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Teenage Girls' Lack of Self Esteem After Losing Their Mothers

by never discussing the mother. It is as if she simply disappeared without a trace or that she simply never existed. This can brin...

Philosophy and Whether to Inform or Keep Mum

The central issue has nothing to do with the sex of the individuals. The case is not affected by the fact that they are two...

Lan Cao's Monkey Bridge and Cause and Effect

based on actual wants or desires. The effect of this societal pressure causes her to refuse help and support which might otherwise...

Generation Representation in Amy Tan's Short Story 'Two Kinds'

a person tried hard, anything could be accomplished. Therefore, she saw it as her duty to lead her daughter towards becoming an A...

Abortion Theme in Literature Compared

case is the baby that Jig carries (Bernardo). Hemingway composed this story masterfully through his choice of language. ...

Conflict in the Relationship Between Mother and Daughter in 'Two Kinds' by Amy Tan

an article entitled "Every Womans Dream," which appeared in April 7 edition of The Weekly (1954, p. 59). The student researching t...

Danielle Crittenden's What Our Mothers Didn't Tell Us, Why Happiness Eludes the Modern Woman

these women are more often characterized by high stress levels and emotional insecurity about whether they have really made the ri...

Identity and Relationships Between Mothers and Daughters in The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan

back from their daughters until they felt they were ready to understand. The second two sections of the book are from the daughter...

A Comparison of 'Two Kinds' by Amy Tan and 'First Confessions' by Frank O'Connor

structure. "First Confession" recounts the events of a brief period in Jackies life. Therefore, Jackies perspective does not alter...

The Liars' Club by Mary Karr

eating toothpaste past midnight" (Karr 8). One can imagine that the girls were starving, but perhaps a better way to look at it we...

Character Comparison of James and Ruth in The Color of Water by James McBride

the South and its prejudices behind to escape the sexual abuse of her father, a one-time rabbi turned shopkeeper, whose racism fou...

The Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Well and Relationships Between Mothers and Daughters

two "get into a savage fight over a New York Times article that refers to Vivi as a tap-dancing child abuser" (Divine Secrets of t...

Rebecca Wells' Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood

each triumph was their own as well. They trusted each other and their friendships were continually nurtured throughout time by the...

Care Order and English Family Law

In eleven pages English law is referred to in this case study of social services gaining a care order for the children ages two an...

Model of Parenting Developed by Jay Belsky

to Belsky. These factors include the quality of the maternal relationship. Child characteristics that may influence how parents re...

The Impact of Alcoholism on Families

placed in foster homes, which they were told would happen if just one more report was filed with protective services. The oldest ...

The Plight of Abandoned Children in the US and the World

juvenile charges, it can be argued that this particular field holds a great deal more ethical conscience than any other. Often vu...

Joyce Carol Oates' Short Story 'Shopping'

than relating the events of a shopping trip. "Shopping is really the story of a mothers (Mrs. Dietrichs) relationship with her t...

Working Mothers

exist even though he cant see them, and he realizes that they have properties that are independent of his actions upon them" (Meye...

Zora Neale Hurston's 'The Gilded Six Bits' and Alice Walker's 'Everyday Use'

are putting their own histories together, and finding out about who they really are. Mamas relationship with her two daugh...

The Characters of Arthur Clennam and His Mother in Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens

there would have been no new barrier between them--and followed the old man and woman down-stairs" (Dickens Chapter 3). In this...

Jonathan Kozol's Ordinary Resurrections

see that the children bear the brunt of the negativity that exists. According to Kozol most of these children have never had a ...

Death of Addie Bundren in As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

death, Addie exerts control over her family because they seek--by fulfilling her last wish--to somehow make a connection with her ...

STDs and Pregnancy

It wreaks its toll on 100,000 pregnancies per year (CDC, 2009). Gonorrhea and Hepatitis B are less common culprits among pregnant...

2 African American Poets/Cullen & Hughes

and "Dont you fall now-" (line 17)(Hughes 1255). She concludes by emphasizing the point that she is still going, still climbing, ...

Mathabane: “Kaffir Boy”

and remembers she was showing it to the children the night before and she begs Johannes to tell her where it is: "Remember the lit...

Teen Families Canada

unskilled, dead end jobs. When school-based child care are not available, Head Start programs step in to give children of teen pa...

Two Playwrights Look at Death

so gifted and so special that the world will fall at their feet simply because they exist (Miller). As a result, Biff and Happy (p...

Kate Peyton: Woman of Integrity or Monster Mother?

It is through her that Wharton asks if women, trapped as they are in domesticity, "can make themselves and their ideals present in...

Carol Berkin on Women in the American Revolution

propaganda; they raised money for the army and to support the new government ("About this book"). Berkin shows how they ran farms ...