Richards relates the story of how, when she was young, she always said she wanted to talk to God. ... Another famous author with a large cult following is Stephen King.29 His works have gained a great audience not because of their characters or stories, but because of King himself. King's readers are fascinated by the mind that can produce such horrifying stories, and they see him as a sort of preternatural being. ... They believe that the forest was "the Devil's last preserve."33 Hence, when the Salem minister, Reverend Parris, discovers a group of girls from the town, in...

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An extended family includes the core group of males, which are a grandfather, adult sons and sons" sons, their wives, and their unmarried daughters. ... You could not have an extended family that included servants, apprentices, and other non-kinfolk in a house that measured twenty feet by twenty feet and raised only a story and a half. ... The head of the family was mostly the father. ... For example, while boys were off with their fathers, girls would stay home with their mothers, mostly helping out with the cooking, sewing and laundering. Some daughters, however, went in to the services of f...

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After the war Emmanuel's mother was killed by soldiers that were soldiers for the government. his father Simon became a powerful commander in the Christian Sudanese Liberation Army, fighting for the freedom of Sudan, Jal was recruited into that army, one of ten thousand child soldiers. ...

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Philippe Bourgois's In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio has shown a great deal of commitment to the work that was involved in completing his research on poverty and marginalization. The field of study on poverty and marginalization by Philippe Bourgois was only twenty blocks from the area in Manhattan's Upper East Side known as East Harlem. However, those twenty blocks between the Upper East Side and the Puerto Rican population of East Harlem represent a social and an economic gap extending from mainstream to marginal. There are two dominant themes that play an importa...

• Word Count: 3236
• Approx Pages: 13
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate