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    or pictures. Uncle Clinton had a funny cartoon giggle when he laughed and love to eat all kinds of junk food. We always had fun together. We watched cartoons and played video games. He was almost as old as my mommy and I never thought that a grown up would ever understand us kids. One day my family decided to have a barbeque. At every family gathering the adults like to sit at a long rectangular‚ wooden table and play dominoes. My uncle liked to play too so he sat down with the adults as well

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    Causes of Child Obesity "Many of today’s kids are engaged in sedentary pursuits made possible by a level of technology unthinkable as recently as 25 to 30 years ago. Computer‚ video‚ and other virtual games‚ the ready availability of feature films and games on DVD‚ plus high-tech advancements in music-listening technology have come down into the range of affordability for parents and even for the kids themselves. These passive pursuits have produced a downside of reduced physical activity for the

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    Rank | Name | Net Worth | Age | Source | Country of Citizenship | 1 | Carlos Slim Helu & family | $69 B | 72 | telecom | Mexico | 2 | Bill Gates | $61 B | 57 | Microsoft | United States | 3 | Warren Buffett | $44 B | 82 | Berkshire Hathaway | United States | 4 | Bernard Arnault | $41 B | 63 | LVMH | France | 5 | Amancio Ortega | $37.5 B | 76 | Zara | Spain | 6 | Larry Ellison | $36 B | 68 | Oracle | United States | 7 | Eike Batista | $30 B | 55 | mining‚ oil | Brazil | 8 | Stefan

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    Growing up in a Christian household my family has always instilled in me that I am in the world‚ not of the world. This means I live in this world because God as placed me here‚ but I do not act like unbelievers of the world. When believers and unbelievers see me‚ they should know that I am Gods child. This relates to Walter in the video because he is betraying hatred to blacks and interracial marriage and using the bible and the law in the wrong context to back him up. My earliest years of remembering

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    In his essay‚ “Falling Down Is Part of Growing up”‚ Henry Petroski explains how all humans experience failure throughout their lives. The author compares nursery rhymes with the evolution of the human body and how they evolve as they grow older. He also describes how kids don’t realize the purpose or the meaning of things‚ but as they grow older‚ they realize the purpose of things and life in general. He also explains how failure is part of life and the inspiration of great innovations. Henry emphases

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    Growing up in an immigrant household came with many difficulties. Learning English was very easy for me because I was always in daycare but coming home was hard because I could not communicate with my parents. Trying to communicate with my parents was very difficult and frustrating. Even though it was at a young age‚ it was difficult to live in a household who only spoke Spanish. One day when I came home from daycare‚ my family realized for the first time that I could not speak or comprehend Spanish

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    In the poem Come Up from the Fields Father‚ Whitman draws a picture of the emotional distress so many families experienced during the Civil War. The poem describes a family receiving a letter that their son has been wounded. He places the setting in the autumn season where all of nature is reaching its prime of life just before the death of winter. The poem describes a family receiving a letter that their son has been wounded. He places the setting in the autumn season where all of nature is reaching

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    Growing up‚ I was always a daddy’s girl. Then‚ I began to transition to relying on my mother more than father when I started to notice my dad’s absents. Due to away from home military work‚ my dad missed many milestones in my life like my first leading role play‚ the first time a rode a bike‚ and my middle school graduation. Eventually‚ I realized that my dad was sacrificing his time with his family and risking his life helping make a bigger difference in the world. I learned from the stress‚ prayers

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    To Kill a Mockingbird Jem acts maturely The novel To Kill a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee is about a young girl named Scout and her brother‚ Jem‚ growing up in the small‚ southern town of Maycomb‚ Alabama. Scout and Jem live with their older father‚ Atticus‚ and spend their summers playing with their friend‚ Dill. They have many neighbors‚ and one is an older woman named Mrs. Dubose. As the siblings grow older‚ they begin to drift apart and new disagreements begin. Yet‚ as Jem begins change‚ he starts

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    goes though many hardships growing up. The book is set in the early 1900’s in the American south. Richards mother raises Richard in the harsh environment after Richard’s father abandons them. Richards’s main goal is to make it to the north. In the book we relive different experiences in Richards’ life. When Richard was just a small boy he was extremely curious and lit the white fluffy curtains on fire. This foreshadows how Richards’s life is going to turn out. Growing up Richard had it tough during

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