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Maxine Hong Kingston Brave Orchid
1,009 wordsIn The Woman Warrior, by Maxine Hong Kingston, captures readers with her own interpretation of what it was like to grow up as a female Chinese American. As a little girl, she came to America with her family. She shows us how difficult it was to fit into two different societies. In the Chinese society the woman were taught to be silent. "The other Chinese girls did not talk either, so I knew the silence had to do with being a Chines girl" (Kinston, 166). However, In America, Freedom of Speech is ...
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Lady Of Shalott Narrative Poem
1,873 words'... Just as the storm clouds often slay The scarcely breathing new born day. ' 1 One of the most popular of Tennyson's poems, The Lady of Shalott relates the tragic story of an extremely lonely young lady longing for a soulmate. A poem of "technical virtuosity, inspired landscape-painting based on precise observation, and a dreamworld of artistic beauty denying the commonplace" 2, "turning to beauty as a possibility of a more complete life" 3, it is one of the highlights of the author's early y...
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Explored My Body Whisper In My Ear Beast
2,035 words... ld feel privileged that I have selected him to be my chosen one. No one must have him except me. I will get his phone number from his cousin if he does not show up. Tonight will not pass without my arms around his gentle body. GRIEVING CHILD I did not want to go, but my mother thought it would help me. She thought it would help me get over my fathers death. I was scared to tell her the truth. How I was scared of him and the way he looked at me. I did not want him to touch me this time. I hat...
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The Storm And Rocking Horse Winner
530 wordsAs a general rule, children love fairy tales. We grow up being read Grimm's or watching Disney remakes of classics. Parents love telling children fairy tales not only because they have an opportunity to spend time with their sons and daughters, but also because fairy tales, like fables, always contain a lesson or moral within them. Although both Kate Chopin's "The Storm, " and D. H. Lawrence's "The Rocking Horse Winner" have some of the qualities of a child's fairy tale, only one of the stories ...
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Figurative Language Cash Register
737 wordsLife in Stamps, Alabama is very difficult and callous for the Negro people. The Negroes must work long hours at ridiculously low pay just to survive, and often it just was not enough. Angelou explains in the early chapters of I know why the caged bird Sings, just how hard life in Stamps is and how her people are able cope. Angelou conveys this so that the reader will have a greater understanding of what the times she lived in were like; she is also trying to teach us about the circumstances in w...
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Lady Cat Gray
338 wordsOnce there was an old lady who had a cat. She was 83 years old and had found a beautiful gray and white cat. It had pretty silky fur and gold eyes. Its fur was long and soft. When she picked it up it would purr in her arms. After she cleaned it up and fed it she than named it. The old lady said I will name you "Mr. Gray" for you are gray. One night while the old lady was sleeping she saw a beautiful bright star, so she wished on it not knowing if it would come true. Oh pretty little star said th...
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Smile Crept Isabel Looked Andy
1,455 wordsIsabel leaned her forehead down on the windowpane and sighed deeply. The icy glass seared her burning flesh and sent a rattling shiver down her spine that reverberated to her fingertips. She peered into the room almost longingly. The first thing that caught her eye was the crackling fire dancing in the old, brick fireplace. The light from the fire flickered on the walls, illuminating and casting shadows all at once on the black and white photographs that hung all around the room. The pictures we...
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Run As Fast Deep Set Of Brown Eyes Feel
685 wordsAn Emotional And Frightening Encounter. I sit under the old gold plated clock, and I listen to its slow ticking. I stare down at the old cobble stone street, and feel the ice-cold raindrops rolling down my numb warm cheeks. The rain falls down from the bright stars which you can only see in a distance, I am glad for the rain, as the raindrops mix with my tears and I can perhaps hide my feelings from him. We had decided to meet here once again, I know I have to go through with my plan or else I m...
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Rocking Horse Winner D H Lawrence
969 wordsDavid Herbert Lawrence, novelist, short-story writer, poet and essayist, was born in Nottinghamshire, England, in 1885. Though better known as a novelist, Lawrence's first-published works (in 1909) were poems, and his poetry, especially his evocations of the natural world, have since had a significant influence on many poets on both sides of the Atlantic. Susan Glaspell was born in 1882 and raised in Davenport, Iowa. Glaspell began her career as a novelist and author of sentimental short stories...
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Trends In Contemporary British Poetry
1,114 words... he poets to lay emphasis on feeling rather than style or technique. Many of Patten's poems deal with the themes of ageing and mortality. In Staring at the Crowd he says, 'I saw the skeleton in everyone'. He reflects that 'Grinning Jack' (the skeleton, symbolizing death) lurks inside everyone, waiting for its moment to conquer the flesh and shed its outer covering. He points out, in a mildly ironical way, that we go through life preoccupied with our mundane existences, and our plans for the f...
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Causes You To Have Money Centre Of Her Heart Mother
1,321 wordsThere was a woman who was beautiful, who started with all the advantages, yet she had no luck. She married for love, and the love turned to dust. She had bonny children, yet she felt they had been thrust upon her, and she could not love them. They looked at her coldly, as if they were finding fault with her. And hurriedly she felt she must cover up some fault in herself. Yet what it was that she must cover up she never knew. Nevertheless, when her children were present, she always felt the centr...
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Gender Roles Rival Gang
1,709 wordsMi Vida Loca Mi Vida Loca means my crazy life (as a girl). The movie documents the phenomenon of female gangs in the early nineties in Los Angeles. It is written and directed by Allison Anders, who grew up in Los Angeles and went to UCLA. She uses personal experiences to help influence her story writing. In Echo Park, a group of young Mexican-Americans show what it means to live in the inner city. The film looks at gang lifestyle from a woman s point of view to uncover relationships, conflicts, ...
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Mc Murphys Big Nurse
817 wordsQUOTE EXPLANATIONS Page 31 She keeps this up for years. The doctors last three weeks, three months. Until she finally settles for a little man with a big wide forehead and wide jowly cheeks and squeezed narrow across his tiny eyes like he once wore glasses that were way too small, wore them for so long they crimped his face in the middle, so now he has glasses on a string to his collar button; they teeter on the purple bridge of his little nose and they are always slipping one side or the other ...
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