I am the daughter of Alicia Faye Willis and James Earl Jacobs. ... I'm a mother of two daughters and a grandmother of one with a wonderful finance. ... The call lead up to me finding out that, my mother (Alicia), is the daughter of Moses Willis and Edna Sykes. Moses Willis is the son of a great slave owner and Edna Sykes is the daughter of a great Indiana women. ... My grandmother shared that her mother who is my great grandmother was the daughter of a great Indiana women. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

For the first time in her life, Codi realized Grace was a place she could call home. ... With the death of his wife, he inherited the extensive task of raising his two young daughters "to be untouched by Grace- (115; ch.11). ... Rather than diving head first into the depths of his daughters' social and individual beings, he remained situated in the outskirts of their hearts. ... Unfortunately, as a result of his medically focused parental techniques, his relationship with his daughters lacked the emotional and familial support they needed. ... He once feared "how much [his daugh...

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• Grade Level: High School

Angela, a high school student and friend to Lester's daughter Jane, is a very beautiful young woman whose only worry is the image that she portrays to other people. ... For years, Lester had tried to allow his wife and daughter to live their lives how they chose to. ... When he first meets Ricky next door, he starts smoking marijuana again for the first time in many years. ... Caroline regarded her career as the most important thing in her life, above her husband and daughter. ... Lester and Angela are alone and have the opportunity to have sex together, but Angela tells Lester, "Thi...

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• Grade Level: High School

These two people needed each other in a time that was vulnerable for the both of them. ... Turtle wants to live off of Taylor because she is the one who took time to love her and teach her a new life. ... Taylor finally gets to declare Turtle her own daughter and it is the best thing that happened to both of them. ... They have had so much taken away from them: their daughter, Ismene, their home, their lives. ... She didn't want to be abandoned at this time in her life when she finally has every thing settled. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Her daughter that was in ICU, and her husband suddenly died at the dinner table because of a heart attack (Kakutani). ... But often times, they spend most of their time caring for that love one that eventually dies may be haunted in their mind or in their way of thinking. After spending so much time caring for that lost love one, people often do not know how to spend or use their free time (The Normal). ... One person might handle it very well, but the next person might have a hard time with it. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

There were not too many Indians at that time that a great use for Jesus and Christianity. ... After falling in love with the Algonquin chief's daughter, Annuka, he was scolded by Laforgue for falling away from his own beliefs; however, Laforgue lacked the words to reason with him about his love for her. ... I am sure that this view was seldom followed by Europeans during the 17th century but it did help show the ethnocentrism of the people at the time. ... This movie did a good job of displaying the harsh realities of life during a time of a "culture clash." ...

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• Grade Level: High School

"I managed my version of an English smile: no show of teeth, no extreme, contortions of the facial muscle-I was at this time of my life practicing reserve and cool " (Ortiz Cofer 91). ... During this time, there were heavy stereotypes on Latinas. ... She grew up with different customs and traditions from the other people who lived around her. " Puerto Rican mothers also encouraged their daughters to look and act like women and to dress in clothes our Anglo friends and their mothers found too "mature " for our age " (Ortiz Cofer 92). ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

She took a job in New York, as a librarian and enrolled her daughter in a nearby public school.# Dorothea and her mother took the ferry everyday into a neighborhood packed with poor people, newly arrived in America. ... Yet, what they are deprived of by an unjust economic system, Dorothea restores to them: their existence has "an unbounded significance", a meaning for all time. ...

• Word Count: 1362
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• Grade Level: High School

"The time you won your town the race/ we chaired you through the market- place/ Man and boy stood cheering by/ and home we brought you shoulder high/." ... Spring is a time for happiness and rebirth with flowers blooming and warm weather. ... The seasons serve as markers of time and evoke irony on the displacements of memory throughout each. ... Spring usually alludes to a time of renewal and rebirth noted by holidays such as Easter. ... This is best said in the context of John Kotre: " .With time the two become blended into one "memory." ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Amanda insists to Laura's teacher that she had been going to school "everyday for the past six-weeks," Evans 2 dumbfounded by the actions of her daughter (1413). ... People that are unable to accept change will have a hard time communicating and functioning properly in society. ... He "descended the steps of the fire escape for a last time," ready to enter the real world in search of happiness (1454). ... A family may have a hard time facing reality for many different reasons. But people that have avoided reality by running away will soon have a hard time becoming successful. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Booth, the world's finest actor at that time, praised Mr. ... Mary was a grateful daughter of a wonderful father and was always surrounded by prosperity. ... She was mesmerized for the time being and her good judgment was impaired. ... As soon as his younger brother, Edmund, was born, Jamie lost time with his mother. ... Now I sit back and analyze how time is fast, and how there was that little time where I could have reacted and used time efficiently towards my dream. ...

• Word Count: 1904
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• Grade Level: High School

This same attitude transfers down to her daughter Sula. ... Death occurs many ways, and everyone, except maybe children who don't have enough life experience to know what it is or understand it, has at one time or another thought about killing someone, thought about killing themselves, or experienced someone they know dying whether the death is spiritual, psychological or physical. ...

• Word Count: 1552
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• Grade Level: High School

Lily, the caretaker's daughter, first confronts Gabriel after unintentionally making a comment pertaining to her love life. ... She describes her memory of him, and once again Gabriel is confronted, this time by Gretta's emotions. ...

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When he gets home his father is still not home but his mother assures him that he will be home by the time he wakes up the next morning. ... Joel reassures his daughter that everything will be fine and to stay strong. ... They go to their grandmother's house and see their father for one last time. ... Next on Agee's list of jobs was Time where he worked during the mid-forties as a sensitive movie critic (Larsen 15). As well as working for Time he wrote about movies for the Nation (15). ...

• Word Count: 1898
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School