Woman who grew up in homes where their mothers were beaten or hit accepted it as their role as wife and most often married men who also abused them. ... Men who grew up in homes where their fathers beat their mothers continued the abuse in their own marriages and in most cases also abused their children. ... Each year, an estimated 3.3 million children are exposed to violence by family members against their mothers or female caretakers. ... When men do beat their wives today and the wives collect enough courage to leave, the end result occasionally is much wors...

• Word Count: 813
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

During her life, while it was not common for American women to be published-- it was especially uncommon for children of slaves to be educated at all. ... One source said her father was a black American and her mother an Ojibwa Indian who named her Wildfire. ... Rebecca Cole started a Women's Directory Center to provide medical and legal services to destitute women and children in Philadelphia. ... She was the first African-American woman to receive a doctorate in zoology, after years of juggling research and teaching with the burden of caring for her invalid mother. ... She was broke ...

• Word Count: 2366
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

Cynthia Harlan lives her life being morbidly obese. ... Weighing nearly four hundred pounds certainly takes a toll on her body. ... As I grew up both my mother and father became obese, so staying physically active with them was a challenge. ... The way I saw my friend bond with their mother or father on the court or field always bugged me on the inside. ... As a kid I was very shy and wish I could have built up some courage to stick up for her. ...

• Word Count: 2119
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

In the 1700's, a woman's place was to be a wife and mother. ... Their jobs were to take care of the family, cook, clean, and educate the children. ... Through Akers, we see Abigail Adams as a woman with strength, courage, and determination. ... After all, it was her place to educate the children. ... John treated her proposal as a joke and said it would only cause her embarrassment. ...

• Word Count: 1646
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

Jeanne had a typical American middle class childhood; her father owned a small fishing boat and her mother worked in a cannery. ... Although Jeanne's family had some typical Japanese traditions, none of the children spoke any Japanese. ... Jeanne and her family had been in the Manzanar Internment camp for months. ... With no privacy or father figure to keep all the members of the family together, Jeanne lost sense of her heritage as did many other children in the camps. ... Her father reunited with the family and they headed back to Southern California. ...

• Word Count: 3609
• Approx Pages: 14
• Grade Level: High School

"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. ... Scientists say that autism can be caused by an abnormal relationship between the mother and child. In this case the mom would be labeled as a "cold mother" (Bumiller 3). ... There is no way that from birth a mom can dislike her child so much as to not want to care for it. ... If for any reason you think your child has autism you should immediately take him or her to the doctor. ...

• Word Count: 2301
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

John was to become the oldest son of 15 children. ... Long before John had any real voice in the path of his future career, both John and his mother decided that he was to become a lawyer. ... It was rumored that he fell in love with her instantly the first time he saw her. ... At first Mary declined, but regretting her decision days later, sent a locket of her hair in acceptance. John and Mary had 10 children together, of which only 6 lived until adulthood. ...

• Word Count: 1555
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

In the U.S. throughout the Diaspora, the African generally received the death penalty for practicing his or her birthright. ... Lagos, the home of our urban sample children, is the centre of a greater metropolitan area with a projected population in 1991 of 10 million (Federal Republic of Nigeria and UNICEF 1990). ...

• Word Count: 7692
• Approx Pages: 31
• Grade Level: High School

Children will always be afraid of the dark and men will always shudder at what they do not understand, yet everyone will continue to seek it.5 Perhaps it is because society, particularly American society because of its history, believes the final horrors are ghosts and demons, when truly it is the hidden aspects of its own soul.6 As reflected by its literature, American society has always held a deep fascination with the supernatural. ... "[Jill Cook Richards] is twenty-eight years into a career as a self-described psychic,"18 which depends exclusively on her faith. ... Hale, who forc...

• Word Count: 3126
• Approx Pages: 13
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School