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    enemy‚ but her story is one that is still remembered today among her people. Her hair is transformed into woodbine‚ a medicine‚ and her body produced honeysuckle‚ known as the "blood of brave women" (Myths 253). The image of a youthful warrior in this story is significant because it shows the failure of the old to lead in times of crisis‚ when the community is just short of becoming a wasteland. Similarly‚ in Where the Girl Saves her Brother‚ a Cheyenne myth of courage‚ a young woman saves her young brother

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    place has a light side and a dark side. Both “Poor Fish” and “Tall Woman and Her Short Husband” revealed the darkness of the society‚ and occupied more dark than than the opposite side. In the "Poor Fish"‚ the narrator was first full of inferioty‚ however when he met Ida‚ they fell in love with each other. They got humiliated in public when they tried to against with people who laughed at them. The “Tall Woman and Her Short Husband” talks about a couple‚ people surround them tried to take advantages

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    Mother Teresa was a woman who devoted her life to helping the poor‚ suffering and dying. She touched the lives of people all over the world‚ from Calcutta to Rome‚ and from Ethiopia to Venezuela. Mother Teresa has been a role model to people all over the world‚ but she has been a real inspiration to me. Ever since I was little‚ I have gone to Catholic school; therefore‚ I have known about Mother Teresa since I was younger. I have learned about the many places she traveled and the many people she

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    “My problem with her anger” – Whose responsibility? Most people go into the marriage in the hope that everything will go as planned‚ and that they will always get along‚ especially in the field of responsibilities division between both spouses. Eric Bartels‚ a feature writer for the Portland Tribune in Portland‚ Oregon‚ in his article “My Problem with Her Anger”‚ seems to encounter a huge trouble when his wife seems to never feel happy with anything he did. Bartels explains what it feels like

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    Importance of Agrippina’s family and her first two marriages to her career Agrippina’s family background was the basis of her influence and power. Her family’s position of power enabled her to be more influential than most other women of her era. She was born of both Julian and Claudian bloodlines. She was a descendant of the Emperor Augustus‚ nice and later wife of Claudius‚ sister of Gaius and mother of Nero. Her mother‚ Agrippina the Elder‚ and father‚ Germanicus‚ were well respected figures

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    does show her great character which is revealed through the number of trials and obstacles she faced‚ her public humiliation and isolated Puritan life. Hester seems to have changed the greatest in character and attitude‚ from a haughty and proud demeanor to having a warm and tender heart. Throughout the novel‚ Hester changes three different times‚ from being a shamed woman to a capable and able woman and then to a healer. Her honesty‚ strong willed spirit and compassion may have been in her character

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    "Mother Courage and her Children"‚ by Bertolt Brecht‚ is a play which can be seen from varying perspectives. Some consider it to be a comment on the socio-economic aspects of war‚ others as a criticism of bourgeois capitalism intended to encourage change in modern society. The somewhat tragic events of the play enable critics to consider it a "tragedy"‚ but one which‚ to some extent‚ diverges from the Aristotelian definition. Aristotle believed that tragedy must revolve around a central character:

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    Author to Her Book‚” a poem is metaphorically written about the struggles faced in motherhood. The author compares her book to a child‚ that she is later unsatisfied with‚ although her friends think it is good. The author tries to care for it‚ protect it‚ and wash its face just like a mother would care for her child. The mother (author) is far from perfect when it comes to parenting skills for this child (book). She feels as if her book will never be written the way she wants it. Therefore‚ her friends

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    relationship with her husband Torvald. When readers first get an image of how their relationship is‚ it would not seem that bad. Once further into the play you see that it is just because Nora is submissive‚ and lets it be that way. The only reason she is loving her husband is because that is what she thinks she is supposed to do. Her husband will not let her expand as a person‚ and she just lets it happen. Women are constantly treated as a lower class among men. Nora is just as capable as her husband Torvald

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    18 February 2011 Anne Bradstreet: Thoughts towards of her husband To me‚ the poem “A letter to her husband‚ Absent upon Public Employment” is a reflection of the poet’s own self. I think that‚ it is so sweet and forlorn because she misses her husband so much. However‚ from the poem’s title I guess that‚ her husband went for public employment and she wrote a letter for taking a holiday from job. So it is a common scenario of her mind and it is reality. Hence‚ from my point of view‚ it

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