If a leader fails to steer its people in the right direction, it can deter the group's ability to function and bring undesirable outcomes. This can be seen with Ralph and Jack, the two leaders in William Golding's Lord of the Flies. ... With Jack in charge of the fire, it reduces the group's chances of going home. ... When Simon looks at the "horizon", it is a symbol of him wanting to go home. ... Instead of thinking about going home, he starts to care more about hunting. ...

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It was not yet common for married women to work outside the home (Gluck 22). ... As far back as history can tell, women have been limited in mobility and set in particular spaces by society. ... (Evans 222) This all helped women feel more at ease with working outside the home, and even attractive. ... The caption above her picture reads, "We can do it", or "Do the job he left behind". ... Women were expected to stay home, clean the house, tend to the children, and basically be a homemaker. ...

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For many this takes place when they go away to college, but for many others the decision is made so they can have more freedom. ... Living at home with my mom meant I was in charge of paying my car payment and that was it. ... I mean how hard can it be to pay rent and a car payment? After looking back on my initial thoughts I can now see how nave I was because rent is not all that I was responsible for. ... After a year of living on my own I decided that moving back home was the best option for me. ...

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It was not yet common for married women to work outside the home (Gluck 22). ... As far back as history can tell, women have been limited in mobility and set in particular spaces by society. ... (Evans 222) This all helped women feel more at ease with working outside the home, and even attractive. ... The caption above her picture reads, "We can do it", or "Do the job he left behind". ... Women were expected to stay home, clean the house, tend to the children, and basically be a homemaker. ...

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As Howard is driving home from the hospital to take a break, he was thinking, "Until now, his life had gone smoothly and to his satisfaction - college, marriage, another year of college for the advanced degree in business, a junior partnership in an investment firm. ... Another similarity between Howard and Ann is how they both reacted when they left to go home for a little while to wash up and then go back to the hospital. When Howard goes home he keeps getting these strange phone calls and he would get on his self for leaving the hospital. When Ann gets home she gets the same strange phon...

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It is easy for us to criticize the lives of these people when we sit in our nice home eating a good home cooked meal or walking down the street in suburbia. ... It's not too often that I walk out of my home thinking to myself that I may be put in a situation where my life is in jeopardy today. ... Now imagine yourself as an 18-year-old kid living in a small dilapidated home with 10 other members of your family. ... Your mother can afford to buy food for everyone and the baby doesn't cry at dinner anymore. ... At least your family has gained the respect of the community and can wa...

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We can be just friends anyway. We can be study buddies. So can I have your number?" ... One day I came home from school and found him standing on my driveway. ... The fact that he not only came to Jane's home uninvited, but he would grope Jane's shoulders holdin...

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Isn't it funny how the littlest change in plans can have a big influence in your life or even how you think and feel. ... Just drive home, right? Home is only 5 minutes away, I can handle my alcohol, so why not. ... Drinking and driving is not ok, no matter were you live or how close home is. You can always call for a ride. ...

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She was the only woman at Sweet Home, besides Sethe, that was used and abused as a baby factory. ... Each person she becomes close to brings back her past memories of Sweet Home. Baby Suggs was the Sethe's first close friend and companion after escaping Sweet Home. ... On the twenty-eighth day Schoolteacher, an abusive, racist supervisor at Sweet Home, came to take back Sethe and her children back to slavery. ... The horrific graphics of what slavery can do kills Baby Suggs. ...

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After an eight-hour drive, I arrive at home for a well-deserved vacation. ... I can close my eyes and hear my dad working on the pump outside on one frozen Christmas morning. ... I can even smell the shoe polish I used to shine my dad's Sunday shoes. ... My dad always told me that if I got a whooping by bullies, then I would get another one from him when I got home. When I got a whipping at school (from a teacher), I had to stay in my room until dad got home. ...

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When I wake up in the morning, I'm even more vigilant as I walk down the hall to check my home once again before leaving for work. ... However, when we came home we found our apartment completely empty. ... I am the man who automatically locks the door when coming home due to fear of a home invasion. ... The fact is that these events did happen and no one can change the past. ...

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They called me over and said that I don't have to go to SACC today and we were going to be walking home. ... It was a quiet walk home that day. ... It was a feeling that I had never felt before, when you can feel it in the air, sense what is about to happen isn't going to be something "fun". ... The atmosphere was totally opposite than at home in the city. ... I learned that you can not live your whole life not letting yourself love anyone anymore because you lost someone you cared for so much. ...

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I go to work knowing that I will see people to talk to, I develop good relationship with my fellow workers, and we make jokes, and laugh till it is time to go home. ... Honestly, I will say I have prevented myself from doing something drastic because I found comfort in my home, and with things that will entertain me. ... This game can go on from morning till night, only our parents breaks this game off. ... I will work on my mind to be able to understand, and endure discomforts of not being at home, or on the land. ... Those games kept me away from troubles that I can still see the benefits ...

