Love is a powerful emotion which gives people the strength to go to extremes for one another. The bonds shared between family members are strengthened by love and devotion. ... My twin sister and I loved playing sports, and Papa was always our biggest fan. ... Diagnostic tests confirmed that my grandfather had Stage IV aggressive lymphoma. ... Through all the love and support he has given me, I can truthfully say that Papa is my favorite relative....

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• Grade Level: High School

As parents, trust and love need to be the motivators in guiding children, authority can become power, and power must not be used to break a child's will. ... The mother shows she loves her by limiting her daughter's activities. ... All will test the waters as they grow up. ... Parents love their children so much they make sacrifices, set positive discipline, and values in their children. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Still my mom had to go through more tests, a common procedure for those diagnosed with cancer. ... We went through the papers and found a pretty good deal, we went to the dealership, looked over a car, took it out for a test drive and decided to buy it. When I first saw this car, I fell in love with it. ... One of the tests showed 2 spots on her right lung and multiple tumors on her uterus. ...

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Aaron did, he was one of the few students that got tested and deemed intelligent enough for TAG program in Elementary school through and continued to get very good grades throughout high school. ... This postmodern emphases on measuring intellect " and achievement gives much more weight to grades and test performance than to what children know and understand" (Goldberg, 2000, p.126). ... Postmodern families also put a lot of emphasizes of consensual love. ... Eliza and Aaron both used consensual love on every member of the family, including each other. ... This use of consensual love i...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Her mother appreciates her help and she loves her daughter with a very deep love. ... "The doctor told me it didn't seem to be anything serious, but he took my blood for tests to make sure", said her mother. ... The Oncologist finally called and told them they had received the results form her tests. ... She loved and depended on her mother so much. ...

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The fact that the gift from her father was from Hink's, a women's clothing store, not a girls clothing store, made her feel as if her father was treating her as a woman creating a sense of love and acknowledgment in her life. ... These two actions, both very large acts of love, added to the illusion that her father was a caring and loving man. The illusion of love created by the speaker's father gains even more bulk when the speaker opens the gift and finds that the big box contains a perfectly fitting "blue shirtwaist dress blue as the side of a blue teal disguised to go ...

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He, himself, loved the town of Hanover and all his childhood memories of being there. ... She loved it in Hanover and accepted it as home and called her mother daily. ... She loved being out of the house. ... One day in early September Britney cheated on a drug test and was allowed to regain custody of Brenna. ... And I have never seen a little girl that appreciated the love and affection given to her nearly as much as Brenna. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

I entered high school very well aware of how important my G.P.A. and test scores are. ... I have not become apathetic about my education; in fact I love learning and strive to learn new things from whomever and whenever I can. The hardest part of the educational process for me is the repetition of subject matter and the standard of excellence students are supposed to meet when it is solely based upon memorization for a test. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Adrian also has an on-again-off-again relationship with the love of his life, Pandora which is a plays a major part in his life throughout the course of his diary. ... Also in a spelling test at school, he only scores 7 out of 20 while his girlfriend Pandora scores 20 out of 20. Adrian blames the test result on the mental stress he has been put under after his parents divorcing but if he were as truly intelligent as he considers himself to be then he would've gotten a better mark than 7. ...

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The closeness to the child makes them feel loved and secure as well. ... Oxytocin promotes maternal-infant bonding-that in-love-with-my-baby feeling. ... It is easy to make sure the carrier is safe for the baby by simply testing it out right there in the store. ... The gift of feeling safe and loved, that is been given to the child with baby wearing, is the foundation for healthy family bonds and is defiantly worth a little back pain....

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

I loved both my parents; it was grueling to see them apart. And there it was, I love my parents. I realized that as long as I loved my parents there was no reason to feel that I've lost them both. ... He was testing my faith through these trials. ...

