Lucas is also looking forward to spending time with friends and family over the Christmas break. ... Nicholas divides what little free time he has between cruising on his motorcycle, watching election updates on MSNBC (good thing that liar Al Gore didn't win), and most importantly, seeing his girlfriend Leslie. ... Joseph spends what little free time he has on learning acoustic guitar and the art of photography. ... Also, Joseph is excited to spend time with his friends on a snowboarding trip to Colorado in January. ... Andrew was also on hand to marry off his good friends Ryan and Chad...

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• Grade Level: High School

She is her mom's little girl and she is protected by her brothers and her dad. ... Each one of her close friends knows what is wrong with her. ... Shelby's father had grief that was a little different from his wife's. ... She might have been a little worried for her mom. ... She wants to make her friends proud and prove that she is able to have children with her diabetes. ...

• Word Count: 799
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• Grade Level: High School

The "set up" is a little more western than an arranged marriage. Friends team with other friends or partners in an attempt to conjure up a more perfect union between people they know. ... I have , at times, questioned my friends" opinions of me due to the wide array of men they have set me up with. ... Every move or sound made is then studied by your friends to ensure that this brainchild will blossom into a fabulous relationship, upon which they will receive high praises for their insight. ... One can chat freely and meet others based on recommendations from personal friends, see pictures or...

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• Grade Level: High School

She is submissive, caring, and moves a little too quickly in relationships. She is a little into herself and is a bit materialistic. ... She is a lot like me in many ways and like my friends. ... A lot of my friends are married already and they aren't even to age 25. There is also the fact that people have little faith in marriage these days. ...

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• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

One of my high school friends, Mai, once told me that she wanted to get marry when she finished high school. ... I still want to go movie, parties and hang out with my friends every weekends. ... I want to go club and met new friends. ... I still want my mom to treat me like a little girl instead of like an adult. ... I would answer, "29 would be a perfect age" Unlike most of my friends, I refuse to marry early. ...

• Word Count: 767
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

They married a little while after I was born. ... Now I live with my mom and my little brother, I am real close to my oldest half sibling she is my best friend. ... Then as I made friends and we started to get familiar, I realized that my friend's families were not all perfect. ... My other friends were raised in single family homes, raised by grandparents, aunts and uncles and some were adopted. ... We had a great relationship we were best friends. ...

• Word Count: 1627
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

Ever since I was a little girl, I knew there was something fishy about my parents" marriage. ... My dad was always gone with his "friends" that just all happened to be women who he took out to dinner and bought jewelry for. My mom used to sit at home, aware of my father's "friends", and ignore what my dad was doing. ... I figured out my dad's "friends" were really his girlfriends. ... And I knew that to be a loyal daughter I had to tell my mom about my dad's "friends," and do my best to get her out of the relationship. ...

• Word Count: 774
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• Grade Level: High School

The jobs that were available worked long hours, and paid very little. ... The Russian women lost her husband; however, she discovered an entire network of friends (Friends that range from relatives to rabbi). ... Family could include relatives, friends, priests, friends of relatives, etc. ...

• Word Count: 849
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• Grade Level: High School

Irene wants to present herself as something she is not, a person with a perfect life, marriage, and one with little to no conflict. ... Although they chose to conform and talk little about this interest to anyone, this passion for listening to serious music results in Jim buying Irene a new radio when the old one breaks. ... As she socializes with her friends she begins to wonder which of her friends matched up to what she had heard on the radio, wanting more she excuses herself, goes home, and listens to the radio. ...

• Word Count: 671
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Unfortunately, not having future goals isn't Benjamin's only problem – he's easily overwhelmed, socially awkward, superficial, and reveals very little personality. ... Benjamin Braddock doesn't fit into society, and partially because of that, is malleable, like a piece of plastic (which one of his family friends overtly states about Benjamin's personality by say one word "plastics"). ... He's just going nowhere, and finds himself in amazingly awkward situation where one of his parent's friends, a Mrs. ...

• Word Count: 568
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

The next part of the dream that I have in my head is now a little confusing. ... Growing up, I was friends with many Hispanic children. ... When I was a teenager, I asked one of my friends why they lived with so many relatives because I already knew that it wasn't out of necessity, they had enough money to live separately. ...

• Word Count: 569
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

Bibi places "his little hand on his father's knee" (32) as to console him and protect him from the building storm. ... Alcee writes to his wife, "a loving letter" (35), to where she is vacationing in Biloxi to inform her to stay longer and enjoy being with her friends and the children. ... Clarisse was "charmed" (35) to receive the letter from her husband, maybe this is the first time in a long time Clarisse has been able to see old friends and reminisce, she enjoys "the first free breath since her marriage" (35). ...

• Word Count: 587
• Approx Pages: 2
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

This along with the betrayals of his former best friends torments young Hamlet throughout the play. ... The very first line he speaks gives away the feelings he has towards his uncle "A little more than kin, and less than kind." ... The only person he trusted with the knowledge of his hatred for Claudius was Horatio, had he shared his opinion Hamlet most likely would have found allies among his friends. ...

• Word Count: 540
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

Realizing that they couldn't keep up the place without him, they were forced to sell their home and move west, leaving behind family and friends and the only life that she knew. They dry Arizona air was healing for Sarah's father, and she was adjusting to a new school, new friends, and a new way of living. ... Little did she know that her life would be changing again, and in a very big way. ... The little girl from the farm was disappearing and being replaced by the grown-up woman in the big city. ... She made new friends and lost touch with old ones. ...

• Word Count: 998
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

The little old man walked his wife to the car door and proceeded to open it for her. ... Every little thing they say or do is cute to you. ... This is when the cute little things the other person does are now annoyances. ... Think of how we treat our friends compared to our spouses. ... We should all offer our companions the same consideration that we do our friends. ...

• Word Count: 2206
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Without a care or a thought, Beatrice slurs everyone, including her family members and her friends. ... Claudio agrees to have a conversation with his friends about how much Beatrice loves Benedick. ... Claudio and Hero hope this will make their friends fall in love. ... After a little while, she reveals herself as the very much alive and well Hero. ... Claudio and Benedick are his friends, but his bastard brother, Don John, despises him. ...

• Word Count: 1363
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

As a form of announcement the bride's family distributes the bridal cakes to family and friends. ... The bride to be and her closest friends retreat to a living of seclusion for as long as needed. ... It is a little less harsh preparing for the wedding on the grooms" part. ... Friends assist him. ... Guests include close friends and family. ...

• Word Count: 2066
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

Courtship was approached with caution and little romantic spontaneity that we expect from our young lovers today. ... There were three steps to a proper marriage; first there was the consent of the friends and parents, publicly making their engagement known or the exchange of love tokens. ... Family consent as well as the friends" approval had a large effect on their courtship. ...

• Word Count: 824
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Rose was respected among her husband's colleagues and friends; this enabled her to voice her opinions and feelings so she was able to make her own friends and contacts to help her in the future. ... Rose would smile, nod and inquire, and sometimes protest, plead or pay for the release of her family and friends who were innocent. ... Rose for her children's, family and friends safety acted like she needed to but she also fought to prove that those wrongly imprisoned were innocent. ... Rose was introduced to Deputy Barras and they became friends. ... Through her friendship with Deput...

• Word Count: 2140
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

The adolescent world is a more independent one, more separated and distant from parents, more self-sufficient, where friends have become favored companions, and where the major locus of one's social life now extends outside of family into a larger world of life experience"(Pickhardt) Without this trust that is gain and shown by the parent to each other, the child will not know how to build trust with others. ... Friends can be harder to make for them and companionships will be tougher to build. ... "Parents do not have to be friends after divorce, being considerate and busines...

• Word Count: 1353
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Edna even sends her two children to their grandparents house and moves into her own little house across town. ... Through all of these little steps toward being an individual, Edna becomes a stronger woman. ... Pontellier has many friends, both male and female, whom she keeps good acquaintances with. ... Edna Pontellier relies heavily on the support of her friends to help her in this defiance of her society. ... Arobin dotes on her and eventually tries to get a little too friendly with her. ...

• Word Count: 1629
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The second marriage that I observed was that of my friends" parents who have been married for over thirty years. ... Friends would take care of the kids when the wife was out partying. ... When the brother goes places with his family he sometimes invites his little sister to go along. ... Though this marriage started off a little rocky, all is well when members of a family try their hardest to come together. ... At times she can be a little bit overprotective. ...

• Word Count: 1914
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

Al, the husband, is a women's shoe salesmen who makes very little money. ... He gives his daughter, Kelly and his son, Bud money to stay out of his hair, so he can enjoy his time with his friends. ... If food is needed she prefers spending the little money they have on fast food. ...

• Word Count: 799
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

The little support they did receive came from the generosity of friends. ... Donne was often abroad in London at this time, leaving the care of the children to Ann, because the cottage made him feel confined Both Bald and Carey, note that little is actually know about Ann's personality. ...

• Word Count: 776
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

For eight years I haven't been able to express this to anybody, not to friends, certainly not to Raj. ... Her hair, shorn only a little longer than her husband's, was parted far to one side. ... The little girl stuck out a hand. ...

• Word Count: 831
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School