Once Around Once Around is a romantic film that every family can relate to. ... 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. ... She knew that I cared for Niquon, but at the same time she had no problem telling him when he was overstepping his boundaries, similar to the scene in the Once Around when Marilyn tells Sam that singing his song would not be appropriate for their family gathering. ... So when I watched the end of the Once Around I felt like Renata was me. ...

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Once he is home, he realizes that reality is not as precious as his sweet memories, which are sugarcoated with the passing of time. ... With a need for the past, the present becomes a mission to achieve the desired outcome for the future. ... This realization that he was let down by his life is the only thing that gives him the power and hope for a brighter future. ... Once our destiny is fulfilled we will only have darkness and despair to look foreword to. ...

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A Bride to Be In "Chronicle of a Death Foretold," the bride to be, Angela Vicaro, was returned to her family when her future husband found out that she was not a virgin. ... When a marriage is going to take place, some men feel that it is important for their future wife to be a virgin. ... Besides the jealousy and insecurity factors though, I think many men also want their wife to be a virgin because it is a way of the woman proving that she will be faithful to her husband once they are married. If a woman has been with other men before she is married, a man might see that as meaning that s...

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I have learned that planning for my future is very important even if those plans may change. One way in which many of us plan for the future is by setting goals. ... A goal is a statement of what you want the future to look like. ... Although I have flooded myself in countless goals in which I desire to accomplish in such a short time, I still try to force myself to stop every once in a while and just breathe. ... Although many of these goals have a great role in determining my future, they are not my sole objectives for my future. ...

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This powerful play brings to life many of the adversities that a black family had to go through during the early 40's such as fighting racism, poverty, future goals, ethnicity preservation, and in the case of Walter Lee is becoming in charge as the man of the family. ... However, he will eventually learn to become closer to his family members, stand up for their pride, and as a result turn into a man that his father once used to be. ... As a matter of fact, he had no clue that his wife was carrying a baby, and once he found out, he simply walked out of the house without saying a word. ...

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Once a close and loving relationship between Gregor and his sister, their bond slowly erodes over time as she grows older and the family matters continually worsen on account of Gregor's metamorphosed appearance. ... While Gregor has undergone and fatally suffered his metamorphosis, the family is now free to prosper and can now look forward to the hopeful future of Grete for "she had blossomed into a good-looking and well-developed girl"" (pg. 310). ... Once a loving sister, she eventually comes to seemingly hate Gregor, and condemns him. ... Gregor had planned to give Grete a bright fu...

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They are a family because they are spending quality time with each other and doing things as a family Yes, this living arrangement is common where I live. Laws involving insurance, social security, or inheritance may define families in other ways. Zoning laws affect a family as well. The cha...

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It was only years later when I realized that I shouldn't mope over these situations because they only keep me from happiness, they mold me as a person, and there's a future that awaits me. ... An unknown author once said, "Pain makes you stronger, tears make you braver, heartbreaks make you wiser. So thank the past for a better future. " The divorce was a bumpy start for me, but it lead to a brighter future. ...

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Ultimately, he discovered that the family communication skills exhibited by the parents impacted the children's future development. ... Accordingly, the manner in which parents express themselves in expressiveness, traditionalism, and conflict avoidance will likely be the same way those children will chose to interact with their children once they become parents. ... The ability to adequately express themselves as a child will likely mean they will resort to more healthy responses to future trauma and will be less likely to engage in self-destructive coping strategies (Lutz, 2007). ... ...

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He never once helped me buy my books for school or pay for my car payments. ... I see my father maybe once a year or twice every other year, depending how important he thinks it is to visit his children. ... I may not be a future doctor like my stepsister, but I will be happy. ...

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Ethan's social status, cultural factors, and psychological problems, gradually ate away the honesty that was once within him. ... That left Ethan with hardly any money and a job as a clerk at a grocery store which was once owned by his family. ... As Joey Morphy, a friend of Ethan's, stated, "You know most people live ninety per cent in the past, seven per cent in the present, and that only leaves three per cent for the future" (166). ...

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However, with over four percent per thousand American matrimonies ending in divorce, this once assumed simple vow may need reassessment. ... My mom met my father and her future husband when she was only eighteen and he was twenty. ... Once a custom for many, it is now a choice that only individuals can make for themselves. ...

