They married a little while after I was born. ... Now I live with my mom and my little brother, I am real close to my oldest half sibling she is my best friend. ... Then as I made friends and we started to get familiar, I realized that my friend's families were not all perfect. ... My other friends were raised in single family homes, raised by grandparents, aunts and uncles and some were adopted. ... We had a great relationship we were best friends. ...

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The little old man walked his wife to the car door and proceeded to open it for her. ... Every little thing they say or do is cute to you. ... This is when the cute little things the other person does are now annoyances. ... Think of how we treat our friends compared to our spouses. ... We should all offer our companions the same consideration that we do our friends. ...

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Without a care or a thought, Beatrice slurs everyone, including her family members and her friends. ... Claudio agrees to have a conversation with his friends about how much Beatrice loves Benedick. ... Claudio and Hero hope this will make their friends fall in love. ... After a little while, she reveals herself as the very much alive and well Hero. ... Claudio and Benedick are his friends, but his bastard brother, Don John, despises him. ...

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As a form of announcement the bride's family distributes the bridal cakes to family and friends. ... The bride to be and her closest friends retreat to a living of seclusion for as long as needed. ... It is a little less harsh preparing for the wedding on the grooms" part. ... Friends assist him. ... Guests include close friends and family. ...

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Rose was respected among her husband's colleagues and friends; this enabled her to voice her opinions and feelings so she was able to make her own friends and contacts to help her in the future. ... Rose would smile, nod and inquire, and sometimes protest, plead or pay for the release of her family and friends who were innocent. ... Rose for her children's, family and friends safety acted like she needed to but she also fought to prove that those wrongly imprisoned were innocent. ... Rose was introduced to Deputy Barras and they became friends. ... Through her friendship with Deput...

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The adolescent world is a more independent one, more separated and distant from parents, more self-sufficient, where friends have become favored companions, and where the major locus of one's social life now extends outside of family into a larger world of life experience"(Pickhardt) Without this trust that is gain and shown by the parent to each other, the child will not know how to build trust with others. ... Friends can be harder to make for them and companionships will be tougher to build. ... "Parents do not have to be friends after divorce, being considerate and busines...

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Edna even sends her two children to their grandparents house and moves into her own little house across town. ... Through all of these little steps toward being an individual, Edna becomes a stronger woman. ... Pontellier has many friends, both male and female, whom she keeps good acquaintances with. ... Edna Pontellier relies heavily on the support of her friends to help her in this defiance of her society. ... Arobin dotes on her and eventually tries to get a little too friendly with her. ...

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The second marriage that I observed was that of my friends" parents who have been married for over thirty years. ... Friends would take care of the kids when the wife was out partying. ... When the brother goes places with his family he sometimes invites his little sister to go along. ... Though this marriage started off a little rocky, all is well when members of a family try their hardest to come together. ... At times she can be a little bit overprotective. ...

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The chronosystem is a little harder define, this refers to how the environment is not constant it is ever changing, and the chronosystem is the temporal changes in a childs environment, that produce new conditions that will effect his/hers development. ... Now once they get older and go to school and start spending time at friends houses, etc they start to notice that hey most of them have two parents, and usually do not like that they are different." ... I felt nothing was wrong until I started hanging out at friends and felt the loss of not having a dad. ... Once I started noticing inter...

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The Knight's story is about two friends, Palamon and Arcita, who are captured in battle by a duke named Theseus. ... The former friends argue until Emely and Theseus see them. ... Through her experiences with her husbands, she has learned how to provide for herself in a world where women had little independence or power. ... In the Pardoner's tale three greedy friends discover that one of their friends has died while looking for treasure. ...

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Under the terms of which same-sex marriage is debated the choice is to be made but as for the reasons given so far, children, adoption, religion, medical, roles of the household, and choice versus birth defect, there is little reason to deny legalization. ... This leaves the argument still open to debate as whether children of same-sex couples truly live different lifestyles and leaves little room to be used as an effective argument with so little data to support. ... So as to whether children in same-sex marriages would be a convincible argument so far is invalid with little and biased data. ...

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Along with the effects of divorce considering the teachers and parents, it also worries the friends of the children. ... Since then the divorce rate actually has decreased a little, but it still remains at a historically high rate.... Even though my family did not have to deal with divorce personally, I have a countless amount of friends whose parents are divorced. My friends with divorced parents have been through so much, and as their friend I took it upon myself to makes sure I was there for them when it was needed. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Teenagers live in their own little world and don't look ahead in the future and cause them to get in serious problems that they can't very easily out of. ... In the beginning society accepted it now that it is out of control they want to condemn it but it is a little because too many teenagers are engaging in sex and they think it's alright because that is what society thought them. ... Teenagers with close parent supervision were also among the group with little or no wedlock children. ... All we can do as parents, teachers, Christian, friends and family member is advise the g...

