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Queen Bees and Wannabes, 2007.
This paper discusses the book "Queen Bees and Wannabes" by Rosalind Wisemer.
795 words (approx. 3.2 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 28.95
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In this article, the writer looks at the book, 'Queen Bees and Wannabes' and notes that author Rosalind Wisemer argues that for parents to be successful in helping their daughters through the difficult adolescent years, they must understand the meaning of "girl world". The writer explains that this is the secret world of girls and their friendships. The writer points out that this is an entirely separate environment from the adult world, that is filled with different rules, expectations and values. The writer maintains that "girl world" is a place that is ruled by relationships, the pecking order and group membership, and is also a world where girl friendships can cause tremendous psychological damage.
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"The need to be accepted, to be included within society, to be recognized as having at least some of the required assets that determine social status and the failure by the majority of people to do so, ensures that most teenage girls suffer terribly throughout adolescence. A period during which children begin to move away from parental guidance, and start looking towards other members of society as vehicles of allegiance, it is a time that produces the most conflict within families throughout the United States as girls begin, either rightly or wrongly, to assert their independence."
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The Queen of Queens Candle Shop, 2004.
A business plan for a candle shop in Queens NY.
2,300 words (approx. 9.2 pages), 5 sources, APA, $ 79.95
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This paper presents a business plan for a candle shop in Queens, New York, that will cater to the needs of primarily the female and youth market, including multicultural offerings. Included are executive summary, mission statement and objectives, product and service offerings, strategies, target markets, industry background, staffing, and a Pro Forma Profit and Loss statement.
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"The candle industry has experienced double-digit growth over the past decade with sales of fragrance and aroma candles ..."
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"The Secret Life of Bees" and the Black Madonna, 2007.
An analysis of the use of the Black Madonna as an important symbol of women leadership within the "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd.
1,167 words (approx. 4.7 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 40.95
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This paper discusses the symbolism of the Black Madonna as it is used in Sue Monk Kidd's novel "The Secret Life of Bees." The paper examines the history behind the Black Madonna and then discusses the plot of the book, showing how Kidd uses the Black Madonna as an important symbol of women leadership within the "The Secret Life of Bees."
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"The Secret Life of Bees uses the Black Madonna as an important symbol of women leadership. As August tells Lily, "Our Lady is not some magical being out there somewhere, like a fairy godmother. She's not in the statue in the parlor. She's something inside you" (Kidd, 288). This statement is the most important words of wisdom Lily receives throughout the entire novel. The statue in the parlor of the Boatwright home is just that: a statue. Lily learns that it isn't the statue that she needs to give her strength, but the idea it represents. It tells the story of a woman who broke chains, who escaped fate and inspired generations to come. These are the exact things that Lily does to find her new family and break away from T. Ray. "I leaned into them, felt them close around me. One thing is beautiful beyond my words to say it; August holding you" (Kidd, 238). Lily spends the whole novel on a search for her mother's story, as well as her own. She wanted to know the reasons why her mother left, and realized how unprepared she was for the truth when August told her. Lily is too wrapped up in the idea of her biological mother, she forgets about what a mother really is. The Virgin Mary, the Black Madonna's other form, is history's example of a mother. She is sensitive and firm, relatable and Divine. The Black Madonna is who teaches Lily that she has mothers all around her. Rosaleen's protection, May's caring, and August's love, Lily finds a mother in everyone around her, including herself. As stated at the end of the novel, "She is a muscle of love, this Mary" (Kidd, 302)."
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"The Secret Life of Bees", 2004.
A review of the book "The Secret Life of Bees" written by Sue Monk Kidd.
895 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 31.95
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This paper discusses Sue Monk Kidd's book, "The Secret Life of Bees". The paper introduces the characters of the story and describes how Rosaleen and the 'Calendar sisters' have an impact on Lily by acting as mother figures to her. The paper contends that one of the most powerful aspects of the book is that it does not provide perfect or traditional images of motherhood or female religious faith. The paper illustrates how the book also offers an image of feminine solidarity and strength in a religious fashion as well as in a political fashion.
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"The central protagonist of Sue Monk Kidd's The Secret Life of Bees is a motherless young girl in the American South named Lily. Instead of her natural mother, an African-American woman named Rosaleen brings up Lily in a difficult household. This fact might seem to plant Sue Monk Kidd's saga squarely in the tradition of Gone with the Wind, and other tales of proud, defiant Southern women raised by complacent and maternal black 'mammies.' But Lily is not 'to the manner born,' like Scarlet O'Hara. Her home is a home of pain rather than comfort and Rosaleen is defiant rather than submissive to the racism of the world around her."
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"The Secret Life of Bees", 2005.
A review of the book, "The Secret Life of Bees," written by Sue Monk Kidd.
958 words (approx. 3.8 pages), 0 sources, $ 34.95
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This paper reviews Sue Monk Kidd's popular novel, "The Secret Life of Bees". The paper describes the book as a coming-of-age narrative that involves a girl in search of her mother and ultimately her identity. The paper explores the main themes of this story: home and the need to belong. The paper contends that Kidd also brings up critical elements that define the book, such as racism and prejudice towards other people, in particular, African-Americans and people of color.
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"Lily Owens, the main character, is a teenage girl who lives with her abusive father. She is not very outgoing and does not have many friends. This is because she has no female support except for her African American housekeeper, Rosaleen. Another reason is that she accidentally killed her mother. Lily calls her father T. Ray because, in her words, "T. Ray just ain't the type of person you'd call daddy". T. Ray Owens is the hateful, peach-farming antagonist. When T. Ray is feeling particularly mean towards Lily, he pulls the Martha White grits down from the pantry and pours an anthill-sized pile on the kitchen floor for Lily to kneel in. There is no evident love in his heart for Lily whatsoever, and living with him only deepens the ever-present pain of her motherless existence."
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"The Secret Life of Bees", 2005.
This paper reviews "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd, the story both of a 14-year-old girl trying to resolve guilt for her mother's death ten years earlier and of the civil rights movement of the 1960's.
975 words (approx. 3.9 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 34.95
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This paper relates that, throughout "The Secret Life of Bees", the life of the protagonist Lilly makes many transformations as she learns more about her past and thinks about the future to come. The United States is also transforming as a result of the painful happenings of the 1960s, such as President Kennedy's assassination and the important and historic events leading to the passage of the Civil Rights Acts. The author points out that Lilly realizes, for the first time in her life, "just how much importance the world had ascribed to skin pigment, how lately it seemed that skin pigment was the sun and everything else in the universe was the orbiting planets." The paper reveals that, at the end of the book, when Rosaleen comes home after finally succeeding as a certified voter, she proudly talks about how she will cast her vote for President Johnson and Hubert Humphrey; she has achieved one of her greatest goals in life.
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"Taking place in the South during the summer of 1964, Secret Life begins with Lily and her African-American housekeeper/nanny Rosaleen heading to a voter's rally. After a run-in with some of the town's bigots, Rosaleen gets thrown in jail. The taunting by these three men, "Did you hear that? We got ourselves a model citizen," typified many Southerners who did all they could to keep the blacks from voting. Lilly springs Rosaleen, and the two set out in search of Lilly's past. The only clue to follow is a label Lilly found in a box with her mother's meager belongings."
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"The Secret Life of Bees", 2004.
A literary analysis of the novel, "The Secret Life of Bees", by Sue Monk Kidd.
1,526 words (approx. 6.1 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 50.95
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This paper provides an analysis of Sue Monk Kidd's book, "The Secret Life of Bees". Set in the early 1960's, at a time when civil rights were just becoming popular and significant in American culture, the paper shows how important the ideas in the novel are for this time period. The paper includes direct quotes from the book.
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"Because of where she lives, Lily could easily have slipped into a more regional speech pattern. But there is nothing here to indicated Lily lives in the Deep South. Perhaps her use of the word lack, instead of a phrase to indicate the condition of motherlessness, is a hint. It is certainly not the way most girls would say it. So it may be regional. Or it may be the author?s way of pointing out that Lily was bright and thoughtful and could spare herself the pain of talking about or thinking about her dead mother by referring only to a lack, not a death."
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Analysis of Zoshchenko?s ?Bees and People?, 2002.
This paper looks into Mikhail Zoshchenko's short story "Bees and People", a narrative based on Stalin's ultimate plan for the communist community.
1,239 words (approx. 5.0 pages), 10 sources, MLA, $ 42.95
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This paper analyzes the symbolism contained in Mikhail Zoshchenko's short story, "Bees and People". Zoshchenko skillfully created a political satire that was able to slip through the cracks of Stalin's scrupulous censorship. The writer argues that each character represents a historical figure and presents a theory and proof, piecing together the historical puzzle.
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"Joseph Stalin was a man of steel, in the sense of barriers, that is. During his prime in the 1940s, Stalin was a master of secrecy. He kept missions as significant as the ?Manhattan Project? under wraps. His main medium of secrecy was censorship. After carefully selecting his censors, they were made well acquainted with a book called An Enumeration of Information Prohibited for Publication in the News Media. This clearly defined what was permitted and what was to be banished. Mikhail Zoshchenko was one such writer who passed Stalin?s examination. His short story, ?Bees and People?, outlines just how Stalin?s ?community? works."
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Sue Monk Kidd's "Secret Life of Bees", 2005.
This paper discusses Sue Monk Kidd's book, "The Secret Life of Bees", a touching and endearing story of a girl coming to grips with the loss of her mother.
1,025 words (approx. 4.1 pages), 0 sources, $ 36.95
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This paper explains that Sue Monk Kidd's book, "The Secret Life of Bees", is a testament to the healing power of love in a young girl's life. The author points out that the book reinforces the understanding of the important role a mother plays in her child's growth. The paper relates that one of the most significant events in the book occurs when Lily's mother dies because the loss of Lily's mother is crucial to the plot and theme of the rest of the book; it is the loss of her mother that leaves Lily motherless and alone.
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""The Secret Life of Bees" tells the story of Lily Owens, a young woman reeling from the death of her mother at the age of four. Lily lives with her ornery and dismissive father, and blames herself for her mother's death. She is largely alone in the world, with only the company of a black woman, Rosaleen, who her father has hired to keep up the house, and who ends up being Lily's "stand-in mother". Rosaleen, who has gone into town to register to vote against T. Ray's wishes, insults three of the town's biggest racists by spilling spit onto their shoes. Rosaleen is mistreated by police, and Rosaleen is sent to jail. Lily decides they must escape, and the two women make their way to Tiburon, South Carolina, guided only by the fact that this name is on one of her mother's pictures."
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Bees: Pollution and Pollination, 2001.
This paper examines how the toxicity of various environmental pollutants affect bees as pollinators.
795 words (approx. 3.2 pages), 8 sources, $ 28.95
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This paper examines the effects of environmental pollution on pollinators, specifically the honeybee, and how this organism can be used as an indicator of environmental health. Emphasis is placed on examining the toxicity and effect of various pesticides including DDT, malathion and various fungicides. In addition, the influence on the health of pollinators from atmospheric heavy metal pollution is addressed. The importance of the honeybee to the future of agriculture is the theme throughout this essay.
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?Bees are one of the most important elements of agriculture. They are one of the most widespread and efficient pollinators. For this reason, the effects of pollution on bees is an ever growing area of interest for many scientists who fear that bee populations may be at risk from human activity. Air pollution from vehicles and industry can have adverse effects on bee populations. However, one of the greatest areas of concern is the effect of pesticides due to the direct and sometimes high exposure of foraging bees to these toxic chemicals."
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"The Faerie Queene", 2002.
A comparison between Britomart and Queen Elizabeth I in "The Faerie Queene".
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 4 sources, $ 35.95
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This paper examines the character of the knight Britomart in the classic story, "The Faerie Queene" by Edmond Spencer. This paper demonstrates how Britomart's character corresponds with the popular interpretation of Queen Elizabeth's personality, where her displays of calm reason as well as those of extreme marital ventures both correspond to the ideals represented in Queen Elizabeth.
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The Reign of Queen Victoria, 2004.
This paper discusses Queen Victoria (1819-1910), one of the most dynamic and highly focused monarchs to ever ascend the British throne.
