Lately‚ I have been hearing a lot of talks from my friends and colleagues that they have enrolled their parents‚ close relatives and loved ones to the Al-Anon group. I was a little bit curious and asked my colleague what was the buzz all about this Al-Anon group‚ and she directly answered me that it was the answered prayer she was praying for her mother. She shared with me that it’s been a while that their family had troubles dealing with their mom who was a chronic alcoholic. As long as she can
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directly on all womanhood.” My Antonia is set around the turn of the century‚ during a time where women’s roles in everyday life were beginning to change from the kitchen to the work force. Willa Cather portrays characters that go against stereotypical gender roles in her novel‚ My Antonia. Not only do the main characters‚ Jim Burden and Antonia Shimerdas‚ not follow the traditional gender roles‚ but neither do many of the other characters in the novel. Cather shows Antonia as a young girl who is not
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defines happiness‚ I think that Antonia would disagree with this quote‚”…to be dissolved into something complete and great‚ When it comes to one‚ it comes as naturally as sleep.” Throughout the book Antonia is ready to do everything right then at that time‚ and she doesn’t have the patience to wait on the good things to happen. Antonia is always ready to work and learn something new‚ but she lacks the patience to learn and to make sure she does it the right way. What Jim was saying is that‚ happiness
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Throughout the last couple of weeks‚ I finished Sarah Dessen’s What Happened to Goodbye‚ which was 402 pages long. I also started Sarah Dessen’s Keeping the Moon and I am currently on page 211. What Happened to Goodbye ended with McLean and her friends building a model for the city and in the process of doing so‚ her friends found out about all of her previous identities. They forgave her right away but were curious what made her choose to live her life like that. As promised to her mother to avoid
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My Ántonia: Living forces Anne Bradstreet once wrote‚ – “If we had no winter‚ the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity‚ prosperity would not be so welcome.” Have your emotions been affected by the changing seasons? Have you reacted according to the weather conditions? Sometimes‚ the surroundings have a stronger effect than what people may think. They affect human beings’ behaviors and actions in such a way that most of what people do and feel goes accordingly
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My Antonia By. Willa Cather Important Quotations 1. “During that burning day when we were crossing Iowa‚ our talk kept returning to a central figure‚ a Bohemian girl whom we had both known long ago. More than any other person we remembered‚ this girl seemed to mean to us the country‚ the conditions‚ and the whole adventure of our childhood.” Explanation This passage from the Introduction is the first the reader hears of Antonia. The narrator of the Introduction‚ who grew
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With the moon high up in the sky and the smell of dirty used chemicals‚ Bob was ready for this last heist. His friend Peter was the lookout and Bob was the man of action‚ but having a leopard as your partner is tricky because of his short temper and unwillingness to listen. Peter has a huge black trench coat with huge claws and blistering straining eyes that looked like those of dead shot’s he actually was called dead shot by several friendly acquaintances. Bob needed this last heist to pay off his
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presentation. A. Background of the Study Doing struggle and effort in life is important to achieve something just like dream‚ future-plan‚ and achieving aims and goals. Life needs effort. As humans people faced many problems in their life and they cannot go away from this real situation. They can finish or solve their problems of life by themselves or it solved by their friends‚ family or society. Effort can be applied in the life of people to survive‚ to get something‚ to create
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The Gettysburg Address: Why‚ how and what happened? On November 19 of 1863‚ during the Civil War of the United States‚ a speech was held in Gettysburg‚ Pennsylvania that would later go down as one of the greatest in American history. The speech was held during the dedication of the Gettysburg Cemetery‚ a cemetery founded to honour the deceased soldiers of the battle of Gettysburg. The 272 word long address that the then current president Lincoln held at this event have been remembered ever since
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Economic historical context of women in “My Antonia” Women in the late 1800s began a transformation that would remain as a lasting phenomenon. During this time period‚ the US witnessed the creation of the “new woman.” From Antonia who is a farm laborer to Tiny who owns and manages her own business‚ the “new woman” is portrayed extensively in Cather’s “My Antonia.” The goal of this paper is to analyze the “new woman” from an economic perspective by creating a historical context. Although the scope
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