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  • Mother Tongue by Amy Tan

    Mother Tongue by Amy Tan

    Great art takes inspiration, and inspiration comes from many different sources. It can be a direct experience of your life; it can come from nature, from God; or it can be a person who is close to you. Without inspiration, every work of art will only be a mere reflection of skill without its own story, as Amy Tan once said “The goal of every serious writer of literature is to try to find your

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    Essay Length: 631 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 1, 2009 By: Mike
  • Mother and Child

    Mother and Child

    Art and Visual Culture Assignment 3: Mother and Child 3/7/06 ASSIGNMENT 3: Mother and Child Throughout art history, artists have used the theme of mother and child for religious purposes, for cultural purposes, and for expressing the strong relationship between mother and child. You can find examples mother and child in the art of Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans. Medieval art and art of the Reniassance often depicts Mary and the Christ child to communicate bible

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    Essay Length: 528 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 5, 2009 By: Venidikt
  • Working Mothers

    Working Mothers

    For some time working mothers have been blamed for the neglect of their children, the breakdown of the family, and the decline of our society. Rather than the female workforce consisting mainly of women who either have adult children or are childless, recent decades have witnessed a growing proportion of employed women with children, especially young children Recent statistics show that 42 per cent of mothers with children aged newborn to four years are employed.

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    Essay Length: 678 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 13, 2009 By: regina
  • My Mother Pieced Quilts

    My Mother Pieced Quilts

    Various threads are needed to form one unique quilt. Similarly, a mother quilts together the best and diverse threads of life to form one unique identity in which a child lives with forever. In the poem "My Mother Pieced Quilts" by Teresa Palomo Acosta, the mother chooses the different aspects of the quilt, forms those aspects to make one quilt, and releases that one quilt on which it lives. In the beginning, the mother must

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    Essay Length: 427 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 14, 2009 By: Jack
  • Obesity - Our Mothers Children

    Obesity - Our Mothers Children

    Obesity means having too much body fat. It is different from being overweight, which means weighing too much. The weight may come from muscle, bone, fat and/or body water. Both terms mean that a person's weight is greater than what's considered healthy for his or her height. Obesity occurs over time when you eat more calories than you use. The balance between calories-in and calories-out differs for each person. Factors that might tip the balance

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    Essay Length: 398 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 17, 2009 By: Monika
  • All About My Mother

    All About My Mother

    The last scene in All About my Mother is a perfect example of mise en scene being used thoroughly to create a conclusion and understanding of the film. This last scene nicely positions characters in a perfect triangle. The still frame showed in class was a perfect photograph; it had a forground, background, and a straight line going down the middle to create symmetry and all the elements a perfect photo needs. The positioning of

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    Essay Length: 480 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 18, 2009 By: Mike
  • Drunken Mother

    Drunken Mother

    A Drunken Mother, wow where do I start. This book really gets one to thinking of what it was and, in some cases is like to be a woman. This book was one of which I would never even think to read just cause of the title. The title to me suggests that it is a book by a woman for a woman and is written in a way for mothers to understand. But in

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    Essay Length: 1,143 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: December 21, 2009 By: Tasha
  • The Importance of Child Bond to His Mother

    The Importance of Child Bond to His Mother

    The primal importance of a child's bond to his mother has always been recognized as a topic that has fascinated people for hundreds of years. Among psychologists and sociologists, there is much debate about exactly how important this attachment is and why. At the turn of the century, the treatment of new-born babies was regarded as having little significance for later life, because babies were thought to be immune to influence. Such idea was attacked

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    Essay Length: 1,177 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: December 21, 2009 By: Vika
  • Mothers Need Education like Babies Need Milk

    Mothers Need Education like Babies Need Milk

    Mothers need education like babies need milk Men incorrectly view women as naturally weak and therefore only capable of serving the male citizens, “being the greatest charm of society”, and not needing any masculine qualities like education or physical strength (Rousseau, 262). Women are ill taught by men to believe these social stigmas assigned to them, which are obedience, chastity to the family, and subservience to men, their family, and society. This view of motherhood

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    Essay Length: 2,601 Words / 11 Pages
    Submitted: December 22, 2009 By: Janna
  • Research on Early Father’s and Mother’s Involvement and Child’s Later Educational Outcomes

    Research on Early Father’s and Mother’s Involvement and Child’s Later Educational Outcomes

    In 2004, the British Journal of Educational Psychology releases a report on a research that was conducted by Eirini Flouri and Ann Buchanan dealing with the correlation of early interaction of parents and the future assessment of their children in school. Previous to this article, little research was given to the individual long-term contribution that early parent involvement had in a child’s success in school. Flouri and Buchanan had three particular goals in mind while

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    Essay Length: 829 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 24, 2009 By: Mike
  • Teen Mother

    Teen Mother

    Few people would argue with the statement that one of the most precious of all of life?s events is the birth of a child. This is certainly the case for a grown adult with an education, a financial future planned, and an emotional support system in place. However when the mother to be is a teenage girl there are concerns and considerations that limit some of the joy usually felt at the news of an

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    Essay Length: 429 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 28, 2009 By: Max
  • The Many Mothers of Alfred Hitchcock

    The Many Mothers of Alfred Hitchcock

    When looking at the works of Alfred Hitchcock there are many recurring themes. Wrong man, classic Hitchcock villains, and the use of staircases are just three of the many attributes you see when watching a Hitchcock film. My favorite, however, would have to be Hitchcock’s portrayal of the mother. Whether she is there for comic relief as we see in Shadow of a Doubt, or as the root of all evil as you see in

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    Essay Length: 726 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 31, 2009 By: Jessica
  • Comparative Study: "a Taste of Honey" and "a Mother’s Fondness"

    Comparative Study: "a Taste of Honey" and "a Mother’s Fondness"

    Mother-daughter relationships are very special, because there is a unique bond, bound by unconditional love that is only present between mothers and daughters. Because of this strong bond, other problems occur with it that can be disruptive and problematic. "A Taste of Honey", by Shelagh Delany, and "A Mother's Fondness", by Marion. R. Stewart are both texts about mother-daughter relationships. "A Taste of Honey", is a play about a very distant relationship between Helen a

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    Essay Length: 2,205 Words / 9 Pages
    Submitted: January 3, 2010 By: Top
  • Gertrude the Mother of Evil

    Gertrude the Mother of Evil

    One of the most important characters in Shakespeare's Hamlet would be the mother of Hamlet himself, Gertrude. Queen Gertrude played a devious and shameful role, which left many questioning her dignity throughout the play. She led a life of wealth and royalty, but could not find happiness in either. Gertrude had to put a twist on her life by quickly abandoning the man she one loved, King Hamlet, for his soulless brother, Claudius. In order

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    Essay Length: 641 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: January 4, 2010 By: July
  • Mother of All Cells

    Mother of All Cells

    In the later part of the 1990’s, there was a very productive period in the history of biological research. It was in this period of time that the first cloned mammal was born. Shortly after this accomplishment was the first successful derivation of human embryonic stem cells. This was the completion of the Human Genome Project. “Mother of All Cells” really suits this article considering that it discusses one of the strongest and most powerful

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    Essay Length: 527 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: January 8, 2010 By: Mike
  • Andre’s Mother

    Andre’s Mother

    In Andre’s Mother, Terrence McNally relies on Cal to develop the title character, Andre’s Mother. Through his dialogue and the sparse stage directions the reader is able to take a glimpse into Andre’s and his mother’s relationship, or lack thereof. Furthermore the reader is able to accompany her on her journey through the grieving process, which ultimately concludes with love and acceptance for her son. In Cal’s speech to Andre’s Mother at the end of

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    Essay Length: 790 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: January 10, 2010 By: regina
  • Single-Mothers: Paid & Unpaid Work

    Single-Mothers: Paid & Unpaid Work

    Single-mothers: Paid & Unpaid Work Poverty in Canada impacts our most venerable citizens in our society, women and children. Even as the statistics on low, income families have decreased in the past years, there is still a wide gap between single-mothers income level and two-parent families with one income. As well, our children are usually unable to provide for themselves, this leaves the responsibility, as noted by our society, to the caregivers of the

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    Essay Length: 2,307 Words / 10 Pages
    Submitted: January 13, 2010 By: Tommy
  • Working Mothers

    Working Mothers

    For some time working mothers have been blamed for the neglect of their children, the breakdown of the family, and the decline of our society. Rather than the female workforce consisting mainly of women who either have adult children or are childless, recent decades have witnessed a growing proportion of employed women with children, especially young children Recent statistics show that 42 per cent of mothers with children aged newborn to four years are employed.

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    Essay Length: 678 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: January 15, 2010 By: David
  • Single Mothers

    Single Mothers

    Single Mothers Many women take for granted the freedoms that they have today. Some have forgotten what their own mothers and grandmothers went through. Women have started to receive many of the same rights that men do in the work place and at home. At home many women find it more socially acceptable to be single with a child. No longer does society look down on this. This relatively new sense of feminism has helped

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    Essay Length: 1,356 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: January 17, 2010 By: Tommy
  • Legalizing Mothers

    Legalizing Mothers

    One in 10 children born in the US is born to illegal immigrants every year (Doyle, 2003, ¶18). According to the 14th Amendment citizenship is a birthright obtained regardless of where the parents were born (Bulkeley, 2005, ¶5). In the state of Arkansas there has been a dramatic increase, by 10 fold, of children born to immigrants legal or illegal (Camarota, 2005, ¶58). The parents of US citizens however are not granted the same right

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    Submitted: January 21, 2010 By: Vika
  • Mothers Tongue

    Mothers Tongue

    Mothers Tongue Amy Tans “Mother Tongue” is a look into the way some people, look to language as a way as a sign of how educated you are. According to Amy she did not realize how we use different languages or different tones when we are engaging in conversation with others. When you are talking with friends or close family you would use different dialect or slang, then if you were talking to your boss

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    Submitted: January 22, 2010 By: Janna
  • Night Mother

    Night Mother

    In Paul Auster's remarkable ''City of Glass,'' the ostensible mystery drives from the book's odd and often strangely humorous working of the detective novel genre. The real mystery, however, is one of confused character identity, the descent of a writer into a laby-rinth in which fact and fiction become increasingly difficult to separate. The city of the title is New York, the only truly constant character in the book, and it is the fate of

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    Essay Length: 554 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: January 25, 2010 By: Mike
  • Mother

    Mother

    Dear mom, I am sorry for the way I have treated you in the past. I know it has not been the greatest and I could really improve on that. I yell, and curse and scream. I have a bad temper. I can't help it. I promise that I will try to treat you better from now on. I know I say mean things. Honestly, it is just because I'm mad and caught in the

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    Submitted: January 27, 2010 By: Top
  • Surrogate Mothers in Jane Austen

    Surrogate Mothers in Jane Austen

    Jane Austen created families of varying levels of dysfunction so effectively, that even young readers of today can relate to the story. In some, the mother was either deceased, not present, or just not the right person for the daughter to rely on. For example, Fanny, Emma, Elizabeth and Elinor all struggle because the very people who are supposed to be looking out for them prove to be completely unhelpful. These heroines may not

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    Essay Length: 350 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: January 31, 2010 By: Anna
  • Mother Poetry Interpretation

    Mother Poetry Interpretation

    Poetry Interpretation The Mother Abortions will not let you forget. You remember the children you got that you did not get, The damp small pulps with a little or with no hair, The singers and workers that never handled the air. You will never neglect or beat Them, or silence or buy with a sweet. You will never wind up the sucking-thumb Or scuttle off ghosts that come. You will never leave them, controlling your

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    Essay Length: 1,145 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: February 1, 2010 By: Jessica

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