The traditional role of women in the family was forever changed as a result of the war; returning men suffered the effects of the war both mentally, and physically; and children's lives were forever changed, as families struggled to rebuild. ... When the war ended families were elated to be reunited with their loved ones. ... These emotions have a profound effect on the family. ... The family structure changed during the war, mothers went to work, leaving the responsibility of housework and farm work to older children. ... The driving age dropped to fourteen so that teenage children co...

• Word Count: 2120
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• Grade Level: High School

Harry had a loving family, all the food he could imagine on his families farm, books to read, and an exceptional amount of land to play on. ... Instead, he went to work to help his family. Harry was never into farming but he quit his job and worked on the farm with his father. ... Through the trials and tribulations Harry showed his devotion to his family by quitting his job and helping on the farm. ... He did this to get a break from farm life. ...

• Word Count: 1008
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• Grade Level: High School

Written post World War II both stories deals with familial impacts, one due to technology growth and the other for the reason that of isolation and not being able to provide for the family. ... The themes in both stories differ from one another, while ANBS deals with the materialistic and consumeristic society due to technology, RBS focusses on the isolation and its ways of affecting a whole family. The materialistic and consumeristic society in ANBS is all because of the rapid growth of technology and how some parents work day and night to purchase lifeless objects to fill their houses on the...

• Word Count: 626
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• Grade Level: High School

My grandma's mother and father owned a farm with one thousand nine hundred acres. ... When she got older she had to help do other chores around the farm, like milk the cows and feed all the animals. ... She did remember that her parents helped out the neighboring families that were not as fortunate as they were. ... It was unusual for a farm lady to work outside the house in those days. ... I am finishing this paper with a new found pride in my family history. ...

• Word Count: 1260
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• Grade Level: High School

To keep track of their purchases they had rationing books that contained a number of coupons for each family. ... Women worked in factories, on farms and in stores. ... On the farms, women ploughed, harvested and milked cows. ... The women helped do all the jobs that were required to make a farm function normally. ... If they did not work sufficiently well, they could be dismissed from the farm's service by the farmer. ...

• Word Count: 827
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• Grade Level: High School

William and Mary Ford were settled on a farm in Dearborn at the time of the birth. ... At age fifteen he left school to work on his father's farm full time. Ford disliked school and farm life, so at age 16, he walked to Detroit in search of employment. ... He worked for about seven years and then returned home to his family and their farm. When he returned his father gave him 40 acres to start his own farm. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The poet Dwight Okita had family who lived in the internment camps and migrated to Chicago after their captivity. Living in a large Japanese-American community, Okita was likely told of his family heritage and their plight during World War II. ... The Chinese were seen as cheap labor on farms and in factories and the labor unions resented it. ... Many of the people who relocated lost businesses or farms. ... One of the ironic points of the relocation was that many of the internees had family members fighting in the war for the United States. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

"Poppaw" displayed a strong sense of tradition and family. Even after his family members had passed away, he valued preserving and rebuilding the old homes and farms where he had once lived. He loved tending a huge garden, and nothing thrilled him more than growing his own vegetables and then sitting down to a big family dinner that "mommaw" had cooked. ... Because Poppaw served in World War 2, and the Korean War, the family expected to hear his usual inspiring, and heartbreaking stories of War Times. He repeatedly reminded us to cherish our times with our families because many...

• Word Count: 471
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• Grade Level: High School

Refusing support from friends and family, and almost completely penniless, Orwell set out on a 2 ½ year descent into destitution which resulted in a somewhat autobiographical "Down and Out in Paris and London" which was published in 1933 under the pen name George Orwell, which he took as a way of escaping his social class position he was born into. ... In 1943, Orwell began "Animal Farm" which was a parable about the "gramophone mind" of Soviet Communism (Sheldon 365). ... He was able to write about the dangers of communism and totalitarianism in his fictional books "Animal Farm", which...

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Among her other teachers were a succession of "loveable old hacks", including one wandering tramp who knocked on families doors showing his wares and offering to take the families picture. ... Shocked by the number of homeless people in search of work during the Great Depression, she decided to take pictures of people in the street to draw attention to their plight. # In 1935, Lange joined the Farm Security Administration, where she caught on film the hardships of migrant farm families escaping the dust bowl. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Towards the end of the book Frank murders Marie in the Hayden family home. ... Julian Hayden believes that family is more important that justice. Because of this, Julian sends a few men from his farm to try to rescue and free his son Frank from Wesley's basement. ...

