Furthermore, Dee's ignorance regarding her roots is clear as she choses to ignore the truth about her family which has been shaped by strong, hard working women like her mother and grandmother and instead chooses to go by some arbitrary African name. ... Although later on Momma holds some resentment towards Dee, it is only after Dee changes and feels shame about her roots. ...

• Word Count: 1588
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

It may seem strange to compare the Arab culture with the Mexican culture, as their customs are obviously so very different; however, what is astonishing is how similar they are in certain aspects of family life. Each culture has its own habits and traditions, all of which are passed down from genera...

• Word Count: 882
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Stephen's introspective and psychoanalytical approach toward his patriarchal roots in religion, patriotism, and familial relations progressively guides him toward the novel's conclusion, which signifies an illumination of Stephen's mind and Joyce's own attempts at introspection through his art. ...

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

Webster's Collegiate Dictionary defines sociology as a systematic study of the development, structure, interaction, and collective behavior of organized groups of human beings. The most important structures that tie together these groups are economics, politics, and social status. The sociological e...

• Word Count: 973
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

People who are fond of creating generalizations are those who wish to fit the story into a neat, little box. Those people that make generalizations might tell us that a piece of fiction must have one or more characters with whom the reader can relate to. The reason being the person on the page is li...

• Word Count: 1330
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Many homosexual couples should be able to register their relationships as domestic partnerships. Their love is as real as that of a heterosexual couple and no one questions their ability to marry regardless of their race or class. Homosexual couples have spent the last ten, twenty or fifty years wit...

• Word Count: 1093
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

An appraisal of Peter Skrzynecki's poetry and other relevant texts illustrates that Changing Perspective is a dynamic and evolutionary process, culminating in the transformation or modification of one's own outlook. A study of varied texts reveals that the journey to changes in perspective may be gr...

• Word Count: 1749
• Approx Pages: 7
• 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

It is 10:30PM on Sunday November 30, 2002 and Tom is driving his nineteen-year-old daughter Amy to Penn Station. She must return home tonight to her mother in Marlboro, New Jersey "his formerly stable residence. There is a tension permeated with sadness in the New York City air and both Tom and Amy ...

• Word Count: 3707
• Approx Pages: 15
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Alzheimer's Disease is relentlessly destroying the brains and lives of our nation's older adults, robbing them of memory, the ability to reason, and affecting their emotions and behavior. Alzheimer's Disease is a degenerative disorder of the brain. 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). The devastation of Alzheimer's Disease affects millions of families in the United States. Alzheimer's Disease c...

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