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    made up. It takes place in Boston, Massachusetts during the Puritan time period. It is about a young woman, a pastor, and their child caught up in a sin that drags them through a lifetime of guilt and shame. The Puritan lifestyles of simplicity, strict punishment, and a focus on God insures and adds to their guilt and shame. The Scarlet Letter starts out with the young woman, whose name is Hester Prynne, and her infant daughter, Pearl, standing in front of the whole town bearing shame because

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    ultimately say that, for example, my father (Jason) did not experience trauma because his trauma is affiliated with the loss of his mother at a young age. However, the way in which my dad

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    easily get sidetracked and be put into situations never thought about. It all relies on how they handle these situations and the people who are able to influence them and change life for the better. Not everyone has the luck of having a positive role model in their life and that can only result in a bad future. The ones who do have that luck hopefully use it and get back on track. In the novel, “The Other Wes Moore” it goes through the tales of two young men that seem to have similar experiences and

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    maintains the autonomy and dignity of the man is how it encroaches upon the liberties of the woman. This may be an inevitable factor as introducing new actors into a model requires more resources to be allocated towards achieving additional needs. Hales suggestion of a financial abortion appears to minimise this potential significantly. Hales model ensures that both parties have equal opportunities to escape the obligatory duties that may be placed on them. Furthermore, that both parties retain equal power

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    affect his life until he takes action to reverse the mistake he made. Most people have a significant role model in their life who will help prevent bad decisions from being made or a role model who can help rehabilitate after the bad decision has been made. A father’s teachings are important to the development of a child’s character. In the novel The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini the role model effect is represented by Baba and Amir. Baba was a very generous man who was always giving money to the

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    When recounting his childhood, Christopher Elliott, now 56, orates countless chaotic tales with a tone of tranquil reminiscence. Raised by a single father after his mother died in 1968, Chris grew up in Miller Place, New York alongside his 9 other siblings in the 1960s and 1970s. His unique family dynamic led Chris and his siblings to find independence and quickly develop a distinctive personality detached from societal expectations. The individualism found within the Elliott household was largely

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    that the vast majority of the population received. The overall implementation of our current school system credits itself to educational reformer Horace Mann, known as the father of American public schooling. Horace Mann examined a broad range of various educational models before eventually putting into effect the Prussian model. Designed by Frederick the Great, this model's aim was to create a system designed to exercise

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    they can become. So, for an example let’s look at the story my personal role model, Oprah Winfrey. She was born to an unwed, teenage mother who left her in the care of her poor grandmother for six years. After those six years, she was returned to her mother who at that time was living in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Her mother was still a maid at that time and was too busy to take care of Oprah. She was sent to live with her father temporally in Tennessee after her mother realized that she was unable to care

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    The relationship between a father and son is not always to be seen through love, but through hardships and understanding. One of the main themes in The Kite Runner is filled with the agony and struggle within a father-son relationship. In the novel, the characters of Baba and Amir portray this relationship through their contrasting backgrounds and interests as father and son. Amir’s constant notion to impress his father with his writing pulls him through sorrow and regret while Baba’s constant fear

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    Furthermore, another small dilemma occurs when Scout fights with her cousin Francis who is making fun of her father; she decides to get into a fight with him. Though Atticus specifically asked her "not to let anything (she) heard about him make (her) mad," she was so close to her father she could not possibly let someone get away with such deliberate prosecution of her role model. In this dilemma Lee touches on acting upon instinct, no matter what the standard protocol. He makes it clear

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