In verse seven the author starts to develop his actual feelings about his father and grandfathers" line of work as it is incorporated into his life. ... He claims it as a squat pen because it doesn't add to the size and greatness of his fathers" tools, the spade. With the last sentence the author restates that he wants to be a writer with the statement "I"ll dig with it". ... But he still looks back on the days as though he misses them when he worked with his father. ... But then by the end of the poem he starts to have a realization within him that writing is his farming and comes...

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His visiting continues even after the girl's mother starts to date a lover called Dr. ... The girl begins the story in the middle of an action and use short, simple sentences. Most of the sentences simply tell actions instead of describing her feeling. ... I guess the father does not have any communication with his family when he is with them because the girl implies she has emotional problems, as she gets "heavier for every week her father deserts them." ... Duncalf contrasts with Dr. ...

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They work great with children because these stories are shocking and a little scary. ... This is where they started their lives together. ... It was the only holiday that we all got to be together on because all the rest of the holidays were spent with our respective in-laws. ... That was a bad year and all because we didn't spend 4th of July together. ... "You know, everything had to begin, and this is how it was:- This sentence is the beginning of Rainy Mountain and solidifies the whole book in one sentence. ...

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The short sentences represent how much little thought has gone towards her daughter's death and how she almost feels rewarded by the sympathy and kindness that is received. ... After ending up in hospital because of this, his anger slowly subsides into depression – a depression so deep that Buckley, left alone at home with his dad, feels alienated and ignored because, his father, though always physically present, is never present consciously to attend to his son's needs. ... Finally, after having a heart attack close to the end of the novel, Jack starts to let Susie go and acce...

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• Grade Level: High School

" It was very annoying hearing it at times because I couldn't even get my whole sentence out without him interrupting me and saying something along those words, but I'm happy I have my parents for support. ... I walked up to my principal, and he was joking with me about my shoes saying that he was surprised I didn't trip or anything while walking. ... I graduated with one of my best friends and did it for my other best friend who was in heaven. ... Seeing happy and excited faces all because of my accomplishment gave me the happiest feeling. ... I started tearing up a litt...

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Maria was happy but exhausted because of the length of the labor. ... Emma is in college, just starting her second year. ... They had to cope with this problem because they could nothing to do with it. ... They know what each other is thinking and at times they finish each other sentences. ... They started to make their own traditions. ...

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He never seemed to notice that I could not get along with my cousins and relatives. Its not because I was a snob. ... Unfortunately I gave up because I couldn't speak no more than a couple of complete sentences after that whole year. ... That was also a disadvantage for me, because I thought that I could pick up some Mandarin by mixing around with other Chinese peers. ... I felt like I had a chance of starting over a new life. ...

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He was brought up Primitive Baptist with an itinerant preacher. ... Things would get started with several altar boys, dressed in white robes, coming down the center aisle followed by the reverend. ... The only time I heard grace after that was at our grandmothers" house for Christmas and Thanksgiving dinners where she occasionally passed out in her plate because she liked to drink, but that's another story . 3 When we first moved to Kentucky, we moved in with my dad's Uncle Ernest who was blind and lived in the family's 3-story rock house that was built just after my...

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The attack on Pearl Harbor commanded by the imperial Japanese navy, as a profound military strike, led to an intense situation and domestic insecurity, ones lead the U.S. government shortly started to relocate and incarcerate nearly citizens of Japanese ancestry who lived on Pacific coast. In this novel, the father, who has been already arrested and removed by the U.S. government at the start of the story, shows some relationship with the Emperor by giving the evidence of the connection to the Japan and his final confession after return four years later. ... Also, these are ordinary things ow...

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The decisions that she makes in regards to what she does with her body and the fetus will be beneficial to both the woman and the fetus because it will prevent many problems from occurring in the future. ... Sometimes after a pregnancy and childbirth, many women have to give up their dreams on starting in school or end up dropping out because they do not have the time for it. ... He can simply say a sentence or pick up his bags and leave while a whole new life is growing inside of her, a life that she cannot get rid of unless she has professional help. ... But when a parent is not ready to rai...

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The decisions that she makes in regards to what she does with her body and the fetus will be beneficial to both the woman and the fetus because it will prevent many problems from occurring in the future. ... Sometimes after a pregnancy and childbirth, many women have to give up their dreams on starting in school or end up dropping out because they do not have the time for it. ... He can simply say a sentence or pick up his bags and leave while a whole new life is growing inside of her, a life that she cannot get rid of unless she has professional help. ... But when a parent is not ready to rai...

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Because of this one event, Ida must come back to face the peers of her reservation with a baby in her arms. ... As she says, "If I were to live my life differently, I would start with the word No." ... She was sentenced to wear a scarlet letter "A" that was to be embroidered on all of her garments as a reminder of this event. ... Because of this circumstance, her feelings seemed to lean towards extreme shame. ... Both women certainly didn't fail in any area because they didn't give up. ...

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The Joys of Motherhood Summary: The story starts out in the year 1934 in Nigeria. ... When he started to recover he had sexual relation with Ona in the middle of his compound with all his wives and children in the room. ... I shall come back- Soon after the funeral Ona becomes pregnant with Nnu Ego and the baby is allowed to stay with her father because the baby is a girl because if the baby were a boy he would become her father daughter since he never had a boy. ... Nnu became very attached to the boy and even started to breast feed him. ... This idea upset Nnu because she did not ...

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He contrasts with the elegant greyhounds that he takes with him. ... Mary had the potential to become something and he suppressed this because of his selfishness. ... The sentence form is very abrupt and choppy. ... The name "Mary" is placed alone on a line because it is the focus of the speaker's attention. ... Society pressures girls to choose family life over career and these stresses are starting to affect the speaker. ...

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In the later stories, his sons kill each other fighting over control of Thebes, and his daughter was sentenced to death for honoring both of her brothers. In "Hamlet", King Claudius starts the trend by poisoning King Hamlet so that he can become king. ... And Claudius is also obsessed with power because he poisoned King Hamlet and then married his brother's widowed wife just to be king. ... Most people would compare Oedipus with Hamlet, but in my eyes I feel that because both Oedipus and Claudius are the villains in their stories, they should be paralleled with one another. ... Both s...

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On the first day of speaking with Sarah, she has informed me that she did not like the fact that she brought in for this evaluation because she believes that she is not a bad teenager and that she only needs some assistance in coping with her behavior issues. ... Because Sarah is having more behavioral issues in school and she is hanging out with a not so desired crowd she is showing some signs of considering suicide (McWhirter, J. 2012). ... Sarah has avoided any real time in a juvenile facility and she will now have to face this type of punishment as her form of sentence. ... I would start...

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Children, who grow without a family, are more likely to be unhappy simply because of the lack of love that they can't receive anywhere else. ... There have never been any feelings of remorse towards my biological father, because I don't feel I ever lacked love or guidance during my childhood. ... However, we started living together and six months later and wondered if we had made a mistake. ... We shortly realized that we were not listening but rather waiting for the other to finish a sentence so we could say something in our own defense, which ended up making things worse. ... I...

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In contrast, Grandson's side is presented with a greyed filter which dulls the screen and, according to the award-winning designer and brand consultant Jennifer Bourn, "has associations with loss or depression" and "affects the mind and body by causing unsettling feelings" (Bourn, 2013). ... The encoder uses a close-up first person camera shot (See appendix 1) to draw the decoders' attention to the comparison between the balanced portions of healthy, home-made food with that of the larger, unhealthier meals which are consumed by the grandson. ... For example, Gra...

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• Grade Level: Graduate

From start to finish, this piece is gripping, allowing the reader to become part of the poem. ... The hyphen used here helps the reader to separate the stern and endearing spots in the one sentence. ... She feels alone and depressed, forcing her husband away because he does not see her pain. ... In this second mound of tension the husband is pleading with his wife. ... I, as a reader connected with this poem and its variations of tension and style. ...

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He even started an opium business over there. ... Ronnie himself started out with alcohol and a codeine-based cough syrup to help him feel more secure and adequate since he "was very shy and talked with a stammer- (Dash, 134). ... Receiving this check is the highlight of the month, because everybody can just take off with his share of the money and buy drugs. ... Rosa Lee also started steeling expensive clothes for her mother, because she craved attention and love from her. ... " In 1987, Bobby was convicted of selling heroin and was sentenced to thirty months to seven and a half ...

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Sometimes you won't fit in with the other children because you have no idea what there talking about. ... At the end I had to deal with racism and stereotyping that other kids think is funny because you don't fit in. ... I started to learn and play a lot of the American sports such as Football, Baseball, soccer and Basketball. ... Don't get me started on the SAT's I would have been stuck in my room for months and moths just preparing for this stuff. ... Then one day a sentence came out of my parent's mouth that I was never able to forget "we are moving". ...

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Some statistics are proving parents spank their children because it is something that has always happened in their family, more or less a family tradition (Lets Put Spanking To Rest). ... Parents believe because they were spanked on their bare bottom when they were younger, that it is OK to do so now. ... He was discovered "whupping" on his daughters with their pants down (Hudak 4). ... For example, when a parent starts habitually beating their child on habit, then when the parent comes home from work, they would immediately look for their child to "wail" on, just so they would fe...

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A sentence Tom should be fulfilling, but got away with. ... As well, this classifies as an individual personal violent crime, because it involves one particular child of one particular family. ... As well, the Katherine is contacted through her maid when Tom refuses to cooperate with the kidnapper and told to meet with the offenders. ... Agent Lonnie Hawkins was the FBI agent directly involved with the investigation and he can be seen as an indirect victim as well, because he questions the safety of his own children and if Sean does not return alive this can result in future feelings of guilt ...

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These relationships are formed not only because of the need for attachment, but also for the need of species survival. ... Most of the time, teens join gangs, because they don't have anyone else to attach to. ... So, that gang they have provides them with an even closer relationship than what they have with their real family. ... Gang violence isn't a joke and gets thousands of minors and young adults put into jail, because of all the murders done and drugs sold through the gang. ... All too often, the abused partner blames the situation on themselves and starts committing crazy ...

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Society have grown a costume to cheap goods, because is convenient, we disregard and pretend to not care where all this things are coming from, who is being exploited in the achievement of cheap goods we have settle with chemically enhance ones, and farmers hard work has been disregarded. ... Through out his life Masumotos's dad has been teaching him many lessons some he was aware of and some that with out him knowing stuck with him. ... Masumo is used to being the breaker and his father the fixer after stroke roles change and Masumoto had to be patience not only with him self but with hi...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate