The children in these poems are young, innocent and unaware of the harsh realities of life. ... In a few of the poems, the children are poor and deprived of joy. ... Images are given of the young chimney sweepers, set free, running down to the river, and cleaning themselves of all the soot, then drying in the sun. ... Their attitude is that as long as they go church, pray and claim piousness in faith to God, they feel they are saved, and that the wrongs they have done to their children haven't hurt them or their status with God. ... In The Chimney Sweeper (Innocence), the children experie...

• Word Count: 1280
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

In Perseus, Danae gets put in an underground home so she was in no contact with men and could not bare any children. ... Achilles, for example, was dipped into the river by his mother to make him invulnerable, as stated in The Fall of Troy. ... Children for many years have played with Hercules action figures. ... Children grow up wishing they had his strengths. ... These stories show up in children's books today. ...

• Word Count: 1549
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Bruce Perry says, "When children experienced neglect, they often did not develop the thinking/feeling parts of the brain resulting in an underdevelopment of the higher reasoning parts of the brain"(Neglect 10). ... Perry's research he also concluded that "The worst combination of maltreatment was when children experienced both neglect and trauma. ... While on his way, he rescues a girl from the river. ...

• Word Count: 1580
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Some African societies regard them as children or messengers of God, while others look upon them as His helpers (Gehman, 2005). ... This includes natural phenomena-hills, certain rivers, trees and the earth believed inhabited by the spirit..."... This proverb means that anyone born in Africa does not need to go to school to learn about the existence of the Supreme Being, but God's existence is known by all including children (Ekeke; Ekeopara, 2010)....

• Word Count: 1566
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Coming to the realization that he doesn't have to choose whether to be a Márez or a Luna, or believe in the God of the church or in the golden carp, Antonio "[takes] the llano and the river valley, the moon and the sea, God and the golden carp "and [makes] something new- (247). ... Above all, he comes to realize that old ways can and often must be modified, and that if the "old religion could no longer answer the questions of the children, then perhaps it was the time to change it- (248). ...

• Word Count: 1348
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

While growing up with her father, her religion was forced upon her, as for their punishment the children were sentenced to "the verse", in which they were required to right out one hundred lines direct from the bible by memory. ... As for the youngest, 5-year old Ruth May, she brightly tries to make sense of the exotic new world in which she finds herself, even as she makes friends with the children of Kilanga. ... Although the Congolese people are reluctant to abandon their traditional deities (and fearful of baptizing their children in the crocodile-infested waters of the nearby river), Nath...

• Word Count: 1936
• Approx Pages: 8

Zeus was one of three children and the one in sole control of the heavens. ... The third bother was named Poseidon, he is the god of the seas, rivers, oceans, floods, droughts, earthquakes and the creator of houses. ...

• Word Count: 1667
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

The number of Bedays (Muslim river gypsy) as per the estimation is about 1.5 million (Maksud 2006) which it is argued is only 0.4 million (Rahnuma and Chowdhury 2003). ... For an example, the Department of Women Affairs under Ministry of Women and Children Affairs has acquired 0.97 acres of land in the outskirts of Dhaka to build a hostel for female RMG workers. ...

• Word Count: 2081
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate