My entire family consists of Democrats. ... I believe in the golden rule, and i feel like love should be universal, not pointed towards close family and friends. ... I will literally bring up certain ideas and topics just to get him started because he is so easily irritated and loves to pull the race card on everybody and their grandma. He considers himself as a Democrat because the rest of our family is Democrat as I stated before. ... I love him but he just shouldn't speak on political matters sometimes. ...

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;0) Key Concepts Love, Prejudice, Despair, Hope, Poverty, Sacrifice, Selfishness, Church Summary The film is a true story portraying the McCourt family battling unemployment, their father's alcoholism, poverty, prejudice and infant mortality over a 15 year period, from 1935 to 1950, initially in New York and then for most of that time in Limerick. The McCourts are a working class Irish family. ... Angela's disappointment is moving, but so is her continued love for him in spite of all this. ... For Frank it represents the end of trying to make his family work. ... He falls i...

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Marcus writes: The songs of country music, and most deeply, its even, narrow sound, had to subject the children to the heartbreak of their parents: the father who couldn't feed his family, the wife who lost her husband to a honky-tonk angel or a bottle, the family that lost everything to a suicide or a farm spinning off into one more bad year. (Marcus, 133) In other words, country music was the music for white working class families. ... His marriage to Berry Gordy's sister was becoming more and more violent, the government was seeking back taxes, and he was estranged...

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Americans have a new found love for their country. Some say that love only makes someone weak. ... The love that people have for this ever growing nation brings with it the courage to stand up to those saying America will fail. ... America has pride, love, courage, and many other traits that help define our nation. ... Two family members were taken from her by the same man. ...

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Another reason that is often overlooked is the misery the innocent family and friends of criminals must also go through in the time leading up to and during the execution and which will often cause them serious distress for years afterwards. It is often very difficult for people to come to terms with the fact that their loved one could be guilty of a serious crime and no doubt even more difficult to come to terms with their death in this form. ...

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My grandmother is the center of my family. ... She knows everything about keeping the Whitted family happy and healthy. I love my grandmother more than anything in the entire world. I love her so much, because she loved everyone. ... That's because everyone was frustrated over the fact that my grandma wasn't around, so there was no stability in the family anymore. ...

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These poverty guidelines are not useful for every family, because some families may receive a few dollars more than what the guidelines are. ... If a family cannot afford proper housing for themselves, the family may become homeless. ... Parents usually do love their children no matter what, but living in poverty causes many life stresses for both children and the family. ... Some children may even turn to gangs, because they feel a closer connection to this new family than they do with their biological family at home. ... What a child may not understand is that their parents and family do ...

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Shri was born to a Christian family in the Indian state of Maharashtra, on March 21, 1923. ... Another is "Fear is but an illusion, and love is real". They tell followers that we are all one, apart of the creator, that is love. ... They believe, or recognize rather, that love doesn't have any conditions. ... In order to love and know others better, they love and know themselves. ...

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Jeanne Wakatsuki lived with her family in Southern California during the summer of 1942. ... Jeanne and her family had been in the Manzanar Internment camp for months. ... Inside the camp Jeanne's family began to self destruct. ... Her father reunited with the family and they headed back to Southern California. ... Wartime propaganda and resentment from people who lost loved ones in the Pacific attributed to the postwar anti-Japanese sensation. ...

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They left their families for many different reasons: because they didn't believe in their parents' ideas, or simply because they just wanted to get away. ... Their messages were simple: freedom, tolerance, love, and of course, peace. ... The way to peace is through love and tolerance. ... Sex, Love & Hippies "The concept of Free Love as expressed by hippies meant you were free to love whomever you pleased, whenever you pleased, however you pleased. ... One of the things that they are most remembered for is their practice of free love and their going against the beliefs of the ...

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Among the many cultural contributions of the baby boomers along with the free love, the drug scenes and Grateful Dead ties, was the concept of generation gap (Veith G.). ... One impact that the boomers might have on the next generation is family values. ... The high divorce rates of the baby boomer generation have deprived their children parental guidance and love. ... The generation that thought mostly of themselves may find themselves living on their own with out any family support (Monaldo F. 2000) American's longer life span mean that many will continue to invest, and they will be spe...

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To get to this kind of thinking by this young adult, we would have to review this young adult family background and environment. ... The plan is simple, follow the rules, work hard, be a good family person and go to church on Sundays. ... We would all love to have had a set plan or a set of guidelines to follow, but there is not one written down anywhere. ... The lost of love ones carries tremendous weight and it can end a life cycle chapter and begin on at the same time. ... This carries over into the family structures as well for both linear view and cyclical views....

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Howe does this to grab the attention of people who love Oreos and also children. ... The purpose of this cook book is to show his love for Oreos and share some of his many treats that deal with Oreos in every recipe. ... This book is for people who want to make desserts for an audience that loves Oreos or themselves. Howe assumes that the readers of this book love Oreos and loves preparing Oreo treats for friends and family. ... Since I have aged I don't eat desserts as often as I once did, however I love trying different types of food. ...

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Diners would need to start accommodating families and come up with a new post-war look with the materials that were so heavily accessible from the usage in the war. In the 1950s, families were eating out more often and the need for larger diners changed the style of them. This threw a huge twist into the design of the diner because the look now had to appeal family-friendly without losing their costumer population they still had. ...

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The colonial family was extended rather than nuclear. ... This was due to the high number of children in a family. ... The head of the family was mostly the father. He presided over family prayers and worked on the family farm. ... In almost every case, the couple that was married didn't love each other; they were supposed to just grow on each other. ...

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I suppose I could call myself Irish or Norwegian American, but I doubt it would help me identify with a family culture that I know nothing about. ... What does it do and say about our modern culture when looking at the family? ... In many families the dual income is not an option; it is a necessity just to pay the bills. ... This particular lady said that she hated TV but she had to adapt if she wanted time with her family. ... The internal drives that come from one's family of love and caring for others in a society will drive the culture. ...

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Not only did they lose loved ones, but they also lost their homeland. ... Since most could not afford to send the entire family at the same time, many relatives were separated. For the lucky, it sometimes took years to find their loved ones. ... In many Irish families, it was the women who pushed the men upwards in society. ...

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They range from children to adults and even in some cases, families. ... Well, there are a few here in Sonoma County, including a couple family shelters, one women's shelter, one mental health shelter and one safe house for domestic violence victims. ... But usually the homeless population has burned their past and future bridges by acting in unsociable ways, beginning with family contacts to rehabilitation residences, so even when they are very sick, they end up back on the street no where to recover. ... He was so set on being independent from everyone and not getting any help from lo...

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Sanderson fell in love with the simplicity of the landscape and decided he wanted others to "fall in love with New York's original landscape (Eric Sanderson, National Geographic 2009).... The buildings were structurally unsound, the decaying landfill became infested with mosquitos and soon the middle class families moved out of Paradise Square to higher ground. ...

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Even in the 21st century, racial discrimination and stereotyping continues to exist. Most minorities experience racial discrimination. However, Black men are more likely to be victims of police violence, racial hate-crime violence and urban gang violence than any other major ethnic group; it should ...

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Families are affiliated with a certain church in their community and use the church greatly and widely for many things. These families' circle of acquaintances consists mainly of persons from the church and it is not unheard of that the families send their children to Sunday school before the actual worship session, then send them to youth group on Wednesdays and the adults themselves go to bible studies on Monday evenings, often hosted by one of the church members. ... I experienced that my American friends invited me along to worship sessions at their own family church. ... Though th...

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I live everyday making sure I am doing what he called to me to do and my choices always are determined by if I think God would want me to do that because I want to someday go to heaven and rejoice with my family members that have passed away before me. ... I believe what is worth dying for is my family and some of my closest friends. ... I also was born in a military family and strongly believe in the right of equality and that everyone should be treated equally. ...

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In addition, there is a large amount of public space (that is, land or buildings that are not open exclusively to a single social or cultural group or family). ... She grew her hair out in order to demonstrate her new status as involved with this new love interest. ... As one author wrote in an essay found online: "I chose to scar my body, not because I hate it but because I love it. ... Because of the powerful nature of the experience, many people also use it as a way to memorialize the loss of loved ones in a pseudo funeral rite. ...

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In his film The Searchers, John Wayne portrays a father who returns home to find his family slaughtered by Native Americans. ... Her love decides that he will die in order to save his love from humiliation. ... Red may evoke a positive symbol involving passion, love, and sex, while the negative reaction could be violent, bloody, and corrupt. ...

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For instance, they would ask their father to take a break from reading the newspaper to come play catch with them or play a game of monopoly that would entertain the whole family. ... They would also spend a lot more quality time with their family. Today children often do not spend a lot of quality time with their family; rather, they sit in front of the computer for hours on end. ... "There are kids out there who would love to put on their camouflage and hold a knife in their mouth and go out and slit someone's throat.... ...

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