Following this seizure episode, she required day-to-day special care that we were unable to provide. The toughest decision we were faced with was placing her in an assisted living facility. ... Before I knew it, breakfast was over and the residents were back in their rooms. ... The meal concluded with a sugar-free vanilla pudding. ... Before we knew it, her plate was clean as we conversed animatedly. ...

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We were in town because of my grandfather's recent passing. ... My cousin Marcus had just run in five minutes before in attempts to wake me, all to no avail. ... Then I was outside, I was free. ... Marcus and I were busy hanging out on the front stoop when he arrived. He had this magnetic aura about him where no matter what anyone was doing before they saw him, he made them stop to take notice. ...

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It is almost certain that parents would do just about anything for their daughter not to have sex before marriage. ... Arguments were usually about how late they were out, where they were going, or about a boy they were not aloud to date. ... We are told that we are free. We are also made to believe that we can believe and do anything we want whenever we want. ... If the system is portrayed as free, open, and fair, one will not be conscious one is being controlled. ...

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The story begins after the two had been married for 6 months and were about to have a baby. ... Six months had past since they were married, Now little Barry is what Nicole has for 5 months has carried. ... Three months following that Barry Jr. had arrived a little before his time, And that's when the relationship went downhill with the drop of a dime. ... As Nicole had held it in for 2 week she could not take it anymore so she let her feelings out, And when Barry came home from work she said" Listen, there is something we need to talk about." ... "Huh, and just to think what you v...

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While most kids her age were dealing with the magnetic personality of Paul McCartney, Dolores was fighting with the effects of divorce, rape, and mental illness. "Mine is a story of craving: an unreliable account of lusts and troubles that began, somehow, in 1956 on the day our free television was delivered." ... Not many people could withhold from their husbands the fact that they were once in a mental institution, just like their mother, or that they once weighed 236 lbs. It would be more difficult still to keep from them the fact that you searched them out, and got to know them by stealin...

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Through Elie Wiesel's gritty depiction of the treatment towards Jews in his homeland of Hungary we learn that much of the oppression inflicted by the Nazis began before the transportation to concentration camps. ... Towards the end of their stay, we learn that Elie has moved on to loading heavy stones onto railway wagons (p. 70). ... Elie remembers feeling "free at last" after learning of his father's death (p. 106). ... The son had left his father behind in the hopes of freeing "himself from an encumbrance which could lessen his own chances for survival." ... Through Elie Wie...

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Home : (ham) n. 1. a. A place where one lives: residence. b. An apartment or house. 2. A household. 3. A place of origin. 4. A habitat, as of an animal or plant. 5. the goal in a game as in baseball. 6. An institution for those who need help or care ♦ syns: Abode, Digs, Dwelling, Habitation, House...

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I find myself wanting to go home after a long day at school or work, as opposed to my childhood when home was just a resting point before the next party. ... Both of us being from New Jersey, we were raised in an atmosphere where only people who had already graduated college, had a good job, their own house, and could afford it, actually got married. ... We knew it was supposed to happen, so we threw our petty reasons out the window and informed our families of the good news. ... The day Hayley entered my life, I knew things were about to change drastically. ... From stress-free, relaxin...

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There we would use lye soap and a rubbing board to get the clothes clean before hanging them out to dry in the fresh breeze. ... We knew when we brought in a basketful of brightly colored lettuce, tomatoes and radishes that we were certain to have a crispy salad for supper that could make you wish for a yearlong garden. ... When our chores were completed, we were free to do as we pleased until it was time to help Mama prepare supper. ... Some nights we chatted, other nights we listened to Babe Ruth and the Yankees easily add another number to their win column, but more often than not, we wou...

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Her father, my grandfather was in the ranks of the Ethiopian military and decided it was most wise to flee the country before the rebels overthrew the dictator. ... My family would learn multiple languages and stay in multiple countries in Africa for four years before finally escaping to an over illustrated "promise land." ... My mom and family were able to overcome all of the hurdles that lay in their paths way and all now live lower middle class lives. ... But as we all know, things do not always turn out as expected. ... I want to learn until the day that I pass, Id like to be free restr...

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We go through our young adult years living stress and care-free, not realizing that one day, we could be on top of the world and the next, we could barely be hanging on. ... I could tell that things were slowly beginning to go back to normal. ... We had faith. ... "I am cancer free. ... Before this all happened, nothing ever crossed my mind that something as terrible as cancer would be brought upon my family, especially my mother. ...

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My grandfather John Bass, was the overseer of a large plantation in South Carolina before the Civil War. ... After the slaves were freed, my grandfather was out of work, so he and Uncle Ashley Rhodes, my grandmothers' brother, went to Arkansas and homesteaded some land. ... We were all afraid of the old man. ... (Guess that's why we were afraid of him). ... I was there, so was Leo & Forun, my two older brother who had also ran away from home a few years before and were living with different brother. ...

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Before they play "chicken" and one of them dies, off the cliff, Jim asks "why do we do this?" ... It symbolized the new kid generation, more united than anything we had in the 80s, with flake groups, punk rock, heavy metal, or anything we have today, the kids took to the music and the dance floor with a passion. ... The words were made up, some of them, like the old school be-bop and scat which came right up the Mississippi with the saxophone wail. ... We need to break free. ... Where we can rock and we can roll it, mom, c"mon. ...

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I can't remember much about him until we moved in with him in Delaware before my 6th birthday. ... It even got worse through the years, when we moved to New Jersey right before my 2nd grade year and that's when I really started to notice a difference in my mom and my hatred for my step dad increased. ... I don't blame my sister it's not her fault that her parents were crazy. ... So my grandparents told my mom and my steep dad that they were bad parents and that they were the reason I was leaving. ... It's like I'm finely free....

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To demonstrate this, I would like to cite two quotations from the book: "Your mother and I, when we were children we had never control over anything. ... Her ten fingers had been named for even before she was born." ... If we ask or try to find a reason Haitian women commit and follow the tradition maybe we can get an answer from a quote in the novel: " "I did it," she said "because my mother had done it to me. ... Here we see how the practice of testing goes from Ife to Martine and then to Sophie. ... Sophie has to "double" during the test and even with her husband to free her mind and bo...

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In the opening of the book it gives us a feel of how New Orleans and both families are before the storm hits. ... The first character we are introduced to is Samuel "SJ " Williams; he is a widower and works as a carpenter. ... Throughout the book we learn that SJ still mourns the death of his wife and copes with her death by working hard. ... The disability checks came in handy for personal use because she lived rent free in a house that the family owned, and wasn't paying for her medication although she never took it. ... Before she ended up in Missouri, the bus that she traveled on was ...

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Our hometown Warsaw has finally been set free by the Russian soldiers and he will now return to find us a place to live. ... We were greeted by the Rosenberg's with whom we would stay , for the next few weeks. They were very kind and hospitable however we could not afford to stay with them long. ... He was very upset but invited me and my family to celebrate Chanukah at his house before we left . ... At first I was unsure of how to respond to this style , but before long I found myself made up the same way. when I came home that night my mother and father were outraged by my new appeara...

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We were very settled into our home and community. ... A short time before my father's death unfortunate death, my grandmother passed away. ... Thirdly, my mother enjoys her free time in the community. ...

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She spent some of the story with her grandmother, or Momma, and her Uncle Willie who were both very strict. ... She and her bother moved back to Stamps with their Momma and there she saw things that normal 10 year olds shouldn"t see (We"ll just leave it at that). ... She told her mother 3 weeks before she finally had her baby. ... Compared to Maya's life, so far mine has almost been completely free of problems. ...

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How parents open their children to proficiency even before they enter school is critical for the later improvement of reading. ... In spite of the fact that signs like these appear to be safe to just about anybody that has experienced the government funded training framework, we can see the negative effect they have on youthful understudies, for example, Rodriguez that decipher them the wrong way. ... He soon made a rundown of books to read in light of the fact that they were viewed as great books. ... It is my hobby, when I'm bored I read, when I have free time, I read. ... It got to t...

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The women that she was led to us said we have some issues with the documents that given to them by my parents, for a second my parents seemed like shocked, although we really didn't have any speaking practice before and our English skills were really bad. ... I was free finally I was going to eat something and got my phone back, that was the best thing I've ever had in that day. ... I asked her about the situation that we were having. ... We couldn't believe that we were moving to the different country. ... We were so excited that night and ready to go. ...

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These people before hand, especially Sethe, dealt with prejudice, but that was just a little aspect of it. ... Whites believed they were superior to blacks and so we had slavery. ... What keeps them free is knowing that their mind, body, and will is their own and they need to appreciate it. ... I knew this before, but I honestly didn't put it together until I began writing this paragraph. Something so simple to comprehend, but we act like we don't have the time or were just to afraid to ask. ...

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In Leonor Park it shows how Hispanic culture in New Mexico was male-oriented and macho during the early part of the twentieth century and before. ... There were too many problems that went with keeping the family going. ... No questions were asked and his orders were followed. ... In Rebeca's childhood all the girls have certain chores to do and had no free time to just relax and be by themselves. ... This further shows how women serve as the literary images to suggest both the continuing presence and yet the transformation of history and culture in New Mexico and South Texas as we have u...

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Before her death and before he went back into the army, the narrator spoke with her. ... Perhaps there is no way that we can completely avoid danger. ... It is evident, Sonny and the narrator live in very different worlds, as the narrator describes: Yet, as the cab moved uptown through streets with seemed, with a rush to darkness with dark people, and as I covertly studied Sonny's face, it came to me that what we both were seeking through our separate cab windows was the part of ourselves with had been left behind. ... He confides in the music, letting his imagination run free as he...

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It gives them an atmosphere of acceptance, intimacy, support, and trust regardless of the kind of society they were brought up in and the times they happened to live in. ... Biologically we are all alike since everyone has a biological mother and father. ... However, before anything of this kind could happen, they had to distinguish themselves by hard and honest work. ... Most Americans do not want to confess that their free time is going into the greatest time sinkhole of all: television. The reason for that may have originated in the fact that an increasing amount of free time now comes ...

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