The essay "Only Daughter", reveals how parents' lack of acceptance and motivation can change someone's life. ... She was the only daughter surrounded by six brothers who despised her for being the only girl in the family. ... Cisneros uses her isolation as a time to be driven as a writer and a visionary writer. ... Cisneros's dad was very disappointed when he realized that his daughter went to college to get an education and a job instead of going to college in search of a husband. ...

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From the time Anne Frank went into hiding until the time the Nazis captured her family, many changes took place. Through this time, she changed physically and emotionally, her relationships also changed particularly of that with her mother. ... Anne Marie Frank was born on June 12, 1929, in Frankfurt, Germany, the second daughter of Otto and Edith Frank. ... Instead of growing closer to her mother at that time, she grew away. ... She came to realise why her mother didn't feel like a real mother "She says that she sees us more as friends, not her daughters. ...

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Dietrich plans a day to go shopping with Nola because Nola needs a few things for school, however, her real reason is because, "mother and daughter need time together" (169). ... Dietrich prefers to spend time alone with her daughter and, "she believed Nola preferred to be alone with her" (171). ... Dietrich reflects on the time when she was pregnant with Nola. ... That was a happy time in for Mrs. ... Seeing her daughter cry, Mrs. ...

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She also witnesses her daughter's happiness and the colorful meanings of life that she discovers herself. ... This leaves a statement on the narrator's views and feelings during the time of her daughter's childhood about how she feels Emily will grow up as well. ... She speaks of the iron, and how it is a very " Alienating object, which pulls the daughter and her mother apart -(EO 80) And that at one point in time it actually acts as a " Alienation from her mothers (narrator) work"(EO 80). ... The mother-daughter relationship between the narrator and her daughter bring up man...

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"I Stand Here Ironing" is about a young mother, trying to make ends meet by using all her time towards her job. By doing so, she ends up, unknowingly, shutting out her daughter, Emily. ... Soon after we figure out that Emily's mother is very caught up in trying to provide for her and Emily that she just didn't have the time to pay any attention to her daughter. ... "Can't you go some other time, Mommy, like tomorrow?... She had to leave her mother many times, and when she did get to be with her, it was only for a short period of time. ...

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Three of her poems are: For my Daughter, Woman to Man and The company of lovers. Centre on themes such as love, time, birth, death and the purpose of life in these poems. ... In the first poem for My Daughter Judith Write explores the ideas of time brings change, time is inevitable and children grow up and separate from their parents. 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. Also when she is ...

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Some inferences can be made about the characters setting, and the time period can be made while reading this story. The time Period could have been any, really, but there are a couple lines that helps us to differentiate. ... He starts off with the Olsens being a new client and by the time he is finished he feel like he has done something wrong. ... The mother is an emotional wreck because of the daughter. ... Lastly the daughter. ...

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Many times an author will use this occurrence as a way of portraying the feelings of the victims at the particular time. ... The mother explains how violence is everywhere and her daughter should be no where near it. The mother wishes for her daughter to be in a safe place; therefore, she directs her to the church to sing with the choir. ... The mother also shows the characteristic of fright when she knows something happened to her child and sadness when she finds her daughter's shoe and doesn't see her anywhere. ...

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Like most things in life there is a limit, a limited time of when we can resolve this problem and a limited time of how much our spirit can handle before we break down for good. When King Lear and Cordelia were sent to prison it was not to their knowledge that this would be the last time that the two would be together. ... Cordelia was murdered by one of the guards sent by Edmund; Lear after the murder of his daughter killed the guard. King Lear brings the corpse of his youngest daughter out and exclaims thoughts of grief and horrible guilt. He then dies of a broken heart because of the loss o...

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Grace deals with emotions of confusion, depression, and happiness in a very short period of time. ... This behavior whether intentional or not presents the lack of communication between daughter and mother. ... The time that comes after the accident is challenging for Grace. ... Annie's concerns about her daughter are reinforced when she says, "I saw you when she fell. ... This marks the beginning of a long healing process between mother and daughter. ...

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Through the medium of the song "cailin", the persona expresses his changed emotion through the catalyst of his daughter who gives him new meaning for life, which transforms him into a better person. The emphasis of the song is drawn from the context of the lead singer Scott's relationship with his daughter, therefore the lyrics and music represent the intention of a real relationship and its transforming effect on the persona. ... The listener is put in the position of the person experiencing change, the "I" and the person causing the change the "you" as the father singing to his ...

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Jarvis Lorry, the family's long time banker and caretaker, and Lucie, Dr. Manettes daughter, returned Dr. ... Often he sat and chatted with his daughter and her fiancé in his quiet home in Soho. ... This second personality reappeared when his daughter and her husband left for their honeymoon and he re-experienced the pain of being alone and the shoemaker once again surfaced. ...

