Angela is grief stricken, her husband turns once more to drink, and the children, the eldest of whom is six, have to fend for themselves. ... They move into one room, and before too long the two youngest children, twins, have both died. ... The family moves from the room to a terraced house next to the river, although hovel is a more apt description. ... However, one day he finds the money-lender dead at home so he steals her money and throws the debtors' book into the river. ... "Consumption," pneumonia, and typhoid are rampant; children go to school barefoot or in pieces of flopping ru...

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• Grade Level: High School

Along with the support of homosexual marriage is the request of children. ... Homosexual adopted children are not disadvantaged in most significant aspects compared to heterosexual adopted children. ... According to Williams Institute and the Urban Institute, around 8 percent same-sex couples lived with adopted children in America from 2000 to 2002. ... More importantly, over 50 percent of the children adopted by homosexual couples are special need children, possibly either because homosexuals are discriminated so that children with serious physical, emotional, or behavior problems are more li...

• Word Count: 2698
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Although Jeanne's family had some typical Japanese traditions, none of the children spoke any Japanese. ... His tribe, the Pima Indian tribe, lived on a reservation located south of Phoenix on the Gila River. ... With no privacy or father figure to keep all the members of the family together, Jeanne lost sense of her heritage as did many other children in the camps. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

For Americans, this transition is ambiguous, in that at no single point are American children considered officially adults. ... The Okiek peoples of the Narok District of Kenya, Africa hold a series of ceremonies in which Okiek children officially become young adults in the community. ... They are also said to be "like children" (83), which downplays their strengths and bravery shown throughout the initiation. ... During much of the process, the children are secluded from everyone but each other and the leader, who is responsible for guiding and teaching them during this time. ... When t...

• Word Count: 3412
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

When many of the women and children chose to stay in their wigwams in order to avoid the fighting, Mason became frustrated and set fire to the village. ... In 1847, Sutter decided it was time to expand New Helvetia and he sent out Marshall to find a spot appropriate for a sawmill by the American River. Once Marshall found his spot, he needed to dig two long channels to and from the river. ... Brannan strategically brought news of the gold found in the American River and then opened up a general store in Sutter's Fort that would carry everything the incoming gold miners would need. ...

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This is just a small example of the doubt and hatred that was bestowed on the African American soldiers. However, during the war, they proved themselves to be brave and courageous men on and off the battlefield on many occasions. Despite deep prejudices and harsh criticisms from the white society, t...

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• Grade Level: High School

It is known that the first written text on the use of medicinal plants is about 4000 years old and appears in a clay small board in the Sumerian culture, an antique group of people who lived at the south of the Euphrates and Tigris rivers, which would be equivalent to the current Iraq territory. ... Plant-based cures that have followed the children of this continent on their voyages across oceans and to different lands, whether it was by choice or force, force being the main reason. ...

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On December 7, 1941, the Japanese led their first attack on American soil by bombing the naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. This attack was the turning point for America's role in World War II. On December 8, Americans anxiously sat around their radios, ready to hear President Roosevelt address the...

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