The dress The dress is written by Julia Darling, it’s a short story from 2006. The mothers name is Larry; she’s 40-year old and divorced. She works as a bereavement counselor and she lives with her two daughters, Rachel and Flora. Larry is described as a very unnoticeable woman, who does her best to avoid conflict and confrontation. Example from the text: “whispered the mother, who wanted life to be calm, a flat sea with no sudden breezes. She liked emotions to be explored in safe rooms, with
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Connected? Abstract There have been many examinations of birth order and the effect it has on a person’s intelligence. Some researchers feel that first-born children have higher IQ’s than that of their younger siblings. It has been said that first-born children are natural leaders. Siblings of first-born children perceive them to be academically smarter. Eldest children are known to perform higher on standardize testing than younger children in the family. Other researchers have stated that family
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Summary and Analysis Jing-Mei Woo: A Pair of Tickets Jing-mei is on a train to China, traveling with her seventy-two-year-old father, Canning Woo. As the train enters Shenzhen, China, Jing-mei begins to "feel Chinese." Their first stop will be Guangzhou. Like her father, Jing-mei is weeping for joy. After her mother's death, a letter arrived from China from her mother's twin daughters from her first marriage. These were the two children whom she was forced to abandon on the side of the road in
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Gary Soto’s “Looking for Work” Gary Soto is a professor of English at UC Berkeley. He grew up in Fresno, California and has published several volumes of poetry as well as essays and prose memoirs. “Looking for Work” appeared in Living up the Street: arrative Recollections (1985). One July, while killing ants on the kitchen sink with a rolled newspaper, I had a nine-year-old’s vision of wealth that would save us from ourselves. For weeks I had drunk Kool-Aid and watched morning reruns of Father
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Ice break - English essay Ice Break is a short story written by Astrid Blodgett. The story is told in a first person narrator and is from the main character Dawn's perspective. Dawn are at a ice fishing trip with her dad and her younger sister when the car falls into the water and her dad tries to safe them. The story is about a girl named Dawn and her family. Dawn, her father and her younger sister are going to ice fish with their uncle Rick as a family tradition. Her mother doesn't want go
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begin to talk about what we’ll see up there. Faces of presidents on mountains, crazy horse, all the colorful mountains and the thick forests. All that sounds very boring to me. Going up till we hit South Dakota all I remember was me sleeping, my siblings screaming, looking at corn and the radio blasting, until we hit the gate of South Dakota, Yankton South Dakota. Where I was born. Head and three Yankton we stopped by my grandma’s farm house to visit for a while which was okay because she always
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that the person must fill in at the satisfactory level. It must be enough, not too much and not too less. For example, everyone has its own responsibility in our family. I myself must fill in the role of being a son of my parents and a brother of my siblings. There are parts that I must not be involved like family issues and things that I won’t be responsible enough depending on my ability. Once a person does not reached the satisfaction level or the part he must fill in in his given responsibility
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My Personal Logo: A Visual Representation of Me Writing this essay was a challenge because I don’t share my personal thoughts with anyone, and opening myself up to an entire classroom is beyond nerve wrecking. I had to gather my thoughts and narrow down what defines me into three words followed by a definition. That its self is a challenge because there’s much more I am made out of, much more than I can possibly fit in three words. Although I am young I’ve experienced challenging situations that
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not told from the younger brother or his sister Ann’s point of view, bit instead from someone who is standing on the outside. “He’d been born late in my parents’ marriage and was much younger than she was.” (P. 1 L.35) The narrator is one of the siblings and has the same parents’ as the younger brother and Ann. The narrator is also a bit older than Ann; “Being only a few years older I remembered those days too but my recollections were a bit different.”(P. 1 L.18-19). In the beginning of the short
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The Just Reward is about two sisters who came from a poor single parent home and was sent out by their mother to find a better way of living. The eldest daughter Camille who is obedient, respectful and caring left tearfully. But her sister Paula who is mean, disobedient, and disrespectful and is claimed to have the mannerism of a cockroach. As they were on their way to find a better way of living they came across an old woman who was homeless and had lice in her hair. She then asked the first sister
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