I had committed to becoming a mother by the time Halie was born. ... In February of 2006, I snuck out of my parent's house for the last time because I found out I was pregnant with my oldest daughter Halie May Evenson. ... My boyfriend at the time, which was Halie's father as well, and I had decided that we was going to name our second daughter Skyler Ray Evenson. ... My oldest daughter stay with my parents as my boyfriend and I had stayed at the hospital with our daughter. ... Skyler was in a coma the whole time she was there. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The daughter of a meatpacking company millwright, Cheri Register tells about the event, which divides her small town of Albert Lea during time of depression. ... During this time the eight-hour working day laws were supported and workers did just that. ... Cheri's dad at this time was in a verbatim pattern of a workday, dinner, and falling asleep attempting to relaxing. ... The Packinghouse Daughter was a really interesting book. ... If interested in learning about the development of industry during the depression time of the mid 1900's this is an excellent book to consider readi...

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• Grade Level: High School

Changing the setting, time, character's names, and small events, Smiley finished her novel with an extreme comparison to Shakespeare's Lear. ... The first example of this is near the beginning when Lear reveals he is splitting up his kingdom among his three daughters. This leads to the daughters ruling the kingdom while their father is still alive. ... At the opening of the play, Lear decides to split his kingdom between his three daughters; this is the first time the reader is exposed to the theme of inversion of the natural order. ... Still, similar to the play, when his younges...

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Susie, Lora's daughter, lives a rich and envied life. ... Susie spends most of her time with her maid. ... Every time people hear that her mother is black and she is a mulatto, they start act differently, which really hurt Sarah. ... Although many Americans at that time look down upon the blacks, there are still a lot of people who treat them well. ... There were those who paid their workers on time and even tried to help them advance academically and socially. ...

• Word Count: 1149
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The king is powerless to the storm making him realize his own mortality Lear believes his world is coming to an end because his daughters have betrayed him. Also by having his power stripped from him by his daughters, he thinks that the outside world is going to end as well. ... Along with Lear's growing despair and projection, we also see his understandable obsession with his daughters betrayal: "Nor rain, wind, thunder, fire, are my daughters: / I tax you not, you elements, with unkindness" (King Lear P.105). ... But he does blame his "two pernicious daughters"(King Lear P.107) fo...

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• Grade Level: High School

The first introduction to "good nature" is Cordelia, King Lear's youngest daughter. ... Her father, King Lear, is about to step down as king and divide his throne among his three daughters. Lear has his daughters compete for their inheritance. ... Regan and Goneril, Lear's older daughters, use flattery to prove their love. ... He is very brash and quick-tempered, which is not necessarily a good trait, but at the same time not necessarily purely evil. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The first introduction to "good nature" is Cordelia, King Lear's youngest daughter. ... Her father, King Lear, is about to step down as king and divide his throne among his three daughters. Lear has his daughters compete for their inheritance. ... Regan and Goneril, Lear's older daughters, use flattery to prove their love. ... He is very brash and quick-tempered, which is not necessarily a good trait, but at the same time not necessarily purely evil. ...

• Word Count: 700
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• Grade Level: High School

It is a fiction based story about a mother with a lost self image and a daughter searching for her identity. ... Throughout the story the daughter Rebecca is searching for her identity. ... During this time, Emily has lost her self image because her daughter has broken her self esteem down. ... The letters made Emily find herself again, and gave her the confidence to tell her daughter to get out there and find herself. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

With her hands resting in her empty lap (because her child has grown up and started his own life) she hears a daughter being welcomed into the family, as she will be her son's bride. ... Soap was one able to free the wedding ring from her daughter-in-law's finger but now it lies bedded forever in her clapping hand. ... It is significant to the work as a whole because it clarifies the statements about the wedding ring and the daughter being welcomed into the family. ... The boots are a part of the son's childhood but the ring used to describe the arrangement of the boots connec...

• Word Count: 362
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• Grade Level: High School

His daughter who it was suppose to resemble did not like it she stated, "Take it down, Grammy. ... For the mother in law it was a sad reminder of Rashads drug abuse and fighting with her daughter Shirley. One of the memories that came to her was that of the first time Rashad Beat her daughter. ... " She saw her daughters eyes, Shirley's eyes dripping with sadness the way they were in the middle of the night that first time she ran from Rashad. ... That why it has been kept in a dark corner hidden but not at the same time. ...

• Word Count: 647
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Whether each of us lives our lives as hero's do it does not matter, we like to think that we in one way or at one time live the life of a hero. ... His ex-wife is an alcoholic and terrible mother who has custody of their daughter. ... He is a convicted felon who wants custody of his daughter. ... This is where Gabriel gets his money and Jack gets his daughter back and into safety. ... Gabriel starts killing terrorists and Jack starts his new life with his daughter. ...

