Danger seems inevitable when shallow travelers, who are embodiments of the self-interested materialistic society, embark on a road trip to an unsure destination. ... Her clothing, her perfection, and her attitude are seen as religious; however, it is ironic that she appears to be dressed to attend church, and not to partake on a family road trip. ... She is more concerned with her looks than her family's safety as she specifically stated that she wanted anyone who finds her dead on the road will know she was a lady. ...

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However, there are still numerous unemployed and impoverished individuals and it is a usual sight to see children pleading on the roads. The capital suffers from unfortunate infrastructure; roads are severely jammed and there are regular power outages. ...

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Studies have shown that family dysfunction is a key component of a person suffering with long-term emotional distress and an inability to build healthy relationships with others. The amount and quality of parental monitoring is influenced by different factors such as divorce, serious financial di...

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During my adolescent years, my grandmother passed on, my parents decided to divorce, and to top it off, my mother decided to move my siblings and I across the country to live near her family in Florida. The traumatic life change was especially difficult for me for I was never given an opportunity to...

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The third terrible father-son relationship Eliezer saw was near the end when everybody was packed into the train leaving Gleiwitz they stopped in a German township and somebody on the road threw a piece of bread into the train and one son, named Meir, beat his own father to death over the piece of bread. ...

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And finally, greater education and increased career potential is another result since waiting to get married often allows more time for schooling and job focus, which in turn leads to better opportunities and more financial stability down the road. ...

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It may seem strange to compare the Arab culture with the Mexican culture, as their customs are obviously so very different; however, what is astonishing is how similar they are in certain aspects of family life. Each culture has its own habits and traditions, all of which are passed down from genera...

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The author for example stated, "the road was long, sad, and tiring" (Katsuyo, 1990 p.90) but yet many were wiling to sacrifice being killed in the attempt to flee from their country in exchange from freedom. ...

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"Love, in the world of Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant' is a destructive force."" Love has the power to heal; however the experiences of the Tull family in Anne Tyler's Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant' demonstrate the destruction and pain that individuals can also encounter as a result of ...

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Tobias Wolff explores the idea of a conventional 1950's family. In Wolff's personal recollection of his childhood "This Boy's Life"," Wolff's failure was ordained, because the real family he and his mother had set out to imitate does not exist in nature. Wolff recalls his longing for a stable family...

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Being self-centered and selfish often brings negativity to someone's life. This negativity brings experiences that are supposed to teach selfish people a lesson, and they are not always enjoyable experiences. Flannery O'Connor's A Good Man Is Hard To Find uses the grandmother to portray the dangers ...

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In this first of five volumes of autobiography, Maya Angelou tells the story of her life from age three, when her divorcing parents sent her and her brother to live with their maternal grandmother in Stamps, Arkansas, to age sixteen, when, reunited with her mother in San Francisco, she gave birth t...

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Linda didn't work but she was the one responsible for the house chores, as it was normal in a wife to do for the time in which the play took place, but she "seems very much planted in reality with her concerns over house payments, mending, insurance premiums, and her husband's care", Linda as a responsible wife does, distributed the money into the house payments, so they will be on time and all paid, so he won't have to be worrying about the house responsibilities while he is on the road doing business (Murphy and Abbotson 6). ...

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As we know, we all are living in the modern society in today's world. People are choosing different types of education degrees, getting different kinds of jobs, taking a variety of transportation, tasting food from other countries, learning the news from the world through the internet media every day. We already get used to the way we live now but maybe some people will have such doubts: what kind of society that is before the modern society and how did the ancient people live? The following essay will compare the difference between traditional and modern society, specifically focusing on...

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