Being a father is never an easy task. As for Tom Garrison, a dynamic character in the play I Never Sang for My Father by Robert Anderson, his traumatic childhood memory of being abandoned has made it even more difficult for him to be a good father for his children. ... However, he doesn't know how to love them as a father, because he had never received that kind of love before. Even he acknowledges: "I didn't want children, coming from the background I did " (Anderson 680). ... Tom Garrison is one of the most dynamic and complex characters in the play I Never Sang for My Father. ...

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By this control I mean the right to decide when or when not to bring a child into this world. ... Sanger's quest began long before the public knew her. ... A free thinker, and outspoken radical, her father, Michael Higgins, influenced his young daughter to act the same way; question everything and stand up for what she believed in. ... For example, my grandmother, born in 1921, was able to give birth to her two children and choose not to have any more children. As a child she would have never been able to make that choice. ...

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My grandfather, Antonio, who I never had the opportunity to meet and with whom everyone said I shared a great physical resemblance, died when I was still a baby. ... Of course, I look like my father. ... I remember from childhood as my father always told me that men have to be strong, tough, never mourn, and less in front of a woman. ... During all that time I never spoke to my father again. ... I think my father felt incomplete and empty. ...

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Every time she hears song sang by him, she thinks is sang to her. ... Most times after the enthusiastic encounter, my dad proceeds to tell me, that he has never even seen, or met the person before. ... My father is sure my mom can't live if she continues smoke. ... My father collects Carnival Glass, dishes. ... My father was lucky to even come across them. ...

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When Jack Robins sang in the bar as a young boy, he began a cinematic revolution. The silent films from this moment on would never be the same. ... "You dare bring your jazz songs in my house," his father yells to him. "You're the old world, if you grew up here you'd feel the same as I do," responded Jack. ... "The songs of my people are tearing at my heart but my job means the most to though," Jack said to Mary. ...

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One group stands out in my mind that has changed my world of music forever. Having saturated my early teens with Hard Rock, I came upon a Rock group that sang total Christian lyrics. ... Volz and one of Bill Gather's record labels they are off and running again in 1979 with their first radio hit song "Why Should The Father Bother". ... The never say die spirit of Petra had to once again come to the surface and Bob Hartman returned to the band in 2001. ... I commend them for their contribution to the music world and to my world. ...

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I knew and sang the words every time, but I had no idea what they really meant. ... She told my class that every time we stood and sang the song, we are remembering the people who fought, died, were wounded, or performed any other act to promote our freedom in the United States. ... I was appreciative of the actions of our founding fathers, but I really never slowed down to take the time to think about what my life would be like if not for the actions of our predecessors. ... As I picked out my clothes for the day, I grabbed my remote control and flipped to my local news station. ... As the...

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I never intended him to feel that way, but I found security in our established walls. ... It was 2 a.m. and in the parchment I pulled out to become my shrink I scribbled out the words, "This day, my father will die." I was never more hopeful to be proven wrong. ... Never quite the distant father I made of him. ... You are my favorite man, who just happened to be my father. ...

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Although I only heard the end of this piece, I decided to research the composer of this music. ... Almost everyone, except his father, were musical beings. His mother even sang and played the piano. ... The play never made it to the stage and this work was never published. ... It definitely connected with me and triggered my emotions, almost making me feel sad or pathetic for the boy in the play. ...

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And Sarah said unto Abraham, Behold now, the Lord that restrained me from bearing: I pray thee, go in unto my maid; it may be that I may obtain children by her. ... (p. 50-51) Hagar is feeling like a prisoner in her own habitat, that she is not "free" in spirit; "I was alone, never anything else, and never free, for I carried my chains within me, and they spread out from me and shackled all I touched" (pp. 292). ... Like the pharaoh's daughter, she left the security of her father and went to explore the wilderness. ... She leaves from her father's wings so she can pursue a better l...

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When I had traveled to Costa Rica with my father last year, we had started in the capitol city of San Jose. ... I was lucky enough to conquer a level four rapids adventure with my father. ... A singe engine airplane that barely fit my father and I with two suitcases comfortably scurried its way to our destination. ... It didn't supply air-conditioning because it is never needed. ... My father and I rode on the horses for hours on the beachfront and through the rainforest. ...

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This quarter in my U.S. ... I liked Meribah because she was a true fighter who never gave up, because of her great desire to live freely and be happy, and because she though that happiness came before anything, even before her Amish community. I also liked her father because he was a man of great courage who never showed his emotions no matter what, and because he loved his daughter. ... They sang and sometimes even danced to put the rest of the company in a good mood. ... This book is related to my U.S. ...

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Where my heart was. ... My intentions was always in the right place. I never killed anybody, I never raped anybody, I never committed no crimes that weren't honorable-that weren't to defend myself. ... I'm going to show people my true intentions, and my true heart. ... His talents, his words that he sang were words that many people related themselves too. ...

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Together they toured Europe; and in the early 1930's, she sang at Salzburg. ... But she did; and after she had sung all of her songs, she said, "I am so overwhelmed, I just can't talk. I can't tell you what you have done for me today. I thank you from the bottom of my heart again and again."" ... You can bet she never tried one of those again, not even for the King. ...

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As a child, Halloween was always my favorite holiday. It gave me the chance to dress up and be whatever I wanted to be, kind of live out my deepest dreams. ... And so, without further ado, I give you my version of the Disney classic, Cinderella. ... She slept in the ashes of the chimney and sat and sang and dreamed of something better. ... She was helpless and never did anything on her own. ...

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Act 1 Scene 3: Othello Othello: "Her father loved me; oft invited me; Still question'd me the story of my life, From year to year, the battles, sieges, fortunes, That I have passed. I ran it through, even from my boyish days, To the very moment that he bade me tell it; Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances, Of moving accidents by flood and field Of hair-breadth scapes i' the imminent deadly breach, Of being taken by the insolent foe And sold to slavery, of my redemption thence And portance in my travels' history . ... The Duke tells him that it is her fathers...

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As Francis became older, the dream of knighthood never left him. ... He no longer sang. ... So finally, Francis, in front of the bishop, took off all his clothes and laid them and his money at the feet of his father, and said "I used to say, my father, Peitro di Bernardone', but now I shall only say Our Father, who art in heaven' "Bernardone greedily gathered up the clothes without a second look. ... Francis had never been happier. ... Francis then said, "My son, I myself will serve thee, seeing as thou art not satisfied with the others."" ...

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My father and mother video taped, on average, 30 minute segments of family time starting when I was born till the age of six. ... In explaining my observations, I will use the name David for my father, Fawn for my mother, and Lev for my baby brother, born in March of 1985. ... My parents both read me an extremely large amount of books, but I never quite seemed to be paying full attention. ... In one occasion, my father switched from filming me, to my mother playing with Lev. ... I was never reprimanded beyond a "be careful" from Fawn. ...

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Nobody-so my mother and father call me, all my friends.' ... This is evident when she cries for her husband, 'Oh, How I long for my husband-alive in memory.... Additionally, Penelope creates an impression that she never truly trusted her husband and found herself compelled never to question him. The use of the first person when Penelope claims 'I kept my mouth shut, I didn't contradict, I sang his praise, I didn't ask him awkward questions' illustrates that Penelope was not convinced of her husband's story but went along with it as it part of her duty. .....

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I am writing this essay about my research paper for my music class and I search many topics in 19th Century but I would love to work on William Mason. ... Early Days & Childhood Before I write on his career I would like to tell you that how he grew up and saw his father works in New England because childhood plays important role of the person life because you think in your childhood what you will do in your future so I am telling you that William Mason was born in Boston on January 24, 1829. In his childhood his father was originated the idea of assembling music-teachers in classes. ... When h...

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Maya's father, Bailey Johnson was a navy dietitian and her mother, Vivian Baxter was a nurse. ... Unable to deal with the pain and emotions of these traumatizing experiences, Maya Angelou spent the next five years completely silent, speaking to no one and living with the belief that "my voice killed him; I killed that man, because I told his name. And then I thought I would never speak again, because my voice would kill anyone." ... After her divorce in 1954 Angelou worked as a stage performer in clubs where she sang and danced calypso music and garnered a reputation for pushing the bou...

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When I found out that I was going to write a paper on my family and our culture, it never struck me that I would be looking into their past. ... When I began to interview my father I knew it would be hard for him at times. ... Her first job was working in a strawberry patch farm in Sanger. ... I felt ashamed, like I was a bad son, never asking them or even having any interest in my own roots and culture. ... My father would sometimes try to stop her but it never helped. ...

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The young Waters followed in his fathers musician footsteps. ... The band provided superb sounds while the "grand ole man" played his guitar and sang. Although I listened to more than two selections there were two that stood out in my mind; "The Hoochie Coochie Man" and "Corine Corina". ... No matter how repressive was the American environment; the Negro never lost faith in of doubted his deeply endemic capacity to live. ... I"ll never understand why most people define the blues as an expression of sadness only." ...

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In my entire life, I can only think of one inanimate object that related so closely to something I was experiencing that it brought tears to my eyes as well as opened them to new perspectives. ... She cared for her father, volunteered at the orphanage, got good grades, sang in the church choir and even nursed sick animals to health, everything Landon considered un-cool. ... I read A Walk to Remember during my senior year of High School, a few years after I found out that my mother had cancer. ... From the time I found out that Jamie had lukemia, I felt so close to her character, as well as tha...

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When visiting the Fischer Family one day Johann proclaimed, "My son Ludwig is my only comfort now in life. ... I foresee that in time he will be a great man in the world" (Orga 29). ... Although Beethoven supposedly fell in love many times, he never was married (Marek 223). ... "I will grapple with Fate; it shall not overcome me!" ... Also, out of respect the choir sang the Miserere in an arrangement from one of his Equali for trombones. ...

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