My Cousin Vinny

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    In the article, “Why Women Still Can’t Have it All” by Anne-Marie Slaughter, she blames the current structure of American society for the gender gap. Slaughter uses her personal experience on having a high-profile position in the government as evidence that balancing the responsibilities of a parent and a profession is impossible. Throughout the article Slaughter provides four solutions in order to produce a society that works for women. The first solution is redefining the arc of a successful…

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    culture and are the go-to way to creating a family. Love marriages create a closer bond to the spouse and opens up many pathways in which family relationships can strive. “If you love each other you stay together” is a very popular saying and represents my point. In a love marriage, the two lovers are more likely to stay together which will lead them to create a bigger family that will ultimately have a tenacious and durable family relationship. Unlike in Canadian Culture, love marriage is not…

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    Kathleen Donahoe Interview

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    Because of her interest in our family’s history, I decided to interview my older cousin Kathleen Donahoe. Even though she’s young, I thought she would be the biggest help with this project because she would actually enjoy answering my questions and she is very knowledgeable on the subject. I know typically a grandparent is interviewed, however, my grandma and grandpa were not first-generation immigrants from Czechoslovakia or Ireland, so I decided Kathleen would be a better source of information…

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    In the novel, The House of the Seven Gables, Phoebe Pyncheon, the main character, visits her cousin, Hepzibah, at the seven gabled mansion. Her visit to the gloomy mansion is one where she makes living almost bearable to an ordinary person by drastically lightning up the atmosphere of the mansion. She certainly does her very best to make Hepzibah and Clifford comfortable and more human. Throughout the novel, Phoebe exhibits the character traits of being cheerful, helpful, and selfless. Phoebe…

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    is events like these that people will acquire wisdom. I recently had an event like this. My experience of getting lost on a mountain at night taught me many things. Getting lost on a mountain at night with my cousins was a very significant experience for me. When this happened, my family and I were at a family reunion at the Circle J Ranch in the Bighorn Mountains. It was about 7:00 p.m. and two of my cousins and I decided that we would go on a hike together; we wanted to see if we could climb…

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    First, Fugui reflects on the time he spent with his mother. Fugui explains, “My mother really loved me, so she would work with me in the fields”(48). Hua creates a calming tone through the words “My mother”. A mother often loves her child unconditionally and never turns her back on them. Fugui's mom does her best to keep loving her son even when he made terrible choices. Through the words…

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    Growing up, my parents spoke a lot of Spanish in our household. My sisters and I would be able to pick up bit and pieces of this foreign language to be able to communicate easier. Our grandmother, who could only speak Spanish, played a big role in my understanding of the language. Her home country is Chile and she had been wanting to go back and visit It with us. During the summer that year my parents and my grandparents prepared a trip to go visit. As a child just hearing the word vacation…

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    After reviewing the case of Jose the Mexican American, I found that he had been struggling with the following issues. He has been struggling to balance working and going to school and he is torn between having to choose between his religion and getting an education. He feel cut off/out of place from his family because he has become less involved in family activities/rituals and he feels guilty and shameful because he forced his girlfriend to have an abortion. Jose is probably having sexual…

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    Race-Personal Narrative

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    everything started off so great. Me and my cousins were outside throwing football, baseball and riding bikes all day long. We went inside to eat lunch, when we were at the table eating. My cousin Alex asked me to race him after we got done eating. We went outside and lined up our bikes where we were going to race. My mom came outside and told us not to race because someone is going to get hurt, I kinda just shook her off and we raced anyways. At the starting line my brother had his hands up…

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    A Letter To Halley's Hole

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    Hey Tagnet, My brother (Ethan Reuter) and I (Ian Reuter), are starting to prep for our semi-annual June trip down to TAG, and as such we are beginning to formulate a list of caves we want to visit while we are down there this summer. We love the caves down there so much, I doubt we will ever get bored of coming down. However, as we have been making trips down for a few years now we have started to exhaust the “TAG classics” list. With that said, there are some caves I feel like we have to…

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