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Boy Calls And My Mom
658 wordsTo continue our family ethnic / cultural identity, our parents must teach us the core values of our Eastern Asian culture. The most fundamental of these values regard gender roles and dating which lead to a gender bias. Children of both sexes are more influenced by the mothers attitudes than fathers because mothers play the primary socializing agents in the Eastern Asian community. I am from a fairly strict Vietnamese family. I was born in a refugee camp in Thailand, but ten days after I was bor...
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Mad At My Parents
888 wordsThroughout life we come across many people, some who influence us in negative ways, and those who influence in good ways, often changing our complete outlook on life. For me, it took the struggle of one of my best friends to open my eyes. I only wish it wasn't too late to thank her. I grew up having more than the average kid. My parents bought me nice clothes, stereos, Nintendo games, mostly everything I needed and wanted. They supported me in everything I did. At that point in my life I was ver...
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Brian And Andrew
1,432 wordsThe Breakfast Club was a movie about five very different characters, Claire, Andrew, Brian, Allison, and John Bender. Claire was a popular girl, Andrew was a wrestler (jock), Brian was intellectually gifted, Allison was a basket case, and John Bender was a rebel. On the outside they seem like very different people, in fact they were all socially opposite, but they also shared so much. As the movie starts out, the five teenagers are being punished with Saturday detention; their assignment for the...
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Pete's Impression Of The Preacher Man
1,151 wordsJonathan Chong English- "A Fine White Dust" 11-2-2000 Facets of Religion The novel was very interesting. It caused me to think of many ideas of religion and of the many processes of conversion. The book portrays religion and conversion to religion in many ways. It uses the various characters to show the many different possibilities that you can have in your religion. Pete is a very interesting character. He has some interesting quirks; he first is strangely religious for his young age for no obv...
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Jennie's Parents
1,865 wordsDanger Follows Moving to a new town and adjusting to a new lifestyle had been difficult for Jennie. As time passed by, she began to make new friends and seemed to have forgotten the tragedies of Milwaukee. Her parents seemed to notice the improvement in her attitude. They felt such relief that she had let it all go. There was a rule that nothing from the past events in Milwaukee be mentioned, or even thought about for that matter. All seemed to be headed in the right direction. Since the move fr...
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Young Old Generations
1,964 wordsYOUTH AND ADULT PROBLEMS If we look at the technological developments of the world over the last 50 years you may thought that it passed as 500 years. May I kindly invite you to think of the interchanges from using stone records to CD's, from movie to huge DVD screen TV's, from radio to internet, from classical phone to mobile's. Enormously fast changes are occuring continuously. This was the reason that some generations had seen both old grama phone & CD player in their life. While technology i...
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Pecola
342 wordsPecola Breedlove a black girl in america whose love is for blonds, blue-eyed children and who prays for her eyes tot turn blue; so that she will beautiful, so that people will look at her at another perspective. In her eleven years, no one had ever notice pe cola. But with blue eyes, shr thought every thing would be different. She would be pretty and that her parents would stop fighting. Her family lives in a converted storefront. she is considered ugly and is emotional and socially awkward. she...
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1999 Cassie Ren'e Bernall
1,218 wordsI read 'She Said Yes' by Misty Bernall. The publishing company is The Plough Publishing House, and it is 140 pages long. Cassie Bernall, a 17 year old junior at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, was a typical teen having a typical day, when two rampaging classmates put a gun to her head and asked her if she believed in god. She said yes. Its a story of growing up in the 90's, of peer pressure, adolescents, turmoil, and the role parents play; a story of tough choices and the battle be...
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My Friends House And The Parents
1,313 wordsSean Fleming Period 1 Mr. Schwartz Final Exam Alcohol The topic alcohol brings many things to mind. In my immediate family the only people that drink any type of alcohol are my mother and father. When my dad comes home from work he usually has a beer for a little relaxation and my mom has a glass of wine for dinner. I feel that they are moderate drinkers and I also feel that it sets a good example for my brother and I. If we hadn't gone over this topic in class I would never have known what type...
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Joan's Parents
1,208 wordsBackground and characteristics Joan Becker looks like a "normal" person. At times, she acts like a "normal" person and there are even times when she talks like a "normal" person. But, in getting to know Joan you realize she is far from "normal". Joan suffers from schizophrenia. She has little to no friends. The friends she does make usually don't stay her friend for very long. Joan shies away from social situations and even pushes the people she loves away. A characteristic that contradicts her ...
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Lauren And Jenna
1,249 wordsMy Experience That Changed Me I went to camp for the first time last summer to get away from the pressures of home and school. Camp was a month long, I have never been away from my parents more than a week. I was very anxious. I had no idea what situations to expect and how I would handle them. I started to really wonder about my life. The way it was going was not the best for me. I can run away from my reality, but I know that I was going to have to come back to it in a month. The way I treat p...
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First Campfire Night
1,401 wordsEveryone remembers the cool autumn nights snuggled around a campfire with his or her families. Others may have experienced their first campfires with a Boy Scout or Girl Scout troop. My first encounter was with my friends, the summer after we turned ten years old. Tori, my best friend since I was 5, was the "leader" of our little posse. She was a skinny little kid whose legs went on forever, long, bleach-blonde hair, and a line of freckles splattered across the bridge of her button nose. She and...
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Your Feelings And Thoughts To Your Parents
1,290 wordsFirst I should assure you that sadness, anger, rage, resentment, hate! The whole range of emotions you feel about your parents! | problems and their effect on your lives is normal and makes sense. However, after a while, and I hope that you will keep that time brief, I suggest you to pause and start putting your live in order again. Negative feelings give one short-lived satisfaction. They relieve tension. In the long run, however, they are counterproductive. When you face parental problems basi...
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Eating Lunch With My Friends
1,154 wordsA New World Not So Far Away There are a lot of differences between the American and Chinese culture and values. Aspects such as philosophy, family values, time management, individuality, and religion are just some modern examples of the many differences between these two major industrial countries. However, one does not have to come from China to experience just how different and influential these cultures are. Throughout most of my childhood, I have been predominantly exposed to nothing but the...
