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    especially when they are lazy and hypercritical. My Aunt Jane Doe is the queen of that especially when my aunt will lie to get out of anything. I will say nee-ther and she will say ny-ther just to start a fight. Some people are not ready to grow up and act like adults even though they have made bad decisions for themselves that should have made them grow up faster. The person in my life that that I can’t agree with and hurts my family is my aunt Jane Doe. Aunt Jane Doe is the person I cannot…

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    My Aunt Barb suffered from bipolar depression for much of her life. She masked her pain by getting drunk or smoking marijuana. Barb 's lifestyle convinced her to divorce her husband, and the grief worsened her addiction. At many family events, she acted oddly agitated and solemn. I could never tell whether she was intoxicated or high. One day on a ride home from school, my mom told me that my Aunt had committed suicide. Barb went to a motel in Little Falls, Minnesota, and drank a deadly mix of…

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    along the plot. With that in mind, it can easily be argued that Aunt Ester was the true “gem” of this play. Without her, this story would quickly fall back into the depths of memory for many of the members of the audience. She is a wealth of information and wisdom undoubtedly, but she is much more than that. She is charitable and kind in a time where much of the general population was only concerned with their self-preservation. Aunt Ester in Gem of the Ocean represents the idea to the community…

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    My relationship with my aunt has never been really great or even good. Growing up, there was a lot of haste in our household; a lot of arguing, blaming others and sadness. I believe my auntie just never ever really deep down liked me. Anything that I ever did was just never good enough for my aunt; anything from mopping the floors ‘the wrong way’ or not cleaning her tables as she would have liked. I spent many years dreading every conversation with her and had lots of meltdowns before a visited…

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    and prudent. The aunt of Atticus’s children, Alexandra is a more isolated and biased character. She is a not a central character, but she is essential to the story, and is crucial in contrasting against Atticus’s morals. Along with contributing to the novel’s plot, Aunt Alexandra’s presence in the novel helps to develop a theme: the idea that people in a community are not always the same, and you must come to adapt to their ways of life. Lee includes a brief background of Aunt Alexandra to…

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    himself now and doesn't want to hang out with his sister. It also shows how much of a real impact Calpurnia and Aunt Alexandra are in their lives. In this journal I will be evaluating. I believe, that Calpurnia is a better mother figure than Aunt Alexandria for many different reasons. Calpurnia daily interactions, with Jem and Scout, is one of the reason that she makes a good mother figure.…

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    your spirits. At the beginning of the Wagner Matinee it shows how Aunt Georgiana acted at first. “She sat mutely staring at the violin bows that drove obliquely downward, like the pelting streaks of rain in a summer shower. Had this music any message for her? Had she enough left to at all comprehend this power which had kindled the world since she had left it” This huge excerpt pieces together that this was a distant memory for Aunt Georgiana and she showed no signs of emotion. She at first had…

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    Portfolio Item #21 Areil Anderson Phase Autobiography Death of My Aunt Ernest I was about six years old when my Aunt Ernest dies. I never would have thought that the person I love would die. I remember when my mom got the call saying that she was in the hospital. My mom and I was crying so hard. We went to the hospital, and the first thing I did was run to her room. I wanted to…

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    Aunt Gitl - A fiery, opinionated women with whom Hannah lives. She is very independent. She survives until the very end, at the liberation of the camp she weighed 73 lbs. Uncle Shmuel - He is the family jokester a very kind, loyal man. He loves Hannah a lot and loves Fayge to almost to a fault. He is killed after trying to escape the death camp. Fayge - This is Hannah’s aunt by marriage. She is very beautiful and upbeat person who loves Shmuel very much. She is killed by firing squad at…

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    There’s Something Wrong with Aunt Diane Before watching the Documentary There’s Something Wrong with Aunt Diane I was unaware of the tragic car accident on Sunday, July 26, 2009 that claimed 8 lives. I had watched the documentary this past summer and was intrigued by the circumstances surrounding the accident. Although the consequences of Aunt Diane’s actions were disastrous, I was fascinated with the concept of denial, which showed its impact in respect to the family’s reaction to the event.…

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