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into the freshly turned earth trying to reach him. Beyond her grasp, she had pulled out two fistfuls of dirt in frustration. A glinting quartz? pebble twinkled at her with its dusting of loamy red soil. She took it home, intending to wash it, but couldn’t even bear to wash the earth away, and so it found its way into her locket. Sometimes she would notice a faint trace of dust on her clothing that had worked its way out, but then even that began to diminish. She never opened the locket in case…

daughters are expected to follow orders without question. As women they must cook, clean, and all types of housework or chores only women are obliged to do. Quoted on page 56, “Teach her how to wash rice properly so that the water runs clear. Her husband cannot eat muddy rice.” Lindo has to learn how wash rice. This quote shows another example how women are expected to cook and displays that cooking is a women’s job. The mothers teach their daughters to be disciplined so they could be suitable…

Surfing is Eddie Aikau’s favorite thing to do. He was an excellent and a brave surfer who surfed the mountain-like wave on Hawai’i. His life showed how he surfed with affection and he surfed like he is one with the ocean. He accepts challenges that goes on his life. Eddie Aikau dreamed in sailing on the Hokule’a and to share his culture and its history to the world. According to the article on Eddie Aikau Foundation, “He took on the responsibility, not only of helping to make the beaches safer,…

addition to washing frequently, he changes his clothing multiple times a day. Changing his clothes repeatedly throughout the day requires his mother to wash laundry more often. Quickly growing weary of this, Joshua’s mother insisted that he not change clothes so many times a day or he could start to do his own laundry. This prompted him to begin to wash his own clothing, but he is now additionally washing his bedding daily as well. Within the past two weeks he has expanded to washing his…

way that the story of The Comedian’s death is told without the red wash over the panels that the novel presented (Watchmen, Chapter 1, page 2-4). Red is an important color within the context of that particular scene for many reasons. One, it is the color of blood, which is dripping down The Comedian’s face, and it is the color of aggression, an emotion that The Comedian is often shown to be feeling. The association that the red wash offers to the reader is lost when put on the screen, taking…

Hands are a part of the body that a large number of both contemporary and older literary works use to represent an overarching theme, each in a slightly different way. The two hands can represent balance between good and evil, authority and power, or a plethora of other themes. In the play, Macbeth, Shakespeare often uses this motif of hands to enhance the clarity of one of his overarching messages. At first impression, Macbeth seems to be a loyal and righteous character, however the coercing…

The title of Primo Levi’s memoir if This is a Man has the sense that it is an unfinished statement. I have always envisaged it to be ‘if this is a man, then I don’t know what isn’t’ as a statement to question what defines a man. In his memoir, Levi explores this idea of what it means to be a man. He achieves this by using variation in tense to initiate the breakdown on humanity and through the selection of individuals he writes about who epitomize what it means to be a man, and what it means to…

would need to take medication because they spread so easily. Once something gets pinworms and you can get it out of their system you will need to clean where they live. That may help the pinworms not reoccur. The only way to really prevent them is to wash your hand and nails, bathe every day, try not to scratch or put your fingers in your mouth, change bedding, and change your clothes daily. All of it is just regular every day hygiene that you should already be doing, but if you do not you may…

during the 20’s was the washing machine. The first electric washing machine was produced and sold by Hurley Electric Laundry Equipment Company in 1907. Traditionally the wife or children of the household would have to wash clothes by hand with a washboard. This process would take hours to wash everyone's dirty clothes. With the invention of the washing machine a task that would take almost all day would only take a few minutes. A few times a day, someone would have to throw in a basket of dirty…

most people follow their conscious but Macbeth chose the haunting of his guilt from his bloody actions. When Macbeth murders Duncan he immediately regrets his bloody deed,”Will Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from my hand? No...”(2.2.78-79). It starts to show that Macbeth feels the blood will never wash away from his…