By studying 250 societies, Murdock found a variety of characteristics that these societies have in a family. ... Can easily move from one place to another in search of work. ... Radical feminists Christine Delphy & Diana Leonard studied farmers" wives, and found that wives do a lot of work around the farm, such as taking care of poultry, weeding, selling of products in the farm, which is a unit of production. ... Purdy and other feminists have found that the potential that a woman has of having children can be used against her in the labour market. ...

• Word Count: 858
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

As David says, Julian just found a way to retain his power in Bentrock when retiring -- that is to turn the post over to his son Wesley (21). ... As they actually represented the law there, the Hayden's could easily exceed and even trample on the law they enforce. ...

• Word Count: 868
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

She'd learned that, through lying, she could manipulate her way into getting whatever she wanted - and easily convince others that her lies were the truth. ... An essential piece to the puzzle is the fact that Casey never wanted to have Caylee when she found out she was pregnant. ...

• Word Count: 694
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

There is evidence that children and adolescents with an internal locus of control and high level of interpersonal reasoning adjust more easily to their parents" divorce. ... "In two other studies Kinard and Reinherz (1984, 1986) observed elementary school children in three different family situations (never disrupted; disrupted prior to starting school; and recently disrupted) and found that children in recently disrupted families suffered pronounced and multidimensional effects: problems in attentiveness at school, lowered academic achievement, withdrawal, dependency, and hostility." ...

• Word Count: 2097
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

"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. ... The seeds of Willie's self destruction in the play can be seen in the very first scene, where Willie is found in a mental stupor, and is privately living a past episode of his life. ... Willie is found in the bathroom by the bartender, Because Biff and Happy exited the bar upon their mentally crippled father's entrance to the bathroom. ...

• Word Count: 1662
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Italy's location in Europe was assessable in traveling from western and eastern Europe, which allowed this country to be invaded easily by foreigners. ... However, as generations of Italians became more and more Americanized, they became "susceptible to many of the problems found about the rest of the U.S population, including the abuse of alcohol and other drugs" (Straussner, 2001). ...

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

Throughout her life, Kate Chopin actively searched for spiritual emancipation, which she found and expressed through her writing. ... Thus it was evident that women were regarded as commodities; useless and easily expendable. ...

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

Although "Joyce eliminates much of himself in his characterization of Stephen," (Reynolds 1) Stephen's final rejection of Catholicism can still be easily imagined as an attempt at self-justification by Joyce, who was ridden with guilt over his inability to repent and accept God even on his mother's death bed. ... In this way, Stephen has so far avoided Icarus' fate and found a happy medium in his psychological development. ...

• Word Count: 1289
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

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). ... Unfortunately, science has not yet found a cure. ... "They took this job away from my dad as soon as they found out that he had stolen thousands from her" (Bell). ...

• Word Count: 3614
• Approx Pages: 14
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate