The wife at this point frequently feels offended by her husband's freedom to go on with his life. Also the husband feels lonely as his work carries him farther from the emotional center of the family. ... Working husbands and wives can invest heavily in their own jobs, putting in long hours, while their spouses have, at most, full-time or even reduced-hour work involvements. ... When husbands are heavily invested in their jobs and their wives are not, we see a modified form of the traditional breadwinner/homemaker model . ... The idea of a man going off to work for 10-11 hours a day, w...

• Word Count: 1384
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Examining the role that religion played in the African-American community, primarily pre-civil war, can be a difficult task due to the limited amount of evidence available.1 While it is a common notion that slavery life was embedded with Christian ideals, a Christian-like ideology is likely more accurate.2 Syncretism occurred with the combining of African tradition and Christian principles to create an African-American spirituality specific to its people. ... This conglomeration of ideals to form an authentic African-American spirituality with Christian and African overtones has been descri...

• Word Count: 1954
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

However, coming from a developing country in East Africa, I am able to view the common similarities and differences to the American ideal persona of a woman's capabilities. ... At the beginning , women were meant to just stay home, take care of kids, and be restricted to husband's rules. ... They adapted to the new way of living in American which meant, men or husbands can and do carry on housework duties just as their wives. ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Because of this George, Mike and Elena are forced to live in a country that although brags of freedom, the circumstances of their freedom are not ideal. ... But luck is a much more essential factor when striving for success in a society where the circumstances which you live are not ideal for someone of your race. ... There were small compensation plans for workers who died on the job, but it hardly made up for the death of a husband and there were no compensation plans for people who were only hurt by accidents. ... Labor unions are what Braddock needed to put some of the control into t...

• Word Count: 1479
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

President Jackson hated the Bank of the United States. No bank in America had more power than it, and Jackson mistrusted monopolistic banking. The Bank of the U.S. controlled much of the nation's gold and silver. The President of the Bank was Nicholas Biddle. The war between Jackson and Biddle erupt...

• Word Count: 1767
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• Grade Level: High School

The Struggle for Democracy The word "democracy", originated from the Greeks, which meant "the people to rule." However, democracy in America is not as simple as "power to the people", but is actually a complicated system of government and politics. There are two forms of democracy, which are dir...

• Word Count: 1671
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• Grade Level: High School

Communication and Popular Culture BUST magazine is meant to be an alternative outlet for women who are sick of the images given to them in the more established and conventional women's magazines. BUST offers quite a different set of values than most young women's magazines. BUST values the woman as an independent person that does not need to answer to the prescribed cultural values usually given to them. The woman who reads BUST is not getting advice on men or how to lose weight. She is reading about other women and issues related to women. ...

• Word Count: 2194
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School