My 92 year old grandmother has always been a great influence in my life. She used to take care of me when I was younger and she was still staying with my family. She has a kind‚ gentle smile which makes you want to talk to her when you see her. She speaks only Teochew but she can understand Chinese very well. As a form of respect‚ we try to converse with her in dialect. She is a very independent and strong willed lady as she always prepares her own food and does her own laundry. She never accepted
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With advancing age and chronic illnesses‚ communications between elders and their caregivers may become strained or almost non-existent. Regardless of cognitive impairment‚ my personal caregiving commitment is to communicate‚ communicate‚ and communicate some more with elders in my life‚ including my beloved octogenarian mother to whom I am a full-time caregiver. There is always something to talk about unless caregivers choose otherwise. Clinically diagnosed Alzheimer’s‚ other dementias‚ Tourette’s
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tighter than your family. In our families we love‚ serve‚ teach‚ and learn from each other. We share our joys and our sorrows. Family ties may bring us difficult challenges‚ but they also give us strength and some of our greatest happiness. Through my own personal perspective‚ if you don’t have family‚ you don’t have anything. Thinking to yourself‚ you have it all‚ each time you see them cross your path. Blood makes you related‚ loyalty makes you family. Families are so important because we
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The 1991 movie My Girl tells the story of 11-year-old Vada Sultenfuss who‚ having lost her mother at birth ‚ lives with her dementia-ridden grandmother and her job-oriented father in the funeral parlour that he owns and operates. The story follows Vada‚ an extreme hypochondriac who has many strange misconceptions about death‚ through a variety of life-changing experiences‚ including the engagement of her father and the devastating loss of her best friend‚ Thomas Jay. Through these experiences
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from day one it was like society was this violent ‚ complicated dance and everybody had taken lessons but me . knocked to the floor again ‚ climbing to my feet each time ‚ bloody and humiliated . always met with disapproving faces ‚ waiting for me to leave so I’d stop fucking up the party . they wanted to push me outside ‚ where the freaks huddled in the cold . out there with the misfits ‚ the broken ‚ the glazed-eye types who can only watch as the normals enjoy their shiny new cars and careers
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My Dream Vacation Arranging a trip is not always as simple as it sounds‚ especially when the trip is over 2‚300 miles and has over six hours of total flight time. One needs to organize these types of trips well in advance to have an easy and enjoyable journey. I started planning for my Californian dream vacation by researching my final destination‚ Los Angeles. I researched its main tourists’ attractions like Disneyland‚ Universal Studios‚ City Walk and the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood
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What am I good at? What are some of my talents? In today’s society what you are good at defines you. If you are good at basketball you are the "star athlete." If you are good at school you are the “super-smart kid.” It is believed that to be someone in this world‚ you must have an identity in what you do‚ and be successful with it. I have been called a lot of things in my life‚ and have been identified by a lot of things. All are important to me‚ and all are a part of me. I love to play basketball
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2013.02.25 & 02.28 My grandfather I couldn’t wait for summer vacation to see my grandfather when I was in elementary School. I really loved him. He also really loved to see his grandchildren. His name is Genpachi Tomori. He lived on a different an Island than ours. It is called Miyako Island is about 2 hours away by Airplane. We moved from Miyako Island to Okinawa Island when my parents divorced. I just had turned 5 years old at that time. I don’t
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wanting to learn English. I remember as far back as 7 years old‚ some of the stuff I used to do avoid seeing people that came to visit us. ¬¬They were people I knew‚ like cousins‚ aunts‚ uncles‚ and friends of the family. ¬ ¬I was trying to stay into my room until they took off‚ except for some cases‚ for example‚ that I have to take a leak. As I grew up‚ things got better‚ but I have still a long way to go. Do you presently consider yourself to be a shy person? If you answered "no‚" was there ever
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What is a family? I love my family and I don’t want to be a part of another family because every family is special. I don’t want to change it to another because as I already said every family is special and everybody should love their own family no matter what because it’s the most important thing they have and they should respect it. A family is a group of people who will always love and understand each other no matter what. A family is when there is a cake and you will have to share
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