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    “6 million kids in the country live with a parent who abuses drugs or alcohol (“Prevent”).” Kids need their parents at all time through their lives, but when a parent uses drugs it is like they are not there or they make everything ten times harder than what it needs to be. Everything gets turned around and the drugs lead to chaos, the chaos leads to responsibilities, and the responsibilities lead to emotions. Every now and then parents will fight, but they are still there for their children.…

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    characteristics of situations that define one another for who they are. They are both young girls with very different family backgrounds. Most, but not all of the differences, tends to stem from their fathers and living conditions, because they are two very different individuals. Atticus, the father of Scout and Jem, is a compassionate, humble, and a smart man when it comes to dealing with situations, and treats everyone as equals, even African Americans. Then there is Bob Ewell, who is a…

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    If I could change one thing about the world, I would make homosexuality illegal. I don’t think that LGBT community should be able to get married to their significant other. I find it disgusting and think it should not be okay. I believe that it should be Adam and Eve. It shouldn’t be Adam and John or Eve and Mary. I also think that you should not be able to change your gender. You were born the gender you were for a reason, and you shouldn’t be able to change that. People may think that I’m…

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    Chaos: A Short Story

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    I looked up and saw my father walking towards me with is sword, I was bleeding from my fore head but I couldn 't stop fighting because if I did Chaos would escape. My brother charged ahead giving me time to heal it was his time to fight. Prometheus Pan Cocytus Achilles, This was the name given to me by mother Night and my father Chaos. Yes, I do mean Night with a capital N my mother and father both are literally the accumulation of all evil things. When I was born, they had a massive…

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    dead, Paul is free from her, but is still bound to memories of her and finds that “He could not paint” (390). Like Oedipus, Paul despises his father and prays to the Lord to “let my father die” (58). He gets jealous of his father and even tells his mother not to “sleep with him, mother.” (205) Kubal says that Paul has “murderous feelings toward his father and his erotic attraction to his mother.” and they are caused by the lack of his father’s influence and his…

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    dad’s separation. Never had I thought I would get over not having a father figure in my life. Although, yes it was difficult but it made me who I am today. Being grown up at an abnormal age can make things difficult but yet beneficial at the same time, I now help provide for my family by working and being able to pay my own bills. I can distinctly remember growing up in elementary school, how I felt growing up without a father. What use to always bug me about it was how all the kids made…

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    This schism accounts for Isaacs actions as a father, for why he was never around or why he was cold. Isaac comes from the life of a little above nothing that his father provides for him and is able to go to Harvard. Preacher doesn’t just want Isaac go to Harvard because his boy should have a great education to be his own man. Education for Isaac is device…

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    The process of Resilience is to accomplish a challenge that was bringing you down and to learn from it. Some people believe that those who struggle in life will never be successful. Life challenges can literally affect your way of viewing things. It will make you believe that nothing is worth the shot for. That life is just terrible as hell, however, what you don’t realize is that you are on process for success. When you overcome that challenge you are experiencing, you are going to gain…

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    Pain. The feeling is more than I could bare. A quick intake of breath and my lungs fill with steam. A squeal escapes; it is not much of a noise. My arm covers my face, and I run. I run from our small kitchen to our living room. Dad is on the couch and looks up when I run into the room. The pain is too much to even to make the smallest of noises. I run in my mouth open and top half of me soaking. He rises quickly and pulls me to the stairs and calls for mom. “Ronae, get down here now.” He says…

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    marriage. She initiated the divorce after the straight face grew tired of its own presence. It was what was best for her, and it brought her happiness. She only worried about her kids, and how they would react to their father moving out. She knew what it was like to not have a father, and she didn’t wish that feeling on anyone, especially not her…

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