When Ellen marries Austin Roxburgh, she lives with him at his childhood home in England, a mansion at Birdlip. ... The contrast between the values and attitudes held by Austin's family at Birdlip and those held by Ellen in her childhood at her home in Zennor greatly influences the level of reflection Ellen is positioned to have upon herself and the social codes of Birdlip and Zennor, during her visit to Birdlip. ... The moral aspect of a setting is the set of values and attitudes held by each person within the society of that setting, which are not only influenced by their society, but al...

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The seventies marked the beginning of the Woman's Movement and the end of the ideals we held on what it is to be a "man" and what it is to be a "woman." ... Industry has been taken out of the home, and large families are no longer economically possible or socially desired. ... The roles of men and women in the home are becoming more co-operative than in the past decades. ... Today, it is not uncommon for a man to come home and fold a load of laundry while his wife is cooking dinner. In successful homes, the roles of all family members are changing, the roles of mom, dad, and the children....

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Most of the inmates have had too little discipline or too much, come from broken homes, and have no self-esteem. ... One can predict that a prisoner held for two, four, eight or ten years, then released , still with no education or vocational skills will likely return to a life of crime. ... Most of the inmates have had too little discipline or too much, come from broken homes, and have no self-esteem. ... One can predict that a prisoner held for two, four, eight or ten years, then released , still with no educationling, there is disadvantages. ...

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A women position in the family has typically (in the past) been at home. ... This change made a need for factory workers .Women started to join the workforce out side of home. ... They may have a family and not be forced or required to be a stay at home mother . ... I feel the values held by citizens of the United States have gone through negative changes. ... Children are not created out of wedlock and are raised in a torn household or a broken home. ...

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It criticises the oppressive determinist social values and norms in society that govern the individual by common-held morals, expectations and the undermining of free will. ... It can be seen that the novelist does not share the ideals held by the Frean family, indeed Sinclair's own views took much from the modern thinkers of the time, namely Sigmund Freud. ... Hancock, and secondly it is filled with the means of feminine oppression in the home, such as "Gold scissors and thimble and stiletto sitting up in holes cut in white velvet." ... It is my own argument that Marxism ...

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Over time the social values of it and who they are held by have changed. ... While the women have moved out of the home and into the work place, changing their views on life and corporal punishment, men have hung on to the traditional values a bit more. ... In the 60's women were the primary care givers in the home while the men were the breadwinners. ... With the men at home more than before they began to realize the need for spanking. ... Women leaving the home isn't the only reason for this, rather society's expectations and cultural norms. ...

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At the beginning of the film there is a scene which depicts Mr Olsen (the shoemaker) coming home with a new car for his family. ... The women in The Blot are nearly all depicted within the home setting. ... The main action in the film is orientated around Mrs Grigg's everyday routine, cleaning, cooking and shopping for the home. ... If Mrs Griggs was to break out of the home and go to work her and her family might not have to suffer so, however the patriarchal insistence to have women in the home and not in a professional space does not permit it. ... (Kaplan 137) However it is in...

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Industrial capitalism being the traditional "job for life" deal where the "bread winner" in the household went to work every day to the same job, then came home to a family and community with strong social bonds where each individual knew what was expected of them within their social role, and worked to maintain that image. ... Attitudes commonly held at the time are illustrated by the following; "Hayek insisted that international planning was a nonsense" and that it showed "complete disregard for the individuality and rights of small nations" (Mazower 1998: 208). ...

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One can predict that a prisoner held for two, four, eight or ten years, then released , still with no education or vocational skills will likely return to a life of crime. ... Most of the inmates have had too little discipline or too much, come from broken homes, and have no self-esteem. ... One can predict that a prisoner held for two, four, eight or ten years, then released , still with no rehabilitaon, there is disadvantages. ...

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Seamus Heaney's poem, Mid-Term Break, is a great example of how society's expectations can impact identity because the poem is about a young man who is away at school to obtain an education and establish his identity when he is called back home to deal with the death of his younger brother. From reading the poem, it's clear that the narrator left his family to pursue an identity of his own, and the first line of the poem suggests that he isn't happy about having to return home out of obligation as the oldest child. Instead, the line, "I sat all morning in the college sick b...

