The passage “Girl”‚ by Jamaicia Kincaid I believe is about a mother explaining to her daughter the ways she must act to be the ideal women. The mother gives her guidance throughout the passage wanting her to have social manners and domesticity. The mother gives instructions and commands‚ I believe to give her the tools to be independent‚ strong‚ and respected as a young aspiring women. The mother is setting out rules and giving commands to her daughter to lead her daughter into a better path and
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know you are so bent on becoming; this is how you iron your father’s khaki shirt so that it doesn’t have a crease; this is how you iron your father’s khaki pants so that they don’t have a crease; this is how you grow okrbafar from the house‚ because okra tree harbors red ants; when you are growing dasheen‚ make sure it gets plenty of water or else it makes your throat itch when you are eating it; this is how you sweep a corner; this is how you sweep a whole house; this is how you sweep a yard; this
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From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fruit) Several culinary fruits Culinary fruits In botany‚ a fruit is a part of a flowering plant that derives from specific tissues of the flower‚ one or more ovaries‚ and in some cases accessory tissues. Fruits are the means by which these plants disseminate seeds. Many of them that bear edible fruits‚ in particular‚ have propagated with the movements of humans and animals in a symbiotic relationship as a means for seed
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their children the property of their white masters‚ and some colonies made it a crime to teach a slave to be literate. The origin of Gullah is South Carolina and Georgia. Some African words that eventually became English were goober (peanut)‚ gumbo (okra)‚ and voodoo (witchcraft). 4. The planters were at the top‚ small farmers followed suite‚ next were landless whites‚ under them were those who still had time on their indenture‚ and black slaves finished at the bottom of the pyramid. 5. New England
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Which Aspects of Slave Culture has the Greatest Impact on Western Culture? The slave culture has gradually influenced the Western culture in many different aspects of life such as music‚ art‚ food‚ language…etc. However‚ in my opinion‚ the western music has been affected the most by the slave culture because most music in western countries have been developed from slavery whereas our language has been affected the least because the slave culture has hardly affected or changed English in any way
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FOCUS 1 SCHOOL AS A LEARNING ENVIRONMENT It is the entrance and administration building of the Upper Tambler Elem. School campus. It stands to be the learning center of little minds hungry for knowledge and essential learning to new things that the school setting can only give. History of the School Upper Tambler Elementary School I (UTES I) was the oldest public elementary
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While holding on to their familiar roots‚ they were planted‚ they grew‚ and then they were able to burst into bloom. This is not only true for the 1940’s harvests on a diligent farmer’s property‚ but also the families that nurtured and cultivated each other. Mary Richard‚ born May 29th‚ 1930‚ grew up a modest southern girl in a miniscule agricultural‚ country community outside Church Point‚ Louisiana. There wasn’t much extravagance to take part in locally‚ or opportunity to travel too far away from
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as a radio and diary. The fact that Jefferson still wants these things shows his imprisonment does not defeat him. In one of his last diary entries‚ Jefferson says ‚ “shef guiry ax me what I want for my super an I tol him I want nanan to cook me som okra an rice an som pok chop an a conbred an som claba” (232). Jefferson still enjoys his aunt’s cooking‚ an outside pleasure from prison. The fact that he can still take pleasure from these small outside things clearly demonstrates that Jefferson enjoys
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Time has changed‚ as the story of "Girl" was written by the mother‚ as well as community‚ keep on hold women back from having the opportunity to be free‚ because of the judge without fear or down is shown in the history of "Girl"‚ which was written by Jamaica Kincaid in 1978. The double standard "rule‚ or that it is unjust to apply the different people or groups" The world continues to develop even double standards between men and women has yet to be reconstructed. Domestic contact take central
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Katie B Review of John Blassingame’s The Slave Community John W. Blassingame was born in Covington‚ Georgia‚ in 1940. Blassingame joined the faculty of Yale University in 1970‚ where he taught in the African American Studies‚ History and African departments. He chaired African American Studies for most of the 1980’s. He is the author of New Perspectives on Black Studies (1971)‚ Black New Orleans‚ 1860-1880 (1973)‚ and The Slave Community: Plantation Life in the Antebellum South (1972). Blassingame
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