"Kincaid sat at the typewriter in her Hudson Street apartment and attempted to recreate her mother's voice in its first fictionalized incarnation" (Paravisini-Gebert 51). ... The story also uses the mother's voice as way to deliver instructions to her daughter in a nagging manner. ... Her mother was obviously worried that she was going to become sexually active because she stresses purity in the story. ...

• Word Count: 893
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

At the beginning of the book Maya is a confused little girl suffering from the associated with being a black child in America. She is also suffering with the pain of living without her parents. Maya is smart and ingenious, but she always feels like other people judge her for being black. She feels v...

• Word Count: 518
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

The use of active listening will also be used by the therapist because is deals with how to be attentive to the adolescent/teenager in order to understand and to have an open mind and not judge or contest to what Sarah is speaking about (Murray, B. ...

• Word Count: 2398
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The Merriam-Webster Dictionary states divorce as " an act of legally dissolving a marriage" (Merriam-Webster Dictionary 1998). Divorce is a very highly rated problem among married couples in the United States. " Fifty percent of marriages end in divorce and sixty-seven percent of all second marriag...

• Word Count: 2872
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: High School

How do the characters of the movie Mother (1996) represent American society? The characters of the movie, Beatrice Henderson, the mother, and her two sons, John and Jeff, all grapple with issues of awareness and individuality that are evident in their behavior. Society of the 90's can be descr...

• Word Count: 2741
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

As for my parents, my mom is the only one who voices her opinion around people who don't exactly care too much. ... My mom does vote actively because she's one of those people who feels like you have no room to discuss politics and what you believe if you didn't even contribute to who's in office or who's in charge. ...

• Word Count: 2511
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

What is the American family? This question was answered by John de Crevecoeur, in "what is the American?" (1782), when he said: "I could point out to you a family whose grandfather was an Englishman, whose wife was Dutch, whose son married a French woman, and whose present four sons have four wives of different nations."1 In fact, Crevecoeur summarized the history of the American family, in particular, and the American man, in general. There are many kinds of family systems in the world; the English family is but one of them. ...

• Word Count: 9352
• Approx Pages: 37
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School