Being a stay-at-home mother is demanding work. ... Being stressed at work and having not able to cope it up with makes me become more irritable and impatient that greatly affects the role I am intended to do in a situation at home. ... Time is always of the issue especially when the demand of the work requires you to attend seminars/training or corporate sessions where one is required to be away for a day or more as some of these are held from far places away from home. This could always be a cause of reducing time spent at home with the family. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

From her choice in food, to her choice in home décor, Ruth's mother is the extreme experimentalist. ... While Ruth has her mother to thank for her non-judgmental perspective, Ruth has also been severely held back by her mother. ... The first party, held in honor of her brother's engagement, does not inconvenience Ruth greatly, because she is young and still at home; yet she is stilled forced, as a young child, to assume the position of responsibility she should not have to. ... At one point, Ruth experiences a full scale panic attack on the subway, because her father has j...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

After the proposal has been accepted, the groom's family goes to the bride's home and has a small ceremony of acceptance. ... One week before the start of the ceremonies, a separate ceremony is held at the bride's house called the Ubton. ... The second day is similar to the first with the difference being that the bride's family goes to the groom's home. ... The ceremony is held by the parents of the bride at a location of their choice. ... At the end of the night the bride is given away by walking her to the vehicle with a Quran held over her head by her brother. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

A month later Samantha arrived home from school a little early, and her mother wasn't expecting her home so soon. ... Samantha's father had just arrived home from work a few days later. ... He and Samantha held her hand and continually their hearts said a prayer. As his wife took her last breath, he softly kissed her forehead and held Samantha close in his arms. ... Together they watched God take their precious angel home. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

To get more familiar with his appearance, I took out his picture, held it tightly to my hand, and looked at it every minute and then. ... When we got home, he did not say a word nor tried to develop a relationship with me. ... My mom, my sister, and I had to stay home. ... After two weeks of loneliness, my father had come home. ... After that day, my father did not come home until four or five weeks. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Much of the hand-holding continues into high school where they held parent-teacher conferences and back-to-school nights. ... We'll deny that our knowledge of our new college home is not something we picked up on tours with mom. ... However, when the day comes and we walk across the stage degrees held high for all to see. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

For some single parents they are held under law to allow custody which can continue conflict between both parties. ... Eventually she did get sober for a time, but shortly after this I left home at 15. When I left home I also left school. ... Years of therapy, reflection and healing allowed me to rise above the old beliefs I held about myself and has contributed to why I am vastly different from my mother. ... When a father is not present in the home, it can create social problems. ...

• Word Count: 2758
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

My SAT score and GPA may not stand out or shine compared to the other applicants. I didn't have a wonderful high school experience like many of my peers did. Growing up in a broken home was, as cliche as it sounds, difficult and trying at many times. Going to college may seem the natural path for m...

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• Grade Level: High School

Some teen mothers are forced to have to move out of their home where they have had somewhat of a childhood, because their parent or parents have no sympathy for their situation. ... With the accounts some money would go directly to the children to meet their pressing needs, and the rest would be held in a trust for the children to draw on once the family leaves welfare. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

She thinks her sister has held life always in the palm of one hand, that "no" is a word the world never learned to say to her." ... Dee begins asking about various antique items in the home and their ownership status. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

He was so tiny and I was scared to hold him, but when I did, I held him on a pillow. ... I loved spending time with my baby brother and I almost convinced myself to stay home, but I new I would be back soon when school started. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

There was only one child living at the home and both parents were present at the time. ... I will never forget the smile on her face as Jane and I stepped in her home. ... " Gracie grabbed my hand, and held on tightly as both parents said their good byes. ... That changed when I had to take a sixteen-year old girl out of her home. ... She wanted to go back home to her mom and dad, but they never were approved by the state. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Each family member has their own view of the future and a different form of escape from each other; this is due to the suffocating feeling they have living in the same home together. ... Tom's responsibility to care of his mother and sister held him back from many of the adventures he craved and can't leave because of his disabled sister, he became the man of their home, deals with the many things like finances, income and bills, this isn't the position he wanted but was forced to take. Laura's only escape from her home is from the gentlemen caller she patiently waits for,...

