Four Daughters Winery is one of Minnesota's largest wineries located in Spring Valley, just south of Stewartville. ... Four Daughters, like any other business, has regular customers who visit their winery and purchase their wine. ... Target Market Strategy The target market for Four Daughters Winery is wine drinkers. ... Product or Service Strategy The food menu is the only thing being updated at Four Daughters. ... They want to communicate lower food options to these groups to either get first time customers or to keep those who have visited Four Daughters before to keep coming back. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The main conflict is Lily's struggle to find the truth about her dead mother and her search for identity in a time or racial segregation. ... The Boatwright sisters belong to a group of women called the Daughters of Mary. ... During the ceremony the daughters touch the heart to get strength from the black Virgin Mary. ... August figures out that Lily is the daughter of Deborah Fontanel Owens. ... By this time August and June have grown to love Lily as if she was their daughter. ...

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Mothers & Daughters What is motherhood? ... This is the understatement of all time, and I'd like to tell Mr. ... The mother is filled with high expectations for the daughter. ... The daughter looks to the mother for guidance and love. ... Suayan one of the mothers of the book had high expectations for her daughter Jing-Mei "In America I will have daughter just like me. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

RAPPACCINI'S DAUGHTER Nathaniel Hawthorne's Rappaccini's Daughter is perhaps the most complex and difficult of all Hawthornes short stories, but also the greatest. ... In Rappaccini 's Daughter, it is full of symbols and symbolic allusions. ... When Beatrice finally does explain the truth of her situation, Giovanni betrays his heart one final time. ... It is very obvious that Beatrice is the daughter of his pride and not of his heart. If Rappaccini truly loved his daughter he would not have made her this way. ...

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The book Galileo's Daughter, by Dava Sobel, brings the famous scientist Galileo to life, while also showing a perspective on his trial for heresy, and his relationship with his daughter Maria Celeste. ... Having his daughters sent to a convent seemed to be the best way for him to protect them. This shows that the status of women during this time period was still very different than that of men; they were the lesser of the two sexes, and still seen as just things to be gained in marriage. ... Her letters to him really show what life was like during the time period and a lot about h...

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Hatshepsut, daughter of Tuthmose I and Aahmes was born in the 15th century BC. ... Hatshepsut, being a favorite daughter of a popular pharaoh, was able to gather enough of a following to actually take control as pharaoh. ... On a pylon at the el-Karnak temple, Tuthmose I is depicted as showing his gratitude to Amon for giving him and his daughter absolute rule or kingship. ... On the fazade, the inscription read: "I raised up what was dismembered, even from the time when the Asiatic were in the midst of (the Delta), overthrowing what had been created. ... Hatshepsut claimed to be the physica...

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In his story ""Tite Poulette," Cable introduces Zalli, a quadroon, single mother, and her daughter "Tite Poulette. As one reads this story, it becomes seemingly apparent that mother and daughter are very fond of each other and enjoy each other's company. ... One may wonder why Zalli didn't tell her foster daughter that she was "legally" of good standing. ... Kate Chopin was the daughter of an immigrant Irishman, Thomas O'Flaherty and a French-American mother, Eliza Faris. ... Cable focused most of his stories on the oppression of mulatto members of society and the unjust raci...

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The Garden of Good and Evil (Rappaccini's Daughter) Rappaccini's daughter is a deeply symbolic story. ... However, I would like to address the story of Rappaccini's Daughter, the fable of Giovanni and Beatrice as an analogy of Adam and Eve. ... In "Rappaccini's Daughter" there are three men focused on Beatrice, and three different points of view. ... As Baglioni gives him the means, supposedly, to "normalize" Beatrice, Giovanni is intent on doing that and, at the same time, purging the same poisons from himself. ... That she is his daughter serves his pur...

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A major theme in Nathaniel Hawthorne's Rappaccini's Daughter is pride. ... His values are very low, and he has no right to interfere with his daughter's life and happiness. He ends up indirectly killing his own daughter, and leaving her loved one in mourning. ... Rappaccini's daughter suffered social alienation because of his sick love of science. ... I think that Nathaniel Hawthorne also wrote this to portray certain morals needed in that time period, that even still apply today. ...

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I had committed to becoming a mother by the time Halie was born. ... In February of 2006, I snuck out of my parent's house for the last time because I found out I was pregnant with my oldest daughter Halie May Evenson. ... My boyfriend at the time, which was Halie's father as well, and I had decided that we was going to name our second daughter Skyler Ray Evenson. ... My oldest daughter stay with my parents as my boyfriend and I had stayed at the hospital with our daughter. ... Skyler was in a coma the whole time she was there. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

I once heard that one of the most insightful bonds between women is that of a mother and daughter. ... Mothers are highly influential due to the amount of time they spend with their children during their growing years, teaching them right from wrong. The mother-daughter relationship is important because each daughter looks up to her mother as a female role model and learns what is expected of her in society. Caplan states in his article "Mother-Daughter Barriers" that one of the myths procreated by society is that "a measure of a good mother is a perfect daughter" (62). A d...

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Whether her vengeful actions are triggered by the death of her daughter Iphigenia, her love for Aegisthus or the jealousy of her husbands mistress Cassandra, either is motive enough to make her turn to evil. ... It is evident that Clytemnestra is not the typical Greek woman of her time as she is described by the watchman as "male strength of heart" (11). ... It is partly the intolerable insensitivity and brutal pride of Agamemnon, who sacrifices his daughter's life to help carry on his political scheme, which drives the Queen to plot the murder of her husband. ... Clytemnestra's c...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Things are not that simple for her daughter Jing-Mei. Jing-Mei was born in the United States, she goes to the American school, but at the same time she is required to be obedient and modest according to Chinese traditions. ... Only one kind of daughter can live in this house. Obedient daughter!" ... In the years that followed, I failed her so many times, each time asserting my own will, my right to fall short on expectations....

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The Salmon family has a difficult time coping with Susie's disappearance. ... Harvey as his daughter's murderer. ... This is the time when Buckley realizes that his father is still in the process of moving on. ... To begin, Abigail finally accepts her daughter's death. ... Therefor these prove that all the characters show that only time can ease the pain. ...

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In this story "Two Kinds," the mother is trying to mold her daughter into something she is not. ... Tan is well known for portraying mother-daughter relationships in a lot of her novels. ... At first Jing-Mei seemed to enjoy her mother's intentions, as she indicates when she says, "In fact in the beginning I was just as excited as my mother, maybe even more so." (749), but as time went on the tests started to get harder and Jing-Mei kept failing repeatedly. ... There are similar mother daughter relationships in Tan's first novel "The Joy Luck Club". ... They destroyed that mother-...

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• Grade Level: High School

Purifying yourself is the first part of this ritual that's more important than any other time. ... Ritual Begins: I am the Sherika daughter of Joann daughter of Bernice. ... From the East, we call to our sister Sarah, daughter of Mesopotamia, and princess and honored one. ... Mother of beginnings, join us now as we come together to celebrate the cycles of time and change. From the West, we call to our sister Rebecca, daughter of the well. ...

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Amy Tan is an author who often uses the theme of Chinese-American life, focusing mainly on mother-daughter relationships where the mother is an immigrant from China and the daughter is a thoroughly Americanized - yellow on the surface and white underneath. In "A Pair of Tickets," the mother tries to convey their rich history and legacy to her daughter, who is almost completely ignorant of their heritage, while the daughter attempts to understand her hopelessly old- fashioned mother. ... After visiting with her for a day they plan to take a plane to Shanghai, China where Jandale will meet her t...

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INTRODUCTION Hera is the Greek goddess of marriage & family, women, and in some legends, the goddess of childbirth (in others it is her daughter, Eileithyia). ... BACKGROUND Hera is the daughter of Cronus and Rhea. ... Another example is Semele, the daughter of Cadmus and Harmonia and a mortal. ... Zeus took the child she carried and put him inside his thigh until the time came for Dionysus to be born. ... Even so, Hera kidnapped her daughter Eileithyia, the goddess of childbirth, and forced her to prolong Leto's labour for nine months until her son Hephaestus could be born before Leto&#x...

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A Daughter of Han written by Ida Pruitt establishes an understanding of the workingwoman in China during the Qing dynasty. ... When the time came her parents arranged a marriage, and honoring her parent's decisions, she was married off to a man she barely knew, because that was her destiny and role in society. ... Caring for her daughter became Ning's primary goal in life, and she began to take control of her life. ... But with her beliefs as a Confucian woman, she felt she must marry off her daughter to establish the family. ... Ning has a hard time accepting the new and changing wo...

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Candace "Caddy- Compson is the only daughter of Jason and Caroline. ... Caddy's daughter is named Quentin, after Caddy's brother. ... The attitudes the characters have towards the blacks are relevant to the time period. ... Soon the story goes back in time and Benjy narrates the story as a little kid. ... Most of the time, the parents of the pregnant girl end up raising the baby, because she is incapable of doing the job. ...

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The daughter of a meatpacking company millwright, Cheri Register tells about the event, which divides her small town of Albert Lea during time of depression. ... During this time the eight-hour working day laws were supported and workers did just that. ... Cheri's dad at this time was in a verbatim pattern of a workday, dinner, and falling asleep attempting to relaxing. ... The Packinghouse Daughter was a really interesting book. ... If interested in learning about the development of industry during the depression time of the mid 1900's this is an excellent book to consider readi...

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Catherine Beecher was born into a prominent family at a time when even wealthy women received minimal formal education. Born on September 6, 1800, she was the oldest daughter of 13 children (Goodsell, 1931). ... She became a school teacher in 1821, the only job open to young women at the time (Goodspell, 1931). ... Her motivation for developing this system was fixed around the view of women at that time; the typical gymnastics system for men was too physically demanding for women (Menchikoff & Estes, 2002). Women during this time were viewed as submissive, weak, frail, and as homemakers...

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Nisei Daughter Nisei Daughter, by Monica Sone, recalls the author's childhood as a Japanese girl, growing up in Seattle, during World War II. The book takes a look on how the Japanese culture was treated in this time. ... But this isn't the first time Monica notices a difference. ...

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At the time, she thought she wanted a large family so she wanted to start when she was young. ... The thought of waiting to push out her dead daughter, killed her. ... She held her daughter for as long as she could before they took her away. ... Aaliyah, she named her and "no matter what happened you"ll always be my little girl" she whispered to her daughter. ... She knew she wasn't ready, and neither was her husband- but she also didn't understand why at the time something this heartbreaking had to happen. ...

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The essay "Only Daughter", reveals how parents' lack of acceptance and motivation can change someone's life. ... She was the only daughter surrounded by six brothers who despised her for being the only girl in the family. ... Cisneros uses her isolation as a time to be driven as a writer and a visionary writer. ... Cisneros's dad was very disappointed when he realized that his daughter went to college to get an education and a job instead of going to college in search of a husband. ...

• Word Count: 716
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• Grade Level: High School