1,835 words (approx. 7.3 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 58.95
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This paper explains that Queen Victoria became Queen of England at the time when the monarchy was weak and unpopular; but, under her leadership, England underwent massive transformation culturally, socially, and politically. The author states that her death in 1910 marked the end of a very successful, challenging, and dynamic period in the history of England. The paper stresses that Queen Victoria?s reign became synonymous with revolution and change because she defied traditions and conventions to infuse a new spirit in the empire and the monarchy.
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"The country Queen Victoria lovingly called jewel in her crown had turned into a battlefield where Indian mutineers were being killed everyday and British forces had resorted to harsher tactics to control the situation. The Queen on the other hand wanted peace in the Indian region and wanted Lord Cannings, the then Viceroy of India to listen to the grievances of Indian mutineers. She rejected the idea of harsher punishment for captured rebels for Queen Victoria believed this could lead to endless bloodshed and even greater resentment. It was a very tough time for British Crown as a little mistake on the part of the monarch could lead to numerous problems."
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Edmund Spenser and "The Faerie Queene", 2004.
A biography of the life and writing of the poet, Edmund Spenser, with a focus on "The Faerie Queene".
10,597 words (approx. 42.4 pages), 13 sources, MLA, $ 211.95
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This paper examines the life of Edmund Spenser, who was viewed as a love and pastoral poet and also a classical author. It looks at how Spenser?s life ran almost identically to the Elizabethan Age, from his birth in a poor family in London to his religious and political views to his eventual move to Ireland, where he wrote his most famous piece, "The Faerie Queen". It discusses how "The Faerie Queen" contains six books and a fragment of a seventh and how, with each book, a virtue is introduced. A story then unfolds to explain how the hero of that particular book obtains the virtue as his ultimate prize. The focus of the paper is on Book One and the virtue of holiness, which was dedicated to Queen Elizabeth I. It shows how his use and skill with ancient language coupled with his creation, the Spenserian stanza, presents the reader with a delightful look at medieval England.
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"When she finishes the story she starts to faint. The knight comforts her and vows to rescue her hero. They all leave together with the wise dwarf leading the way. Even though Una has been abandoned, misjudged, and betrayed by the man she loves she remains steadfast. She still loves him and wants to free him from his bondage by the giant. On a moral level here she still represents purity and truth. She has never wavered from either although her errant lover certainly has. On the religious level she represents the true church. She is forgiving and welcomes home the worst of sinners. On the historical level she is the Protestant Church."
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Queen Elizabeth I, 2002.
An analysis of how Queen Elizabeth I governed England.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 4 sources, $ 35.95
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This essay examines Queen Elizabeth I and analyzes her approach to governing. The author compares her style of leadership to Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar, discusses how Machiavelli would have viewed her political tactics and strategies and explains her influence on the modern world. The paper concludes that Elizabeth I was England's greatest queen, for her style of rule, successful domestic and foreign policies, and personal courage and determination enabled her to unite her people, defeat Spain and set England on a course for future greatness.
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Queen Elizabeth the Great, 2003.
Focuses on the pertinent events leading up to Queen Elizabeth I's ascension to the throne in 1558.
2,546 words (approx. 10.2 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 77.95
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This paper discusses Queen Elizabeth I and her rise to power. The paper focuses mostly on events leading up the queen's ascension to the throne rather than her actual reign (which took place between 1558 and 1603), including King Henry VIII's attempts to create a male heir to his throne and his daughter Mary's brief reign. The political and religious aspects of that time period are also discussed.
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?I have but the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king.? This statement, by Queen Elizabeth I of England, was a telling display of her strength, as well as her fascinating and charismatic personality. Elizabeth Tudor, a powerful image of female authority, ruled over England from 1558 until her death, in 1603. Elizabeth proved to be a strong and successful leader during her reign, and the story behind her acquisition of the throne is a unique one. Life prior to Elizabeth?s reign was comprised of many historic events that led to her accession, including political issues, murderous plots, and an extraordinarily atypical childhood. Elizabeth ascended to the throne at a time when England was torn between Catholics and Protestants, when the country was tormented by the French and the Spanish, and unruly leaders from around the realm sought to usurp her crown for themselves. Nevertheless, Elizabeth?s reign resulted in a country that was prosperous, affluent, and rich in literature and art."
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