relationships come naturally and there is not much work that needs to be done. However, after my assessments, I have come to realize that I do practice relationship maintenance although it is done subconsciously. I have explored relationships between family members and myself as well as the relationship I have with my boyfriend. Within each relationship I have different maintenance techniques because of who each person is and how we naturally connect. Mom (Parent and child relationship): The relationship
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The word "family" comes from the Latin word "familia", which means household. This was truly applicable to a joint family in India. Living together under the same roof with grandparents, their sons and grandsons, with their wives and children, is indeed a unique experience, especially in Indian villages. The earnings of every adult member go into a common fund or pool out of which all expenditure is incurred. The final authority in family matters is the grandfather, but the grandmother has authority
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and The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls share the same similarities in their life stories: a bad childhood within an alcoholic father. However, these two writers are separated from each other about their feeling toward their family: Senna has child anger to her broken family while Walls has forgiven her careless parents. This anger leads Senna to write this book that she explored her father’s past within her self-discovery. However, Walls writes about her past by telling about her memories of childhood
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variety of reasons: divorce, adoption, abandonment, or even death. Single parent families suffer from multiple problems including the decline in income and educational level, which consequently lead to economic, social and psychological complications (Essa, 1995). According to research, children of single-parent families suffer from a decline in the level of education when compared to children who are raised in an intact family. Children in single-parent households were twice as likely to drop out of
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He leans in to kiss her, but she pulls away and tells him to go. Evan realizes that people are forgetting about Connor. Evan has Alana and Jared help in starting "The Connor Project". They plan a memorial and Evan gives a touching speech and it finally seems like he has been able to let go of his anxiety. After Evan gives the speech Zoey thanks him and kisses him. A little while later, Evan becomes more concerned with dating Zoey and “The Connor Project” he gets into a huge fight with Heidi. He then
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even the strongest people can be broken into accepting their life of slavery. Sarah is known for her stern but fair presence, however, the loss of her children crushed her, causing her to lose hope. Weylin drove her to the brink of despair, ensuring that Sarah would be too scared to fight for her freedom. Thus, Sarah conveys how slavery can break the bravest people to prevent them from ever leaving. After first meeting Sarah, Dana notices the loss of her family still haunts her. As Dana says, “Her
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Kingsolver shows how the family members react and change in the event of a loss. The loss that is shown in book four is Ruth Mays death who dies of a green Mamba snake, but when going to check on the ashes her sisters and Nelson put around to protect him from the evil. The death of a child can reveal the characteristics of someone through how they react. The death of Ruth May was an event that changed the lives of the Price family but
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Called Texas” is a novel about a German girl Mina and her family, who emigrated to Texas in 1845 because of the war. The family had been told that a Verein awaits their arrival. The Verein would help them with supplies, horses and wagons. But they didn’t. It was a terrible winter on the coast of Texas, and Minas’ mother and many others died that winter. At last they gathered enough money together with the Kaufman family to by a wagon. The family was going to New Braunfel, because that was where the
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and black that it was hard to delineate what was in front of us. Good thing the house was white or we might have not been able to see it. My sister had to go around to the front of the house and stick her hand through a broken glass in the door where the house had been broken into years before. Walking through the door I had already planned ways to guile the boys. As we walk in the boys noticed some quandary things about the house. The kitchen’s decadence frightened them. It was nasty, dead
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that love can kill who you were. My dad has intelligence in many areas, but lacks common sense in others. Neglecting his intelligence on a daily hoping to cope with a bottle. Until his vision is impaired his heart is in fragments. My mother is a broken soul, but not the typical type. She lost herself a long time ago and I watched her go. She’s so loving even though when she’s hurt she still tries, and being open minded is a characteristic I adopted from her at youth. I don’t know her whole story
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