Jeanne had a typical American middle class childhood; her father owned a small fishing boat and her mother worked in a cannery. ... Although Jeanne's family had some typical Japanese traditions, none of the children spoke any Japanese. ... Jeanne and her family had been in the Manzanar Internment camp for months. ... With no privacy or father figure to keep all the members of the family together, Jeanne lost sense of her heritage as did many other children in the camps. ... Her father reunited with the family and they headed back to Southern California. ...

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• Approx Pages: 14
• Grade Level: High School

In the U.S. throughout the Diaspora, the African generally received the death penalty for practicing his or her birthright. ... Lagos, the home of our urban sample children, is the centre of a greater metropolitan area with a projected population in 1991 of 10 million (Federal Republic of Nigeria and UNICEF 1990). ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Children will always be afraid of the dark and men will always shudder at what they do not understand, yet everyone will continue to seek it.5 Perhaps it is because society, particularly American society because of its history, believes the final horrors are ghosts and demons, when truly it is the hidden aspects of its own soul.6 As reflected by its literature, American society has always held a deep fascination with the supernatural. ... "[Jill Cook Richards] is twenty-eight years into a career as a self-described psychic,"18 which depends exclusively on her faith. ... Hale, who forc...

• Word Count: 3126
• Approx Pages: 13
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School