Eventually, adolescents will form long term relationships with their peers that may be of the romantic kind, which may become full attachment relationships. Attachment relationships that turn romantic are possible lifelong relationships. ... In romantic relationships, a psychopath may be charming and affectionate just long enough to establish intimacy with a partner, and then suddenly become abusive, unfaithful, and manipulative. ...

• Word Count: 2078
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

In scene seven, there is a romantic episode between Laura and Jim. ... During this brief romantic moment, Laura's favorite glass piece from her collection, is mentioned several times and this is because, this unicorn, has a very important symbolical meaning. ...

• Word Count: 1571
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It is a romantic comedy that features Fotoula "Toula" Portokalis, who comes from a very large and intimidating Greek American family. ... This typical romantic comedy ends in a positive way with a big wedding, but left me relating to Toula's overbearing family. ...

• Word Count: 1752
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

She says angrily, "Oh - Asagai - at this moment you decide to be romantic!" ... While Beneatha's struggle for identity involves her ethnicity, hobbies, and romantic interests, Walter Lee attempts to discover his position in the Younger family. ...

• Word Count: 1948
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

Only some states prohibit romantic relationships between non-biologically related members of a stepfamily, but the weakened incest taboo within the stepfamily makes the rules less clear. The problem with romantic relationships within the stepfamily is that they can create confusion, anger, and a sense of betrayal. ...

• Word Count: 2040
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In both the play, Blue Beach by Victor Hugo Rascon Banda and the novel Like Water for Chocolate, by Laura Esquirel symbolism plays a vital role throughout the central ideas. In both of these pieces of literature the symbolic objects are a hotel with everything in it and the use of cooking respectiv...

• Word Count: 1481
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Divorce can be an extremely difficult experience for both children and parents. It introduces a massive change creating a challenging new family circumstance in which to live. There are about one million children each year that experience their parent's divorcing prior to the age of 18 (Clarke-Stewa...

• Word Count: 1684
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Her mid-length golden hair flowed out of her tight ponytail hitting the bottom of her white collared shirt. Her hazel eyes were really showing more green than brown this evening. The band was playing old western tunes. The girls' giggles and chatter about young boys filled the small, single-room sc...

• Word Count: 1602
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• Grade Level: High School

With each passing year, the divorce rate rises. In the last ten years the divorce rate has risen two percent. The number of children who are yearly affected (under sixteen) is over one hundred and sixty three thousand, and sixty-six percent of these children are under the age of eleven. "By the ti...

• Word Count: 1957
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

In A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry, each character represents distinct values that help to further the plot and theme of pursuing one's dreams throughout the play. Lena, Walter and Beneatha Younger, George Murchison and Asagai each have individual values but they are united by the intersec...

• Word Count: 1369
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• Grade Level: High School

When Greece meets America The movie My Big fat Greek Wedding is a fun-filled romantic comedy about a Greek US immigrant family. Toula Portokalos is 30, Greek, and works in her family's restaurant, Dancing Zorba's, in Chicago. All her father Gus wants is for her to get married to a nice Greek boy ...

• Word Count: 1762
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• Grade Level: High School

For the First Time It was late December when my father told me that he had planned a family rip to Mexico, and that we would be leaving in a couple of days to my mother's hometown Gomez Farias, Michoacan. I really wasn't excited about it, so I told him that I didn't want to go. I wanted t...

• Word Count: 2069
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• Grade Level: High School

In "The Sound and The Fury", anxieties over newly emerging race relations are displaced onto sexuality and a preoccupation with sexual and familial purity. Discuss. The Sound and the Fury is a brilliantly crafted modernistic masterpiece written by William Faulkner in the 1930's. It cleverly tells...

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They may argue that it can actually be a positive entity, especially in the case of Richie, since he went on to become a professional tennis player and ends up romantically involved with the woman of his dreams. ...

• Word Count: 1841
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"Moonstruck" is the 1987 blockbuster film directed by Norman Jewison, produced by Patrick Palmer and Norman Jewison; with an Oscar winning cast, making up the American Italian families affected by the full moon, and a great romantic comedy follows. ...

• Word Count: 2080
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School