Their anger in the early years, how women and children were treated as possessions. ... A very tragic time in her life when her brother Bing drowns at age 1 while she was in charge of watching him. ... The movie did an excellent job of showing us the culture during that time in China and how the matchmaker arranged the marriages at an early age. ... Ying-ying St Clair, according to the book, was married at an early age and referred to her husband as a "bad" man. ... They shared everything right down the middle and kept a running journal. ...

• Word Count: 879
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Individualism is also taught at an early age, one as on individual can go from the bottom and rise to the top. ... Religion follows some class lines, Baptists are usually lower class, Methodists are middle class, and Episcopalians are more upper middle class and upper class. ... Churches, attract the upper and middle classes because they support there world views and values, where as sects tend to reject there world views. Classism, there are many different classes in America, upper-upper class, lower-upper class, upper middle class, lower middle class, upper-lower class, and lower-lower cla...

• Word Count: 1104
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

The early nineteenth-century America was loaded with women seeking better opportunities for themselves. ... The Market Revolution raided America in the early nineteenth-century and brought upon many changes for women. ... These working women were from New England, between the ages of fifteen and thirty years old, unmarried, and from middle-class farm families. ... We can all agree that being a woman in early America was a hard life. ...

• Word Count: 504
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

The effects of divorce vary by age. ... Older children (such as middle and high school students) often feel abandoned by the parent who moves out, and try to take on adult responsibilities to fill the role left vacated. ... In this situation it may be helpful to try arriving at day care or the babysitters earlier than usual and spend some one-on-one time with them before you leave to ease the separation. ... If a teenager tries to take on adult responsibilities, assign age appropriate chores (helping with laundry, doing the dishes, ect...) ... Patience, understanding, extra attention...

• Word Count: 489
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

The 'Happiest Refugee' is a coming of age autobiography of Australian comedian Anh Do. ... They took of Vietnam on a early Monday morning to find a patrol boat waiting for them. ... Being stranded on a boat in the middle of the sea, having an abusive and not being able to fit in to the culture are three of the events in Anh's life that he has hurdled over....

• Word Count: 580
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

This study focuses on the history of television beginning in the early 1950s and will run through present day. ... Each family was a middle-class family and all financially secure. ... The Wonder Years, which debuted on January 31, 1988, exhibited the best portraiture of a middle-class family in distinction to the 1960s. ... Kevin's, the teen-aged hero, growing pains mirrored those of America itself. ... The families seen on television today are the diametric opposite of those seen in the early 1950s. ...

• Word Count: 1147
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

By the early 1960s many of his cousins, the Ciaschi's, had moved to Ithaca. ... When I reached the age of fourteen my father had put me to work in the restaurant. ... All through middle school and high school I had a job working for my family. ...

• Word Count: 1099
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School