...A Father’s Love Most families would agree that having a home without a father is a crisis. Fathers play vital roles in the household. Fathers provide security that is almost impossible to replace. The dilemma starts with fathers who do not think that they are needed. My father has changed my life for the better because he taught me to refrain from judging others, inspires others through humor, and shows me Godly love. I see an absence of judgment in my father. Most parents forget that everything they do will most likely be mimicked by their children. I have a father who never treated anyone differently because of their social standing. My father is a social worker specializing in Cystic Fibrosis and Down syndrome patients. Because he always had his patients around him, I was able to see how he embraced their differences. One patient in particular went around the town begging other people to buy her artwork. She got plenty of giggles and cold stares. That was, until she got to my father. He held his hand out and said “I have been looking for you everywhere, Missy! I am in need of some beautiful art, and you are the woman to supply it for me!” He than proceeded to hand her all the change he had on him in exchange for her paintings. Because fathers are so looked up to, positively or negatively, they impact our actions and show us what is acceptable. Judgment is contagious but so is kindness. My father inspires everyone around him through his sense of humor. My father...
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...The first video, entitled “A Father’s Love For His Son” erupted a large range of emotions upon watching it and I am forever moved by it. I have seen it multiple times and am never less than impressed each time. Even though their son, Rick, was born with Cerebral Palsy, and would never able to walk or talk (without he assistance from the “hope machine”) his parents ignored the doctor’s suggestion that he be institutionalized, and instead gave him the opportunities to live life to the absolute fullest by understanding him on a level that doctors couldn’t comprehend. The team of Rick and Dick Hoyt is incredibly inspirational and it makes me reevaluate how I cater to my children and shows me that there is so much more than a diagnosis to those children who live with the same disorder as well as many others. I believe that is half of the reason this video is important to our classroom, it clearly shows that when children are given the chance and the support they may need, they can accomplish more than anyone originally gave them credit for. Even though parents provide these children with a majority of this, as their educator we can provide them with encouragement...
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...discovers his father’s love. The story is about his childhood and his relationship with his father. In the very first sentences Manning talks about how his relationship with his father is physical, and that is how his father expresses his love. “Arm Wrestling With My Father” is an effective essay because Manning gets the purpose across and entertains the audience, and uses a variety of sentence structures throughout the essay. In the story, “Arm Wrestling With My Father” it talks about the relationship Manning has with his father and how it changes over time. When he was little he would never win the arm wrestling fights, and his father would always win. He would try so hard to use all of his will power to try and beat his father; it never worked. When they first began to wrestle, Manning loved it and he would get so happy even if he lost. He just liked knowing the fact that his dad was very...
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...state. Life in the emotional aspect explores love, and with love there will always be shortcomings and complexities. Progression, life, destruction, and love are themes in the short story Mule Killers by Lydia Peelle. The short story is a story within a story, and it is first person narration from the point of view of a son retelling the story of his father and his grandfather. The story thereby tells the stories of three different generations of men. The setting is in Nashville Tennessee, the time period is not certain but from the events and descriptions it appears to be during the brink of industrialization. The element of progress in Mule Killers is seen in the family’s life story, the father’s effort to reach adulthood, and - as a parallel story - industrialization; progress is portrayed not only in the stories of the father and grandfather but also in the depiction of the development of the society. In the very beginning, it is clear that the main character’s father has a hard time time coping with his emotions, particularly his immaturity, and striving to progress to a stable future. In the first paragraph where the author introduces the character, the son’s father, he describes him as: “my father has his father’s height, and he carries it apologetically” (2). It is already evident in the author’s use of diction and the word “apologetically” that there is a feeling of guilt. Furthermore, even though the father has his father’s height he carries it apologetically perhaps...
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...Anthony livingston Dr.Lemaster Final paper 05/02/14 Diversity of Love Love can be an intensive feeling of lust from one individual to another, as well as an obsession that leads to people doing unusual things. The different types of love conveyed between the stories “A rose for Emily” and “Hamlet and Ophelia” are over compassionate ties and misleading love associations. Between these two stories the true dimensions portrayed of love are both ordinary and extreme. Once reading these books a reader can conclude that love itself can make you do some crazy things. “A rose for Emily” is a fictional analysis of horror or gothic tales between an over protective father, a psychotic spoiled daddy’s girl, and her lover. The relationship shown here between the girl and her father can be perceived as a typical father-daughter scenario played into today’s society. As most fathers, Emily’s dad never saw anyone up to his standards for his beloved daughter. With this being said Emily was never allowed to date or find a man’s love beyond her father’s. This put her in a distressful emotional state when she had to come to terms with her father passing away. Emily was an extremely over-bearing individual when it came to love. Her family and father had always been highly overrated people. They looked at other human-beings who did not fit their upbringings as “outsiders” and below them. In this narrative, the citizens of the town which Emily resides in are very judgmental when it comes...
