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- 10381: Exiles By Carolyn Kay Steedman
- First impressions of Steedman's "Exiles" left me feeling as if the woman had a lot of sour grapes to deal with. The overall flavor of the piece leans toward the negative, the cynical and sometimes even the sarcastic. She ... her way to describe in detail how her mother lied to her about her past: As a teenage worker my mother had broken with a recently established tradition and on leaving school in 1927 didn't go into the sheds. She lied to me though when, at about the age of eight, I asked her what she'd done, and she said she'd worked in an office, done clerical work ... told me that Edna had never worked in any office, had in fact been apprenticed to a dry-cleaning firm that did tailoring and mending. Steedman later on sought additional opportunities to reveal her mother's evasion of the truth. From the top of page 650: . . .Now I can feel the deliberate vagueness in her accounts of those years: "When did you meet daddy?"-"Oh, at a dance, at home." ...
- 10382: Review of: I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
- Review of: I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou I do not really like "I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings" , because it does not interest me. I like the author's writing style, but the subject the author writes about does not interest me at all. I don't like reading about how life was for Maya Angelou as she was growing up. I would rather read books that make me say in my mind, "What if that happened now" like The Hot Zone ... at the counter. Although I liked many other scenes in this book, such as when Maya Angelou writes about how much she loved pineapples, this is my favorite scene that I can recall. Maya Angelou's Uncle Willie interests me the most in this book. He interests me the most out of all the other characters, because it makes me think about how my life would be if I were ...
- 10383: What Is Taste
- ... like something more than another, like peer pressure. I believe that taste is personality, and I understand personality as Sigmund Freud theorized: personality is created from everything that has ever happen to the individual. Monet's art is considered to be 'good art' and popular, because it has so many familiar images in the paintings. When a painting is looked at, light is reflected off the image and into the eye ... do not like the taste liver, it is because the subconscious relates that taste to some bad experience/knowledge. For example, the individual may have once eaten liver and felt ill because the chemicals didn't agree with their body. Or, it could be because the individual has been shown/told that liver tastes fowl, therefore the subconscious is relating liver to 'bad taste'. In the case of mental taste, if ... or her own classification of me as he/she has learnt about my taste. This applies to any gestures, accents, comments, jokes, etc. This is because our personalities are developed on experience; in knowing somebody's experiences we are able to generally classify that individual. If someone's personality shows certain relation to our self then we register that aspect as 'good'. I feel the bottom line to this question ...
- 10384: Events leading to the American Revolution
- ... and were weakly pleading for self-autonomy. This small fire of anger will become a huge conflagration as the rights are slowly rescinded. On October 19, 1765 the Stamp Act Congress and Parliamentary Taxation committee's passed some laws that attempted to strengthen the grip of the English crown. "I.That his Majesty's subjects in these colonies, owe the same allegiance to the Crown of Great Britain that is owing from his subjects born within the realm, and all due subordination to that august body, the Parliament of ... rights and liberties. When the Declatory Act was passed in March of 1766, many colonies were attempting to claim that they were "seceding" from England. "Whereas several of the houses of representatives in his Majesty's colonies and plantations in America, have of late, against law, or to the general assemblies of the same, the sole and exclusive right of imposing duties and taxes upon his majesty's subjects in ...
- 10385: Violence Against Women In The
- ... were seen as meek and subservient to their men and were also owned by those men. Men had a social right to keep their women under control. Things began to change from the late 1960s early 1970s. As feminism became more popular the feelings that men owned their women began to subside. But this change in society did not so much to change the occurrence and violence of violence in the home ... number of abuse cases that are never reported to the police. Statistics that have been documented are alarming to say the least. § 1 in 4 women may experience violence in their relationships with men (Womens Aid Federation {England} report 1992) § Severe, repeated and systematic violence occurs in at least 5 of every hundred marriages in the UK: Between 40% and 45% of murdered women are killed by their male ...
- 10386: The Atom
- ... with the air. If he held his hand between the covered tube and the screen, his hand slightly reduced the glow on the screen but in the dark shadow he could see his bones. Rontgen's discovery intrigued other researchers beside J.J. Thomson and Ernest Rutherford. The Frenchman Hernri Becquerel was a third-generation physicist who, like his father and grandfather before him, occupied the chair of physics at the Musee Historie in Pairs; like them also he was an expert on phosphorescence and fluorescence. In his case, particular of uranium. He heard a report of Rontgen's work at the weekly meeting of the Academie des Sciences on January 20, 1896. He learned that the X rays emerged from the fluorescence glass, which immediately suggested to him that he should test various ... several hours." When he developed the photographic plate "I saw the silhouette of the phosphorescent substance in black on the negative." He mistakenly thought sunlight activated the effect, much as a cathode ray releases Rontgen's X rays from the glass. The story of Becqueerel's subsequent serendipity is famous. When he tried to repeat his experiment on Feb. 26 and again on February 27 Paris was covered with clouds. ...
- 10387: The Most Heroic Character In I
- ... of The Butterflies: Who is the True Heroine Among the Four? For many years, the definition of a hero has been vague and unclear. People with different perspectives worshiped their own heroes. From a businessman's eyes, a hero may be someone who can come with brilliant idea, in contrast, patriots may praise the ones who are willing to sacrifice for the nation. However, from the contradiction of thousands of unique ... the four, the one who was trained to be the traditional housekeeper, the one who lived unwillingly after all three sisters are gone, and her name is Dede. There is one common Chinese saying: one's lifetime character is determined by the age of three, after that, it is much easier to move the mountain than to change it. In simple words, it is nearly impossible to change the personality of ... numerous struggles between the family value and the revolution. For most of the time, she has valued family as a more important factor in her life. Should she be blamed for her so-called woman's selfishness and weakness? No, a good wife should be responsible for both her husband and children. Since the revolutionists are treated cruelly once they are caught, she may even bring the whole family into ...
- 10388: Exiles
- First impressions of Steedman's "Exiles" left me feeling as if the woman had a lot of sour grapes to deal with. The overall flavor of the piece leans toward the negative, the cynical and sometimes even the sarcastic. She ... her way to describe in detail how her mother lied to her about her past: As a teenage worker my mother had broken with a recently established tradition and on leaving school in 1927 didn't go into the sheds. She lied to me though when, at about the age of eight, I asked her what she'd done, and she said she'd worked in an office, done clerical work ... told me that Edna had never worked in any office, had in fact been apprenticed to a dry-cleaning firm that did tailoring and mending. Steedman later on sought additional opportunities to reveal her mother's evasion of the truth. From the top of page 650: . . .Now I can feel the deliberate vagueness in her accounts of those years: "When did you meet daddy?"-"Oh, at a dance, at home." ...
- 10389: Antov Chekhov's "Misery": All Gray
- Antov Chekhov's "Misery": All Gray In the story "Misery" by Antov Chekhov, I identified despair and misery as a theme. The surroundings amplify the sentiment of the main character, Iona Potapov. Cold and gray surrounds' Iona Potapov and he is extremely miserable. Iona Potapov wants to speak to another human about his son's death but no one will listen. Failing to speak with any humans, Iona is resigned to speak with his horse. At the beginning of the story Anton Chekhov sets the environment for the story. "The ... with his horse. "Now, suppose you had a little colt, and you were own mother to that little colt . . . And all at once that same little colt went and died . . . You'd be sorry, wouldn't you? . .."(34) His horse listens as all good horses do. "The little mare munches, listens, and breaths on her master's hands."(34) Iona is now content on telling his story to the horse. " ...
- 10390: Female Protagonists
- The desire for freedom is a similar aspect of the female protagonists Louise Mallard, Mathilde Loisel, and Emily Grierson. In Kate Chopin's, "The Story of an Hour," Guy DE Maupassant's, "The Necklace," and William Faulkner's, "A Rose for Emily," the female protagonist's have a desire for freedom. The stories are about three women living in patriarchal societies. Each character longs for freedom in a different way, but because ...
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