Throughout my twenty years of Naval service, I was separated from my family extensively with fourteen of the years onboard various ships. ... The only family that deployed sailors have for 180 days are the immediate members of their division and the rest of the crew. ... Finally, we needed to know our families would be adequately provided for while we were away which included various family support resources, housing, medical care, commissaries and exchanges so we didn't need to worry about our families while we were deployed. ... Most importantly, email communication provided us with...

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Peyton is brought into the story as a family man who is wrongly being executed by the Federal Army. ... From the beginning of the short story emotions of courage, family, and love seem to connect Farquhar to the everyday man. ... The ideal of courage for one's country and faith and commitment in one's family are what ties the realistic aspect of Farquhar to the reader. One critic expressed it in this manner: Bierce portrays Farquhar as a sympathetic character who we can identify with "a man who takes care of his family and home. His attempt to burn down the bridge may be seen a...

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With that said, showing love, attention, and affection to children during difficult times, especially times with financial imbalance within the family, can help prevent potential emotional development problems. ... This includes the amount of love they receive from their parents, the noise levels that are in the household, whether or not they are being challenged intellectually, and if the financial state that the family is in is healthy, or the opposite. ...

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Love has the power to heal; however the experiences of the Tull family in Anne Tyler's Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant' demonstrate the destruction and pain that individuals can also encounter as a result of this force. ... Pearl was very conscious of the way her family was viewed by others and throughout her life strived to create the appearance of a happy family' (pg 9). ... Though love's destruction spread throughout the whole Tull family, Jenny, the youngest and only daughter grew strong enough to challenge its force. ... She had longed for the secret that ...

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It makes a person feel that because if the manufacturers built their cars with love and care, that passion and desire for safety of a person and his family will, in turn, lead to a loving relationship between the driver and the car. ... The reptilian applies without question because of the fact that the family lived. ... Love is the key phrase that fits in here as well. Love is an emotion that is very important to humans and triggering love is triggering the limbic brain. ... Safety, love, and family is the ego ideal for this car and its buyers while speed and decadence is the shadow. ...

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This is confirmed as it is learned that the family tortured by the Evrémonde family is Madame Defarge's family, which not only explains her behavior in the Revolution, but creates a feeling of empathy towards her. The reader understands why Madame Defarge acts the way she is, and feels not only the pain caused by the loss of her family, but the hatred towards the Evrémonde family. ... " Madame Defarge is motivated by her love for her family, and is warping that love into a passionate hatred for the French aristocracy. ...

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It can be argued that Medea seals the certainty of her children's death from her opening cries: after passing through a momentary response of suicidal helplessness (lines 95-96) to Jason's divorce, she immediately wishes the destruction of every remaining trace of their love, including the two boys (lines 110-114). ... Euripides also carefully reveals the elements of Medea's past that demonstrate her readiness to sacrifice family to pursue her intractable will; Jason and Medea's original tryst, for example, required that she kill her own brother. ... Her only loyalty is to ...

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Beyond the Pale's "Green Among The Gold", a n achient ballad , describes the sorrow and desperation Irish families experienced while immigrating to Australia . ... Similiarly, Smithfield Fare's "Fire in The Glen", a verbal account of an invading enemy, radiates emotions of love for the family while encouraging the defender of Scotland to unite for a common cause. ... A song of love without marriage, Beyond the Pale's "Lady Dysie" paints a gloomy tapestry of events for a pregnant kings' daughter and a guilty kitchen boy. Smithfield Fare's "Glen Logie", a song of lo...

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There are different kinds of happiness, such as someone can have an overwhelmingly happy due to the love they from their family and friends even though they have a crappy job as to someone who is the same level of happiness with no family or love but lots of money and wealth. ... I would love to see how his training took place and wouldn't mind trying to take it myself....

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As the AMC series, Breaking Bad, commenced, Walter White served as a relatable character, a high school teacher who felt passionate about engaging his students in chemistry and acting as an involved family man. ... As the Walt's illness grew dire, he devised a plan to blackmail Pinkman, already involved in the crystal meth business, to make money for his family after his passing. ... Jesse's love interest, Jane, overdosed on heroin, which created emotional unrest with Jesse. ... He did nothing to stop the unfortunate event and allowed Jesse's love to die in bed right next to him...

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First of all, Plato would have his guardians feel no attachment to those around them whereas Confucius emphasizes the importance of relationships with family and friends. ... While this scenario might be a little extreme, I believe that it is easier to teach somebody to love rather than not. ... The stress on the importance of friends and family creates a gentleman and sage with strong emotional ties to the ones around him. ... Where the philosopher is taught not to get too attached to other people or to love too much, the sage gets very emotionally invested in others. ... Where a philosopher ...

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Even at an old age the two are able to joke around and maintain the sense of humor they had when they were first in-love with each other. ... Although the location of the nursing home is not far from their cottage home, the emphasis put on the amount of natural light it receives refers to the isolation of patients from their family members. ... Each day Grant brings flowers for Fiona to express his love for her but is never able to hand them to her. ... They put a lot of emphasis on the flowers in order to suggest the traces of a fresh start to the patient's families. These interesting f...

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She wants to understand and tries to make matters right with using her determination to help the victim's family by going against her family and friends. ... This demonstrates a sense of awareness from Claire about the devastation felt by the victim herself and the family. ... She irritatingly emphasizes Stewart for answers because she loved him dearly and didn't want to spend the rest of her life with an individual that she fails to comprehend, despite loved. ... Claire was immediately feeling sympathy for the girl and the family, ready to console and communicate with them. ... W...

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Moreover, Angelou lists a variety of examples that display how the town and her family were elated for the graduation. ... Because Henry Reed gave an emotional and inspirational speech; Angelou discovered love for herself and her heritage. ... Angelou concludes her personal story by describing the love she has for her ancestry. Although Donleavy delivered a demoralizing speech to the graduating classes, Angelou's perseverance and self-love left her with pride. ... In conclusion, Angelou's message in "Graduation" is to cultivate love and respect for one's self. ...

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Armand rejects the baby because he feels hurt or betrayed by the baby, which he put his faith and love in the baby, and the baby, through no fault of its own, hurt him and humiliated him. He also put his faith into Desiree, this may sound like it is unemotional but its not, by marrying lower down the relative hierarchy and then, in his mind, she brought "unclean- blood into the family. ...

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He cannot seem to resist engaging with prostitutes however feels shame for the personal success his family has gained from his mother's sex business, and he feels prostitution is disgraceful if the women within his family engage as participants. ... However, while he is able to recognize the sacrifice of these women, his feelings are more complex due to his personal family history. ... He is overrun with regret about his past because he feels party responsible for Chi's death, that he, "should have prevented it with love," (26). ... First it is important to understand the w...

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The creature's emotional and rational development truly begins in the time he spends living in a hovel outside of the DeLacy family cabin. ... Eventually, the creature's naiveté and burning desire for reciprocated love overpower his reason, as he convinces himself that "once they should become acquainted with my admiration of their virtues, they would compassionate me and overlook my personal deformity.... The creature then reiterates that the denial of his request would initiate fierce violence, as he states that "if I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear.... Howe...

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Armand rejects the baby because he feels hurt or betrayed by the baby, which he put his faith and love in the baby, and the baby, through no fault of its own, hurt him and humiliated him. He also put his faith into Desiree, this may sound like it is unemotional but its not, by marrying lower down the relative hierarchy and then, in his mind, she brought unclean blood into the family. ... Armand is the real loser in this because he loses his love and loses his soul because of the pressure of society, and has no sympathy, is that fair? ...

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The physical journey is not a vacation but a journey forced onto them out of necessity because their homeland was a place where survival was uncertain and that their idea of a better life was no more than a job, shelter and food for the family. ... In the foreign film Life Is Beautiful, Roberty Benigni tells a compelling WW2 journey where a Jewish family is sent to a Nazi death camp. ... For example, Guido crashes his car into a barn and meets the love of his life. ...

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Extended parental care is far more taxing and dangerous on the adults than the lay "em and leave "em ways of reptiles and fish, social groups, or family groups working together is the best way to insure that as many of the progeny, as well as the adults survive. ... We consider their loyalty a sign that they care and even love us but is it not true that what people call a parrots fickle fancies, intense mood swings, emotional outbursts and ease of offence far more human than a dogs unwavering friendship? ...

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The same goes for life insurance ads that try to draw a sense of guilt from the viewer if they do not buy a life insurance plan so that their families won't be burdened. ... For example, no mainstream media reporter would intentionally disrespect the American Armed Forces arbitrarily or without cause or evidence because many American viewers either are veterans or have friends and loved ones currently serving in the military. ...

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However by using the word "tenderly" and by using metaphors to illustrate both the physical and emotional pain the mother experienced, "the frozen knobs of her wrists/Were dead as the gravel" and "He was a minnow with hooks/Tearing her open", Heaney implies that the mother still loved her child and most likely did not wish to drown it, but due to the pressures of religion, she felt the deed was necessary. ... Seamus Heaney has written many poems on subjects that relate to his early life in Northern Ireland besides religion such as farming, family, and self-identit...

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Hall was aware and fearful of his father's abusive nature, heightening to the point of murdering the whole family. ... Moreover, the constant anticipation of his stepmother being separated from him seemed unjust, as he needed what every 10-year old needed – a motherly figure that showed love and compassion. ...

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