Daughters

Today, I spent the afternoon shadowing the Ellison family and their four year old daughter Avery. The Ellison family had traveled for an hour and a half from the Marshalltown region of Iowa to reach the CDD today. This was Avery’s first visit to the CDD and she was scheduled to see audiology, speech therapy, and to have an autism screening. Overall, Avery is a very energetic and happy four year old girl. Avery’s parents seemed very accepting of Avery’s current speech development delays, but…

Upon reading Egalia’s Daughters by Gerd Brantenberg, it became more evident to me just how much more women are sexually oppressed in present day society. Brantenberg created this hypothetical town of Egalia where wom (women) and menwom (men) switched the roles we currently see as gender norms today. Overall, I thought she did a great job putting things into perspective in terms of views on sexual oppression. Although this satire portrayed a switch in gender roles, it felt as if the roles of…

History has been written through the lenses of powerful white men. In most accounts the information gained and written is from a biased outlook with a great deal of speculation, and often altered from its true form. As author Kelly states in his book Race Rebels, too many scholars distort and omit the private side of African Americans’ social and cultural history (Kelly). Westerners had a common notion that Africans who were enslaved lost all their cultural ties and tradition due to the…

Part One Book Response The Polygamist’s Daughter begins with seven year old Anna being abandoned by her mother and being sent to live with a strange man in Mexico. Main character Anna Keturah Lebaron was raised in a radical polygamous off shoot of Mormonism called The Church of the Lamb of God. Anna’s father and leader of the church, murderous Ervil Lebaron had thirteen wives and more than fifty children as he led his followers as the one true prophet of God. Throughout the book the author…

different background, but share light into the same topics, each from their own perspective. Linda Pastan’s poem, “To a Daughter Leaving Home,”…

like what the government has done and they want to make an alteration to the laws. The Sons and Daughters of Liberty were a special group of protesters that want different and better rights. They didn’t like certain things that were occurring and they wanted to do something about it. Who were the Sons and Daughters of Liberty and how did their actions lead to the Revolutionary War? The Sons and Daughters of Liberty impacted the lives of many people. The group all started because of the Stamp and…

virgin goddess of reason intelligent activity arts and literature. Athena was the daughter of Zeus. Athena did not have a mother. Athena was fierce and brave in battle. Athena only took part in wars that defended the state and home from outside enemies. Athena was Zeus favourite child and was allowed to use his weapons including his thunderbolt. Athena holy tree was the olive tree. Athena is the unmarried warrior daughter. Athena mom name was Metis she can turn into animals. Athena's father…

The Memory Keeper’s daughter tells the story of Dr. David Henry, his wife, Norah and their fraternal twins who were secretly separated at birth. In Lexington, Kentucky on March of 1964 one of the biggest snow storms raced through this town, leaving tons of people without power and heat and little to no food, this was very rare being that March is usually associated with the spring. The Henry household had a different and far more important situation, Norah Henry was nine months pregnant with her…

Today I did a horrible thing. After mother shot a deer and was carrying the strips of venison to the barn to smoke, I wasn’t paying attention and my mother was attacked. When I was able to grab my rifle, I looked down my scope and had Big Bastard, the coyote pack leader, all lined up. When I shot the rifle, I couldn’t believe what happened. An unexplainable accident occurred. My bullet hit mother’s thigh and took her down. Her blood sent the coyotes into a frenzy and I was left to watch. I…

successfully portrays a feminist perspective in a southern society through the role of the female protagonist Laurel by using imagery and symbolism to relate to the domain of women’s experiences in her last autobiographical novel, The Optimist’s Daughter. Eudora Welty encapsulates her feminine experiences through symbols and images. Welty’s last novel, is known to be one of her most elusive works. In the piece of literature, there is a certain degree of uncertainty triggered by symbols and…