It was in his hometown, in an average house that his beyond average values were instilled in him. ... He admits to not having everything but also acknowledges there were many worse off than him. ... They sit and talk for hours; he then comes home and calls his mother and sisters in St. ... He then sits down at his make shift desk in our family room and turns on his favorite Rod Stewart CD and diligently works until bed time. ... Of all the people I have come across, none of them have held but the highest regard for him. ...

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There was a lot of information in just five or six pages, so it was sort of tough to keep up with. ... The father was then being a jerk, and started talking about money. ... If she did commit suicide it must have been a ...

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It would have been impossible to hide my belly, because I was almost six months along by then. ... There were more bumps in the road then smooth pavement. ... My dad was there for me every step of the way. ... I realized that there were much more important things than getting into trouble, and doing activities that I thought were amusing. ... None of us are the same people that we were six years ago. ...

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Finally the day arrived, the day that we all were waiting for, the day that my brother would come into the world. ... After she entered a room, with large and wide door, my father and I were alone, we started walking by the hospital to see if we could find any coffee shop, and we notice that the hospital was really clean, a lot of employees were working to keep it in that way. As it was too early, none of the coffee shop were open yet, so we decided to go across the street of the hospital, where there was a restaurant that served breakfast and was opening at that very moment. ... We were waiti...

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They consider her a sub-mom, one that is there during the day and is replaced at night. She loves the children as if they were her own and they love her as if she were their real mother. ... So the kids get attached to you, because you're the one who's always there. Then the parents get angry-(Cheever 158-159). Unlike Erdrich, in which Louise has none else to fight with over the child's love, Dominique has the real parents to deal with. ...

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There was an enormous dispute between the two, and the children were finally allowed to see briefly the only father they had ever known. ... "While she could not have understood the noise and the passions aroused by her mother's wish to see the body, nor indeed why she should see it, she did understand that there were people who hated her mother and hated her, and she was perhaps angry with her mother for having exposed her to that hatred" (Fraser Navarro 6). ... So in turn when the rich despise something then the poor love it twice as much. ... Evita could have never made it to the ...

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They just were not like his teachers. ... In the beginning, there exists a balance between the school and home. ... "Books were going to make me educated." ... Then, the good student becomes a bad student. He is "a collector of thoughts" with none of his own. ...

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~ Just the other day I while cleaning Gregor=s room I noticed that there were prints all over the ceiling and the walls, I guess from his crawling. ... He chased Gregor for a while, and then decided to throw a couple of apples at him. ... If I would have agreed to leaving the furniture none of this would have happened... We have done all that we could to take care of it and now there is nothing more that we can do. ... Since then we have moved to a small more affordable apartment and still continue to work...

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~ Just the other day I while cleaning Gregor=s room I noticed that there were prints all over the ceiling and the walls, I guess from his crawling. ... He chased Gregor for a while, and then decided to throw a couple of apples at him. ... If I would have agreed to leaving the furniture none of this would have happened... We have done all that we could to take care of it and now there is nothing more that we can do. ... Since then we have moved to a small more affordable apartment and still continue to work...

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So I then laughed and asked how much tickets were going for back then, once again my mother called me metiche. ... There he saw a Mexican man who looked like he had money. ... Then I understood why none of this was never talked about. ... There we had neighbors all around us. ... There are not any set rules on who did what. ...

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Then the movie goes on, the setting is at a party for June the daughter of Suyuan. ... The Joy Luck club was a weekly meeting of the best friends, were they talked about their hopes for their daughters and their stories of the past. ... There is no single thought of failure in her mind. ... It was a symbol for the mothers it was what they wanted there children to become more then what they where in China. ... This haunted her all the way to America, and so when she had a daughter in America she had no spirit cause she had none to give to her. ...

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This was one of her few options though as she couldn't go to her immediate relatives because none of them liked her. ... Franks father was never there to provide for Frank or anyone else in his family. ... He was in the hospital with typhoid and then contracted a disease of the eyes, which his family couldn't afford to give proper care to. ... These people that were continuously putting these hurdles in his was were people that you would lest expect it from, they came from the people of the church. ... These two were twins and they died months apart. ...

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There are several possible reasons for this. ... He then goes on to explain, "Ah, Maggie, in the world of advertising, there's no such thing as a lie. There's only the expedient exaggeration. ... He is then locked into the mansion's library. ... The liquor stains have been removed from the couch and there are no more liquor bottles in the cabinet; 'Mrs. ...

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It is about something very scared when bearing a new life and then being responsible of bringing that new born into life. ... I thought if none of my uncles had a son, I would take the task. ... Their reactions were the same and pretty predictable. ... When I was younger, I used to think that those beliefs were old fashioned and I would find my own beliefs when I grew up. ... There might be some ideas that are not suitable for younger generation. ...

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• Grade Level: High School