"Push a needle into my veins; press a pillow to my face; put a bullet to my head-as an act of love" (Larsen 78). ... Men stared and whistled at me on the street from my teens until I was past sixty. ... I have asked my grandmother why we prolonged his suffering, and she says she regrets it very much, but it was partially due to the hospital's persistence to keep him alive and give our family false hopes. ... "Put a needle into my veins; press a pillow to my face; put a bullet to my head-as an act of love" (Larsen 78). ... In many cases, it would be honorable to human life to respect ...

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So, if I were to create a more modern, more appealing version to teens today, there are many small changes or additions I"d make. ... For example, I might say that her mom had passed away instead of her dad, and the reason she is despised by her family was because their mom died giving birth to Cinderella. ... For Cinderella, there are no friends, no movies, no dessert or seconds at the dinner table, no gifts on Christmas, nothing but the necessary roof over her head, tattered clothes on her back, and scarce food on the table. ...

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In the United States there are many people who know how to speak different languages because they emigrated from different countries. Language is the basis of any culture, so if you take away the language you take away the culture. It is this loss of language that has taken today's generations from ...

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