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    If She Was Gone

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    If She was Gone A lot of the time people take having a mother for gradated. A mother is someone that not only brings you into this world‚ but also makes sure you are cared for and protected. She teaches you things that no one else can‚ and provides you with a safe environment in which you can healthfully live and grow. Life without my mother would be one of the hardest things I would ever have to overcome. Comparing my life without my mother by my side would result in the loss of my best friend

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    Rachel and Her Children

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    “Rachel and Her Children” Not all of us are blessed and able to come home to a roof over our head‚ food on the table‚ daily necessities‚ and happy moments to look back on. Some of us are fighting for shelter‚ starving for food‚ and praying for a smile. As I read Rachel and Her Children I found myself seeing things from the homeless perspective. Homeless does not necessarily mean they do not have a roof over there head. Homeless now to me means not having a place to feel safe and call your home your

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    Women in Atienct Greek litetrue are describe in "Putting Her in Her Place: Women‚ Dirt‚ and Desire" by Anne Carson‚ as being wet‚ polluted‚ leaky and cold. This is used to describe the fact that many Greek writers such as Aristotle and Hesiod believed women to be more irrational than man‚ and unbounded to anything as men are‚ meaning women were more prone to sexual desires‚ jealousy‚ and emotions. Carson ties interesting points of his argument to certain Greeks myths‚ and the cultural norms these

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    A Jury of Her Peers.

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    Juliet Masabah Amy Manley Comp II March 20‚ 12 “A Jury of Her Peers” In a court case‚ is the intention of the crime indication for or against the convicted? While on the other hand it is used to prove the person guilty‚ also‚ it can be used to persuade in defending an act. Oppression is a cause enough to confirm civil disobedience. Our country was founded upon law breaking and rebellion against the British. Therefore began over two centuries of compromising the law‚ in big or in small ways

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    Her First Week

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    Her First Week ‘Her first week’ captures the emotions of a newly made mother and shows her feelings during the first week she spends with her child. Sharon Olds expresses her happiness of being blessed with a baby girl and shares the experience of emerging into motherhood. The poem transfers the joy and thrill of being with child and portrays the feelings of the mother with her child around. It also shows the beginning of a new bond between mother and child.

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    The Author to Her Book

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    "The Author to Her Book" A writer has to have a certain amount of passion about their work. In the case of Anne Bradstreet in her poem "The Author to Her Book‚" compares a writer and their work to a mother and her child. As you read the poem you can see how she compares the growth of her work to the growth of a child. The first two lines of the poem show a motherly comparison by the words offspring and birth. The first line‚ however‚ has a negative allusion as well‚ from the words ill-formed

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    Her First Ball

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    Analysis of “Her first ball” The title of the story is “Her first ball” and it already tells what the story is all about. This story was written by a British writer Katherine Mansfield and it is told in the third-person point of view. The main character‚ who is the protagonist of the story‚ is a young girl named Leila. She is 18 years old and she is from the country. The other main character‚ the antagonist of the story‚ is a fat old man. The secondary characters are sheridan girls: Meg‚ Jose

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    Warming Her Pearls

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    Alli Beery Warming Her Pearls ENGL 3790 3/31/14 Warming Her Pearls Carol Anne Duffy has always had a strong feminist theme running throughout all of her poems. Warming Her Pearls is a combination of both feminism and Marxism. There is a class conflict when it comes to the maid and her mistress. The maid is constantly thinking of her mistress‚ and it is likely that the mistress never thinks twice about her maid. While there is no relationship between a man and a woman‚ there are strong

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    paper English 12/13/13 The social diversities and in-depth analysis of the influences of gender A jury of her peers? Or men subjugating woman into nothing more than cooks and cleaners? This book made woman seem as though they’re just house wives‚ and men are superior to the woman race. The social diversities and gender roles play a huge role in the “A jury of her peers” for obvious reasons. The gender roles in this short story are the exact opposite of the 20th century today. The diversities

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    character of Pecola through her family and her society Introduction The Bluest eyes is the work of Toni Morrison. In this novel we can see that there are many characters that are very interesting to analyze it. Because the characters are very characteristic. We can see at the main character of the bluest eyes‚ Pecola. Pecola has psychological problem that is very interesting to analyze. So in here I want to analyze the character of Pecola that is shaped from her family and her society. In here the

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