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    Mother's role may be positive or negative in the story. On the other hand, there is a lot of literary works has an important and prominent role to the mother. One of these works which have an important role of mother and motherhood is Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry. In addition, Tom’s Midnight Garden, Peter Rabbit

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    Sentimental and Humorous Speech by the Father of the Bride Ladies and gentlemen, it is my very pleasant duty to welcome you here this evening to this special occasion of celebrating this marriage. I'm sure that you will all agree on how radiant and gorgeous the bride is. However the groom is not too bad himself. I know that some of you have traveled quite a distance to be with us here tonight, from both overseas and interstate. We really thank you and welcome you here tonight and hope that

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    Even Brabantio cannot accept this fact that his daughter is not under his control anymore and believes that Othello enchanted her: “O thou foul thief, where hast thou stowed my daughter? / Damned as thou art, thou hast enchanted her; / For I`ll refer me to all things of sense, / If she in chains of magic were not bound, / Whether a maid, so tender, fair, and happy, / So opposite to marriage that she shunned / The wealthy curled darlings of our nation, / Would ever have, t` incur a general mock, /

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    to blog about my pregnancy body when I was five months pregnant. The changes my body were undergoing gave me many feelings about which I felt the need to be completely transparent. Doing so allowed me to focus more on my daughter, Jennifer Bella, and less on my waistline. Now post pregnancy, it would be easy to tell you all the ways I criticize my changed body, but I imagine that concern is universal. Instead, I choose to write about the ways Jennifer has taught me how to accept my new body, own

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    one scene in the play for example, Antonio insults Shylock many times in the past, and publicly condemns him as a dog, hurt him both mentally and physically. What’s more, he always keeps people borrowing money from Shylock by lending money to them without interest. All the time, readers are criticizing and condemning him, and the figure Shylock gets lots of unfair evaluation. Nonetheless, the unfair evaluation and the pity tragedy of Shylock caused by profound historical reasons. Therefore, it is necessary

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    issuing a seven-year mourning period upon her family of five daughters after the death of her beloved spouse. The isolation inside this house causes tensions to rise, and a thematic struggle between freedom and captivity becomes apparent as emotions start to snowball out of control. Without a spouse in the home, Bernarda takes on a patriarchal role and enforces her daughters to do the same. While Bernarda constantly suppresses her daughters to focus on household, patriarchal chores, their emotions

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    that Frank and Anita had to face in August of 2000 when their daughter Chanou was born with an extremely rare, incurable metabolic disorder. Because of the disorder, Chanou had an abnormal bone development that brought about a constant pain that prevented her parents from even touching her without causing increased pain. After months of watching their precious daughter suffer, they knew they had to do something to help their daughter. She had even begun to reject the food that was being given to

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    home on break, my mother made a request I longed to discuss for years. She had just poured herself a cup of coffee as I walked into the kitchen; outside, the snow fell in the crisp Kentucky air. Her blonde hair fell around her face, and her voice was quiet as she spoke. “Star and I had a fight this morning,” she said, using my sister’s first name. I looked at her and nodded as my heart withered Even though a mother and daughter relationship is one that is cherished, many daughters can account,

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    to adopt the aversion therapies for a 24-hour period and do the opposite of what you want to do. Being a mother of a 1-year-old daughter and juggling the duties of a 3rd year nursing student, this was somewhat difficult. I chose to adopt these therapies on a Saturday, where I have the freest time to do what I typically want to do. In the morning, I awoke to my daughter babbling in her room and ready for breakfast. I made her

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    possibility that a poet may make such a stylistic choice intentionally and strategically—using it in a way that is both constructive and crucially important to the overall message of the poem. In “A Prayer for My Daughter,” W.B. Yeats does just that. Specifically, he objectifies his daughter through the use of metaphorical language, perpetuation of female stereotypes, and upholding of patriarchal customs all for the pure purpose of expressing his love, hopes, and dreams for her—therefore proving that

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