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"In the past few years, she had taken over the Ngati Whakaue Enrichment Unit working with children to enhance their reading and oral learning," "She had a passion for ensuring our Maori children got every opportunity to succeed. That passion for our youth will be sorely missed." She was a well recognised mentor to the young children at the school.
In this way Morrison made considerable progress in speaking and writing one of the most difficult of languages for an English-speaking person to learn. The hope of the Directors was that, first of all, Morrison would master the ordinary speech of the people, and so be able to compile a dictionary, and perhaps make a translation of the ...
Sula Peace: Nel's childhood best friend, whose return to the Bottom disrupts the whole community.The main reason for Sula's strangeness is her defiance of gender norms and traditional morality, symbolized by the birthmark "that spread from the middle of the lid toward the eyebrow, shaped something like a stemmed rose," [2] which, according to some psychoanalytic readings, is a dual symbol with ...
The children's parents both worked multiple jobs and the care of Cee was left to Frank, just four years older. After Frank leaves for the war, Cee meets Prince, a boy visiting from Atlanta. Prince advances after Cee and the two later marry He takes Cee back to Atlanta, where she later discovers that he only married her so as to attain the ...
Toni Morrison was born Chloe Ardelia Wofford, [2] the second of four children from a working-class, Black family, in Lorain, Ohio, to Ramah (née Willis) and George Wofford. [3] Her mother was born in Greenville, Alabama, and moved north with her family as a child. She was a homemaker and a devout member of the African Methodist Episcopal ...
Life story work as a concept has dated back to at least the 1960s, possibly further. [1] The application of the concept to children in foster care and adoption was discussed in academia from the early 1980s onward. [2] Life story work is well documented in the UK and Australia [3] and has been incorporated into UK Adoption legislation. More ...
Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination is a 1992 work of literary criticism by Toni Morrison.In it she develops a reading of major white American authors and traces the way their perceptions of blackness gave defining shape to their works, and thus to the American literary canon.
About a decade earlier, Morrison and Sellars had disagreed about Shakespeare’s play, which Sellars detested, but Morrison valued. They agreed that Sellars would stage “Othello” and Morrison would respond to in another way, resulting in her Desdemona. [2] The play revolves around Desdemona's relationship with her mother's maid "Barbary."