For example to prevent re-immigration there needed to be someone who would be willing to pay 50 pounds and the incoming children would need to have families willing to take them in (Into the arms of strangers; Gallant, 214). ... The parents were trusting strangers to take care of their children in their place. A fifteen year old boy, Kurt, who was suppose to be one of the children who would be taken care of, he ended up being the stranger taking care of someone else. ... After he learned how to speak English he chose to give up the German language and never speak or learn it again (Into the ar...

• Word Count: 3014
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Cristina's affair with a "blue-eyed stranger" was the defining event that lead to the loss of Vittorio's childhood and innocence. ... Following his mother's affair with the "blue-eyed stranger" and the snake bite she got shortly after, Vittorio describes the changes that are manifesting in his home and the relationships between his family and the people of Valle del Sole. ... In the following passage, Vittorio describes the changes taking place between him and his mother: "My mother, too, had withdrawn into a shadowy silence ..a veil seemed to have fallen between us, and for ...

• Word Count: 2760
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: High School

Timothy Findley pieced The Wars together much like a puzzle. When piecing together a puzzle it is crucial to first find the corner pieces. As when trying to understand the novel it is necessary to realize what the most important aspects are. Each separate corner holds together and is linked to anoth...

• Word Count: 2775
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: High School

Abstract The foster care system looks to find interventions to help improve the quality of life for children placed in foster care homes. In the process to try to improve the children's quality of life, interventions are created. Intervention programs are created for the foster care children and the...

• Word Count: 2649
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Philosophers often struggle to define justice – what it is, who controls it, and who suffers or benefits from it. Aeschylus presents controversy about defining justice between different gods in the Eumenides. He expresses this through the magical features of the ancient world and through a trial o...

• Word Count: 2577
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Communication Studies Research Methods In recent years, as divorce rates have climbed and family structures continue to deviate further from the two-parent household, much has been made of absentee fathers and the impact that it has on children, particularly boys. Many studies have suggested...

• Word Count: 4534
• Approx Pages: 18
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

It's hard to think about that day. Who knew it would be the last day I would spend with her. It still feels like a fresh nightmare that just happened last night. But it didn't. It happened over two years ago and I was still struggling with this new reality. I didn't like it. I hated it. How could th...

• Word Count: 2579
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

"Most women are incapable of doing this [handing over their baby to a complete stranger] and must not be compelled to do so merely because they believed they could or were told it was an easy thing to do by others" (Field, p.72). ...

• Word Count: 3494
• Approx Pages: 14
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The Merriam-Webster Dictionary states divorce as " an act of legally dissolving a marriage" (Merriam-Webster Dictionary 1998). Divorce is a very highly rated problem among married couples in the United States. " Fifty percent of marriages end in divorce and sixty-seven percent of all second marriages end in divorce" (Corcoran). While these figures are high, the divorce rate appears to be dropping. Studies from Dr. Kathleen O"Connell Corcoran Ph.D. show that "divorce is associated with an increase in depression: people experience loss of partner, hopes and dreams, and lifestyle". ...

• Word Count: 2872
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: High School

How do the characters of the movie Mother (1996) represent American society? The characters of the movie, Beatrice Henderson, the mother, and her two sons, John and Jeff, all grapple with issues of awareness and individuality that are evident in their behavior. Society of the 90's can be descr...

• Word Count: 2741
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

In the United States there are many people who know how to speak different languages because they emigrated from different countries. Language is the basis of any culture, so if you take away the language you take away the culture. It is this loss of language that has taken today's generations from ...

• Word Count: 3671
• Approx Pages: 15
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School