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They won't let us out in the streets after five p.m. if we're not home by that time, there were going to punish us for breaking one of the rules. ... I told him that friendship is all I can offer him. ... What can you say about it?... - We reached their home and had a party. I just stayed there for a while and told Jeffrey that I had to go home because I am not feeling well and said goodbye In my bedroom, I cried all night I was so regretful for not accepting Jeffrey's love I should have accept it and break my parent&...

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So we all started walking home because there was no one to come get us. ... Steve would come home late almost every night. My mother would wait up for him and when he got home they would have a fight. ... Drugs can take anything good like a happy family and tear it to shreds. ... But at least things did not get worse than what they were because sometimes drugs can do a lot more harm, like killing people. ...

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Andre Dubus III, author of House of Sand and Fog, had written in reference to immigrants in America, "Dat's what they say of this cauntry back home, Kath: 'America, the land of milk and honey.' ... Can you imagine what manner of vermin they must be carrying with them? ... She wouldn't feel at home in America until she was accepted for who she was and met a person who didn't look at her as if she was a roach and alien. ... She can never have the prosperity she wants or have a better life when she's struggling to be accepted for her gender and treated diffe...

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No one can understand how I felt. ... When we went out I asked them what's going on and she wanted us to wait until got my cousin's home. ... When we got home, I saw food, lots of, lots of food. In addition that was confusing, my cousin usually works at that time her husband too, but they were at home and she made food for us. ... Almost 6 months later we start to pack our stuff, normally everyone can have two luggages but business class could have three so I was kind of lucky with that because I had lots of clothes. ...

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Their fighting had been going on for as long as I can remember and it scared me even more when it lead to violence. ... Pretty soon I wasn't coming home and I started to sleep around. ... About and hour after I finished cleaning up he came home. ... Just as I was about to go to the phone can call for an ambulance she walked in and told me to grab my bag that she had me pack a week ago. ... A week after I got home from the hospital my mom called my dad and told him that he had a granddaughter. ...

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Oddly enough, Carl is more cruel for the reason that he can empathize, he find pleasure in watching Jerry's wife horrified and franticly stumble sightless. ... His thoughtlessness composed his idea that he can get away with it, his pride. ... The painstaking provider of the home is the wife, Marge, and homewards, the husband is the "Suzie homemaker", meeting up with Marge at a buffet restaurant, cooking her eggs when she is called on for work early in the morning, and fetching her hamburgers from Arbys. ... In the Lundegaard home, the spouses have customary functions; the wife is t...

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When Stephen is only five years old she develops what can only be understood as a crush on Collins and does everything in her power to be near her. ... When Anna discovered that she was in love with Angela Crosby she was sent away from her home. ... Stephen lost part of her soul when her own mother abolished her from her home. ... Make the world respect you, as you can do through your work." ... Yet when she suggested her desire to provide and protect Angela she was met with the cruel but truthful response "Can you marry me?" ...

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"You can do anything you want to do, if you set your mind to it." This phrase gives children a false comfort and reassurance that they can be whatever they want to be. ... Why does this happen in the land of the free, this place we call home, this America? ... If we look at this definition piecewise we can make certain assumptions about the American dream. ... People want money and power and the American dream promises that anyone who works hard enough can achieve the dream. ...

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Hinton (a young adult fictional novel) is a 16 year old boy who comes from a broken home and is abused. ... Hinton's use of imagery allows the reader to visualize Johnny as a scared, innocent child because his is constantly being hurt by his parents in his own home, so he would not dare lay a finger on anybody else. In the quote, "If you can picture a little dark puppy that has been kicked too many times and is lost in a crowd of strangers, you'll hace Johnny." ... (page 54) you can totally see the fear spread across Johnny's face. ... That was the only time I can think of that ...

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For instance, "some [men] desire to be accounted wealthy abroad and are yet ready to starve at home" (Radice, electronic version). ... Another had rather get riches by war than live peaceably at home. ... For in his eyes, it is absolutely ridiculous and hilarious how men can risk everything for the chance of money. ... Erasmus asks whether or not this can possibly be justified, or is this nothing more then another way in which the church can get more money. Money is very powerful in blinding the common people of society, but Erasmus is disgusted that it can blind even "the professors of relig...

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One day I was driving home from work and I realized I had forgotten something I was going to let my friend borrow. The second I had a chance on my lunch break, I went home quick and got it. ... He can never begin to repay the debt that he owes my grandmother for all she has done for him, and he would give anything just to see her smile. ... After he lost he walked home just to find out that on that particular day his father walked home, too. ...

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The theory of the six degree of separation is that anyone on the planet can be connected to any other person on the planet through a chain of acquaintances. ... It first starts off with Claire, who was angry with the fact that the walker is risking his life and he doesn't see how value life can be: "How dare he do that with his own body? ... He finds his brother living in a terrible neighborhood and goaled on helping the prostitutes in his neighborhood, especially Jazlynn and her mother, Tillie, and providing services at a nursing home. ... As Gloria was heading home from Claire's s...

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