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As the men of China immigrate to America looking for work to send money home to their families, the women are expected to uphold the home front. ... Before the villagers went to ransack the aunt's home Kingston writes, "The frightened villagers, who depended on one another to maintain the real, went to my aunt to show her a personal physical representation of the break she had made in the "roundness"" (Kingston 12-3). ... It is held within ideology, but also manages to distance itself from it, to the point where it permits us to "feel" and "perceive" the ideology from which it springs...

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The public reacts to the detailed accounts with outrage, but remain ignorant to the real facts of what is happening in many homes across the nation. ... As a result, parents of abusive children suffer from tremendous anxiety, depression and guilt that often keep them as psychological prisoners in their own homes. ... In our society a person's earliest experience with violence occurs in the home in the forms of spanking and physical punishment from parents. ... The victims of violence in the home are disproportionately the smaller, the weaker and the less powerful. ... Joint classes fo...

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Naming from a mere method of identifying a person went on to define him entirely based on the regulations held by the society. ... Vanita in her essay cites some examples for the above situation, "For example late nineteenth and early twentieth century Eastern and Central European Jews, fleeing persecution in their home countries and entering the United States as refugees, often either chose to change their names, or had their names changed by US officials at Ellis island and other entry points"(72). ... Vanita in her essay explains how this particular situation came into being, &quo...

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The Indians do not want to leave the Mission and fight the Portuguese in an effort to keep what has become their home. ... Although they seem to be the main bulk of society they were also a subculture because there were only a few in the Ruling Class the these few held the same views of what to do with the Missions. ...

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" Because he knows he can trust me to get us home form any sticky situation. ... Today many people understand trust to be a word like many others since the value is not held the high standard it should be. ...

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Many black Americans are descendants of slaves, abducted from their homes, shackled, stuffed in boats and brought on long, disease-ridden journey. ... What I failed to discuss is intersectionality and that this group of white women held their own experiences of oppression as female and of class. ...

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The Civil Rights Movement in the American South in the 1950s and 1960s was one of the most significant and successful social movements in the 20th century. Millions of African Americans fought for achieving racial equality before the law. A major factor in the success of the movement was the strateg...

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In this Shakespearean society, it was men who held exclusively the official posts of authority and power, and men who kept the agency and influence to direct the outcome of events. ... To Malvolio, she orders that suitors come to call, he inform them that "I am sick, or not at home", as she wants nothing to do with the foolish men who try to curry her favor. ... What makes this detail particularly interesting and important is that most women in Shakespeare's day did not work outside the home, particularly if they were women of the upper class. ...

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The attitude held by his parents towards other ethnic groups, and races eventually caused him to migrate overseas, change his religion, and adopt an entirely different world view. ... Jalila Arthur was born in 1994, went to kindergarten and first grade before choosing home school. ... However, there was no notion of time being money at home or at the family business, only that punctuality is respectful. ...

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This also shows that Mattie knows her expected role to be the 'mother' at home and gives up her needs for the 'woman's work' loaded on her such as "cooking, cleaning, washing, sewing...... The people of the American Adirondack region held strong beliefs that a man and a woman had to be married before they had a child and despite the supposed love Chester had for Grace, he is also unwilling to have this 'burden' in his hands which causes the murder of Grace, and therefore the child within her. ...

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Their people had a responsibility to worship their Gods in public, but when Greek people were in the privacy of their homes, they could worship their Gods as little or as much as they wanted to. ... Jewish people in Roman society held onto their beliefs throughout all of these Empire changes. ...

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Forced to keep her marriage to the Count a secret because of his aversion to her "low degree", and unable to otherwise explain Roderigo's presence in her home every night, Violenta becomes, in the eyes of her neighbors, a rich man's whore, "a prey to shame and dishonesty". ...

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Theories serve several functions in the development and evaluation of scientific knowledge. Theories provide us with systematic procedures to evaluate social phenomenon. These procedures are well organized and comprehensive. Theories are not just knowledge structures; they are sets of interrelated...

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Poverty, unemployment, inequality and boredom, as well as factors such as single parent families, child abuse, broken homes and also media violence, drugs and moral decline have all been used to attempt to explain the problem. ...

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"Small variations in brain morphology cannot explain phenomena such as wage level, who drives on a date, or division of labor in the home, since each of these phenomena is mediated by social factors," they claim. ...

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