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    Christmas is a family tradition, perhaps you have this tradition? The family of Macarena is always a mess for decided who is going to organize the Christmas day. This year had to be the Aunt Carmen that was chooses by her family, Macarena’s mom volunteered to help her. But the Aunt Carmen said that she could do it by herself. Macarena had some problems with the traditions of her family. One of the most important traditions is Christmas. All the family meet in the house of the family that was chosen

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    Finally, the day came, that me and my family thought would never come. My mom and pop crying in the other room made me ask, “What’s wrong?” “ Go get all your stuff and put it in the car were leaving,” My mom said rushing me. Then, it hit me, we were now a family of the great depression. “ Oh no,” I said to myself. Me and my sister Mary waiting in the car for my mom and pop to get my baby brother and their things together, it was turning out to be the saddest day of our lives. My sister and I started

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    when I met my host family in the first time. My host mom fine me because My filght late. she come with 3 kids Hubson,Benjamin and Scarlett all the kids have chocolate in them face. In her car dirty and have alot stuff. after that we arrive home. I look at the home all the home have a lot stuff and dirty like a car. I felt scary maybe I gonna clean up all the house. she help me for carry my luggage to up stairs. she say sorry about dirty because she have to take care the kids 1 week (My host dad

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    My Story About My Family

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    I remember that when my nana told me my mum had died, I didn’t really believe her. I cried because I missed her, but I was 6 at the time, and my imagination took hold of the fact that my mum wasn’t around. She was travelling across the world, buying my sister and I wonderful presents that she’d give us when she came back. She would be skydiving, swimming with dolphins, scuba diving, and she would tell me all about it when she came back, and she’d show off her tan, which was finally a natural one

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    thing asto keep their children happy. I could not agree more with that. My parents have made the greatest decisions to keep my brother and I always happy and spoiled. Every parent's story starts somewhere, where they choose to start a life of risks and sacrifices for someone else they love. My parents' story started in China. My mom was born in a small village, the youngest out of her two older brothers. My grandpa was and still is crippled because he fell down a mine and was paralyzed in one

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    “In the family” In the short story “ In The family”there was a character named Clara she had lots of pride because she ends up moving the mirror and trying to get the other in the mirror also. The family had a secret to where know one could not tell. It was only between the family. The quote was "Let the house burn as long as no one sees the smoke," the secret was to not let any anybody knows that they had a magic mirror. Clara that had found a mirror in the dining room, Clara got caught in

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    Typical Family Issues In the short story “The Jade peony” Wayson Choy shows how Sek-Lungs grandmother died at the age of 83 and how it affected the family. Throughout the short story, Wayson choy explains the family love between Sek-Lungs and his family. Also Choy explains sibling’s rivalry between Sek-Lungs and his siblings. Choy demonstrates how family love and sibling rivalry is something that commonly takes place in reality. Seek-Lung believes that it’s very

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    myself. Another story about the silly little girl my mother would always refer to as we sat around the dinner table at my grandparent's house on Christmas Day. The cute little blond, of course, was me at 7, who was just perfecting the art of making herself the center of attention. But despite what I thought, the stories weren't about me; they were about my grandma, who would later commit suicide. I don't recall childhood events as clearly as if it were yesterday, but these stories offer a sense of

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    Introduction My family’s unofficial motto is, the family that fights, screams and shouts together stays together. I see this motto reflected in my family’s turbulent asset story. My immediate family consists of my mother, father and eight children (seven daughters, one son). My maternal grandparents are dead and so is my paternal grandfather. This paper will be a sociological analysis of the asset story of my family over three generations with a focus on the generational changes in assets. For this

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    Angel Cervantes Cultural Studies - Final Social Biography My family story begins in the 1800’s with my Great X4 grandmother who died at the age of 115. Then came her son which is my Great X3 grandfather which then married his beautiful wife named Maria. Many years later she had a daughter with the name of Maria, which is now my grandmother. She was actually an immigrant that was born in Mexico and not in the U.S. But then at the age of just 15 she came here in the

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