Why ghost stories repeatedly shows us that the family is a site of trauma and conflict. Discussing how and why the ghost story genre focuses on dysfunctional families. ... The father does not tell anyone of what he seen to keep the order of the house as it is, also he could be scared of people saying that he is no longer sane. ... This brings me to the conclusion that the writer of the story probably is female. ... Abuse of a female character is represented when we see 'lord Furnvills' horrible treatment towards his daughter 'Miss Maude' for tarnishing the family by opti...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The Greeks had arranged marriages and often times the daughters, without a brother, would be married to a close relative such as a cousin or uncle. She would then pass on her father's inheritance to her spouse. ... His daughters played no significant role in the play but he was worried about them and who would take care of them after he was gone. ... Her father sent her overseas to marry a King and the king tamed her and groomed her into an ideal queen. ... The role and subjection of women in Chaucer's stories have changed greatly from Beowulf and King Oedipus. ...

• Word Count: 1539
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• Grade Level: High School

When I was young, my father was my hero. ... The short story Boys and Girls, by Alice Munro, demonstrates this point excellently. ... This fact alone largely contributes to the void that grows between fathers and daughters and sons and mothers. ... This may cause young boys to demand freedom from their mothers and young daughters to grow distant and indifferent towards their fathers. ... Television not only impacts our societal values; it also has a great impact on the relationships between fathers and daughters and mothers and sons. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Mary Matalin is a mother of two daughters, and wife to James Carville, who is a member of the opposing political party. ... In the article Mary Matalin recalls a trip to the Middle East, when she first called home to find out that both of her daughter's hamsters had died. ... The article is titled, "A Year of Loss, a Year of Love," and it tells the story of the Soulas family. Tim Soulas was a 35 year old husband and father, who worked on the 105th floor of Tower One, and was working on the tragic day of September 11th. ... One mother naturally took the more stereotypical male role, an...

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Beauty does not go to the knight in shinning armor nor the one her father wants her to marry. ... Beauty's willingness to take her fathers place in the Beast's castle proves her love to be so passionate that she would give up anything for him. ... In some forms of this fairy tale the father sacrifices the daughter, it is not a decision made by Beauty. ... The other story is based around the selfishness of the prince. ... Overcoming her terrors is part of the moral or lesson in this story. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Henrietta is Sofia's youngest daughter, whose father is not Harpo, but who is nevertheless Harpo's favorite. ... His father Mr. ________ explains to Harpo that Sofia is making him less of a man and that he needs to beat her. ... Mr. ______ thinks that way because his father had treated his mother that way. ... Celie and the other women in the novel talk to each other and tell each other stories that allow them to fight back oppression and dominance. ... The men in the story are very cautious about their masculinity. ...

• Word Count: 1740
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• Grade Level: High School

Maggie is a romantic character and a dutiful daughter and sister she is devoted, tender and longing to give and receive love. ... As you read Maggie's story, the connections we can draw between her life story - particularly its often-unfulfilled ambitions - and Victorian constructions of femininity. ... This can bee shown by looking at Maggie and her impetuous and violent behaviour has been likened to that of her fathers- stressing the theme of heredity and her anomalies as a woman with masculine character traits. ... Maggie's desire for "masculine" knowledge is related using images ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Maggie is a romantic character and a dutiful daughter and sister she is devoted, tender and longing to give and receive love. ... As you read Maggie's story, the connections we can draw between her life story - particularly its often-unfulfilled ambitions - and Victorian constructions of femininity. ... This can bee shown by looking at Maggie and her impetuous and violent behaviour has been likened to that of her fathers- stressing the theme of heredity and her anomalies as a woman with masculine character traits. ... Maggie's desire for "masculine" knowledge is related using images ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Roy O'Bannon was only given the positive character (brave, justifiable) according to the need and development of the story at the end. ... He trusted in his friend, faithful and loyal to his country and family, capable and responsible in his task, honorable and filial to his father. ... This story was developed all around Jess and her family. ... one as the assertive woman pursuing her own dream and the love that she desire and the other as the subordinate daughter in the home. In fact, I found that the gender roles of Indo- American women attempt to limit their identities to those of ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Abigail Adams" account stands as a testimony to the birth and political maturation of the U.S while Mary Todd's story gives insight into the more factional nation of Civil War years. ... Her father preached a more softened form of Puritanism that reflected the growth of more diverse religious practices of the Great Awakening period of early 1740s. ... (Akers 8), as a daughter of a minister and because her family was well-off, Abigail was never short of books. ... (Baker 114) And while Abigail Adams concerned herself about educating daughters, Mary was equally concerned in obtaining best...

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She loves her father and stays with his family to be near him, but she is forcibly married off to a shoemaker. ... Stories of ice cream" (Hosseini 7). ... At the possibility of a daughter he recoil. ... Cheryl Benard highlights how the importance of having a son in the Afghani society is, when women are punished for giving birth to a daughter. ...

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Since wives are essentially betrothed to a man through their mothers, any siblings that the mother conceives will also belong to the same man: "At the time of the girl's puberty ritual, her father selects a man and gives him a ceremonial spear, as a sign that any girls his daughter may be delivered of later will eventually become wives of that man" (Potts 89). ... Women tend to be disgusted my sex, as there is no interest in this society for the women to have any pleasure: "Mothers do not teach their daughters about sex, except with an aura of pain and disgust . ... The bible is filled wi...

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She instead charges off to join the army in the place of her father and takes her life in her own hands, rather than sitting around dreaming of romance. ... The story of Mulan is a unique. ... Mothers are absent in far greater numbers than either fathers or mothers of the pre-Little Mermaid era. ... Significantly, it's the heroines " Ariel, Belle, Jasmine, Pocahontas, Mulan, and Jane " who are almost invariably being raised by single fathers with no sign or mention of a mother or mother figure, ever. ... The one non-absent mother is Mulan's, but she only plays an inoperat...

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There should be more story lines depicting a woman president, and how she would handle the likes of Osama Bin Laden and world terrorism, or how she governed the efforts of the latest space shuttle mission that failed, and saved the lives of all of the passengers on board. ... In Jenn Schreve's essay, "Honor Thy Daughter", she brings new light to my issues with Disney. ... Her father was to go, but he was ill, and in order for her father to save face, she posed as a son. ...

• Word Count: 1671
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School