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Search term: losing-a-father
Looking for Alibrandi
... a father, loses a close friend in the most tragic of circumstances, and also loses a boyfriend. However, she is reunited in a ...
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Anything in Excess is negative Oedipus The King by Sophocles
... All of this overindulgence led to Oedipuss downfall as a leader, a son, a husband and a father. Had he displayed all of these qualities in moderation ... of doing this he showed that he knew he had to lose his pride in order to set things right; he had to ...
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Charles Dickens Biography
... was arrested for a debt of 40 pounds, and on the 21, Charles realizes that he must go gather the money or lose his father to ... gather the money or lose his father to debtors prison. Unfortunately, he couldnt gather up the money, so his father went to the ...
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"The Journey of Crazy Horse" by Joseph M Marshall III The book report was a summary and response/reaction paper to the Lakota History of Crazy Horse.
... he was given a new name because of his bravery; his father gave him the new name of Crazy Horse. Crazy Horse is a warrior and known ... to his people, and although they did not win or lose Light Hair had felt as a child again, teased and hurt by their actions ...
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Rohinton Mistry: A comparison of his Works. (books read: "A Fine Balance" and "Family Matters" both by Rohinton Mistry.)
... was damaged by Coomy and Jal to force their step father to stay with his biological daughter for awhile and before ... unnatural and vicious. Most are murders or "accidents". Shankar, a legless beggar, loses control of his rolling platform which speeds into ...
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The Iliad
... a beloved priest. Agamemnon, King of Argos, and Achilles have kidnapped his daughter, along with Brisies, refusing to take her fathers ... heroic endeavors (129). Throughout the fury of battle, Paris loses heart and shrinks back into the ranks of the Trojan ...
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An analysis of the classic "Rickshaw" by Chinese literary great Lao She.
... a better life than that of a rickshaw puller's. She is undeniably calculating in deciding to approach her father, despite their fight, in order to get a ... on Xiangzi - the repetition in his buying the rickshaw, losing the rickshaw - and is about how life has ...
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psych 101
... Franz the only son. He saw the elder Kafka as a "giant of a man, my father, the ultimate judge, coming to get me in the middle ... he thinks, "why was she crying?? Because he was in danger of losing his job and? then his boss would [again] dun their parents for ...
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Keeping Close to Home
... about her father I never knew how poor we were until I needed to go to college. I knew I will need to find a job ... see their opposition as an expression of their fear that they would lose me forever, "Like many working-class folks, they feared what college ...
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Junichiro Tanizaki - The Reed Cutter
... :And what was that mansion? Your father must have had a reason for going there every year. A reason ? said the man, after ... If the narrative is written in chronological order, the reader will lose their curiousity and the motivation to finish the book. In ...
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