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2 African American Poets/Cullen & Hughes

and "Dont you fall now-" (line 17)(Hughes 1255). She concludes by emphasizing the point that she is still going, still climbing, ...

Carol Berkin on Women in the American Revolution

propaganda; they raised money for the army and to support the new government ("About this book"). Berkin shows how they ran farms ...

Breastfeeding and Maternal Employment

In six pages this paper examines the problems represented by maternal breastfeeding regarding a mother's employment. Four sources...

Absence of Mothers in Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte and Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

way the housekeeper Nelly Dean cares for generations of motherless children of the intertwined Linton and Earnshaw families, compa...

Review of Abu-Jaber's The Language of Baklava

a memory. He cook to remember" (Abu-Jaber 190). Food is also a means of conveying love-"To my mind, this is the best way to show...

Miscommunication in Two Works

matter how an author chooses to draw the portrait, the mother figure is one of the primal archetypes of human society. This paper ...

Free States and Slave Development Between the American Revolution and the Civil War

North was not quite as conducive to farming. Although it is true that perhaps the South might have become more prone to industrial...

Working Mother Model and Its Benefits

for children. Koyana (2002) for example reports on Magona who is a single mother and able to produce well-adjusted children. Her c...

An Individual's Explanation on Why He Wants to Become a Doctor

in most cases much better compensated than any other professional. Others want to become a physician simply because of the societ...

Ivy League Education and Single African American Mothers

in this equation. Black women have not only been historically suppressed by Western Civilization but throughout history in genera...

The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan and the Generation Gap

In 10 pages this paper analyzes the novel by Amy Tan in terms of how it presents the Chinese mother and Chinese American daughters...

Bell Curve Propositions Defense

in a the National Longitudinal Study of Youth (NLSY), an ongoing federal project that tested over 10,0000 US citizens in 1980, wit...

American Daughters and Asian Mothers

In eight pages the complex relationships between Asian mothers and their American daughters as described in Maxine Hong Kingston's...

Mother and Daughter Relationship Conflicts in Beloved by Toni Morrison and 'Everyday Use' by Alice Walker

only to curse out and insult each other?) On TV mother and child embrace and smile into each others faces... Sometimes I dream a d...

'I Never Loved Thee' Conversation Between Ophelia and Hamlet

He does not say, and this is another of the hundreds of loose ends in Hamlet that Shakespeare does not explain. At any rate, Ophe...

Sociological Issues Regarding Primary versus Secondary Child Care and Working, Single Mothers

In six pages this paper examines the shift from primary to secondary child care necessitated by working mothers in society, with m...

Critical Thinking Questions and Argument Techniques

To date there has been no argument that sinks in with her, and we are nearly to the point of giving up. My own inability to criti...

'Forgiving My Father' by Lucille Clifton

poets position in this family situation -- my mothers hand opens in early grave and i hold it out like a good daughter." This imag...

Applying Carol Pearson's Archetypes to Literature

nature, such as a tree, or a flower. What Frankl noticed was that those survivors of the camps, such as he was, came out of the ca...

Analysis of Narrative in the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave

on the period of slavery in the United States. When one reads of the life of this chattel, he or she is forced to see the total i...

The Afrocentricism of Dee in 'Everyday Use' by Alice Walker

then her family and has been divorcing herself from them for quite sometime. When Dee arrives she is decked out in bright...

American Subcultures, Relationships Between Mothers and Daughters, and the Writings of Kingston and Chavez

In five pages this paper examines how in Woman Warrior by Kingston and Face of an Angel by Chavez the authors present the mother a...

American Colonies and Lives of Slaves

In nine pages this paper considers what slavery was like in the American colonies with North and South differences duly noted alo...

Supporting Pregnant Mothers Receive Mandatory HIV Testing

In seven pages for reasons of both mother and child this paper argues in favor of pregnant mothers receiving manditory testing for...

Relationship Between Mother and Daughter in Warrior Woman by Maxine Hong Kingston

duality of the cultures are reflected in various ways by Kingston, the constant switching between myth and reality, Chinese emotio...

Abigail Adams' 'Remember the Ladies!'

can produce, she would begin her correspondence to her husband, "Dearest Friend," and sign them "Portia" (http://www.masshist.org/...

Mothers and Daughters in Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility

In 5 pages this paper discusses how in this Jane Austen novel the mothers' relationships with their children and how their selfish...

Analysis of Lorraine Hansberry's Raisin in the Sun

of these dreams are compatible with one another, and arguments over the disposal of the money ensues. Ruth learns that she is preg...

Negative Effects of Single African American Motherhood

other American kid does, but what she lacks is an intact family with a live-in father (Ingrassia, 1993). She was born to a 16-yea...

Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

about prejudice first hand, and when a teacher separated the white and black children, he would go with the white. She corrected h...