However, these rites are of utmost importance to members of other cultures and can be fascinating for Americans to learn about as well. ... Families are patrilocal, and in marriage, the only semblance of control women possess is their rite to complain about their husbands to others in an attempt to make the dispute between them public, which will bring embarrassment to their husbands. ... During their multiple visits to the women's house throughout initiation, the girls learn things about being women instead of children so that "Their knowledge, customs, behavior, and ways of relating ...

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In Mary Arguelles article "Money for Morality" she talks about a boy who found $600 and returned it to the man it belonged to (p.50-52). ... The boy had done a good deed by returning the money and a reward was not necessary. ... The boy returned the money because it was the right thing to do and if the teachers wanted to do more for the boy that is fine but criticizing the man is wrong. ... Holidays are now about who can spend the most money and give the biggest, most expensive gifts. In his article, he talks about making their Christmas gifts rather than buying them. ...

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of the boy who was castrated at birth and raised as a girl. ... A boy must be tough and a girl must be cute. This boy was cute so he must have been a girl. ... Had the definitions been due to nature people would not have preconceived notions about the way males and females should act. ... The trouble is that sometimes people see society's ideas about the way sex and gender are as scientific truth. ...

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They have this attidude All they care about is money. ... On February 2, 1996, a 14-year-old boy opened fire as he walked into his junior high algebra class. ... A year later, a sixteen-year-old boy stabs his mother to death, then proceeds to school and shoots 9 of his peers. In the same year, a 14-year-old boy killed 5 students because they were praying in the hallway. ... To conclude, the complex issues and truths about cable television is causing negative influence on kids and we, as a nation, need to get involved. ...

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The Suburban Sickness The average white-middle class suburban housewife and her two kids, a boy and a girl, supported financially by the father in his business suit, reading the paper over waffles and orange juice, is unhappy. At school the rambunctious boy gets dirty, plays baseball while his sister and her friends, in little skirts, play house with dolls, a miniature stove, washing machine and car. When he masturbates, he is told it is ok, when she, at six, is caught under the bed with one of her boy friends, the column in the paper says it is just a stage. ... Alongside the starch...

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When the reader expects him to be emotionally upset about losing his younger brother, the narrator doesn't seem to feel much of anything besides a sense of burden. ... The young man is very matter-of-fact about his brother's death, almost sarcastic one could say, because he despises being called away from his life and opportunities at school. ... From this line, the reader begins to assume that the woman longs to be out in the world, free to leap about as she pleases, free to move about as easily as she did before her old age. ... This poem, which the reader gathers is about a father...

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Most parents allow their children to watch so called "kid's shows" without even thinking about what might be contained within them. ... Quickly a cartoon about a man hunting a rabbit can turn into a story of murder or hitting and throwing things. ... Children see violence everyday in their cartoons, but what about shows that they watch in which people star. ... In one documented case, a Californian boy that was seven years old watched a movie one night. ... The very next night, the boy put crushed glass into the stew that his family was to eat for supper. ...

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At the same time, Lilia could also be identified as a common citizen of America; she learns about American history in school and celebrates Halloween. ... In the memoir, Stealing Buddha's Dinner, Bich Minh Nguyen continuously describes how she is unsure about her true identity. ... The main character, Gogol, undergoes conflicts regarding his identity, either as an Indian boy born in America or as an American man that forgets his rich Indian culture. ... Gogol initially can be identified as young American boy that respects but disregards his culture. At Indian parties, he does not make an ...

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Union commanders and the federal government were forced to make decisions about how large areas of the South gained by Union forces should be administered. ... Many schools have the "Rebel flag" as their own, bumper stickers ride around with sayings about how the South will rise, and people refer to blacks as "niggers." ... There was a story about how a young, teenage, white boy drove around in his red pick-up truck with the Confederate flag hanging off the back of the cabin. ... One day a bunch of teenage blacks saw and recognized this white boy and his truck from school. They ran hi...

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Introduction This term paper will be about the magazine FIRE !! ... Nigger Heaven, published in 1926, for example was an attraction to whites as well to black people in America, who wanted to know something about life in the ghetto. ... Where is the point that stories like "The Wedding Day" by Gwendolyn Bennett or "The Elevator Boy" by Langston Hughes are conservative? They tell us real life stories of the black population in America since the beginning of colonization, and it is about time to do something about the situation they live in. ... The only fact I do not understand about FIRE !...

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It's about a man named Forest Gump who seemed to be stupid, but accomplished more in his life than the average person. ... It flashes back to him being a small boy in country of Alabama. ... In the end, it seems his boy Forest was starting his exciting journey the same way his dad did. ... The time span covered in the movie was about thirty years or so. ...

