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    Coming Together We had always traveled together. My family, and two others. This was the year 2012, middle of December. My uncle and his kids decided to drive to Mexico a few days before us. His kids had come out of school and we still had finals. They left December 14. It takes 3 full days to drive all the way to Michoacán Mexico, where our family lives. Every night they would call and let us know where they were going to ensure that they were fine and getting closer. A few nights before we…

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    The doctor had said that her mother had died of cerebral aneurysm pg.19. Her mother went to Kweilin because her husband though it would be safe for them and their two babies. He was an officer with Kuomintang pg.21. When her mother thought of the joy luck club she already knew the lady 's she wanted in it. Each week one of them would host a party to raise money and their spirits pg.23. Each week they would pretend it 's a new year and forget past wrongs. Her mother always ended the stories on a…

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    Narrative About Love

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    love you sister”, “My head hurts”. The concussion caused him to repeat himself and not remember what he had previously said. After about two hours they moved him out of the emergency room to a different room that was a lot smaller, but friends and family could visit…

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    Pancreatic Cyst Story

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    It was the fall of 2002; it was a very cold and windy fall. The leaves on the trees were almost all off, and snow was just starting to lightly come down from the sky. It was just another normal day for Jennifer, going to work to make some more money to pay bills and everything else that needed to be paid off. Although one day at home, it struck her like no other - the excruciating pain that once consumes her again fills her whole body. This time it was worse, so bad that all she could think…

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    Reflection Paper

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    was selling his land. The Japanese man and his family were generous to my father by only asking $30,000 for 20 acres of land. This was the opposite of white supremacy because they were people with power in the town that they lived in, but nevertheless helped my dad a lot. My dad used all his money to pay for the land; therefore, the family lent my father the equipment to plow land. Selling those 20 acres to my father was what springboard our family into a more…

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    myself is through the closeness of my family, my love of sports, and, of course, the things I eat. Now I know what you’re thinking, that’s not very many things, how can I only use these three things as a way to describe my individual culture? Well, that’s a good question. Let 's find out. One of the things I use to describe myself and my cultural identity is my family. My family and I are very close. We do almost everything together. I also consider my pets as family. I have my mom and dad, who…

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    Title When a person is born he or she given a name, a gender, a race, a hight and weight. Within just the first few hours of life, a person is given his or her identity. A family is there for their child from the day they are born to teach us fundamentals of life such as language, religion, beliefs, morals, customs, and expectations. Parents raise us by these values and pass down what they have learned from the generation before them. Of course one looks up to his or her parents but parents are…

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    When a couple becomes parents for the first time, there are many issues that might need to be negotiated, for example, how the couple decides they want to raise their children. Society as a whole is made up of many different family dynamics so it is important that a mother and father have the same ideas about how they are going to raise their own children. A couple may need to determine how many children they are going to have, what their names are going to be, if they are going to send them to…

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    Baker, Rossin, Adshade, and Johnson I am able to collect what they have discovered about America along with other countries and the faults that need to be perfected in order for our country to be the most successful productively and social for our families and our…

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    Does technology ruin family life? Since the impact of popular culture and the improvement in technology we are able to use it in various ways to improve our family life as we know it. But do you really think that technology is assisting your family? Or is it pulling it apart? People feel pressured into using technology but feel empowered when they are using it. So are we turning our backs on quality of time together and rather spend time with a screen. Although technology is a great help to our…

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