No Name Woman – by Maxine Hong Kingston "You must not tell anyone," my mother said, "what I am about to tell you. In China your father had a sister who killed herself. She jumped into the family well. We say that your father has all brothers because it is as if she had never been born. "In 1924 just a few days after our village celebrated seventeen hurry-up weddings-to make sure that every young man who went 'out on the road' would responsibly come home-your father and his brothers and your
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a young girl named Eleanor. When she was young she got sent away from her family, to a foster home near a castle in Australia. It was awful and very dirty. There were tons of rats and terrible caregivers. She was in ninth grade and still not adopted. She was so tired of people not wanting her, so, she decided to run away. Eleanor only had one place to go where she was certain it would give her a better life, the castle near her foster home. In the middle of the night, Eleanor gathered the things
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one or other of their daughters. ‘My dear Mr. Bennet,’ said his lady to him one day, ‘have you heard that Netherfield Park is let at last?’ Mr. Bennet replied that he had not. ‘But it is,’ returned she; ‘for Mrs. Long has just been here, and she told me all about it.’ Mr. Bennet made no answer. ‘Do you not want to know who has taken it?’ cried his wife impatiently. ‘YOU want to tell me, and I have no objection to hearing it.’ This was invitation enough. ‘Why, my dear, you must know, Mrs. Long says
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been one of my best friends. It always knows what to say and how I feel no matter if it is a song because I am hurting or a song that makes me dance. For every action or feeling, there is a lyric that sings and speaks exactly what you feel. I am the youngest of seven children. My mother birthed four but my father had a total of seven. I was always the cute kid that everyone loved. I was bright skinned with curly brown hair and hazel eyes. I was athletic yet hard working. Me and my siblings never
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nature's secrets, Vanessa concludes “as an Indian, Piquette was a dead loss” (191) 3. What do the loons symbolize? “My dad says we should listen and try to remember how they sound, because in a few more years when more cottages are built at Diamond Lake and more people come in, the loons will go away” (190-91). Years later when Vanessa visits the lake, after the deaths of her father and Piquette, she realizes that the loons are no longer there. The loons become associated with death and loss,
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In my life, I have experienced many different styles of leadership through interaction with different leaders such as coaches, teachers and camp counselors. Despite the lasting effect their specific leadership abilities had on me, most leaders I have known have come and gone, and I only am able to learn from there for a short time. However, there is one leader in my life who has seen me through my entire life, and has guided me to become the person I am today. This person is my mother, Lori Johnson
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April 30, 2013 Grief and Mourning Hello. My name is Sarah R. Dominick, and I am a nineteen-year-old, single, Caucasian American female. I was born in Denver, Colorado to a single mother of three, who was at that time in a lower-class, blue-collar, nonreligious state of being. While growing up, it was always very apparent, and still is apparent, that when our family loses someone, everyone suffers great loss. I have had three family members die throughout my lifetime so far, and every time this type
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out the future and his or her place there. These teens can get every stressed an overwhelmed they don’t know as much as they once thought. Independence and the sudden realization of growing up can be startling for many teenagers. Like many teenagers, Connie feels a need to be independent. One of the things she hates most is her mother comparing her and her
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grew ever more prevalent in my family, my parents growing farther apart. My father would come home late from a day of hard work, only to be ridiculed by my mother. I would hide in the closet of my sister’s bedroom, trying to block out the loud disputing between my parents. Soon the court papers returned, my parents now officially divorced. My sister and I were crushed, watching my father pack up his few items of value and drive off in our minivan. We had fallen into my mother’s custody, who was planning
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The day of May 10, 2011 was one of the longest days of my life and it was also the day that I remember in detail and in clarity. It was on this day that my paternal grandmother passed away after not enough oxygen was able to enter her brain. My paternal grandmother lived in Nepal, so my father quickly planned a trip to Nepal when he found out my grandmother got sick. The day before her death, my father called home and told us that my grandmother was responding and it seemed like she would make a
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