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Americans may be fanatical about gun ownership. ... After an argument, a twelve year old New Jersey boy shot three times at a classmate. When agents from the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms questioned the boy he stated that he paid three hundred dollars for the gun three days earlier. ...

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MCing, Grafitti, D-Jaying, and B-boying, were all created in the Bronx. ... So we practiced a lot, and then we just had a sit down and we talked about the West coast culture and the East coast culture. ... The camera would pan the dance floor, showing two B-boys, in the typical B-boy stance, staring at each other. ... And I thought about it, and I'm like I got into more fights dancing than I did f****n stepping on peoples shoes. ... The reality was that no one was getting killed over no B-boy battle. ...

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Homosexuality has been documented throughout history, but recently the issue has had much attention in the spotlight with the legalization of "gay' marriage and the announcement from the Boy Scouts of America about the acceptance of homosexuals in their association. ... Since so much time is spent in these places, media can play a huge role in shaping the views and beliefs of a teenager, especially if a teenager's favorite celebrity is passionate about it. ... Two obvious celebrities who are passionate about the gay pride movement are Macklemore and Lady Gaga. ... Another signif...

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In the beginning a boy named Cliffie is going for a walk with a Reverend through some of the worse blocks of the city. ... Because the younger children are growing up in these low poverty cities, they are going to grow up thinking about and doing things which have already surrounded them. ...

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If a single rich man cannot spend a few dollars to feed one hungry child, yet no knows about this, then why is he still treated with respect and perceived as charitable and intellectual? ... Earlier, that same year, a worried friend told Brooks Brown a friend of the two boys, about one's website. Brook checked it out and it was filled with threats, including one against the boy. ... Brook was freaked out about this but just chalked it up to big words and let it go. ... While America was so worried about what concerts and movies are coming out, Osam Bin Laden was planning his revenge. ...

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Classism: the Road Block to the American Dream In the heart of the Compton there lived a boy named Rafael. He is a good boy living in a bad neighborhood while surrounded by violence and drugs. ... Simultaneously in a place called Beverly Hills not too far away lived a boy named William. ... Classism has brought about much pain. ... The one good thing about being poor is that financial aid is provided. ...

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Two teenagers were killed and more than twenty people were injured when a teenage boy opened fire at a high school in Springfield, Oregon, after killing his parents (Recent Shooting). ... To help bring terrorists and criminals to justice and to prevent the future loss of lives, children should remain ignorant about guns. ...

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There was one major group that came about to try and work on desegregation and they were the NAACP, led by educated middle class African Americans. ... Segregation was especially bad in the South, one incident included a young black boy who allegedly whistled at a white women, only 14 years old got lynched. ...

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The child's sexual desires continue, although most children are careful about displaying there sexual behaviors. ... At most they are allowed to be curious and receive information about their future reproductive function. ... Boys may be more egalitarian in their attitudes about there sexual partners, expecting them to be willing and responsive and uninhibited. ... A girl who has sex to please, and even control, a boy, rather then to please herself offers a false sense of security for the boy if he is insecure. ...

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As I read the lesson this week on social class, which according to Weber is a large group of people who rank closely to one another in terms of property, prestige, and power, I read that the poverty line for a family of four in America is about $22,000. ... Those items are rent and utilities, food, child care for children from about age 4 to age 8, transportation (owning and operating a vehicle) , health care, taxes, and other necessities, these necessities include clothing, supply and personal care. ... For rent and utilities I estimate about $850, and then we have food for a family of four w...

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In the beginning of this short story, Timhead shoots and kills a 12 year old boy during a firefight. ... When Lavender was killed, the soldiers make jokes about his death. As Tim O'Brien narrates, he talks about the change he saw in the men once they saw Lavender's body; "They found jokes to tell...used a hard vocabulary to contain the terrible softness...when someone died it wasnt quite dying...it seemed scripted"(23). ... When he uses the metaphor about his "going away party", he tries to make his wife feel that this should be a celebration. ...

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For instance, I watched a video of a young boy in Iraq, that wasn't that much older than the students in Ms. ... Experts agree that "due to lack of focused reporting and recording of Honour Killings internationally very little is known about the true extent". ... According to ABC News, "about two dozen Iraqi women have demonstrated in Baghdad against a draft law approved by the Iraqi cabinet that would permit the marriage of nine-year-old girls and automatically give child custody to fathers. ... There's nothing about this that's right. ...

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As I was saying before, these values are learned behaviors, one experience in my life taught me the most about how important respect and honesty are in relationships. About a year ago, I learned a lesson I value, I had been dating my boyfriend for almost two years. ... I am hoping to have two children, a boy and a girl. ...

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Although they have a point, they are going about it the wrong way. ... Some do it out of anger and just don't care to think about the consequences that they might face later. ... For example, a 16-year-old boy wounded six schoolmates over a breakup with his girlfriend. ...

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