In the poem Hughes uses the device of an extended metaphor to describe the life of the mother. The extended metaphor compares the mother’s life to a staircase. The line “Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair” begins and ends the poem. With this line‚ Hughes quickly establishes for the reader that the speaker in the poem has not had an easy life. The concept of a crystal staircase gives the reader the impression of complete opulence. Who might be the type of person whose life is compared to a
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Migrant Mother (see image 1 in the appendix)‚ is considered by many to be the most recognized photograph in American history. Dorothea Lange‚ however‚ is much more than that one photo. The images throughout her career tell countless stories of people who have suffered. The desire to share these stories is what propelled her to photograph‚ fueled her creativity‚ and motivated her to make the world a better place for her subjects. It was Dorothea’s own struggles as a child‚ wife‚ and a mother‚ her
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picadors keep on abusing him‚ provoking painful wounds that cut into his neck muscles with a pica. After that the banderilleros‚ blood-thirsty‚ with an item called banderilla weaken the bull even more. Severely injured‚ the bull charges with rage against the steel that destroys his organs. The matador is supposed to break the artery next to the heart‚ but that never happens. Instead he drills his lungs and the bull often vomits blood. Agonizing in a blood bath‚ the puntillero puts an end to his life
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MOTHERS ARE IRREPLACEABLE A mother is very significant to a son‚ and without that motherly figure to guide you it makes it almost impossible to cope in the real world. In the essay‚ “Coming Home Again”‚ Chang-Rae Lee’s mother is very involved in his life and he respects and loves her greatly. She wants to give him the chance to live an American life by sending him to boarding school‚ which in turn reduces the amount of time he has with his mother because of her illness and weakens their relationship
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Mother’s knows best Our mother is playing a very important role in our life. She’s always there to guide and support us. She can be our best friend in difficult situation or problems. Our teacher in reminding us to have good manners and right conduct and our doctor when we were sick. She’s always showing her love and protecting us because she don’t want us to be harmed. She took good care of us when we were babies. And she knows the best for us. She have the biggest and heaviest responsibility
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my research I did mother-daughter communication because my mom and I don’t have that great of communication so I wanted to find out more about it. In this research they did a study on the content and structure of mother-daughter conflict interactions during early adolescence. I’m obviously not in my adolescence stage still but this still explains the problems and solutions in general. The aim of this study is to examine conflict management behaviors of daughters and their mothers in conflict interactions
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uncommon for teachers to ask their students to “dig deeper” into the text that they are reading. In fact‚ every high school English course that I took part in involved interpreting the texts the way that I saw it. After reading Poetics by Aristotle and Against Interpretation by Susan Sontag‚ I now realize that it is not always important to find the hidden meaning of texts. As a student‚ it is necessary to look closely at the texts‚ however it is not always necessary to find incantations while interpreting
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A mother-daughter relationship is very important in a girl’s life. It is well known that if a girl doesn’t have her mother to turn to for everything‚ she will most likely turn to her friends. The "mother and daughter" bond should be the closest bond a girl can have. No friend should measure up to the closeness you share with your mother. It is sometimes very difficult for this to happen for many different reasons. In many cases‚ the mother will feel like her daughter doesn’t understand because
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Against plastic surgery •It’s the fact that it promotes a continuing descent into all things vain. Rather than accepting their perceived (important keyword) flaws‚ growing‚ and developing character‚ they take a chance going under the knife. Plastic surgery rarely produces the desired results and creates more unhealthy obsession with things that would be relatively trivial in a mentally healthy person with proper priorities. Even if‚ by some miracle‚ someone is completely happy with their surgery
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Every mother has a different child and every child has a different mother. Some may have similar mothers or children‚ but no two are exactly the same. The behavior or attitude of a child does not always affect the way they are parented either. In a room that contains 10 children and their mothers‚ there could be the ‘soccer’ mom‚ an overprotective mom‚ a neglectful mom‚ a mother who spends more time in the office than she does at home‚ etc. It may be hard for some kids to relate to others because
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