My grandfather, Antonio, who I never had the opportunity to meet and with whom everyone said I shared a great physical resemblance, died when I was still a baby. ... Of course, I look like my father. ... I remember from childhood as my father always told me that men have to be strong, tough, never mourn, and less in front of a woman. ... During all that time I never spoke to my father again. ... I think my father felt incomplete and empty. ...

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When Jack Robins sang in the bar as a young boy, he began a cinematic revolution. The silent films from this moment on would never be the same. ... "You dare bring your jazz songs in my house," his father yells to him. "You're the old world, if you grew up here you'd feel the same as I do," responded Jack. ... "The songs of my people are tearing at my heart but my job means the most to though," Jack said to Mary. ...

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I never intended him to feel that way, but I found security in our established walls. ... It was 2 a.m. and in the parchment I pulled out to become my shrink I scribbled out the words, "This day, my father will die." I was never more hopeful to be proven wrong. ... Never quite the distant father I made of him. ... You are my favorite man, who just happened to be my father. ...

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Where my heart was. ... My intentions was always in the right place. I never killed anybody, I never raped anybody, I never committed no crimes that weren't honorable-that weren't to defend myself. ... I'm going to show people my true intentions, and my true heart. ... His talents, his words that he sang were words that many people related themselves too. ...

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As a child, Halloween was always my favorite holiday. It gave me the chance to dress up and be whatever I wanted to be, kind of live out my deepest dreams. ... And so, without further ado, I give you my version of the Disney classic, Cinderella. ... She slept in the ashes of the chimney and sat and sang and dreamed of something better. ... She was helpless and never did anything on her own. ...

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Act 1 Scene 3: Othello Othello: "Her father loved me; oft invited me; Still question'd me the story of my life, From year to year, the battles, sieges, fortunes, That I have passed. I ran it through, even from my boyish days, To the very moment that he bade me tell it; Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances, Of moving accidents by flood and field Of hair-breadth scapes i' the imminent deadly breach, Of being taken by the insolent foe And sold to slavery, of my redemption thence And portance in my travels' history . ... The Duke tells him that it is her fathers...

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My father and mother video taped, on average, 30 minute segments of family time starting when I was born till the age of six. ... In explaining my observations, I will use the name David for my father, Fawn for my mother, and Lev for my baby brother, born in March of 1985. ... My parents both read me an extremely large amount of books, but I never quite seemed to be paying full attention. ... In one occasion, my father switched from filming me, to my mother playing with Lev. ... I was never reprimanded beyond a "be careful" from Fawn. ...

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When I found out that I was going to write a paper on my family and our culture, it never struck me that I would be looking into their past. ... When I began to interview my father I knew it would be hard for him at times. ... Her first job was working in a strawberry patch farm in Sanger. ... I felt ashamed, like I was a bad son, never asking them or even having any interest in my own roots and culture. ... My father would sometimes try to stop her but it never helped. ...

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In rural meetings, thousands slaves were gathered and listened to itinerant preachers, and sang spirituals for hours. ... He is considered as being the Father of Gospel music. ... However, Willie Mae was one of those few who never sold out, never gave up and never made a thing out of gospel other than the satisfaction of working for her Savior. ... Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech. Interestingly, she sang Dorsey's "Take My Hand, Precious Lord at King's funeral in 1968. ...

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Their ex-roommate Benny has bought the building and the lot beside it with the help of his wealthy father-in-law. ... When he sang "Glory" he made me cry, he puts such emotion into his voice at all times, it's almost exhausting to watch him on stage. ... RENT had never touched me the way that it did when I actually saw it, and was not imagining it I"m my mind. ... I went and saw RENT with my mom, my best friend, her dad, her brother, my other best friend, and her mother. ... I saw her through the corner of my eye during the performance, and she was just sitting there, appalled. ...

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.# Her father was a lawyer, her mother a gentle, beautiful women who sang amateur recitals. ... I think it was perhaps the most important thing that happened to me. ... I've never gotten over it and I am aware of the force and the power of it... She never understood why, and could never talk about what happened. ... #She was not yet twenty, and she had never owned a camera. ...

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He was amazed by her singing because he never heard a singer improvise the way Billie did. ... In her scene, she sang the song "Saddest Tale . ... In 1937, her father Clarence Holiday passed away from Pneumonia. ... "I'm Gonna Lock My Heart" went straight to number two on the pop charts. ... She also recorded new songs that were extremely popular such as "My Old Flame", "How Am I To Know?"...

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Full of vexation come I, with complaint against my child, my daughter Hermia. ... I see no blood, no wound. ... Not Hermia, but Helena I love. ... I see no blood, no wound. ... Bottom sang to show he was not afraid. ...

