This book was great because it not only went over everything we did in class but gave options on how to deals with each situation. I had no conflict with this book and actually became more compassionate toward old people after reading this book. I would recommend this book for the class and for nursing home applicant's families especially. Overall, the theme of this book was that family is essential when a loved one is put in a nursing home. This book depicted moral issues and problems that a family must be involved in so that a loved remains sane and maintains their dignity. ...

• Word Count: 783
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

A Raisin in the Sun, by Lorraine Hansberry, illustrates the timeless struggle for the furtherance of family values and morals with extreme clarity. The play follows the life of a small black family's struggle to keep their dreams from tenants to owners alive. These dreams, and the struggles necessary to reach them, as well as coming to terms with the dreams that are out of reach, are the focus and driving force behind this story of every persons struggle to achieve goals that are not always in tune with societies thoughts or ideas on a persons place in life. The internal difficulties of t...

• Word Count: 962
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Eliezer's relationship with his father is quite significant throughout the book as it allows them both to live through the agony and misery brought upon them and their love for each other helped them both stay alive during the torture and the anguish that the Jews were put through. ... Throughout the book it is the relationship between Eliezer and his father that keep them alive. ...

• Word Count: 578
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

One prime example Hanes uses is providing a quote from Educator and author Rachel Simmons, where explains the particular book she wrote titled, "Odd girl Out". Simmons goes on to explain how a 13 year old girl that posted a picture of her in leggings and the picture only drew positive feedback on how, "great her book looked". ...

• Word Count: 851
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Bone, a punk living in upstate New York, had finally found a safe place to settle in after running away from his abusive stepfather and oblivious mother. He was living in an abandoned, immobile school bus with I-Man, an illegal immigrant from Jamaica, and Froggie, a little girl he"d rescued from the drug addict her mother had sold her to. Life with I-Man was good; he"d turned the school bus into a green house and they lived off of a vegetarian Jamaican diet and also acted as a mentor to them, teaching them the ways of the Rastifarian daily. The time came, though, when Bone and I-Man realized t...

• Word Count: 634
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

White stated in his book that it was easier for the spouses to deal marrying abroad due to the fact that they didn't have to watch their spouse being abused, and the husbands didn't witness their wives giving themselves up to the slave owners. ... After examining the book by White, and listening excessively in class lecture the typical African American slave family was a matriarchal family. ...

• Word Count: 1114
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

During the course of the book, Ruth's mother undertakes two major party-planning and catering projects both which must be eventually rescued by Ruth. ... He doesn't play a very important role in Ruth's life and is hardly mentioned in the book; almost the only time he is mentioned is after Ruth brings her boyfriend, Doug, home for the first time. ...

• Word Count: 1198
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Within the book itself, Lily Briscoe strives to define her place in society by establishing herself as a reputable artist; however, her fear of failing and her inability to fit into the mold of the typical Victorian wife and mother prevent her from creating meaningful art. ...

• Word Count: 869
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Frankenstein Discuss the significance of the role of the mother in "Frankenstein". Throughout Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein", there are many examples of mother and child relationships that are expressed both implicitly and explicitly. The crucial element of the inclusion of the role of the mot...

• Word Count: 1028
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Just as Ellen recognizes other aspects of her mother in the formation of the book club, Ellen also recognizes what her mother gave up for her father, that she has always "deferred to him-, in order to safeguard the marriage for the sake of her family. ...

• Word Count: 844
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Most of Tyler's time in Baltimore has been spent raising her two daughters, running her household, and publishing twelve more novels, a children's book, numerous short stories, and several reviews. ...

• Word Count: 834
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Just as Ellen recognizes other aspects of her mother in the formation of the book club, Ellen also recognizes what her mother gave up for her father, that she has always "deferred to him-, in order to safeguard the marriage for the sake of her family. ...

• Word Count: 834
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Personal Opinion Very little information is available from the author, nevertheless this article seems to have a personal reflect or similar incident that bonds the author of the article with the author of the book. ...

• Word Count: 1229
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Particularly in western countries, "changes are occurring in terms of legitimate sexual relations, age of marriage, variations on sexuality, and marital intercourse" said by Dr Porter in her book Building good families in a changing world. ...

• Word Count: 1120
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

By writing about the pool of domestic violence that he was immersed in during his childhood Wolff comes to the conclusion that families during the 1950's may not have existed at all but instead they were just the cover of a book which was filled with the darkness that is domestic violence which people feared to discuss in public. ...

• Word Count: 1024
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

During the 1890's America was characterized by strict social codes, both spoken and unspoken. Nineteenth century American women were expected to find their strength and meaning of self in their submissive state and in their dedication to home and family. The Awakening is a novel about the growth...

• Word Count: 1248
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Julie Otsuka's book When the Emperor was Divine tracks one Japanese family uprooted from their house in Berkeley, California and sent to an internment camp in Utah during the World War Two. The attack on Pearl Harbor commanded by the imperial Japanese navy, as a profound military strike, led to an i...

• Word Count: 1101
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

While all cultures value the family, for Italians, the family is an all-consuming ideal ( Barzini (1964), in his book "The Italians," states that the family is the first source of power among Italians. ...

• Word Count: 1484
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Fukuzawa renders to us the notion of independence and self-respect by not only exemplifying the two qualities within his own actions but also by extensively insisting that his students follow in almost perfect alignment. As a family man, however, Fukuzawa took a more lenient temper towards his chi...

• Word Count: 1493
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

When I was young, my father was my hero. I remember the smell of his cologne in the mornings as he wrapped me in my pink jacket and held my small pink hand in his as he walked me to preschool. The late night smells of pipe tobacco that lingered in the living room just before bed, always made me f...

• Word Count: 1761
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Everyone deserves to be happy and if happiness means adopting a child as a gay couple or being adopted by a gay couple, then so be it. Adoption in the United States has been around for a long time. Adoption offers many children the possibility of having loving parents, and is a solution to finding o...

• Word Count: 1732
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Social Control Theories take a sort of opposite approach from other theories in criminology. They start by asking why most people do not commit crimes rather then why they do commit them. They focus on restraining or controlling factors that are broken or missing inside the personalities of criminal...

• Word Count: 2364
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Masumoto's dad posses a drive to work and a deep believe in the value of perseverance this has always defined him, all the intensive hours and hard work took it's toll on him one night when a massive stroke strike him in the fields, the stroke landed him in the hospital in a coma that could of lead to a vegetable state in the book Masumoto makes a really interesting analogy he compares his dad with a vegetable and he said this might be a better since they work in a farm anyway they are used to taking care and nourish a vegetable but viewing as him as a weed is just probably in my opi...

• Word Count: 1918
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In Field's book, she quotes a social worker who asserts that "Surrogate agreements should not be enforced by the courts These arrangements will cause grave psychological and social damage to the surrogate mother," leading to consequences such depression, destruction of self-identity, and difficulty in forming close interpersonal relationships. ...

• Word Count: 3494
• Approx Pages: 14
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Everyday Life In Colonial America The eighteenth century was a very interesting time in our nation's history because our nation was born through the hard work and the dedication of those who lived during those times. When one refers to the eighteenth century, however, he must realize that there were many major cultural, religious, and moral differences between colonial Americans of different regions of the newly discovered land we now call the United States of America. Our nation was once made up of many different kinds of people, from puritans to slaves, whose religious and cultural ...

• Word Count: 2981
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: Undergraduate