internal and external struggles. The yard and quilt in Alice Walker’s intriguing short story‚ “Everyday Use” are symbolic and illuminate the fundamental theme of family and heritage. The short story begins with Mrs. Johnson and Maggie waiting in the yard for Dee. Mrs. Johnson and Maggie both worked hard to make the yard‚ “…clean and wavy yesterday afternoon” in preparation for Dee’s arrival. But‚ the
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BARRIERS TO THE USE OF TECHNOLOGY 4 1.3 BENEFITS OF USE OF TECHNOLOGY 4 TASK 2 6 2.1 HEALTH & SAFETY CONSIDERATIONS 6 2.2 ETHICAL CONIDERATIONS 6 2.3 IMPACT OF EMERGING TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS 7 TASK 3 9 3.1 SPECIFIC NEEDS OF MAGGIE 9 3.2 ASSISSTIVE DEVICES USED FOR MAGGIE 9 3.3 USEFULNESS OF TECHNOLOGY FOR HEALTH & SOCIAL CARE USERS 10 CONCLUSION 11 REFERENCES 12 INTRODUCTION Independent living explains that individuals with disabilities are the best experts of their needs and they should
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are told about the way Maggie reacts to the song‚ in a almost surreal behaviour as she creates a ’mask’ with flour on her face. They way that she is described to be wearing a mask makes the reader believe that the music that the radio has allowed has caused Maggie to become someone different‚ however in a positive way. It’s allowed them freedom and a too branch away from their normal lifestyle‚ though staying close to their heritage due to the type of music. The fact that Maggie was the first to put
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the disabled‚ that when Jackie (Gemma Ward)‚ a sweet‚ attractive girl his own age‚ comes calling‚ he futilely tries to keep him out of sight. “The Black Balloon” offers a wrenching portrait of the Mollison household. The boys’ exhausted mother‚ Maggie (Toni Collette)‚ only days away from giving birth to a third child‚ refuses the bed rest
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Reaction to Everyday Use Everyday Use is a short story written by Alice Walker about a family of three‚ Mama‚ the narrator‚ Maggie her youngest daughter‚ and Dee‚ her eldest daughter. Both daughters are completely different‚ Maggie is a simpler person and Dee is high maintenance. Dee has always the home she was brought up in and everything to do with her childhood. She always wanted more and Mama gave her the best she could.
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Plainsong‚ by Kent Haruf‚ is a novel about several characters and their own struggles in this small town in Holt‚ Colorado. All these characters eventually end up having some kind of connection with one another. This novel can show the types of struggles anyone may experience even in this small town of Colorado. Tom Guthrie is a teacher at the local school and father of Ike and Bobby. Tom is shown as a man very frustrated from the very beginning as he is separating from his wife and mother of his
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Community cannot for long feed on itself; it can only flourish with the coming of others from beyond”- Howard Thurman. The role of community in literature is used to question the meaning of community‚ to explore conflict and further analyse the cultural semiotics of a community.In Alice Walker’s “Everyday Use” and Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown”‚ community creates a segregation between personal semiotics and communal tradition.Communities require the evolution of the forbidden to forge
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land. Maggie usually pays her suppliers in 10 days for a 2% discount and they are not going to finance the purchase of the land because of an interest rate of 6.5%. However‚ Maggie should not be so rigid with her accounts payable policy‚ she should allow for some cash to accumulate before she sends out her payments. In addition‚ Maggie needs to determine her opportunity costs of whether the 2% discount is worth her making payments in 10 days rather than waiting the 30 days. In addition‚ Maggie should
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wife‚ which is a leading cause to his loneliness. The next character is Victoria‚ a 16 year old pregnant teen who has been kicked out of her home seeking help from a school teacher‚ Maggie. Victoria is depicted as lonely‚ as well as Maggie. I came to notice how being lonely is a common theme used in this novel. Maggie seeks help from the Mcpheron brothers‚ who are two old farmers living on the countryside. I found it interesting how there are connections between all these characters‚ and also how
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“Everyday use” by Alice Walker. The story of "Everyday Use” is about a single mother and her two daughters‚ Dee and Maggie. Dee is the family’s proud. She is beautiful‚ smart and educated‚ on the other hand‚ Maggie is simple‚ low confident and her skin burned severely in a house fire. The author Alice Walker uses Mama as the narrator in the "Everyday Use" to describe these two characters‚ Maggie and Dee‚ to show us two different views of culture and tradition heritage during 1970’s. My thoughts on the
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