She wrote about various instances that exhibited the disdain her mother and sisters felt towards her. ... Barnes" writing included numerous tales of playing with her brother and cousins and the community her family created in the forest. ... Both women had a great deal of interaction with their mothers while their fathers played more distant roles in the womens" lives. ... Recalling the event, Barnes wrote: "Stepping from the water into the warmth of my mother's arms . . . ... Although her mother usually treated her with such disregard, Hale wrote about a few occurrences in which her ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The play centers on the dysfunctional Tyrone family. ... The map work of this play follows the same map work of O'Neill's family. ... Towards the end of Eugene O'Neill's life, his plays became darker and darker. ... In a particularly vicious note, O'Neill even wrote that when under the influence of morphine, she could change from a vain, happy chattering girlishness to a hard, cynical, sneering, bitterness of biting cruelty, with a crass vulgarity in it."" ... Throughout the play there is a constant battle going on at all times. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

A visitor to America wrote: "Domestic life in America has the appearance of being cold and formal."5 It may be useful to mention that the political, economic and social developments which accompanied the growth of the American family affected the changes in the family relations and values. ... He is part of this society and he lives the experience, therefore "the playwright of family life have digested the experience; have made sense out of it for the world of the play.... The power of their plays comes from the industry of this concern. Whatever it is about, the play is likely to be ro...

• Word Count: 9352
• Approx Pages: 37
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• Grade Level: High School

(http://www.online-literature.com/maupassant/ Literature Network) This comes into play when in the text it says: "When the war broke out, Mother Savage's son, who was then thirty three years old, volunteered, leaving his mother all alone. ...

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The Oedipus complex in Psychoanalytic theory And Sons and Lovers There are many writers who feel that they wrote one great work among their series of masterpieces. ... The critics agree Lawrence wrote an amazing novel, especially through his use of the human psyche and realistic experience. ...

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Summary - This is the story of two families who have been neighbours for a long time. The first family is the Kellers; Mr Joe Keller, his wife Kate and their two sons Larry and Chris. The neighbouring family is the Deevers; Steve Deever, his wife, his son George and his daughter Ann. The ...

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• Grade Level: High School

History raves about the heroics of men in war...but few instances are mentioned in which female courage was displayed. Yet during every conflict, and the peaceful years between, they too were there.# Through a series of events Deborah Sampson# blazed a trail for all women to follow. In war, Deborah proved to the world that women could not only work as well as men, but also sometimes work better then men. Deborah Sampson changed America's view on women from housewives to today's generation of women in the work field. Deborah was definitely influential in woman's evolution in eco...

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• Grade Level: High School

When Angela's cousin wrote a letter to their Aunt Margaret to tell her of Angela's desperate situation, she does not hesitate to send money for tickets to Ireland. ... Malachy, Frank's brother, receives his own sense of freedom when he goes to the Irish Army to play the trumpet in the band (McCourt 283). ...

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"Linden Hills", by Gloria Naylor successfully creates a chilling argument against oppressive patriarchal societies and families. She vividly exposes the implications of what can happen to a society when cultural traits, morality and close family and neighborhood ties take a backseat to the attainmen...

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• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School