During this period the Indian sub-continent was part of the British Empire, and the country was run by the British middle class, which Eric's family was a member of. ... In 1907 the family, minus Eric's father who stayed in India until he retired in 1912, moved back to England. ... Although the Blair family was not very wealthy - Orwell later described them ironically as "lower-upper-middle class."" ... Now he decided to travel to India, and in 1922, he decided to follow in his families' footsteps by joining the civil service in Burma. ... The next year he returned to his fami...

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The history of the Chandler family was their men spent more time in war then in school, and the women spent more time doing chores and farm work then in the classroom. ... The Chandlers were a nice family. ... Mexicans also stayed on the farm with them in the barn. ... I don't an educated family would make that mistake. ... The Mexicans worked from farm to farm all year around. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

A theme of commitment in the novel is George and Lennie to themselves and to their dream about the farm. ... The dream of the farm is also realized in this story it is known as the American Dream. ... They got no family. ... This ideal land is the farm that they are trying to buy. ... George and Lennie are committed to each other and to their dream of the farm. ...

• Word Count: 1171
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Pigeon Feathers involves a young boy, David, moving from the city to a country farm with his family. ... He seeks out many of his questions by turning to his family, the bible, and the local reverend. ... David has two very different parents who argue over whether or not the farm has soul. ... David had to find the answers himself, without the help of his family or anyone around him. ...

• Word Count: 545
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• Grade Level: High School

Mike works in the steel mills, and finds it hard to support his family and follow his ideals at the same time. ... Therefore, wages for unskilled labor were so low that a man working seven days a week, twelve hours a day could just earn enough to keep his family living. ... Some ex-slaves were awarded land, but had no tools to farm it. Therefore, they had to turn to furnishing merchants, who would give the ex-slaves farm animals, tools, and seeds. ... These people turned to sharecropping, through which they would receive a piece of land to farm, and all the tools to farm the land. ...

• Word Count: 1427
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An unusual thing for that time; the divorce caused much pain for the family. ... The work on the farm was rigorous and seemingly endless to Wright. ... As the years passed, Wright began to dread working on the farm less and less. ... Wright attributed his love and respect toward nature to the many summers which he spent on his Uncle's farm. ... One of these, is the house built for the Kaufmanns family in Bear Run Pennsylvania. ...

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Luke grows up on a farm in rural Arkansas with extended family, which includes his mother, father, and both grandparents. ... They"d move down the road to another farm where they were needed and appreciated, leaving us shorthanded"(Grisham 75). ... This one happens after Hank is asked by his own family to leave the farm for fear that he will be arrested. Hank was the problem on the farm. ... Luke had to watch his family suffer through poor times. ...

• Word Count: 1855
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For the next ten years he wrote many poems while operating a farm in Derry, New Hampshire that his grandfather had bought for him. ... In 1912, at the age of 38, Frost sold the farm and used the money to take his family to England. ... The profit from his first two books allowed him to purchase a farm in Francolin, New Hampshire. ...

• Word Count: 886
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While being put up to recover from his wounds, Joseph discovers Shannon's discontent for her family and lifestyle, Shannon expressing this is defiant nature against her arranged suitor and by not following conventional music and attire. ... Meanwhile back in Ireland the tenants staged an uprising against the wealthy landowner, burning the estate to the ground and leaving Shannon's family with nothing to stay in Ireland for. ... Luck shines upon Joseph when he is reunited with Shannon that has come with her family and suitor to claim her piece of Oklahoma. ....

• Word Count: 1916
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

Crooks was secluded from everyone else on the farm, and in response shuttered himself in his room when he wasn't working. ... They got no family. ... He uses his hopes and dreams of one day owning that farm, raising rabbits, to give himself hope that his life will one day improve. ...

• Word Count: 1032
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After hearing the voice say, "If you build it, he will come," Ray risked the economic and emotional stability of the family he loved dearly to build a baseball field. ... That night he finds out that he and the family will have to sell the farm in order to live. ... Then Ray and the family see these cars lined up all the way back to the Horizon who want to pay money to see this game. ...

• Word Count: 1227
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The two main characters, Lennie Small and George Milton, are just a couple of hard working ranch hands trying to "make their stake" and achieve their dream of having a farm of their very own. ... They got no family. ...

• Word Count: 988
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• Grade Level: High School

Theodore Sr. was a founder of the Children's Aid Society, an institution that sent street urchins west to work on farms (4). ... The Roosevelt family remained strong though. ... His family feared that his deteriorating physical state would not allow him to reach his fourth birthday. ... Theodore Sr. entertained the family with his stories of the Lincoln's, who had befell Theodore Sr. charms. ... The family spent a year abroad and teddy continued his zoological chronicles as the Roosevelt's say Europe. ...

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Though he kept trying to deny what the devil was telling him about his community and his family ("I have been well acquainted with your family as with ever a one among the Puritans;" and "The deacons of many a church have drunk the communion wine with me;"), he was finally forced to believe these truths when he saw three devout citizens of his town making their own evil ventures through the woods. ...

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He is portrayed as a sexist man that is in control of the family, which is not common in the modern world now. ... When the three bears return home from a family walk in the woods, they find Goldilocks asleep in baby bears bed. ...

• Word Count: 4915
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I promise to neither sell nor put at farm nor, on the death of an archbishop, or abbot, take anything from a church's demesne or from its vassals during the interval before a successor is installed If any of my barons, or earls or other tenants shall die, his heir shall not redeem his land as he in my brother's time, but shall henceforth redeem it by a just and lawful relief And if the wife of one of my tenants survives her husband I will not give her in marriage unless she herself consents. ... To win the Anglo-Saxon and Scottish backing, Henry married...

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As Shirk points out, in rural areas, decollectivization was occurring: "decision making power [was being transferred] from collective production units (communes, brigades, and teams) to the family" (38); purchase prices for major farm products were increased (39). ... This allowed a great percentage of the populace to become involved in private enterprise and investment in family or group ventures. ...

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Communism is based on the ideas and teachings of Karl Marx as modified by Lenin. At its most basic, the ideal of communism is a system in which everyone is seen as equal and wealth is distributed equally among the people. There is no private ownership. The state owns and controls all enterprises and property. The state is run by one leading elite. ...

• Word Count: 5545
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Communism is based on the ideas and teachings of Karl Marx as modified by Lenin. At its most basic, the ideal of communism is a system in which everyone is seen as equal and wealth is distributed equally among the people. There is no private ownership. The state owns and controls all enterprises and property. The state is run by one leading elite. ...

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Communism is based on the ideas and teachings of Karl Marx as modified by Lenin. At its most basic, the ideal of communism is a system in which everyone is seen as equal and wealth is distributed equally among the people. There is no private ownership. The state owns and controls all enterprises and property. The state is run by one leading elite. ...

• Word Count: 5545
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• Grade Level: High School