"Everyday Use" In "Everyday Use," Alice Walker navigates the cultural gap between a mother and her two daughters. ... One daughter stems life from tragedy, seeing the world for what it is, and welcomes each of life's challenges with cautious acceptance; meanwhile, the oldest daughter abhors anything standing in the way of what she feels she is expected. ... Dee, the oldest daughter, has had everything given to her all through life. ... The mother wants to see Dee succeed, but at the same time she feels she owes more to Maggie because of the accident. ... The quilt shows through ti...

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Demeter is so mournful over the loss of her daughter that the world begins to die. ... The time when she is in the Underworld represents the barren winter, and the when she is with her mother on Earth represents abundant spring and summer. ... Demeter is so mournful over the loss of her daughter that the world begins to die. ... The time when she is in the Underworld represents the barren winter, and the when she is with her mother on Earth represents abundant spring and summer. ... Demeter is so mournful over the loss of her daughter that the world begins to die. ...

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Three of her poems are: For my Daughter, Woman to Man and The company of lovers. Centre on themes such as love, time, birth, death and the purpose of life in these poems. ... In the first poem for My Daughter Judith Write explores the ideas of time brings change, time is inevitable and children grow up and separate from their parents. What Judith Write is talking about when she says time brings change which means that when she gave birth to her daughter she slowly over the years she changed and developed, Then she left home and moved into her own house with her boyfriend. Also when she is ...

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It's about father, mother and daughter. ... It's about time and goal. ... Ozeki raised questions about time and being, life and death, and the relationship between them. ... " And "For the first time in my life, I had a project and a goal to focus on. ... And only then, would you focus on the goal with the little time you have left. ...

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For example my grandmother's daughter died from melanoma cancer that was undiagnosed until it was stage four, anger feelings took control of my grandmother and fast. ... The anger of my grandmother who was experiencing a loss, was mainly targeted at God for allowing her daughter to be taken, she felt the death was very unfair and unjust, because her daughter was only Thirty years old with her whole life ahead of her and leaving her two kids without a mother. ... Time is supposed to heal the pain in situations like this, however it is not always the case especially with my grandmother who...

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They don't want to force religion on their kids but at the same time don't want to hold them back from it if it is something they wish to pursue. ... He writes of his own confusion during the time that he was raising his daughter and the problems he faced. ... His strongest example comes from his daughter asking questions about the death of her two best friends when she was very young. He asks what kind of comfort and security a secular society could offer his daughter or any child who losses a loved one. ...

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Her daughter Cornelia, past love George, husband John, and in the end even God had "jilted" her. ... It was her daughter Cornelia that invoked bitterness in her last days. ... "So, my dear Lord, this is my death and I wasn't even thinking about it But I can't, it's not time. ... "She had once and for all got over the idea of dying for a long time. ... Yet, as death approached, her mind raced and she panicked, hoping that she might meet her daughter in the afterlife. ...

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Jo realizes that she seemed distracted by memories of Dana during the conversation with her daughter. ... Despite the obvious signs of warning from her husband Daniel, Jo insisted on all three daughters to return home for the holiday: "I wanted to get all of the girls home for the holiday. ... "" (153) The argument between the daughters was a clear representation of exactly what Daniel had warned Jo about in the first place. ... When Jo found no happiness from theher dysfunctional reunion of her three daughters, she yet again turned to her past for ideas. ... During the time that th...

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I am the daughter of Alicia Faye Willis and James Earl Jacobs. ... I'm a mother of two daughters and a grandmother of one with a wonderful finance. ... The call lead up to me finding out that, my mother (Alicia), is the daughter of Moses Willis and Edna Sykes. Moses Willis is the son of a great slave owner and Edna Sykes is the daughter of a great Indiana women. ... My grandmother shared that her mother who is my great grandmother was the daughter of a great Indiana women. ...

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Elizabeth and her daughter are very much alike both share feelings of anxiety towards the fathers return and both appreciate beauty. However, the daughter does not have the hardness that her mother has, this tells us that Elizabeth's passion for beauty and life is deteriorating. ... Later when the daughter roused to rapture in response to the flowers this acts as a contrast to Elizabeth who also sees the Chrysanthemums as a symbol of her marriage, saying "It was chrysanthemums when I married him, and chrysanthemums when you were born, and the first time they ever brought him home drunk,...

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The line wild young daughters becoming women' implies the how people change when they bear the responsibilities of motherhood. ... The changing relationship between mother and daughter. ... A child once quick to mischief' has grown into a contemplative adult who has a greater understanding of life picking the last fruits of the temporal' (the last lessons of time/experience). ... The relationship between the father and child' changes with time. ... Vocabulary such as memories, temporal, ripeness, and transience show that the poem is dealing with passing of time and t...

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Also, when Bid did what she thought was best by letting her ex-husband take her daughter away It seemed like the best option. However, when you saw it from Purdue's point of view, as a daughter who was left behind it didn't seem to be the best solution because of the emotional effects it had on her. ... During this rendition of Dead and Buried the lighting coordinator used a blue lighting to show a night time scene and would use dappling to illustrate a moon shining through leafs. ... When they're talking about where Purdue would stay, or about how Bid shouldn't have lef...

