Stay-at-home dad

For my argumentative CLEW I read Fun Home by Alison Bechdel and analyzed the characterization in the story, through my analyzation, I am trying to prove that the actions of the parent (Alison’s dad in this case), may influence the actions and lifestyle of their child and through the story the author reveals this by showing how in some ways the father acts like a woman and how he is trying to push gender roles onto his daughter, whereas she acts more like a boy. If you pay attention, throughout…

The Great Smoky Mountains I had never smelt the mountains before. When I was planning my trip everyone who had been there before said, “Oh, that smell! You’ll never forget it!”. I always knew it would be an unforgettable trip I just never thought I would crave the mountains afterwards. I can still feel the cool, crisp air that I inhaled when I walked to the porch to watch the sunrise. I can still taste the freshly brewed coffee, doused in chocolate creamer, as I brought myself to rest on the…

divorce? Client: My Dad and my cousin Shawna. Therapist: How did you tell your children about the family separation? Client: I set them down in the living room and told them, “Dad and I cannot live together anymore, and that is okay.” We had gotten physical in front of the kids one night, and we knew it was time to make some changes. Therapist: What were the children’s reactions cognitively and emotionally? Client: Both of the boys cried with me. They ask if I could tell Dad I was sorry, and he…

understand why my mom never got her shit together, took us kids and just left. I told myself that I was NEVER going to be that type of stupid woman over a man. But now I understand why, or at least, I realize what has prevented me from leaving and staying stay gone forever. I don 't know the details of why other women have stayed, but I know that in each of our own separate reasons, it had to be something incredible that held us there. I 'm going to just mention mine without trying to sound…

Carter after his dad. So he grew up with the name Jimmy When Jimmy was 5 he sold boiled peanuts for money, and when he was 9, he bought cotton and sold it for money for his family. Jimmy Carter lived an amazing life, young and old. He was an awesome kid, student, and president, and that's what made him our leader. Jimmy Carter was born on October 1, 1924 in Plains, Georgia. His dad, James Carter, was a peanut farmer in Plains, Georgia, and his mom, Lillian Carter, was a stay home mom who helped…

been best friends ever since then and have done just about everything together. Three years ago we started basketball together. The first year we had two coaches and the second year we had three, the two from the first year and my dad. After that year of basketball my dad had surgery and something went wrong and it had almost killed him. His bile duct was leaking into his abdomen and he had to go into surgery. The surgery ended up taking two surgeons, three…

” (Death 1.3.). No type of direction on how to act properly in professional circumstances or knowing the difference from right and wrong, Biff was lead for failure from how Willy let him run wild. Willy also killed all hope of what Biff saw in his dad. As we can see in Death of a Salesman, Biff’s discovery that his father has a mistress strips him of his faith in Willy and his ambitions for him. As we can see with his argument with his mom, he states, “…I know he’s a fake and he doesn’t like…

and Charlie is the boy that Katie has a crush on. Although because of her disease, throughout the day she has to stay inside with special ultraviolet light filtering windows, to see the world through. Her nights are a lot more fun. Since she can go out at night, she catches up on all the adventures hse couldn’t embark on throughout the day time. Katie also has a single parent, her dad. When she was little her mom died. Katie talk about a dream that she has. In the dream she is on the…

We are each gone all day to either work or school, so once we’re all home we eat supper together and spend a couple of hours just relaxing and watching television or something. Family dinner has never been the kind of thing where children eat in their room and ignore the parents. My mom and dad have always insisted that we all eat together with the television off. After dinner, my mom and I clear the table and then we just spend…

I did not know that I was about to hear the words that would change my life forever. It was just a regular Friday afternoon in August at around 3:30 pm. My dad had just come back from the Kellogg Eye Center; he was getting his eyes checked because he had a lesion leak making a cloud over his left eye. When he and my mom got home, he was lying on the couch looking very sad. I went into the kitchen and said “Wow, he looks really sad”. "Well, Hannah, he has stage four lung cancer, and he will…