Daughter

One of the staples of the Christian faith is the sacrament of baptism: the death of one’s former self with the washing away of sins, as a new, holier self is born. Teresita, in Luís Alberto Urrea’s The Hummingbird’s Daughter, goes through the same process, albeit not as a baby in the hands of the local priest. Instead, one morning, Teresita travels to the grove to pray, and then decides to relax in the creek that runs through it. Teresita “(cups) the water in her hands and (runs) it up her legs.…

In the essay, “For My Indian Daughter” by Lewis (Johnson) Sawaquat, the writer moves from hating himself is an Indian because he always had unfair treatments by the public and even be bullied by white people to accepting his differences and knows what it means to be a Native American. We see this when he learned how to kill, bully and hate Koreans to express his dissatisfaction and when he decided to join in the powwows and did some research about Indian past with each other. Regarding the…

One of the biggest misconceptions about sex trafficking and prostitution is that it is a foreign problem, not a problem that happens in America. Because it is such a touchy subject, most people prefer to turn a blind eye and ignore the facts. Approximately one million children will run away from home or will be kicked out of their home each year. Not all of these children make it back home, with about one third being drawn into the glamorized lifestyle of prostitution (Sher, 13). The greater…

Lastly, fatherless daughter will grow up and have different attitudes about life, people, and herself. She will go through stages where she feels unwanted and guilt for her parents not being together. In addition, she will refer to her self as messed up or damaged. Her father left her she feels unlovable. These attitudes toward her self will affect the way she sees life. Depending on how good things are at home, she could turn out fine and only grow from this experience with maturity and…

“The Memory Keeper’s Daughter” is a novel by Kim Edwards. It explores the lives of characters Dr. David Henry, his wife Norah, their son Paul and twin sister Phoebe, and the nurse that helped deliver the babies (Caroline Gill). In a small town in Kentucky in 1964 Dr. David Henry decides to give away his daughter who is born with downs syndrome. His decision changes the lives of his family and the nurse who helped deliver the baby forever. The setting in this novel starts in Lexington Kentucky…

To start off this years South Asian Film Festival at UW-La Crosse was the shocking and horrifying documentary called “India’s Daughter.” This moving 2015 documentary covers the infamous gang rape and murder of a bright young woman in South Delhi, India in 2012, who was returning home from the movies at night with a friend. Throughout this film, there are testimonies from her attackers, family, friends, and lawyers that explain what had happened, and how this case is being handled. The whole…

In Hitler’s Daughter by Jackie French, the protagonist, Mark gradually learns to develop his own voice. Throughout the novel, he asks various questions of himself and others and by the end of the novel, he gains a sense of self and a clear voice. He demonstrates this development of voice through learning from his parents, teachers even his bus driver about Hitler and the world today. Mark strives to understand what brought Hitler to do what he did and with all of these answers, his perspective…

nutrients below ground and sometimes even above ground. The daughter plant is a plant I learned about that has seventy two hours to find food and nutrients before it end up dying. This vine like structure feeds off of other plants by finding the perfect plant to take the nutrients out of it to maintain alive. The plant grows in circles very slowly looking for a host to feed off of and every plant gives off a distinct smell. In the video the daughter plant finds the tomato plant and attaches…

The most important relationships you can have are with your family. Whether that be adopted family, paternal family, or the loved ones that are considered family to those without one. The relationship most intriguing to me is between father and daughter in particular. When thinking about this subject my ultimate question would be, does a father’s involvement in a daughter’s life affect their relationships with others? Is a female socially more guarded due to not being raised by both parents,…

different and strong emotions experienced by many throughout the course of life. Although each poet expressed different emotions in their poems, each was deliberately distinguished throughout. The mood in the poems “Church Going” by Philip Larkin, “To a Daughter Leaving Home” by Linda Pastan, and “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning” by John Donne expresses author’s purpose of deep emotions and universal life lessons of growing up, uncertainty, and nostalgia. In “Church Going” by Philip Larkin,…