Word: fatherness
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...decade, my father lived alone while supporting his wife and children, who left South Korea to pursue an education abroad. Although it was my father who stayed behind, I believe the emotional hardship for any divided family is similar. My parents' sacrifices motivated me to work hard in school, but after many years apart, relating to my father on a personal level became hard work. Concerned about his limited involvement in my upbringing, my father felt it was his duty to correct me as often as possible. As an adult, it was difficult for me to internalize his lectures. Such...
...over these eyes, and I felt no love tonight. 4. Bambi and Faline—As Bambi watches over Faline and their fawns at the end of this childhood classic, Disney would have you believe that he’s reflecting on his future as a loving father to many. But the truth is, deer are polygamous and bucks will copulate with as many different females as they can get their sleazy hooves on. Who knows how many other little Bambis that cervine cheater had running around? 3. Pocahontas and John Smith—Sorry, but the exploitation of one?...
...Detroit is truly a huge melting pot," says Alee Darwish, 53, a retired assembly line worker employed by Ford Motor Company for 32 years. "The car companies were no doubt responsible for that." Like other Lebanese who flocked to the area in the early 1900's, Darwish's father immigrated to the U.S. seeking a job at Henry Ford's Model T plant, as the pioneering automobile entrepreneur was offering a large $5 a day. Following in his footsteps, both his sons ended up as career hourly employees at Ford, applying sealer to the seams of metal on the assembly...
...Born to Irish immigrants in the Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn. Like his father, Fitzgerald worked as a doorman, helping to pay his way through Amherst College, where he played rugby and graduated Phi Betta Kappa in 1982 before earning a law degree at Harvard...
...dishwasher to pay for college. After graduating from Pepperdine University's law school, he eventually found work as a prosecutor in Cook County, which includes Chicago, frequently handling domestic-abuse cases. He married well; his wife Patti, the daughter of influential Chicago alderman Richard Mell, used her father's political smarts to help Blagojevich win elections - first to Illinois' General Assembly in 1992 then, four years later, to the U. S. House, as the Representative from the Fifth District of Illinois, which includes parts of Chicago's North Side...