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    No Name Woman

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    shame of the situation. The Villagers vandalized the family residence and took their personal belongings. In wasn’t long from the pressure of the community her family and friends joined the accusations. Therefore, a few days after giving birth the aunt commits suicide. The aunt’s suicide is the community’s phantom (Gee, 1998). Thus this essay will explore the short story “No Name Woman” and its specific conflicts and literary techniques. The conflict similarities and differences will be…

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    relationship is a strong bond shared between two people who have different backgrounds or personalities. My aunts, Norma Alaniz and Diana Dunbar are completely different because they have opposite personalities, attitudes about life, and work ethic. Although, they have different personalities, they do share one trait; they never take their lives for granted and spend every moment like their last. My aunt Norma’s personality is approachable; she has always been a fun person to be around. She…

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    and lost and his Aunt Esther doesn’t quite understood why she feels punished because she’s really trying her best with Michael and besides, she promised her sister that she’d take care of him if anything ever was to happen to her. But Michael didn’t understand he wasn’t the only one dealing with the pain of losing his parents, that was Aunt Esther’s sister too. Michael was very lonely being that teachers didn’t notice him and he had a hard time making friends. He felt like Aunt Esther was more…

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    Considering that the sentence that begins, “Both the aunt...” and the sentence that follows it, the relationship that exists between the two sentences can be centered around annoyance. The aunt and the children base their conversation on “Don’t” and “Why” which makes the Bachelor more annoyed with the aunt than the children. The children continuously do things they are not allowed to do after the aunt repeats “Don’t” a million times, which presents that the aunt has little control over the…

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    pheromone serves dual purpose to the ant. Firstly, it marks the path for other randomly moving aunts and secondly, it helps the aunt to return to its original source. Now, whenever a redundantly moving aunt senses pheromone fragments it is likely that it will follow the same path and hence by mechanism of positive feedback this new aunt lays more pheromone on that path. The amount of pheromone laid by the new aunt will intensifies the amount of already present pheromone trail on a specific…

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    finally moved in with aunt Tam; after all, aunt Tam was the only relative that Loan has in Dalat. When the ripple of the Special Police had smoothened and Lien successfully had reinstated the license of café BoHo, Loan and Loan went back to work again, as if nothing had happened. Lien still flew happily among her customers, talking about their schools work, advising on their love life, or just recommending them what to order on the menu; while Loan, after moving in with aunt Tam, seemed more…

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    "I'll tell you why,’ she said. ‘Because—he—is—trash, that's why you can't play with him" (Lee 301). Aunt Alexandra is incredibly direct about the things she says. She wants to get straight to the point, so everything will go her way. Through out To Kill a Mockingbird, Aunt Alexandra has come off as an elitist and exceedingly demanding, but as the book progresses Lee illustrates her supportive side. Aunt Alexandra represents the theme of elitism which is believing that individuals are placed in…

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    Calpurnia Research Paper

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    Calpurnia is a better mother figure than Aunt Alexandra. Calpurnia is a good mother figure because of the way she raised Scout and Jem and the way she taught them to act around other people. Calpurnia brought Scout and Jem to church one Sunday and she spent all her time into making sure that the kids looked perfect so she could show them off to the town and say “these are my kids”. Calpurnia has also been part of the Finch family since forever and the Finch’s think of her as family and they love…

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    whose parents have died and only his extremely loyal aunt would let him stay. In the beginning, no one wanted to take in a 14-year-old boy. No one except Aunt Esther, who was very loyal to the family. Michael had not liked his aunt and said she was selfish. Soon, Michael brings home a hermit crab, named Sluggo, and he and Aunt Esther try to bond. Aunt Esther didn’t know what the hermit crab did, but she tried for Michael. Finally, Michael and Aunt Esther buy a lot more hermit crabs, but put nail…

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    Around ten years ago, my aunt gave birth to a beautiful little girl. They called her Sarah. She was a brilliant little girl. She wasn’t like any other child I’ve known. When she was two, instead of playing with dolls and prams, she liked to run around catching spiders in the garden and other creepy crawlies. She loved nature, especially spiders. When Sarah was three years old, she was diagnosed with leukaemia. This absolutely devastated my family, as you can imagine. Sarah went through…

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