In Oedipus Rex, when Oedipus is traveling from Corinth he encounters a man in a carriage. The man was cruel and hit Oedipus as he walked, I was encountered by a herald and a carriage with a man in it, and as I passed he struck me from his carriage. ... Oedipus as a woman would not have been struck by the man in the carriage, who happens to be Laius, king of Thebes and Oedipus" biological father. ... C. in Athens, Greece so the view point should be a little sexist. Gender basis was a big issue in ancient Greece because countries weren't ruled by Queens but by Kings so I find making th...

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You are so excited and then you see him you feel like seeing yourself just older and bigger, you get happy. You can feel the his happiness through the sentence: "He was a big, good-looking man, and I was terribly happy to see him again", "but as soon as I saw him I felt that he was my father, my flesh and blood, my future and my doom. ... He uses different languages, so he feels like a man who got more power than the others. ... " Point A father is supposed to be a man the son can look up to. ... Example: "Could we have a little service here!" ...

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It was a very humbling, amazing adventure and has a big part of who I am today. ... It also had a big impact on the way that I see others. ... My mom was always the mother who never needed help from a man. ... Well, I can definitely say that she had rubbed off on my just a little. ... I think some men are intimidated by me due to the fact that I don't 'need' a man to survive. ...

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Every Day Use The mother has a very realistic and objective view of herself. She admits that she is a large, big- boned woman with hands of a man. She offers the reader a very extensive, and seemingly, critical account of herself. The mother does, however, admit that she would like to be thinner. T...

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It will be a cold day in a very hot place, before the day comes, that every women accepts her true place next to a man. ... It is as if she is on her own and nobody can be trusted; not even her little brother Laird. ... Everyone notices Laird getting bigger and stronger especially his sister because he is beginning to hurt her when they wrestle. ... Constantly doing work and taking on the role of a young boy she tries to prove she is worthy of a man's work. ... It is obvious that a women's role should never interfere with a mans because a women's instinct will always be the ...

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John and Henry, the two main characters, are father and son with a problem bigger than the both of them combined. With the death of the wife and mother, their relationship, if there was one, was lost with little hope of getting it back. ... Stegner writes, "He did not forgive his father the poolhall, or forget the way the old man had sprung back into the old pattern, as if his wife had been a jailer and he was now released" (204). ...

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A man who prides himself on family values, and having a close relationship with his children. I can only imagine his dismay when he found out that I was pregnant and that my child's father was not going to play a big role in her future. ... The person who I could come to with my problems, and who would support me even if she was a little jealous or did not agree with the decisions I was making. ... Then came Niquon, the man who I thought was everything, he made so happy and semi-obvious to what was happening around me. ...

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My mother is a businesswoman, she works at my grandma's building (not old but new enough for her big family to live in), which isn't larger than a factory but I spent almost my childhood in there. ... My father, a perfect man with love, is the oldest and shortest (not too much but enough to call "shortest") in my family. ... My father is a busy man, but if I get sick, he always gives me good medicine, it make me feel better than eat yummy food or fresh fruit from mom. Dad is the easiest person to get along with, when I was a little boy, I often turned off his news channel a...

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Little did she know that her life would be changing again, and in a very big way. ... The little girl from the farm was disappearing and being replaced by the grown-up woman in the big city. ... She realized she was missing the love of a man in her life. ...

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Ever since I was little, my mom has had a naturally sweet vanilla scent on her. ... My dad has been wearing that cologne since I was a little girl. ... He is constantly yelling across the field to the players; he is a big man, which is why some people see him as scary. He is 63 macho man, that is a kind-hearted person. ...

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This showed me that even through our differences, a man is still a man and maybe he*s made wrong choices in his life to have him become homeless, but an individual should still be loved no matter where his mishaps left him. Through her actions, I*ve learned to love the individual man. ... When I was little and was in a tantrum, I started screaming and crying. ... I*ve also told them to seriously think before just blurting out something because what is said has a bigger impact than what they think. ... She believes my skills would be best served as doing something that would further alon...

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I looked at her with a smile, and chuckled because she reminded me of Grandma with those big curlers on top of her head. ... My father was a tall, slender man, so it was a funny sight watching him slither his way out of a small tent. ... It was only around twenty miles tell he would reach Bob's Market, a little farm store on the edge of town. ... A man in a police car was barreling straight towards our camp site. ... The man who was unknown to me, stepped out of the police car, and took off his hat. ...

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Ever since I was a little girl, I knew there was something fishy about my parents" marriage. ... I understood that my mom sat at home, depressed, because the man she loved so much didn't have the same feelings for her. ... It was just a big soap opera. ...

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Some (other students) say the poem is about a man looking back on happy times. Some (other students) people even say the poem is a story about a little girl dancing with her father. ... The boy describes his father's hands, as being "battered on one knuckle"(10), and "caked hard by dirt"(14), this shows how big and very strong this father seemed and was compared to his son. ...

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I am in a relationship with a man who has two children and as long as I have known him, he has put his children first. ... The children's birthdays are a little more than a week apart so we usually have one big birthday party for the two of them, where we all celebrate as a family unit. ... The man's ex-wife does not like that he got remarried and has never taken the time to meet the new wife. Instead, she creates a hostile environment between homes by explicitly voicing to her children her disdain for the man and his choice to remarry. ...

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When confronted with fleas in the mattress of the bed, the father is instructed to by a man on the street to "confuse the little buggers- by turning the mattress upside down. ... The big deal she makes about having "God in my back yard- is humorous to the reader, who knows that the communion wafer is not really God. ... There is a poem that Mam recites to a neighbor about Ireland that states: "And Limerick town has no happier hearth than mine has been with my man from the North."" ...

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To a nine-year-old, any little matter could conceivably be the end of the world, but Kafka's father expected him to behave like a small adult, taking his worst fears and hardest obstacles in his stride. ... He discloses that he did not connect the incessant asking for water with being thrown out on the porch, which leads him to fear for some time that "that big man," his father, would at any second come and take him away. ...

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Since this young man was twelve, he started accessing files and sites of other people, which he was not supposed to. ... He began thinking if his father could have spent all that money in so little time, but it was almost impossible yet his father would always save and tried to use the minimum amount. ... Since he was already able to hack the bank although he couldn't do it often because he would end up in big trouble, he decided to change the digits in his father's account to pretend things went just right. ...

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