Kate Chopins Desirees Baby :: Desirees Baby by Kate Chopin

Desirees Baby is a short story written by Kate Chopin. It is set innineteenth century Louisiana. The story starts with Madame Valmonde going tovisit Desiree and her baby. She thinks back on her memories of Desireeas a babyIt made her laugh to think of Desiree with a baby.Why it seemed notwithstanding yesterday that Desiree was littlemore than a baby herself.This quote tells us two things. The first is that Madame Valmonde musthave known Desiree as a youngster and is either a close family friend ofeven a member of the family herself. The second thing is that Desireeis young. The word baby could either mean childlike or physicallyyoung. Desiree seemed to be a normal child and had had a normalchildhood. The third paragraph tells us more about DesireesbackgroundShe had been purposely unexpended by a band of passingTexans.This makes us think that she he had been abandoned at a very young ageoutside Madame Valmondes home. We can also tell from paragraph fivethat She was induceless.No one knew what her name was or what her family background was like.It was all a rumour.Eighteen years by and by this, Armand Aubigny fell in love with Desiree.From the fifth paragraph of the first summon we can tell that Armand wasvery proud of his family name.What did it matter about a name when he could giveher one of the oldest and proudest in Louisiana?This is a very old fashioned point of view. To Armand, his name waseverything. There is a very powerful social contrast between thenameless Desiree and Armand.Signs of racism become apparent in the book on page 67Young Aubignys loom was a strict one, too, and underit his Negroes had forgotten how to be happy.Armand must have treated them very harshly and made them unhappy. Hishome is described as existence sad looking and quite dreary.The second paragraph of page 67 gives the reader a description of thetype of home Armand owns. There are muslins, a couch decorated withlaces, there are also slaves. Madame Valmondes first reacti on to thebaby was one of shock and astonishmentThis is not the babytheoretically this isnt very significant because babies tend to growvery quickly and their outward appearance can change very fast. Theeighth paragraph on this page gives us a hint at why Madame Valmondwas so startled when she first saw the baby.Madame Valmonde had never removed her eyes from thechild. She lifted it and walked with it over to the window

Importance of After-School Programs Essay -- Argumentative Childcare C

Importance of After-School Programs There are approximately forty nine million children and y unwraph, ages 6-17 living in the U.S. (Making the Case 1). Children need care while they are in the initial stages of growth and development. Whether this care is provided by a mother, father, sibling, or other guardian, a child needs to be loved. When children turn a certain age, the care of the family is added to by caregivers in another institution. date attending school, children are shown care for the duration of the day by teachers, mentors, and other aids. This is a productive period for the childrens development because they are being nurtured in a well rounded, safe environment. This environment provides initial academic installment as well as nurture and growth. This safe, enriching, productive school time ends at about 3 p.m. What happens when the school bell rings? Where do the children go when they are compel to leave this institution? The reality in America forthwit h is that forty four percent of families do not have safe, supervised places for their children to go after school on a regular basis, according to the Afterschool confederacy and sponsored by the JC Penney Afterschool Fund (Building and Sustaining 1) . With that many children unsafe, it can be assumed that there is a need for somewhere for children to go once they are forced to leave their schools. Many other statistics imply a need for some kind of place to adopt unsupervised children during the after- school hours. About 7 out of 10 school age children are part of families where both parents are working fulltime, or the only parent in the household is working full- time (Newman 17). In addition, there are about eleven million children in Ame... ... m (2005) 6 p. 5 Feb. 2005 .Newman, Sanford A., et al. Americas After- School Choice The Prime Time for Juvenile Crime, Or Youth Enrichment and Achievement. Fight Crime Invest in Kids 2000 35p. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO Host. Uni versity of Denver Penrose Library, Denver. 5 Feb. 2005 .Ortmann, Dr. Rudider. Anomie as a outlet of Disturbances of Equilibrium in Case of Suddenly Occurring Social or Personal Changes. (Nov. 2000) 14 p. 5 Feb. 2005 .Rinehart, Jen. A New Day Begins After School. Principal, Beyond the gong 82.5 (May/June 2003) 19 pars. 5 Feb. 2005 .The Bridge Project Web Page. The Bridge Project. 5 Feb. 2005 .