Okra

The Ideal Woman Ideal, a notion of something or someone in the thought of perfection. A woman, the adult female human being. The ideal woman. What or who does society refer to as the ideal woman of our current generation. Back then in the 1950s, their generation had a lot to say in regards to whom the ideal woman is or who they should be. This era was basically generalized as women’s domesticity in the 1950s or some say “True Womanhood”. Back in those days’ woman were portrayed as weak and…

she guarded her children from fear of the “negro boys” whisking them away. Hunger is an overlying theme throughout the stories, for Mrs. Bates that hunger is sated slightly by wheat gruel for war gouging and blockades drives prices up. Dried, parched okra serves a replacement for $100 dollars a pound coffee. A return to spinning and weaving replaces $ 100 dollars a yard calico. Daughter of a leader in the Council of Indian affairs, her father serves as a Colonel who prepares the Indians for…

Assignment 1: Pest of chili, brinjal and long bean and it’s control method. Productivity of vegetable crops are constrain by pest and diseases. The farmers tends to use chemical pesticides to control and protect the plants now days. Basically about 50% of chemical pesticides used for the crops are absorbed by the soil and remain in it. The present of chemical residues affects the environment, food and human being Pests of Chili and It’s control methods 1. Thrips • These pest are known as…

daughter. Continuing through this short story, that is really just one long sentence, the mother starts to give her daughter advice in the present, “this is how you iron your father’s khaki pants so that they don’t have a crease”, “this is how you grow okra”. These markers of the present tense are evident in the sense that the mother is telling her daughter how to do things in the now, how to do them right where she is at the age she is in. In the future, the mother is telling the girl about…

Jamaica Kincaid wrote “Girl” in 1978. This short story is a continuous run on sentence, which a mother is giving advice and warnings to her daughter. The title “Girl” could have several meanings, a mother looking after her ‘little girl’, a young lady who is still seen as a girl to society, and the idea of females being domesticated in the household. With all these ideas for the title from 1978, one might wonder what the title could mean now in 2016. If one were to modernize “Girl” now she would…

The life expectancy in the South at the time was ten years less than in England; half of the people born in these colonies did not make it see their twentieth birthday. The deadly disease that swept through the colonies and the constant breaking up of families led to the high mortality rates and the quality of life being very poor at this time. Since African slaves were too expensive at the time, and England had a surplus of workers, these men came over to America to be indentured servants.…

I choose my research paper on gout condition because I have Gout started since I was 28 years old, I was stationed at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, One day we are training for 14 days and I consumed some of the Meal Ready to Eat (MRE) and I noticed that every time I eat a particular MRE packet “frankfurters” which is nothing but hot dogs. My joint in the rear of my big toe swell and it feels like a sprain symptom so at the end of our training I went to sick call and as usual the medics gave me a…

limit what women can and cannot do, but Kincaid’s story allows a woman to believe that she has freedom and control over herself. The reading states “this is how you iron your father’s khaki pants so that they don’t have a crease; this is how you grow okra – far from the house…this is how you sweep a corner; this is how you sweep a whole house; this is how you sweep a yard,” (Kincaid 385) feminine roles in society are believed to be ironing, cooking, cleaning, and performing household duties and…

In Nigeria the Igbo people have a rich culture that not everyone who isn’t familiar with it agree. In the novel Things Fall Apart written by Chinua Achebe explains the importance of gender roles is in the Igbo community. While both genders are respected they are yet not seen equally. While men have a higher role and are expected to succeed from the day they are born women are seen more as the helping hand in the family. In today’s modern day, the gender roles for Igbo men and women has not yet…

tribe of people who live in southeastern Nigeria.They speak the Igbo language which is a part of the Benue-Congo branch of the Niger-Congo language family. The Igbo people are known for being subsistence farmers, farming yams, taro, cassava, maize, okra, beans, pumpkins, and melons. Yams are the Igbo’s main food, Men are responsible for the cultivation of yams. Traditionally the Igbo people live in spread out compounds. Before colonization, the Igbo were not united but live in different village…