“Before I was‚ There Were...” I have so many relatives and all of them have done so much for me. My mom’s parents who are Kathey Sigmon and Jerry Carrigan are my grandparents‚ but they divorced and my grandma remarried to Bob Sigmon. My mom had a sister named Emily Sigmon and brother named Nick Carrigan. My grandma Kathey had two sisters name Faye Shew and Sue Robinette. My great grandmother Faye Carrigan is the mother of Jerry Carrigan‚ she has a sister named Nell-Rose Stafford but she passed
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“Only a girl” In Alice Munro’s “Boys and Girls” she tells a story about a young girl’s resistance to womanhood in a society infested with gender roles and stereotypes. The story takes place in the 1940s on a fox farm outside of Jubilee‚ Ontario‚ Canada. During this time‚ women were viewed as second class citizens‚ but the narrator was not going to accept this position without a fight. Munro’s invention of an unnamed character symbolized the narrator’s lack of identity‚ compared to her younger
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Picasso’s Women Picasso had a love/hate relationship with women. He was not an abuser‚ physically or verbally‚ but he did not always get along with them. He also couldn’t stay with one woman for a long time. After reading articles on Picasso‚ I learned that he had major relationships with several women throughout his life and fathered four children by three of them. His tumultuous and complicated love life can be seen through his art; the women often served as his artistic muses and are the subjects
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Boys and Girls‚ a short story by Alice Munro‚ deals with the theme of female role in society‚ but more so with the theme of growing up. The narrator’s journey to acceptance of her female role is more important in the sense that it is her transition into adulthood than for the exact role she is growing into. However‚ as the narrator’s role changes‚ conflict between masculinity and femininity occurs. Munro uses the narrator’s parents as symbolic of their sexes‚ where the narrator’s‚ the girl’s mother
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Creative Writing Reader Response # 3 Ranch Girl by Maile Meloy from Contemporary American Short Fiction The story is told in second person‚ which gives the reader a sense of being in the story‚ at the same time being an observer. It begins with telling you where you stand in the socio-economics’ and in the eyes of your peers. “If you’re white‚ and you’re not rich or poor but somewhere in the middle‚ it’s hard to have worse luck than be born a girl on the Ranch. It doesn’t matter if your father
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daughters‚ and his third daughter is exiled. Parallel to Lears situation is the sub-plot of Gloucester‚ whose bastard son betrays him and his legitimate son Edgar. Shakespeare undoubtedly intended for the characters of Gloucester and King Lear to mirror each other‚ and by comparing them and their outcomes me can see how closely related they truly are. Both King Lear and Gloucester are quick to anger‚ and thus their favoured children are quickly dismissed. Lear rashly decides to split up his land
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Girl Stolen Being kidnapped and held against your will is hard enough for a person who can see‚ let alone a person who is blind. In this story Girl Stolen Cheyenne the main character was kidnapped and went through a dramatic struggle with her disability. But what other people don’t know is that being able to see is a gift its one of the most valuable things you can have. No one can ever imagine what it is like to never be able to see the world ever again. Well what this girl went through you would
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“Farm Girl” Jon Jones English Composition 115 February 17‚ 2013 “Farm Girl”‚ is an essay by Jessica Hemauer‚ who is trying to fit in with other kids at her school. She lives on a farm where she has her responsibilities before school and after school‚ and she is not able to participate in school functions or other activities that the other kids get to do. Her dream is to join basketball and other clubs because she feels that is the only way she will fit in with everyone else at school. Jessica
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was founded largely on trade and agriculture into a new era of heavy industry‚ mass production‚ and vast economic growth. Industrialization within the majority of the European nations was producing new social classes. Through the first chapter‚ in Mirror of the World Sandra Halperin discusses the development of Industrial capitalism in Europe. Halperin asserts that the struggle amid capital and labor while being carried in different ways and different societies
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The word “GIRL” Have you ever tried to say the word girl in a different pronunciation? Did people understand when you said it? When I took my first step into the United States‚ my biggest worry was pronunciation. In my entire life‚ this was the first time I took a journey to a different country. Everything was so new to me; white and black faces‚ tall and muscular people. Most of all‚ their eyes attracted my attention. I came to the United States seven years ago. Back then‚ I didn’t fully understand
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