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    negatively influence her growing up daughter? What is the meaning of a daughter to her mother? How do a daughter’s personality form under her mother’s influence? These questions are answered in both novels Breathe‚ Eyes‚ Memory by Edwidge Danticat and Sula by Toni Morrison with some from similar views‚ and some from different views. For ages‚ a mother’s love is always mentioned as the symbol for pure and selfless love. Digging deep in the complex maternal love‚ nevertheless‚ both Morrison and

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    dinner." (Norris‚ 578) in his 1901 essay "A Plea for Romantic Fiction" Here‚ Norris points out the mundane nature of the plot and setting of realist fiction. For Norris Realism extends only to what it views from afar and what it chooses to view. Naturalism departs from the Realist mindset of what stories are worth telling quite drastically. Stephen Crane’s "The Open Boat" and Jack London’s "To Build A Fire" exemplify the direction that Naturalist literature takes. A shipwrecked crew on a dinger in

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    Morrison doesn’t include a strong sexual theme in Sula just for shock value. Rather‚ the author uses sex to reveal clues towards the personalities of different characters‚ and how traits get passed down from one generation to the next. Some of the important clues provided in each characters personality traits come from differing sexual attitudes they hold. Disagreements between sexual appropriateness develop the relationship between Nel and Sula‚ as well as Sula’s broader relationship with the community

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    Sula came back accompanied by “plague of robin” in Medallion. She dressed in the manner of a movie star. When Eva saw Sula it was like when she saw worthless BoyBoy return‚ and being judgmental‚ why she didn’t get married. She was furious the way Eva was criticizing her‚ she had to tell her to shut her her mouth. As a result‚ of that she told her‚ bad enough you cut off your own leg to collect insurance money. That doesn’t give you the right to control other people life. Eva told Sula God is

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    from Eva concerning marriage and children‚ Sula declares‚ "I don’t want to make somebody else. I want to make myself‚"—a statement which illustrates her desire to generate her own identity and control her own life (Morrison‚ 92). When Sula and her friend Nel were young‚ they were “in [the] safe harbor of each other’s company [where] they could afford to abandon the ways of other people and concentrate on their own perceptions of things”‚ an attitude which Sula maintains into adulthood (Morrison‚ 55)

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    alaskan tundra with only your dog and a piece of flint. Well this is what our main character has to deal with in the story “To Build a Fire” by Jack London. In “To Build a Fire” Jack London uses a lot of different conflicts to illustrate the idea of naturalism. One of the first conflicts in the story is not prevalent‚ but a nuisance nonetheless. The mans dog is a natural conflict that he faces while trying to survive the alaskan tundra. The dog wants to bed down and not go any where . “The dog dropped

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    Creation vs. Naturalism The creation vs. evolution debate is a continuous debate. How and why are we here on earth? Were we purposely made or did we evolve accidentally? Are we the creation of innovative intelligence or are we simply the end result of countless cosmic accidents? What does the evidence say? Two dominant views seem to battle their ideas and beliefs for countless centuries. While theists believe God is our glorious creator of everything‚ naturalists hold truth that God does not

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    Essay on Educational Philosophy of Mahatma Gandhi Education‚ to Gandhiji‚ was a means to achieve perfection of individuality on the one hand and an instrument of service to the nation on the other. Thus‚ individual and social both the aims of education were considered by him equally important. "By education mean an all-round drawing out of the best in child and man-body‚ and spirit"‚ he said. This in other words meant development of whole child‚ the whole personality of the child. Harmonious

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    To some‚ the world had always existed and has grown and developed over time. These people are called Naturalists‚ also known as Secularists. Naturalists feel that science is the cause and answers of the world‚ for example‚ evolution. They do not believe that there is a god of any kind. Also‚ they believe that humans are machines that will break (Weider and Gutierrez‚ p. 65). In contrast‚ Christians believe that God created the Earth and that He existed before anything. God created men and women‚

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    immense burden of the white public. Max also illustrates the African American lifestyle as "gliding through our complex civilization like wailing ghosts; they spin like fiery planets lost from their orbits; they wither and die like trees ripped from native soil." This shows the aura of distress and hardship of the African Americans. Max tries to explain that Bigger is the product of a racially oppressive society in which all African Americans must live by using the strategy of cause and effect. "What

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