He grew up in a house with 6000 books in it. The books were in several different languages such as Greek, Hebrew, Latin, French, Italian, and Spanish. ... Robert Browning was a bright and anxious boy he learned Latin, Greek, and French by the time he was fourteen years old. ... Around the time of 1844. ... He returned to London after his wife's death where he spent his entire life before he married Elizabeth Barrett and the rest of his life after her death. ...

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"London's youth was marked by poverty- and it gave him survival skills, which he used in other aspects of his life. (Jalic LLC) In his later years, he paid attribute to nature by writing books and being a nature and animal activist. ... During his time at the Klondike, he listened to other people tell their stories. ... It was a Victorian marriage typical of the time, based on "good breeding-, not love. ... Together, they played, traveled, wrote and enjoyed life. ...

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Independence Throughout this journey we call life man often struggles to surpass the transformation from childhood to adulthood. ... When one has moral support from a parent during this trying time of change things will seem to unfold more easily; however, when the parent is over attached it can and will be a trying time for both the child as well as the parent. ... Telemakhos clearly makes the transition from boy into man during the first books of The Odyssey. ... In Books One through Four of the Odyssey Telemakhos makes a very real transition from boy into man. ... Penelope does not wa...

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To prevent children to expose by obscene language and behavior, parents should stop swearing in front of children instead of banning books. ... They also think that parents need to shield their children from any reference to the ugly realities of life. ... At the same time, children can understand the problems that happen these days. ...

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Also, from exploring other cultures and other ways of life, you will learn that everyone is not so different and could enjoy time spent with persons of a different culture. After spending much forced time with Ian, Tula's family begins to except the non-Greek man. ... The more time they spend together, the more willing they are to learn about each others ways and find out that they not only can accept their children being married but realize that they actually enjoy spending time together. ... Classrooms should include pictures and books from many different ways of life. ... Children shou...

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I think many women has to suffer a lot in there life not matter what back ground you came from you still have to do home chores, taker of the family, and surve the men. With all this in mind women don't have time educating there self, over to this situation the society take place. ... At this time, women could not be liberate themselves due to the lack of education. ... In Indian society the status of women has changed from time to time; position of women in society is the index to the standard of social organization .We can divide the past [history] in to three phases to analyze the stat...

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The Color Purple tells the story of Celie, a black woman who suffers virtually throughout her entire life. From the time she is young she is treated cruelly by the one man in her life, her father, and that treatment only continues when she gets married. ... It is obvious that Celie has no desire for marriage when she encourages Nettie to keep at her books and not to worry about the man pursuing her. The most difficult time in Celie's life is undoubtedly when she is forced to marry Albert. ... From the time Celie was young she was mistreated and overlooked but she was able to...

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After some time Zeena became suspicious of Mattie and Ethan and sent Mattie away, saying she needed hired help. ... Ethan wanted to spend the rest of his life with Mattie, and he got his wish only it included Zeena. ... While fictional it seems so real, and the books can teach important lessons to the readers....

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With an unhappy matrimony, Wharton devoted her energy to her writing, causing wide-reaching success, which was at that time unusual for a woman. ... Her novels contributed greatly to American literature, and though the writer herself has passed on, her tumultuous life survives through her books and stories. ...

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The main character, Edna, is dissatisfied with her life and position as wife and mother. ... Part of it might be due to her life experiences and the personality that shaped from those experiences. ... That was yet another phase in her life dominated by feminine influence. ... That can be assumed since he allowed her to be so independent, a thing many husbands of the time did not allow. ... She inferred that it was okay for women to take on sexual roles and be independent in books like The Awakening. ...

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Bill said that once a man get 's married, his life is over. ... This time, they grabbed a couple of shotguns and decided to join Bill's father. ... If Nick did not listen to Bill, he would have married Marge and they would have had a good life together. ... It is sad because Joe's father dies and Nick is getting drunk rather than living a happy life. ... The thing that I like about Hemingway's books are that after you read a page, you can't wait to read the next page. ...

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The narrator is probably quite clever, has read a lot of books about whaling and is interested in geography. ... This incident might have changed his whole view on a lot of things, maybe on life; it might not be as good or as innocent as he has thought. ... The fact that he tells the narrator about his secret clearly shows that he want to lighten his burden, he have probably kept it to himself for quite a while: "I never saw a whale in my life". ... There are a lot of themes in the story; one of them is the theme of growing up and learning from life and experiences. ... At that time it wasn&...

