Most young people tend to believe that the only way to choose a mate is to date until you fall in love plan a wedding and get married. ... Matchmakers can serve two functions: marriage scouts, who set out to find possible matches, and as negotiators, people who negotiate between families. ... When parents are selecting a mate for their child, they pay great attention to religion, education background, family background and especially social class. ... Sexual intercourse is the extreme closeness out of which it results. ... Women have come out of the closet refusing to be mere sexual objects p...

• Word Count: 1679
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

These roles are influenced by the individual's cultural and economic background. ... Heaven forbid that little Joey looks like a girl or baby Michelle is mistaken for a boy. ... Industry has been taken out of the home, and large families are no longer economically possible or socially desired. ... These changes involve the new ability of women to break out of the gender roles created for them by a patriarchal society. ... If the house is falling apart she may feel guilty for going to work. ...

• Word Count: 1361
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Though I cannot cover every story broke in the US, I have researched a couple of topics important to me, as I personally am from a strong cultural background - Indian - Hindu born in Hong Kong. ... Of course the operation can be life threatening when performed by an untrained person; if the operator makes any mistake, the parents would not take the child to a hospital out of fear of being criminally charged with child abuse. ... Sometimes what can be even worse, normally in third world countries, once the parent finds out that the child was in trouble at school - they go thru the same kin...

• Word Count: 3097
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: High School

Chaga and the Chocolate Factory is a children's book by Bob Hartman based on the true life of a young boy in Mali, that illustrates how that happens. The book is about a young boy named Chaga whose parents sell him to a man to go work at a cocoa plantation (or the "chocolate factory") This book touches base on certain circumstances of human trafficking that people often don't realize. ... Because we come from a prosperous, functioning society with a moral code it is hard for us to wrap our minds around the fact that there are people out there living in poverty-stricken, dis...

• Word Count: 5222
• Approx Pages: 21
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School