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    customs of living which is passed from generations to generations. Mahatma Ghandi once said that‚ “A nation’s culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.” In Alice Walker’s “Everyday Use”‚ cultural understanding is difficult for most people in today’s society to fully understand. Her characters‚ Dee‚ the Mother‚ and Maggie portray to show how one family member can think they know it all and understand their heritage but‚ fall short of the true meaning. In this short story‚ you can

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    1. Alice Walker’s “Everyday Use” is narrated by one of the story’s main characters‚ the mother of two very different daughters who are Dee and Maggie. The mother comes off as a trustworthy narrator. Undoubtedly‚ she does seem to have some hard feelings toward Dee‚ but these feelings seem understandable in light of the past and present events she describes. Nothing in the story submits that the mother is so full of dislike for Dee that she tells lies about her attractive daughter. The mother feels

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    serious conflict between the generations‚ whether the daughters who accept the new culture or the mothers who deeply rooted in the traditional concept can lead the spiritual discordance to their relationship. In the story Everyday Use wrote by Alice Walker‚ the story is lead by “mama” who is a black woman has two daughters Dee and Maggie. Dee had better education‚ yet full of confidence and ambition. In contrast‚ Maggie is described as an unattractive girl. The climax of the story is the belonging of

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    yo mama

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    Yo mama so fat she left the house in high heels and when she came back she had on flip flops. Yo mama so fat she sat on an iPhone and turned it into an iPad Yo mama so fat she went to KFC to get a bucket of chicken they asked her what size and she said the one on the roof Yo momma so fat she sued xbox 360 for guessing her weight yo mama so fat that she dont need the internet she’s already world wide Yo mama so fat that when I ran out of gas trying to drive around her. yo mama

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    Alice Walker’s “Everyday Use”‚ the mother narrates this story about a conflict between her two daughters‚ Dee and Maggie‚ and herself . Mama describes herself as a hard worker that was able to do the work of men. She works all day outside. Mama mentions that she only went to 2nd grade in school. However her oldest daughter Dee was able to go to college. When Dee returns home‚ she has a new appearance and beliefs that are contradictory to Mama’s way of life. The conflict between Mama‚ Dee‚ and Maggie

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    THE VODOU PRIESTESS: MAMA LOLA I found Karen McCarthy Brown’s Mama Lola to be an innovative and intimate “ethnographic spiritual biography” exploring the lived realities‚ material and immaterial‚ of a Haitian Voudou priestess and her family in New York City from the late 1970’s through the 1980’s. (xiv)  Brown’s approach is innovative because she treats her subjects’ as multi­vocal and fluid.  Brown heeds her own advice and contrary to most ethnographic scholars before her‚ appropriately represents her own

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    Author: Chris Themes of Everyday Use by Alice Walker In the Alice Walker’s story “Everyday Use”‚ two sisters portray their contrasting family views on what they perceive to be heritage. The idea is that a quilt is a part of this family’s history. They aren’t just parts of cloth put together to make a blanket. The quilt symbolizes their ancestors’ lives and tells a story with every single inch of cloth. Understanding the reasoning of why the author wrote this story is very important; valuing

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    In the story “Everyday Use‚” author Alice Walker tells a story about the relationship an individual chooses to have with their culture through characters Mama‚ Dee‚ and Maggie. The story starts off with Mama and her youngest daughter Maggie waiting for Dee‚ her older daughter to visit from college. When Dee arrives‚ she shows up with new attire‚ a new name‚ and a man named Asalamalakim‚ also known as Hakim-a-barber. Quilting is used in the story as a symbol. For centuries‚ women have been associated

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    they are important in your everyday world. In “Everyday Use” the daughter Dee wants the family quilt to hang it and show it like a prize while Maggie‚

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    In Everyday Use‚ Alice Walker tells a story of a mother’s conflicted relationship with her two daughters. On its surface‚ "Everyday Use tells how a mother gradually rejects the superficial values of her older‚ successful daughter in favor the practical values of her younger‚ less fortunate daughter. On of deeper level‚ Alice Walker is exploring the concept of heritage as it applies to African-America Everyday Use is set in the late 60s or early ’70s. This was time when African-Americans a were struggling

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