They suggest some of the following protective factors that the family and parents can have, or can be a possible new approach to preventing problems later on down the road: Family Factors include: Parental Supervision, Child's Attachment to Parent, Parent's Attachment to Child, Parent's Involvement in Child's Activities Educational Factors: Reading Percentile, Mathematics Percentile, Commitment to School, Attachment to Teachers, Aspirations to Go to College, Expectations to Go to College, Parent's Expectation for Child to Go to College Parent's Values About...

• Word Count: 6384
• Approx Pages: 26
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The first chapter introduces the main character Pip. He is ten years old and lives with his older sister and her husband, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Gargery. Mr. Joe is a blacksmith. As Pip was visiting his parent's grave one afternoon at the churchyard over looking the marshes, he is come upon by an escaped ...

• Word Count: 1035
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

The first chapter of WHEN AND WHERE I ENTER describes a "race man", a politically active member in the community. ... CHAPTER 3 Chapter 3 discusses the prejudice that African-American women faced. ... CHAPTER 4 One of the more interesting paragraphs of Chapter 4 was how attempted "scientific studies" tried to show the hereditary patterns of different races of human species. ... This ties along with the main theme of chapter 1 and the first stanza of STILL I RISE. ... CHAPTER 5 In discussing prominent African-American icons, the topic once again turned to Ida B. ...

• Word Count: 4173
• Approx Pages: 17
• Grade Level: High School

Some organizations have developed their own way of communicating with other members in their group and with their community through specific phrases and certain vocabulary for their group. ... While reading a chapter called the Chamber of Reflection from a book entitled, An Illustrated Guide To The Lost Symbol: The History, The Secrets, and The Discoveries, the first paragraph explains the introduction into Free Masonry. ...

• Word Count: 2023
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

More a Mouse Than a Man "If an author does not have at least one great popular success, he or she may well be ignored by the media, but if he or she is constantly popular, then the critics become suspicious of the writer's serious intentions" (Benson Introduction). ... In George Snell's chapter on Steinbeck in The Shapers of American Fiction: 1798-1947, he notes Steinbeck's strengths and weaknesses: "an enormous gift of story-telling", "catholicity of sympathy" and "'common touch,'" ease of character creation through "types" rather than "individuals," "love of exagger...

• Word Count: 2015
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

An eighty-page mixture of short, fragmentary chapters, photographs, and illustrations of medieval architecture and manuscripts, the Postscript is partly a poetics designed to "help us understand how to solve the technical problem which is the production of a work." ...

• Word Count: 4697
• Approx Pages: 19
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate