Love and self-esteem issues could have been the motives for Georgiana removing the birth-mark. ... Despite her own feelings of the birth-mark, she is willing to have it removed in the name of love. Women in the 21st century are not really concerned with a birth-mark because there is plastic surgery to fix that. ... The last reason that Georgiana could have wanted the birth-mark removed is because of the many self-esteem issues that she had. ... This quote could be interpreted as her thinking that since other people could accept the birth-mark then Aylmer could do the same. ...

• Word Count: 592
• Approx Pages: 2
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

In the passage Diotima refers to beauty as a necessity of giving birth and reproducing. ... Therefore if eros is beautiful then birth must be completed "in beauty." ... Diotima in her speech makes a distinction between "birth in beauty" and love being beautiful. ... Instead love is "Reproduction and birth in beauty" (53). ... In Diotima's speech love is beautiful when "in birth." ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Centre on themes such as love, time, birth, death and the purpose of life in these poems. ... 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. ... In the second poem Woman to man she expresses ideas and feelings about pregnancy, birth, love, past, present and future tense and the purpose of life. ... She also used more techniques in this poem such as a paradox, eyeless labor to describe the growing up ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Most importantly my existence is bestowed upon her grievance and pain she had to bear during my birth. My birth was the most exalting period of her live but it was adulation for me to have mother like her. ...

• Word Count: 346
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• Grade Level: High School

Mariam lived isolated with Nana in a kolba since Mariam's birth was proof of the dishonourable sin of Jalil and Nana, not the harami – Mariam, a gift. ... Nana (given her word) and Laila endured painful births to Mariam and Zalmai, respectively. ... From Zalmani's birth, the observation is that Mariam and Laila have more difficulty connecting to him than they did to Aziza. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

If the object of love is to have the good forever, the function of love is "giving birth in beauty both in body and in mind." (206b) Diotima begins her explanation of how "all human beings are pregnant in body and in mind" (206c) by discussing the concrete, physical pregnancy of the body. ... The ultimate function of love is given to be the labor of the pregnant mind as it attempts to bring forth "what it is suitable for a mind to bear and bring to birth," (209a) namely wisdom and other virtues. ... Diotima says that men who try to gain the immortality they love by fathering children are only ...

• Word Count: 1318
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

His mother and father abandoned Oedipus shortly after birth because of the prophecy that he would kill his father and marry his mother. ... Mother gave birth to Sonny, and soon father and Larry had found a common enemy. ...

• Word Count: 581
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Another simile occurs in lines 5-8 which states "Faces red as steak, wine, wet as the children at birth who's mothers are going to give them away ". ... The second part of the simile, "Wet as the children at birth whose mothers are going to give them away " in my opinion symbolizes abandonment. ...

• Word Count: 607
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• Grade Level: High School

Title: Where the Heart Is Author: Billie Letts Summary: The novel that I read is Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts. The main character of this book is a seventeen-year-old, seven-month pregnant girl named Novalee. The story begins with her and her boyfriend Willy Jack dri...

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• Grade Level: High School

The monster's behavior was directly related to, his experiences with society and its treatment of him. All behavior is learned, therefore if the monster was to be good or evil depended on societies reaction to him. Even though the monster had a fully matured body, he was like a child becau...

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• Grade Level: High School

The early schooling of Nicolas Vidal The outlaw, Nicolas Vidal, in Allende's "The Preacher's Wife" is a key player in a story story devout with good and evil characters. Nicolas like any other child was not born of the dark side. Young Vidal was a product of wicked trea...

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• Grade Level: High School

Upon contact, the ball left Mary with brain damage and sent her into premature birth. "I was contrite and guilty, for I knew that the snowball was meant for me"(Davies 3), Dunstan's guilt and unhappiness builds when Mary's son Paul struggles to survive birth. ...

• Word Count: 587
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Armand had changed to a kinder man after his marriage and the birth of his son and it may have been the only time in his life he was truly happy. ... As soon as society discovered Desiree had given birth to a black child, it would mean social destruction for her. ...

• Word Count: 824
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• Grade Level: High School

Anne stated a couple of times that she only loved her mother because she was the person who gave birth to her, but hated the person she was. ... She comes to the conclusion that she loves her mother because she is the one who gave birth to her, not because of the person she is, as Anne doesn't see her as motherly. ...

• Word Count: 750
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• Grade Level: High School

(Schopenhauer, p 230) However there are lots of births which are problematic although their parents are so healthy and have good properties who can be called as perfect. Besides there are also many healthy births despite the problematic parents. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

For this assignment, I chose Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare which is Comedy play. Brief background - Viola and Sebastian, twins, are separated during a shipwreck. Viola, thinking her brother dead, finds her stranded in Ilyria. She disguises herself as a man, Cesario, and goes to work for Duk...

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" Life is beautiful" is a deep touch movie about love of a Jewish father for his family (his wife and his son) in Nazi concentration camp. With Jewish father character, there is no wonder Roberto Benigni won the Best Actor and Director Academy Awards for his talent. The first main stage of the mo...

• Word Count: 313
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• Grade Level: High School

Catherine Sloper first gave birth to a baby boy of extraordinary promise who died at three years of age. ... Sloper gave birth to a second baby. ... The young mother would die just a week after giving birth (James). ...

• Word Count: 1511
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Stuck In Neutral "Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what your gonna get."(Forrest Gump) Substantiated in Terry Trueman's novel, Stuck in neutral, an unwinable war is fought between Shawn and the disability with which he was cursed. Cursed in a sense that how would one feel if even ey...

• Word Count: 404
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• Grade Level: High School

Wide Sargasso Sea Set in Jamaica during the 1930's, Wide Sargasso Sea is the story of Antoinette Bertha Cosway, a beautiful Creole heiress living on a decaying plantation. Her father had many children by Negro women. She can be accepted neither by the Negro community nor by the representatives o...

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• Grade Level: High School

Descriptive Entry-John Proctor God Forgive Me The date was June 23, 1691. Elizabeth is not feeling well after the birth of our third child so we decide she needed help with the children and running of the household. We decided on Abigail Williams, an orphan who was just sixteen years old. She ...

• Word Count: 378
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• Grade Level: High School

The prediction of birth for Sylvia begins while she tends to her chore of driving her cow home. They walk in the woods filled with shadows towards the western light that leads to her birth, when the character is recognized as special. ...

• Word Count: 1287
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• Grade Level: High School

Her name was Penelope, and she became the goddess of lust and physical attraction hence her place of birth, she was a temptress and could make anyone fall in love with her. ... Angelique you must entrust them with happiness, health, and prosperity and you, Erectorious, must make the woman fertile so she can give birth to more humans. ...

• Word Count: 1036
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• Grade Level: High School

One morning as the crisp winter dawn gave birth to the city, Andrea dragged herself and Daisy out of bed and went to a store selling magnificent dolls. ... Three years following the birth of her daughter, she received a call from Steve saying her mother had passed away. ...

• Word Count: 872
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• Grade Level: High School

Christine de Pizan was partially right when she said that women who allowed themselves to be wooed by lovers put themselves in a vulnerable position, but that is only half of the story. Troubadour love poetry and the practice of courtly love empowered women to a certain extent. The poetry of the Gol...

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