Roberta

caller John Mazack via telephone, John said his wife Roberta Mazack is at it again. John stated Roberta left the home and he is at the neighbors at the moment. He requested to speak with me in person. Stamets and I went to John's residence, upon arriving on scene I first observed his wife's vehicle in front of the home and then her outside of the house. When I exited my patrol vehicle I began to approach Roberta. Upon approaching Roberta, she immediately began yelling at me before I could…

“Even though the cotton gin was patented people started imitating it which created at least 60 lawsuits against the cotton gin.”( Wiener, Roberta) After the invention the cotton gin cotton became a highly profitable cash crop.”The cotton gin was done by hand, which in 1790 the united states produced four thousand bales of cotton.”( Wiener,…

In Recitatif, written by Tony Morrison, there are two young girls, named Twyla and Roberta. The short story discusses the girl’s interactions throughout their whole lives. While reading the story, we figure out that one of the girls is black and one of them is white, but Morrison never specifies exactly who is who so we are never entirely sure. We just know that the girls are of different class structures. The girls do not display any type of stereotypical characteristics of each race, but have…

stronger than the racial inequality occurring in the 1980’s. Twyla was put into the shelter because of her mom’s job. Her mom was a dancer and neglected Twyla most of the time. When Twyla saw Roberta for the first time, she…

prominent as read the story because she is telling the story from her point of view. Furthermore as you continue to read the story she is not last successful out of the two I think she emphasized a little more with herself in the story and makes Roberta her best friend in the orphanage to look more like the villain of the too and I believe that success difference between the two plays an immense part on how the story is told. I do not believe that the narrator is a reliable narrator for the…

characters within the story and the story’s theme. Maggie’s effect on the actions of Twyla and Roberta is shown in how both remember Maggie and the event in the orchard in completely different ways. The ways that they remember the event differ because they both remember…

names are Twyla and Roberta. Twyla and Roberta first meet within the confines of a state home for children, St. Bonny's (named after St. Bonaventure), because each one has been taken away from her mother.…

between Roberta and Twyla has parallels between my relationship with my own best friend. Roberta and Twyla grew up together, but eventually had a falling out of sorts and lost touch. After years go by, the two move on in their lives, but eventually run into each other randomly at the store. It doesn’t take long for the two of them to get to talking and laugh about the good old days as if nothing changed. However, that’s all just a facade before Twyla brings up the past and questions Roberta for…

Twyla and Roberta that grow up in an orphanage together. When the girls first met, they knew they were different from one another, but they didn’t let it affect their friendship. As time time passed their life evolved in different direction some of the driving force for the difference were structure, time and period all work together to create the overall theme of this story, which I feel is race and superiority. We can tell that by the way the two girls acted in similar situations that Roberta…

to speak up. Maggie in “Everyday Use” is afraid to speak up because of her lack of knowledge while Maggie in “Recitatif” can’t speak up because of her inability to speak. These Maggies affected the characters Mama in “Everyday Use” and Twyla and Roberta in “Recitatif”. At the end, Mama realizes that as a mother, she has the power to change how Maggie sees the world. Right after the epiphany, Mama did the right thing by…