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The frustration associated with sex-same marriage that yields little hope of achieving the "ideal" may provide a key in understanding how same-sex are formed in society was associated with negative image in this study. ... As children we learn that the husband should be "the boss" at home, but friends "share road and share alike". Same-sex marriages friends often have similar interest's skills and resources--- in part because they are exposed to the same gender role socialization in growing up. ...

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If she met these expectations, and most woman with very little examples to do otherwise, did, she gained a slither of respect for her obedience and was labeled a woman of goodness. ... The wife has disorderly defied her husband and ultimately God by declaring to stay behind and gives, what some consider to be an irrational reason to defy one's husband, which is to remain with her friends. ... Griselda's patience is unparalleled to that of the wife in "The Wife of Bathe " and Noah's wife reluctance to enter the ship to stay behind with her friends is seen nowhere else in the ot...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Germans usually find paying the bill a privilege and usually fights over who will pay the bill when going out with friends and family members. ... On the first day the couple is married in a civil wedding where only the family and close friends attend. ... Realschule is a little bit more advanced than Hauptschule and will last for six years. ...

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Conversely, if the non-custodial parent was abusive or neglecting, children may experience little disturbance. ... Older children tend to adjust more readily because they are more likely to discuss the situation with friends, many of whom have the same experiences). ... They believe that these children have fewer close friends, spend less time with friends, and participate in fewer shared activities. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Because Doctor Reefy is afraid of communicating directly to another person, he writes his thoughts on little pieces of paper to prevent his thoughts from being misinterpreted. Because Doctor Reefy cannot find an appropriated avenue of communication, he allows these repressed thoughts to become products of his hands by throwing the pieces of paper, which have hardened into little paper pills, at his friends. ...

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The yellow flowers in the kitchen at Aubrey's house show a little bit of life and a fresh feeling in an unfamiliar, dull environment, similar to the nursing home. The little pots of flowers also represent bits of hope for Grant as he begins to feel loneliness due to Fiona's absence. ... Indeed they had a simple life together in the nursing home, they'd play cards with friends, take walks, and Aubrey would draw pictures of Fiona. ...

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By taking in "odds and ends of needlework- (1.979) and getting a "lot of copying to do- (1.983), Nora manages to "scrape together a little bit here and a little bit there- (1.983) to make the installments on her loan. ... Krogstad "thinks he has a right to be familiar- (2.999) with Torvald because they were once schoolmates and friends. ... In order for she and her child to have "the chance of [ ] a good place- (2.995), she gives up her child to strangers and becomes little Nora's nurse. ...

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In Karen Brennan's short story "Runaways," we observe how physical abuse and infidelity leads to a family's separation and the resulting destructive impact on family and friends. ... "It dreams that someone comes, some giant god with a giant hand, a hand so big that the mussel can't tell it's a hand, and it picks up the mussel and his little shell and pries it open. ... One must understand that the decisions they make will not only affect them, but also directly affect their children and family friends. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Because pastors are considered "helping professions," they are the last to seek help from counselors or friends, however, 70% of pastors feel they do not have someone they consider a close friend because of the time and effort it takes (Pastor 1). ... For many P.K's, it is hard to make friends at school without them criticizing or making fun of them because of who their parents are (Robinson 2). ... I can remember when I was little, I felt abandoned when my father's life was too full of other things. ...

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I consider my closest family members to be my friends. In asking co-workers and friends their definitions of family, their definitions were also different. Here are a few of them: Bishop Best friend/friends Teacher Pet We classify families as nuclear, being the husband, wife, and children. ...

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Single people have been found to volunteer more, have more friends, go out more in their neighborhoods, and even have the potential to go much further in their careers (Klinenburg, 2012). Compared with their married counterparts, single people, even the older ones, are much more likely to spend time with friends and neighbors, volunteer, attend art classes, and do other social activities. A study conducted by Cornell sociologist Erin Cornwell found that from 2000 to 2008 those over the age of 35 who lived with a spouse or partner were less likely to spend an evening socializing with friends t...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

But they also display that little interaction can be favorable to some and not to others. ... Doctor Magoon is described as a "great man" (pg. 37 l. 2) who "old friends...somehow can't get near". (pg. 37 l. 7) Those old friends aren't the only ones he can't get close to, but even strangers who try to develop a relationship with him can't do so. ... The fact that he keeps referring to the doctor as his friend is ironic because they aren't friends at all. ...

• Word Count: 2189
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• Grade Level: High School