This difference can be clearly examined in Keep the River on Your Right by Tobias Schneebaum. ... In Keep the River on Your Right, Schneebaum is immersed into a culture that has a totally different set of social standards. ... It is the American constructed idea that in order to be civilized, people need to have an almost fear of the bodies of others, especially that of children. ... He talks of the case of Kelly Michaels, where a mild-mannered, devout Catholic who loved children (Newman 175) was accused of numerous forms of sexual abuse towards the children under her care at a preschool. ...

• Word Count: 1457
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

This is a development confirmed in the novel by her marriage to Rochester and her giving birth to her own children. ... Not only does she have an immediate family in her husband and children, but she also has, in the Rivers, cousins who are more like brother and sisters to her. ... Through her connection with the Rivers, she acquires the status of belonging to a long-established county family, and she reinforces this upward move by marrying into the landed gentry. ...

• Word Count: 1152
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

She is trying to contend with the loss of her husband to the work force overseas, the loss of her children as they become adults, the rental of her house to another family, and the exile from her youth as she lies on the brink of menopause. ... Her children had grown up and moved on. It is normal and acceptable for children to leave the house as soon as they are old enough to support themselves, for at this time it is their turn to raise a family of their own. ...

• Word Count: 2771
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Despite the facts that some public schools served all students (not students let behind Act), Mexican American children during the first four decades of the twenty-century was limited to elementary grades. ... San Miguel begins tracing the story of Houston's Mexican community and schooling of Mexican children. ... As part of its legal strategy in state courts, LULAC argued that because Mexican school children were legally recognized as white- they could not be constitutionally segregated. ... By 1970 when a federal court ordered to integrate Houston's public schools, school board me...

• Word Count: 2799
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Once established in the family he became almost an integral part of it; he was the loyal domestic, respected, feared, and consulted by the children. Due to the matriarchal and polygamous regime, we feel him closer to us, because he belongs to our mother, than the slave of the father, who is at an equal distance, socially speaking, from all the children of the same father and different mothers. ...

• Word Count: 5359
• Approx Pages: 21
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate