writing this story‚ I discovered that although we were together as a family for the entire day‚ at the same time‚ we were separated by an invisible wall created by technology that took us away from being in the moment with each other. This was the exact message my dad was trying to get across in his hour-long lecture. I won’t give the exact play by play of his entire lecture‚ but it started out as him telling me how “bratty” and selfish I had been toward the family due to my isolation with my phone. Here
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been warm‚ but the sky told a different story. It spoke with a dreary‚ gray tone‚ swallowing up the sunshine that regularly enlightened the sky each day. The rain pelting to the ground was more foreign than the absence of the sun. I had never encountered rain during my past commutes‚ so this weather brought with it‚ an important learning experience. The heavens opened up and poured out its tears in great quantities‚ rushing through the atmosphere and hitting my vehicle like bullets. The windshield
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During times like this; I put on the closest pair of shoes‚ grab my keys‚ go outside‚ jump into the first puddle that I see‚ then drive and drive. It does not matter if the rest of the world is quiet. All that matters to me is that there is the pitter-patter of rain on my moving car. Just me driving around on the empty streets and there will be no consequences. No one there to expect anything from me. No one there to judge my love for rain. And
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Electra complex From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Electra complex: Electra at the Tomb of Agamemnon‚ byFrederic Leighton‚ c.1869 In Neo-Freudian psychology‚ the Electra complex‚ as proposed by Carl Gustav Jung‚ is a child’s psychosexual competition with his/her mother for possession of his/her father. In the course of her psychosexual development‚ the complex is the girl’s phallic stage; formation of a discrete sexual identity‚ a boy’s analogous experience is the Oedipus complex. The Electra
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] Time to Grow Up In the short story “A&P‚” John Updike writes of a nineteen year old boy‚ Sammy‚ who is overcome by his fantasies when three girls walk into the A&P grocery store. They are in nothing but bathing suits. He soon decides‚ after the events that occur‚ because of these three girls‚ to quit working in the third slot of the grocery store. The three girls to Sammy are damsels in distress‚ because of Lengel‚ the manager. Out of the three girls‚ one catches his eye‚ the one he
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Nevertheless‚ as we kept talking I could only listen in fascination‚ our lives seemed so similar to each others. Our conversations were long‚ and laughter filled. We talked about our family and personal lives. We both became pretty close over the short amount of time that we had been talking. When it came to a more in depth conversation about of family‚ we both fell silent. “I used to have a father and mother‚ but they aren’t in the picture now” she explained as her eyes slowly teared up. After
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Charlette‚ but most people call me Charle. This is my story. The story about a girl‚ just a girl. No magically fairies or wizards‚ no queens or kings and nothing different from the world you live in now‚ yet some people might find this fassinating for reasons unknown. I’m a normal girl‚ well as normal as a 14 year old girl gets. My brown eyes and brown hair blend with a crowd and my average height and weight don’t stand out. I don’t really work to hard with my grades‚ so they are mostly average‚ except
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old women who seeks to help other‚ but says that because she has so few supporter that it is hard to raise even $5‚000.00 to help the apartment complex she lives in buy a few electronic devices. She has even tried to raise money for a homeless epileptic father son duo‚ but gained only $6. She says with a sad and hopeless look on her face. "How cruel can my fellow man be not to want to help those in need‚ and no I don’t want to hear this line about people don’t have any money‚ because we all know that’s
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The short story “A Conversation with My Father” written by Grace Paley is a short story about a woman who is having a conversation with her elderly father. In this story‚ the narrator is telling‚ and retelling‚ her father a story about a mother and her desire to be close with her son no matter the cost or circumstance. Not only does this work involve various themes‚ but it also literary elements such as comedy‚ exaggeration‚ and irony. “A Conversation with My Father” is a short story that contains
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I ambitiously decided that I would brighten the lives of the elderly by volunteering at a rest home‚ but discovered that the elderly were being neglected‚ shoved aside and forgotten. As I stepped into the home a pungent odor penetrated my nostrils‚ causing an instantaneous gagging reflex. The place was abounded with neglected and subdued inhabitants‚ yearning for attention. Anybody that passed them caused a sudden outburst of ranting. The negligence and disregard the home displayed appalled me‚ but
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