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    It Takes Time to be a Perfect Dad in a Broken Family According to Pope John XXIII‚ “It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father.” This quote makes sense because people know that men can have children if they want‚ but some of them do not know how to act as a real parent and some of them are afraid to take their responsibilities if they already have a family. In addition‚ sometimes the family that a man and a woman build does not work because of the different

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    The Rich Brother

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    Jake Steinberg Horger AP Lit 2/23/11 “The Rich Brother” Personal wealth and a responsible life would seem at first to fall on the positive side of things when judging an individual. This holds true in Tobias Wolff’s‚ “The Rich Brother.” Still‚ Wolff wants us to delve further and look past the obvious into the relationship of Donald and Pete‚ two brothers that in many ways are dependent on one another. “The Rich Brother” is a Cain and Able story of sibling rivalry that uses contrasting characters

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    The Way Back Home

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    Pete and Donald are brothers who have little in common. Stable and successful Pete is a real estate agent in Santa Cruz. He has two daughters‚ a sailboat‚ and a great deal of money. Donald is something of a drifter‚ never keeping a job for long‚ often migrating from one religious commune to another. While Pete is at home in the world and looks healthy and comfortable‚ Donald is gaunt and obsessed with the fate of his soul. Pete seems to have taken after their parents‚ who are both dead. Like them

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    “Hunters in the Snow” by Tobias Wolff starts out Tub waiting for his friends to pick him up. The suspense starts with rising action by his friends being over an hour late. I chose “Hunters in the Snow to be the more suspense than “The Cask of the Amontillado.” Hunters keeps the reader on edge by displaying three different personalities. Confrontation due to human nature. The reader may question whether they are going to show up at all. This is an example of rising action. When Frank and Kenny show

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    staying at a farm owned by people of faith. Donald believes the issue between he and his brother is spiritual and Pete believes the issue between them is prosperity. Donald joined the Christian faith looking for a group‚ or a “family of faith” as Wolff describes in the story (347). He was looking for a family‚ because he does not have a loving and supportive family. Pete is too focused on how much Donald did not prosper successfully and render the same life as him‚ that he only focuses on the parts

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    Jamaica Kincaid's Girl

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    Alice delphino ENG1101 Mrs. Harris 18 August 2009 In Jamaica Kincaid’s short story “Girl‚” the mother is very disapproving of her daughter’s attitude towards life. She wants to educate her daughter about developing into a respectable woman‚ domesticating herself and proper etiquette in the presence of men. The relationship between mother and daughter depicts a traditional Caribbean “dictatorship” in which the mother shows her love in a controlling manner and the daughter’s only option is to

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    Womens Reproductive Rights

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    choice regarding its use. In America today we have states like Virginia‚ which want to change the policies regarding women’s reproductive freedom. Tobias Wolff‚ a writer for the Huffington Post reported‚ “The Virginia legislature has passed a bill that will force women seeking an abortion to undergo a medically unnecessary transvaginal ultrasound” (Wolff 1). This now mandatory ultrasound is a government overreach to control women’s reproductive rights by making them go through such an embarrassing

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    Effects of Birth Order on Sibling Relationships Much research has been done and importance placed on birth order and the quality of the sibling relationships they form. The order of birth in relation to other siblings is a key factor in the quality of the relationship between siblings. If the same parents raise both brothers and sisters then‚ how do they seem to end up so different? Although there are many factors that can affect sibling relationships‚ age spacing‚ gender dyad‚ and parental

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    Author Begin the entry with the author’s last name‚ followed by a comma and the rest of the name‚ as presented in the work. End this element with a period. Said‚ Edward W. Culture and Imperialism. Knopf‚ 1994. Title of source The title of the source should follow the author’s name. Depending upon the type of source‚ it should be listed in italics or quotation marks. A book should be in italics: Henley‚ Patricia. The Hummingbird House. MacMurray‚ 1999. A website should be in italics: Lundman

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    Conversion of the Jews by Philip Roth In the “Conversion of the Jews” Philip Roth shows how the main character Ozzie believes in his religion. During the story it shows how Ozzie is a truth-speaker and does not deal with factual inconsistencies when it comes to his religion. Also while reading this story one can tell how passionate Ozzie is about Judaism and how he deeply respects the beliefs and rituals of his religion. Another part of Ozzie that is shown is that he has a lot of respect for his

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