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Miss Maudie Aunt Alex
1,620 wordsThe Maycomb ladies provide an excellent example of racial prejudice, and a failure to see what it is like in someone elses skin. They believe they are doing well by making money for missions, failing to see the hardship on their own doorsteps. Aunt Alexandra is very important to the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, as she is a representative of these viewpoints, disapproving of Calpurnia and disassociating herself from the black community entirely. Miss Maudie however is the counterpoint to Aunt Al...
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Aunt And Uncle Aunt And Uncles George
467 wordsAunt and Uncle Through a Nieces Eyes The old axiom opposites attract certainly seems true in regard to my aunt and uncle. Despite a physical resemblance, their differences outnumber their likenesses. The most distinctive differences are in their childhood backgrounds, political views, and personalities. They were born two months apart and in their late fifties, my aunt and uncle resemble each other. They both have silver colored streaks in their black hair. They are both under the average height...
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Woman Warrior Gender Roles
10,450 wordsWARRING GENDER In the autobiography The Woman Warrior, Maxine Kingston struggles with her identity which reflects her gender ideas. Maxine Kingston wants to show the audience that she is a woman warrior. She shows this in many ways by telling stories which reflect her personality or in her mind, her gender. Today woman who are proud of their gender are feminists. Feminists seek equal economic rights, support reproductive rights, including the right to abortion; citizen traditional definition of ...
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Quot Quot Elizabeth Bishop
7,416 wordsLee Edelman Commentaries on " In the Waiting Room" the to agree that the poem presents a young girls moment of awakening to the separations and the bonds among human beings, to the forces that shape individual identity through the interrelated recognitions of community and isolation. [... ] What, one might ask, is so strange about critical agreement on the literal events that take place within the poem? One response to such a question might begin by observing that the text itself seems...
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