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She was the second daughter of Edward and Emily Norcross Dickinson. ... Since Emily was the daughter of a politician, Emily could have a good education and therefore went to Amherst Academy. After her time at the academy she attended the Mount Holyoke College. ... Late in Emily's life she spent most of her time mourning because of the deaths of her father in 1874, her nephew Gilbert died in 1883, Charles Wadsworth and Emily's mother died. ...

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For the first time in her life, Codi realized Grace was a place she could call home. ... With the death of his wife, he inherited the extensive task of raising his two young daughters "to be untouched by Grace- (115; ch.11). ... Rather than diving head first into the depths of his daughters' social and individual beings, he remained situated in the outskirts of their hearts. ... Unfortunately, as a result of his medically focused parental techniques, his relationship with his daughters lacked the emotional and familial support they needed. ... He once feared "how much [his daugh...

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This was similar to Sethe's emotional life, because although she was alive, she had been emotionally frozen or dead, since she murdered her daughter eighteen years earlier. ... This was a perfect time for her to surface because it would refresh Sethe's feeling of guilt, not only for killing her daughter, but also for enjoying herself at the carnival. ...

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American Beauty The film "American Beauty" is a five-time academy award-winning picture and for a very good reason. ... And is implied that his daughter and her boyfriend killed him It seems pointless to stay and watch the rest of it but at the same time the viewer thinks to themselves "well maybe I"ll stay just to see why". ... Lester Bernham played by actor Kevin Spacey is a father and a husband who hates his job, who desires more of his dying relationships with his wife, Carolyn, and his daughter, Jane, and is desperately trying to figure out how his life became so dull and meaningless. ...

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He lives on his own in a small, cluttered apartment and his only social life is going out and getting smashed at the local bar, and keeping his brother's widow and her daughter company. ... Thus he never returned to college and grew older working in a restaurant he would be too old to run by the time he owned it. ... Anne Grouse is the daughter of Mather and Mrs. ... Dallas in turn is connected to his deceased brother, David's wife and daughter. ... During the story it is in a time of decline. ...

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Having children born out of wedlock was especially frowned upon at that time and this is what Brooks is showing in these lines. ... Both of Sadies daughters left the house with their mothers independence, they left with "Her fine-tooth comb" (16). Unlike Maud who went to college for the wrong reasons, the daughters knew better, and left for all the right ones. ...

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Although saving time is necessary, people seem to use less time to take care of their family, they lack of time for understanding other people, and they have a rush life. First, saving time can lead people to have less time taking care of their family. ... Second, by saving time, we may lack of time to understand people around us. ... From the reading, when Amy Wu went shopping with her aunt, her aunt bought ingredient to make a birthday cake for her daughter. She did not buy the cake that author pointed because she knew that her daughter would be happy when she spent time to make a birthda...

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Angela, a high school student and friend to Lester's daughter Jane, is a very beautiful young woman whose only worry is the image that she portrays to other people. ... For years, Lester had tried to allow his wife and daughter to live their lives how they chose to. ... When he first meets Ricky next door, he starts smoking marijuana again for the first time in many years. ... Caroline regarded her career as the most important thing in her life, above her husband and daughter. ... Lester and Angela are alone and have the opportunity to have sex together, but Angela tells Lester, "Thi...

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In "I Stand Here Ironing", Emily is a young girl affected negatively by her mother's lack of care and the time of cold war. ... Willy, Biff's father, spends his time with Biff, like his friend, however his advisories are very harmful. ... In the same way, Emily's mother tries to show that she loves her daughter but she cannot actually do because of her responsibilities. ...

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These two people needed each other in a time that was vulnerable for the both of them. ... Turtle wants to live off of Taylor because she is the one who took time to love her and teach her a new life. ... Taylor finally gets to declare Turtle her own daughter and it is the best thing that happened to both of them. ... They have had so much taken away from them: their daughter, Ismene, their home, their lives. ... She didn't want to be abandoned at this time in her life when she finally has every thing settled. ...

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By this time he has at least grown from his ideas of growing up and living in India and is just trying to find his path so he goes on to joining the navy pleading "he just wants to do anything to get out of Brooklyn." ... The death of the narrator's daughter, and the promise he made to his mother compelled him to aide his brother to go towards the right direction in life. ... The narrator struggles internally because his distress about Sonny and the death of his daughter are kept bottled up inside of him. ...

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Soon after his rival, Charles Darnay, asks Lucie's father for his daughter's hand in marriage, Sydney pledges his undying love to Lucie, admitting that, though his life is utterly worthless, she has helped him dream of a better, more valuable existence. "For you, and for any dear to you, I would do anything I would embrace any sacrifice for you and for those dear to you." (140) His pledge foreshadows a time at which his vow will be called upon to fulfill. ...

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I believe that without an understanding of the Amish way of life, John Miller's "The Amish Farmer's Daughter" would have very little meaning. Such lines as "She should be warmly bonneted, / a long, dark woolen skirt around her calves ." and " skimming on wooden blades ." would actually serve to confuse the reader about the time period in which the action takes place. Hart's poem takes place in a specific place and time yet can be transferred to any region or culture without loosing it's meaning or effect. ... Vivid enough to visualize the literal meaning while still gro...

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