Both books that I've read, Angela's Ashes and The Color of Water both demonstrated behavior than can be considered dysfunctional. ... Drugs, alcoholism, death, abandonment, starvation and anxiety are some examples of dysfunctional characteristics that can be found in both Angela's Ashes and The Color of Water. ... In The Color of Water the stepfather dies creating an unhealthy and new environment for the family. ... Angela's Ashes and The Color of Water are alike in many ways. ... In both books the children were one time embarrassed by their mother's actions, in The Co...

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• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Perhaps these women's strength inspired the novel A Yellow Raft in Blue Water. ... His many awards in Native American Studies helped him to become strong in his ethnicity and later write the work A Yellow Raft in Blue Water in 1987. ... Michael Dorris' brilliant work, A Yellow Raft in Blue Water, portrays three generations of Native American women. ... In a hardware store, she realizes the color of paint that matches her skin, "Maple Walnut- (9), compared to her "Almond Joy- (9) mother and "Burnt Clay- (9) father, has no resemblance to her own. ... When Christine was born, Ida sa...

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• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

While on an electric scooter I noticed my older sister Rosa catching up to me. As we're racing each other our mom is holding our baby sister Emilia in her arms and at the same time yelling at us "Stop fooling around or you're going to hear a mouth full from your dad!" Giggling, we turn our scooters ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Unlike many other religions, Catholics receive communion every week, bless themselves with holy water and before and after they pray, kneel while praying, have confession, and sometimes pray to the Virgin Mary or a particular saint. ... Festivals vary in size and color depending on the occasion. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

I was snow white of color with dark black hair. ... Around two years of age I started to develop my language, I would say things like "Ana bade boa" which in Arabic means I want water (boa) is not the whole word it was part of the baby's language which everyone understood. ...

• Word Count: 1387
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School