This tells us that Elie and his father at this point had a relationship based on respect as so many Orthodox Jewish families had between fathers and sons. ... Elie and his father become more like a father and son with more based on love and emotion than respect and obedience. ... Elie had witnessed a 13-year old child beating his father to death for making his bed improperly, how could a father and son remain close in a place like this with such events occurring around them. ... Elie witnessed a man trying to grab a piece of bread from his son and in return his son killed him. ... Not o...

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In fact, the leadership of several higher officers is so strong that they become father figures. ... Stryker had fought with Conway's father on the Guadalcanal. Conway's father died in battle and Stryker desperately missed his own son, so he felt responsible to take over as his father figure. In Platoon the father figure for Chris Taylor (Charlie Sheen) is Sergeant Elias. ... There are times since I have felt like the child born of those two fathers." ...

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The movie progresses a few days while the man and his young son comb the streets looking for the bicycle and the thief. ... After wandering around without any luck, he and his son end up outside of a packed soccer stadium with a sea of parked bicycles. In what becomes an agonizing decision he attempts to steal a bicycle but his caught while his young son looks on in pain. ... You really begin to feel the emotions of the characters after the father returns home after his bike has been stolen. ... Watching his character deteriorate as the film progresses is phenomenally sad, how he begins ...

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Vladek Spiegelman, the main character in the graphic novel MAUS by art Spiegelman, lives to tell about his tortured life in an interview with his son decades later. The father tells his son the story of how he survived the Holocaust. ... Also, Vladek is brave when he sneaks throughout the streets to his father's old house. ... Vladek's survival depended on his tenacity, bravery, and determination and because of these traits; he is able to retell his struggles to his son, Artie. ...

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Hitler was not German he was Austrian(Beech) .His father Allies was a peasant, illegitimate she was the son of a peasant girl named Maria Schickigruber(ciest1). when her son was.Adolf s father married a Millers hand named Georg Hiedler in 1842 . When her son was five years old . his mother at the first time she was pregnant. ... The question of his fathers Paternity, following allegations that he had been half-Jewish. in 1885. ... In 1902-3 the year which his father died. ...

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Raised by his mother, Koseki Oe, and his father, Kotaro Oe, Oe was brought up with a love for literature and art. ... Oe was only 9-years-old when his father and grandmother both passed away, his father died fighting in World War II (par.2). ... Doctors had to explain to Oe that they had to perform surgery to remove the growth or his son would die. ... This visit gave him the knowledge to return to his home and let the doctors perform the surgery on his son Hikari (par. 29). ... Oe's influence on the parents of children diagnosed with autism will also be well known for years to come, h...

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As time went on, the emperor's son would stay at their hotel frequently on business trips, showing how famous their hotel was. Nichieushi and her father's fleet of fishing ships created their families wealthy name. ... Chieko's father's side of the family was part of the Samurai heritage. ... Chieko's father was recruited to join the Americans army. ... After the war, your son/daughter want to marry one of the people that killed your own. ...

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His daughter is engaged to Galiotso and Benito is happy because he was good friends with his father. ... At home Benito's two sons want to join the air force, but they want to achieve it themselves, not with the help of their father and they both made it into the air force. ... Galiotso does not like the German's and Victorio also defends Jews from men in black shirts; they only listen to him because he is Mussolini's son. ...

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Stalin's father Vissarion was an abusive hard drinking man who eventually failed as an independent artisan and left his family to work in a factory in Tiflis which was the capital of Georgia when Stalin was five years old. For the rest of Stalin's childhood, Joseph and Yekaterina lived in the home of a priest named Father Charkviani where the hard-working woman attempted to make sure that her only son would be educated enough to escape the drudgery of a lower class life. ... His mother enrolled him in the Gori Church School in September 1888 when her son was nine and he graduated...

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Wesley told Julian Hayden, who is Frank and Wesley's father. ... Because of this, Julian sends a few men from his farm to try to rescue and free his son Frank from Wesley's basement. ... Even though Julian knew that his son was a rapist, he still wanted him to be free in society. ...

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From a young age, the moment Hatsue becomes friends with Ishmael Chambers, a printer's son, she begins to disregard her Japanese heritage and begins to fall in love with Ishmael. ... Kabuo's lawyer, at the end of the trail, speaks to the jurors for the last time and tell them to look past what might be on the outside, and look at the person Kabuo is on the inside: a father, a brother, a son, and a human being. ...

