The poem starts with Clarke referencing the past; "I can remember you, child" to show the mother is trying to think of a positive time in her and her daughter's relationship. The writer has isolated the word 'child' through the use of a comma to hint that her relationship with her daughter is currently challenging. The word 'child' is also quite degrading and shows the mother trying to gain control and power by reinforcing her daughter's adolescence. ... Clarke refers to the pregnancy as it's something that a reader can relate to and we understand...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

That child believes his mother loves him because she does everything, but that's not love because if his mother truly loved him she would teach him to pick up after themselves or to be orderly in daily life.Another example is how hook's friend believes her daughter shouldn't be given an allowance because she might use it to buy sweets, at the same time she should view the allowance in another way, as hook says,an allowance is a way to teach children discipline,boundaries, and working through desires versus needs. So she decides to give her daughter an allowance , but for every a...

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Brooks argues that these are the tough experiences Chua shelters her daughters from by making them bury their heads in their textbooks. Social skills and multiple other skills are disabled by unpretentious maturity process, and are not developed if formal learning consumes a child's time. ... Although Chua is focused on the future success of her daughters, she lacks to state the obvious; her daughters are in fact children. ... Hanna Rosin, a contributing editor at The Atlantic, mocks Chua's list of tips that she claims made her daughter's successful. ... Mentioned plenty of time...

• Word Count: 2303
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Janie would love to do this she always thought of it as spending time with the ladies. ... As time went on she had never seen Harmon again and had only heard from him once in a letter. ... Janie's mother was, what she found out to be as she got older, trading her for heroin to a couple that had lost their daughter from an illness. ... Her new daddy never appreciated her only because he knew that she would never replace his real daughter. ... As time went on everything was going all right until Leshaya's new mother told her how she felt she had said that she was suppose ...

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Parents are accountable of preparing daughters and sons; in order to be an example in their family and make them part of the progression, not the retrogression of the country. ... To be 18 years old does not mean that it is time to fly away from rules and suggestions made in home; it means that it is the time to apply ever more solidly what it has been learnt in home. ...

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He doesn't play a very important role in Ruth's life and is hardly mentioned in the book; almost the only time he is mentioned is after Ruth brings her boyfriend, Doug, home for the first time. ... Ruth's mother craves so much attention from her daughter and thus willingly takes any attention that Ruth might have paid to her father. ...

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These researchers believe that it is in fact "the child who gets more attention on a regular basis who sometimes has a harder time with it. ... "Mothers were more affectionate toward secondborn daughters and were more affectionate toward less instrumental and less emotional secondborns" (Tucker, 2). ... Practices that ignore the recipient child's needs, are arbitrary or discriminatory, are more recently seen to vary considerably across social and cultural groups, and across time" (Konstantareas, 2). ... Mothers were chosen solely for the vignettes because they spend more time with th...

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Throughout the story different themes are displayed, the plot of the story changes as time passes, the tone of the narrator is clearly conveyed, the different settings are unique to what makes the story, and the characters are important in the plot of the story. ... The tone of the story, which is told through the perspective of the daughter, is the very positive and happy when telling the story of how her family met Pranab and how eventually her mother fell in love with Pranab. ...

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In Rousseau's perfect home, the father is the head of the family not only because it is natural or that he is stronger than the mother, but because she has household duties to attend to, and has no time to venture outside of the home. ... Wollstonecraft proposes that if women were allowed the chance, education would make them rational beings, and subsequently more virtuous companions, sisters, daughters, and mothers (Wollstonecraft, 269). ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate