The main issues being "respondents were self-selected rather than chosen at random, and many were the kind one finds in educated and progressive urban environments " (The Gay Parent Report Card). ... Meyer, author of We'd be free: Narratives of Life Without Homophobia, Racism, or Sexism, calls the less studied minority stressors. ... She claims that during the whole youth of her daughter's childhood she sent her to church and through catechism in which she was told that her teacher has chosen catholicism instead episcopalianism because of the whole "gay thing. " Schultz claimed that ...

• Word Count: 1956
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography

They believed that they had been chosen by God to rest in the canopies of heaven with Him. ... According to John Robinson and Geoffrey Godbey, the authors of a surprising new book entitled "Time for Life," Americans have more leisure time as many of them are retiring younger and having fewer time-devouring children than they did in the 1960s. ... Americans have always considered themselves individualists chosen by God. ...

• Word Count: 1873
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

If a woman had difficulty reaching this goal of marrying into a rich family or had chosen to attempt to be self-sufficient and independent, she would practically be guaranteed a life of poverty, despair and failure. ... I found it easy to comprehend the culture of the early turn-of-the-century through the author's illustrative and descriptive word choice. ...

• Word Count: 1570
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

This is the struggle with literature because a reader wants to figure out the author's intent as opposed to figuring it out through creativity and originality. ... Even though there could be multiple interpretations of this poem, if any punctuation mark were changed, or if a different word were chosen, it could change an entire meaning of the poem. ...

• Word Count: 1480
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School