This is what my aunt, grandmother, my mother and I hear in the background as we set the table for our Thanksgiving feast. ... Once all the food was ready to be served, the ladies began to put the food on the table. ... While we served ourselves, the men were already eating, wiping up the gravy on their plates with the freshly baked rolls. ... The men had watched TV, laughed, conversed, and eaten all day, without saying "thank you" or offering to help us cook, serve, or clean-up. ...

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Women in rural communities still don't enjoy equal rights and status as their husbands, and are expected to serve as workers to their husbands. ... A young person may still ask his parent, employer or teacher to serve as an official matchmaker, or any of these may serve as an unofficial one because young people are too busy working to have time to meet anyone. ... A typical set of qualifications includes: college grad, not the oldest son or only son, prestigious job (especially if it involves work overseas), manly gentleness, strong convictions, attentiveness to others, humor, fashi...

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The story begins in a small store that, also, served as a courtroom for the Justice Of The Peace in the rural area where the story commences. ... They leave the store, and travel in their wagon to the next place where the family sets up house for their next position as sharecroppers. ... The Justice Of The Peace finds that the 20 bushels of corn requested in payment for the damage of the rug is too high, and sets the damages at 10 bushels instead. ... He then goes to the barn where the father is about to set it on fire and shoots the father. ...

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My family has been my motivation to strive and work hard for the goals I have set for myself. I am not the type of person that gives up easily or complains of the roadblocks life sets in my path; they will only make me stronger not weaker. ... My tenacity and mother's experience would serve me as a model and reminder of the goals I need to achieve. I am a strong-willed person that will not rest until I have fulfilled all the objectives I have set for myself. ...

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Another set of emotions that exist between Catherine and her father, Robert, are those of love and resentment. ... Kasper serves as the prevalent example of erotica in his and Jolene's relationship. ... It is because of this technique that these plays achieve a poignant father-daughter connection as they set out to do....

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One of the American dining practices that stands out in contrast to eastern cultures is how food is served and eaten, in a traditional restaurant setting. ... Over the course of the meal each dish is served sequentially, usually at a rectangular table, and everybody concentrates on his own dish with sharing kept to a minimum unless among closer friends or relatives. ... On the other hand, a traditional Chinese meal would involve a collection of different dishes of meats and vegetables, soup, all served together with bowls of personal servings of rice to consumed with the dishes. ... At a f...

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Throughout time, families serve as a connection between the individual and the outside world. ... The one essay that seems to support my own set of values is the one entitled Reserve Marriage for Heterosexuals. ... Throughout time, families serve as a connection between the individual and the outside world. ... The one essay that seems to support my own set of values is the one entitled Reserve Marriage for Heterosexuals. ...

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The economic environment set in the play appears to be that you can work your way up in the social classes. ... The political environment set in the play was aristocrats or know as communism. ... With Firs you see that the liberation has made him free but he remains to the whims of the family he serves, as he had always been. ...

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At some point in life, all of us will set goals for ourselves, each of us, somewhere down the road, will experience a relationship or an event that will leave a mark in our life and change us forever. ... Events like this although painful, serve to make us stronger. ...

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Dramatic Conflict in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to The Forum A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum was set in the 3rd century B.C., in the streets of Rome. ... Therefore, Pseudolus also has to serve the wants of Senex and Domina while stopping the marriage of Philia and Miles Gloriosus by outfoxing everyone. ...

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Each round table was set up with name tags for place setting and beautiful white thorn-less roses welcoming the residents. ... The patients were getting antsy so I served them their coffee. ... The nurse walked in to escort Margaret to the patio where lunch was being served. ...

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Yes, there is a sense of independence, but that independence serves only to let the male know that he is indeed a man who is contributing to society as he should. In Rome, the male children are more focused on whatever predetermined goal has been set for them, while American male children or as they say, teenagers, are allowed to drift from interest to interest, with no direction, while being chastised for their "lack of ambition" but are supported financially by the same parents who chastise those actions. ... This serves to undermine all of the teachings that have been imprinted in the chi...