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...over and over again in community theaters, and their archetypes are used repeatedly in modern film and books. In Shakespeare’s play, The Tragedy of Hamlet, Hamlet is arguably displayed as one of the most dramatic character ever created. From the moment we meet the prince we are captivated by his elegant, yet intense personality. The play opens up with frightened guards forced to stand watch in the cold, dark night. They are frightened because they believe they have seen an apparition, or ghost of some sort. Prince Hamlet has just arrived home from school because his father has pasted away. To make matters worse for Prince Hamlet, his mother, Queen Gertrude, has married his uncle, Claudius, the newly appointed king, very soon after his father’s death. When Hamlet joins the guards and his good friend Horatio, they too see the ghost. They’ll all soon realize the spirit is the image of the late King Hamlet, dressed in his armor, ready to fight. From our very first encounter with Hamlet, he is consumed by grief and obsessed by death. Although he is dressed in black to signify his mourning, his emotions run deeper than his appearance. In Act 1, Scene 2, he says to his mother: ‘Tis not alone my inky cloak, good-mother, Nor customary suits of solemn black ... Together with all forms, moods, shows of grief That can denote me truly. These indeed ‘seem’, For they are actions that a man might play; But I have that within which passeth show These but the trappings and the suits...
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...Mule killers The story is named Mule killers and is written by Lydia Peelle, it was first published in Epoch, 2004. The theme in the story is growing up, unrequited love, generation shift and consequences. All the themes are, more or less, related to the narrator’s father, whom is telling about his early adolescent life where he had to cope with gradually losing his grip on what he wants for himself and instead being forced by the narrator’s grandfather to take responsibility for his actions. You do not hear much about the narrator himself except that he is the outcome from the father’s and the nameless girl’s affair and he is twice the age at the time in the story than his father was, the year of the mule killers. However you also get the impression of that he is a careful listener and watches his father very closely and therefore notices details so he can practically imagine what his father tells him and do not tell him. The narrator’s father is the main person of the text, because it is him we hear about the most. When the father was in his eighteens he fell in love with a girl named Eula Parker, while he was too shy to tell her for a long time he ended up asking Eula and her friend out for a soda, though Eula refuses her friend accepts. The Father convince himself that Eula really wants him, when his date and himself meet Eula at the local drugstore, however when Eula actually just had a quick errand and leave again the confusion in the fathers heart drive him to...
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...Father's Name? Father's Occupation? Father's Address?" What am I supposed to write? These questions are on every one of my college applications. Maybe I don't really have to answer them. I move on to other questions and hit another tough one. "Are your parents divorced, married,single?" I check divorced. "What is the date of their divorce?" I have no idea. "Hey, Mom!" I shout. "When did you get your divorce?" "November 1982," she replies after a pause. One year after I was born. "Let me show you something," she says. "I don't wanna see anything," I shout back. "Just come and look at this." I walk into her room; the hope chest is open and I smell mothballs. When it's open she's walking down memory lane. She thrusts a paper in my face. "This is what I got in the divorce." The hope chest is on the list. "That's great. I don't care!" I say and walk out. I don't care about the stuff, but I do care that I've never met my father. These college applications must be getting to me. Most seniors filling them out aren't pondering their father's name and address. They're worrying about the essays while I'm stumped by simple questions. I pick up the Profile Application. I need to apply for financial aid, just like everyone else, but I need it badly. My father never paid child support and my mother has worked hard to support me. But hard work only goes so far and definitely doesn't come to $30,000 a year. I'm bitter about that. I should have money coming...
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...As the darkness of the night begins to fall over the castle two watchmen discover a spirit roaming the Elsinore Castle in Denmark. When Horatio sees the ghost he believes it may be King Hamlet, who has recently been murdered. After the death of King Hamlet, his brother Claudius inherited the throne and married the king’s widow. When the two watchmen and Horatio bring Hamlet to see the spirit he declares he is Hamlet’s father’s spirit and convinces Hamlet his uncle was to blame for the murder. The spirit orders Hamlet to seek revenge upon his uncle and bring an end to his reign on the throne. However, Hamlet is not quick to act upon the request of his father’s spirit, and begins to show signs of madness. When this becomes apparent to Claudius...
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...similarities and differences of the representation of death and the impermanence in the short story “A Father’s Story” by Andre Dubus, and the poem “Because I could not stop for Death” by Emily Dickinson.” The reader finds two authors who are different, but produces a mental picture of death in the short story and poem. In “A Father’s Story” the main character in the story is the father who ignores his religious belief in order to protect his daughter from the consequences of killing a man with her car. However, in the poem “Because I could not stop for Death,” the author displays how the main character accepted death as a friend and a part of life until the end. The short story discuss the character’s life before it yields into the talk of death; however, the poem talks of death right at the beginning of the poem. The two pieces of literature imply an acceptance of the inevitability of death by both authors. Death, in these two pieces of literature, is more than just absence of the soul from the body. In the poem and the short story, there are three types of death experiences represented: emotional death, spiritual death, and physical death. Exploring these different kinds of death experiences shows similarities and differences between the two pieces of literature. The inevitability of death and the emotions involved are described in both of these pieces. “A Father’s Story” begins describing the life of the Catholic character Luke Ripley, or what remains of it after losing...
