Great Mother

I loved my mother, more than the world, deeper than the seas, higher than the mountains surrounding the Great Wall of China. I also knew that she would send me off on my own because of one problem of capability or issue. When I saw his eyes sparkle and meet hers that would be the absolute end of me. Mother had been looking for a king, someone to marry and be off with, when I saw them together that would be a problem for me. I cause problems, messes, and trouble. When I 'm in the house I can 't

monogamous, extended, blended family, and recently gay families. Marriage between a man and a woman is still valued in both America and Africa. The main goal is knowing who to pick as the right partner. Personally, I’m challenge to be a great worker, wife, and mother. Even though I chosed my life partner twenty years ago, I involved all the institutions of my home country to secure my marriage. What did I do? How did I maintained my relationship with my family? Throughout this essay, I’ll focus on

My Gran My gran was a kind and sweet women but admittedly stubborn, however it was probably her stubbornness that kept her going in life as she had overcome many battles throughout her long life. Many of which were painful mentally for us and physically for her, despite endless times the doctors said there was no chance of pulling through, somehow in the end my gran would prove the doctors wrong and they would call her the miracle women, looking back I see why, as a lot of the times we would hear

Reflection Writing #2 In reflection of the video that we watched a few weeks ago, When God Was a Girl with Bethany Hughes, and also the readings from week four, I find myself thinking long and hard about the placement of women both in the past and present day. To introduce this topic of discussion, I would like to expand on how goddesses are illustrated, whether or not I find these depictions to be flattering, a validation of the readings compared to the video by Bethany Hughes, and finally some

People are sent to their motherland because only a mother is capable of making a child feel better. Because the saying is “mother is supreme” and not “father is supreme” it is clear that women actually do have a lot of respect in the Igbo culture. Mother was a Great Man had very visible examples of the respect for women as well. Oyidiya is an aging woman in the Igbo tribe with two daughters who have married

Daenerys Targaryen of House Targaryen, Queen of the Andals and the First Men, Khaleesi of the Great Grass Sea, Breaker of Chains, and now Mother of Dragons. An example for female liberation: encouraging to push harder and dream bigger for more freedom. She’s quiet, humble, and gentle who has been physically, mentally, and sexually abused by her brother, Viserys who sells her to Khal Drogo, her now dead husband so he could buy an army of Dothraki. Her ownership then transfers to Drogo, who repeatedly

1. When I was eating at Tim Hortons today, I noticed that there were boxes stacked on top of each other next to the vending machines under the staircase. The boxes are all branded with the Tim Hortons logo so I assume that they all belonged to Tim Hortons. None of the boxes were opened, but I could easily guess the contents inside just by looking at the pictures found on the outside of each box (spoons, napkins, chocolate milks, etc…). 2. In any restaurant or café shop, the supply or food pantry

Stand Here Ironing,” Tillie Olsen depicts a distant relationship between a mother and a daughter. Olsen does this by writing from the mother’s point of view. As the mother is ironing, she reflects back to her first time being a parent. Emily, her daughter, was born during the Great Depression and as a young, single, and inexperienced mother, there were many flaws in raising Emily. As a child who was born during the Great Depression, Emily did not have a glamorous life. As a result, there were many

the east single mothers all over the world wake up in order to get ready for work. While they get ready they also make breakfast or pack lunch bags for their children who have already woken up to get ready for school. As they leave their home, society sees fierce women and their children, and are afraid. As stated by Katie Roiphe, “In a season of ardent partisan clashing, Americans seem united in at least one shared idea: Single mothers are bad” (58). They believe these single mothers are ruining the

shows the great expectations of a mother, who wishes for her child to be famous and a genius. The mother coming from a society that is very hard working and obedient trying to instill the upbringing she had I her life. The child Jing-mei is a typical example of a child rebelling against their mothers wishes no matter how hard the parental figure tries, the child wishes to perform things in their own way and use their own freewill and to do things in there own timely fashion. The mother moves to