A couple was starting to come see Harmon and take him away for a few hours at a time and Janie was starting to get very jealous because she now had to share Harmon and she was never able to go with. ... When the day came for him to come Janie was not letting Harmon go she was hanging onto him very tightly but she did and when she did Harmon gave her something to remember him by, he had given her one of the ladies. ... Janie noticed when her mother would come dressed like a slut her mom was going out to do something that something Janie did not know. ... While Leshaya was doing that she foun...

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Then he went back and brought the family to Arkansas. ... He went back home then. ... Finch yelled at Mama "Lou make him bring that mule back! Gay yelled, "you go to hell he is mine-. ... That summer was the "Hi Lite- of my life, as I got to go back home for a while to stay with my older brothers and sisters. ...

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She was fully convinced that he was still alive and one day he would come back. ... He knew that Keller had offered to help him work in the town again instead of going back to New York. ... She wanted Ann to go but he (Chris) would not let her go. ... While waiting for Chris to come back, Ann told Mother to do her a favour. ... Mother was so shocked now and when Chris came back home he read the letter, too. ...

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When it comes to religion, my conviction is in Christianity. So when things like same sex marriage and abortion come up, because of my conviction, I am against both. ... But overall, when it comes to political talk and such, I can do fine holding my own. My mom is the most outspoken person in my house when it comes to politics. ... I wouldn't necessarily know what to call him, but he claims Democrat so we just go with it.. ...

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One day Stephen comes home and finds that his drunken wife is in his apartment. The next day he goes to see Mr. ... In the morning Louisa goes to see her father. ... James Harthouse, a brother of a Member of Parliament, comes to Coketown. ... Gradgrind took a leave of his parliamentary job to come home and bury Mrs. ...

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Now that approximately 50% of marriages end in divorce (Gallagher) and a near majority of families do not have a two-parent household, it is easier to step back and examine how important the role of a father really is now that so many have grown up without one. ... I believe that it has been firmly established that those who come from two-parent households have the lowest rates of delinquency. ... There is a great deal of research to back up the claim that fathers are an integral part of a boy's life. ... Elaine Rodney and Robert Mupier, conducted a study showing that boys who did not ...

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Willie would go on to plead guilty in a family court and sent to a juvenile prison. ... The author also goes into depth about past generations of the Bosket family dating all the way back to 1896 discussing the harsh realities that each generation Bosket had to go through and what turned them into the monster that soon developed Willie Bosket. Butterfield states that he traced the Bosket family back to a county in South Carolina called Edgefield. ... Standing up for himself and showing signs of ignorance by not listening to his Landlord would make Pud lose his job as well as fighting back to t...

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The sons, Edmund and Jamie, as well as the father, James, are aware that Mary's problem may be back into effect. ... With eating comes drinking, and after eating comes drinking, as well as before. ... Throughout the play there is a constant battle going on at all times. ... It is everyone else's fault that she is back on morphine, or at least they suspect. ... Mary can just runaway, as the men in her life watch her do this while throwing drinks back into their throat. ...

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During Christmas, Cristina's friend Giuseppina and her husband come over to the Innocente house for dinner. ... In the short story entitled "They"re not Coming Back" the mother, named Claudette, is a single parent of two daughters. One day when the children arrived back from their visit to their father's place, the elder daughter tells her mother that she wants to go and live with her father. ... She is distraught at the thought of living completely alone and cannot come to reason as to why her daughter would make such a drastic decision. ...

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It was at this concentration camp that the more real horrors of death and despair would come to fruition. ... On that first night, Elie (p. 31) remembers that he had come "face to face with the Angel of Death." ... Wiesel remarks at the end of the book how he looked after the liberation of Buchenwald (p. 109); he states: "From the depths of the mirror, a corpse gazed back at me." It was with this last vision that I completed my reading and proceeded to go on-line and see some of the pictures myself. ... As far as hard physical labor goes, Elie gives us brief looks at what a laborer'...

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The teen is already going through so much at home, having added such a huge social role to her life. ... I was extremely upset about this, but looking back, I realized they either came out of obligation or the fact that they too were adolescent parents and knew how important this day was to me. ... By June, I was going to be a mom and they were going to be a highschool graduate. ... Sometimes this withdrawal of child/father bond comes from the father because he does not feel ready nor obligated to be present. ... He is trying to create a bond but my daughter has come into her own individualit...

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Hopefully they understood that their parents loved them so much that it became so unbearable to let them go. There were only heartbreaking farewells for parents that chose to let their children go so that they could possibly escape what was to come. ... This is an amazing account of just how far parents were willing to go to give their children a chance. ... For the children to be so excited to go over a border that they break out in song shows just how anxious and affected they were. Then when the Kindertransport arrived in England the children needed to wait for their foster families to com...

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We believe that everyone has equal opportunity to go to school, find a good job, marry and live happily every after. ... People will have more respect of those companies who place value in how their products are made and what goes into them. ... Mary Kay values achievement in women and the idea that anyone can go from mere "independent beauty rep" to head of her own team of representatives in a matter of moments. ... It really makes me feel ignorant and says a lot about society as a whole that we are more concerned with the actual product than with what goes into it. ... Her father ...

