This was out of pure jealousy that she had towards her children for the sole purpose of her husband no longer loving her but only loving their children. ... She then seized her children and threw them into the river. ... The next morning the city got word that a woman laid dead by the river. ... The legend has it that children shouldn't wonder through the night down by the river or she'll mistake them for her children and take them. ... Take caution for La Llorona still lives as she walks among the river weeping for her abandoned lover, the children she has drowned, and the conquest ...

• Word Count: 978
• Approx Pages: 4
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• Grade Level: High School

Claiming to have no money, this rich, elegantly dressed woman demanded once more to be taken down the river. ... She is in no way a good example of out district, nor a model for us citizens or our children for that matter. Out children should not go about the rest of their lives, thinking that actions such as hers is still honored and respected. ...

• Word Count: 725
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Dolly shows an inability to act as a maternal figure to her children, instead she regularly gets drunk and offers sexual favors to many and varied random men. Dolly's ignorance of her role as a mother, to be at home nurturing her children, leads Rose to feel a bitter hatred toward Dolly, "Hating you is the best part of being alive." ... Military like imagery surrounds Oriel: "Sergeant Major", sleeping in the tent, referring to the children as "troops" etc. ... We see each have opportunities taken away from them as children. ... The river is a traditional feminist symbol. ...

• Word Count: 948
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Over this period of time, pioneers from all across the "Old World" decided to embark on a journey to the "New Country", a land of unending farmland, furs, and rivers in the newly acquired California and Oregon Territories (Schlissel, 19). ... The majority of women making the journey were married, about 70%, and the rest were either unmarried or were children. ...

• Word Count: 811
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

In Alifa Rifaat's short story "Another Evening at the Club", the protagonist is Samia and her husband, Abboud Bey is the antagonist. The story takes place in Egypt near the Nile River. The conflict arises when Samia loses the emerald ring that her husband gave her. The story suggests that often in o...

• Word Count: 635
• Approx Pages: 3
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• Grade Level: High School

Jason states his beliefs quite directly: "If only children could be got some other way, Without the female sex! ... The chorus interprets Medea as a feminist as well: "Streams of the sacred rivers flow uphill; Tradition, order, all things are reversed: Legend will now reverse our reputation; A time comes when the female sex is honored;- (414-415, 418-419) They are pleased by Medea's fight against sexism. ...

• Word Count: 1085
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School