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Working together every day, Stephen looks at his father as one of the most important people in his life. ... (P28)" His father is the strongest among all men and doesn't hesitate to pass on his own beliefs. ... Regarding his role model as a "real man", Stephen finds it crucial to carry on his father's thoughts and beliefs, in hopes that his own father wouldn't think of him as being any less of man, as his father states, "There ain't no room for kids in the pulp woods.... This reflects the seemingly unimportance of being a "man" that Stephen's father...

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It has been said that each person plays his or her own role in society. Many decades ago, the role of the man was that of the caretaker; he was responsible for financial matters and status of the family. The role of the woman was as the homemaker; she was responsible for affairs of the home and th...

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He was the eldest son of Yoshihito. ... Shortly after returning to Japan, Hirohito became regent for his father, who became mentally ill. As regent, he performed imperial duties on his father's behalf. After his father's death in 1926, Hirohito became emperor. ... His first son, Akihito, succeeded him. ...

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His father was Grey County registrar and a strict Liberal, he was very conservative. ... In 1911, at age 17, his parents sent him to Royal Military College in Kingston, Ontario, as his father knew he wouldn't get into the University of Toronto with his mediocre marks. ... His son William Aurthor Bishop enlisted in the RAF as a fighter pilot and later wrote books about his father. ...

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The beginning of Maus begins with the reader being thrown into one of the many scenes of Art visiting his father, Vladek. ... Even to his own son, Vladek has trouble opening up about personal memories and expressing his love and care. ... He is especially incapable of trusting people who did not live the same life, like his son. ...

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"Police are supposed to serve us and protect us, and instead they kill us," (Cooksey, Article Three; Page One) was Janet Cooksey's response to the slaying of her nineteen-year-old son, Quintonio LeGrier. Her son was shot and killed early Saturday, December 26, 2015, the morning when police were called to his father's house in the West Garfield Park neighborhood for a domestic disturbance. ...

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"He was the second son. "The oldest son would go into the army, the next brother would be a doctor, a brother after that would be a businessman- (Ondaatje, 182). ... The war took her husband and her father. ... The father was already dead. ... Even her lifelong friend of her fathers, Caravaggio is suffering from the war. ...

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He was the son of two Irish immigrants, William and Mary Ford. ... Ford helped his father with the harvest and also attended school in a one-room schoolhouse. At age fifteen he left school to work on his father's farm full time. ... When he returned his father gave him 40 acres to start his own farm. ... Ford had a stroke in 1938 but returned to run the company and resume the presidency after his son, Edsel Ford, died in 1943 (World Book Encyclopedia: Henry Ford). ...

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As the son of a prominent headmaster, Narayan grew up in household where education was highly valued, and he was pushed toward an educational career. ... His mother was the village schoolmistress, and his father, a blacksmith. ...

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Moreover, the story is also about a conflicted mother-son relationship. Krebs' small-town mother cannot comprehend her son's struggles and sufferings caused by the war. She devotes herself to her religion and never questions her own values; she manipulates her son. ... Her sermons to her son lack any power to heal his spiritual wounds. ... Krebs' noncommittal father is obviously dominated by his wife; she makes the decisions. ...

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Before his first birthday, his family had moved to Munich where young Albert's father, Hermann Einstein, and uncle set up a small electro-chemical business. ... Albert's mother, Pauline Einstein, had an intense passion for music and literature, and it was she that first introduced her son to the violin in which he found much joy and relaxation. ... A favorite toy of his was his father's compass, and he often marveled at his uncle's explanations of algebra. ... Einstein was now able to move to Prague with his wife and two sons, Hans Albert and Eduard. ...

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Hitler was the son of a man named Alois. Alois Hitler's father was a Custom official's, and his mother was named Klara. ... Adolf's father was very strict with him, and ignored him most of the time because Adolf liked to dream. As you can see Adolf did not idealize his father very much, and his death in 1903 actually came as a relief to Adolf. ...

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They had six boys and their seventh son died of infancy. They moved to a house in Abilene, Kansas where they raised their six sons. Each one of their six sons was successful in life. ... My father and I play golf at this course in Ocean Shores. ...

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Stalin was a son of a poor cobbler who often used to beat him which resulted in Stalin having many scars on his face. ... After graduating from school faster than any other student of his age, Joseph's mother enrolled her son in the Tiflis Orthodox Theological Seminary in 1893, where he also received high marks due to his extraordinary memory. ... Stalin was truely the "father of USSR," he guided his awkward and weak child into becoming a strong and powerful man. ...

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