The daughter of a meatpacking company millwright, Cheri Register tells about the event, which divides her small town of Albert Lea during time of depression. ... During this time the eight-hour working day laws were supported and workers did just that. ... Cheri's dad at this time was in a verbatim pattern of a workday, dinner, and falling asleep attempting to relaxing. ... The Packinghouse Daughter was a really interesting book. ... If interested in learning about the development of industry during the depression time of the mid 1900's this is an excellent book to consider readi...

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Texas judge William Adams, who ironically presides over child abuse cases, caused uproar when daughter Hillary Adams uploaded a video on YouTube of him savagely beating her with a belt when she was sixteen years old. According to Hillary, the abuse was not a one-time thing. Her mother, Hallie Adams who has since divorced William, claimed that her ex-husband had bouts of violence caused by his "addiction," which they kept as a "family secret" for a long time. ...

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Changing the setting, time, character's names, and small events, Smiley finished her novel with an extreme comparison to Shakespeare's Lear. ... The first example of this is near the beginning when Lear reveals he is splitting up his kingdom among his three daughters. This leads to the daughters ruling the kingdom while their father is still alive. ... At the opening of the play, Lear decides to split his kingdom between his three daughters; this is the first time the reader is exposed to the theme of inversion of the natural order. ... Still, similar to the play, when his younges...

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As a housewife, the narrator dedicates her time towards her family and husband, who she fell in love with for his affection. However, as her husband spends more time in the city, he quickly becomes attached and invested in the city movement than his wife and family. ... The narrator notices they "used to whisper a long time" but they no longer have late night conversations. ... However, once his daughter finally meets and sees him for the first time on his return, she hides from him and would not speak to him, as if her were a stranger. His daughter even told him,"that's n...

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Susie, Lora's daughter, lives a rich and envied life. ... Susie spends most of her time with her maid. ... Every time people hear that her mother is black and she is a mulatto, they start act differently, which really hurt Sarah. ... Although many Americans at that time look down upon the blacks, there are still a lot of people who treat them well. ... There were those who paid their workers on time and even tried to help them advance academically and socially. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The king is powerless to the storm making him realize his own mortality Lear believes his world is coming to an end because his daughters have betrayed him. Also by having his power stripped from him by his daughters, he thinks that the outside world is going to end as well. ... Along with Lear's growing despair and projection, we also see his understandable obsession with his daughters betrayal: "Nor rain, wind, thunder, fire, are my daughters: / I tax you not, you elements, with unkindness" (King Lear P.105). ... But he does blame his "two pernicious daughters"(King Lear P.107) fo...

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The first introduction to "good nature" is Cordelia, King Lear's youngest daughter. ... Her father, King Lear, is about to step down as king and divide his throne among his three daughters. Lear has his daughters compete for their inheritance. ... Regan and Goneril, Lear's older daughters, use flattery to prove their love. ... He is very brash and quick-tempered, which is not necessarily a good trait, but at the same time not necessarily purely evil. ...

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The first introduction to "good nature" is Cordelia, King Lear's youngest daughter. ... Her father, King Lear, is about to step down as king and divide his throne among his three daughters. Lear has his daughters compete for their inheritance. ... Regan and Goneril, Lear's older daughters, use flattery to prove their love. ... He is very brash and quick-tempered, which is not necessarily a good trait, but at the same time not necessarily purely evil. ...

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Time after time I wondered, why can't I have that? ... The narrator has these few memories and experiences, ones that both cease to be, and will never continue, and is triggered by these as she sees the mothers and daughters of the world. ... Quindlen is conveying her internal conflict with the idea of a bright side of not having a mother, not having to put up with the incisive arguing that mothers and daughters do, for her fantasy of her ideal mother-daughter relationship that she yearns for surely must be better than any of those realities she witnesses at those restaurants she frequent...

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It is a fiction based story about a mother with a lost self image and a daughter searching for her identity. ... Throughout the story the daughter Rebecca is searching for her identity. ... During this time, Emily has lost her self image because her daughter has broken her self esteem down. ... The letters made Emily find herself again, and gave her the confidence to tell her daughter to get out there and find herself. ...

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With her hands resting in her empty lap (because her child has grown up and started his own life) she hears a daughter being welcomed into the family, as she will be her son's bride. ... Soap was one able to free the wedding ring from her daughter-in-law's finger but now it lies bedded forever in her clapping hand. ... It is significant to the work as a whole because it clarifies the statements about the wedding ring and the daughter being welcomed into the family. ... The boots are a part of the son's childhood but the ring used to describe the arrangement of the boots connec...

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His daughter who it was suppose to resemble did not like it she stated, "Take it down, Grammy. ... For the mother in law it was a sad reminder of Rashads drug abuse and fighting with her daughter Shirley. One of the memories that came to her was that of the first time Rashad Beat her daughter. ... " She saw her daughters eyes, Shirley's eyes dripping with sadness the way they were in the middle of the night that first time she ran from Rashad. ... That why it has been kept in a dark corner hidden but not at the same time. ...

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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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She talks about her time among the Indians and says that they fear no one, but they never harmed her. She was finally able to go homeand she says she cried more at getting to go home, than the whole time she was with the Indians. ... She found her son and daughter and the governor sent for her daughter, because the Indians were headed the way they had to go and it was to dangerous to risk. ...

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Although this was a happy time for Kyla and I, Kylas mother and father have many problems and I wonder what life will be like for her in the future. ... My brother is only allowed to see his daughter every other Sunday.because of the custody battle. It worked out well that my brother was able to see his daughter on her birthday. ... Although Kyla and I had a good time on her first birthday, the circumstances surrounding that day might indicate a hard life for Kyla. ...

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Her daughter joy is a thirty two year old with a P.H.D in philosophy. ... Hopewell's daughter. ... Hopewell's daughter before he departed. ... The impression of the time of living and the value of friendship was made clear. ...

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Fathers teach daughters how they should be treated by men. ... Today I am determined for my daughter to have a relationship with her father. Even though she is still very young I often arrange time for her to spend alone with her dad. ... Fathers and daughters have a bond that can never be replaced. I am determined to help my daughter build a relationship with her dad that will help her avoid dangerous mishaps. ...

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I for example am a full time student living off of my student loans semester to semester till I am finished. Along with being a single parent and having those expenses of having to buy extra stuff for my daughters school I don't have anything left. ... There are times when I want to go spend money I don't have but I find me telling myself NO more than I tell my daughter no. ...

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The author's daughter complained that the garden was more precious than her and the old lady had indeed lost her daughter as well. ... They both caressed the dark and revelled in time spent apart from others. ...

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I have been married to my wife for a little over 6 years and we have a beautiful 5 year old daughter. My wife has a 14 year old daughter from a previous marriage. ... We thought it would be best to wait until our oldest daughter graduates high school. ... I am currently a manager and hope to move up to a vice president in a very short time. ... I don't normally like to set deadline on my goals because I believe that your goals need to be adjusted from time to time depending on your circumstance. ...

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She never complained when a task was given, and always did it on time and accurately. ... It was in the evening time and they were on their way to a meeting. ... They went down to the hospital and until they saw her body they wouldn't accept that it was their daughter who had just passed away. ... Where is he in our time of he need? ... This caused him to be so ill that he ended up in the hospital only 2 weeks after his daughter's death. ...

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I had kept it outside me for a long time. ... -As Baldwin continues with Sonny's story, he talks how his first letter to Sunny is after the loss of his daughter. As he says in the story "and I didn't write Sonny or send him anything for an extended time. ... Baldwin not only just lost his daughter, but precious time with a brother that needed him after the loss of their parents. ... As the Narrator unfolds his story, with the discovery of his brother's arrest, then the loss of his daughter, which ultimately causes him to write his brother and brings the journey of healing and s...

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I felt (at the time) that having fun was more exciting than books. 2. ... (transition) I changed avenues and was married a short time later. ... After having my daughter, we were excited to be awaiting the birth of our first son. 1. ... Being a determined person, I overcame this tragedy and had my second daughter two years later. 1. ... Life is precious and we should enjoy every minute of it and live life to the fullest, one day at a time. ...

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She was just on a mission to prevent her daughter from dieing that day. As time passed the princess grew older. ... The guests were too busy having a good time to realize that Princess Carol was in real danger. ... If only she would have warned her daughter to watch out for a terrible little spider maybe she would not have been poisoned. ... It was time for Carol to wake up for her first day of school. ...

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