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    My Love In My Life

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    too early. I seemed to have jumped forward 8 years ahead of my plan. “That’s ok”, I thought to myself, “I can reassess and do this”. Around 11 months after that date is when we welcomed our first daughter into the world. Never would I have thought that a year removed from high school would I have a daughter. I had already seemed that my life had spiraled out of my control. This was not how I envisioned my perfect life! What seemed like a foolproof plan, turned me into a fool to try and plan it. Over

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    begins with Lear relinquishing his authority of the kingdom to his three daughters, their distribution of land is based upon the performance of who loves their father the most. Goneril and Regan immediately claim to devote all their love to him leaving no space to love husband or children. This pleases Lear granting Goneril and Regan large portions of land. Expectation are upheld by his two daughters however his favorite daughter Cordelia denies performing as her father expects “I love your majesty

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    support, and he wanted to eventually go back to his own apartment. He was using a wheelchair as he was partially paralyzed from the waist down, and was able to use a transfer board to transfer from his wheelchair to bed and back. T.C.’s had two daughters and was a widower, he lived in a second floor apartment with a full flight of stairs. Once inside the apartment the layout was open enough for a

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    The article Whose Culture has Capital? Acritical Race Theory Discussion of Community Cultural Wealth, talks community cultural wealth as the critical race theory. Critical race theory changes the way we look as communities of color, instead of thinking of places full of cultural poverty disadvantages, it focusses on and learns from the range of cultural knowledge, skills, abilities and contacts possessed by socially disregarded groups that often go unrecognized and unacknowledged. There are various

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    morning, I woke excited about going to Delaware County Fair as if I was the same age as my young daughter. The day was looking beautiful, as the weather was like a typical fall morning. The breeze I could hear through the window; I felt like this was the perfect day to go to the fair. I opened the door of my daughter’s room to wake them up; I turned on the lights and yelled “It’s morning.” My oldest daughter looked at me with one eye half way open and said “It is not morning.” The sky was still dark

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    expecting and although it was my first, it was his second. My pregnancy was filled with ups and downs. More ups than downs though. Then our baby girl was born. I won the coin toss so I got to name her. Our first babygirl, I know I was proud. Our daughter was eight months old, and that’s when it happened, the first time. We had an argument and I ended up with a black eye, six stitches, and a permanent scar below my left eye, yet I still stayed. Over the course of eight years I received 6 black

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    The Jeweler’s Daughters “Why won’t he just die?” Debora Clayton said when The Rev. Charles Spears, Rector of the Downtown Church of Our Savior had finished saying The Litany at the Time of Death. Karl Frielingheisen, her father, was curled up in the hospital bed, staring through the side rails with dull gray eyes. Two weeks after an unsuccessful heart valve operation, he had drained his family and himself with his dying. The priest took her arm and led her into the corridor. “He can still hear

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    words of Edmund. Edmund claims to have found a letter from his brother Edgar plotting to kill their father. Just as King Lear was manipulated by his daughters, Gloucester falls for Edmund’s trap. Gloucester banishes Edgar on the spot and now it under Edmund’s thumb. While Gloucester turns against his eldest son, King Lear turn against his youngest daughter Cordelia. She is banished as well, similarly to Edgar, for being honest with her father. She tells him that she only loves him “according to [her]

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    Tragic Flaws Of King Lear

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    is for the most part the truth men prefer not to hear” this statement rings true in William Shakespeare’s tragic play king Lear. In King Lear there is an abundance of tragic flaws that characters face from a narcissistic King Lear who disowns his daughter. Gloucester, a disloyal father who makes fun of his illegitimate son for the bad choices he has made. Finally, Edmund, the illegitimate son who schemes to get more from life. The fatal flaws of the characters in king Lear make them unable to see

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    Anderson was a man who revolved his whole life around his family. When his youngest son got captured during the civil war, Charlie and his other children went off to look for him while one of his sons and his son’s wife stayed home with their newborn daughter. During the journey, Charlie lost one of his sons to a young Confederate soldier. After that, they were forced to turn around so they could bury the dead son. Once they got back, the doctor stood outside as if he was awaiting their arrival. The doctor

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