have around 30 cousins and around 20 Aunts and Uncles. There is always someone to call and always someone to help out‚ when it’s needed. We were raised to put family first‚ and that’s what everyone does. With so many people‚ there are tons of different personalities. Some‚ like me‚ are loud and talkative. Others are quite and like to just sit and observe. Everyone manages to get along‚ most of the time! Something that is so important to our family is food. My mom‚ Aunts‚ cousins and I spend hours
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The Walnut Tree In my grandparent’s backyard‚ there is a huge walnut tree containing two trunks at its base—I have never understood whether it was only one tree or two‚ planted right next to each other. It is as if someone has cut the tree into two unequal pieces with a huge sword. If I wrap my arms around the thicker half of the tree‚ my hands barely touch each other. Some of the branches that are grown out of the thinner trunk crossed over to the neighbor’s house‚ who is always complaining about
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gruesome experience makes him/her second guess the very morals they have come to live by? David Yaffe‚ in the Killer’s Cousin by Nancy Werlin‚ now questions the person he once thought he was. After a fatal altercation with his girlfriend‚ Emily‚ and her brother‚ Greg‚ David knew he would never be the same Davie his parents have come to know and love. Lily‚ David’s estranged cousin‚ now stands on the same side of the dark abyss that David has lost himself in. They later connect over their inevitable
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early as the 13th century. Later‚ in the 20th century‚ came the scientific study of the effect of humor on physical wellness. Many credit this to Norman Cousins. After years of prolonged pain from a serious illness‚ Cousins claims to have cured himself with a self-invented regimen of laughter and vitamins. In his 1979 book Anatomy of an Illness‚ Cousins describes how watching comedic movies helped him recover. Laughter can help you feel better about yourself and the world around you. Laughter can be
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much fusional. Indeed‚ there isn’t any mark of affection at all between them in the whole text‚ and almost no conversation. So their relation is rather formal than real. Moreover‚ he has an affair with a lady called Ellen Olenska who is his wife’s cousin. In fact‚ they have known themselves since their childhood as the narrator mentions ‘he had danced with the little Ellen Mingott at children’s parties’ (l. 15-16). Therefore‚ they are ‘lovers’ (l. 40). Furthermore‚ I think his attitude evolves throughout
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she is being raped‚ or that it is even a crime. She thought that it was normal for that to happen. This is not the only time that she does not recognize a crime. In the chapter‚ Louie‚ his Cousin‚ and his Other Cousin‚ when the police catch Louie’s cousin that stole the car‚ she did not realize that Louie’s cousin stole the car‚ or even did anything wrong. Crime is not the only thing happening around her that she doesn’t understand however. She also does not realize that her sister‚ Nenny a close friend
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One time‚ I was in great danger. It was last year‚ when I was 11 years old‚ at my grandma’s house. Also‚ it was during the summer time. It was only my grandma‚ my cousin‚ Tyler‚ and I. Her house was in a subdivision in Davison‚ Michigan. After we were there for about two hours‚ my cousin and I decided to go outside for a little bit. For a while we played football‚ but then we decided to go on a bike ride‚ because we felt really energetic. At first we just rode around the subdivision. But then‚ we
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The Wager Everybody was done eating when my cousin asked me if I would do a little wager with him. I was sitting there thinking what would it be. I had a feeling that he was in the advantage when he asked‚ but still trying to be competitive and to show off a little bit I accepted the challenge. My cousin was already forcing me to eat the leftover sliced jellied cranberry sauce with salt on it‚ because his school‚ Nicholls State University beat my school‚ Southeastern Louisiana University in their
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sister-in laws cousin is deaf. She wears a hearing aid and speaks. By seeing the movie‚ I now know that she is an audist. She always feels superior to Deaf people who cannot speak and Deaf people who do not having hearing devices of some kind. That is definitely audism in the works. I remember specifically one time we were eating out all together; me‚ my brother‚ his wife‚ and the cousin. The cousin was making fun of a girl at her work that can’t speak well because she is Deaf. The cousin was just
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Kant believed that there’s a supreme principle of morality‚ which he refers to as “The Categorical Imperative.” The Categorical Imperative is an absolute command built on universal abilities. It helps us determine what our moral duties are by acting only on a maxim (rules) that one can will to be a universal law. The universal law must apply to every single person‚ even yourself‚ with no exception (Restrepo‚ “Kant_Fairness”). One example of an action I took based on Kant’s concept of “the Categorical
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