Word: belovedness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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The wonders of Alice Walker's The Color Purple or Toni Morrison's Beloved or Gloria Naylor's Linden Hills were discovered by myself outside the classroom. And for this reason there was always a huge void in the body of knowledge that was presented through my literature classes. Even...
These women intimately acquainted me with areas of my history. Morrison tells the life story of former slave Sethe in her novel Beloved. Through the personal accounts and memories of Sethe, her family and her friends, Morrison made the atrocities of slavery seem real to me; slavery no longer was...
"So what do you think about Yale Medical School?" demanded one interviewer. A reasonable question, except that he was not from Yale Medical School. For 30 harrowing minutes, I tried to explain my ignorance of my interviewer's beloved alma mater. Finally, he asked me if I had any questions...
This consists of flattery, flirtatiousness and rigorously enforced literary standards. Discovering that the manuscript Paul is carrying is not about Misery and contains cusswords besides, she forces him to burn it. Learning that his latest Misery novel will be the last (he has killed her off), Annie forces Paul to...
Even among those fortunate enough to be insured, the leading side effect of illness is often financial doom. Consider the elderly, whose federally sponsored insurance program, Medicare, inspires so much drooling and sharpening of knives at budget time. Even with Medicare, older Americans are forced to spend more than 15...