Avoid plot summary. ... Summarily, Joyce's use of patriarchal figures and references throughout A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man allow for the development of conflicts which further shape Stephen's own personal development. ...
Summary of the Article This article entails an Asian family living in a mountainous top of Laos in the mid 1970's. ... Overall Summary In conclusion this article briefly describes the struggles and sacrifices refugees as well as immigrants make to pursue a better lifestyle. ...
The summary of the research article will describe the population, discuss the research performed, and describe the research outcomes. ... Related Research Summary Orenstein, & Ullman (2006), published an article researching the characteristics of alcoholic families and the incidence of adolescent substance abuse. ...
Summary The authors have used Equal-Status Sequential Multi-type Mixed Method design (both quantitative and qualitative) to study the association between youth adjustment outcomes (maladjustment leading to externalizing behavior and adjustment leading to self-esteem) and co-parent parenting behaviors (warmth and monitoring) in specific cultural context (a sample of 185 African American single mother families). ...
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...
Understanding Grief In a conference session entitled "Understanding Grieving Families," bereavement professional Paul V. Johnson highlighted both the individual and relational nature of grief as it occurs within a familial context. "Grief," he states, "...consists of the interplay of individual family members grieving in the social and relational context of the family, with each family member affecting and being affected by the others." Families sometimes erroneously believe that each member's grief will be similar to the others' because they have experienced the death of a specific...
Bone, a punk living in upstate New York, had finally found a safe place to settle in after running away from his abusive stepfather and oblivious mother. He was living in an abandoned, immobile school bus with I-Man, an illegal immigrant from Jamaica, and Froggie, a little girl he"d rescued from the drug addict her mother had sold her to. Life with I-Man was good; he"d turned the school bus into a green house and they lived off of a vegetarian Jamaican diet and also acted as a mentor to them, teaching them the ways of the Rastifarian daily. The time came, though, when Bone and I-Man realized t...
One of the actions I took to promote a system change was to partner with The John Burton Foundation (JBF), The Children's Law Center (CLC) and Larkin Street Youth Services (LSYS) and go up to the Sacramento State Capitol and Lobby and inform legislators about SB 528 (Parents in Foster Care). F...
Everyday Life In Colonial America The eighteenth century was a very interesting time in our nation's history because our nation was born through the hard work and the dedication of those who lived during those times. When one refers to the eighteenth century, however, he must realize that there were many major cultural, religious, and moral differences between colonial Americans of different regions of the newly discovered land we now call the United States of America. Our nation was once made up of many different kinds of people, from puritans to slaves, whose religious and cultural ...