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All the difficulties a parent can have are portrayed in the poem "Against Prognostication," by Jeffery Thomson, who depicts a father who is against prognosticating his son's future. ... Though, after reading the first stanza, one can perceive he is in an inner struggle with his emotions when he emphasizes that he has "not yet" prognosticated his son's future. ... Even though he does not directly address why he is opposed to prognostication of his son's future, it is very probable that this reason is one of the motivators for his opposition. ... Thus, giving ...

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Like Siddhartha had once been, before his leaving Kamala, the boy had been brought up in the habits of the rich, that he was accustomed to fine food and a soft bed, accustomed to commanding servants (117) worldly riches and dogmatically refuses his fathers love. ... The son eventually runs away, back to the town in which he had once lived and it upsets Siddhartha that he must allow his son to go on his own journey, but Vasudeva helps Siddhartha realize that his son must learn how to reach Nirvana on his own, the way he once did to his own father. ... The river that is everywhere at the same ti...

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Having this relation once again shows that a single factor main effect model is problematic. ... Research has linked the lower socio-economic status with harsher discipline, at times abuse that is passed onto future generations of children. ... This once again refutes the single factor main effect model. ... Once again the single factor main effect model is not sufficient enough to explain other factors that may be involved in abuse being related to emotional injury. ...

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A Christmas Pickle Tradition One tradition I have in my family is finding the pickle ornament on the Christmas tree. The ornament has been in my family for over one hundred years. It was brought over from my mother's great grandmother, who is from Germany. The tradition says that who ever f...

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With the feelings of pride and hopes for a promising future also came the fears of failure and disappointment to not just myself but my whole family as well. ... Everything thrown at me at once from school to new people to new everything. ...

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"Come in," I whispered, my voice cracking like a whip and my eyes filling with a pool of feelings once more. ... It impacts what is going to happen in the future. ... We all understand how hectic and frustrating it is when your parents or family repetitively tell you to try harder, but think of the future from now. ...

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Once the child has chosen the parent to live with, the other parent is seen less and less and sometimes not at all. ... A child bases most of his future relationships on that of his parents" relationship. ... Divorce has also changed my entire outlook on future relationships and made putting my trust in other people harder. ...

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Hemon, in the story, expresses that once one is able to find language, he/she is able to convey their thoughts and feelings. Ella didn't understand what was going on in her familys life, however, once had a surge of language pumping through her, she was able to connect her inner, or interior, feelings with her exterior actions and interactions. ... Hemon makes a remarkable point about imagination in The Aquarium regarding how it can break someone down and force them to be scared of the future, however, it also possesses the ability to help someone cope with the unfamiliarity of a situatio...

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The anticipation of being able to meet my relatives was overwhelming and I knew that the trip would be something great to reminisce in the future. ... I had the butterflies in my stomach and didn't know what to expect once we reached our destination. ... I was exhausted once we arrived and passed out in the living room while the rest of the family was reuniting. ... My mother had promised us that there would be more chances in the future for us to visit them again and it eased my pain. ...

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However, she still made the decision to leave her comfort zone and the luxurious life she once had to raise us all by herself in a foreign country. ... She has gone through so much, but she always kept a good spirit about it all and has never once regretted the decision she has made years prior. ... It was a short five minute talk, but enough to make me re-evaluate my future. ...

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I remember topping my cohort once, and all she said was: 'Good job.... She gives me the best of her ability, both financially and mentally; she showers me with love and care; she has taught me all I need to live life as a seventeen-year-old girl; she showed me how the handle my emotions; she has shown me the beauty of giving and taking; she has showed me her world; she has shared everything she could with me and I hope to do the same in the future. ... " My mother has provided me with a source of light in my once dark tunnel, and I hope that I can have the honors to provide her the ...

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"In case of an accident, anyone seeing her dead on the highway would know at once that she was a lady." ... This is a direct sign that death loomed not too far in the future. ... These two incidents directly symbolizes that the Misfit could be somewhere near their location, and although the grandmother lingers on the subject of the Misfit a little longer with the store owners, the family does not take all these occurrences to mind and start off on their trip once again. ...

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The attainment of power by Goneril and Regan makes them forget about all of the gifts and treasures bestowed on them by Lear and they feel as if he has no future use to them now. ... Once he accomplished that feat he wrote a slanderous and horribly bad letter pretending to be from Edgar. ... Due to the fact that he is utterly compelled to serve the King, Kent disguises himself as Caius, in the hopes of serving his friend once more. ...

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