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The narrator is probably quite clever, has read a lot of books about whaling and is interested in geography. ... This incident might have changed his whole view on a lot of things, maybe on life; it might not be as good or as innocent as he has thought. ... The fact that he tells the narrator about his secret clearly shows that he want to lighten his burden, he have probably kept it to himself for quite a while: "I never saw a whale in my life". ... There are a lot of themes in the story; one of them is the theme of growing up and learning from life and experiences. ... At that time it wasn&...

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"Her studies allowed us to withdraw in private, as love desired and then with our books open before us, more words of our love than of our reading passed between us, and more kissing than teaching. ... Later Heloise became pregnant and Abelard could not successfully sidestep the rules of the society because the society of a time just wouldn't accept a premarital sexual affair. ... This tells us about her individuality and also that she didn't consider marriage part of love unlike most of the women of her time. ... He denounced the popular and glorious life of a soldier and in order t...

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Though this seems very strange to us this was quite normal for people back in Shakespeare's time because women were treated as a piece of a man's property. ... Books and plays like The Taming of the Shrew show us how things were different back then. In our time, in our country, an arranged marriage seems very crazy. ... In Katherine and Petruchio's time this kind of marriage was completely normal. ... All of the evidence shows that the money was purely to make life simple for the other characters. ...

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Having a baby can change a young's teen's life forever. ... I knew she was depressed, but I wanted to comfort her in the time of need but she wanted to be alone. ... According to the Meridian Magazine who's a marriage and family life educator listed many reasons why parents don't like discussing sex with their teens. ... There's books on how parents can speak to there children about sex such as "Having the sex talk with your Teens", "Talk to me First", and "How to talk to Your Children about Sex". ...

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While one of them wants to succeed in life, the other does not care. ... He has been absent most of the time since the beginning of the marriage. ... In addition, Norma Jean has started to read books, and all this, of course, intimidates Leroy "I never was any good in English", he says ( ) "Driving a rig Nobody cared about my English". ... The point is that now she has become a new woman with expectations in life. In conclusion, time does not necessarily bring lovers closer. ...

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In movies and books we often see or read of a storm during a funeral. In Kate Chopin's short story "The Storm" it is used as an omen, as well as perhaps despair, but it adds a different element to this story as well; it seems to be a force, perhaps destiny, perhaps a life in itself. ... In time we learn that they are not merely old friends, but intimate in the most innocent way; they have shared passion that was squelched after many kisses. ...

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At the point in the novel when this passage was presented, George Eliot has established numerous ideals of English provincial life in the 1830's. In books I and II, George Eliot has introduced two main struggles or principles dealt with during this time period. ... Dorothea has an independent mind at a time when women were supposed to be openly subservient to men. ... "Her whole soul was possessed by the fact that a fuller life was opening up to her- (28). ... Eliot thus far is successfully offering a social commentary on the provincial limitations and habits of life in the 1830s. ...

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Through his writings, she depicted what family life was like. ... The contract for marriage was life-long, and formal, and for the most part indissoluble. The apprentice's contract was formal as well, but not life-long in any sense. ... She also notes that there were prevailing rates of mortality and life expectancy, as well as a high rate of remarriage. The majority of English people at that time at some stage in their lives lived in a household where they were not related to any of the members. ...

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Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte's wildly passionate best-selling literary masterpiece, written in 1847, is still considered one of the greatest romantic books ever written about the eternal love between two soul mates, an adopted gypsy boy Heathcliff and manor-born Cathy. ... Time will change it, I'm well aware, as winter changes the trees-my love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath-a source of little visible delight, but necessary. ... Although there are many different important messages in this novel, the main value is the changes that occur in and between the char...

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The book moves quickly from the life of Ria and Marilyn from the middle and throughout the rest of the book. 3) The setting of Tara Road takes place in Dublin, Ireland. ... She thought, "Why does Rosemary always know exactly what to say, how to be funny and flattering and warm at the same time (11)? ... Meaning the things ion life we depend on so much to be there in the future may leave at any given moment. I've learned to rely on myself and never put myself fully into the hands of someone who may doubt me as a person. 9) I was satisfied with the books ending simply because the...

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Chagnon has studied the Yanomamo Indians for over 25 years and has written several articles and books about them. ... "Bruce Albert, an anthropologist at the University of Brasilia, said that news reports on Indian violence based on Chagnon's article appeared in the Brazilian press at the same time the government was deciding how much land to give the Yanomamo. ... Regardless of location, the Yanomamo spend more time foraging than on agricultural activity. ... They are very fascinating people with an interesting way of life; from the way they forage to their marriage rules and the di...

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