The awareness did not immediately penetrate all levels and aspects of society, bus as Leroy Ashby states in his book Endangered Children: Dependency,Neglect, and Abuse in American History, "[r] omantic sentiments about noble children, saintly mothers, and cloistered, loving families provided the cultural impetus for major welfare reforms in the early 1800's- (21). ... A poignant instance of such kindness was reported in an 1849 issue of Godey's Ladies Book. ... As Ashby states, the New York Children's Aid Society was " a free foster care system "free in the sense that fam...

• Word Count: 1965
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The land of the free (except for slaves) and the home of the brave (and extremely violent and repressive) inculcated racial myths within Clemens during his antebellum childhood on the Mississippi that were slowly fractured, but never completely expunged, as he matured intellectually. ... In this sense no one is free to choose his own destiny and ultimately no one is truly "saved."" ...

• Word Count: 3141
• Approx Pages: 13
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

It is difficult to censor without crossing the line of free speech, but in an environment where parental guidance is lacking and youth violence is increasing, control must be integrated. Book banning has been a familiar part of the educational landscape in the twentieth century, and even such literary masterpieces as Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn and Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice have not escaped the censor's wrath for their allegedly racist views. ... Changes in society resulted in more realistic literature being published and former literature patterns, designed to be ...

• Word Count: 2092
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate