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amount of times. I always end up explaining the same story. When my dad came over from India, he filled out the paperwork backwards and put Kannan as his last name and Sankaran as his first; the correct way to do it in India. When my parents got married, my mom did not want to be named Barb Kannan or Barb Sankaran for that matter. So my parents did some brainstorming. They mixed my mom’s maiden name, Lutz, and Sankaran, my dad’s first/last name; and voilà, Stanz was born. Explaining this story over

Constance Ahrons, a doctor who coined the term “binuclear family” once said, “Pessimists say that the family is eroding. Optimists say the family is diversifying. Both points of view are right. Families are more diverse and they are more in trouble-but not because of their diversity. The families of today-whatever their size or shape-are in crisis because our economy is failing, our national resources are shrinking, and our governmental policies to support them are inadequate.” This quote gives

Mrs. Johnson, but the line, “Who ever knew a Johnson with a quick tongue?”(Walker, 337), leads me to believe that Johnson is her maiden name. To be a mother is who and what she is, in this story, with no especial plans for when her youngest gets married. While she would be considered the protagonist, I feel that both Maggie and Dee are as equally integral to the story, and all have their own - and share - antagonists. The short story may be told from Mama’s point of view but the plot truly revolves

Summary and respond to “The Name is Mine” In the article “The Name Is Mine”(1998),Anna Quindlen tells the reason why she doesn’t change her name after getting married. She claims that she doesn’t change her last name because this name belongs to her and she is not part of her husband, not because of rational reasons. Initially, she thought she made a good personal choice, but she didn’t consider group relationships. For example, when her child ask her why her name is different with her family

When I married my soul mate, I brought three children into our marriage. This made my husband an instant step-father, not an easy move for a man in his early thirties who had envisioned himself single, possibly for the rest of his life. My first two marriages had left a mark on my children and while they didn 't complain, they naturally wondered if my third marriage would last. While my husband didn 't bring children to our marriage, he brought his brother along to live with us, sprinkling

The narrator’s name was created by her grandfather. The narrator’s grandfather was in Virginia, at that time people there owned slaves. He fell in love with a Cherokee and stole a horse to marry her and people did not forgive him for that. Therefore he lost his family name and created a new one, the one that the narrator has now. That’s how the narrator’s name was created. The narrator uses words and imageries to describe her name. Refer to “guarded”, we can know that she values her name

Letter to Newly Married Couple on Interpersonal Communication Jacovah Ling Joan Golding 08/25/2014 Letter to Newly Married Couple on Interpersonal Communication Dear Dave and Sally, It is with great pleasure that I take this opportunity to share with you

Out in the yard of an old married couple, there grew a peach tree that flourished with fruit every year, and every year the routine was the same. When summer arrived, each day the old couple would walk outside to pick the ripest peaches on their tree. Some days, they would walk home proudly with a basket full of ripe peaches, giddy with excitement for what they might bake with their prized fruit. But every once in a while, they would come home with very few peaches, allowing them to solemnly eat

TITLE: Trendwatching Waiting Longer to Get Married: An Overview and Analysis of This Emerging Trend and Its Impact on Business This briefing on waiting longer to get married was prepared by Jacqueline Zarate while an accounting major in the College of Business at Southeastern Louisiana University. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Introduction Back in the early 1900s when we think about marriage we think about arranged marriages where the bride and groom are selected

(p. 1, l.3-4) For 5 years, Andrew has been trapped in the body of a shrieking idiot called Andy. Finally, a miracle happens and he breaks free. He gets to be Andrew again, but there’s a problem. His wife has changed, she is no longer the woman he married, his oldest son doesn’t seem excited about his return and his two youngest kids think the madman Andy, is better at howling. In the beginning, the story takes place at a nursing home. Andrew wakes up in an institutional pyjama and is greeted by an