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Being one of three children, she didn't get much love and attention. ... Her mother was a disabled crippled woman who was getting worse and worse and who the father didn't love. ... Losing the men she loved the most caused her even greater pain. ... Ruth battled not only racism but also poverty to raise her children and, despite being sorely tested, never wavered. ... Losing her husbands that she loved deeply, she overcame it. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Sadly, this is not always possible, because doctors have run so many tests but still have no answers. ... My mother's unconditional love for me has made me a better person. ... My mother is always there for those she loves which is something I am trying to emulate. ... I love him, and I am very grateful to have him in my life. ... My mother's unconditional love has made me a better person. ...

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My sister and I kissed her and said, "I love you mama. " I did not know those were going to be my last words or even my last time seeing her alive forever. ... I thought she meant she passed all of her tests and she was coming home to us. ... I told her goodbye and that I loved her, as tears ran down my face. ... The funeral directors explained to us that it was a ceremony where everyone says their goodbyes and shares the good times that they have spent with their loved ones. ...

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The lead character, Larry Brown, explains his day-to-day tasks such as testing the pump on the truck, making sure the tuck is full of fuel, clean and full of water; you have to check that your clothes are all together, your lights and sirens because everything has to be ready to go. ... He says "You learn to love a job that is not like sacking groceries, or working in a factory or painting houses, because everybody watches you when you come down the street. ...

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If their love ones does not take interest on what they are doing they tend to drop out to receive attention whether it is good or bad. ... Just because she had problems in math and she would only make D's on all of her science test she would skip school and that later resulted in dropping out of school. ...

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Every test I would ace, every report I would do amazing on never seemed good enough through the eyes of a child who made their mother leave his life. ... Sure, I love him and all, but I do not see past his annoying antics right away and I always talk back to him or just walk away from him. ... Every time I would find out my love, or my lust if you want to call it, was not returned by the person I desired, another chip was cracked off my heart. ...

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By testing her limits and pushing her boundaries, she is in a sense breaking away from the norm and becoming her own individual. ... It was hard to accept what had happened, not because I loved to nurse but because that was when I felt close to my mom. ...

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I believe that our earliest childhood memories play a part in influencing our future career; it's certainly true for me. Every summer my family and I used to take a camping trip on Fourth of July weekend. The summer camping trip in 1990, was the year my career path was put in place. Music to my ear,...

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This Reality The Glass Menagerie written by Tennessee Williams follows the lives of three people of a middle-class family, Amanda Wignfield and her two children Laura and Tom. Mr. Wingfeild left his family many years prior to the time this play takes place. The only representation, besides memori...

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Arnold uses more of his powers when Connie tries to test Arnold: "if my father comes and sees you ."" (477), He replies by revealing more of what he knows: "Your mother is helping some fat woman with the corn, they're cleaning corn- "he ain't coming. ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The person she marries is actually in love with Celie's sister, Nettie, but their father decides Nettie has too much potential to succeed in the world to marry so young; therefore Celie is the next option. ... I don't love Mr.___ and he don't love me" (Walker 66) explains the nature of this relationship perfectly. ... The forced marriage did not consist of love for Celie and Mr._; he shows no respect towards his wife and often demands that Celie clean the house, care for the children, prepare meals, and work in the fields outside. ... An excerpt of literary criticism which su...

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• Grade Level: High School

Yet, they loved living there because they didn't pay rent, or share the yard with others, or need to be quiet. ... Meanwhile, he continued testing out the rockets and figuring out how he could make the rocket go higher. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

When Halie was born I never knew I could love somebody so much. ... After a week and a half in the hospital the doctors ran some testing and had pronounced my six and a half month old baby girl brain dead. ...

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The biggest factor in our marriage problems is my father in law, Mr. David Robinson, and to some extent Dennis her brother. Dad never worked or did anything for his wife and family. All his life he was addicted to drugs and admitted several times to rehab. After a break became alcoholic and attracted to gambling, and fighting on streets in Saddar. ...

• Word Count: 4191
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• Grade Level: High School