When asked to make a short speech on my dad‚ my first thoughts were “NOOOOOOOO I do not want to do this!!!” But after I thought about things to talk about‚ it actually turned out that I had to choose what not to talk about! I am very lucky and have a dad who has and always will be there for me. He coached my baseball team when no one else could do it‚ he always has offered to take me to the batting cages and has spent several hours thinking about me and what he could do to make my life better.
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Hello. For those of you who don’t know me‚ my name is Gene Forrester. I was Phineas’ roommate and best friend. We are here today to pay tribute to and celebrate Finny’s remarkable life. Truth be told‚ writing this speech was the most difficult thing I’ve ever done. It wasn’t challenging because I knew too little about Finny to share‚ but because I knew too much. I knew Phineas better than anyone else; we were constant companions. We were two parts of one whole and the more I got to know Finny the
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I had always wanted a puppy or pet since I was very young. However‚ it was fourth grade when I started to really want a dog. Every night before I went to bed I would pray and ask for a puppy for Christmas. As Christmas came and went‚ I had started to lose hope of ever being able to get a puppy. However‚ little did I know that my prayers would soon be answered. It was Saturday‚ February 26‚ 2010. It was just like any other Saturday‚ my parents were going to run some errands and I decided to tag along
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When I sat down to write this tribute‚ there were so many things I wanted to tell you all; from each adventure‚ every smile that was made because of Isabel’s gentleness & generosity‚ to every laugh and all the times I can possibly remember of her.. Good or bad. When I had first met Isabel‚ I was boarding off from sea one sunny winters afternoon. What had caught my attention about her the second I laid eyes on her was her laugh‚ & the curls of her dark hair swirling in the wind; the first time I realized
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Playing the board game Sorry with my grandmother and sister‚ I draw a seven and knock both of my grandmother’s pieces off the board. “You’re just vicious”‚ she alleged in a joking voice. As unimportant as that day might’ve been‚ I know that not all people would even play the board game with their grandchildren. Sue Straw was born on August 11‚ 1958. She had eight siblings‚ and she would give birth to my mother on March 19‚ 1978. My Grandma is special to me because she is generous‚ dependable‚ and
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Good morning family and friends of the beloved Eugina S. Frog. My sister and I have been through a lot of hardships together‚ from our father passing and us hoping to a new pond. Eugina was a curious and unique frog‚ she brought happiness everywhere she went. She was well-known on the west side of the pond. Eugina lived to be twelve years old‚ she had 1‚000‚200 babies with her husband Robert A. Frog. In the twelve years that Eugina lived‚ she accomplished many goals that she planned to succeed. For
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Gertrude & Hamlet Gertrude is Over Protective Gertrude worries about Hamlet being crazy Gertrude becomes Scared Gertrude becomes Over Protective Again Gertrude & Ophelia Gertrude feels guilty Gertrude feels sorrow Gertrude wants to help Gertrude feels guilty again Gertrude & Laertes Gertrude feels Guilty Gertrude keeps a distance Gertrude wants to console Details: Gertrude is over protective after Hamlet loses his father and she demonstrates it by telling the King
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Lilla Gertrude Shelor was the oldest of Ellis and Hattie Webb Shelor’s nine children. At a young age‚ Lilla was expected to help with the house and the younger children. She remembered looking after her younger brother Sandy when she was too little to lift him out of his bed. She watched her siblings when Hattie was out in the fields with Ellis‚ working in the garden‚ or tending to the cow. As the years went by and more brothers were born‚ Hattie came to rely more and more on Lilla’s help. Lilla
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links back to one idea of revenge. There is one major character‚ however‚ who does not seem to fit this Shakespearean archetype- Queen Gertrude. Her role in the play is often minimized‚ reduced only to be seen in terms of her incestuous affair and the effect it had on the major male characters of the book. Of the two female characters‚ Ophelia and Gertrude‚ Gertrude is viewed as especially weak due to her seeming lack of ability to stand up for herself or seek justice for the murder of her first husband
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November 2013 The Single Persona of Ophelia and Gertrude According to Shakespeare‚ Elsinore did not require more than two women‚ let alone two unique women. On a larger scale‚ the society in which Shakespeare wrote agreed that most women were indistinguishable: women in general did not hold positions of prominence and did not demand recognition. In all of Shakespeare’s plays‚ a meager 126 female characters develop; of these‚ Ophelia and Gertrude play minor roles in Shakespeare’s Hamlet‚ having
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