At the time, she thought she wanted a large family so she wanted to start when she was young. ... The thought of waiting to push out her dead daughter, killed her. ... She held her daughter for as long as she could before they took her away. ... Aaliyah, she named her and "no matter what happened you"ll always be my little girl" she whispered to her daughter. ... She knew she wasn't ready, and neither was her husband- but she also didn't understand why at the time something this heartbreaking had to happen. ...

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The daughter in the story does have many rivers to cross. ... He said the money is mine and not yours until I die, to his own daughter. ... I really don't think that the daughter was thinking about money at the time of her mother's death. ... She may have seen her daughter and grandson struggling to have any money. ... He shouldn't have acted like that around his own daughter. ...

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The daughter in the story does have many rivers to cross. ... He said the money is mine and not yours until I die, to his own daughter. ... I really don't think that the daughter was thinking about money at the time of her mother's death. ... She may have seen her daughter and grandson struggling to have any money. ... He shouldn't have acted like that around his own daughter. ...

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This overview of marriage shows in the attitudes of women during this time period. ... Primarily, the mother is the sole person that is responsible for the marrying off of her daughters. ... Last, the importance of proper social gatherings that were so common during this time period. ... Bennett tells her daughters. ... Bennett is just enforcing the values she has already taught her daughters. ...

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To help with the stress and finish her studies, her daughter stays with her step-mom. ... Her daughter Elaine is a person that is changing every day. ... While she is at work, she feels some guilt and hurt knowing her daughter is at home hungry. ... To finish her studies and have time for work, her daughter stays with her step-mom. ... It is always easier when children are young and she can control what her daughter chooses and decides. ...

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She would not be able to witness her own daughter, Beloved; go through what she had to go through and therefore murdered her. She also tried to murder her two sons and other daughter, but they were all saved. This was for the best because her two sons eventually escaped and did not have to be slaves for much longer, and her other daughter became very close with Sethe. ... In Medea by Euripides the case in which the mother kills her daughter is quite different. ... This act was completely animal like, and there is no possible was that Medea was sane at the time of the murder. ...

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Women have fought and even boycotted but still men continue to control our society and most of the time they tend to have the final say so especially in the household. ... In the earlier days women spent most of their time in the household. ... In some cases even daughters were treated like this also. If a man wanted to marry another man's daughter he would have to get her father's permission and in some cases pay the father to marry his daughter. ... In the story A Doll's House Torvald, the husband, treated Nora, his wife, more like his daughter. ...

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She felt that her son should marry a woman of royalty, unlike Assouoite who was the daughter of a goldsmith and was poor as a child. Once the time was right she present young Nabou to him stating that if he did not wed her it would bring great disgrace to her and the family. ... Lastly, what really tested her views on the lowering of traditional standards was her daughter Rama becoming pregnant. ... Instead of disowning her daughter, she accepts that her daughter is pregnant and decides to help her devise a plan to hide the pregnancy. She learns from the mistake of her young daughter Assatou a...

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Unfortunately in that time period the slave owner was usually in control what happened in a slave marriage. ... With their children, especially their daughters, they had their most enduring and cherished relationships. ... It was the duty of the mother to make sure their daughters don't get caught up with any of that. According to White, "A slave mother's uneasiness during her daughter's adolescence also grew out of her desire to protect her daughter from the responsibilities of adulthood. Mothers seemed to want girls to grow up slowly, and so they tried to limit their daugh...

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For a long time, the woman has assumed a secondary role in the first generation of Indian English male writing such as R.K.Narayan, Raja Rao, Mulk Raj Anand. ... A daughter is to become a mother, and her upbringing is to prepare for that. ... She is the daughter, the wife of Nathan and though at first begets only a daughter, Irawaddy and no sons, ultimately becomes a real woman, with the births of many sons. ... They are the daughters of the soil and have inherited age-old traditions which they do not question. ... "It is as you say a long time ago," I said wearily. ...

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Her father is an unfair man, who makes his daughter work and then keeps her wages. ... Obviously the text was written in period of time when women were much more disadvantaged than men. ... Women can achieve whatever they are aiming at without the favour of men. 1) What strikes me in some way about Laurie Lee's "My Daughter" is the unwillingness of the mother to be responsible for her child. The mother doesn't really accept her newborn child as her daughter and to an extent her child doesn't mean anything to her. ...

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In chapter two, The Mother's Mother, the book goes back in time. ... I shall come back to your household, but as a legitimate daughter. ... "(66) Chapter 7- the duty of a father It took along time but eventually Nnu got over her baby's death. ... Shortly after Nnaife brother's death Aduka arrived with her daughter. ... Chapter 11- Sharing a husband Summary: Nnu and Aduka became pregnant at almost the same time. ...

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Diane and Terry have a beautiful daughter, a beautiful home and successful careers. ... Terry often stresses to his wife that they need to spend more time with each other and he wants to have another child. ... In the movie, the secret that Terry got a DNA test done on their daughter is revealed. He felt they only had sex once when she got pregnant, causing him to question whether his daughter was actually his. ... She never took the time to communicate her feelings with her husband or anyone. ...

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Compared to men, women were treated as a lower society of persons during the Elizabethan time. ... In the family daughters must be well mannered, good-looking, and pure. ... The daughters cannot even think about marriage unless her parents, mostly her father has approved. ... During the time of Shakespeare, there was very bad weather most of the time, which caused much harvest failure. ...

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Mooney known as The Madam, who was in charge of the boarding house, Polly who is the daughter of Mrs. ... Mooney who is very strict and protective of her daughter allows a secret relationship to form between Mr. ... Doran and her daughter would ultimately result in the act of intercourse. ... Mooney's intentions were to select who her daughter was to marry, caring very little for what the man felt. ... Doran and her daughter Polly were having an affair, is the reason why it developed into what it did. ...

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At the time Nora though her life was pleasant and perfect, but in reality she was just her father's "baby doll, and he played with [her] as [she] use to play with dolls" (Ibsen 1124). ... He is calls her and sends her away just as a father would do with his daughter. ... This statement shows that Torvald and Nora's marriage is not a husband and wife relationship, but it is more of a father and daughter relationship. ... In her marriage, she is again compared to a doll, but this time she is Torvald's doll. ...

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Usually, the mother and daughter eat dinner together. Mother and daughter have a very close relationship with each other. The daughter tells the mother everything and isn't scared to talk to her about her problems. The daughter can go to the mother with any problem, big or small, and mother understands. ... They always manage to spend some alone time with each other. ...

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Fathers have the power to offer their daughters to any man they see fit, even if it is against their daughters wishes. ... Even though she is away form Rama for a long time, Sita does not break her vows to him. I honestly would not have wanted to be a woman during this time period in India's history. ... I would have loved to be a man in a prominent position during this time. The perks of male status at this time were immeasurable....

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Although written quite differently, "In Search of Our Mothers" Gardens" by Alice Walker and "Seventeen Syllables" by Hisaye Yamamoto are quite similar in the messages that they convey about women and keeping culture alive that is passed down to their daughters. ... She describes how slave women were forced to work for unappreciative white overseers when they would much rather have spent their time painting (57). How, she questions, if these women were unable to express their creative spirit, was it passed down from generation to generation from mother to daughter. ... She would write poems...

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"As soon as the daughters grew old enough to be married off to her husband's family, she creates an economical loss to her family." ... "But there were some who would not sell their land, and when they had nothing wherewith to buy seed and plow and oxen they sold their daughters." ... "Mothers bound the feet of their daughters at around 5 years of age and gradually decreased the size of the child's foot over a period of months. ... It was what the people of traditional China followed at that time. ... There was strong discrimination against women during the time of traditional China....

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However she still did regardless, she is quite different from other Japanese women at that time. ... In chapter 19, she spends a lot of time painting, and asks her two sons, the nurse, and the maid to all sit and model for her. ... That's why at the end of the story she asks her daughter, Rosie, never to marry. ... She lives alone freely and happily for a long time. ... For seventeen years, she is a good issei wife, raising a daughter and helping her husband in the farm fields. ...

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Shakespeare presents the women in ""Much Ado About Nothing"" according to their role and in time of the past time. ... She was descried as "Leanato's short daughter" this shows hero's appearance in height and Don Pedro described her as "well worthy" and "pleasant spirited lady and gentle". Hero is the sweet and graceful daughter of the Leonato. ... But unfortunately for Hero her father believed Claudio and Don Pedro false accusation about his daughter and out of the bitterness in him, he wished that Hero should die. ...

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The daughter Rosa, complains about her early curfew, but the moment the Herr is used as a threat, all protests cease - which tends to indicate that the violence is not limited to the Frau alone. ... There is a strong binary opposition of the masculine large and feminine small threading throughout the story, demonstrated in this scene, by Herr Brechenmacher not having enough room to dress in the kitchen with his wife, where previously she had been working in there with her daughter and no sense of it being too small. ... The Herr is portrayed as being brutish, coarse and animalistic; the "bre...

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Another interpretation of the controversy surrounding Maria Henson asserts that she was simply a loving daughter whose charisma and personal ideas were misconstrued as an illegitimate daughter of a wealthy landowner. ... While held captive, Maria was drawn to the remembrance of her mother time after time. ...

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Another interpretation of the controversy surrounding Maria Henson asserts that she was simply a loving daughter whose charisma and personal ideas were misconstrued as an illegitimate daughter of a wealthy landowner. ... While held captive, Maria was drawn to the remembrance of her mother time after time. ...

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