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As the story is set in motion it appears that the Grandmother is the ideal relative, which is shown when she offers to take the baby from her worn-out daughter-in-law, "she set him on her knee and bounced him and told him about the things they were passing" (O"Connor 1955). My views began to change as the action of the story was set in motion. ... This story alone serves an important reminder to me and everyone else who has read this story of what the "real world" is about. ...

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Worse news came when Orlando got home, Adam, the old retainer who had served the family over 60yrs, warned Orlando that he must fly. ... Adam had offered to accompany Orlando and so they set off together to seek the banished Duke in the Forests of Arden. ...

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We set up the altar with tray of five fruits: coconuts, papayas, custard, mangos, and figs according to flowers to express the respect with our ancestors. ... There are several kinds of food which served in this holiday such as "Chung Cake" or "Tet Cake", Vietnamese sausage, and candied fruits. ...

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I will continue to actively serve in my community and help to keep the area clean and protected. ... As an Eagle Scout, I feel it is my obligation to keep both my family and city safe and clean, as well as set a good example and do a good turn daily. ...

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What I mean is that you have to go with the flow know what you can and cant do as a prisoner and go that way to serve your time and get out to see those children that you left behind. The last big point that I feel relates to coming to college is that they say "entering the prison world, like any new experience, involves learning a unique set of strategies, behaviors and meanings." ...

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First a social worker must define the "System of Intervention," or the set of programs, services, and resources that are the focus of the outcome monitoring effort. ... Coordination of System Resources Buchanan/3 Before all these systems are used, a social worker sets a goal and uses these strategies to help them achieve that goal with their clients. They set long and short-term goals that are realistic and achievable. ... This set of philosophical principles above help them select the key outcomes and the strategies for achieving them. ... The National Association of Social Worker...

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This soliloquy serves to prepare the readers for the rest of Hamlet's feelings, measures, and beliefs. ... This sets up a new problem in the play. ... Since it sets up Hamlet's depression and ends with no action, the soliloquy actually intensifies what was originally a relatively small problem involving only his family. ...

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On this day, ladies from the groom's family go to the brides home and brings with them clothes, jewelry, shoes, a purse, and any other accessories for the bride on her wedding day along with 7 sets of clothes and accessories as a gift from the grooms family to the bride. ... Still clothes are given to the groom for the wedding day, and rather than giving the groom 7 sets of clothes, gifts are given to the entire immediate family of the groom. ... After the mother, the guests congratulate and greet the newly weds and dinner is served. ...

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As it was too early, none of the coffee shop were open yet, so we decided to go across the street of the hospital, where there was a restaurant that served breakfast and was opening at that very moment. We stayed there for almost an hour, having conversations about my brother that would be called Luigi, something that we had already set when we discover that it was a boy. ... We were waiting outside the room where we can see the babies newly born having professional care from doctors, to see if everything is alright, the babies stayed there until the mothers were set in their room, only then t...

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Having learned English as an adult Sam immediately set about to murder it as best he could. ... His pride in the United States was coupled with his Orthodox Jewish faith, although not too deeply observed, having been exposed to a more secular socialist leaning Jewish culture through the "Workmens' Circle" and by reading the "Daily Forward" the leading secular Yiddish newspaper in the United States during the great immigration of Eastern European Jews prior to World War I and subsequently served the needs of that generation until it more or less died out in the later part of the twentieth ...

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"# Although it was not allowed for a woman to serve in combat, Deborah decided to disguise herself as a man and enlist in the army. ... Deborah set off with fifty other soldiers and made the two week march to West- Point. ... Once the regiment arrived in West Point they were given heavy knapsacks to carry and new uniforms. " Robert" served with Captain Nathan Thayer, Deborah's company went to lower New York where while Washington held the area, many small attacks were still happening. ...

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This lady, filled with "missionary purpose that came upon her like the flu" took in young Aboriginal girls and "aimed to make ladies of them so they could set an example for the rest of their sorry race". ... Finally, the aboriginal man serves as a final reminder to why family is important. ... At the start, they are presented as "Godfearing people you could see it in the way they set up a light in the darkness". ...

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Days passed, and they still were set on getting some where. ... Their next goal was set on having a boy. ... We caught the early bus, that way we were able to have the free breakfast served by the school. ... There are not any set rules on who did what. ...

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