Word: homeness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...places to go in the city, things to do on campus and people whom I wanted her to meet. While my folks had dropped me off at school the past two Septembers, they had not been able to visit during the school year to witness my life away from home, so my mother's visit was especially precious...
...take this opportunity to immerse her in my life at college--its relationships, locales and schedule. There will be many more days spent crafting critical these for future papers but probably few other opportunities to familiarize my mom so personally with the daily content of my life away from home. And how often had my mother set aside her own work projects to spend time with me and respond to my concerns? The tutorial paper would get done...
...whether in a classroom, an office, or a foreign country, collective communities come with certain obligations. We might have to sacrifice the personal agendas that seemed so precious during exam period. Even if we are at home, chilling with our buddies, Dad or Mom might ask for help setting the table before dinner...
...have killed only one fish and still cringe at the experience. I was eight and at the supermarket with my parents. They wanted carp for dinner, and I wanted the live one from the tank so my sister and I could play with it in the bathtub at home. At dinner-time, my mother took out the carp and handed me a knife. I put it on the cutting board in the kitchen. The gills moved up and down, making the kind of sound your mouth makes upon opening when it is very dry. Its eyes, surely those of Isaac...
Moved PermanentlyMoved PermanentlyFortune Investor DataBrokerage houses, especially the smaller ones, aren't too excited about having to staff twelve hours of trading. The Mom-and-Pop e-traders, meanwhile, are slavering over the chance to do their trading when they're home from work and able to concentrate -- unless, of course, they've had a few with dinner. Or else they're leery, like many professional traders, about what all-day, all-night investment opportunities will do to their tickers. Kadlec says the plan's success all depends on how many of the former type get hooked. "There's after...