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    always asked where I am going to college or what do I want to do with my life. For many‚ this can be a simple question with a quick clear answer‚ showing that they know exactly what they want to do with their lives. For me‚ this is a very difficult decision and my future career is still a mystery. Knowing what you want to achieve in life is a wonderful thing‚ but the most important aspect of a career is happiness. Even though I do not know what I want to do for the rest of my life‚ I do know that some

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    WHY AM I HERE? Do you ever lie awake‚ wondering why am I born? Why am I here? Why do I need to die? Why do I need to do things that have purpose? Why do I have to breathe? Why do I need to drink when I feel thirsty‚ eat when I feel hungry or learn new things every day? Why? A person often says that everything has a purpose. So why do we have to live and die? Millions of people are thrown in a situation called life but we never ask why we are here. Why in the world am I here? I know this is the

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    I Grew Up Here

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    I Grew Up Here‚ when my Twin brother and I came home form the hospital a month later after we were born. When we go home‚ my mother said we had twin cribs and each side of the room was divided in have one was mine‚ one was my twin brothers. The House Had Very beautiful pink paint on it and even a little garage. The house had six (6) rooms in it so my two older sisters had their own room. My oldest Brother had him his own room. My auntie at the time she was living with her had a room. Me and my

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    I Stand Here Ironing

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    A good example of Modernism is a short story called "I Stand Here Ironing" by Tillie Olsen. This story not only portrays gender roles but also family roles. Here the narrator is a mother giving the reader a glimpse into her life‚ choices she made as a mother‚ and being a single parent. Through her defense of her situation‚ she exposes to the reader the underlying insecurities that riddle her mind about her mothering. The tale opens with the narrator explaining the pain she feels when she is

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    suffer even more. She wants more than anything to take care of her child and live a normal life‚ but she can’t. The narrator lived in the restrictive Victorian time period‚ and experienced how difficult it is to have your voice heard as a woman. “I Stand Here Ironing” written by Tillie Olsen is a short story about a mother who has a daughter during the Great Depression‚ and the father leaves her to care for

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    I Stand Here Ironing

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    I Stand Here Ironing” written by Tillie Olsen‚ is a short story that focuses closely on a mother’s struggle to raise her daughter during the Great Depression while balancing motherly duties and sees pasts her mistakes. The family is forced to learn how to come to terms with the hardships and tries to move past them. As the narrator reminisces about her nineteen years old daughter’s childhood throughout the story‚ she wonders if she had not been so self absorbed‚ could have her daughter’s life been

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    Philadelphia

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    I really enjoyed this movie. It was interesting to see how the characters interacted with each other‚ especially Joe and Andrew. Since the beginning of the movie Joe strongly states his hatred towards homosexuals and his fear of contracting AIDs over a simple hand shake with Andrew and with Andrew just being in the same room as him. When I saw this scene Joe’s ignorance angered me and then he went as far as going to see a doctor that same afternoon and although the doctor told him he could only contract

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    Here Comes Honey Boo Boo Reality television has become one of the most common forms of entertainment in the American household since the early 2000’s. From “The Bachelor” to “Jersey Shore”‚ no plot seems too racy or inappropriate for audiences of all ages. Recently‚ however‚ TLC aired their newest reality TV show‚ “Here Comes Honey Boo Boo” that is thought to be one of the most controversial reality TV series of all time. The show encompasses the lives of a small-town‚ southern Georgian family who

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    I Stand Here Ironing

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    Jessica Hyde‚ Eng 1302-007‚ 9/4/11 For my paper‚ I chose to write about the short story‚ “I Stand Here Ironing‚” by Tillie Olsen. In the story‚ a mother of a nineteen-year-old girl named Emily is ironing some clothes‚ as she is pondering a recent message she received from one of Emily’s counselors or teachers; a message of concerns with wanting to help her daughter. The mother begins to think back to the very beginning of Emily’s life. She starts stating all the various events that took

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    The point of view and narrative structure of I Stand Here Ironing‚ by Tillie Olson‚ completely affects the theme of the story in many ways. The theme of the story is the powerful bond between mother and daughter. The point of view would have been less personal if it had been changed. The narrative structure consists of flashbacks‚ which are very valuable to the story and the way it is meant to be read and understood. Since the mother is talking about her daughter’s history‚ it makes the story more

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