... you know a lot of people, having your immigrant family with you is the best thing you can have. I feel like I am not missing a lot of activities from Ghana. I have my grandma here who can cook us meals from Ghana such as ampesi which is my favourite and fufu. Also we get to play games such as ludu and ampe that .We ... what I don't want to happen to me. I want my whole family to be here when I get married or have a baby especially my grandma. I want my grandma to be the first person to touch my baby when I have one. My grandma always says she can't wait to see her great grandchildren, a...

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... the things we eat. It's hard to believe, but this little old lady has such a big influence on our culture. Folks say me and my grandma Emily got some kind of E.S.P. thing because we always know what each other's thinking. She knows everything about keeping the Whitted family happy and healthy. ... them over for some of her Smoked-Cooked Ham or Deep-Dish Peach Cobbler. The biggest part of our culture is food, and everyone loved being at grandma's house for Sunday's or holidays. She fixed a Soul Food feast every Sunday and holidays. Everyone came to eat my grandmothers famous Collard Gree...

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... went to the hospital two months ago. She had a lung cancer. The doctor said that she was too old to do a surgery. "She is gonna say something else, not about grandma," I told myself. I was wrong. She passed away in the hospital in Vietnam where I was so far away, where I could not see her at least one last time. The darkness became ... cried for many days. Darkness became my friend. Corner became my bed. I wished I could fly back to my country right away to see her last time and to be said, "Grandma, I love you." Whoosh..whoosh...whoosh... The wind starts blowing stronger and produc...

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... , yet most of us - a great many of us at least - do not know enough about a car to look in the gas tank when the motor fails. I observed this when my grandma's car broke down once. She had her car towed to the mechanic, and after about a week of it being examined, the mechanic called my ... told her that the only problem with the car was that it was out of gas. If we were living the American dream, would my grandma be so lazy as to have her car stop running and never look at the gas gauge? Would she have spent hundreds of dollars getting her car fixed when five ... ...

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Stress on Military Families It's Thanksgiving Day. The whole family is going to go to Grandma's house for dinner. This place is crowded with relatives that I have not seen in a long time. Relatives make the trip here from L.A., and sometimes all the way from Georgia. We ... to have one of those families that all congregate on the holiday's, and the place we meet always seems to be at Grandma's. The kids are either outside or downstairs watching a movie or playing cards. The adults are upstairs where Grandma has the women working in the kitchen, and the men are setting up the table or down at...

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... . My last and final I-search topic would be, "How is silk made?". I think that that answer may be fairly easy to find, but it's a topic that interested me because my grandma has been to China and has seen that places where they (The Chinese) make the silk. She also showed me the cocoons that they take the thread from. On the ... first stop of the day was my Encarda Encyclopedia CD-ROM. That just gave me stuff on how they are harvested. Woo Déjà vu. My last stop was my grandma's house. I wouldn't consider her an expert, but she has been to where they (Chinese) make their silk. She als...

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... minds, now most people are paranoid when they travel on airplanes, go big events, and just in general. It is fitting that grandma and grandpa never made it to California because it was a second chance for the Joads. And Grandma and grandpa would have made it harder to survive. The family got more food with two less people to feed. With living ... ...

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... mind that almost every child in America has been hit by his or her parents. Now compare a young child that has not fully grasped the mental process, to an elderly grandma, who obviously in relation to her getting "up there in years" forgets some things. For example you are taking her to the grocery store, which requires you to cross the ... ...

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... water, gas, food, electricity may be to much to handle. Family and human lives will become our number one priority bringing our families closer than ever before. If you believe Grandma, then the end is near. The soothsayers and prognosticators of time have all said the world would end this way, and just maybe they were on to something. ...

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... their children are too young to understand or handle the truth of their future and zealously use a combination of euphemisms and lies to cushion the blow. From stories such as "grandma's on vacation,"" the child senses something is wrong, but is unable to resolve this mystery, eventually leading to fear of the unknown of what is to come. In addition, perhaps ... ...

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... was in the Army and never home, I was sent to live with my grandmother. Once my dad retired, he moved in with us and bought the house off of my grandma. Just last year, my dad decided he would marry, so my stepmother moved in with us to help take care of me. In society this is quite normal to have ... ...

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... 's life in jeopardy. Thus, he told my father to leave first. When he left, he brought along my youngest aunt and left behind my oldest aunt to take care of grandma. He promised them that if he makes it to America he would bring them over legally so they would not have to set off the hard way like my father ... ...

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... upper class: King Kandy, Queen Frostine, and Princess Lolly. The lower part of the board indicates a lower class status i.e. Mr. Mint, the Lumberjack, Pumpy, the last of the Plumprolls, and Grandma Nutt, who lives in the Peanut Brittle House. Thus it appears that success in life, as defined by the game Candy Land, consists of climbing to the top socially and ... ...

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... how easy it was to communicate online. I also believe that showing older Americans how to use the computer would keep them out of boredom and loneliness. For example if old Grandma Smith wanted to write to her Granddaughter Sally across the county or even across the globe for that matter the letter would arrive within seconds of it being sent. If ... ...

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... a necessity in life. My mom and dad told me throughout my years of schooling that without education, I have nothing. My aunt is a living example of the importance of education. My grandma told me that she excelled throughout her years of schooling. She received all A's and B's on her report card. Later on after she graduated from college, major companies were fishing for ... ...

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