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    but overall he is pretty healthy guy.” The only history that I have knowledge of was colon cancer, which he beat in 2006 with radiation treatment. The doctors advised me that the obvious injuries that my father had suffered was a broken left wrist, broken hip, and a broken right tibia and fibula. Which is located in the lower part of the extremity, sometimes called the shin bone. He also stated that the 30 foot fall that my father had suffered may have caused some internal injuries as well, but that

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    Hi, I’m Bella. I am the nicest out of my family—well, what is left of my family. Oh, I hear my sister, Jessica, knocking on my bedroom door. Jessica is my sister but not really, she is so annoying and mean. I cannot even say anything else because she is so . . . so . . . arg! Anyway, back to what I was saying. . . . In my family, there is myself, Bella; my sister, Jessica; Lola, my pet unicorn; and lastly, Cece, she is our horse. It is almost bedtime. Good night! Eight hours later. . . . Knock

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    daughter in a Mexican household with six brothers. This presents many difficulties for her growing up because she constantly yearned for the approval of her father; a father who believed her only purpose in this world was to get married and start a family. Throughout her whole life she sought to please him, and when she told him she had plans to go to college, what she did not realize what that her “father thought college was good for girls—good for finding a husband.” To go a step further, her father

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    Kevin Liu Mr. Webb 6 October 16, 2015 The Role of Family in Life In the book, The Other Wes Moore, by Wes Moore 2 children, both named Wes Moore grow up in similar situations, but one succeeds in life and grows up to be a veteran (Wes A) and Rhodes Scholar while the other Wes Moore serves a life sentence as a convicted murderer (Wes B). Throughout their stories, there is a strong aspect of honesty in life as well as your family. Wes realizes that success is not defined by your environment, ethnicity

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    It is December in the Upper East Side and you know what that means? Not Christmas, or family, or any of that normal stuff, but New Year Eve, in which Chuck Bass is hosting his annual party and you are all invited! With our people flying the world off on their own adventures it is time for them all to meet up at Chuck’s and go over those happy years we all thought they left behind. With unanswered questions like would Dan and Vanessa make it, will Blair and Serena make up, and what on earth happen

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    was going to be destroyed,made me feel so broken just because of the fact that there was so many memories there.My family didn't have big enough cars so we was able to take everything that we had in our homes,so most of my childhood pictures,toys,clothes..etc got destroyed.We didn't have a place to stay for like a week or so but eventually we found a shelter in a different part of Louisiana. When we arrived to the shelter, I was so happy that my family

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    friends, family or even have your closest family separate. At young age i began to realize that the fragile emotions of my inner being began to overflow and spill out. During my parents harsh arguments I tried to understand why this was happening and why things weren’t how they were in books that I had read and tried to envision or movies that i watched and tried to make a reality. Over the course of several years I watched my parents marriage slowly crumble from a impenetrable diamond to a broken stone

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    The main characters Mathilde in “The Necklace” and the grandmother in “A good man is hard to find” are very resembling the reasons why is because the both show a character of selfishness. They are refused to admit their mistake. Both of them had the same kind of motivation to their previous mistake, and also they had the same excuse as to why they keep quiet about their mistake. Even though Mathilde and the grandmother punishments were not the same, but we still can compare them, because no matter

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    his own decision and his mother not being supportive of them two having a relationship. Before Wes was born, his maternal grandmother died from an unsuccessful kidney that did drive his grandfather to alcohol abuse. So far looking at Wes biological family history he is open up to experiencing alcohol abuse because of his father and grandfather's history. When Wes as a

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    Days before sixth grade, I was at a party at my friend Colin's house where several other families turn up. In total, there were six or seven kids my age. The parents were inside the house talking and eating food, while the kids played outside amongst each other. None of the kids are truly relevant to the story, therefore their personalities don't need much explanation. The layout of the outside was sloped down toward Lake Murray and had grass and rocks all around. Time seemed to fly as we played

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