The ending of Mother Courage sees Mother Courage pulling the wagon alone, after all her children have been killed by the war. ... (Brecht) this means that although Mother Courage is living off the war through her business, it is also taking from her, through the loss of her children. ... Mother Courage predicts that her children will die and that it is their virtues that are their downfall. ... Mother Courage is a businesswoman throughout the play; every time one of her children dies she is away conducting business. ... In scene one, Mother Courage has all three of her children with her, a...

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I believe that this is true courage because despite her fear of something like what had happened to her happening again she went on a pressed forward and eventually her hard work had paid off for her and it helped her learn something about herself as well. ... All though many of us would not think of something like this as courage I feel that it is a form of courage because even though she wanted her husband to come home she stayed strong and supported what he was doing away from home. ... About ten years ago my parents divorced and obviously they moved into separate houses and my sister and...

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In 1949, he created Mother Courage and her Children, which enlists the spectators" feelings as well as their reason. ... In 1949 Brecht went back to Berlin to stage Mother Courage and her Children, with his wife Helene Weigel, in the title part. ... Mother Courage and her Children Bertolt Brecht had two main periods of maximum creativity. ... Mother Courage and her Children, is the story of a woman who, with her family, follows around the Thirty Years War to make a living as a peddler. ... Mother Courage's real name was Anna Fierling, but all her children have different last names a...

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Mother Catherine shows how she as a woman was creative by making her own worship place with a tent. ... Her Compound is called the Manger, and is dedicated to the birth of children in or out of wedlock." ... Also what brings this story and essay together is the belief of courage and strength a woman has to over come her obstacles or even pain. ... (page 148) This shows how a woman would do anything to protect what hers, for example when a single mother does everything in her power to make sure her children are loved, well and educated As for Mother Catherine " After the call she consecra...

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Life for the brothers was hard, their father was a drunk, who was henpecked by their intimidating, religious, mother until he had enough liquor inside him to return her taunts with violence. ... Edward, not being the most attractive child, was the subject of children's jibes. ... Edward had accepted this, and had neither the inclination or the courage to disobey her. ... Ed shot and killed her. ... Frank Worden and the Sheriff went to check out the old Gein place, already infamous amongst the local children as a haunted house. ...

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Jacobs calls out to her children while she watches from afar, unable to touch and converse with them. She describes several times how much her heart ached for she couldnt even simply tell her children, Your mother is here (246). For a mother, the greatest joy comes from involving in her childrens lives and conversing with them. ... Harriet Jacobs appealed to the women of the north during her time, but still moves women today with her description of the pain she had to undergo as a young woman and as a mother. Modern girls struggle with the idea of purity and mothers face challenges with their ...

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I make sure my children are in bed and a light is left on, just in case. ... When I was fourteen, I finally built up enough courage to ask a classmate to be my first girlfriend, her name was Laura. ... After only a few months of dating, I walked over to her house. Before her house came into view I could smell the smoke. ... The next year my mother had another man come live with us for a time. ...

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Giving children education is giving them the courage to take on and repair the world through intelligence and character - which are the two true goals of education. ... Sally's mother had hopes that her daughter would achieve brilliance and believed she had "too much talent to waste" (page 88) and therefore would not allow this leaving to occur. Her mother wished for her daughter and her siblings "to have a good education and to "get on in the world"" (page 88) with desired professions such as a doctor. ... According to her mother this was not an acceptable oc...

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They served as dutiful wives to their husbands and adoring mothers to their children. ... She yearns to live life of boundless courage. ... Hedda's act of shooting herself in the final scene of the play can be seen as a final act of courage, revealing her true feminist outlook. ... ...It's liberating to know an act of spontaneous courage is yet possible in this world. ... It is also resonant of Hedda's inability to face her gloomy reality, especially after her idealism of Eljert crowned in vine leaves in courage is shattered upon news of his ignominious death. ...

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The heroine substitutes moral courage and a moral voice for the hero's physical courage and sense of predestination"(13). ... Even though she is the mother to two of the four children and has played mother for all of them, Poh-Poh decides that they will all refer to her as "Stepmother" and she, the submissive Chinese wife, does not object. ... Much as in life, we first see this character as cold and unforgiving but in reality Poh-Poh is just loving the children and keeping them from harm the only way she knows how. ... In her strength, or some would say lack of sympathy, she k...

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The Mother used David to take her anger out. An abusive mother who systematically closed down any escape he may have from her clutches. ... Nevertheless, he found out ways and means to outsmart her, escape her, avoid her. ... It is an incredible tale of strength and courage in a person not even old enough to reach the bathroom sink. ... In recent months, we have heard tales of the mother who drowned her five children, and the mother who starved and imprisoned her daughter. ...

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Bebe always had her mother and aunt hovering over her, and making her speak proper English, but to Bebe, she considered it "acting white" and felt that in order to be considered black she could not speak in a white manner. ... Bebe tried to teach her father some things, taking after her mother and aunt, " She corrects everybody. ... Clark, Bebe's teacher was putting many ideas in children's heads. ... Even though Bebe ended up washing out her afro, she at least had the courage to stand up to her grandmother and mother. ... Bebe had a lot of women protecting her, and people like he...

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Her childish ways are also represented in the way Lolita speaks to her mother, how she displays her crush towards Humbert, her manners which are not good, and a hotel sign that says, "Children under fourteen stay for free."" ... Not only would he lore children into his mansion, but he would also videotape them performing sexual acts. He is a sick man and he has something in common with Humbert, which is that they both get pleasure from children. ... At that moment he knew he had sinned but he couldn't find the courage to leave her. ... At the end of the story, I really think that Hu...

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While all this occurs, Beth, the mother tries to pull her family together, and can only do so using her tradition, cultural background and a bundle of strength. ... The relationship between mother and children is loving and strong. ... However when she begins to become aware that her children are being affected, her desire to initiate change seems to accelerate the process of "bottoming out" and one feels the "peak occurrence" looming on the horizon. ... This, her mother's love and her precious journal are her only links to sanity in a crazy world. ... This event tips her fragile ...

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Rowling gives a huge importance to the traditional family model because from her point of view, a good family is the best foundation within which to grow up and become a good citizen. For instance, the Weasley family are the happiest people in the series; both mother and father love their children and they are teaching them the right values. ... This animal symbolizes courage, bravery and nobility. ... I liked this quote because that actually happens in real life, the more you ignore your problems the bigger they get so you must have courage enough to overcome your fears. First Activity ...

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My father and mother came from low economic families. ... My mother made sure we learned what she had learned. This made her feel we would succeed. ... I would do her chores and work in order for to be able to study. ... Most are critiqued and seldom are provided with courage for them to stay in college. ...

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Hale, however, also voices his opinion of how every mother deserves the ability to provide quality parental care for her child, and that not having an abortion may hinder one from doing so. ... Hale also makes a point that in most situations, the baby need not be killed in order to save the mother's life. ... Rosin begins her article with a testimony of her experience with having an abortion, and how as already a mother of two children, she could not fool herself to believing that she was able to provide for an additional child. She makes the argument that most abortions are made by mothe...

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Price goes to stay with her mother for a while after the death of her unborn baby boy and Dolores has time to bond and become closer with her father, after a few weeks of bonding, Dolores goes to visit her mother and her mother informs her that Dolores's father wants a divorce. ... When she finally worked up the courage to tell him about the pregnancy, he abandoned her, "I couldn't tell if my vomiting was from being pregnant of being abandoned". Eventually Dante came back to her and told her he didn't want children and persuaded her to get an abortion. ... This was very hard fo...

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The film: "Once Were Warriors" is a deeply moving story about Jake and Beth Heke and their five children - a family in crisis. ... The relationship between mother and children is loving and strong. ... However when she begins to become aware that her children are being affected, her desire to initiate change seems to accelerate the process of "bottoming out" and one feels the "peak occurrence" looming on the horizon. ... The two youngest children seem to be spared the anguish of suffering their father's drunken rage. ... This, her mother's love and her precious j...

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My dads mother got renamed Nanny. She was a gorgeous lady, who had this amazing way with children. ... After I finally worked up enough courage to make a noise about 15 minutes had gone by. ... I think a Grandma is a kid's second mother. ... Many children never take the time to know their Grandparents. ...

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The story itself is both well written and interesting, using the incident of the snake to suggest that the life of the drover's wife is a hard, lonely one, livened up from time to time by episodes which only serve to heighten our sense of the woman's courage and endurance. ... She is a representative figure, one of the "gaunt and haggard women who live alone and work like men" - alone, that is, except for their children and the livestock they have to care for. ... The young boy, Tommy, seeing how drained and distressed his mother is, with a burst of insight exclaims "Mother, I won&#...

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Also, when Calpurnia, who is the Finch's cook, takes the children to her church and they meet Lula. ... And her ideas of Cal are that she can't look after the children, which is quite untrue. ... He also shows bravery and courage, as Atticus knows that a lot of Maycomb citizens will be horrible to him. ... The children reading to her helps her to take her mind off the pain. ... They also accept Calpurnia, who is black, into their family, and she is like a mother to the children. ...

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I felt she was the perfect figure to represent women who chose to stay at home with their families, because she just recently quit her high qualifying job as a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) at KPMG, a large accounting firm, to care to her two children, ages two and five. ... She also informed me that she feels that emotional bonding with a child and his or her mother is the corner stone for the child's discipline and morals. ... Petrosino also included in her defense that trouble makers at schools feel lost and helpless and she does not want to subject her two children to these feelin...

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Rachel went with her mother to the Danish Island of Saint Croix. There she met John Lavien, and on the encouragement of her mother, who believed Lavien to be rich, married him. ... Rachel and her husband tried to make the family work, until late 1765, when he left his wife and children. ... Also, for another source of income she rented out slaves which she had inherited from her mother. Both of her children worked in the store. ...

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Wes Moore's mother, Joy did everything in her power to steer her son in the right direction, often making huge sacrifices, which ultimately paid off, to do so. ... The other Wes Moore's mother, Mary did not have as strong a sense of how to effectively turn around her son's behavior as Joy. ... He was there for his wife, helping her parent her children until the end of his life and he had a very solid, calming presence. Once, when Wes was just a toddler, he hit his older sister, and his mother, who had been beaten by her previous husband, reacted very angrily to this. ... Over ti...

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