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    his father. The father inquired of how the child is doing. The child reported he is doing well. Carson reported that he enjoyed last night at his father’s home. The father and child then worked together on making the plane. The father and child talked about activities they engage in together. The child reported that he read the Hardy Boy series with his dad. The father and child spoke about enjoying the reading they do together. Carson continues to work on his paper plane while the father…

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    died on the 18 February 1546 in Eisleben, Germany. During this time he became a controversial figure to the public and members catholic church. He was a German monk who began the Protestant Reformation in the 16th century. At the age of 14 he was moved to a latin school to learn latin. Then he moved back to Eisleben to study grammar, rhetoric and logic. His father Hans wanted martin to become a lawyer. In 1501 martin enrolled at the university of Erfurt which was the best in germay at the time.…

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    could help their father hunt and farm to provide food for the family. Once Alvin's father passed away, Alvin became head of the household. He worked on railroad construction to put food on the table for his family. Despite the fact that Alvin was a hard working man who loved his family, he had his flaws. He was a alcoholic who constantly got into drunken bar fights. Although, Alvin changed his drunken ways when his friend died bar fighting. He joined his mother's pacifist church and became a…

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    had a difficult childhood, suffering years of abuse at the hands of his father, who worked as a carpenter. It appears that Tyler Perry’s father was a no-nonsense kind of parent. He once described his father as a man "whose answer to everything was to beat it out of you." As a child, Perry once went so far as to attempt suicide trying to escape his father. Later, Perry was able to escape his abusive home life by going to church with his mother. Perry also had his first name changed from Emmitt…

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    himself on his black mother. The Preacher had to work hard to attain the not so glorious life he leads;Isaac is the avatar for his dreams. This results in the Preacher saving his money while his boy grows up to make him into a form of investment,“With a church that made his title proper in the mouths of his flock and in the mouths of white men on Sunday, with a stall that made money, and a wife who earned money, and a house kept so clean that you could eat off the floor, Preacher could have the…

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    The Protestant Reformation is a religious movement that began with a conflict between the Latin Catholic church and the Lutheran church and their followers. The two had different views in their theology. This happened during a time period in the early 16th century which lasted until the end of the 18th century. The Latin Catholics controlled the people choices including religious and political views. The Latin Catholics engaged in plenty wrong doing from gambling, breaking the rules of celibacy…

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    Milton grew up in an extremely protestant household and was taught religion as a youth by different tutors and religious schools. Milton’s father planned for him becoming a church figure, but Milton abandoned these plans due to his beliefs that the church was corrupt at the time. This did not affect his love for religion, Milton believed that the audience for his poetry was the world and that God was his inspiration. Milton lived during a period…

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    She was raised by both her mother and father in Mexico and has great memories of having picnics with her family on Sundays and going swimming. Maria’s dad is still living but her mother died several years ago from cancer. She was very close to her mother and is still affected by the fact that…

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    Hironao Jacob Suzuki, my father, was born in Tsuruoka city in Yamagata prefecture, Japan. He chose to move to America because it was the most powerful/advanced nation, and it was the “leader” of all the nations. He came to America with other members in his church in Japan. The church was international so there was also church members in many other countries. He joined the church when he was only eighteen and he is still currently in the church with my family. In preparation before coming to…

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    Christmas Day 1996, I was born to a Black father and a White mother in California. I had what I thought was the perfect family: two loving parents who provided for me, a younger sibling that I could have fun with, and pets to play with out in the yard. I had friends who I would regularly enjoy the company of. I truly thought I had the perfect life! I had this mindset for the first 10 or 12 years of my life, and nothing drastic had happened to change that. Little did I know, that was about to…

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