Medea is willing to cause herself pain my murdering her own children in order to spite her husband. ... "I am the mother of your children. ... Those sweet thoughts are mine no more, for now bereft of you I must wear out a drear and joyless life, And you will nevermore your mother see, Nor live as ye have done beneath her eye. Alas, my sons, why do you gaze on me, Why smile upon your mother that last smile? ... She murders her own two children. ...

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Soon Celie's mother dies, leaving her to tend to the family. ... Celie hides all this from her dying mother however, saying that God took the children. ... Afer several months of consideration, Mr. __ finally agrees, saying that he needs a mother for his children. ... At a market, she sees this child, Olivia, with her mother, who seems to have a lot of money. ... Now she has the courage to stand up to her oppressors, thanks to the influence of Sofia and Shug, two strongly independent women. ...

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Her mother, Deborah Sampson was a very ill widow who had six children, Deborah being the oldest. ... Deborah's mother could not continue to raise the six children on her own so she sent them away to live with relatives and various neighbors. Deborah was first sent to live with her mother's cousin, Miss. ... She had listened to many a conversation between her mother about how the war had affected the Bradfords. ... To make sure no one could notice Deborah went to her mothers home and her mother could not recognize her. ...

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The memories were verified by the participants" mothers and judged as mostly accurate. ... For example, a question asked what the baby was doing when you first saw him or her and most people know that newborns spend most of their time sleeping, eating or crying. ... The older sibling was asked "Who looked after you when your mother was in the hospital (giving birth to the younger sibling)?" The younger brother or sister was then asked, "Who looked after your older sibling when your mother was in the hospital"? ... The degree of error determined by the subject's mother was greater for the ...

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The memories were verified by the participants" mothers and judged as mostly accurate. ... For example, a question asked what the baby was doing when you first saw him or her and most people know that newborns spend most of their time sleeping, eating or crying. ... The older sibling was asked "Who looked after you when your mother was in the hospital (giving birth to the younger sibling)?" The younger brother or sister was then asked, "Who looked after your older sibling when your mother was in the hospital"? ... The degree of error determined by the subject's mother was greater for the ...

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This is evident in Grendel's mother. ... Grendel's mothers attack on Aeschere was revenge for her son death. ... He was sent to fight Grendel's mother. ... He had no children and no heirs to his throne. ... Each time he turned her down, but he did kiss her once every day. ...

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However, in other ways, Antonio is unlike children his age. He is much more serious than other children, particularly compared to his rowdy group of friends. ... Her guidance allows Antonio to find harmony between his conflicting heritages. ... Her approach gives Antonio the freedom to apply his understanding to his own decisions. ... Antonio struggles with his feelings of hurt and even resentment at his mother for sending him to school, another indication that Antonio is growing away from his childhood dependence on his mother. ...

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A daughter is to become a mother, and her upbringing is to prepare for that. ... She knows she had better learn well, for after the relatively forgiving apprenticeship under her mother, she will have to meet the exceedingly rigid, usually waspish, and all too often brutal, standards of a mother-in-law. Only after the children are raised and married off does a woman begin to enjoy the fruits of love " from the children, now parents themselves, who gratefully realize what she gave them, and from a husband whose years if not his attitudes force him into co-dependence as his body gets frail ...

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Our society has declared war on its most helpless members, our unborn children. ... Yet, the fact remains that a woman can legally abort a baby at any time during her pregnancy. ... Planned Parenthood claims that their efforts would reduce abortion and the births of children by unwed teenagers. ... State criminal abortion laws, like those involved here, that except from criminality only a life-saving procedure on the mother's behalf without regard to the stage of her pregnancy and other interests involved violate the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, which protects against s...

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Jeanne had a typical American middle class childhood; her father owned a small fishing boat and her mother worked in a cannery. ... Although Jeanne's family had some typical Japanese traditions, none of the children spoke any Japanese. ... Jeanne and her family had been in the Manzanar Internment camp for months. ... With no privacy or father figure to keep all the members of the family together, Jeanne lost sense of her heritage as did many other children in the camps. ... Her father reunited with the family and they headed back to Southern California. ...

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Although she is bullied and punished by John, his mother is "blind and deaf on the subject" and the servants do not like to "offend their young master" by siding with Jane (P.4). ... Her slate accidentally slips from her hand and falls on the floor. ... He warns the children that she is a "little cast away" (P.65) and that she is "not a member of the true flock" (P.65). Mr Brockelhurst then tells the students to exclude Jane and not talk to her "avoid her company, exclude her from your sports, and shut her out from your converse." ... At this point, Jane learns courage from Helen as she sees ...

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Hitler's mother Klara Polzl was a nice simple girl, twenty-three years younger than her husband, Alois Schicklgruber. Klara was the maid to Alois's children when she got pregnant by him. ... Hitler always tried to comfort his mother. ... Adolf was there for his mother in her last months. ... But he did receive an Iron Cross for his courage and devotion. ...

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Hitler's mother Klara Polzl was a nice simple girl, twenty-three years younger than her husband, Alois Schicklgruber. Klara was the maid to Alois's children when she got pregnant by him. ... Hitler always tried to comfort his mother. ... Adolf was there for his mother in her last months. ... But he did receive an Iron Cross for his courage and devotion. ...

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Since virtue, knowledge, justice, and courage resemble holiness and vice versa, as with holiness, virtue, knowledge, and justice must exist outside the human condition. "... ... When examining the issue of fetal abuse, the ethicist can employ either of the two stances, the rights of the fetus to enter the world with sound mind and body, and the womans rights to privacy, that is, the right not to have her body and life intruded upon. The rights of the fetus can be viewed through either situational ethics of absolute truth, however, the rights of mother can only be viewed through situational eth...

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Much of Beowulf is devoted to articulating and illustrating the Germanic heroic code, which values strength, courage, and loyalty in warriors; hospitality, generosity, and political skill in kings; ceremoniousness in women; and good reputation in all people. ... When, in the war between the Danes and the Frisians, both her Danish brother and her Frisian son are killed, Hildeburh is left doubly grieved. ... Unferth, on the other hand, proves an empty chatterer, unwilling to fight Grendel or Grendel's mother. ... After that, fantasy claimed the realm of fairy tales and children's stori...

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The young Iosif was the only one of their children to survive childhood. ... His mother enrolled him in the Gori Church School in September 1888 when her son was nine and he graduated six years later, despite various interruptions as when Stalin's father took the young boy to Tiflis to work alongs side him in a shoe factory. Vissarion, Stalins father wanted this to be a permanent career for his son, but his mother intervened and succeeded in bringing her son home to Gori. ... At his mothers urging he applied for and won a small scholarship to the Tiflis Theological Seminary, where he enr...

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In the U.S. throughout the Diaspora, the African generally received the death penalty for practicing his or her birthright. ... Lagos, the home of our urban sample children, is the centre of a greater metropolitan area with a projected population in 1991 of 10 million (Federal Republic of Nigeria and UNICEF 1990). ...

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She drops a glove, but a Huron sees her doing so and warns her of the consequences. ... He tells him that he will be rewarded for bringing Munro's daughters back to him, for white men are sentimental about their children. ... Cora is appalled and runs to her sister and the other captives. ... One savage throws an axe at Cora, who cuts her bonds, and Uncas rushes to help her. ... Cora wants to go and meet Montcalm to explain her problems, but Hawkeye discourages her. ...

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Adolescent children are so hard to understand, especially when they're your own. ... Ever since she could speak, she aspired to have children and love everyone. ... She does get her lack of emotion from her dad, but I'm trying. ... This was her innocent way of telling me to get her something to eat. ... I laid my gun on her shoulder as a base and told her to close her ears. ...

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Freud never saw her again after that but in 1905, he published "Fragment of an Analysis of a Case of Hysteria," better known as the case of Dora. ... The first is called the oral stage, in this stage the infant takes his or her thumb and stimulates the mouth with it, we may know this act as the baby sucking his or her thumb. ...

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An anarchist since his student days in Paris, he had followed Emma Goldman's philosophy closely in her magazine, Mother Earth, and after attending one of her lectures, he described her in his diary as "a woman of remarkable address and convincing presence.... ... Its endorsement of essential independence, no matter how fearful, taught Man Ray that courage was the artist's credo. ... Like a dancer, the central, dominant figure stands boldly facing us, her feet pointed outward, pelvis thrust slightly to the side, arms raised behind her head. ... In the school basement, a kitchen opened...

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King talks of his mother as being the strong silent type. ... Besides being a pillar of strength for the family, she never became used to the idea of segregation and according to King "Instilled a sense of self respect in all of her children from the very beginning" . King also talks of the common problem amongst Negro mothers of the time, and trying to explain to their children the idea of discrimination and segregation. ... The phrase "You are as good as anyone" was very common in conversation between Negro mothers and their children. ... Martin Luther King's father was inversely to his...

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Now she knows she is a hypocrite 2.1 Summary The Nurse shudders to think of what Creon and Haemon will think, and certainly Antigone 's mother will reproach her in the underworld. ... She embraces her "sweet red apple" and swears to her purity. ... She recalls how she was such a beastly sister, flinging mud and worms at her, tying her to a tree and cutting off her hair. ... Her powerful hand, which Antigone presses to her check, wards off all evil. ... Though his mother would have not been imposing, she would have been stronger than those "real mothers." ...

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One story says that Caesar was pulled from an incision in his mother's stomach. ... All male children were expected to be good athletes. ... In Roman tradition the fathers arranged their children's' marriages at an early age. ... Mytilene was taken by storm and Caesar won the civic crown, Rome's highest award for courage. ... Caesar fell deeply in love with her when he was nineteen. ...

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My 3rd son was due on May 9th and was born on May 9th, it was Mother's Day that year. ... My goals for this birth were to have a non-medicated, vaginal birth, with my mother and husband present. ... I felt like her constant 'concern' for my child's birth weight and pushiness to get me to plan a C-section, even though I had explained to her my hopes and fears about my birth, was rude and inconsiderate. ... She rolled her eyes and had no compassion for me when I explained how upsetting it was. ... I was barely in my recovery room when my mother was helping me nurse my baby f...

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