Some simple elements would be gender, age, ethnicity, race, social economic status, income, and the list can go on. ... Additionally, first born children are often more responsible and reliable because they are often given situations that involve responsibility earlier in life. ... For example, they have an inclination to develop better verbal and communication skills earlier in life than later born children (Forer 35). ... Middle borns can be a little more complicated because they may be in the middle of three, or two in the middle of four, and so on. ... For instance, if there is an age gap...

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In the second stage, the Early Industrial family were extended families beginning to become geographically mobile, dying out and becoming less common. ... This means that what the middle class do today, the lower class do tomorrow i.e. If the middle class husbands become more involved in housework then the working class husbands will copy and also become more helpful around the house. ... She collected information from 40 married women who were between the ages of 20 and 30, British or Irish born and had one or more children under the age of 5. She found greater equality in terms of the alloc...

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This study focuses on the history of television beginning in the early 1950s and will run through present day. ... Each family was a middle-class family and all financially secure. ... The Wonder Years, which debuted on January 31, 1988, exhibited the best portraiture of a middle-class family in distinction to the 1960s. ... Kevin's, the teen-aged hero, growing pains mirrored those of America itself. ... The families seen on television today are the diametric opposite of those seen in the early 1950s. ...

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The longer we live the greater the risk; "nearly 10 percent of all people over age 65 and up to half of those over age 85 are thought to have Alzheimer's Disease or another form of dementia" (Anonymous, 2002). ... Early in the disease the patient may experience minimal changes "such as forgetfulness and subtle memory loss, without loss of social skills and behavior patterns" (Diseases, 1997, p. 730). It has been found that "The earlier the diagnosis, the more likely your symptoms will respond to treatment" (Agency for Health Care Policy and Research, 2002). ... In the early and middle sta...

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Individuals can face these roadblocks early on in life, possibly as early as elementary school, and all of these challenges make it difficult to reach identity and self-understanding. ... Further supporting the idea that society's expectations and social stigmas complicate a person's search for identity, the poem by Mary Oliver, Morning, talks about a woman who falls victim to the social standards of women her age and the sense of loneliness and longing she feels because of it. ... Whether the woman in the poem is truly in her old age is unknown, but from the text, the reader gets a ...

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"Death of a Salesman" The play death of a salesman can be easily explained as a literary way of detailing the psychological deterioration of the classic middle class working American man. ... As is explained in the background detail of Willie, Willie's father leaves Willie and his brother Ben, at a young age, leaving Willie no money to take care of him self, also Willie being of such a young age has no memories of his father. ... Willie never quite recovers from the pains caused by these earlier experiences, thus his feelings of abandonment increase and he eventually is led to become...

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An-Mei faced social destruction and family's discrimination at an early age which also allowed her to conform to a male-dominating culture and choose not to voice her emotions or opinion of her own mother. ... I absorbed what I needed to assimilate into the society and incorporated my class, age, nationality and religion to complete my identity. ... From an early age, women are taught not to question elders, and this training of obedience is also vivid in the movie through Ying-Ying's character. ... Lena's marriage consists of equality as they "split everything down the mid...

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By the time they reach the age of sixteen, close to half of the children of married parents will have witnessed their parents divorce. ... (Hamburg) Some of the problems making parenthood more difficult now is the societal freedom of choice of whether or not to have children, more suburban communities, rather than the rural settings of earlier years, women's changing roles in society, increased emotional burden, and developing social policies by our government regarding children. ... The rich are getting richer, the middle class is shrinking, and the working class is barely survivi...

• Word Count: 2040
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