He wrote about a hope for the future, for all races, and taught his readers to remember the past in a reflecting manner. ... He wrote this poem while riding on a train to visit his father. ... Upon returning to America he wrote a very popular poem called, "I, too, sing America." ... He went on to write many more poems, short stories, and plays. ... Hughes" work influenced so many people, and it's so special because everything he wrote down was sincere and about his life. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Young Louie enjoyed playing cowboys and Indians, and roughhoused in the family barn. ... Henty, an Englishman who wrote of wars through the nineteenth century. ... L"Amour wrote more than one hundred books, including eighty-six novels, fourteen short story collections and one nonfiction-a chronicle of life on the American frontier. ... He also wrote boxing articles for a newspaper, without payment. ... He wrote more million-copy bestsellers than any other American fiction writer. ...

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They kept that secret from me, so I am going to play the same way. ... I was so surprised that they wrote down their last name for me so I could search for them if I desired to. ... In the book they wrote, "We love kids, however Brianna is our daughter and she will only be our only child.... Nancy told me that she wrote many poems about the experience and she can't wait to share them with me, she also told me there has not been a day where her and my dad has not thought about me. ...

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(Gretzky, 16) To start off, Wayne has been playing hockey ever since he was a young boy, he would be playing on the river or in the living room at his grandma's house. ... Also, you can tell that Wayne enjoyed playing hockey. ... And that's when our best hockey is played. ... He was six years old playing on a ten year old team, people were telling little six year old Wayne to play his age. ... For example, one reporter wrote "Fluke! ...

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When Vanessa wrote, it was her chance to get away from the things that made her feel trapped. ... Ewen tells Vanessa about Grandfather MacLeod and how he enjoyed reading Greek plays. ... '[Grandfather MacLeod] must have been a lonely man...Maybe he would have liked to talk to somebody about [the] plays. ... Vanessa wrote in order to get away from the harshness of the life, it was an escape from the reality that she lived at home. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Role models play a huge role in shaping an individual and the paths that they go down in their lifetime. In the case of Wes Moore and the other Wes Moore the different role models they had played a large role in shaping who they became and why they turned out so differently. ... Both of their parents played a huge role in shaping who they became. ... She wrote "to family and friends asking them to help her however they could. ˜I wouldn't ask if I didn't really need it,' she wrote " (95). ...

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Menander wrote over 100 plays only eight of which won awards at the Athenian dramatic festivals. ... Love is the powerful emotion that dominates the play "Dyskolos.... The main female character in the play, in which the play is ultimately centered around posses the name of Girl. In the play she is addressed as "the girl" or "free girl" throughout the entire play by both her father and the man who loves her. Even though the play is centered around this girl the playwright feels like it is not important to give her a name in the play. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

All you do is make a lot of dough and play golf and play bridge and buy cars and drink Martinis and look like a hot-shot. ... s career choice as a screen-play writer. ... Holden's thoughts of Allie are shown with the fact that Holden wrote Stradlater's composition on "Old Allie's baseball mitt" (Salinger 38-39). ...

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On each episode, the main character Heathcliff Huxtable (played by Bill Cosby) who was a doctor, and his wife Clair (a lawyer), taught their children a lesson or moral of some sort with comic relief. ... No matter what each episode was about, the show always started out with Heathcliff doing some sort of silly yet comical activity such has playing dolls with his grandchildren, or falling asleep on the couch. ... He purchased all of the books that he wrote, and he even bought every season of The Cosby Show on DVD. When I was younger, I knew all of the names the characters and the names of the a...

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All you do is make a lot of dough and play golf and play bridge and buy cars and drink Martinis and look like a hotshot. ... Holden's thoughts of Allie are shown with the fact that Holden wrote Stradlater's composition on "Old Allie's baseball mitt" (Salinger 38-39). ...

• Word Count: 1276
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The audience, after seeing the play, should realize how Willy cares for more things in life than just a refrigerator and often encourages his boys to achieve greater things, even if done so by lying to protect them. ... Willy's suicide is the ultimate act of anti-heroism Jonathan Witt describes Willy Loman as an unheroic, normal human being, but Miller wrote his play to have Willy as the anti- hero of the story. ...

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The role that friends play isn't typically considered when thinking about a marriage or intimate relationship, but is in fact very important. ... She wrote in a journal for over a year describing her fear and how she felt he had the ability to kill her. ... At the end of the film, Amy decides to come home and continues to play mind games with Nick. ... When analyzing "Gone Girl", education and work, children, and domestic abuse are the main factors that come in to play. ...

• Word Count: 1752
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

She started to feel like she didn't belong because her father nor her mother wrote to her or called to see how they were doing. ... She was a trained nurse, but earns a living playing poker games in gambling parlors. ... Maya tells him they had only been playing before. ...

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There are, however, important and desirable roles that healthcare professionals can play at the time of, and immediately following, death. Related Roles of Healthcare Professionals Clinicians working in the end-of-life care arena play a number of roles in supporting patients and families in the last weeks and days of life, but their involvement generally comes to an abrupt end with the death of a patient for whom they have cared. ... Sinclair's own work with residents who wrote to family members after death (pending publication) indicates positive results not only for family members who ...

• Word Count: 1854
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Marriage and family had played a main role in human history. ... Edward Westermarck, who wrote the classical three-volume History of Human marriage, concludes that marriage has been part of the social structure of all settled society (qdt. in Marriage and family 14). ...

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I look the part of the perfect wife and mother, and it's a part I play with all my heart. ... Nine out of ten considered themselves "very happy" and found work to be an essential ingredient, "a challenge and outlet," one wrote. ...

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One day when I return from playing babushka tells me that I must quickly hide as the men with the shiny boots are searching for others like me. ... Things got even better when I discovered that Miriam's boyfriend played basketball tournaments against other schools, including the Rockville team on which Joshua played. ... One day I received a letter from Joshua saying that he was coming to Montréal to play a game and that he would visit me while he was here. ...

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He wrote this great book about his life and I believe now, he inspires with his motivational life story. ... The second scene, which also impacted me the most was when he lift the chalk and wrote the word MOTHER, not Father. ... Being in the water also gives parents, caregivers, and the child an opportunity can have fun together with water play. ...

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Hermann Hesse wrote of a man who desires enlightenment in Siddhartha. ... Friends also come into play in this book. ... One's spirituality also comes into play here as we look at Siddhartha's experience with the Samanas. ... His friends and family influenced Martin Luther King Jr. seeing how poorly his family was treated and how he couldn't play with his white friends influenced h...

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• Grade Level: High School

Learning to be Myself Looking at society through a biased scope can make many see minorities as a lesser form of life. Being born into a minority in today's world has shaped me very differently in comparison to the majority. Ever since I was a child I felt as if I was being pressured into thi...

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It might seem pretty weird to you that my dad would do this, but it was actually pretty funny when I look back on it, its just one of those things you had to be there for I am sure because you must be thinking that he was crazy, he wasn't he just liked to play jokes. ... The letter I wrote was childish and selfish, I had so many questions, mainly "why?" ...

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In 1999, Roger Sider, M.D. wrote the article, "Living Together Risky for Young Women and Children," which talks about domestic violence and the risks undertaken by young women and children. ... Immediately after this new discovery, Lou becomes close to Nardo, who plays cards with her husband. ...

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Not to mention the ones I played in.... ... As I wrote before, My parents have been married for almost 30 years, and my brothers and sister all married at 25, which by now is considered fairly young in our society. ... Although married, she will play with her friends as before, not yet doing the chores of a grown woman. ...

• Word Count: 2208
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• Grade Level: High School