When papa was finally able to afford me and mamas fare for the boat ride to New York, I found out my beautiful picture of America was all wrong. I swear the letters papa wrote to mama and I in Sicily made this place seem like heaven. ... He must be making ten dollars a day in this bakery. ... Things got hard after that mama had no job I wasn't in on the molasses run and we were dead broke. ... So about two years pass and my eighteenth birthday as well mama and I are surviving but the money we made from selling the bakery is running short. mama started going to the speakeasy a lot I wasn&#...

• Word Count: 1591
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

I remembered coming home with tears in my eyes one day after school. ... Her life was just like a routine until one day she fell in love with a young man who later became her husband. ... That night, she looked at her child and vowed to herself, "Mama will never ever let you live the way mama was forced to live. Mama will make sure that you study in school, able to graduate from the university and have a respectable job.... Your mama, your aunt and uncle are living testimonies of Po Po's story. ...

• Word Count: 1330
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Esperanza views her mother as a pretty, warm loving person: "my mother's hair, my mothers hair, like little rosettes, like little candy circles all curly and pretty because she pinned it in pincurls all day, sweet to put your nose into when she is holding you, holding you and you feel safe- (6). ... The day of her cousin's baptism her mother doesn't bring home the shoes Esperanza wanted for her new outfit, showing Esperanza she really doesn't care about her feelings. ... "Mama dances, laughs, dances. All of a sudden, mama is sick" (47). ...

• Word Count: 1635
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

Nnu had an older female friend named Mama Abby. Mama Abby helped her read letters from her husband and sometimes took the children. ... Nnu did her trade so that she could keep her boys in school so that would some day take care of her. ... She was unable to read the letter send to her home so she asked the help Of Mama Abby. ...

• Word Count: 2054
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

One day he found out that his high school sweetheart was pregnant, he then got married to her during the summer after their senior year in high school, and the two moved together from Boise, Idaho, to Cambridge, Mass where their son was born. ... It's basically telling him from the baby mama to him that she wasn't able to take care of the baby, Emma, and that she just needs some time to get things straight before she comes back. This whole thing came as a surprise because Ben didn't even date her that long and didn't even know she was pregnant till that day. ...

• Word Count: 1309
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography

The boys had to adjust to not physically seeing their mom every day. ... The youngest son is going through the "mama's baby stage." He just wants to be with his mama and does not mind telling anyone about it.​ ​...

• Word Count: 1993
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

October 26, 1995 is the day that I was born. ... There weren't any hospitals nearby in the village, so a day before my mom was due, my parents travelled to the city to give birth to me. ... The first word I said was "Mama and that was around when I was a one year old. ... I love school, and learning new things every day. ... She is a very hard working woman, and one day I wish to be just like her....

• Word Count: 1387
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

PARENTS AND KIDS RELATIONSHIPS "October Sky" by Joe Johnston and "Every Day Use" by Alice Walker's stories deal with parents and kids relationships. ... In "Every Day Use" it's a story narrated by a woman who describes her self as "a large, big-boned woman with rough, woman-working hands." ... This was shown when she says to her mother "She can have them, Mama, I can still remember Grandma Dee without the quilts." ... As well as "Every Day Use" by Alice Walker provided us a list of conflicts, which made Maggie and her mother relationship very static. ...

• Word Count: 1757
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

One hot summer day Uncle Ed stormed into the house and took the kids to his house, "Ed told us that he didn't live very far from us, but walking barefooted on the rock road in the boiling hot sun, I began to wonder how far was "not very far.... " (Moody, page 20) and to this Anne responded ""Mama told us we ain't supposed to wear our shoes out round the house. ...

• Word Count: 1364
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

One day one of Rosa Lee`s customers offered her extra money to also have sex with Patty, who was eleven years old at this time. ... "Mama, have the checks come in yet?... One day, Bobby and some of his friends broke into a music store and stole expensive instruments. ...

• Word Count: 2335
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School