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- 3421: Greek Myths
- ... overthrow Cronos, as he had overthrown Uranus. To protect himself, Cronos swallowed each of his first five children -- Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Hades, and Poseidon -- immediatly after birth. After the birth of her sixth and last child, Rhea tricked Cronos into swallowing a rock and then hid the child -- Zeus -- on earth. Zeus grew up on earth and was brought back to Mount Olympus as a cupbearer to his unsuspecting father. Rhea and Zeus connived against Cronos by mixing a noxious drink for him ...
- 3422: The Danger Of Having Been Blac
- ... Earlier in her childhood she suffered and learned from the grievance of certain white people in the south part of United States of America. At Stamps where she was raised by her grandmother, as a child she was affected by racism and those who preached it. She could not even believe they were human or real. She had lived it and had some terrible experiences from it. However, back in California ... Maya has described the situation in the book tells how horrible it was at that time. First of all, growing up black and female as she said was very painful. At Stamps, where as a child she was raised, the first act that made her burst in tears was when the three little powhitetrash girls were mocking Momma her grandmother. They were calling her by the first name instead of the ...
- 3423: The Artificial Family
- ... but rather felt pity that she left him. Mary is presented as a closed-off person who is disciplined in emotion and in physical stature. She is described as being a strong model for her child and apparently the child had followed her model until the marriage with Toby. Mary is seen as reserved and dressed that way also. Toby described her as smelling of burlap and that she wore her hair up with bobby ...
- 3424: Black Female Bodybuilders
- ... a man. Everyone is always so sure. They've never seen a woman who looked like that before so they won't believe that one can naturally exist. Having been told frequently as an athletic child that she "looked like a man," New York-based bodybuilder and physical therapist Heather Foster suggests that she was a likely candidate to exploit a physicality so readily associated with males. On the other hand ... featured in a two-page advertisement that ran in women's fashion magazines in April 1994. On the first page, centered against a white background, was a small, faded family snapshot of Dunlap as a child standing in a comfortable, middle-class living room in a leotard and tights, striking the pose of a ballerina. The ad copy read: She picked up her toys. She picked up her cat. She picked ...
- 3425: King Lear
- ... two eldest daughters which seemed impossible to do in King Lear. It is obvious that Ginny and Rose took extremely good care of their father and watched out for him like a mother would a child, “You simply can’t drive all over creation, and you especially can’t do it when you’re drinking . . . You could kill somebody. Or kill yourself, for that matter” (Smiley 159). The reader is appalled ... monstrous characteristics of the daughters. They do not seem to be compassionate and Lear comments on this when he says to Goneril, “How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is To have a thankless child” (I, iv, 283-84). In addition, the innocence of Rose and Ginny is accented due to Rose’s two children. She is not seen as an old, married, childless hag. Rose is now viewed as ...
- 3426: Eleanor Roosevelt
- ... later she had "enforced a discipline which in many ways was unwise." " She felt a tremendous sense of duty to us," Anna later said, "... but she did not understand to statisfy the need of a child for primary closeness to a parent." Her children's "wildness" scared her, for it revived memories of her self-indulgent father and uncles. Nineteen-twenty was the first presidnetioal election in which women voted, and ... us brothers, regardless of race, creed or color." In the depths of the depression, she campaigned against sweatshops. She urged women to shop where decent working conditions were provided. She called for the elimination of child labor and advocated more money for teachers' salaries. On the eve of the World Economic Conference, with foreign dignitaries trooping in and out of the White House, she addressed her press conference with an anit ...
- 3427: The Bluest Eye 2
- ... society. I even think now that the land of the entire country was hostile to marigolds that year. Certain seeds it will not nurture, certain fruits it will not bear.. This relates to Pecola s child and African Americans in general in this particular setting. Basically Pecola s child has very little chance because everything and everyone is hostile towards blacks. If anything negative is going to happen it will be to an African American because by this quote they do not have any ...
- 3428: The Metamorphosis: Shape and Form
- ... t got used to him. "He realized how repulsive the sight of him still was to her, and that it was bound to go on being repulsive (p. 99)." Gregor's condition resulted from the abuse that he took from his family, and he was much more wise because of it. He had gotten used to his change and actually enjoyed being a bug. " He especially liked hanging from the ceiling ... he used to do" (p. 114). He thought more logically as a bug and was tired of everyone depending on him. Gregor was not the only person affected in this story. His parents started to abuse his sister in the same way. Their son's unemployment forced her to get a job. She was then helping to support the family as Gregor once did. After he died, her mother and father ...
- 3429: Color Purple
- ... without any remorse. He even made Celie nurse Shug Avery, his mistress, when she was ill. It is now that Celie learns from Shug Avery about love. Shug Avery encourages Celie not to take the abuse from her husband anymore and that she deserves better. Celie would finally leave her husband when she found out that he kept her sister’s letters from her. Nettie was the sole reason why Celie had managed to survive. Celie could not tolerate any more abuse and left with Shug Avery and Mary Agnes. Mary Agnes was Celie’s stepson’s mistress. Celie eventually meets up with Nettie and her two children whom she believed to be dead. She than goes ...
- 3430: Vincent Van Gogh
- ... beginning of the spring, Vincent was going to face yet another rejection from a woman. He went to visit his parents and met his cousin, Kay. She was a widow with a four-year-old child. Kay was several years older than Van Gogh was. Van Gogh, who thought he was in love with her, declared hi feelings for Kay. It only turned he off and she never wanted to hear ... against him after that, also. Theo was the only one who still cared for him. Once again, Vincent fell in love. This time he was not rejected. His new love was a prostitute with a child and pregnant with another. Christina, also known as Sein, was ill and smoked cigars. Van Gogh, thirty-years-old at the time, proposed to marry her. At first they were happy with each other. They ...
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