In the galleries above, I was taken from room to room and looked over rather carelessly. After lifting my eyelids with a button hook, a young man with a military bearing saw that I had no trachoma. Someone else made me cough and breath. I had to take off my clothes and turn around several times. In another room, a big fat man asked if I could bend over. “Why?” I asked in turn, thinking that the only reason he wanted to know was because he himself would never be able to do such a thing. “Is it that
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seriousness of the situation. In this short story “A Gift for My Mother”, written by Viv McDade and published in 2011, the main character is a 10 year old little girl, who sees that her parents having some problems, therefore she tries to help them on her own way. The Story is told by a first person narrator, who’s a little 10 year old girl. It is through her point of view the story is told. The girl’s name is Lucy; she goes to school and loves to do her homework with her father. We know what she
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‘Working girl’ is a term used to refer to the college educated women who are leaving the traditional domestic confinement to pursue service occupations in nursing and teaching. In 1890, out of the working women, 68 percent were not married while only a mere 14 percent were married and with the remaining 18 percent either widowed or divorced. This class of women was criticized for developing new lifestyles that put the woman outside the family therefore compromising their motherhood roles. In fact
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see all of us three times a year which is: Thanksgiving, Christmas, and the family cook out in mid July. I’m the only girl in my family out of five boys in the grandchildren on my dad side of the family. Difficult growing up, because I was a huge tom boy reason being the only girl and my sibling was a boy and 11 years older than me in fact; it was difficult growing up without a girl to look upon on.. My brother the oldest grandson, 20, was still a huge kid who loved to pick on us. His name is
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school when I barely went before I had Emmanuel, but after I had him she made sure I went every day. My mother also talks about how I use to run the streets, get into fights with anybody, getting arrested more than 10 times and doing things that a girl my age at the time shouldn’t been doing. She would always want me to do well but I never did. She says when Emmanuel came into my life my behavior started to improve; I stop hanging in the streets, and I did my best of staying out of trouble and having
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cars were leaving Q: Why did the blonde climb over the chain link fence? A: To see what was on the other side! god granded 3 gift to a man......... he asked..... 1=he should be in permanent job.. 2=his bag full of money....... 3=always girls should around him.... AND FINALLY HE BECOME A bus conductor BLONDE #1: "Have you ever read Shakespeare?" BLONDE #2: "No, who wrote it?" An englishman and santa inside the toilet. Englishman: Good evening, how do u do? Santa: Good evening, we
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Close to the Water’s Edge The short story Close to the Water’s Edge shows us the result of a boy’s unstable childhood. The boy must find his own identity and search for a normal way of life. His own parents lacked the abilities of upbringing him, so he’s never had a role model which he could look up to. The young man at the age of nineteen is the main character of the short story. He’s got many opportunities in life. He
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response. I knocked on the door two or three more times before I noticed that the door had been opened just enough for someone to look through the crack at me. I started asking if anyone was home until finally the door slowly opened and I saw a little girl, she could not have been older than nine years old. She slowly came out form behind the door and stared up at me, I asked her if her parents were home, she just stared at me with a blank face. I tried to as her again but this time in Spanish, she looked
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Sinful Salacity We’ve all experienced it. A craving so deep that it devours our every thought throughout the day, and keeps us awake at night. Whether it is for that oh, so elusive Pumpkin Spice Latte in the off-season, or for a long, passionate kiss from that foxy quarterback, this yearning tugs at the edge of our mind until it takes over behind the wheel, and fuels our actions. It can cloud our judgment and reduce us to a state of primal licentiousness. This insatiable desire for material and
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understanding and love. Another theme is Christianity and religion. The short story sets medias res on a cold day where a little girl, the main character, “pretends to be smoking, clamping imaginary cigarettes between her lips before exhaling with a billowy mist of breath”(Line 3). The girl and her family are on their way to church to celebrate Christmas. The girl, Violet, is little and curious. Even though she’s mute she is still interested and aware of the environment. She has a really lively
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