Lul The Rice Family

Both Mae and Lloyd suffer from poverty. However, Lloyd is careless; he mindlessly looks after their pig and farms the land. He is highly dependent on Mae; besides, he is satisfied with his own status. On the other hand, Mae toils in ironing clothes in order to support herself and Lloyd; she is the sole breadwinner of the family. Additionally, she prepares food. Mae is unsatisfied with her own conditions; she yearns to improve herself and her life, and plans to escape from the sexual and economic exploitation of Lloyd. She is aware that her aspirations can be achieved through education. Consequently, she attends literacy classes at a school; she as Mala Renganathan expresses it, ' 'dreams of educating herself and making herself literate ' ' (2010, 8).

Initially, LuLing rebels Precious Auntie due to her alteration of the marriage proposal from a rich family. LuLing wants to be a woman and the proposal changes LuLing for the worse because she selfishly chooses to leave Precious Auntie for a family that causes her pain. Secondly, Ruth resists LuLing for not being given privacy and liberty. Ruth had not been given the chance to live freely, she was constantly being under surveillance from her mother and which makes her feel like a bird trapped in a cage. Lastly, LuLing and Ruth overlook the past and look forward for what the future awaits for them unlike how LuLing and Precious Auntie where their relationship goes awry. Both LuLing and Ruth forgive each other for their mistakes years ago, however the death of Precious Auntie, LuLing cannot forgive herself for the pain she causes Precious Auntie. The similarities between the defiance against their mother not only showcase the desires of each individual, but how their fights have contrasting repercussions of the mothers

up in a family where her family was constantly working hard on a farm to get by. As time went

She was born in Delta, Louisiana. She had a sister and four brothers. She was the first child, and her mother died because of cholera. Her father remarried and died afterward. Then, Sarah married with Moses McWilliams, but when her child was two years old, her husband died. Sarah worked as washerwoman and barely earned more than a dollar a day. However, it was determined to make enough money, so her daughter can get the formal education.

After her fathers death due to Yellow fever, Lorraine took over the families estate claiming that the marriage between her mother and father was invalid, and thus meant their family due to their “tainted” blood must become slaves. Alfred sought out Iola and brought her home, on her journey home she thought she was going to see her father who was on his death bed, but turns out he was already dead and it was a trick to get Iola home to send her into slavery. Iola’s sister had also become sick and run herself down, she ends up passing as well due to what is said to be Yellow Fever. When Iola returned home her mother explained the situation and told her about their racial background and that now they were going to have to live a very different life style. Iola is shocked by this news and almost in denial she proclaims to her mother, “Oh, mother, it seems like a dreadful dream, a fearful nightmare! But I cannot shake it off “(Chapter 12). Marie in response to Iola’s claim of this new lifestyle as a dreadful dream says that she almost wishes for her children to be ill and die free than be forced to see her children as slaves. Iola then

On October 6, 1917 Fannie Lou was the 20th child born to Jim and Ella Townsend in Montgomery County, Mississippi. During World War I (WWI), many black sharecroppers left the fields for jobs in the north. Fannie Lou's parents decided to take advantage of the shortage of blacks in the South and headed further South, where they ended up sharecropping on a plantation outside of Ruleville, Mississippi. At the age of six, Fannie started picking cotton part time and at age 12, she was picking full time. After finishing the sixth grade, Fannie Lou dropped out of school. She married Perry Hamer in 1944.

In Bone by Fae Myenne Ng, it is presented in the first person by Leila Fu. The setting takes place in a small town called San Francisco, California. It starts off with a family that has three daughters, a mother and a stepfather. The bond between the three sisters, represents the family as a whole and their connection with one another. One the “sisterly” bonds has broken, by Ona’s suicide, it alters the connection in the family.

Selena Gomez was born in Grand Prairie, Texas, in a poor family whose parents divorced when she was five years old. Selena and her mother called Mandy Teefey struggled to survive in poverty. Selena said “I was frustrated that my parents weren’t together because my mother had to do 3 jobs to support me “. Her mother is an inspiration to all of us because she tried to raise her by herself in poverty with all of her affords. Sometimes they even struggled for food and they often got stuck in the traffic because they did not have money to pay the gas. Her mother saved money to take her to museums, oceanarium and concerts.

Not only did did the lamoore family have a house of children, they also had a house of books. Louis however spent most his time of reading in the Alfred Dickey Free Library expanding his education well past the needed criteria for his hometown. Him learning more on his own from the books of the local library Louis dropped out of school in the tenth grade at the age of fifthteen. The entire Lamoore clan was well read and had education so Louis dropping out did not hurt in educationally because he had his family’s help to make him as bright as he could be. Shortly after him dropping out the lamoore family begun expersing hard times because the upper midwest economy went bust after an extensive series of bank failures. Following the lamoore family going through hardships, they set out on a trip traveling across the united states. Louis traveled with his family enduring continues hard times and desperate measures for life to carry on. Louis contributed to his family by obtaining several jobs like skinning cows, working in coal mines, bailing hay, and working in a lumber mill. While working

Charlise Lysle was influenced by the employment of both of her parents. Her mother working two jobs to support the family, one in the city and one in the suburbs cleaning for a Jewish family. Charlise mother, Lillian, knew that they had to work hard if they wanted to move ahead in life. Lillian worked the weekends to earn money for books for their education. She really pushed her daughters to excel in school so that they would not have to reside in such poverty. Her father, was not employable because of his military discharge papers, however, he tried to instill in her the ability to think for herself when it came to her education. Other family members did not have the same respect for her father as she did; others just saw that he was unable

Hollie was born and raised in Dallas, Texas. Her father was a successful lawyer and her mother a hardworking doctor. The small family of three had anything and everything so needless to say, Hollie herself was very spoiled. Only when she reached her twenties did she learn that her spoiled demeanor would get her nowhere in life and so she became independent and began to work hard for whatever she wanted in life.

he thinks that nobody cares about her and would rather continue to believe that instead of opening her eyes to see that a lot of people would really change if she was not around. Lolo, who complains about her mom twenty-four seven, can not miss a single weekend at her house because she loves her too much. Lolo, who claims that she always does her homework, is failing math not because it is too hard, but because she has not turned in any homework. Lolo, who claims that the world would be better off if she were dead, does not even see that if she were gone she would break her poor boyfriends life

In 1990, the rice is grown around 520 million tons in 112 countries and 95 percent of them were produced and consumed in Asia (Chang). The rice in Asian culture is not just cereal, but it’s part of their lives. It serves their meal almost everyday on their dining table. Oryza sativa is a species of monocot plants and known as Asian rice. The grain was spread started from South Asia to Southeast Asia and East Asia.

Rice is the staple food for more than half of the world population which means that this tender plant actually feeds whopping 3.5 billion mouths daily. Revered as a sign of prosperity, fertility and auspiciousness by different communities across the globe, there are various lessons which this wonderful gift of nature can tell us and one of the most important are those related to various leadership traits.

She begins life at a huge disadvantage: she lacks the support system of family. She found a way and lived in a house being a maid, even if she was a little girl. When Moll is a little girl, she is enforced to go into service as a maid and she started to learn home-works. Maids were paid very little, but at least they were fed and clothed.