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    Girl Arranging Her Hair

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    early January. We were studying the impressionists at the time‚ and there was something about this group of artists that caught my eye‚ but I wasn’t sure what it was exactly that caught my eye. I knew there was something special here waiting to be discovered. That day in class‚ each of my classmates was assigned an impressionists artist to do a presentation on. I was given Mary Cassatt. At the time‚ I had no idea who this women was‚ but little did I know that over the course of t he next two weeks‚ I

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    beautiful moment when a mother sees her baby for the first time‚ but it can be quite overwhelming when her baby is born with a defect. Though some women don’t feel the courage to face the challenges of having an “abnormal baby”‚ others are willing to accept their child as he/she is. In this story‚ The Monster on Her Cheek‚ Rebecca Roland demonstrates the emotional struggle but choosing to embrace her child either way. In the setting‚ Roland started off her narrative with a baby who was just born with

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    “ Secret Annexe” Anne and her mother argue a lot but later on in the book Anne and her mother’s relationship start to mature. She shows signs that she is maturing in her relationship with her mother because in diary entry January 2‚ 1944 she realizes she was very angry with her mother a year ago‚ she admits to being hot headed at sometimes‚ and she has changed some of her old ways when it comes to her mother. Anne realizes she was very angry as a child when it came to her mother. Anne realizes this

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    I will think that if a loving pair‚ who have been apart for many years‚ meet again‚ what will happen? Will they hug tightly‚ crying‚ or will they pour out things happened these years to each other? In this article‚ I find the answer. After they reunited‚ they only recollected and sighed with emotion. I think the title has implied everything: the taste of the dill pickle is acerb and it stands for that the love between Vera and her past love is also acerb; they are destined not to live together;

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    Geraldine has a strong relationship with her maternal side of the family. She grew up very close to her grandmother and godmother. They were actively in her life since she was born. Geraldine and her grandmother are very active in the church. Geraldine has the opposite relationship with her paternal side of family. She has very limited contact as her father’s parents never married. He grew up in two separate households. Geraldine has visited them occasionally but was not very close to either of them.

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    Melinda is after school she goes home and her parents leaves her a note for her to get food or something she needs to do. “Pizza. 555-4892. Small tip this time. There is a twenty dollar bill clipped to the note”(Anderson pg.14). I say that Melinda doesn’t get enough social talk with her parents instead they talk with notes. This is bad because then she can’t have a relationship with her parents. Melinda orders her pizza and eats alone at her house on the couch even though she isn’t supposed to eat

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    A Jury of Her Peers - 1

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    An Analysis of Characterization in “A Jury of Her Peers” In “A Jury of Her Peers” written by Susan Glaspell and published in 1917 a man named John Wright was choked to death in his bed with a rope. John Wright’s wife‚ Minnie is the prime suspect and has been taken to the jail to await her trial. The county lawyer George Henderson‚ the sheriff Henry Peters‚ his wife and the local farmer Lewis Hale and his wife Martha arrive at the home of John and Minnie Wright trying to locate clues so they

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    duty in conducting principal’s business 164. An agent is bound to conduct the business of his principal according to the directions given by the principal‚ or‚ in the absence of any such directions‚ according to the custom which prevails in doing business of the same kind at the place where the agent conducts the business. When the agent acts otherwise‚ if any loss be sustained‚ he must make it good to his principal‚ and‚ if any profit accrues‚ he must account for it. ILLUSTRATIONS (a) A‚ an agent

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    Sethe a Slave to Her Past

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    Toni Morrison Sethe ‚ a Slave to Her Past Beloved by Toni Morrison is a vivid picture of the cruelty of slavery. It is a novel that depicts the horrifying practicies of enslavement in the early Nineteenth Century in the United States of America. It is a depiction of the horrible conditions under slavery and the dehumanization suffered by human beings when they are owned by other human beings. Beloved is a story of a black woman’s struggle to overcome her past memories which are bounded

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    Susan Glaspell’s 1917 short story “A Jury of Her Peers” was based on a one act play she had written called ‘Trifles’‚ which was first performed in 1916. This story’s themes centered around the ideas of gender roles as they stood during the progressive era in the United States. The role a person’s gender played in society during the progressive era was vastly different than the way it is perceived today. This piece of work helps to illustrate what was expected of women and how condescending men were

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