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This was similar to Sethe's emotional life, because although she was alive, she had been emotionally frozen or dead, since she murdered her daughter eighteen years earlier. ... This was a perfect time for her to surface because it would refresh Sethe's feeling of guilt, not only for killing her daughter, but also for enjoying herself at the carnival. ...

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A simple click at the right time with the right lighting can say a million words, it can capture such a memorable time or place. ... Life was miserable during that time. ... My artwork is based on my daughters who inspire me to be the woman I am today. ... Taking the photographs of my daughter really brought me closer to her. ... I as well did my photographs in black and white to, to have the focus just on my daughter being photograph. ...

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I now have a wonderful daughter and son who have been the joy of my life. ... When I went home that's when the guilt came because I didn't take the time off to really take care of him like I should have and knowing I had the time from work to do so, made me question myself about being a good daughter or not. ...

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Sula decides that "sex is pleasant and frequent, but otherwise insignificant." (44) Sula grows up in the atmosphere of an emotional separation between mothers and daughters in her family. ... (68) Eva leaps out of the window to "cover her daughter's body with her own" (75) to save her from a fire; she raises her children single-handedly and even sacrifices her leg to get an insurance because she does not have enough money to feed her children. ... Any enthusiasms that little Nel showed were calmed by the mother until she drove her daughter's imagination underground." (18) "Do...

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The protagonist of the novel, Tita De La Garza, is the youngest daughter of Mama Elena. As the black sheep, Tita spends most of her time in the kitchen. ... Tita never feels a close mother-daughter bond, but instead believes that her mother "had repressed Tita her entire life." "(38) This quote summarizes Mama Elena's harsh and abusive relationship towards Tita. ...

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Sir Thomas feels that Henry is the right person for Fanny; little does he know about Henry playing around with Sir Thomas's daughters (Fanny's cousins). ... Fanny is further blackmailed due to her rejection, as the next day, when Henry comes to propose yet another time, Sir Thomas explains to Fanny that he will inform Mrs. ...

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Effects on Kids When Both Parents Are Employed Children who spend a lot of time alone or with other siblings are most likely to have some sort of emotion problems or hatred towards their parents. ... Most of the time after children are born parents usually go back to their job. ... A daughter might have the responsibility to have to take care of a younger sibling. ... A child may not have a sibling to spend quality time with or talk about their feelings too. The parent(s) be gone to work all the time may make a child feel like they did something wrong to make their mom/dad be gone all the ...

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At the time she felt reckless and dashing' (pg 5) but a few years down the track and 3 children later, Pearl was a single mother with a part-time job and a depleting self-esteem. ... By the time of her death, she seemed to have accomplished this, with all of her children having successful careers and even managing to convince their father of the happy family' illusion. ... Though love's destruction spread throughout the whole Tull family, Jenny, the youngest and only daughter grew strong enough to challenge its force. ... Ambrose's (all 7 of them) embraced Jenny ...

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People will search a whole life time looking for what they think might make them happy. ... Another example of when I felt extreme happiness was the birth of my two daughters. ... When I held my daughters in my arms for the first time, I felt amazing and so proud. ... When I ran a 5K race for the first time, I felt a feeling of accomplishment, which led me to running several other races. ...

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His superstition also shows a lot about the Mexican beliefs at the time. ... One day, the German's that worked for his father, Frau Schultz, her daughter Lotte, Frau Kraus, and her daughter Gerta, were all sitting around at the house discussing their past in Germany. ...

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Author Joan Didion, in her memoir The Year of Magical Thinking, narrates the year after the death of her husband, John Dunne, and her attempts to deal with her grief while tending to the grave illness of her daughter, Quintana. ... Digging deeper into the memoir, Didion construes that how unexpectedly her husband passed and how suddenly her daughter's normal cold turned into pneumonia and septic shock have changed her views of everyday life, which is what usually happens when one experience such sudden change of events in his or her life. ... In this memoir, Didion takes a long time to...

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The Flower Collage When I saw the flower collage finished, with the pictures already cut and shaped to fill in the empty space on the clean white page to form the collage, it was as if I had seen the flower collage photos for the first time. ... Just as I did while I cut each picture and grouped it, I did so, with my daughter. ...

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With the passing of time, we are able to look back and see the situation logically; we look with our mind rather than our heart. ... "I"ll never be the kind of daughter you want me to be!"" ... Remorse for time lost and a hardened heart. ... The previous feelings of anger and hurt have dissipated with the passing of time. ... Time allows us to see things without the feelings of the moment and, if we are lucky, we may have an opportunity to make amends. ...

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