Essays on Sister

The poem ‘Two Sisters of Persephone’ by Sylvia Plath is a truly remarkable piece that I greatly enjoyed reading. This piece is filled with numerous symbols, allegories, and images that stand out to the reader and they become more vivid each time you look deeper and deeper into the piece. In literal terms, the poem…

The Elder Sister is a painting by a well-known French artist William-Adolphe Bouguereau. This work of art was completed by William in 1869. As a result of research made on this painting, it was found that the painting was anonymously given to the Museum of Fine Arts Houston as a gift in 1992. According to…

Kate Fitzgerald was diagnosed suffering from leukemia when she was 2 years old. The doctors said to Sara and Brian, her parents, that there is maybe a solution to save Kate; have a genetic baby. Since Anna was born, she had a lot of operations to save her sister. Kate turns 15 and she has…

When I started this category on Leadership I used my ain Elder Sister as an illustration of a leader because when I think of some of the positive features of organisational leaders my senior sister keeps coming to my head. She is courageous and brave facing challenges most would hold given up on. She is…

To conceive a child by IVF in order to meet specific genetic requirements is unethical unless its purpose is to save a life. There is a moral difference between selecting for socially desirable traits like blue eyes and blonde hair, and selecting for medically desirable ones. Anna was genetically engineered as a perfect donor match…

Throughout the following essay I will map out the fairytale “Sandy and her beautiful sisters”, while pursuing the morality in the short story. “Sandy and her beautiful sisters” – tough being modern – posses many of the characteristics witch define a fairytale – including a morality. The main character, Sandy, finds throughout her search, that…

Bronte, name of three English novelists, also sisters, whose works, transcending Victorian conventions, have become beloved classics. The sisters Charlotte Bronte (1816-1855), Emily (Jane) Bronte (1818-1848), and Anne Bronte (1820-1849), and their brother (Patrick) Branwell Bronte (1817-1848), were born in Thornton, Yorkshire. The Bronte children’s imaginations transmuted a set of wooden soldiers into characters in…

A recognized nurse theorist, researcher, writer and teacher Martha Elizabeth Rogers was born on May 12, 1914 in Dallas Texas as the first born daughter and oldest of four siblings of Mr and Mrs. Rogers. As the oldest of four siblings Sister Callista Roy was born on October 14, 1939 as the second child but…

    Two people stand in front of you. One must suffer in order for the other to live, but her suffering is your choice. Both individuals are your daughters. What do you do, and how do you justify it to yourself? If you are Sara Fitzgerald, the answer is simple: one child’s suffering is worth…

It has been a while since we checked in with longtime contributor and friend of TGR, Charles Saunders.  While Charles has been away from his blog for several months, he returned to it last month with a post called “Catching Up“, which brings us up-to-date on his fiction appearances this year. As always, Charles has other…