This paper is my biography as a woman living in the era regarding the historical background of China, through my eyes and encounters, from the perspective of the Ming dynasty. ... I had very limited access to education as women were regarded as inferior human beings, a famous saying goes ˜a girl is virtuous if She has no talent'. ... I remember my legs were broken which was quite painful for keeping myself in the name of beauty in men's eyes. ... The large number of children in my family is also a barrier for me to staying domestically instead of going outside. A lot of time ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The name that the author chose for the narrator's brother symbolized how the male child was superior in the parents" eyes and in general. ... Mothers had traditional roles, which means that they"re jobs were strictly around the house, while men also had their roles, outside of the house. ... This shows how the parents were more concerned with their son and that he could do no wrong. ... They said to me, "Why weren't you watching him?" ... As the story goes on she continued to dream of stories which started the same way with some sort of danger lurking, however, things would start to...

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Fergus, an IRA volunteer is assigned to keep watch over the prisoner, and the two end up developing a friendship. ... Before they consumate their relationship, that she is not really a woman, but a man. Although his first reaction is one of anger and shock, Fergus hesitantly continues their relationship. ... Instead, Dil murders her and Fergus chooses to take the blame for the murder and goes to jail. ... Although that viewpoint certainly has some validity, I'd like to look at Fergus through the eyes of Bornstein. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Their roles are so commandeering of their lifestyles that the narrator says "It was an odd thing to see my mother down at the barn.... The grandmother says to the narrator "Girls sit with their knees together.... Once the execution of Mack happens the narrator says her legs were shaky then immediately wants to look for new born kittens in the barn, as if to cleanse her visual palate of what she had just watched. ... Henry and the father get into the truck to chase Flora down, on the way out of the gate Laird, once again, is yelling excitedly "let me go too, let me go too!... The...

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He is able to express and let go of his regret for not being emotionally available for her. ... He wanted to know what she was going to do with it. ... And [he] drank [himself] into a stupor, watching crusty people through leaded glass," (110). ... Even women who her has no seemingly sexual interaction with, he makes a point to say how attractive they were and how he would flirt with them. ... This is specifically true during this time because he admits that sometimes the prostitutes will trap their clients, by having a police officer come and claiming that they were assaulted, if they do...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate