The parable follows a a linear structure in which the younger son asks for his part of the inheritance, leaves to recklessly spend it in 'wild living', finds himself in hard times without resources, and returns home to find acceptance from his father as well as anger from his older brother. ... He resents his brother's return and declines to celebrate. ... On his son's return, the father said and repeated 'For this son of mine was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.' His son became selfish and filled with greed (dead, lost), and the consequences o...

• Word Count: 883
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Louis with her mother and her mother's parents, brothers, and boyfriend, while she was eight; back in Stamps from age nine to thirteen; and in California with her mother, to age sixteen. Her brother was her constant companion during all but the last year. ... Louis, Maya found her mother, whom she had known only as someone who had abandoned her and who probably was dead, to be a wonder of light-skinned beauty and hurricane energy, in constant social demand. ... Freeman, her mother's boyfriend, who suffered similar neglect; when he began to abuse her sexually, an abuse at first accom...

• Word Count: 1226
• Approx Pages: 5
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In an effort to disprove her relatives' suggestions that she would be an old maid' (pg 4), she found herself almost running down the aisle with a man 6 years her junior. ... Unfortunately one introduction had a less-than desired effect; the eldest son Cody, also scarred by his parents' broken down marriage, saw his opportunity to get even' with his brother. Cody had a ridiculous mindset that Ezra was responsible for most of the things that had gone wrong in his life and consequently, developed a relationship with his fiancée that quickly led to a change in grooms, ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

As a sheriff, Wesley Hayden finally challenged his family name and arrested his brother Frank who was guilty in raping Indian girls, standing for the justice with strong moral beliefs. ... As David says, Julian just found a way to retain his power in Bentrock when retiring -- that is to turn the post over to his son Wesley (21). However, this decision makes Wes's life very painful and miserable, with further accumulating conflicts between these two brothers. ...

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As is explained in the background detail of Willie, Willie's father leaves Willie and his brother Ben, at a young age, leaving Willie no money to take care of him self, also Willie being of such a young age has no memories of his father. ... Completely missing from Willies perception of the American dream is that one must work hard to obtain this ideal, this perception is granted to him from the stories that he has heard about his father striking it rich and about his brother becoming rich. ... The seeds of Willie's self destruction in the play can be seen in the very first scene, wh...

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As a child, Casey Anthony's parents favored her over her older brother, Lee. ... An essential piece to the puzzle is the fact that Casey never wanted to have Caylee when she found out she was pregnant. ...

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Despite Campbell's efforts to provide adequate means for herself and her children, she found herself in a very dark place near the end of the memoir. ... Campbell finished her memoir on a positive note by making reference to Cheechum when she told Maria that she would eventually find herself, her brothers and sisters. Campbell closes with: "I have my brothers and sisters all over the country. ...

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Parents, grandparents, brothers or sisters and grandchildren that are under the age of 18 and that is not married or in a common-law relationship are considered eligible through the Family Reunification program. ... Brothers or sisters that are over the age of 18, or other relatives who are not listed are not eligible to be sponsored through the program. ... Findings from longitudinal survey that was conducted on immigrants to Canada following the Second World War found that about 50% of females were unemployed through the second half of the 20th century in Canada, which makes it 21% less than...

• Word Count: 1742
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Soon after her arrival in New York, he took her to the family homestead near Devil's Lake, North Dakota, where they joined Abraham's brothers and parents on adjoining claims. ... Rachel Calof found herself bounded by similar Jewish laws, beliefs, and superstitions while beginning her life in the United States. Several times, she found herself deprived of her natural, marital, and maternal rights and privileges as a result of religious "law." ...

• Word Count: 962
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America was founded on diversity, such as ethnicity and lifestyle, as it was founded by immigrants. ... And the fact that "minority individuals are more likely to live in extended family homes than Whites and in many ways more likely to help out their aging parents, grandparents, adult children, brothers, sisters, cousins, aunts, uncles, and other kin"(Gerstel and Sarkisian 48) contradicts the "Myth of the Model Family," as it shuns these minority family styles and favors nuclear families. ... Hezel, a Jesuit priest, summarizes that "the old formula 'education eq...

• Word Count: 1497
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Janie became to look to Harmon as her big brother and he was the only on she ever came to know as for the babies she could barely stand to be around them. ... The first time Janie attended church she saw how everyone would sing and she had decided to join in, when this happened she found how much joy it had brought her and also everyone around her noticed how beautiful her voice was. ... Janie's mother was, what she found out to be as she got older, trading her for heroin to a couple that had lost their daughter from an illness. ... While Leshaya was doing that she found a shoe box f...

• Word Count: 2988
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

It has been found that violence between siblings has become more common than child or spouse abuse because many people assume that it is normal for it to exist but they forget it can get very serious. ... They might even do it better than their firstborn brother. ...

• Word Count: 1375
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate