If you want to beat poverty you must focus on the hopeful‚ not the hopeless. Poverty can change how someone sees the world. In "Marigolds" Lizabeth sees the world as a place of hopelessness and despair that cannot improve. "The Depression that gripped the nation was no new thing to us‚ for the black workers of rural Maryland had always been depressed"(Collier 634). The family in "Blues Ain’t No Mocking Bird" is the opposite of Lizabeth. Although they are poor‚ they have great pride and dignity
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After reading the story “Marigolds”‚ a question popped up. This question was why did Lizabeth destroy Miss Lottie’s marigolds. Lizabeth‚ as a child‚ lived in a small ghetto town with dust covering mostly everything. The only color she could remember besides brown was the “brilliant splash of sunny yellow against the dust-Miss Lottie’s marigolds” (Collier‚ p.124). One day‚ in the middle of the night‚ she goes over to Miss Lottie’s shack and destroys the flowers. Lizabeth lost control over herself
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English literature: the effect of gamma rays on man-in-the-moon marigolds Beatrice: Bitter‚ strident and alcoholic evidence: “she takes a drink from a glass of whiskey” (54) inference: Beatrice indulges herself with alcohol. Disappointed with life evidence: “you see‚ everybody‚ I spent today taking stock of my life and I’ve come up with zero. I added up all the separate departments and the total reads up zero… zero zero zero….” (55) inference: the fact that Beatrice describes
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Eugenia Collier “SWEET POTATO PIE” Sukhanova E. LP31/2 Eugenia W. Collier (born 1928) is an African-American writer and critic best known for her 1969 short story "Marigolds". She was born in Baltimore‚ Maryland‚ USA. Collier ’s collection‚ Breeder and Other Stories‚ was released in 1993. She has also published a play‚ Ricky‚ based on her short story of the same name. Other texts that Collier has written or contributed to include are Impressions
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UTILIZATION OF MARIGOLD EXTRACT (Tagestes erecta L.) AND CIGARETTE BUTTS AS HOUSEHOLD INSECTICIDE INTRODUCTION Most insecticides effective for household use are inorganic which tend to be harmful to the user and to the environment. Recent statistics show that 75% of households use some form of insecticide‚ with much of this being used indoors. They are used to kill ants and roaches‚ mosquitoes‚ flea and tick. By design these products are all intended to be lethal – to insects that
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The most important quality of Elizabeth as a queen was her love for the people of her kingdom. Elizabeth made many efforts throughout her reign to demonstrate how much she cared for her subjects‚ including the “progresses‚” or tours of the countryside on horseback‚ that she made at least twenty-five times during her forty-five years as queen (“Elizabeth I”). The act of visiting among her people proved to them how highly she viewed and respected them. She also wanted them to love her‚ saying in a
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------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- Elizabeth ’s Background Elizabeth I was born September 7‚ 1533 at Greenwich Palace. She was the second daughter of King Henry VIII and Ann Boleyn. Elizabeth ’s had an older half-sister Mary and a younger half-brother‚ Edward. Elizabeth had a remarkable intelligence from a very young age. She received an excellent education and learned many languages: Latin‚ Flemish
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Elizabeth Blackwell was the first female physician to earn a medical degree in the United States. The book The Excellent Doctor Blackwell: The Life of the First Woman Physician explains all the hardships Elizabeth faced through her journey to become a doctor. Elizabeth was a very strong woman who never gave up. Elizabeth Blackwell is famous for introducing the idea of women working in medicine‚ she grew up in a liberal household‚ was a force to be reckoned with‚ and she impacted how society thought
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men were. To some extent‚ this still exists today. Women don’t always receive equal pay for equal work as their male co-workers. That was true in the 1840’s when Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman to earn a medical degree in the United States. That shows amounts of moral courage that many of us could never achieve. Elizabeth Blackwell was born on Feb. 3‚ 1821‚ in Bristol‚ England. She was the third of nine children born to Samuel and Hannah Blackwell. They were known to be considerate
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Elizabeth Siddal‚ Pre-Raphaelite model and wife to Gabriel Rossetti‚ is the source of intrigue for many Victorian researchers. Her mystery began from her vague background as a milliner ’s assistant. From the start‚ many stories were told of her discovery and yet few stories were told of her past before that point. A frail young woman‚ she was addicted to narcotics and suffered from a variety of ailments‚ from the physical to the mental. Her turbulent relationship with Rossetti was plagued with
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