Lovey‚ A Very Special Child‚ is a book written by Mary MacCracken about her experiences working in a private school with children that have learning disabilities. Although at the time‚ Mary was not a certified teacher‚ she was still one of the best in the school. Therefore Mary was given the more difficult cases. One of those tough cases is a girl named Hannah. The book tells the story of how Mary makes a huge difference in the life of these children‚ particularly Hannah. The classes that Mary
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Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison. 224 pp. New York: Holt‚ Rinehart and Winston. $8.95. The Bluest Eye‚ set during the 1940s after the end of the Great Depression in Lorain‚ Ohio‚ tells the heartbreaking story of eleven year old Pecola Breedlove‚ who perpetually prays for blues so she can be as beautiful and loved as blue-eyed‚ white American children. Pecola believes that she’s destined to live a tragic life due to her perceived ugliness‚ which is constantly reinforced by the way the people in her community
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A Very Long Engagement‚ 2004. Directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet‚ color‚ 133 minutes. The French film‚ A Very Long Engagement‚ is a very dark‚ romantic war film. The entire film was filmed in France over a span of 18 months. The director also directed the movies Alien: Resurrection (1997) and The City of Lost Children (1995). In most of the movies he directs the main character is an orphan or lost one parent. His movies often are centered around the romance between a couple; Mathilde and Manech
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Her Protection for Women. Jane Anger (To defend them against the scandalous reportes of a late Surfeiting Lover‚ and all other like Venerians that complaine so to bee overcloyed with womens kindnesse. by Jane Anger‚ fl. 1589.) London: Printed by Richard Jones‚ and Thomas Orwin. 1589. To the Gentlewomen of ENGLAND‚ health. GEntlewomen‚ though it is to be feared that your setled wits wil advisedly condemne that‚ which my cholloricke vaine hath rashly set downe‚ and so perchance‚ ANGER shal
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Lady in Her Bath “Lady in Her Bath” is a painting painted by a famous French Renaissance Artist known as Francois Clouet. He was an artist known for the detailed paintings of French royal families as the court painter. He also had other well-known paintings the “Portrait of Elisabeth of Austria‚ Queen of France‚” the “Portrait of Henry II” and more. The painting “Lady in Her Bath” is described as a lady nude in a bath posing for a portrait with a flower in her hand. And she is in the company of
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Margot is a very unlucky kid. “All summer in a day” by Ray Bradbury is a science fiction short story about a girl that was completely different from all the other kids and they all hated her for that. In the beginning‚ the school kids are staring out the window waiting for the sun to come out and Margot‚ the main character is standing away from the crowded window. Soon the kids start picking on her and shoving her and then grab her and lock her in a closet. In the end the Sun for the first time
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The Author to Her Book In "The Author to Her Book‚" Anne Bradstreet explains how she felt when her poems were published without her knowledge and consent. She explains these feelings of resentment‚ humiliation‚ pride‚ affection‚ and commitment with the use of many poetic devices. She frequently experiences an internal struggle. Bradstreet uses extended metaphor throughout the poem to express her unhappiness with the publishing of her poems. The use of this metaphor helps us to relate
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In The Eye of the Storm filmed by ABC News in 1970‚ Jane Elliot‚ a teacher at Riceville Community Elementary School‚ puts her third grade students through an experiment to show them how horrible colored people were treated. Since 1968‚ Jane Elliot always has something planned for National Brotherhood Week. On Tuesday‚ Elliot segregates her class by the color of the students’ eyes. The brown-eyed kids were to wear special collars around their neck so they could be seen from afar. In this situation
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A Jury of Her Peers a story in which themes such as the subjugation of women‚ men’s obliviousness to women’s importance shown in addition to their forced roles are presented as passive subordinates to men by which our protagonists prove this to be wrong. Also being something prominently established because of the setting. The mistreatment only being recognized by the two wives who understand struggle that is being a farm wife. In A Jury of Her Peers men and women’s roles in society are worlds apart
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"The Author to Her Book" A writer has to have a certain amount of passion about their work. In the case of Anne Bradstreet in her poem "The Author to Her Book‚" compares a writer and their work to a mother and her child. As you read the poem you can see how she compares the growth of her work to the growth of a child. The first two lines of the poem show a motherly comparison by the words offspring and birth. The first line‚ however‚ has a negative allusion as well‚ from the words ill-formed
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