Our Beloved Bear By the time I was three‚ my parents had decided to get a family pet for us. Our neighbor’s chow chow had just had puppies so we took one of them and named him Bear because he was black‚ fluffy and resembled a little bear cub. I have very fond memories of him and one certain one comes to mind every now and then. When I was around the age of seven‚ I would climb on Bear’s back and he would carry me around the backyard. Looking back‚ I can remember feeling so on top of the world and
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In Anne Bradstreet’s book‚ “The 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
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changed economically‚ socially‚ and into the adoption of republican motherhood and cult of domesticity. During the time of the Revolutionary War‚ society regarded women as the teachers of the "sons of liberty" which resulted in a higher status for women; their new importance led to the cult of domesticity in which women began taking more opportunities and a new attitude towards life (True Womanhood). Both "republican motherhood" and
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Son07 \l 1033 (Mc-Coy-Wilson‚ 2007) She also parallels the hauntology existing in Toni Morrison’s “Beloved” which focuses on black females in particular. In the book Sethe‚ a mother kills her own daughter known as Beloved‚ to protect her from the terrors of becoming a slave. Finally in Samira Kawash’s article hauntology is explained in comparative ways including the house left standing in beloved‚ in the Middle Passage the ship has structural equivalent of Beloved’s house. Though the structures
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roles in shaping social and political structures‚ with the most relevant and prominent example of institutionalized cruelty in American history that has contributed significantly to social order and hierarchy being the practice of slavery. The novel Beloved captures the story of freed slaves struggling to reconstruct their lives after the cruelty they experienced from slave owners. The author‚ Toni Morrison‚ presents cruelty as a method of asserting power and shows the dehumanizing effects of cruelty
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In the novel Cry‚ The Beloved Country‚ the author‚ Alan Paton‚ writes about the current struggles within South Africa through the eyes of two opposite characters: James Jarvis and Stephen Kumalo. James Jarvis is a wealthy white man coping with the loss of his son while questioning his attitudes toward the racial injustice of his country. Stephen Kumalo is a native black priest whose life takes a turn when he discovers the vices and twisted realities behind Johannesburg and his home country. Kumalo
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Paton‚ author of Cry‚ the Beloved Country‚ brings awareness to the racial discrimination that devastates South Africa. In Johannesburg and other cities alike‚ the African population considerably outnumbers the European community‚ but even so‚ it is mainly blacks that suffer from discrimination. The perpetrators of this unjust treatment‚ in most instances‚ originate from the white community; they defend their actions against Africans by claiming to uphold the belief “that because [God] created white
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A Surrogate Motherhood‚ Pros and Cons A surrogate mother means a woman who agrees to have a child for a couple who are childless because of infertility or not able of having a child due to a number of physical dilemmas. The procedure engages artificial insemination method‚ whereby the husband’s sperm is transferred and the surrogate mother accepts it. That is why the surrogate mother is still considered as the real mother of the child. However‚ in case of gestational surrogacy‚ the wife is fertile
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Moll Flanders‚ Madame Bovary‚ & The Joys of Motherhood Daniel Defoe ’s Moll Flanders‚ Gustave Flaubert ’s Madame Bovary‚ and Buchi Emecheta ’s The Joys of Motherhood are three novels that portray the life of woman in many different ways. They all depict the turmoils and strife ’s that women‚ in many cultures and time periods‚ suffer from. In some cases it ’s the woman ’s fault‚ in others it ’s simply bad luck. In any case‚ all three novels succeed in their goal of showing what a life of selling
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to emerge with essays‚ pamphlets‚ and speeches about their beliefs. I am examining how the advocates of women’s education presented their ideas and why they presented the notion of republican motherhood. This research will
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