... walls fur him to fence us in!'' (p.1 s.1) The walls also bear symbolic significance; O‟Neill considers them as a proof of Ephraim's faithfulness to his inheritance. In their book O'Neill, Arthur and Barbara Gelb describe the source of inspiration for those walls saying that: "The playwright's farm in Ridge field, Brook Farm was an inspiration for the Cabot farm''.47 It was recorded ... ...

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... society, they looked for justifications for those roles. They found them in the assumptions that society had come up with for males, females, children, and society in general. According to Barbara Epstein, in Industrialization and Femininity: A Case Study of Nineteenth-Century New England, women were told that they had special abilities for raising children due to their innate warmth and morality ... ...

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... family, through actual experience and thorough examination, I have selfishly realized that I would rather have both of my parents accessible to me when I need them. Still, this is an impossible illusion. Barbara Dafoe Whitehead has demonstrated that "children in families disrupted by divorce do worse than children in intact families on several measures of well-being Contrary to popular belief, many children ... ...

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... herself and stored our things into one big room of our big house, until her nephew could gather the crop he had made and move out. -3- That was the year Barbara, Effies youngest daughter was born, she lived at Benton, Arkansas, so Mama went to stay with Effie to take care of her and I stayed with Cecil, my brother and his ... ...

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