror. Koofi describes life growing up with a powerful political figure for a father‚ she goes on to describe many crazy situations in her life such as almost being killed multiple times‚ the violence
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of romantic literature. In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “Rappaccini’s Daughter”‚ Rappaccini studies botany and experiments on his own daughter Beatrice‚ who now lives a life of isolation in her father’s home and garden; Giovanni is then captivated by the nature of Beatrice. Both the natural and human aspects of nature brings out the true personalities of characters‚ and depicts the natural occurrence of curiosity within all humans. Rappaccini is a naturally curious man. This is especially apparent in his
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Sone’s "Nisei Daughter" and Studs Terkel’s "Hard Times" we are also able to see the many different ways in which people handle themselves‚ not only through the events
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