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Women back in the 17th-19th centuries were raised in a manner that is very shocking to how females are raised in the present day. ... It leads back to the idea that men really do not want women to have an education because they do not want their women to either appear as a threat or to not obey them because of the knowledge they have attained. ... The Pairing Family is simply where one man lives with one woman, but the relationship stands where polygamy and a few infidelity moments remain part of the man's rights; relating back to men believing they are superior to women and not strictly...

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Desiree shows her mother's letter to Armand and asks him whether he wants her to go. "Yes,"" he says, "I want you to go." ... Rather than following the road to Valmonde, she goes through stubbly fields that hurt her feet and tear at her gown. ... On the other hand, after Desiree informs her mother of developments at L'Abri, Madame Valmonde tells her in a return letter, ""My own Desiree: Come home to Valmonde; back to your mother who loves you. Come with your child." ...

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Lived in India for some times, committed murder and escaped, back to Pakistan. ... The only reason he played smart and cunning was he just wanted Delilah back home, even on the cost of her Marriage break up, which he did. He wants his daughter to work, bring money and look after him and Maa, he wanted Delilah back in the house so that she can look after Maa. ... Same time Dano also appeared from somewhere and intervened, he shook hands with me and said let the police go, everything is ok now. ... That day when I entered their house, I heard Maa saying please go away, DAV (she calls dad, DAV) ...

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My family has come from really tough times, but we got through it. ... I have been going to this church ever since I was three. ... Youngest opens first, then goes to oldest. ... Sometimes we even end up going to sleep. ... Even though I was half asleep, I somehow knew that the call was about Diego, while I was calling my dad back I knew that Diego died that morning even though no one told me. ...

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The Europeans brought back from the New World, tobacco, maize, beans, tomatoes, and potatoes, which provided food for the now greatly populated Europe. ... Girls usually wore their hair long, but always pulled tightly back and up under a bonnet or hat. ... Instead of a meetinghouse being the center of the community, the waterways and roads became a place of social life a brief moment for colonists to sit back and relax was very rare and very savored. ... In the winter, when outdoor sports that involved animals didn't come in to play, colonists, found other means of entertainment. ... If h...

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His only defense of his actions is a need to keep the business going, the business which has become his whole life. ... He struggles with his own American Dream, saying "I don't know why it is, but every time I reach out for something I want, I have to pull back because other people will suffer. ... On learning of the planned marriage between his sister Ann and Chris, and given the tension between the two families accessioned by Keller's framing of Steve, George, brother to Ann goes to prison to inform Steve (his father) of the development. ...

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After much discussion it was decided that Annie's younger sister, Clara would come to live with them. Clara was going to help with caring for Annie so that Lecon would be free to work and not worry about his wife. ... Ida learned the social rules within her family and her environment and choose whether or not she was going to abide by them. ... Once Willard was back to himself however, I believe that Ida became scared. ... She felt that he was going to stay with her out of loyalty and to despite his mother since she did not like Ida. ...

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King Lear began trying to benefit his family but his weakness prevails and despite the love of his children, he wants his power back just like Larry. ... Later on in the novel, Rose and Ginny fight with Larry which results in his desire to take the farm back. ... After Pete dies, Rose states to Ginny, "His response to the news that I was going to leave him for Jess Clark was that he was going to kill Daddy, and if Harold got in the way, he would kill him, too... Though Pete is basically a moral person who cares for his family, the evil inside him comes out because of his desire for self-satisf...

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She had to have a perfect reputation and felt very uncomfortable when things did not go her way. ... Resiliency is one's ability to "bounce back" in time of crisis and stress. ... He figured the problem stemmed from the way he and his mother interacted, so he made the effort to go back to his mother's house and do an "experiment" to test himself as well as his mother. ... Instead of going to his wife or a counselor when something went wrong, Jeff went to his mother although she lived four hours away. ... Expectations are apparent even when she goes grocery shopping; she shops for...

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The social norms that have developed around divorce and either choosing to or having to raise children alone have come a long way in the past 50 years. ... I have held silent pity parties for myself, have developed chronic back pain as a result of being the only one to care for my disabled daughter but have also relished in the joy and love that I am doing a remarkable job at raising my children. ... Not all single parents prefer to be raising their children alone, as I have come to enjoy. ... Encouraging a secure attachment system with the residential parent and having open, empathetic conver...

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(http://www.online-literature.com/maupassant/ Literature Network) This comes into play when in the text it says: "When the war broke out, Mother Savage's son, who was then thirty three years old, volunteered, leaving his mother all alone. ... Because Mother Savage was known to "have money- she would be assigned four Prussian soldiers to come into her home. ... As she was preparing dinner, the soldiers were able to bring back a rabbit so they could have something good to eat for dinner. ... Gwyn page 67 paragraph 6) She then states "Now I'm going to do something for you- (Fictio...

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Introduction and Background In today's society there is no shortage of controversial topics that have left society looking for the right answers. Ranging from abortion to the death penalty to affirmative action, these debatable subjects are usually at the forefront of people's minds, which can be s...

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