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• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Many times an author will use this occurrence as a way of portraying the feelings of the victims at the particular time. ... The mother explains how violence is everywhere and her daughter should be no where near it. The mother wishes for her daughter to be in a safe place; therefore, she directs her to the church to sing with the choir. ... The mother also shows the characteristic of fright when she knows something happened to her child and sadness when she finds her daughter's shoe and doesn't see her anywhere. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Like most things in life there is a limit, a limited time of when we can resolve this problem and a limited time of how much our spirit can handle before we break down for good. When King Lear and Cordelia were sent to prison it was not to their knowledge that this would be the last time that the two would be together. ... Cordelia was murdered by one of the guards sent by Edmund; Lear after the murder of his daughter killed the guard. King Lear brings the corpse of his youngest daughter out and exclaims thoughts of grief and horrible guilt. He then dies of a broken heart because of the loss o...

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• Grade Level: High School

"I struggled for a long time with survivin'. ... After Joel loses Tess, he is again riddled with lesser pain then with his daughter, but still pain. ... Henry and Sam agree to take them along, and among the fighting they get broken up and Joel and Sam are forced to have some time. ... Joel almost lost Ellie, another daughter to him. ... He was not going to lose another daughter. ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

She talks about her time among the Indians and says that they fear no one, but they never harmed her. She was finally able to go homeand she says she cried more at getting to go home, than the whole time she was with the Indians. ... She found her son and daughter and the governor sent for her daughter, because the Indians were headed the way they had to go and it was to dangerous to risk. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Although this was a happy time for Kyla and I, Kylas mother and father have many problems and I wonder what life will be like for her in the future. ... My brother is only allowed to see his daughter every other Sunday.because of the custody battle. It worked out well that my brother was able to see his daughter on her birthday. ... Although Kyla and I had a good time on her first birthday, the circumstances surrounding that day might indicate a hard life for Kyla. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

She feels this is the last time that her father chooses her and she feels, she suffers and is raged inside because of this. ... At this time he makes the comment, "It will be straight enough, besides I thought you had made peace with that." ... The second part if this change comes when she is twenty- seven and her daughter is almost three. One day her daughter looks deep into her eyes and Alice Walker is worried and frightened about her daughter discovering that her mother's eyes are different than other people's eyes. ... Her daughter tells her t...

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• Grade Level: High School

Her daughter joy is a thirty two year old with a P.H.D in philosophy. ... Hopewell's daughter. ... Hopewell's daughter before he departed. ... The impression of the time of living and the value of friendship was made clear. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Fathers teach daughters how they should be treated by men. ... Today I am determined for my daughter to have a relationship with her father. Even though she is still very young I often arrange time for her to spend alone with her dad. ... Fathers and daughters have a bond that can never be replaced. I am determined to help my daughter build a relationship with her dad that will help her avoid dangerous mishaps. ...

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I for example am a full time student living off of my student loans semester to semester till I am finished. Along with being a single parent and having those expenses of having to buy extra stuff for my daughters school I don't have anything left. ... There are times when I want to go spend money I don't have but I find me telling myself NO more than I tell my daughter no. ...

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The author's daughter complained that the garden was more precious than her and the old lady had indeed lost her daughter as well. ... They both caressed the dark and revelled in time spent apart from others. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

I have been married to my wife for a little over 6 years and we have a beautiful 5 year old daughter. My wife has a 14 year old daughter from a previous marriage. ... We thought it would be best to wait until our oldest daughter graduates high school. ... I am currently a manager and hope to move up to a vice president in a very short time. ... I don't normally like to set deadline on my goals because I believe that your goals need to be adjusted from time to time depending on your circumstance. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

She never complained when a task was given, and always did it on time and accurately. ... It was in the evening time and they were on their way to a meeting. ... They went down to the hospital and until they saw her body they wouldn't accept that it was their daughter who had just passed away. ... Where is he in our time of he need? ... This caused him to be so ill that he ended up in the hospital only 2 weeks after his daughter's death. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

And with her, she brought 2 horrid, ugly daughters, because like they always say, like mother like daughter. ... All the nice things, kind thoughts and loving touches were for her own daughters. ... All this was laid on for her daughters. ... But this time to her surprise, there was a large poof of smoke. ... He told her what to do all the time, and never listened to her. ...

• Word Count: 1334
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

During his stay at 124 Bluestone Rd, Paul D becomes Sethe's lover and the object of Denver's, Sethe's daughter, and Beloved's jealousy. ... Only her third child, her older daughter, dies, her throat having been cut with a handsaw by Sethe. ... She devotes all of her time making Beloved understand why she reacted to schoolteacher's arrival the way she did. ... Sethe's daughter Denver is the most dynamic character in Beloved. Being sheltered by her mothers past makes her shy, sensitive, and inclined to spend time in her emerald closet. ...

• Word Count: 2030
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School