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"One of these men is the father of my son.
Family members had bribed officials to interrupt the hereditary transfer of land by having the brothers declared dead, allowing them to inherit their father's share of the ancestral farmland.
Shivdutt's father's death and a want for his property led to this corruption.
So when you look at a detail of this work, you can see, the man on the upper-left is the father of the woman sitting next to him.
My father, who is 92, likes to say, "Let's stop talking only about how to save the old folks and start talking about how to get them to save us all."
Because while people are talking about data, making it possible for Facebook to mine my friend from the third grade, or Target to know when it's time for me to buy more diapers, or some dude to build a better baseball team, I'm actually really excited about the power of data and the power of texting to help that kid go to school, to help that girl stop cutting in the bathroom and absolutely to help that girl whose father's raping her.
She was fascinated by this, and she started to cry, I started to cry, her father started to cry, and now we're all crying.
My father told me he was not happy about me writing a book that risked deportation and unemployment.
Well when I was asked to do this TEDTalk, I was really chuckled, because, you see, my father's name was Ted, and much of my life, especially my musical life, is really a talk that I'm still having with him, or the part of me that he continues to be.
Spanish neuroanatomist Santiago Ramon y Cajal, who's widely considered the father of modern neuroscience, applied this Golgi stain, which yields data which looks like this, and really gave us the modern notion of the nerve cell, the neuron.
My father was an engineer, and when I was growing up, he would teach me how things worked.
Now, the third project grew out of my experience when my father was in the hospital.
I had seen the film on the occasion of my father's 50th birthday.
But for my father, the emotional and artistic importance of De Sica's vision was so great that he chose to celebrate his half-century with his three teenage children and 30 of their friends, "In order," he said, "to pass the baton of concern and hope on to the next generation."
"Persepolis" brought a daughter closer to her Iranian mother, and "Jaws" became the way in which one young boy was able to articulate the fear he'd experienced in flight from violence that killed first his father then his mother, the latter thrown overboard on a boat journey.
Quite recently she told me that in 1948, two of her sisters and my father traveled on a boat to Israel without my grandparents.
I was past 40 when my father died.
I would like to think that I've proven to be a capable father.
He never knew his father very well, because his father left his mom while she was pregnant with him.
I've had honest-to-goodness high blood pressure for a dozen years now, same age my father got it, and it's a real disease.
I'm my father's daughter.
It turns out that my father was an M.D., actually studied hormones.
But the reason I'm telling you this is that the medical community, my father as an example, sometimes doesn't see what's right in front of their eyes.
My father was not there.
And I thought, no, it's a very intimate look, but it's not a look a daughter gives her father.
In fact, my father, Gabriel, came to the US almost 50 years ago.
I asked my father about it, and he shared his own confusion over the significance of that when he first came to the US.
In my childhood, I played around in my father's university lab.
The dyed black hands are the father, while the blue and red hands are his sons.
When his father died, his uncle trafficked him to work with him in the mines.
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