How to start a story that has no beginning or end? ... Like many parents before mine, and many who do the same for their children after my passage through this world is over, my story is no different from any other story of a boy who grew up in a distant country in South America during a military dictatorship, and a father recently retired after a long and successful military career. ... Of course, I look like my father. ... My father was also a violent man. ... All his daughters had also gone very far away. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

John Demos, author of "The Unredeemed Captive", describes many of these prisoner's stories and their new lives with their captors. The book however is centralized around one family in particular, and their still captive daughter; Eunice Williams. ... For John Williams, this was reality, his daughter Eunice, was unwilling to come home after being given the choice to go back or stay with her Indian captors. ... However his daughter Eunice has not been heard from. ... Perhaps it was partly due to the fact that her father, John Williams, remarried; as Arosen, Eunice...

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She also takes her daughter to a beautician's to make her look like Shirley. ... "She had come here in 1949 after losing everything in China: her mother and father, her family home, her first husband, and two daughters, twin baby girl"(1). Yet the mother is able to make her way to America where she works very hard cleaning houses to provide for her daughter. ... The depth of the mother's character transforms Amy Tan's very common story of family conflict into one of interest and drama. The mother's background makes the reader more sympathetic to her, her foreign awkward...

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A sad story 6,120 miles away from the United States in a country unknown to the rest of the world still resonates within my being. ... This story is the Dominican History. A history full of masacres, tyrannies, and constant violations towards society, a story that does not yet have a happy ending. ... As her daughter I witness her psychological and physical scars, and, as her daughter I acquire my own. ... My father lost his sight, but many more children in the world lose their fathers. ...

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But no matter in what straits the Pennsylvanian or Virginian found himself, he would not let his daughters go out into service. ... Shimerida, Antonia's father, is not the kind of man who can adapt to Frontier conditions, hence his death. ... Before Antonia's father died, he expressed his feelings on education. ... Besides the story of Antonia, at the same time you have "the stories of Peter and Pavel (The Russians and their wolves) and the section of the novel dealing with the Hired Girls, Lena Lingard"(Wells 2). All of these stories take us away from the life of Antonia, but th...

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Fred Hill, a prominent football player for the Philadelphia Eagles, daughter was diagnosed with leukemia. ... He had been serving in the Iraq War and had to come home a few years ago because his daughter was diagnosed with cancer. While comprehending this middle aged mans story, I realized he was a veteran. ... David described the difficulties of having to leave the war and how he worried about his daughter constantly, putting his life in more of a dangerous position. ... The founding fathers of America created the Preamble, in which summarized the goals that the government wished to reach. ...

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Fathers are just as dominant as boyfriends or husbands in many cases. They expect strict obedience from daughters and often become enraged or very upset when rules are broken or their expectations are let down. ... Abuse is the repercussion of the daughter's disobedience for whatever actions lead upset the head of the family. ... Through the main character in the book, ideas are expressed and shown through both simplistic and complex stories. These stories shed light on how living, as a Latino in a Latino American society would be daily. ...

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Amy's older brother dies of brain cancer in 1967, and only months later her father dies of the same disease. ... She wrote many short stories, many of which she tried to avoid her Chinese heritage in, but finally, she discovered her true passion was in writing from a Chinese prospective. With this newfound talent, she wrote the Joy Luck Club and many other books about the relationships between Chinese mothers and daughters. ... She draws from her hectic life to write her stories. ...

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The setting is important to the story. ... Her doctor is MacLeod, a father of two kids, who is really caring and kind to Piquette. ... So they go to Diamond Lake, Piquette being a company for Doctor McLeod's daughter, Vanessa. ... That winter, Vanessa's father dies of pneumonia. ... The story is told from Vanessa's point of view. ...

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It is the story of two brothers--one of whom served in Vietnam--who must rely on each other to survive a disastrous skiing trip in the wilds of Minnesota. ... This book suggests that stories often communicate a more accurate notion of the truth than even experience can, which makes them compelling whether or not the reader experienced the War first-hand. ... Despite his awareness that his parents, his wife, and his daughter all think he is insane, he acts out his life as a drama of paranoia and nuclear dread, fashioning an impromptu shelter out of a ping-pong table as a youth and diggi...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

I am the daughter of Alicia Faye Willis and James Earl Jacobs. ... I'm a mother of two daughters and a grandmother of one with a wonderful finance. ... Though each culture has its own norms, in the West the surname Is typically inherited from the paternal (father's) line. ... Moses Willis is the son of a great slave owner and Edna Sykes is the daughter of a great Indiana women. ... He plays a big role in the latter part of my life story. ...

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The story of female slavery is the story of survival of Black women and their construction of a definition of womanhood that made sense to them. In some ways it is the story of the phoenix. Faced with misery and suffering that many succumbed to, African American women as a group proved resilient eno...

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Becoming American: The Chinese Experience, reaction paper Race is a group of people united or classified together on a basis of common history, nationality, or geographic distribution. As you continue on reading I"m going to tell you a little about people of the Chinese race and their strugg...

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The realization that she would be forced to remain in her position of low status with a future without advancement made her wish that her father had reached the United States and would request for his children to join him. ... One of these many times occurred a few days after the birth of Rachel and Abraham's first daughter Minnie. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

As the story unfolds, it was shown that Daddy has no control over the relationship. ... This point is proven by the statement that granny was born in the farm and was brought to the city by her daughter. ... George being an associate History professor in a New Carthage university where Martha's father is the President adds an extra problem to their relationship. ... However, as story progresses, Martha brought this imaginary son way too far into reality. ... Without the Angel of Death, there will be no conclusion of the story. ...

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Her gift of writing poetry was encouraged by her owners and their daughter, Mary; they taught Phillis to read and write, with her first poem being published at the age of twelve, "On Messrs. ... Smith, became a Mormon convert in 1847, Mason and her three daughters joined his family on a 2,000-mile trek to the Utah Territory during which Mason was responsible for herding the cattle, preparing the meals and serving as midwife. ... California being a free state, Mason and her daughters petitioned the court for their freedom, which was granted in 1856. ... One source said her father was a black A...

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The stories of the internment camps are withheld from the normal history class because the history that we are taught was written by an educated, upper-middle class white man. ... During the same time there was an issue in the south with young white women, usually the daughters of plantation owners, having sex with black men. Some of these women would tell slaves that if he didn't have sex with her, she would tell her father that he tried to rape her. ... They had set roles in life as mothers and daughters and were a significant part of the family unit. ...

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Critical Essay on "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee "To Kill a Mockingbird" is a fictional story set in a small Southern town, Maycomb, in the early 1930. The story is told through the life of a little girl, Scout Finch, and her relationship with the main characters her brother, Jem, father, Atticus, friend, Dill housekeeper, Calpurnia, and her dealings with the township people and events that happen in her town. ... The Ewell father, Robert Lee, drinks and doesn't take proper care of his seven children. ... The father and children do not speak well and curse. ... It was th...

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Casablanca was a story of political and romantic espionage. ... As families saw their sons, daughters, mothers and fathers depart they turned their eyes to baseball and even though five hundred Major League ball players served in the World War II, baseball continued. ...

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Therefore we are able to see the influence of Leila's mother Mah and her Step Father Leon in her decision-making and overall assimilation into American Culture. ... This life has been seen as easier to Leila, there at times where she wants to escape and pursue an "American Dream" but she is too tied to the Chinese traditions of family commitment "for a moment I was tempted to fall back into the easiness of being Mah's daughter, of letting her be my whole life"(NG, 190) Bearing her family's issues Leila is able to represent the struggling Asian American identi...

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• Grade Level: Graduate