Colonel Sartoris Snopes, who is called "Sarty" by his family, is a major character in William Faulkner's "Barn Burning." ... Sarty felt an innate loyalty to the clan (family) and at the same time realizes that his father aims for him to lie and that he would have to do it to maintain the familial bond. ... His father is unable to understand this love that transcends family ties. ... He did not resent the fact that his family might always be sharecroppers and never really own anything. ... Sarty's struggle is with his own heart, the hearts of his family, and the Mississippi sha...

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Marriage, it is a wonderful thing. A sacred bond between two people who will go through a great journey. marriage seems to be important in all cultures. Since everyone in the world understands the wonderful sanctities of marriage, why shouldn't people do it as many times as they see fit. Many qu...

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Pushes can come from troubled psyches, or stressful circumstances outside the individual, whereas pulls can be from family, friends, etc. ... Hirschi's a bit different with the social bond theory. ...

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For Jim it is a way out of the slavery and ultimate separation from his family. ... As a result they make up a sort of alternative family. ... One of the significant roles of the journey played was to develop a sort of relational bond between Huck and Jim. ... (Page 3) He was lacking a sense of family that the people on shore could not provide for him. ... Together they make up an alternative family. ...

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One couple who lost their baby who they never got a chance to raise or bond with, has already donated $200, 000 to the Clonaid company in order to clone their dead baby. This is not the only case that involves seeing dead loved ones again, many families have saved the cells of their lost ones in hope that one day they may be able to see their faces once again. ...

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This bond broke their connection with nature and made them the individual humans they became. ... We are not told what we can and cannot do, although we frown upon people when they are disobedient to theiuuur family, authorities, and government. ... Man must be broken from the ties of his family and be his own person and have courage to be able to say no to the power. ...

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She places family before the law, and ventures out to give her brother a proper burial. ... Similarly, Creon, instead of seeing that his niece Antigone placed family and the Gods before the law of the land, solely sees that he has been disobeyed. ... When Nora closes behind her the door of her doll's house, she opens wide the gate of life for woman, and proclaims the revolutionary message that only perfect freedom and communion make a true bond between man and woman, meeting in the open without lies, shame, and free from bondage of duty. ...

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• Grade Level: High School