"Admiration", it is a diagnostic essay about a person I admire. I received great comments from the teacher.

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ADMIRATION There are many people that I admire, but none more than my father. Despite the many hardships he survived, my father remains a positive influence in my life. During his childhood, my father overcame many obstacles. He has always been supportive of me, and taught me the importance of strong family values and success. We all have obstacles when we are growing up, but my father had more than most people. He had an abusive father, and because of that, had to drop out of high school. As far back as he can remember, his father was an abusive alcoholic. Many nights, instead of playing football or studying, my father would sit by his fathers side talking to him until he was ...

... me many times that the families with strong values were the families that last the longest. I have made every effort to instill those same values into my children at an early age so that they will have that strong, long lasting family they deserve. Without a successful career, that strong family that was built may collapse under financial pressure. My father taught me that an education is a key element in a successful future, and he stressed to me many times his desire for me to have a college education. Without my father teaching me about values and success, I never would have gone back to school at age twenty-five. While it was very difficult,

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