Ramona and Her Father Essays

  • Reading in the Development of Imagination and Gender

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    for boys. However, in the story Ramona Quimby, Age 8 by Beverly Cleary, deception as to which crowd the book was intended is shown throughout the story. The books unique style has the ability to capture both young boys and young girls. By containing general phrases and avoiding specific representations of boys and girls, the structure of the book allows children to view the book not in a sense of gender but rather in a sense of fun, educational and exciting. Ramona Quimby, Age 8 lends to its children

  • Repressed Memories Essay

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    truth of these memories, it is still haunting for those involved. One such case involves Holly Ramona who falsely believed that her father had abused her as a child. Holly Ramona was receiving therapy for bulimia and depression and then began to have flashbacks of being raped by her father, Gary Ramona, and in therapy where she received the drug sodium amytal and therapy to assist her to recover her repressed memories. (La Ganga, 1994) This drug is known colloquially as truth serum, but it is

  • Analysis Of Ramona

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    Ramona, by Helen Hunt Jackson, portrays the wonderful but heart wrenching journey of a young girl named Ramona. Set in Old California during the early 19th century, Ramona has grown up under the care of her distant stepmother, the Senora Moreno. Due to the fact Ramona is the daughter of an Indian and an Irishman, the Senora Moreno finds it impossible to feel compassionate towards the girl, treating her coldly and having no real affection for her whatsoever. Her uncharitable attitude only grows

  • The Sorrowers Chapter Summaries

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    people that live behind and under everyday things. These people are called the Borrowers. The story begins with the Clock family who live in the house of the elderly Aunt Sophy. Pod, the father of the family, has seen Aunt Sophy many times while out on a borrowing mission. She is always intoxicated when Pod sees her and believes she is hallucinating. One-day Pod was seen Aunt Sophy’s nephew. Pod was very concerned about this because Borrowers must live in secrecy. After much deliberation with his wife

  • A Movie Analysis Of The Movie Hope Floats

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    customs (Anderson and Sabatelli, page 12). In this movie, Birdee had went through changes to took control of herself when she decided to move out of her home in Chicago and move in with her mother and Travis with her daughter Bernice. Birdee went back to her hometown because she wanted to go back to the roots and wanted to close to family to deal with her stress. There are many more examples throughout this movie that can be connected or assessed to the many different concepts that was learned. There

  • Analysis Of Another Side Of Bob Dylan

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    beyond the folk-song form, if not in the bars, or from the miners, then by peering deep into himself” (Another Side of Bob Dylan). He wrote the songs for this album in the back of the minivan, and recorded 14 of them in one night at the studio. "To Ramona" is my favorite on the album. From the title, I assumed it would be just another

  • The Luiseño Indian Tribe In Helen Hunt Jackson's Ramona

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    piece like wild animals being pushed out their homes by the progress of modern society. In Helen Hunt Jackson’s historical novel Ramona, she paints a picture of the changing lives and culture of the Luiseño Indian tribe after the United States claimed California from Mexico. From early on in the book she characterizes this tribe as “helpless”, which can be observed when Father Salvierderra expresses to Alessandro “We are all alike helpless in their hands, Alessandro,

  • Social Mobility

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    horses and cattle. My father, Leland, blames his grandfather’s generation for whittling away the family’s money. Even with the loss of prestige of owning such an abundance of land, the family continued to farm. I suppose it is all they knew. They became good, working class farmers and small business owners, working on their modest-sized farms. But they did own the land which separates them from the working poor. The sizes of the farms dwindled over the generations; my father’s father, Harlan, owned about

  • Despair and Hope: A Character Analysis in 'The Laughing Man'

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    potential going to waste. After reading Sister Irma’s questionnaire and examining her works, de Daumier-Smith recognizes her true potential as an artist mentioning, “After thirteen years, I not only distinctly remember all six of Sister Irma’s samples, but four of them I sometimes think I remember a trifle too distinctly…” (227). However, regardless of how much de Daumier-Smith wanted to visit Sister Irma as well as perfect her talent, he is dumbstruck and driven with grief when he is notified that Sister

  • Effects Of Esperanza Rising

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    1930’s where she lived with her family in Aguascalientes, Mexico. Esperanza and her mother secretly decided to move to California after some tragic events happened and escape the fate of her mother having to marry Esperanza’s Tio Luis. She faces many different life changing experiences in this story such as dealing with the loss of a family member, learning the value and importance of hard work, and how everyday living changes affect her outlook on people and life. Throughout her transition from Mexico

  • When I Was Puerto Rico By Esmeralda Santiago

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    talks about her life experiencing childhood in Mucan, Puerto Rico, and to her prosperity as a New York City writer. In her adolescence she lived with her mother Ramona, dad Pablo, and her siblings Delsa and Norma. Later, her mom gives birth to three more siblings first younger brother, Hector, and then, Alicia, Raymond and Edna. Santiago and her siblings were always moving around because of her parent’s dysfunctional relationship and lack of stability of her dad's employment. In one of her parent’s

  • Observing Chimpanzees at The Kimberly-Clark Chimpanzee Forest Exhibit at Dallas Zoo

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    few months after its birth, while an ape is dependent for four or five years. A chimpanzee infant cannot survive if its mother dies before it reaches the age of 4 at the very least.” I understood this when I witnessed the close bond between Ramona and her newborn. Seeing their affinity for each other reminded me that humans are also very well attached to young ones who are new to this world. This makes sense because after all, chimpanzees are our closest living relatives! Works Cited William

  • When I Was Puerto Rican Analysis

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    Esmeralda uses her hard work to change her life and reach her dream shows that even she was born poor. In Puerto Rican, everyone has a nickname for family and friends. Esmeralda’s nickname is Negi. Negi was born in a Puerto Rican family with more than ten kids. Because she is the eldest, she needs to take care of all her brothers and sisters. She needs to live her life in the complaints from her siblings about how strict is she and that she is not her mother Ramona. Also, needs to live to her life be treated

  • Similarities Between Oryx And Crake

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    Atwood, illustrates another version of the obliteration of the human species. Atwood explores a world where scientific progression is praised and language arts are depreciated; is it a world where the gap between the rich and the poor further increases. Her novel stars Jimmy as he tells his tale of how he came to be the last of the human species. Through Jimmy’s flashback, Atwood highlights a distinctive contrast between those who appraise scientific evolution, or number people, those who value human culture

  • Failed Mother-Child Relationships in Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake

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    bio-technology corporation. Herprofessional status as a microbiologist, unthinkable in the patriarchal culture of Gilead,should make a progressive, positive statement about women’s achievement of equality.Her work ultimately threatens her sanity, though. As a result, she abandons her onlychild. Readers learn through Jimmy about the differences between his world and theearly 21st century world. Many of the changes are technological. Scientists create foodsubstitutes, hybrid animals, and life forms used only

  • Helen Hunt Jackson: A Brief Biography

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    born Helen Maria Fiske and lost both her parents as a child being raised by her aunt. Jackson was known as an American poet and writer who became an activist on behalf of improved treatment of Native Americans. Known best as an author of children's books and poems during the nineteenth century, According to Lily, “Helen Hunt Jackson very rarely published under her given name, preferring instead to use such pseudonyms as H. H. and Saxe Holm.” She wanted to keep her work anonymous. Helen Hunt Jackson

  • Analysis Of The Priest And Sorcerer Of Suchitlan

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    objects and clay idols, animal heads and many other things that the sorcerer used for his rites and 'works'. Removing him from his first impression, the 'sorcerer' approached him offering him an equipal and said: -You will say what I can help you with, father ... The priest sat down and very annoyed he began to say to that sorcerer man: -I come to demand that you stop doing your evil tricks! Stop cheating and draw people out with your lies! You only cheat people! Because you and I know that does not exist

  • Ramona T. Mercer: Maternal Role Attainment

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    Introduction Ramona T. Mercer is the theorist credited for developing the theory of Maternal Role Attainment, which is also known as the theory of Becoming a Mother. “Maternal role attainment is an interactional and developmental process occurring over time in which a mother becomes attached to her infant, acquires competence in the caretaking tasks involved in the role, and expresses pleasure and gratification in the role (Tomey & Alligood, 2006, p. 608). Mercer’s career has been primarily focused

  • Bowl Monologue

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    biscuits in an oven. I couldn't understand why father would invite so many people, I wanted a private ceremony, not a bloody community event. A gathering of close relatives and a few friends would've pleased me, but instead all of Camden attended my Mum's funeral. I sat next to a pair of elderly ladies with massive, tall black hats. I

  • Essay On Repressed Memories

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    Repressed vs. false memories has been a critical debate in criminal cases and daily life problems. Throughout the years many people has claimed to recover repressed memories with the simplest triggers varying from a gaze to hypnosis. However, a large number of repressed memories claimed are considered as false memories because the images were induced through hypnosis and recalled during a therapy sesion. In the film “divided memories” the main intention was to inform the audience the importance of