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    Daniel Lee HIS-1101-XTIB 12/T1 (Williams) 10 October 2012 Book Report Bainton‚ Roland H. Here I Stand: A life of Martin Luther. Third Printing Hardback March 2011. Peabody: Hendrickson Publishers Marketing‚ LLC‚ 1950. Bainton’s Here I Stand is a chronologically arranged biography of Martin Luther’s life which seeks to show his philosophy and ideas for the reform of the Catholic Church without seeking to perform psychoanalysis of the Reformer. The book has twenty two chapters separated in

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    Everyday Use Conflict

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    The core conflicts that is represented in the “Everyday Use” story is Maggie and Mama on one side against Dee about their rural African American heritage. In case‚ Mama and Maggie have various objects (i.e. butter churn‚ dasher‚ and quilt) around the house used and created for everyday purposes that they considered part of their lively hood. On the other hand‚ Dee sees the significance of various objects around the house as artifacts rather than to use for its intended purposes. For example‚ the dasher

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    Through its eye opening events‚ Alice Walker’s “Everyday Use” suggest everyone can reach a breaking point and stand up. Honesty and integrity pitted against posturing and artificiality can result in positive change. Mama showed how things can happen in life‚ and can change your whole perspective on many things. In “Everyday Use” Dee was mamas daughter that was never satisfied. She had always been favored by everyone based on her looks and her whit’s compared to her sister Maggie. Dee felt like no

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    Essay 1 – “The Loons” and “I Stand Here Ironing” 2. Compare and contrast the ways in which conflicts between and within generations (parents and children‚ friends and their peers) provide complication and develop theme in "The Loons" and "I Stand Here Ironing." In Margaret Laurence’s short story “The Loons” and Tillie Olsen’s short story “I Stand Here Ironing”‚ the shared theme is that conflicts between your peers and family members make it difficult to find one’s identity. The character Piquette

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    outlook‚ but also she has a good brain. And she is good at showing herself to others. But‚ Maggie is not quite healthy as her sister. Just as the author says in the beginning part of the work. She is shy and lack of confidence. Most of time‚ Maggie stands behind her mother. On the other hand‚ Dee has great curiosity about white culture and modern society‚ but Maggie is the traditional one. Even the two daughters are quite different‚ mama treats them as equal. She likes them all very sincerely. Before

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    far from her culture that she cannot retain any of it. As a dualist‚ Maggie is sitting directly on the threshold of which‚ she is slowly transitioning into the future while having her past inlaid within her. Maggie states that‚ “[Dee] can have them...I can ’member Grandma Dee without the quilts”.(p.6) Maggie’s quilts giver her an advantage of which she can write her own story into a visible quilt‚ keeping her past‚ living the present and building the future; something

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    Everyday Use Questions Question A: I can infer that Maggie has been the child that has always taken the guilt for everything and has never really been rewarded because Dee has always been the rewarded child. I think that Maggie is treated and thought of this way because of of how the book states that Maggie is always ashamed and stands helplessly in corners of their home. I also conclude this statement because of the point of fact that the book says that Maggie envies and is in awe when she looks

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    family’s’ long history. This is the common bond between the two. Wangero wants these to try and recoup her lost history. She has lost her roots. Roots she not so long ago scoffed and pushed aside for a new life‚ a new culture. Two quilts that she wants to use as a symbol of her heritage. She wants people to see her heritage. Bits of old cloth sewn together demonstrating her oppressed past. Allowing people to see‚ she has over come her past. That she is no longer oppressed. In contrast

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    story‚ “Everyday Use” you will notice the use of fire throughout the story. In this story the older sister‚ who is educated and intelligent‚ comes to visit her mother and younger sister. The short story expresses lots of imagery of a fire throughout the story. A younger child might think a fire is scary; however‚ a prescribed fire is a good thing. Prescribed burning is a controlled fire that helps the ecosystem by improving habitats for animals and reducing the chances for wild fire. The first use of

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    Everyday Use Analysis

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    Everyday UseEveryday Use” is a short story by “Alice Walker”‚ it is a disdainful short story. A story about two sisters and a mom‚ that the two girls are totally different. Also teaching to stand up for what you want. This story is about a mom and a girl called Maggie that they live alone because the older sibling moved out. In the story Maggie and the mother have not seen how much Dee has changed in over six years. Dee in the short story sees that her sister Maggie and her mother have not change

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