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Everyday Use by Alice Walker | |
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| Name: |
Alice Malsenior Walker | | Birth Date: |
February 9, 1944 | | Place of Birth: |
Eatonton, Georgia, United States | | Nationality: |
American | | Ethnicity: |
African American | | Gender: |
Female | | Occupations: |
novelist |
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 Biography of Alice Malsenior Walker
1316 words, approx. 4.4 pages
 Pulitzer prize-winning novelist Alice Walker (born 1944) was best known for her stories about black women who achieve heroic stature within the confines of their ordinary day-to-day lives. Alice Walker was born on February 9, 1944, in Eatonton, Georgia,... summary from source:
 Biography of Alice (Malsenior) Walker
13406 words, approx. 44.7 pages
 [This entry was updated by Donna Haisty Winchell (Clemson University) from her entry in DLB 143: American Novelists Since World War II, Third Series, pp. 277-292.] Alice Walker knows firsthand the social and political consequences of being a black woman... summary from source:
 Biography of Alice Walker
10102 words, approx. 33.7 pages
Walker was born February 9, 1944 in Eatonton, Georgia, about seventy-five miles southeast of Atlanta. She was the youngest of eight children, five boys and three girls, all of whom lived in a three-or four-room house in the country. Her father, Willie Le...
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 Everyday Use Information
972 words, approx. 3 pages
"Everyday Use" is a widely studied and much-anthologized short story by Alice Walker. It was first published in 1973 as part of Walker's short story collection, In Love and Trouble. The story is told in the first person by the "Mama" (Mrs. Johnson), a...
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 Denver Rocky Mountain News Commandments For Everyday Use
09/26/1998: 733 words, approx. 2 pages Terry Mattingly; Scripps Howard News Service Denver Rocky Mountain News 09-26-1998 COMMANDMENTS FOR EVERYDAY USE The Ten Commandments are so hot right now that it's amazing some Beltway politico hasn't tried to hit Moses with a grand jury subpoena or a blast... summary from source:
The Boston Globe Everyday uses for gulfspeak
02/27/1991: 632 words, approx. 2 pages There's a lot of talk about war talk, the language that's emerging from the war in the Persian Gulf. Every war produces its own peculiar terms, and some find their way into general usage. Gulfspeak is already distinguished by its circumlocution, so given... summary from source:
 AP News Thallium confirmed in U.S. women
3/10/2007: 255 words, approx. 1 pagesTests confirmed Friday that two American women hospitalized after they became ill on a trip to Russia were poisoned by thallium, but the women believe it was accidental, their lawyer and the hospital said.Dr. Marina Kovalevsky, 49, and her daughter, Yana, 26, remained in fair... summary from source:
AP Features Tests confirm thallium poisoning of U.S. women who took trip to Russia
3/10/2007: 255 words, approx. 1 pagesTests confirmed Friday that two American women hospitalized after they became ill on a trip to Russia were poisoned by thallium, but the women believe it was accidental, their lawyer and the hospital said.Dr. Marina Kovalevsky, 49, and her daughter, Yana, 26, remained in fair...
Featured Essays
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 Essay Grade: 92%Symbols of Heritage in "Everyday Use"
1,205 words, approx. 4 pages
In Alice Walker's "Everyday Use," items such as the quilt, butter churn and dasher are symbols that represent what constitutes family heritage.
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Essay Grade: 81%Separating the Flames of Reality
768 words, approx. 3 pages
In Alice Walker's short story, Everyday Use", despite the hard choice of Maggie's Reality vs. Wangero's Fantasy, the mother chose reality. Beauty and intelligence are not easy fantasies to give up, not when they even haunt one's dreams.
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Everyday Use by Alice Walker | |
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