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    say the least. My father had gone back to Alaska for work, leaving me, my mom, and my brother alone. My mother was constantly depressed. One day, sometime towards the end of sixth grade, my mother announced that she would be divorcing my father. My brother was glad, but I on the other hand, was beyond upset. As my mother grew happier, I grew more depressed. By the end of seventh grade my mother had finally revealed why she was divorcing my dad.…

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    My life started at August 29 1983, in a small village in Ogun State. Am the second child to my mother and my father’s fourth. My father married his first wife at a young after two years of no children married my mother, ironically his first wife gave birth to my half-sister before my mother had her first son. In my community, it is normal for some people to have two wives because their first wives did not bear children (“early enough”). They marry second wives and some bring them under the same…

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    about my father considering that the last time my father and I have shared a laugh is beyond my memory. My mom always tells me that I am very similar to my father in terms of his stubbornness and positivity. I would always take this as an insult from my mother but truly I would dream to become half the man my father was before he became ill. My father fought for what he wanted and what he wanted was for all of his kids to be happy. That's why he came to America…

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    Supporting Evidence: A. What her mother is saying can be taken in a different context as Connie and herself think in a different mindset. Paraphrase/Quotation: 1. “Why don’t you keep your room clean like your sister? How’ve you got your fixed-- what the hell stinks? You don’t see your sister using that junk.” (2) Analysis / explication of supporting evidence and how it links to the topic sent. and to thesis. How her mother is treating Connie may have caused an…

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    plaintiff did not repay the amount within the hour, she would serve six months in jail…….The plaintiff, the mother of…

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    down his tree. "But suddenly, I was sorry that I was born a Korean child. I wished that I were Japanese"(Sook Nyul Choi 30). This situation made Sookan loathe the Japanese, letting her develop more as a person. In the Japanese school a boy deeply insults the Japanese, resulting in making Sookan clap even if she knows she will get into…

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    totally ignored what i said, later on she went to my mother and asked her what they were teaching me in university, that is when my mother explained the assignment i had. The conversation i was having with my uncle was very funny, we were sitting and talking about my cousins and making fun of them. Uncle: Look at shamsa, look at how she is sitting. Me(Shouting): Spectumsempra Uncle: Spektumspooora He thought i was saying something that was an insult to my cousin and he liked it, i couldn't…

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    There are 4 main characters in the story “Everyday Use” by Alice Walker. Mama, Maggie, Dee, and Hakin-a-barber. Mama describes herself as a big-boned woman with hands that are rough from years of hard work. She has played the part as a single mother to both her daughters. Mama is poor and uneducated. Maggie is very shy and lacks self-confidence. She is good-hearted, caring, and well-behaved. The first-born daughter Dee, renamed herself Wangero Leewanika Kemanjo. Dee wears a brightly colored,…

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    family and town. Also, the children are forced to endure insults from almost every white person in town, due to their father representing a black man, Tom Robinson, in court. In this journal I will be evaluating and Questioning. In my opinion, Calpurnia is a better mother figure than Aunt Alexandra. Calpurnia is a good mother figure. Calpurnia loves the children a lot. She has taken care of them since they were babies because their mother passed away. She always treats Scout and Jem as if they…

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    Grime and Punishment once said, “There's no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one” (Churchill, 1989, ). Even though a perfect mother does not exist, almost every mother would bend over backwards to support their children’s needs. This means scavenging for ways to financially aid a child's necessities. An example of this struggle is in the film, Frozen River (2008), where director Courtney Hunt presents two mothers who must overcome the trust issues within each other in…

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