Not only have the different cultures changed in today's world, but the average family has made a complete turn around on that definition. ... The father was the income of the family and there was no problem with that. ... The normal rate of children in a family was about 3-5 kids. Today family is a word that is taken in many different ways. ... There is an average of 1 to 2 children in a family but after a divorce you might marry someone who has two kids as well making it four children. ...

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Johnson states, "Segregation in housing and schools is stubborn and pervasive, and the average wealth of white families is almost ten times that of Blacks." ... It was intended so the White male could have luxurious cars, live in a big house, and be able to spend money on either himself or his family. ...

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Bigger Thomas was poor for most of his life, living in a one bedroom apartment with his mother, brother, and sister, Bigger struggled through most of his life like any other average black person. Bigger Thomas never met his Father and couldn't afford to go to school or to move to a different and better place, he was forced to work to feed himself as well as his family. Like Bigger, Richard Wright was forced to live with his family in a small apartment, through most of his life he struggled to feed himself, his family, and tried to attend school as well. Richard Wright didn't get...

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This people are on welfare traveling these great distances trying to provide for their families. ... Some people have to work two jobs in order to provide for themselves and their families. ... How does the average child get access to a gun? ... Blacks in the entertainment business broke all color barriers but when they stepped out into the real world, they were the average person out on the street. ... It also shows the struggle many people (including blacks) had to go through to provide for their families. ...

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In America the average income for a black man is 61% less than the average white man and that is the same percentage difference as in 1880. ... This is going to cost a lot of jobs in America and the UK so the big businesses can get richer while thousand of people have no money to support their family. ...

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Many people believe there has been a vast improvement amongst the leveling of responsibilities of men and women in the family and job setting. ... The average male makes $36,304 a year, while the average woman makes $26,500. ...

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Mexican immigrants usually do not speak English, have big families, and do not eat American food. This is all in contrast to the "average American" who speaks English, probably has a small nuclear family living in one home, and eats hamburgers and fries. ...

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The Breedlove family has moved from the rural south to urban Lorain, Ohio, and the displacement, in addition to grinding work conditions and poverty, contributes to the family dysfunction. ... He represents the average black man. ...

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Prejudices in To Kill A Mockingbird " As you grow older, you'll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don't you forget it "whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash." ... He was an average black man in Maycomb. ...

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More blacks ran for office and more than average were elected. ... The result of this was black families moved to the white suburbs. When the black families moved there they were met with angry white families, and eventually made the black families go back to the ghetto in Chicago south side. ...

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Born into an abolitionist family, he was the great nephew of John Mercer Langston, the first Black American to be elected to public office in 1855. ... Attending his first college at Columbia University to study engineering, he dropped out with a B+ average. ... In the autobiography, "The Big Sea," Hughes writes about a boy of a poor family in the Midwest. ...

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What does it do and say about our modern culture when looking at the family? ... The idea that our western culture has men working an average of 48.8hrs and women working an average of 41.5 (U.S. ... In many families the dual income is not an option; it is a necessity just to pay the bills. ... This particular lady said that she hated TV but she had to adapt if she wanted time with her family. ... The internal drives that come from one's family of love and caring for others in a society will drive the culture. ...

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Many black families related to them. ... It was about a black family making it to the top in New York City. ... Both were of well-to-do families that were proud of their heritage. ... Family Matters showed focus on a middle-class black family living in Alba 6 Chicago. ... They were portraying the average black family. ...

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According to a critic on affirmative action, "A college board survey, described in Andrew Hacker's Two Nations, in 1992 the average combined SAT score for black students whose parents earn more than $70,000 a year was 854, which was twenty-five points lower than the average SAT for white students whose parents earn less than $20,000 a year." ... Family incomes have less to do with SAT scores than the efforts students put into their studies. ...

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But then again how would you be looked at by your own race, by your family. ... The ex-colored man didn't want the average salary of a black man; he wanted what he deserved despite of his color and race. ...

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They scarify their lives for their family and countries. ... The consequence is to lose the harmony in the family relationship similar with hunger of memory, the easy mother tongue also discusses bilingual problem they faced by Asian American people. ... Their influence on American institution and culture will expand largely because of their high average educational levels and increasing interaction with non- Asian. ...

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The existence of single-father families is very low; only 3.4% of white children, and 4.0% of black children reside with solely their fathers (U.S. ... In addition, 63% of families maintained by white grandparents had both grandparents present, compared to only 35% of families maintained by black grandparents (U.S. ... Also, based on the Census Bureau statistics, the absence of the black father in a vast amount of families is a huge blow to the advancement of the young black man. ... With out a family to rely on, a growing black man is being sent up the river with out a paddle. The tragic ...

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The government has given blacks many ways to get in and out of college and it's not fair for the average white person. ... A black athlete then doesn't have to be as smart as the average white athlete to get into college. ... They say that since they grew up in a poor family, they can't do good or excel, but anyone can do good or excel if they put their mind to it. ... Many whites grow up in poor families, and they can't use excuses either. ...

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According to an article by Kimberly Atkins of the Boston Globe, the average black person earning $60,000 or more per year lives in an area with double the poverty rate than an area that the average white person earning less than $30,000 resides. ... Once a black family moved into a house on Kinloch grounds, all of the white families around them began to leave the city (Wright 7-9). ... "We like it this way," said my friend Alfredo Lewis commenting on the community empowerment theory, "I don't care if a few white families move in around me, as long as I live in a place that's mos...

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Some being how much money their family makes, what their ethnic background is, what district they live in, and whether they have family that attended or are presently attending U-High. ... I had an A average in junior high school with three sports, many extra curricular activities, and won many math competition awards. Everyone in my family has attended U-High, ever since it was formed. ...

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However Malcolm Little was still an average youngster who wanted a good life but was stopped by racism. ... After his mother had a nervous breakdown his family was spilt up. ... Elijah Muhammad spoke of how the Black man was the Original Man, who had been kidnapped from his homeland and stripped of his language, his culture, his family structure, his family name, until the Black man in America did not even realize who he was. ...

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Businesses began to recruit poor, white families from the country whom they would bring in to work for them. The labor of an entire white family was incredibly cheap, so blacks were not wanted. ... In the decade from 1890 to1899, lynchings in the U.S. averaged 188 per year, 82 percent of which occurred in the South (America 854). ...

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If one is to discuss and problem solve an issue, he or she must first know what the issue is truly about. Affirmative action is defined as the equal opportunities given to women, minorities, and small groups so they will have the same tools, education, and allotment to achieve their goals in life. S...

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