Educating children using novels about realistic portrayals of life broadens the minds of children by exploring diverse views of lifestyles to help each child make informed decisions when choosing a way of life. ... One of the most important roles an adult plays is to teach and prepare children to live happily, yet understand the realities of the world in which they live in. ... The characters within the novel portray the realities of life by expressing genuine feelings of happiness that they share with loved ones and moments of sadness that take into account the inevitable complexities of li...

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In addition, I reminded he reason why he wanted to attend college, to succeed in life and to open his own automobile business. ... When I went through depression over the death of my father, my friend Long helped me to go on with my life and stopped me from inflicting any more damage to my soul and body. Long gave me the support to go on with my life by saying things such as "Does your father want you to live your life miserably and hurting yourself by not eating and crying." He helped me to wake up from the black hole that I had made of depression because he said things to encourage me to ...

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Having almost no life of her own to be occupied with, Mrs Malaprop continues to live her life entangled and constantly interfering in her niece's, leading her to be described as "the old harridan." Much of the play happens to revolve around Lydia's constantly eventful love life, of which Mrs Malaprop is always involved. ... Despite her infuriating behaviour, we are engaged to feel sympathy for the middle-aged widow who's love life is non-existent to such a degree that she is forced to seek solace possessing an unhealthy interference in her niece's romantic situation. ...

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These implications are used by Marvell in "To His Coy Mistress" to effectively create an interesting theory on life and how it should be lived. ... The intentions of the man in shocking his love seems apparent in the last section: "Let us roll all our strength and all our sweetness up into one ball, And tear our pleasures with rough strife Thorough the iron gates of life". ... Not only will her beauty be gone with time, but also her life and "worms shall try That long-preserved virginity"(re-establishing the intentions of his speech; to try her virginity before the worms do). ... The ans...

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This parallels to Lucretius's explanation of the body and mind existing as one, asserting that 'interwoven are the elements from their origin, which constitute their common life; and neither body nor mind has power of feeling, one without the other, but by the joint movements of both united sensation is kindled for us in the flesh" (III, Lines 331-336). ... In order to endure and live a life of longevity, pain is a sensation that is often avoided as much as possible and viewed to be a repercussion for humanity. It can be understood in relation to the limited life span of the bo...

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And yet, they made her lovable by using her curiosity for life and people. ... Perhaps the tis why Felicity is such a lovable character - she was willing to take a huge leap of faith and go to an unknown place that was going to be life changing. ... We all admire or wish we had that kind of courage to simply leave everything behind and create a new start of your life and yourself. ... College is an opportunity to live your life any way you choose, and every character is fully aware and accepting of that because they too are experiencing the same feeling. ... Leaving her parents expectations at...

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In our post-industrial society there has become a greater importance for personal authenticity, but to understand this struggle for personal authenticity we must look at the current cultural climate we live in. ... From this current cultural climate we see the struggle for personal authenticity and this personal authenticity requires the integration of life and death. ... The Zoroastrians have a great phrase that exemplifies what it is to live a virtuous life, and it goes like this: "good words, good thoughts, and good deeds" from this definition we see that being virtuous is a combination...

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" In both the sonnets, different elements of life have been approached to demonstrate the multifaceted comparisons that can be made to symbolize love. ... In the phrase "breath, Smiles, tears, of all my life!... Likewise, Shakespeare refers to the senses 'breathe' and 'see,' indirectly and metaphorically referring to life in the most simplistic manner. The repetition of 'so long so long" explicitly illustrates that Shakespeare's lover will live on till eternity, as long as men can 'breathe', and read. It is essentially this verse that ...

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"We live in a culture where marriage for love is the new social norm and the level of well-being in a relationship is measured by romance. ... Willoughby, an assistant professor in the School of Family Life at Brigham Young University, attributes the stability of relationships to the fact that "arranged marriages start cold, heat up and boil over as the couple grows. ... When a premium is placed on passionate love, its easy to lose objectivity, leading to unrealistic expectations of marriage and often blinding lovers to real-life issues such as financial and social differences. ...

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Ironically, the text suggests these males attain manhood by following their intuition and their heart instead of attempting to live up to the impossible ideals created by society. ... Liu embodies masculinity while James does not because Liu is relatively new to American society, and thus lives life according to his intuition rather than society's rules. ... In other words, he has lived his entire life in American society and acts according to his knowledge of the social customs. ...

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In order to keep up their social position and maintain superiority over anyone in the neighborhood, the household struggles to live an elegant life with a small income and regularly spends beyond their means. ... In the end, Paul leaves eighty thousand pounds for his mother at the cost of his life. ... Thus, the image of the rocking-horse highlights another point that the obsessive love of money is destructive of all other love, and even of life itself....

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Homosexual couples have spent the last ten, twenty or fifty years with that person - and want to honor their relationship in the greatest way our society has to offer, by making a public commitment to stand together in good times and bad, through all the joys and challenges family life brings. ... Many public and private employers provide medical coverage to the spouses of their employees, but most employers do not provide coverage to the life partners of gay and lesbian employees. ... Married couples have a legal right to live together in nursing homes. ... However, our judicial system seem...

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William Shakespeare often described the women in his plays as being strong, confident individuals, much different from the stereotypical roles of the time period in which he lived. ... Although she is " bound [to her father] for life and education- , she affirms her belief that she belongs with Othello, and has such great love for him, so much that "a heave interim shall support his absence" . ...

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Strong Women of Othello William Shakespeare often described the women in his plays as being strong, confident individuals, much different from the stereotypical roles of the time period in which he lived. ... Although she is " bound [to her father] for life and education- , she affirms her belief that she belongs with Othello, and has such great love for him, so much that "a heave interim shall support his absence" . ...

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The key of attachment parenting is to constantly join in the child's life. ... Too much concern would prevent the child to face challenges and autonomy in life, which helps children to grow as an independent individual. ... The children live their lives according to what works for  them (Shaw).   ...

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In the poem Nikki-Rosa by Nikki, the narrator reflects back on her youthful life which was full of poverty but full of happiness at the same time. ... A family transforms a house into a home where all members of the family live surrounded with love, concern, care and a feeling of ample security. ...

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His faith in God was one of the few aspects in his life that kept him alive and eager to fight through every difficulty, hoping that "[his] sins will be forgiven because of [his] sufferings and pains and that [his] soul will ascend to Thee "6. ... In one of his pious meditations Walter said, "God, Thou hast allowed me to live till now. ...

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There is a stereotype perpetuated in today's society regarding most of our life, from the food we eat, and the things we should and should not do, to the fashion style that almost seems required to be accepted by society. ... MIDUS limited themselves by ignoring health lifestyle each person lived, thereby limiting Carr and Friedman, who took that into account dieting. ...

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Attraction is not only a means of self preservation and eventual perpetuation, it is a complicated flux of emotions and thought processes that governs human behavior, it is what drives humans to make connections and aide one another throughout the twisting road of life. ... It is commonly a short lived infatuation that wears of and either develops into monogamous love or those involved go their separate ways. ...

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She starts to live through her children and at the end of "Death in the Family," Lawrence describes how she "now clung to Paul"." ... Paul even realizes at the end of the novel that his mother has been the root of his failed relationships, and he asserts that "I shall never meet the right woman while you live." ...

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