In Anderson's biography, Rebel Daughter, Anderson mentioned that "having a baby while holding down a job was so unusual. ... In "Rebel Daughter," Anderson states that "what I wanted more than anything was to be able to look after myself and make sure that every other woman in the world could do the same. ... During this time in Canadian history, many women in were faced with resistance when they tried to pursue education and become qualified for higher-paid and more respectable positions in the workforce. ... While obtaining her Bachelor of Education, Anderson worked at the Bulletin as a ...

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African Americans needed to find a new identity in the New World and were considered an underclass for a long time. ... The mission to find their own voice was even more difficult for African American women who became targets of numerous insults, both during and after slavery, and were forced to be silent and to stand in the shadows for a long time. ... The ways in which Helene shows her affection for her daughter are not exactly motherly in 'the sense that Helene critiques Nels' appearance or does not allow her daughter to behave like a child. ... Instead of Helene helping Nel to i...

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Analytical Essay: Rappaccini's Daughter In the literal sense, Nathaniel Hawthorn's Rappaccini's Daughter is the story about the rivalry between two scientists that ultimately causes the destruction of an innocent young woman. ... In Rappaccini's Daughter, the original sinners, Adam and Eve, are represented by Giovanni Guasconti and Beatrice Rappaccini. ... She even states, I dreamed only to love thee and be with thee a little time, and so let thee pass away, leaving but thine image in mine heart. ... Rappaccini's Daughter conveys the theme of loss of innocence and puri...

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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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Entitled "A Time to Kill", the novel presented the story of a small Mississippi town that becomes the scene of a spectacular trial: After two white men rape his daughter, her black father named Carl Lee Hailey shoots them. ... While the commonplace approach of analysing the novel would be to place it within the context of its time of publication and/or the time frame the story is set in, this paper seeks to determine its current-day relevance in terms of how racial issues are treated within the American judicial system. 3. ... Similar criticism came forward in 2013, when the novel w...

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Although they represent heroic communist figures, Gleb and Dasha Chumalov, are not simply mouthpieces of the communist ideology; they are realistic and represent the truthful inner conflict a typical Soviet citizen was experiencing at the time. ... In addition, she is unable to provide love for her own daughter and to see her as special. ... A more extreme example of this can be seen in the sacrifice of family--both in Dasha's decision to place her own daughter in the children's home as well as her eventual separation from Gleb. As a result of Dasha's sacrificed love for the Sov...

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The claims of Signora Flora and Signor Ponza baffle the efforts of the gossips in a small Italian town, and with them Pirandello's theatre audience, to determine whether Ponza is deranged and cruelly conceals his wife( according to the tale his mother-in-law tells), or Signora Flora suffers from the delusion that her daughter is still alive, refusing to believe that Ponza has remarried (as Ponza tells the story). ... Instead, they find that she humors them both, declaring herself to be both the daughter of Signora Flora and the second wife of Ponza. ... Heathcliff takes his revenge by for...

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She was the daughter of the second caliph Umar ibn al-Khattab, a very trusted man of the Prophet Muhammad. ... A source by Bint al Shanti conveys this suspicion, describing the marriage between Hafsa and Muhammad serving to "honor Umar and heal the wounds of his daughter-(103). ... The sources are careful to note that Hafsa too felt the gravity of the trouble she has caused: "her feeling that she had done wrong to the prophet was graver that of the rest of the wives for being such a pious woman and the daughter of the faithful Umar, she should not have lightly revealed such a secret of the pro...

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When Cesira and Rosetta encounter French officers after leaving the church, Cesira screams, "Do you know what they've done . . . in a church, under the eyes of the Madonna . . . they've ruined her for good and all, a daughter who was an angel and now it's worse than if she were dead- (Moravia 284). ... By doing so, he reveals that Jesus is at the same time the suffering servant who allows himself to be led to the slaughter and he who bears the sins of the multitudes. ... Rosetta is crying and Cesira is comforting her in imitation of the Pietà (McIntyre 257), "I had to take ...

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Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit deals with the relationship breakdown between mother and daughter. ... She does not hate her but she is unable to show her any feelings, not the conventional mother-daughter relationship one would imagine. ... For example Jeanette describes an event in which they sing hymns together, she says her 'Mother sang the tune and [she] put in the harmonies' Although this is true literally, this could also be interpreted metaphorically in that without one another they are not complete, the tune would not be complete without the harmonies as a daughter is not c...

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For some time, she was even ashamed of her situation. ... Hence, in an interview with Martha Satz, Cisneros admits "I was going through some traumatic experiences at the time, I chose to write about my past-my childhood experiences, my mother, and especially the women in the community" (3). ... Similarly, Cisneros' mother knew what it is like to live a life full of regrets and didn't want her daughter to live that life as well; therefore, "She always supported her daughter's projects, so long as she went to school"(Introduction xiv). Both Cisneros and Esperanza&#...

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However, other studies have indicated that with time lay and professional views of intelligence have shifted on a continuum that has men as superior to women on one end, to the end that holds men and women as possessing equal intelligence (Furnham, 2001.). ... To offer more insights into the gender debate, this study focussed on parents' estimation of the overall and multiple intelligences of their sons and daughters. ...

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However, other studies have indicated that with time lay and professional views of intelligence have shifted on a continuum that has men as superior to women on one end, to the end that holds men and women as possessing equal intelligence (Furnham, 2001.). ... To offer more insights into the gender debate, this study focussed on parents' estimation of the overall and multiple intelligences of their sons and daughters. ...

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Mrs Bennet's determination to marry her daughters is a direct result of financial concerns. ... "5 Once an attraction has formed between Bingley and the eldest Bennet daughter, Jane, Mrs Bennet manipulates the situation and sends Jane to Netherfield on horseback during a storm, hoping she will catch a cold. ... Despite Charlotte's choice to encourage Collins being a conscious one, it is a choice that she makes only because of the social inequality women faced in this time. ... When he continuously ignores her refusal, she is forced to show her position as different to "thos...

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The eldest daughter sees currently a tribal counselor for her own problems with alcohol abuse and depression. She and Kim have a labile relationship, although Kim reports that it is better since her daughter has starting going to therapy. ... Kim and her daughter both describe a sense of hopelessness and purposelessness. ...

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Hancock continues to stress how well Mistry has done in such a short time and proposes, "Is writing a gift you have?" ... Only the Italian-born daughter-in-law remains to carry on the dynasty. ... In reply to Greer's criticism, Mistry retorted: "She wants to say that those four months teaching the daughters of high society put her in a better position to judge India than I am in, having grown up there and spent 23 years before emigrating? ... Both writers catch the city's squalid side, the poverty, disorder, filth and ruin, the chaos, but at the same time engage its immense vitality ...

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Hancock continues to stress how well Mistry has done in such a short time and proposes, "Is writing a gift you have?" ... Only the Italian-born daughter-in-law remains to carry on the dynasty. ... In reply to Greer's criticism, Mistry retorted: "She wants to say that those four months teaching the daughters of high society put her in a better position to judge India than I am in, having grown up there and spent 23 years before emigrating? ... Both writers catch the city's squalid side, the poverty, disorder, filth and ruin, the chaos, but at the same time engage its immense vitality ...

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The Church of Galileo's time did not believe this, nor did the Nazis of Brecht's lifetime. During the 1600's and even the 1900's, scientific discoveries of the time were handed over to this authority, either the Church or the government, who could use the knowledge as they pleased, whether it benefited humanity or not. ... Ludovico also does not have a love affair with Galileo's daughter, Virginia, in this primary version, which allows Brecht to display Galileo as a Marxist figure who is working for the benefit of all, rather than a figure of cruelty and obsession, w...

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However, Jackall described that in officer Tebbens" situation in researching a quadruple homicide acquiring evidence took extensive time and effort. ... "justice" is always hostage to the vagaries of jurisdiction, judicial perceptions, whims, or ideologies, and even the time of day" (Investigating Criminal Violence, Robert Jackall). ... McBride told that he was recently divorced for the second or third time and his daughter were continually teased because, of their father's profession. ...

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Christianity focused solely on conversion of the Irish religion and did not seek to change the Celtic society itself at this time. This helped in its acceptance and also meant that for the first time, the history of the Celts was written down. This was because the monks of the time became the people who now wrote down in a richly ornate fashion the previously oral history of the Celts. ... Ireland then, became a peculiarly Gaelic Christian country, more pagan than Rome would have liked, but at the same time more culturally diverse and expressionist. ... Many were lost for ever and a valuable...

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Marlene is portrayed as a woman who chooses to sacrifice her family (and more importantly her daughter) to get to the upper echelons of the employment agency where she works. ... Churchill's choice of dinner guests is absolutely brilliant although fictitious, as they represent various cultures and eras, religions and creeds, all of which could be said to have been agents of oppression at one time or the other. ... To further illustrate the role religion indirectly plays in undermining femininity, Isabella Bird as the daughter of a Church of England cleric, is restricted to doing "Nee...

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Later, in 1815 Byron married Annabella Millbank with whom he had a daughter but after a year they separated because of Byron's alleged incest with his half-sister, causing a scandal that forced Byron to leave England for Europe (Slovey and Haerens 67). ... This figure provided English Literature with an archetype that was far ahead of his time. ...

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It seems that by this time Nannerl's professional music career was over. ... During this time Wolfgang also wrote a new opera, Mitridate, re di Ponto for the court of Milan. ... In the summer of 1781, it was rumored that Mozart was contemplating marriage to Fridolin Weber's daughter, Constanze. ... During this time, Mozart met Joseph Haydn and the two composers became admiring friends. ... The visit was somewhat cool, as Leopold was still a reluctant father-in-law and Nannerl was a dutiful daughter. ...

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New Lanark is also an important industrial monument, because of its role as an early center of mass production using state-of-the-art technology at the time in 1785. ... At the same time his political and commercial figures in Glasgow became prominent that he was assigned as a member of merchant guild and a burgess of the city. ... In 1777, Dale enhanced his financial position through a marriage with Anne Caroline Campbell, a daughter of a wealthy landowner. ...

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Shelley was born in London in 1797, daughter of famous radical writers Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin; both of whom exemplified the ideologies of the French revolution. ... Shelley uses these characters to challenge the male orientated values and attitudes of the time by creating them as stereotypical constructs of 19th century European society. ... The early 19th Century was a time of great technological and scientific advancement. ... This scientific discovery, and others similar to it, would have had a significant impact on society at the time. ... In creating a character, which ...

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