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    money was not a problem since this was the beginning of the industrial age and the rich were doing very well, and these families could live as they wished. They lived in large homes and had many servants. Children in these families were raised by nannies or nurses since the parents spent much of their time socializing. The time they spent with their…

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    Nanny’s beliefs without question from a young age: “Tain’t Logan Hillocks Ah wants you to have baby, it’s protection.” (pg 15). Although Nanny imposes her beliefs on Janie with the hopes of Janie having a good life, the idea of a woman needing a man as a provider and for protection end up restricting Janie and her desires.…

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    with my grandmother, Nanny Jo, as she likes to be called, and every time she drives, I get this feeling that she shouldn 't be driving. I don 't know what makes me feel that way, maybe it 's the fact that she is 78 years old and can barely see over the steering wheel or that she feels the majority rules of the road do not apply to her. I personally think it is because in 78 years of driving she has never been in a major accident and she feels impervious to accidents. As Nanny Jo has gotten…

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    Her mother ran off with Peter Shand-Kydd (Diana, Princess of Wales). The custody of the children was given to her father (Diana, Princess of Wales). Diana loved the outdoors, climbing trees and playing with animals, she was very much a tomboy (“Nannies tell new details of Princess Diana's childhood“). Diana was sent to boarding school at the age of eight ("Princess Diana." Biography for Kids). White 2 While in boarding school Diana excelled in art, music and athletics however she did not enjoy…

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    Have you ever heard of someone getting killed with a lamb leg? The story that I recently read was Lamb to the Slaughter, by Roald Dahl. This story is a fiction short story. The main idea of this story is Patrick Maloney's unexplained decision to leave his vulnerable, pregnant wife. The theme is the usage of betrayal, and violation of marriage. “ Treat other the way you want to be treated”. In Mrs. Maloney and Mr.Maloney’s home, there was a scarcity of love in their home in the 1950s. Around 5pm…

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    As a bee searches for a flower to pollinate, a woman seeks to find her identity, despite the chains by her oppressors. This woman is Janie Crawford. Zora Neale Hurston’s novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God explores the journey of a woman who is subjugated by her husbands because of her race and gender. Hurston challenges the cultural norm of 1900s southern society by criticizing the objectification of African American woman. When Janie breaks her chains, she embraces her independence to seek…

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    journey, she finds this confidence that she always searched for. From marrying the “right” man to the man who was right for her, she beings to find her confidence and break away from the typical southern woman traits. From the very beginning, when Nanny held her back from reaching out and enjoying life, to when she was coming back into town, she has learned that opinions do not matter and she has learned to ignore the tradition of women being a mule to their husband; the “traditional” woman…

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    and ability to lead. Regardless of their sincere endeavors, they are not prepared to do all things considered and Koro returns sad. Later on, Kahu goes out to sea with Nanny and Rawiri, and when they accomplish the spot over the stone, Kahu dives into the sea and recuperates the stone. She does all things considered by doing what Nanny and Rawiri find to an awesome degree amazing: Kahu appears to relate with dolphins and other sea creatures, and through their aide she discovers herself ready to…

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    stick punched its way into my left foot. I hopped my way out of the creek onto a towel. And luckily my nanny Rachel was a authorized E.M.T. and she took it out with no harm done. And my other nanny and my sister Alexis didn't even know what wa going on Except my little fake OW! And it actually didn’t hurt. “No” my sister exclaimed. In slow motion mud flew through the air and almost hit my dry nanny in the face. There was still little pieces of stick in there. I still hopped back into the house…

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    I am Woman, Hear me Roar Ralph Waldo Emerson once wrote, “to believe your own thoughts, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, -- that is genius.” In Zora Neale Hurston’s book Their Eyes Were Watching God, Janie illustrates how thoughts and voices can make others feel powerful or powerless. Through the relationships the protagonist, Janie, experiences, she learns that a woman’s voice can be suppressed when people control her life, but a woman’s voice is…

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