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have learned to "fly" and to "sing," that is, that they have become responsible adults, capable of living and contributing to soci...

sanctioned as proper for women, Bradstreets work did not go against the norms of Puritan society. However, they do often emphasize...

Anne Dodge memorial, 2007). But his works, like all great art, take on a life of their own that perhaps goes beyond what was reque...

Essies father tires of sharecropping and walks out, leaving Essie and her mother and sister to get along the best they can (Starks...

Jane Austen described in one of her letters as a heroine [who] is almost too good for me) had been persuaded by an older friend of...

My Dear and Loving Husband" and "In Reference To Her Children 23 June, 1659" as well as Taylors "My Spouse" and "Upon Wedlock, and...

a mystical quality that makes us think about what shes saying. Shes packed a lot of thought into a very few lines. The poem is par...

souls" (Wittenstein, 1999, p. 26) during World War II. Like Americans and a whole host of other foreigners who come to capture a ...

with subjects such as science, as well as religion and morality (Bradstreet, Anne Dudley (1612?-1672)). "However, her best poems d...

crown buttoned on a narrow brim" (Porter 322). As this indicates, Porter skillfully builds a detailed picture of Sophia Janes ch...

presents the understanding of how she will write what she knows, what is particular to her and her experiences and perceptions, st...

person she is and as such she is certainly not perfect. But, there is a part of her that, like everyone, needs to believe that she...

not considered appropriate for them to get angry, and so they deal with it indirectly, as opposed to boys, who are allowed to figh...

are only 4-6 lines in length. "Contemplations" begins as what we might call a nature poem, describing the way in which the sun lig...

in a progressive fashion. There were not enough maps because in the past people did not travel. Travel would open the door to popu...

During this time in history there was a very powerful sense of faith in the people and in the institutions. The institutions of fa...

different we have no possible common ground, we can also justify destroying them. This is why we never consider enemy combatants a...

voracious sexual appetites by raping young village girls and claiming other mens wives as his own conquests on their wedding night...

which is why there is sometimes gender confusion in myriad ways. Boys grow up and feel as if there has been some mistake because t...

truly seems to have had nothing to gain through telling the truth. This is why, as Sharpe argues, Annes own telling of the truth s...

sense to Western medicine, but it didnt make sense to Lias parents; or rather, it wouldnt make sense even if they could find someo...

that Rawls equates justice with equality. Justice is, in a manner of speaking, treating others as an individual would wish to be ...

with their prescribed regimen for controlling the childs epilepsy (Simon, 2003). They became so frustrated that they brought charg...

friendship is not defined per se but exemplified by a series of mimetic actions in which one person takes anothers place or lends ...

thought which suggests that if a patient doesnt believe in it, it wont work, so perhaps Lias parents were right.) There was als...

She found, however, that it was one to which she must inure herself. Since he actually was expected in the country, she must teac...

Porter, 2005). Her education was obtained at convent schools and when she was 16 she ran away (Books and Writers, 2005). This i...

and her sharecropper parents were treated differently than the white girls she played with, but she was unable to understand why. ...

ridden. At one point he is in a restaurant and is remembering one time when his son was 2 or 3 years of age. The child had run int...

be troubled by the nature of life and how, so often, those we love are either ahead of us or behind on lifes journey. Each of the ...