“Only a girl” In Alice Munro’s “Boys and Girls” she tells a story about a young girl’s resistance to womanhood in a society infested with gender roles and stereotypes. The story takes place in the 1940s on a fox farm outside of Jubilee‚ Ontario‚ Canada. During this time‚ women were viewed as second class citizens‚ but the narrator was not going to accept this position without a fight. Munro’s invention of an unnamed character symbolized the narrator’s lack of identity‚ compared to her younger
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Advantages of working mother/housewife • More disposable income • Freedom to make independent financial choices with own money • Meet more people • Equal relationship • Have a life outside of home Disadvantages of working mother • Discrimination in the workplace when colleagues find you have a child • Risk being critisized for not being home to care for child • Less time for yourself • Problems with finding good child care • Juggling work with sick kids • Spending almost
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Woof. Woof woof. The consistent barking of my neighbor’s dog awakens me. I look outside the window only to realize its just 5 o’clock in the morning. Four hours before I need to get ready to head out with my family for a Sunday outing. “No use hitting the pillow now. I won’t be able to sleep anyhow.”‚ I tell myself. Having no clue how to spend these 5 hours‚ I start walking around my house. My room‚ with its orange hues‚ is the brightest one of all the rooms. Be it summer‚ winter or monsoon
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Working mothers are once again under scrutiny from the society. For a long time the belief has been that working mothers are not able to give their children the love and care that they deserve and therefore make their children have limited growth and development in both social and cognitive aspects (Raquel 1173). The view is that the relationship with the mother helps a child establish and maintain relationships with others. However‚ recent studies have proven that working mothers
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decides to give Adam and Eve free will to choose how they want to live their lives. God only gives Adam and Eve one condition: do not eat fruit from the Tree of Knowledge. However‚ Eve’s free will leads her to temptations that invoke her curious thoughts. Acting on her thoughts‚ Eve eats the forbidden fruit that God outlawed. After eating the fruit from the Tree of Knowledge‚ Eve challenges the established hierarchy because she refuses to be Adam’s
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alike and different‚ just as the two poets Edgar Lee Masters and Amy Lowell are Edgar Lee Masters and Amy Lowell write poetry about life‚ finding love and experiencing loss in very different ways‚ but both are successful in bringing about a truly touching connection with their readers. These two poets have an extraordinary ability to attract their audiences‚ by using both romanticism and modern techniques in their writing. Amy Lowell said it best when she said‚ “A poet feeds on beauty as a plant feeds
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Working students Students should work throughout high school. I think that working in high school can help teenagers to grow up and learn responsibility. It can teach them how to wisely use and manage their money for when they go out into the real world. It helps them to mature and to realize they need a job and an education to succeed in the real world. It may also help you to decide what type of business you want to get into in the future. I believe that many high school students start to work
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1. The author‚ Leslie Chang‚ contends that “the history of a family begins when a person leaves home”. Do you agree or disagree with this statement? Tell why‚ and then give examples from your own life or from published material outside this book to defend your opinion. I agree with the statement “the history of a family begins when a person leaves home” . when Chang left rural tradition behind to make a new life for themselves in the city. The old rules no longer apply‚ traditional education and
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analysis of ‘The Zulu Girl’ by Roy Campbell The Zulu Girl is a poem written by Roy Campbell‚ which at a glance appears to be about a Zulu girl and her son. An in-depth analysis reveals it to be a poem about the life of African people being dominated by European civilisation. The title refers to a girl. Not just any girl but ‘the Zulu Girl’. This implies that there is something unique about her‚ something that sets her apart from the rest who are around her. The Zulu Girl seems unfamiliar to the
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enthusiastic on the phone. The IT Company he represented had started installing green data centres and energy-efficient computers. Would I like to fly to California to see for myself? That would be a 2‚500-mile round trip from my home in Midwestern Canada. According to the online calculator from Terapas‚ the trip would release 1.132 pounds (About 500 kilos) of CO2 into the atmosphere. ‘if you’re really into green technology‚ couldn’t we do a videoconference instead? ‘I asked. ‘Sure‚’ said the PR person. We
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