Gertrude imposes herself onto Paul's and William's lives so much that she arguably takes the place of a lover. ... This lack of trust in the relationship is relatively detrimental to both parties and leads to the breakdown in love and Stella's placing of Stanley above her sister. ... Their relationship throughout the play is strained; it is in the passage after Blanche's confession of the loss of Belle Reve that Stella starts to understand what actually happened and places Stanley above her. ...

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The most rapid growth in unwed pregnancies took place between 1940 and 1958, not in the sixties and seventies like we were assured. ... A historical thinking has also led Americans to downplay the genuine improvements that have taken place in family well-being: especially the fact that smaller families mean that parents can devote more time and resources to each child. ... Despite the changes that have taken place, the family is not a dying institution. ... (Creating America, pg.251) Does this state that men still believe that a women's place is in the home, even ...

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Small pox, yellow fever, and malaria were some of the devastating diseases carried into the New World. ... Instead of a meetinghouse being the center of the community, the waterways and roads became a place of social life a brief moment for colonists to sit back and relax was very rare and very savored. ...

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This group of boys that Leshaya was practicing with was nothing but trouble, which would be the reason that Harmon's parents was not to happy about her hanging around them, and the only reason that they were playing at the church was so they could have a place to practice, and to keep them busy so they can stay out of trouble. ... Leshaya had planed to go to this small town where Aretha Franklin records her music, so of course she always wanted to go and try to see Aretha, she decided to call one of her friends from the band to let them know what where she was going and also asked him if...

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Contrary to the South, the northern farms were smaller, therefore only requiring a "labor force of the domestic economy [which] most commonly included one's own children and those of neighbors, although the family could also traditionally contain one or another kind of servant-3 The domestic families of the North were more focused on family life and the well-being of the family and the farm. ... As the eighteenth century went on, it became more and more difficult, however, "to support a family on farming alone," and many had to resort to working in factories or shops as well as owning a...

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One of the places that we spend most of our time is the family room. ... We may be small, but they are worth more than anything. ... Perhaps this is the reason why, every year, my family and me spend our holiday at our grandma's place. ... Then we take a small break to drink hot cocoa and eat a short breakfast. ...

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Lives of the Saints by Ninno Ricci is about the troubled life of seven year old Vittorio Innocente who lived with his mother Cristina and maternal grandfather in the small Italian village of Valle del Sole. ... In the following passage, Vittorio describes the changes taking place between him and his mother: "My mother, too, had withdrawn into a shadowy silence ..a veil seemed to have fallen between us, and for a while I had nursed this estrangement like a precious wound I could somehow turn to advantage; but the passing days brought only a growing awkwardness, as if my mother and I had sudde...

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Setting The action takes place in the United States in the mid-nineteenth century on two Louisiana plantations, one called Valmonde, a family name, and the other called L'Abri (French for shelter). ... When she was a very small child of "toddling age." ... The Negroes who man the place are dispirited, for Armand is a demanding master. ... Rejecting her because he believes she is of mixed heritage indicates that he never truly loved her in the first place. ...

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Fulfilling these demands is attainable for only a small percentage of the human race. ... "Both Charley and Ben-a small businessman and a ruthless adventurer-are foils for Willy, and their respective idioms contrast with his simple cliches of success through popularity" (Cohn 73). ...

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Communication Studies Research Methods In recent years, as divorce rates have climbed and family structures continue to deviate further from the two-parent household, much has been made of absentee fathers and the impact that it has on children, particularly boys. Many studies have suggested...

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Other factors came into play, such as why, other than a small group of singe females, did the wives not take advantage of the abundance of factory work. ... They showed the wife, always, neatly pressed with not a hair out of place, fixing dinner while the husband reads the newspaper and talks to the children. ...

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In the United States there are many people who know how to speak different languages because they emigrated from different countries. Language is the basis of any culture, so if you take away the language you take away the culture. It is this loss of language that has taken today's generations from ...

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Abstract The foster care system looks to find interventions to help improve the quality of life for children placed in foster care homes. In the process to try to improve the children's quality of life, interventions are created. Intervention programs are created for the foster care children and the...

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Foster care programs traditionally emphasize goals of reuniting children with family or placing children into adoptive homes, but neither of these outcomes is likely for adolescents. ... Second, Senator Yee's legislation puts into place a voluntary, specialized case conference, where the pregnant youth, together with their social worker, extended family member and others knowledgeable in the area of maternal and child health, develop a plan for the birth of the child and related issues, such as how the birth of the child will affect the youth's foster care placement. ... Tucked away ...

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Ida, at 15 years old, seemed as if she was developmentally at the proper place with regard to Erikson's eight psychosocial stages of development. ... The next stage is industry versus inferiority, which takes place from 6-11 years old. ... Ida was talked about and became an outcast in her small society. ...

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It contained several large streets all very much like one another, and many small streets still more like one another, inhabited by people equally like one another, who all went in and out at the same hours, with the same sound upon the pavements, to do the same work, and to whom everyday was the same as yesterday and to-morrow, and every year the counter part of the last and the next." ... Sparsit" s nerves were shaken up because the robbery had taken place under her apartment, so Mr. ...

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Sausalito, a small town, is homogeneous in almost every social aspect, including race, financial status and marital status. ... She bought the cheapest food she could, because in her mind all products came from the same place. ...

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This was laughed at because Deborah was a female and the woman's place was not in war but at home. ... Once the regiment arrived in West Point they were given heavy knapsacks to carry and new uniforms. " Robert" served with Captain Nathan Thayer, Deborah's company went to lower New York where while Washington held the area, many small attacks were still happening. ...

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What is the American family? This question was answered by John de Crevecoeur, in "what is the American?" (1782), when he said: "I could point out to you a family whose grandfather was an Englishman, whose wife was Dutch, whose son married a French woman, and whose present four sons have four wives of different nations."1 In fact, Crevecoeur summarized the history of the American family, in particular, and the American man, in general. There are many kinds of family systems in the world; the English family is but one of them. ...

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Joe Keller owned a small factory that manufactured many spare parts and Steve was working for him. ... He also learnt that Keller had a place for Steve as soon as he got our of prison. ... An argument took place between Mother and Chris. ...

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