... her and she welcomed us with open arms. This was where we had our fresh start; she was going to college and working a part-time job, while my grandma watched over me during the day. My father was never involved, and my mother didn't care, she was too proud, is still too proud to ask him for ... with me. My mom was and still is both a mother and a father to me; she raised me all by herself (and of course with the help of my grandma here and there). My mom did the best job she could ever do, and it was making me into the person I am today. Years passed, and I am ... . My mom is currently w...

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... . My Tatay was a great person with great responsibilities. He is known for standing strong during the times when you wish you could die. Before he married my grandma, he married another woman (I don't know her name) and they had a son names James. 8 years later his wife and only son died of a disease ... he realized he still had many more tears to recover from sadness. The next year he met my grandmother Josie Figueroa in the Philippines. My Grandma came from my other Great Grandfather Fermin Figueroa and Juana Laguardia. Their past is not remembered, but I am very sure that they are als...

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... . My Tatay was a great person with great responsibilities. He is known for standing strong during the times when you wish you could die. Before he married my grandma, he married another woman (I don't know her name) and they had a son names James. 8 years later his wife and only son died of a disease ... he realized he still had many more tears to recover from sadness. The next year he met my grandmother Josie Figueroa in the Philippines. My Grandma came from my other Great Grandfather Fermin Figueroa and Juana Laguardia. Their past is not remembered, but I am very sure that they are als...

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... . My Tatay was a great person with great responsibilities. He is known for standing strong during the times when you wish you could die. Before he married my grandma, he married another woman (I don't know her name) and they had a son names James. 8 years later his wife and only son died of a disease ... he realized he still had many more tears to recover from sadness. The next year he met my grandmother Josie Figueroa in the Philippines. My Grandma came from my other Great Grandfather Fermin Figueroa and Juana Laguardia. Their past is not remembered, but I am very sure that they are als...

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... . My Tatay was a great person with great responsibilities. He is known for standing strong during the times when you wish you could die. Before he married my grandma, he married another woman (I don't know her name) and they had a son names James. 8 years later his wife and only son died of a disease ... he realized he still had many more tears to recover from sadness. The next year he met my grandmother Josie Figueroa in the Philippines. My Grandma came from my other Great Grandfather Fermin Figueroa and Juana Laguardia. Their past is not remembered, but I am very sure that they are als...

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... . My Tatay was a great person with great responsibilities. He is known for standing strong during the times when you wish you could die. Before he married my grandma, he married another woman (I don't know her name) and they had a son names James. 8 years later his wife and only son died of a disease ... he realized he still had many more tears to recover from sadness. The next year he met my grandmother Josie Figueroa in the Philippines. My Grandma came from my other Great Grandfather Fermin Figueroa and Juana Laguardia. Their past is not remembered, but I am very sure that they are als...

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... 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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... worth in the first two years. Ridiculed by intellectuals, paint-by-number was widely accepted by the American public, as was the growing popularity of folk art. Artists such as Grandma Moses assured the American public that "anyone can paint if they want to." Paint-by-number, amateur artists and the mass marketing of prints helped to demystified art by making ... it more accessible to the consumer. The definition of art changed as the public accepted the "realism" of artists like Grandma Moses and rejected intellectuals and the New York avant-garde. Clearly, most Americans did not have ...

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... people who came to the United States or a better life and also more freedom then they would of probably would of received in Mexico. FAMILY STORIES One story that my grandma told this past weekend is that when she migrated to the United States. She probably wouldn't of came all by her self. She came because of my mom came and ... dollars for that and it was only $150 dollars for me at that time because I was only like three tears old. And then after that my mom applied for my grandma and then my grandma applied for my uncles and ants. ...

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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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... and shout; "Airplane, come down, take me to the sky!" When I came home and mimicked the airplane with my arms wide open, and imitated its roar to my Grandma, She replied, "This is a small place. You must go somewhere big someday. You have lived here, so you are tough enough to survive anywhere. Keep learning to go far ... art history developed to arrive at the elegance and power of neoclassicism. I kept journals, took pictures, and brought them back to Tonghaikou, showing them to everyone. Coming back to my Grandma, I would have my arms wide open to mimic the Statue of Liberty, and the ...

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... chaos of everyday life within the family. Watching her do the dirty dishes closely through the door, I was trying to steal "Znoud set, " a Lebanese sweet, which were made by my grandma. She always looked serious no matter what she was doing. Step by step, I was able to steal the sweet. A huge yell thundered out like an alarm: "Billaaaaaaaal come over here ... . I had to sleep on the floor for the year, which wasn't that bad because I used to do that back home. We used to sleep in the living room around my grandma while she used to tell us stories about my grandpa's adventures. However, I...

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... you are doing. I responded I fine! I'm trying to write this paper on the history of my family. My grandmother then asks me well, how, I can help. I said well tell me about grandma Easter which is her mother who is deceased. My grandmother shared that her mother who is my great grandmother was the daughter of a great Indiana women. She told me that ... ...

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... , the Army, education, et al. The 1950's were a time for complacency and Jews were especially sensitive, in light of the Rosenbergs' spy case and others like them, about creating waves. Grandma Zelda shamefully admitted later that she was interviewed about a Syracuse University professor living on their street by an FBI agent, and she noted that "they did not have a TV antenna ... ...

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... down and not be in a hurry all the time. Spend time one on one with the child, like reading with them. Give the child time with another responsive adult, like grandma and grandpa or a close friend. A preschooler does not know what separation or divorce means, but they realize that one parent is not as active in their lives. Possible child reactions ... ...

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... church. I never knew that the church had gone through so many more in depth changes than some that I have know about including speaking English in mass instead of Latin. My grandma is always telling me that I should realize how lucky I am that things like that have changed, and now when she says that I think about how lucky I am that other things ... ...

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... ; Dinks ( dual-income, no kid couples)- 1980's • Dewks ( dual earners with kids)- 1990's • Mobys ( mother older, baby younger)- 1990's • Woofs ( well off older folks)- 1990's • Grumpies( grandma's and grandpa's) The GenerationXer's are defined as much by their shared experiences as by their age. Both the Boomer's and GenXer's will one day be passing the reins to the ... ...

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... medical bills while inheriting a lot of money and belongings. Think about the disabled, retarded, unassertive, poor, and even the elderly. All very vulnerable to an influential person. Yes, even little O'l grandma. Americans aged eighty-five and older is the largest category faced with euthanasia. In 1950 there were over a half of a million Americans aged eighty-five and older and by 1990 ... ...

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... to California. First of all, they had very little money to do anything with. This caused many problems within itself especially when more terrible things started to happen such as Grandma and Grandpa dying off. In order to have a proper funeral for their loved ones they had to pay money so both of them died nameless. Through situations like this, the ... ...

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... to "sink or swim." I was placed in a public school in Los Angeles. The school was huge and there were so many children. I didn't speak any English, had no friends and Grandma and Grandpa were gone. I was confident that God had somehow lost me. I was six and the city was so big and noisy. Certainly, God was looking for me in Guatemala ... ...

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... the war. I felt bad for him, and I still do. I wish that he could stay here with us because then I would take care of him, just like I take care of my grandma who lives here with my family and me. My grandpa surprised me a bit because he remembered everything my mom has told him about me. He seemed so updated, and he ... ...

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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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... on her three years birthday party. Dad was finishing University degree and serving in military. Her mom was teaching in nearby school but didn't really care about Jana. Thanks to grandma Jana's childhood was full of laugh, love comfort and kisses. Years past by and it was time to go to first grade at new school in Prague. She didn't want ... ...

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