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• Has Bibliography

I remembered coming home with tears in my eyes one day after school. I rushed to my Po Po's room at the back of my rented home. ... Before noon, she would rush home to prepare lunch for her daughter before leaving the home again to collect recyclable items from the rubbish dump. When night fell, she would return home to be with her. ... Now, this young mother is able to stand up with her head held high. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

I was to get ready for the day and she would be coming home to shower and dress and we would go to the hospital together. I was waiting at the door when she arrived home. ... Something like a stroke seemed unthinkable even though we did not see eye-to-eye I held my Father up on a pedestal and I had a great deal of respect for him. ... The very next day, I came home and found him passed out with a glass of vodka in his hand. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The second time I seen her, she was in a nursing home and was recovering from electric shock therapy. ... It seemed like there were thousands of people who filled the streets, who lived inside homemade tents while their belongings were held inside grocery carts. ... Not once did she ever call anyone the "N" word or provoked a colored person out of their home like my dad would back in the day. ... Growing up in a somewhat racially intolerant home, gave me an insight to how not judge a book by their cover....

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• Grade Level: High School

Although the father had the final say when it came to matters of the home, the mothers were vital when it came to raising a Puritan family. ... The parents are not held responsible for their child's faith. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

At the ripe age of four he would abandon my one year-old brother (Malachi) and I at home while he would go make drug deals or snort, or whatever it was that he did during the hours he left us. ... After so long Malachi began to cry and I held him and rocked him until my dad returned high. ...

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And despite my sadness, my frustration, and my desire to even quit, my mother held me up, she stood by my side, comforting me, reminding me that I had still got into several prestigious universities, reminding me I could determine my success for the future was not predetermined. ... My mother's love is seen everywhere; it's seen in her constant support in my life endeavors large or small; it's seen in her willingness to drop everything to cater to my needs; it's seen in her smile and eyes whenever I go home to visit family. ...

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I felt the warmth of my mother's hands on my soft skin while she held my face. Her soft voice whispered in my ear "good night". It was a cold winter night after Christmas as my mother tucked me in to bed, like she always had. After telling me good night her lips hit my cheek to give me the last kiss...

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• Grade Level: High School

They sit and talk for hours; he then comes home and calls his mother and sisters in St. ... For Fathers' day one year, I came home to find a note on my pillow. ... Every night he comes home from one or some days all his jobs, and eats a home cooked meal. ... Of all the people I have come across, none of them have held but the highest regard for him. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

As a victim of prolonged child abuse and growing up in a dysfunctional home, I identify with the innate yearning for such a relationship, and the devastation that follows the realization of never getting to have such a thing with my own mother. ... I am on my own now and free physically from the shackles of abuse that once held me down to my old home. ...

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• Has Bibliography

" (Kidd 148) In a fictional novel by Sue Monk Kidd, Lily Owens is a white young female that is living with black women during time of racial oppression, who has ran away from home, and also a miscreant. ... August Boatwright convinces him that Lily is always welcomed to stay at her home for as long as she would like, T.Ray concludes that it would be a beneficial idea to let Lily stay there. Lily was able to release the hold that T.Ray had held upon her but permanently separating herself from his existence. ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

And lastly her "Princess Lessons- were held at the Plaza Hotel... She got home from school and her mom told her that her dad was no longer able to have kids and that he is flying in from Genovia to talk to her about it. ... Mia ended up spending the night at Lilly's house because she didn't want to go home to face whatever her parents had to say about her night at the dance. ...

• Word Count: 1090
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• Grade Level: High School

I thought she meant she passed all of her tests and she was coming home to us. ... Then, we gathered into the car and went to the funeral home to view my mother's body. ... With those acts of kindness, I kept my head held high, remained humble, maintained a positive attitude, and good grades. ...

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• Grade Level: High School