”A Gift for My Mother” is a short story written by Viv McDade. . It’s chronicling the course of a young girl’s best intentions. The main character in the story is a little‚ juvenile girl called Lucy. “..a bunch of wild flowers in the bushveld..” (p. 8‚ l. 1) The story takes place in South Africa‚ because a bushveld is a well-grassed plain area in South Africa. Throughout the entire story Lucy wants to give her mother a gift. She decides to collect bunches of flowers‚ sell them and earn some cash
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Are pageants good for kids? As the child beauty pageants started in the 1960s‚ I imagine that the founders did not picture the idea of the pageants being compromised as it is today. (Nussbaum) Parents and families‚ of the pageant contestants‚ have taken it to a new extreme when it comes to beauty and perfection in their children. This can be seen in many reality TV shows on air today‚ but TLCs “Toddlers & Tiaras” has received more controversy than any other. In such cases as 3 year old pageant
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in her story‚ “Mother Tongue”. Tan uses pathos to portray to her audience how through her experiences with her mother and the Chinese language she came to realize who she wanted to be and how she wanted to write. In “Mother Tongue”‚ Tan discusses the many ways in which the language that she was taught affected her life. Throughout the story‚ she describes her relationship with her mother‚ who speaks “broken” English‚ and how her perception of language has changed due to her mother. Whenever Tan
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“Child and Insect” is a poem written by Robert Druce‚ which describes an event between a child and an insect. The poem highlights the child’s loss of innocence‚ and appearances can be deceiving through vivid imagery and diction. He also uses unique form and structure to bring about the emotions and actions of the child. The writer uses imagery and diction in the first twenty lines of the poem to show the constant shifting of emotions from the child. The poem starts off by stating the child “cannot
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Disadvantages of using the mother tongue However‚ it is just this kind of tendency that could lead to the development of an excessive dependency on the students’ mother tongue (Harbord‚ 1992) by both teachers and students. Consequently‚ students lose confidence in their ability to communicate in English: They may feel that the only way they would understand anything the teacher says is when it has been translated‚ or they use their mother tongue even when they are perfectly capable of expressing
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My mother I am a country girl‚ and my mother is a country woman. She and my father are both junior-middle school graduates. Partly because of this‚ I‚ as their only daughter‚ bear their high expectations of me becoming a university graduate. Besides‚ I think their big hopes on me also come from some historical reasons---- our neighbor‚ my grandpa’s younger brother’s family‚ have been mean to us. The second family in our neighborhood to build a two-story brick house‚ they are far better off than
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Mother Teresa Mother Teresa (26 August 1910 – 5 September 1997)‚ born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu[1](pronounced [aɡˈnɛs ˈɡɔndʒa bɔjaˈdʒiu])‚ was a Catholic nun of Albanian[2][3] ethnicity and Indiancitizenship‚[4] who founded the Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta‚ India in 1950. For over 45 years she ministered to the poor‚ sick‚ orphaned‚ and dying‚ while guiding the Missionaries of Charity’s expansion‚ first throughout India and then in other countries. Following her death she was beatified by
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life path is ever changing ever evolving every action or inaction‚ every event; decision will change things even if it’s only in an insignificant barely noticeable way. The two texts‚ the article “like a horror movie” and the visual “ the migrant mother” use different technologies and language techniques to convey the concept of changing lives. Both texts represent two different situations that have severely changed the lives of the people in the article and the family in the photograph. They
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Somebody’s Mother Analysis Somebody’s Mother‚ by: Mary Dow Brine‚ is basically about somebody’s mother. The title of this poem implies that you will probably be reading about a mother and what she does. When you think of a mother‚ you think of a woman maybe in her thirties with kids who are around age five through nine‚ and possibly not afraid of anything you throw at her. That’s what is expected of a mother right? The first two lines of this poem imply the physical features of the mother. She is
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exactly what is going on with this mother and son. The poem holds nothing back from the reader with the line‚ “While she smokes a few white pebbles” (6) which implies that his mother is smoking cocaine and does this with his knowledge‚ in the moment. It suggests that his mother doesn’t care too much if he is aware and even if she gets him involved in her addiction. “Late winter‚ sky darkening after school” (1) tells the reader that the teen is educated and his mother even goes and picks him up. The
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