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Paul didn't stay in this town very long when he was just a young boy his father, Rev. ... At first when I started to read this book I wasn't at all interested in it, I was merely reading it for an assignment for school and had no intention of retaining any information. Through out the readings I found myself immensely interested in what I was learning about Paul Robeson. ... Although I"m not facing half the struggles that Paul Robeson continued to endure in his life I still feel that I can use him as a sort of inspiration for myself. If he can overcome the major struggles of race, ge...

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This passage means that although every man is going to die, love will never die. ... The third stanza is saying that whatever happens to the world, death will never rule. ... The turning point in the poem comes when the child realizes his youth will not last forever: "And nothing I cared, at my sky blue trades, that time allows / In all his tuneful turnings so few and such morning songs" (42-43). ... In the last stanza Thomas is talking directly to his dying father. Thomas" advice for his father is to "Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray / Do not go gentle into that good ni...

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" Those lines were sang with passion and almost were being screamed when she was singing. ... He would always tell me he was going to come home and then never did. ... This is most likely because I have never been cheated on nor have I ever felt the wrath of someone I have cheated on. ... " This song is about a girl growing up in a country town with a tough father. It focuses purely from a women's perspective about the lessons her father told her. ...

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I drew all my wits, and ran through tactics, Reasoning as a man will die for life, Until a trick game – and pleased me well. ... if any god has marked me out again for shipwreck, my tough heart can undergo it. What hardship have I not long since endured at sea, in battle! ... Low she sang in her beguiling voice, while on her loom she wove ambrosial fabric sheer and bright, by that craft known to the goddess of heaven. ... His son, Telemachus also went on voyages to seek out news about his father. ...

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Most twins even spoke in the same tone, but usually sang in different keys. ... "Two twins were fond of playing tricks, and complaints were frequently made; but the boys would never own which was the guilty one, and the complainants were never certain which of the two he was. ... As shown here: "Such was the marvelous similarity of their features, voice, manner etc., that I remember, as a child, being very much puzzled, and I think, had my aunt lived with us, I should have ended by thinking I had two mothers." ... I have caught the thief! They are doing mischief to my brother!" ...

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Katie Davis story has touched my heart and I found it so inspiring of what she accomplished. I want my readers to understand better what this book is all about. ... My heart sang in Uganda. ... And Father Damien was willingly to help lepers. ... Be quick to give but never be quick to receive. ...

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At Sharon high School, deep in the country, two or three of the teachers had never been to college. ... abetted by his father, stoutly abetted by his father (Pollock, 3). ... Even though Billy Graham was in poor health and could not attend, he did address the conference and said "I want to be among 5. ... "My one purpose in life is to help people find a personal relationship with God, which, I believe, comes through knowing Christ - Billy Graham" (BGEA, 9)." ... He has stopped proclaiming the gospel and never stopped admitting his own faults and weaknesses while doing so. ...

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Well, I guess I should start by telling you what the film is all about. ... I noticed that Ned never shoots first which shows once again that he is portrayed as the good guy who is only shooting for self-defence. ... The then, most wanted man in Australia, Ned Kelly and his gang, begin travelling from town to town robbing banks like those in Jerilderie and Euroa, and holding townsfolk up as they go - "I am a widows son outlawed and my orders must be obeyed", Kelly explains while holding up one of the banks. ... In other scenes, music brought more of a happy feel an example of this is a scene i...

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Her parents were divorced, but her and her siblings still spent time with their father. ... She anxiously a waited for her period but it never came. ... A lot of teen pregnancies that occur, if the mother decides to have the baby the fathers don't always stay in the picture and now that child will grow up without a father. ... Like, "what if my parents find out or my partner's parents, we could get in trouble with the law." ... Planned Parenthood is the world's largest and most trusted voluntary organization, founded by Margaret Sanger in 1916. ...

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William Wordsworth's father was a legal representative to James Lowther, 1st Earl of Lonsdale, an English politician and landowner. His father encouraged young William in his reading where as his mother taught him how to read. ... "Great God I rather be a Pagan suckled in in a creed outworn: So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, Have glimpses that would makes me less forlorn: have sight of Proteus rising from the sea: Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn. ... " "I wandered lonely as a cloud The floats of high o'er vales of hills, A host, a golden daffodils: B...

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Her father ! ... She never called Joan mother. ... "( Krupp 144 ) Soon her father wanted her to take piano lessons, because most of the family played an musical instrument and his father was really big on that. ... Never before had a woman presented herself so provocatively yet so comfortably. ... Ann Kaplan writes about Madonna in relation to post-modernist feminism in bringing up another one of her more famous videos, "Justify my Love". ...

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(Lahr 3) His mother and father were poor Italian Immigrants, but his mother managed to make her mark on the town. ... The other kids never had these luxuries; they had next to nothing. ... (Lahr 9) He never forgot that moment. Dolly was a singer and sang in the choir and at local democratic parties, but she didn't want Frank to sing at all. ... Dolly often stated that she "didn't want no whore coming into my house." ...

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