My Daughter Smokes" is a short story written by Alice Walker. Walker tells us about her experiences and knowledge with cigarettes‚ the effects it had on her father‚ sister and self‚ and relating them to her daughter’s problem with smoking. Furthermore Walker touches on history‚ describing her father’s terrible death due to cigarettes and also a brief description of the history of tobacco. In reference to her past experience with smoking and in an attempt to prevent a reoccurrence of these bygone
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for society and if they do a fault it will stain them that will be like a scar that would never remove. According to the book‚ “Anne of France‚ Lessons for My Daughter” said “And so my daughter‚ devote yourself completely to acquiring virtue. Behave so that your reputation may be worthy…”. This statement is telling that Anne wants her daughter to behave in a way that people would see her as a worthy person instead of a royal figure.
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Breaking Down “A Prayer for my Daughter” ABOUT THE AUTHOR William Butler Yeats (b. June 13‚ 1865‚ d. Jan. 28‚ 1939) was a celebrated Irish poet‚ prose writer and dramatist. In 1889 he met a woman named Maud Gonne‚ who was brilliant‚ passionate and beautiful‚ and instantly fell in love. This love‚ however‚ was not reciprocated. His marriage proposal was turned down several times‚ yet he still joined the Irish nationalist cause with her because of her passion for Ireland and conviction. In 1903‚ she
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LTD MT EDUCARE LTD – SATTEBOARD GEOMETRY ASSIGNMENT - I 20MARKS 1. In the adj fig‚ seg SP ⊥ side YK & seg YT ⊥ seg SK. If SP = 6 ‚ YK =13 ‚YT= 5 and TK= 12 then find :- A(∆SYK):A(∆YTK). 2. In the adj fig.‚ seg DH ⊥ seg EF and seg GK ⊥ seg EF. If DH = 12 cm‚ GK = 20 cm & A(∆ DEF) = 300 cm² then find (i) EF (II) A(∆GEF) (III) A( DFGE) 3. In the adj fig.‚ RP : PK = 3:2 then find the value of : (i) A(∆ TRP) : A(∆ TPK) (II) A(∆ TRK) : A(∆TPK) (III) A(∆ TRP) : A(∆ TRK) 4. In the
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Getting God Justin Cronin’s essay‚ “My Daughter and God‚” addresses religion and where people find God. The narrator describes an accident that his wife and daughter were in on their way back from summer camp. The car flipped and both mother and daughter should have died‚ but miraculously they both survived without any bumps or bruises. The victims of the accident were taken to the hospital and the author’s wife notified him of the accident. The narrator rushed to the hospital and found his wife
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A pray for my Daughter The summary of A prayer for My Daughter by William Butler Yeats opens up with an image of the poet’s daughter who is fast asleep in her cradle. The storm he talks about at the very onset of the poem is nothing but a contrast to the quiet sleep of the baby. The poet is worried about his child and his gloominess of mind is well portrayed through the first stanza itself. In the first stanza itself‚ the backdrop of the weather with the storm raging is nothing but a potent
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Poetry is a literary work that expresses feelings and ideas‚ the purpose of this poetry comparison essay is to discuss the setting and situation‚ the tone‚ and the speaker and how they relate to the poems “The Mother” by Gwendolyn Brooks and “On My First Daughter” by Ben Jonson. These poems differ in many ways and they are the same in many ways. The purpose of the two poems is to discuss the setting and situation. In “The Mother” the setting takes place in 1945 and talks about the feeling of abortions
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Only Daughter assignment 1 Comprehension 1.) When she states that she is the only girl in a family of six sons‚ Means she was a lonely‚ her brothers never wanted to play with her because she was a female. This made her think and image and become a writer. 2.) Being the only daughter she means that she is the only girl out of six boys. Being “only the daughter” she wasn’t allowed to do a lot with her brothers and was singled out‚ creating her to image and write. 3.) Advantages of being
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gets remarried to Hanae‚ the antagonist of “Silent Spring”. Hanae is an unsympathetic woman and also self-centered like Hideki. Yuki and Hideki had a weak relationship before the death of Shizuko; this caused Hideki to never truly understand his daughter Yuki making it hard for his new wife Hanae. Hanae hates Yuki and treats her badly and becomes the wicked stepmom to Yuki‚ causing Yuki to avoid going home whenever she can. Yuki gets extremely involved with school. “Silent Spring” is the story of
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