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Beauty, is it in the eye of the beholder? For many people beauty is an image that society has constructed and manipulated. For a long time society has influenced our views of beauty. Television and magazines have created the “Perfect” image of a woman. This ....

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.... the two stories have different types of relationships, the Ukrainian family has an open relationship where they can speak about anything, while the Chinese family has a closed relationship, where the elders must be respected at all times. However, the daughters in the stories have a similarity. Culture plays an important aspect in revealing the relationships within a family. In Maara Haas’s short story, the culture of the daughter and mother is Ukrainian. This is shown throughout the story by cultural beliefs, customs, and comments made by the mother “Me Ukrainian off da boat” (Haas, 201). In the other story by Anne Jew, the mother and daugh ....