What is the American family? ... There are many kinds of family systems in the world; the English family is but one of them. ... "2 Whether the American family resembles other families in the wide world or not is a matter of the American‟s concept of the family. ... "9 In fact, the chief effects of the family change are reflected in family relationships. ... In general terms, the world of American family drama shows a concern for family failure and destruction. ...

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This has resulted in stunted growth of the rural no -farm sector. ... (Adams .D 1988) Bias of the policy environment against the Non-Farm Rural Sector. ... Thus the growth in Rural Non-Farm Employment in India has been much slower. ... (Non-Farm Employment, Gender, and Poverty in India. ... Insufficient attention paid to engines of growth, which provide indirect non-farm employm...

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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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Instead, he intended to maximize his farm size to make the most money and farm as efficiently as he could, which seems a respectable goal. ... Ty dreams of owning this farm to which he feels entitled. He has finally achieved this goal when Larry gives up the farm. ... After the possible loss of the farm, he states, "I was working around your father! ... Similar to the Cook family,...

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The Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) created farm regulations. ... This drop in production of crops was believed would keep farm prices high (Huff 375). ... During the 1930s more than 25,000 South Carolina tenant farmers gave up their farms to become day laborers or seek relief. But federal relief was meager--$10.49 a month in 1933 for white sharecropper families, $8.69 for blacks (Lander 126-128). ... The New Deal proffered hopes and opportunities for survival; and most families borrowed federal money to start farming again or went willingly to the Civilian Conservation Corps camp in Aug...

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Some golfers will internally hate golf but do it for other reasons like business or family. ... (Hurst 2000: 49) Farmers golf to take in the beauty of a finely groomed course free of weeds and full of water which is not seen enough on the farms. ... Neatness and order is what's constantly lacking on a farm but on a well tended course the farmer sees this and feels in heaven. ... They want to go somewhere just for them and enjoy some time away from the many duties of the farm. ...

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Daryl Dixon, brother of Merle Dixon, comes back from a day's hunting and was not happy to find out that his family was handcuffed on a roof in Atlanta then left behind. ... Tensions begin to unfold as dangerous secrets are being kept in the farm and disagreements over leadership shared between Rick and Shane. ... Disturbed by the level of violence from the group, Herschel demanded Rick to leave his farm immediately before disappearing to grieve for his family. ... Rick could not fathom leaving him for the dead, instead blindfolding him and returning to the farm. ... The farm is overrun by...

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Two days later they arrived at a farm and the manager of the farm yelled at them, "where have you been, you are Jasmine Ezio and Rythiax right the three people who wanted their jobs here right." ... "No Rythian is because he is royal blood and I am not, but I am the leader of The Templar Knights compliments of the King and I was the warrior who gave the King the Dragon Items but when he was murdered the Items by Oath went to the eldest child and anyone he permits even when he is dead the people he permitted to have the Items are allowed to keep them until they die and the Order are after us ju...

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The colonial family was extended rather than nuclear. ... This was due to the high number of children in a family. ... In the early colonial families, every member had a different job. The head of the family was mostly the father. He presided over family prayers and worked on the family farm. ...

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He soon finds out that his family has been evicted from their farm. ... Many of the poor landowners are forced to live out on the streets in horrible living conditions while their homes and farms were flattened by the tractors. ... " When Tom finds his family, he finds them in the midst of a decision: California. When the Joad family arrives in California, they aren't greeted by their dreams in reach, instead, their nightmares become their home. They stay in a work camp called Hooverville, a place with its own rules that's filled with pitched up tents that housed homeless famil...

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Max Yasgur owned the farm in Sullivan County. ... The Hog Farm started as a communal pig farm. ... Yasgur owned a six hundred acre dairy farm. Michael Lang fell in love with the farm. ... One rock act was added at the end, Sly and the Family Stone. ...

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Introduction In this research paper, we are going to deal with the short story 'Rappaccini's Daughter'. It is the work of the American romantic writer Nathaniel Hawthorne. Our topic is built around symbolism. In fact, after a first reading of the short story, we have noticed a list of symbols...

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He grew up on a prosperous family farm in what is today Dearborn, Michigan. ... At an early age, he showed an interest in mechanical things and a dislike for farm work. ... As he grew up his father allowed him to "tinker" with many of the tools on the farm. ... Although he yearned to go to Detroit and work in the machine shops, Ford stayed on the farm helping the family until he was seventeen. ... By 1882 Ford had left Detroit and used the family farm for his address as he traveled around from job to job. ...

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He grew up on a prosperous family farm in what is today Dearborn, Michigan. ... At an early age, he showed an interest in mechanical things and a dislike for farm work. ... As he grew up his father allowed him to "tinker" with many of the tools on the farm. ... Although he yearned to go to Detroit and work in the machine shops, Ford stayed on the farm helping the family until he was seventeen. ... By 1882 Ford had left Detroit and used the family farm for his address as he traveled around from job to job. ...

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Then as the story goes on it moves to Minnesota out to Erich's farm. ... Clyde is the old man who works on Erich's farm. ... And the emptiness of the farm also seemed just a little bit fishy to her. ... It was the Kruegar Family Graveyard. ... Clyde was the man who ran the farm while Erich was away. ...

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Stalin's father Vissarion was an abusive hard drinking man who eventually failed as an independent artisan and left his family to work in a factory in Tiflis which was the capital of Georgia when Stalin was five years old. ... Production of industrial machinery and farm equipment became more important, and production of cloth...

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Monticello was, however, not just a house, but a farm and a plantation. The Monticello plantation of 5,000 acres, with its four farms, was a center of agriculture and industry, and was home not only to the Jefferson family, but also to workers, black and white, enslaved and free. On the quarter farms of Shadwell, Tufton, and Lego -- as well as the home farm on Monticello Mountain -- 130 enslaved African Americans raised crops and tended livestock, made nails and barrels, cloth and carriages. ...

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Nat protects his family as best he can but deep down he knows that nature has won and the human race is to be wiped out pretty soon. ... The next morning Nat goes down to the farm to see if anyone else had had trouble during the night. ... When Nat got home from the farm, his wife informed him that there was an announcement on the radio that the extreme cold and hunger of the birds were the principal reasons for the birds" bizarre behaviour. ... Nat tries his utmost to put his family at ease because they are sensing that the situation is very grave. ... Nat does not, because he knows that thi...

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They also farmed the land for one year. Then he went back and brought the family to Arkansas. ... Some in the family may say it's not true. ... We lived there a year, then moved to another farm, still in the same community. ... Later on we moved to another farm in the Friendship Community. ...

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Nat protects his family as best he can but deep down he knows that nature has won and the human race is to be wiped out pretty soon. ... The next morning Nat goes down to the farm to see if anyone else had had trouble during the night. ... When Nat got home from the farm, his wife informed him that there was an announcement on the radio that the extreme cold and hunger of the birds were the principal reasons for the birds" bizarre behaviour. ... Nat tries his utmost to put his family at ease because they are sensing that the situation is very grave. ... Nat does not, because he knows that thi...

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Deborah longed to go to school with them but she was needed at home to work on the farm. Deborah read the boy's schoolbooks late at night when the family was asleep. ... As Deborah did strenuous labor on the farm she grew very strong and tall. ... Luckily for Deborah she was allowed to go to school in the winter because there was not much work to be done on the farm. ... Deborah thought often about this because growing up her family was influenced by war. ...

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How, then, were the factory owners able to recruit farm girls as laborers? ... They saved part of their earnings to help their families at home or to use when they got married. ... Before long, immigrant women replaced the "Yankee" (American) farm girls. ... Once the United States was mainly a nation of small farms. ... Many trainmen complained that they could not support their families adequately. ...

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The fields are small (about ¼ acre) and there will be a couple of fields that make up a farm. ... Malawi has about 12,000,000 people (about 3,000,000 farm families is what they estimate, but many of these are headed by mere children, single mothers or the very old). ... The agriculture here is split among the family members. ... Partially because of the very high death rate (note that every village will have a coffin maker) there is a reality of the "extended family- to the extreme. ... If someone has a job .. then there is a string of relatives (some third and fourth cousins) that show...

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It consisted of a very confined hut not quite adequate for an entire family. ... Beets, onions, tomatoes, potatoes and cucumbers were also other vegetables consumed by families. ... The non-house serfs also hunted in the fall and vegetables had been farmed for their families as well. ... More plentiful families seem to have higher capitol/worker ratios and tend to benefit from more efficient use of productive factors on account of economies of scale (Hoch, p.109). ...

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Chapter two: In this chapter Douglass describes his master's family and their relationship with Colonel Lloyd. ... There was a Great House farm also known aas te home plantation of Colonel Lloyd slaves sometimes had permission from their masters to run errands there. Slaves song a lot of songs at the plantation mentioning the Great House Farm: Douglass didn't understand the lyrics of the songs while he was enslaved. ...

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