The new digital revolution gives children access to much information, including information that is certainly inappropriate for a child. ... Many children spend much of their waking hours in front of a television set and because of the content, a child will most likely witness some terrible act of violence prevalent in today's television syndication. ... While a movie depicting mass slaying of young children while culturally offering their souls as a meaningless pagan sacrifice will never find it way to the movie screens without serious knocks in its rating, the same situation is not plac...

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In India and the orient, there was a decided emphasis on having numerous children, marrying off daughters as soon as they were physically able, and favoring sons over daughters. ... In order to keep this standard of living, they produced fewer children, which would have competed with the animals for the scarce food resources (Jones 14-15). The lack of an extended family also contributed to later marriages and fewer children among the Europeans. ... Floods regularly occur along the Yellow River in China and the Yangtze resulting in famine from lost crops in subsequent years, not to mention lost...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Poems included, in addition to "Thanatopsis,", "Inscription for the Entrance to a Wood," "Green River," and "To a Waterfowl." ... His first volumes of poetry, The Torrent and the Night Before (1896) and The Children of the Night (1897), contain psychological portraits of the townspeople of Tilbury, whose inner depths of character are presented with acute understanding and irony. ... He published his first poem, "The Negro Speaks of Rivers," in Crisis magazine in 1921 and studied at Columbia University from 1921 to 1922. ...

• Word Count: 1931
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• Grade Level: High School

Subsistence (herding)  Burial of the dead Cremation of Dead  Husband Brings Dowry Wife Brings Dowry  Matrilineal filiation Patrilineal filiation  Wife Keeps Totem Wife Loses name  Husband has no rights over children Husband Has rights to life and death Diop uses the difference in civilizations to justify the difference in approaches, Europeans having to hunt for their food made them more aggressive and the Egyptians being naturally passive, he makes the claim that passiveness is their weakness; he maintains th...

• Word Count: 1943
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate