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    the home of my sperm donor, a sense of nostalgia wafts over me. The house hides itself from sight along the roadway. Your trek begins with the driveway. The slick pavement of the road stumbles until it falls to pieces at the base of this driveway. Walking up it, the rock ground trembles and causes a falter in each step; the bulbous stones kiss your feet as if peasants meeting their king. The walk up passes quickly. Before long, the house is within your sights. It resides about 30 yards away from

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    They also expressed that, while they know it is quite common, they hoped for themselves to be living with a partner or in apartment on their own once they were over the age of 30 if they could not live in a home of their own. It was at this point that I began to see that the ideals of centuries past continue to be relevant within our modern context. However, the autonomy to choose the timing of attainment is fundamental to becoming an independent adult. My

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    the country one will be used to a deliberate, steadier, and bucolic life. Although moving to Mississippi was a dramatic alteration, I can explicitly acknowledges the menaces–death, robberies, and fights–encountered growing up in the city. Therefore, moving to the south may have been a better alternative involving my physical well-being, regardless of the many emotional struggles. Moving down south to Mississippi from Illinois showed me the struggles of coping with racism and prejudice people,

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    (Shelley). I have acquired an assortment of family stories -from my family of origin as well as my family of procreation, but I do not go around telling just anyone. However, as per this assignment I will discuss a personal family story. One of my earlier procreated family stories is from the summer of 2008. Jack and I had been together for three years and had a one-year old son. We were renting a house in Spring Branch, about five miles from my mom’s house. He was working in Beaumont and had an apartment

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    that would be trivial to lose such as keys and then progresses on to things that would be much more influential and intimidating to lose such as heirlooms and moving to a new city. She does not express it as having the ability to cripple her. From lines 13-15, she describes what many of us would find devastating, moving far away from home. Yet she is still not considering it a disaster. Using these examples of things that people would find upsetting strengthens the contrast that appears in the last

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    One of the worst trials I have ever faced was when I was away from home not knowing wether I was to return home or not. I was 8 years old when my siblings and i were taken away from my mother. I cant remeber why all I remember was the brusies on my sisters arm. I rember my mother saying to my sister " i'm sorry, im so sorry" as the tears rolled down her face and the hurt roared out of her mouth. Consequently her ations cuased that pain, at that moment I knew that I had to be strong just like odysseus

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    4. What new information do we learn about Sweet Home in this chapter, specifically about Denver’s birth? In this chapter, we learn that Sethe was already pregnant with Denver when she ran away from Sweet Home. By the time when Sethe collapsed her feet in the woods, a white girl Amy Denver had found Sethe. Due to Sethe’s fear about Sweet Home, she told Amy Denver a false name- “Lu”, because if she were caught, she would be returned to Sweet Home, and she would continue experiencing her previous painful

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    a tale about a woman by the name Sarah Penn or “Mother” believed that she is doing the right thing by standing up for what she deems is right. Back in these times, women were valued at being less of importance. Women were only meant to take care a home, clean, and raise children. So having the “Mother” title shows that she is not of any importance because she is a woman and women didn’t have titles, she was just simply referred to as mother and nothing else. The short story takes off when “Mother”

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    that wildlife relocation is bad for the animals because it could harm them by making them have to readapt to the new environments. Also with the money they spend on relocating the animals they could be trying to make the animals a safer home in there original land/homes. As I believe that is a bad thing, others believe so too. People have said that this is one of the most disturbing trends in urban wildlife management. There have been many relocation failures. One of the most famous is Maine’s very

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    Where a child is born becomes part of them, they have memories, family, and love; when a home is ripped from under you these become distant. Andrew Jackson helped tear a deeply rooted and sacred home away from thousands of Native people in the 1800’s and is still affecting current generations of the uprooted tribes. Also, owning slaves brings him lower; he did not see every human being equally, people different than him were lesser. He believed he was helping but sadly more were harmed than planned

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