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    Andre Agassi's Dream Son

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    Open “But this is your dream son!” “No, dad, it is your dream”. The plot twist of so many American sports movies – the son finally breaking away his father and the way he vicariously lives through his son. The same problem is seen in the autobiography Open from 2009 by Andre Agassi – although much darker. For even though Agassi grew up to be a world-famous tennis player it might not always have been his own dream. Because when you have a father who’s relationships and upbringing dominate your…

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    Waking up every morning wishing for a good morning kiss from my father just like the novelas on T.V was everything I always wanted. I was only six years old and had grown up not knowing who my father was. Unlike other kids at my school who always talked about their father playing with them, I was not able to talk about my dad. Celebrating birthdays and wishing my father was there to sing or even blow the candle with me was just a fantasy in my mind. I was young girl growing up a bit bitter…

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    My father, Willy Loman, was the youngest son of the family. In his early childhood, his father, who was a salesman, had left him for the Alaska adventure. My father saw his older brother, Benjamin Loman, who had “walked into a jungle, came out at the age of twenty one, and became a rich man”, as a great man and role model (“Death of a Salesman”). My father was not a finest husband and father. But then it does not mean that he did not love his children, he always took care of us in his own way.…

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    American Dream The American Dream is a term that is associated with the American way of life. It is a statement that keeps everyone moving to become better, to do better, and to be better. The process of getting to these ideals is not the most pleasant, but can be the most rewarding to those who strive. In the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jay Gatsby, Nick Carraway and Tom Buchanan come from money yet they seek much more. In the short story The Egg by Sherwood Anderson, Father…

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    (Lyons gets up from his seat, unfolds a small piece of paper with trembling fingers, and looks up at the crowd with tears in his eyes.) Lyons: I’m really honored to give an eulogy at my father Troy Maxon’s funeral. A few years ago, I would never believe that one day I would voluntarily praise my father, let alone write an eulogy for him. You see, my father and I didn’t have the most harmonious and loving father-son relationship. I never liked my father when I was young. I blamed my father for…

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    A Dream of China is a Singaporean short story written by Ovidia Yu. Ovidia Yu is an author of various award-winning plays and short stories. She has had more than thirty of her plays produced and is considered one of the most well-known writers in Singapore, according to HarperCollins Publishers. Apart from that, she is also known for using humor and unique characters throughout her writing to explore changing roles and identities throughout society, especially for women. She is considered one…

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    Influenced My Life

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    deliberately in light of our words, behavior, and mentality. In the society, we are not ready to escape from the influence power of others, and typically, a change will be uncovered on us after we have been influenced. This is our relationship. Amid my lifetime, there are numerous individuals who have influenced me. Be that as it may, there is an essential individual who makes the most influence in my life my father. Life is not straightforward. It is loaded with issues and surprises .Our job is…

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    analysis where he performed checks of his complexes—those emotional ideas or impulses that had been banished from his conscious mind, but continued to influence his behavior; 2) the analysis of his excessive, obsessional fears that resulted in his identification and definition of the "Oedipus Complex;" 3) the mapping of the…

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    Li- Young Lee poem This Hour and What is Dead seems to be filled with heartache and memorization from the death of his brother and father. Due to the format the poem is written it can be inferred that Lee use the Lord and other phrases as his connection to help humanize what can be looked at as a dream of the person he has talked about in each stanza. Li- Young does a tremendous job at using specific words to help allow the audience of this poem to visualize each scenario he is stating…

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    self-centered decisions caused Moonshadow’s dream to be prolonged, but Moonshadow never resents him for it and instead admires him. The entire book is based on Moonshadow’s admiring perspective, so readers don’t see the self-centered side to Moonshadow’s father. Windrider gives into his selfish desires, ultimately disregarding the feelings of others and reversing the roles of father and son. Moonshadow encourages his father to follow his dreams, but Windrider puts the dreams of others as second…

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