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Essay / My Father Superman - 623
My SupermanOver time, I have had many people influence various aspects of my life. Their personal characteristics, achievements and values have influenced me in a positive way. They help shape who I am in the present and who I will be in the future. He is someone I can turn to for advice in a difficult situation and I know he will give me words of wisdom. They will never judge me for my past mistakes, but will only seek to help me because they truly care about me. But when you think about the truly personal influences in my life, no one has had a greater impact than my father. My father worked very hard throughout his life to ensure that he was able to provide for our family. When my father fled the battlefields of Cambodia to live in the United States, he had very little money to support himself. Penniless and unable to speak English, he had to work during the day and study at night. When he married his first wife, my mother, he had to abandon his studies. My parents had very little money to raise me on their own, so my father left school and went to work twice....