free english research papers were donated by our members/visitors and are presented free of charge for informational use only. The essay or term paper you are seeing on this page was not produced by our company and should not be considered a sample of our research/writing service. We are neither affiliated with the author of this essay nor responsible for its content. If you need high quality, fresh and competent research / writing done on the subject of english, use the professional writing service offered by our company. In the bean trees, by barbara kingsolver, readers are given the chance to see how two characters that have completely different lifestyles come together and deal with everyday problems, family relationships, and motherhood. Lou ann chose a lifestyle that would cause her to get married, have a baby and move away right after high school.

On the other hand taylor did everything in her power not to end up living that lifestyle, and i think it resulted in taylor being a more dependent and strong person than lou ann. A good example of how different their characters are is how they deal with everyday problems. For example, the way they go about trying to find a job clearly shows that taylor is optimistic and lou ann is pessimistic. Really, ma'am i could understand why you wouldn't want to hire a dumb old thing such as myself p.144 this is something that taylor imagines lou ann saying when she is on a job search. This statement clearly describes lou ann perfectly, she has no self confidence she is pessimistic and doesn't stick up for herself because her husband continuously verbally abused her, and treated her bad. Taylor on the other hand is very optimistic and self confident when she is out job hunting because she always had motivation and support from her mother.

Eventually taylor motivates lou ann to have self confidence and try hard to get a job and she notices differences in her character i was liking lou ann a great deal these days. In a few weeks since she started working she had begun to cut her hair far less often. Motivation and support played a big role in creating these characters personalities. The reader really gets to see the difference in characters and also how combining the personalities changed their lifestyles. Lou ann and taylor both came from small cities in kentucky but they were raised differently.

Lou ann moved to get married and raise a family but her mother disapproved for the wrong reasons, she disliked him because he was mexican p26 taylor never wanted to live the lifestyle that lou ann had taylor's mom said barefoot and pregnant was not my style. P3 taylor's mom supported taylor's decisions and gave her the opportunity to find independence. Taylor has a really good relationship with her mother the lines of communication and support are wide open. Lou ann on the other hand doesn't have good communication with her mother, she couldn't even tell her mother and grandmother she was getting a divorce. P54 i think taylor comes through for lou ann in this situation because taylor played a mother like role towards lou ann. These two women are both completely alone in an unfamiliar state and they both don't have anyone but each other except taylor still has her mother left to talk to.

Motherhood is imagine walking through an average family s christmas celebration one might see, opening of presents around the christmas tree, family dinner, engaging in friendly conversation. Some of the things you might smell fresh pine from the pine tree, the smell of peppermint from the candy canes dangling from the tree. Dear santa clause,i am terribly disappointed with the way christmas turned out this year. For some odd reason i awoke on christmas morning only to find that nothing was under the tree for me. This year i asked you for a pair of black timberland boots with the gray trees on them.

A christmas pickle traditionone tradition i have in my family is finding the pickle ornament on the christmas tree. The tradition says that who ever finds the pickle in the tree first would get to pick which present they wanted.every year, as my family would try to find the pickle i would always see my mom start to cry. I always thought of it as just finding a pickle hidden in a tree, but then i saw how many people have been around the pickle and, all the tradition behind it. When my mom hides the pickle in the tree it blends in so much that it practically disappears. It is your right and responsibility to vote and to vote smart. Step2vote smart and not with your heartreview where your candidates stand on the issues, this is the most important step as this will effect how the country will be ran for the next 4 years.

24 may 2009

in january i began the daily diary self portrait series.

The lions share of my self portraits have been featuring myself with god 039 s good earth. I have experienced my tripod tipping over on one of my self portraits that was on a hillside. Thankfully my camera survived the fall.but i have been extra cautious since then to have the tripod setting level.one of my self portraits once caught me falling, jumping across our spring and luckily i did not injure myself but i think i would feel worse if my camera were to break, oddly as it sounds. However, when i decided to try the longer delay i found it took away from the natural expression in just waiting for the timer to go off. I think it is important to capture the fleeting expression before it is lost and i hope i have achieved that in my own self portraits.