• Word Count: 591
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• Grade Level: High School

Prejudice is caused by the lack of knowledge of others. The book, 12 Angry Men, showed a lot of prejudice from the jurors. During the case most of the jurors based their first decision on a stereotype. They looked at the defendant's past history of crime and just assumed that he was guilty. Only one...

• Word Count: 493
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He was born into a middle class family and was the third of four children being the only boy (Hamilton 26). ... The book is about two laborers during the depression who have a dream of saving money to start up a rabbit farm. ... The book is about how a family is forced from their farm during the dustbowl depression era and they migrate west to California for a better and more sustainable life. ... He's known most for his writing about families and relating it to problems he's faced in his life and has lived through. ... Steinbeck had a lot of influences from his family, for example h...

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• Grade Level: High School

David's dad was a farmer, and for his wedding gift he gave them a 160-acre farm and 2,000 dollars. Both of them hated the farm and sold it to invest in a small general store, which failed and they went broke. David left to go to Texas in order to get the family back on its feet. As soon as they could David and the rest of the family moved there. ... The family raised most all of their own food. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Stalin's father Vissarion was an abusive hard drinking man who eventually failed as an independent artisan and left his family to work in a factory in Tiflis which was the capital of Georgia when Stalin was five years old. ... Production of industrial machinery and farm equipment became more important, and production of cloth...

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• Grade Level: High School

This would divide families of course, and made that separation permanent when those whom were deemed useless to the labor forces, would be placed inside gas chambers; killing them painfully and slowly. ... These complexes hold those deemed "socially undesirable" and are forced to work in mines, farms, and factories. ... Some prisoners work the mines for resources, while others work on farms and factories. ... Families were torn apart, sending different family members to different camps and even forcing some mothers to drown their own newborn child. ...

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Along with this loss of territory came increasing population densities as displaced families sought new land to farm. ... Living conditions were harsh with several hundred workers forced to live in a single large hut with open sides and no separation of men and women or even family units really possible. ...

• Word Count: 660
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The use of labor saving machinery in factories and on farms enabled workers to produce more goods faster and less expensively. ... Low-income families could afford to buy an inexpensive Model T, which Henry Ford developed in 1908. ... Droughts and dust storms caused by poor tillage practices devastated farms and ranches of the Great Plains; therefore, causing a great exodus of its inhabitants to other, more fertile, lands. ... A large number of the travelers settled down in this area and built farms and ranches. ...

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My store that has been in my family for generations has been vandalized merely because I sell imported British tea. ... Without the major cities America would be fighting an impossible war over a few farms and plantations. ...

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It affected every country, and every family in some way or form. ... The total damage during the war was 1000 billion US$ throughout the nation including the destruction of 16 000 industrial enterprises, 714 towns/cities, 28 000 state farms, etc. ...

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Many people starved, lost their homes and family and started a life on the tracks to find work. ... "25 percent of all workers and 37 percent of all non-farm workers were completely out of work" (Smiley). ... "There were although monthly relief rates for family of five or more varying from 60 dollars in Calgary to 19 dollars in Halifax.... For all the unemployed there was a relief program for families and all unemployed single men were sent packing by relief officers by boxcar to British Columbia. ... It was said by the Federal Department of Labor that a family needed between $1,20...

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• Grade Level: High School

They had watched their parents lose their businesses, their farms, their jobs [and] their hopes" (Brokaw XIX). ... They had watched their parents lose their businesses, their farms, their jobs, their hopes. ... I kept focused on what I wanted to do, which was make money, provide for my family"( Brokaw 200). ...

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His father, Vissarion Dzhugashvili, was a cobbler, hopping that one day his son will be apprenticed in the same trade; his mother, Yekaterina Geladze Dzhugashvili, worked as a house servant for various upper-class Georgian families. ...

• Word Count: 7507
• Approx Pages: 30
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The more children in the family, the more hands there were to help out with farm duties. ... They were also able to get a better education, work for personal or family income, for personal fulfillment, or to afford consumer goods. ...

• Word Count: 1041
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The York family scraped out a living on their modest farm and supplemented their table by hunting. ... The York family, 1900 In 1914, Alvin radically altered his life. ... The relief fund paid the IRS $100,000 and placed $30,000 in trust to be used in the family's best interest. ...

• Word Count: 1575
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• Grade Level: High School