She was losing her son and she did not know how to turn the tide " (89). She finally decided that it was time for a drastic change and that she would send her son to military school. ... Mary did not ever think that her son would meet his father, and it would have probably been better if he hadn't. But as fate would have it, Wes did meet his father, twice, and both times his father didn't even know who he was. ... Already, there is a stark contrast between this memory of the other Wes Moore's father and Wes Moore's father. ...

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Parents, realized or not, differentiate the methods of upbringing and raising their son to their daughter. ... They believe that pink is a little too feminine for their son and dolls can make him looks like a sissy. ... Parents tend to overprotect their daughter than their son. ... When a father cannot spare his time for his children, society still thinks that it is okay because the father is already tired of his job. ... Later, if the children do mischievous thing, it is the mother who got the blame for she cannot teach the children well; not the father. ...

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As this is happening, there is a mid-shot of his father watching on through the caging that surrounds the boxing hall. ... As Billy lies on the ground, the boxing coach says "You're a disgrace to them gloves, your father, and the traditions of this boxing hall". ... By showing Jacky's disappointment at Billy's inability to box, we are introduced to the idea that the former has high hopes for his son to become a boxer. ... The director has helped me to understand what the film is going to be about by introducing Jacky's expectations of his son, hinting that Billy i...

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Maternal gatekeeping prevents fathers' involvement with the children which affects the relationship of the family as a whole. ... It also can either promote or discourage the involvement of fathers (Pedersen & Kilzer, 2013). ... Denise describe how she wants to be more of a traditional mother and able to have a better relationship with her son, Daniel, but also really loves being a teacher (Ranson, 2010). ... Due to work hours, the time for Denise to spend with her son, Daniel, is substantially lower than Gary. ... "Crossover" families have the mother being the breadwinner and...

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Parents either tell their sons the profession they are expected to pursue, unless it is preordained that they would take a position that their fathers presently hold. ... His mother immediately corrects him by saying, " chin up son"(scene 2). ... Keating for advice about his father. He had a passion for acting that his father disapproved of. ... It didn't matter to him what Neill wanted; his father was forcing him to live his dream, instead of his son's. ...

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When I was young, my father was my hero. ... Somehow, over the years I've spent growing up, I've also grown farther from my father. ... This fact alone largely contributes to the void that grows between fathers and daughters and sons and mothers. ... Television not only impacts our societal values; it also has a great impact on the relationships between fathers and daughters and mothers and sons. ... As I've grown older, time has worked its magic on the lost relationship between my father and me. ...

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She loves her father and stays with his family to be near him, but she is forcibly married off to a shoemaker. ... To him having a son means he would be immortalized as his name would be carried on to other generations. Based on the interpretation provided by Al-Hibri, a Middle Eastern feminist, the need to have a son is great because it is believed that through the son the family name would be carried on in future generations. ... Usually she only is allowed to take part in the immortalization of the male ancestors of her husband through birth of a son. ... Cheryl Benard highlights how the i...

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Wayne and his father never really had a good relationship, and Wayne viewed this transition like he was loosing his father for good. He felt like it would take away any chance of his father and him ever having a relationship. ... Roy's transition actually ends up bringing the father and son closer together, and makes Wayne a more open minded and accepting person. In my opinion, the most dramatic portrayal of gender stereotypes came from Roy's father. ... His father always wanted to have a boy to hand the farm over to, and Roy just wasn't that boy. ...

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On the other hand, Fontenrose (107) is asserting that, since the family has been reduced to father and children, the taboo against the killing of one's own mother is avoided. According to Fontenrose, the imagery of the animal single parent means that the father is the head of the family and the mother is technically placed outside the family. The father takes up a nurturing role and cares deeply about the welfare of the children. ... Cilissa strongly contend to the fact that Orestes is her son and not the son of Clytemnestra. ... This gives Orestes the room to revenge the death of his fat...

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Prostitution becomes a multifaceted symbol within Andrew Pham's Catfish and Mandala as it represents self-abnegation within Vietnam, past financial survival for Andrew's family, and a temporary solution for his admitted emotional limitedness. On the other hand, it signifies guilt and shame for Andre...

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She wanted to work outside with her father doing the work that she deemed important. ... This shows how the parents were more concerned with their son and that he could do no wrong. ... My father came, my mother came, my father went up the ladder talking very quietly and brought Laird down under his arm, at which my mother leaned against the ladder and began to cry. ... The narrators father instructed her to run and close the gate. ... At dinner later that night Laird told her father that she had let the horse out and her father didn't get upset, realizing she was becoming her female rol...

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Fuller's father Timothy "had hoped that his first child would be a son who could be reared in his pattern as his heir" (Wade 6). ... Fuller gave his eldest child the education normally given to a son. ... Margaret Fuller accepted her father's disciplines, teachings and strict schedules with great exuberance. ... However, she was ever vigilant to participate in her father's obsession even after his death in 1835 and soon became enraptured herself to learn all that she could. ... Thinking only that she had "failed her father in love and duty," she embraced her new role ...

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Many poorer Asian families think that having a son is more helpful than a daughter. Not only will their sons preserve the family name, but also the poor often say that men are more intelligent than women. Even many of the educated classes put higher expectations on their sons than on their daughters. ... The mother comforts children when they are hurt, gives a birthday party for the father, or does the Christmas shopping. ... The father provides income for the family, deals with financial matters, and makes the major household decisions. ...

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As a young girl, the father would be their legal guardian until they were married, when this would happen, the husband would take over that role. If the women were widowed or divorced and they had no sons, then they would go back to their original guardian, but if they did then they could be place under the guardian ship of their own son. "When a woman was married she passes guardian ship of her father into that of her husband. ... Women, to men were usually just seen as a means of producing children, more importantly a son. ...

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She would then pass on her father's inheritance to her spouse. ... She is thought of as a terrible monster, but shows she has great compassion for her son by vowing to avenge her son's death. ... Her father sent her overseas to marry a King and the king tamed her and groomed her into an ideal queen. ...

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She was a part of a prestigious, "major family network of Boston's South Shore"(Akers 3) and her father was a Congregational minister in a society that held its clergy in highest regard. ... Critics also accused her of unpatriotic lavishness in her entertaining while after her son Willie's death in 1862, they criticized her of avoidance of her social duties. ... Her father preached a more softened form of Puritanism that reflected the growth of more diverse religious practices of the Great Awakening period of early 1740s. ... (Baker 114) And while Abigail Adams concerned herself ab...

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My mother and my father were married with good jobs. ... Her father was happy because he was getting rid of her, but the moment she left he was sad and began to miss her. ... In a way he was a stay at home father, because his practice was below their home. ... Not only is he pregnant but so is his son and son-in-law. ...

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They have lived in the same rented apartment for years, Walter, his wife and son, his mother, and his sister. ... When he explains to his son Travis that one day, "you name it , son and I hand you the world!"... Because of this boys tend to need to identify with their father figure as opposed to their mother. ...

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This is spoken to quite clearly when Jeremy Goldberg stated that marriages "would be a business transaction in which the girl was merely chattel transferred from the patriarchal authority of her father to her husband " (Goldberg 26). ... However, her sons " another example of how low even the writers of the time thought of women " saves her candidacy by bringing aboard the ark. ... As a youthful, incredibly beautiful girl working for her father, Griselda lives a life of service. She is arranged to marry the lord of the region she lives in by her father and the lord himself, Walter....

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We are introduced to Jim Burden's grandmother while she is being sentimental over Jim's deceased father. ... Shimerda is the money-hungry, dignified woman, whose hopes revolve around the moneymaking abilities of her eldest son. ... Until after the death of Antonia's father, the change that takes place between Jim and her is always Jim as the educated, protective instructor and she as the attentive, admiring audience. ... The relationship parallels her mother's relationship to her father. ... These girls came to America with their families to help out on their father&#x...

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The part my son remembers the most from Aladdin is when the Genie, and Aladdin were fighting off the evil Jafar to save the Princess Jasmine. ... Her father was to go, but he was ill, and in order for her father to save face, she posed as a son. ...

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Aristotle argued the authority of husband and father is the necessity for the household management. ... In the same way, she claimed that " If it were customary to send daughters to school like sons, and if they were then thaught the natürel sciences, they would learn as throughly and understand the subtleties of all the arts and sciences as well as sons....

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Her father, Egeus, has dragged Hermia off to Theseus's court in a desperate attempt to compel his daughter to comply with his wish that she marry Demetrius, rather than her beloved, Lysander. ... What is remarkable about Hermia's response to both her father and to Theseus is that it is impassioned but logical, convincing but calm. ... In fact, her most strict critic is her own son, Hamlet, who finds it utterly despicable that his mother pursues his own uncle for a romantic relationship after her husband's death. ...

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The first words spoken by Antigone and the first words in the play demonstrate the vivid danger that Antigone is capable of imposing on other characters in the play, especially Creon: My own flesh and blood-dear sister, dear Ismene, how many griefs our father Oedipus handed down! ... There's nothing, no pain-our lives are pain-no private shame, no public disgrace, nothing I haven't seen in your grief and mine. (1–8) Antigone is referring to the familial grief that seems to be "handed down" from her father (Oedipus) to his son, her brother (Polynices). ... His tragic...

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The Koran states, And say to the believing women that they cast down their looks and guard their private parts and do not display their ornaments except what appears thereof, and let them wear their head-coverings over their bosoms, and not display their ornaments except to their husbands or their fathers, or the fathers of their husbands, or their sons (Koran 24:31). ...

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