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...following in the footsteps of Christ. By displaying these traits, Danny matures, and finally learns the true plan God has for his life. The fruit of living a forgiving, sacrificial, and loving life may not immediately filled Danny’s life with joy, but eventually Danny’s Christ like attitude led him to live the life God intended him to. Throughout Danny’s life, the reality faces him that he must take his father’s place and become a Rabbi. However, becoming a Rabbi is Danny’s last wish. His wishes to continue his education, and possibly become a phycologist. While Danny wants nothing more than to continue his studies, he still tries to fulfill his father’s expectations. He sacrifices his relationship with his own father, to meet the standards his father expects. Danny had every opportunity to rebel against his father, however...
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...The Gift (An Analysis of The Gift) We decided to read a few poems today that were written by great, influential poets. Out of which the one that spoke to me the most was “The Gift” by Li-Young Lee. he was born in Indonesia after his parents were exiled from China. In 1964 him and his family moved to the United States. I chose this poem because it showed a father’s compassion, a husband's compassion, and how through the generations one learns from the ones before him. First off, this poem shows a father’s love for his child. The speaker talks about how when he was a young child, his father removed a metal splinter from his hand. He said that in his childish mind he thought he was going to die. His father, in a calm, cool and collected voice...
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...Overlook Everyone has memorable moments from their childhood. Some of them merry and others are quite the opposite. Theodore Roethke’s poem, “My Papa’s Waltz” is a quatrain poem about a memory of a boy waltzing with his father. The speaker is now a grown man writing this as a memory. In the poem, he relates his relationship with his father to a "waltz." The author's childhood unfolds as the "waltz" is performed. In this performance, the diction the author uses allows the reader to have many perspectives of the poem. This poem can be viewed in two ways. One way to look at this poem is that the young boy is having fun with his father waltzing. Some, on the other hand, believe this is a poem about rough housing his son. There are examples for both agreements throughout the poem. I can clearly see the positive loving side of the son in admiration to his faulty father. This poem was written in the 1940’s which remains a controversial decade that created the welfare state, bred a culture of immorality and self-indulgence. Young adults urged people to explore alternative patterns of work and domesticity. They disputed paths to deeper fulfillment, even those involving illicit drugs, could be justified, believing they were creating a new America. Taking that into account, Roethke’s father character is more understood being from this time period. When Theodore was only fourteen, his father passed, leaving him with a wound and a sense of dissatisfaction that he was able to relieve only...
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...My Papa’s Waltz The poem “My Papa’s Waltz” can easily be interpreted in two different ways. Before our class discussion, I was convinced that this was a somber poem that expressed a son’s love for his father, despite his father’s alcoholism and abusive ways. Although the poem states playful interactions between the father and son, the majority of the poem focuses on the father’s drunken aggression towards the boy. After discussing the poem in class, I realized, it is about a young boy, remembering a night with his father when they danced around the house aggressively. With this analysis, there is no intentional abuse on the father’s part, yet there is clear evidence of alcoholism, (“The whiskey on your breath”). Now I believe the poem is about that of my second interpretation, but both interpretations are satisfactory. There is a wide amount of evidence that, “My Papa’s Waltz,” is the story a young boy revealing the trouble he has lived through with his alcoholic father, while still possessing a great love for his dad. The boy would then be the narrator of “My Papa’s Waltz” and thus the son of an alcoholic father. It is easy to focus on the physical abuse, and anger the father has, which was targeted at the boy. In the first line of the poem, the son is speaking to his dad and says, “The whiskey on your breath/could make a small boy dizzy.” The son is telling his father, that his drinking is a problem, and the boy is worried. In the next line, he says...
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...Mule Killers by Lydia Peelle This is a story about unrequited love and its consequences and the change from child to adult. Time changes and life goes on. Whether people accept the changes and might takes advantage of the possibilities given to them, but people make mistakes, especially when they are young and in love. Will it be a bump on the road or will it change the direction they are heading. These are some of the themes that the short story “Mule Killers” is dealing with. Mule Killers is told by a narrator, who is telling the story of his father meeting his mother. It is a son telling about his father telling his son what happened the year he was 18 and the mule killers came. So the story takes place in two times, the present where the father and the son are picking asparagus in the garden and the past where the life of the father was changed for good. It all takes place in a farming area in America at the time where modern machinery reached the farms in Nashville. Tractors started to take over the farm and were therefore setting mules out of work. The narrator’s grandfather “…goes to Nashville and buys two International Harvester tractors for eighteen hundred dollars, cash…” (Page 9, line 13-14) The father is in the sons telling an 18-year-old teenager meaning that he is a little uncertain and confused about growing up, and with small ability to express his feelings towards other people. The uncertainty and suppression of his feelings will later in the short story...
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