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    Many women struggle in the world with such things as family, education, and being in the work force and are often times undervalued. Many things that happen in life can affect women’s thoughts, feelings, emotions, actions, and finances. I chose my mother, Ellen Murphy, to discuss how certain events throughout her life had affected her with all of those that I listed. My mother’s experiences of adopting two children from another country, was a special education teacher, divorced my father, and grew

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    Weather it’s big or small everyone has a fear in their lives. My biggest fear is getting close to people that I can lose in seconds. I truly believe that there will come a time when you are sick, and you know you not going to make it through the sickness. Within the past four years I’ve watched two people die and that was the hardest time of my life. Another one I walked in on and they weren’t breathing. Funny thing is I never thought I could be closer with those three people. They were the ones

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    understood better as a family as a whole (Hammond, Cheney, Pearsey). This theory views divorce as a negative thing that also has negative consequences. A family will fall apart if it is not made up of all of the typical members of a family (i.e. father, mother, and children). Since one member of the family is taken away from the family unit, they have a gap that they cannot fill and one less person other family members can rely on. It also views divorce from the broader perspective: by looking at how the

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    After settling in, Sam tells Hally his mother is at the hospital with his father. Hally is concerned with the news, as there is no visiting on Thursdays. When told his dad was alright and may even be coming home, Hally freezes. Although he is rattled, the audience does not see Hally’s true thoughts about his dad until his mother calls him the first time. As Hally receives the news of his father’s homecoming, he tells his mom, “…whatever you do, don 't discuss it with him....Because I 'm frightened

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    The light from the warm sun streamed through the blinds and bounced off my eyelids as my obnoxious alarm yelled to me that it was time for school. I refused to believe that I had to awake from my fantasy dreams and move out of my heavenly bed, so I aggressively snagged my phone to press snooze, for the fifth time of course. Getting up for school has always been a dying task for me. The thought of leaving my toasty hot blankets and actually getting ready to go to a place that looked like a filthy

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    you will come home. ' The mother and daughter silently finished the meal. The last meal between mother and daughter before the decision ceremony. The last meal until when the daughter came back to their residence sectors in her mid-ages. 'Attention residents. Please may all 13s depart from their living quarters, and report to the Transportation Hall. ' the speaker on the wall chimed as the lovely meal ended. The both of us stood up and I walked towards my mother. Mommy smiled at me and caught

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    The Definition I was only 10 years old but I had every life goal laid out in a perfect plan. I was going to Pickerington to play basketball, getting a scholarship to OSU and have my dream job of being an attorney. Nothing could stop me, or so I thought. In the time it took to read a definition my world went into a tail spin that would completely disrupt all those plans I had, and destroy me for years to come. Nothing would ever be the same again. I remember it was a Tuesday, only because that

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    Broken And A Broken Heart

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    It never went that way and I think I’d trust him if he didn’t lie or break any promises. But I can tell you that there is no way in hell that I would ever let him back in my life. Why is that whenever I want to be happy things happen? How was my mother supposed to know that her two year old

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    And I did not understand until one day when I was three years old. “Mommy! Mommy!” I had yelled to my mother. “Can we go back to dee room?” “That is where we are going to right now,” Mom had replied. I had felt really uncomfortable in my thick, heavy ski jacket, pants, and mittens. Grandpa, Grandma, Mom, my brother, and I were in the lobby of a hotel in Reno. We had just come back from a

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    if we’ll ever find that special someone. During the fall semester of 2015 in college I decided to take a parent-infant relationship course, and my main reason was my daughter Darianna. I felt like by taking this class I would learn to be a better mother because I will actually learn more of how a child thinking is different from adults. During the first day of class the professor informed the class that we were going to be

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