Trifles and I Want A Wife are allegories explaining the oppression of being a woman and a wife. Women being assumed to work in the house show that gender stereotypes do exist. After the men leave the kitchen‚ the women discuss things about Mrs. Wright such as who she was before she had met her husband; Minnie Foster. Mrs. Peters then questions the request Mrs. Wright makes for her apron‚ “She said she wanted an apron. Funny thing to want‚ for there isn’t much to get you dirty in jail‚ goodness knows
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When I Grow Up (Names of the authors have been changed to protect identities) Jesse B. Age 9 Winner (tie) of 3rd Place Prize for ages 7-10. Every person is born with a special talent and I think when you grow up people have a chance to use their special talent. Lots of people are born with different talents. I think that it is a good idea to try different stuff. If you find something you really like and you’re really good at it you should go for it. But talents aren’t the only things of
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Why You Want Who You Want by Wendy Paris is an article explaining why people are attracted to certain people and shows that everyone has different tastes. In the article Paris explains many experiments that took place to find out what people go for in a relationship. Along with some of the ways we can change ourselves to make the opposite sex attracted to us. In class we are talking a lot about the brain. Such as why we do certain things and the way that we behave. In this article Parris explains
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Why I Have Chosen This Career My grandfather served for twenty-seven and a half years in the United States Army as an engineer. That’s where it all started with the idea of me joining the ranks. He began educating me on his field of work and branch of service and telling me the benefits and goals I can achieve while doing a job I love. It sparked my interest. I then began talking around throughout the years to veterans‚ young airmen‚ and even my parents. Everyone supported the idea of joining. Once
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If I could change one thing in my mothers life to make it better i would change the fact that she has systemic lupus. Systemic lupus is a blood disease involving the white blood cells. The white blood cells instead of attacking the germs in the body begin to attack the organs. Eventually the lupus kills some of the major organs in the body and they slowly start to shut down. There are several reasons as to why I want my mother to feel better. The one that stands out greatly is because no
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fabrication if I were to say that I wanted to be a Chemist from the very beginning of my life though I had a natural predilection to science. Since my childhood‚ I have been a keen observer and am well known for probing new avenues‚ always enthusiastic and ready with a chain of questions. Having been brought up in an ideal family‚ I have been blessed to have parents who instilled me with moral principles and encouraged me to participate in all science exhibitions‚ quizzes‚ and other examinations. I had chosen
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Entering my first year of college in the fall of 2016 was very stressful‚ but I believed I found a home for myself for the next four years at Rosemont College. While applying to colleges my senior year of high school‚ I always thought that I would work better in a smaller environment. I believed that if there was a lower facility to student ratio‚ I would exceed my full potential. When I arrived at college‚ I started to notice that my views about school had changed. I no longer wanted a small school
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In article My Daughters Have No Mother‚ author Max Mutchnick describes his feelings and opinions about the experience having a baby carried by a donor. Author particularly writes about homosexuals having their own baby. Feelings that are involved in homosexual individuals question themselves if they are normal or if they are like everyone else (Mutchnick). Heterosexual couples that cannot have baby might question themselves too “if they are like everyone else”. Concerns that are in their
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Various threads are needed to form one unique quilt. Similarly‚ a mother quilts together the best and diverse threads of life to form one unique identity in which a child lives with forever. In the poem "My Mother Pieced Quilts" by Teresa Palomo Acosta‚ the mother chooses the different aspects of the quilt‚ forms those aspects to make one quilt‚ and releases that one quilt on which it lives. In the beginning‚ the mother must choose the best treads to form the quilt. This this poem includes a barrage
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train was the first toy that I dismantled just to find out how it worked. It was the initial item in the long list of toys and household appliances that I took apart to satisfy my curiosity. My Mom was not a big fan of me pulling everything in the house down to pieces‚ but that never slowed me down. With age‚ I started to learn to reassemble things as well. In the fourth grade‚ I built a remote-controlled boat using the motors from a toy car that I had gotten on my birthday. I think that was the moment
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