My father had a job that consisted of us traveling all the time, which kept us with no real place to call our own. ... Sometimes we did travel with my uncle and cousin, but rarely did we ever have a place to call our own. ... The place seemed very, eerie and quite sad. ... Not once did she ever call anyone the "N" word or provoked a colored person out of their home like my dad would back in the day. ... Growing up in a somewhat racially intolerant home, gave me an insight to how not judge a book by their cover....

• Word Count: 1220
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Computers are used for number of different purposes and can be found both at work and at home. ... We browse the Web in order to read news and weather forecasts, to find information on a certain topic that we might need in our educational process or just for personal interest, to buy or sell stock, to shop for various goods and services, to book tickets, and to communicate with people using ICQ, chat rooms, e-mail, and voice mail. ... They are sure that only in many years information technology can be called information engineering, stating: -If you're a civil engineer, you cannot say "...

• Word Count: 737
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

In 1999 and 2000, Ehrenreich worked as a waitress in Key West, Fla., as a cleaning woman and a nursing home aide in Portland, Maine, and in a Wal-Mart in Minneapolis, Minn. ... I personally have worked in many places similar to the ones discussed in this book. ... Although required by law, some places do not even have common things such as a bathroom, or sink to wash your hands. ... So what does this book show about our great country. ... This is not fair, especially in the "land of opportunity", as we call ourselves ...

• Word Count: 1114
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

He points out that labor unions have failed because in the so-called competitive system owners can also organize. ... As an immigrant Jurgis sees his new home as a hard, dangerous, and filthy place to live. ... This event begins the turning point of this book. ... He had problems getting The Jungle published in book form. He decided to publish the book himself. ...

• Word Count: 1116
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Until the later part of the 20th century, open discussions on sex, whether at home or in school, were not commonplace. ... A formal program ensures that the bird-and-the-bees discussion takes place by having sex education a part of the curriculum. ... The first program is called Reducing the Risk. ... The second program is called Postponing Sexual Involvement. ... Another program is called Healthy Oakland Trees (HOT). ...

• Word Count: 1089
• Approx Pages: 4

In the Midwest town of Topeka, Kansas, a little girl named Linda Brown had to ride the bus five miles to school each day although a public school was located only four blocks away from her home. ... They argued that segregated schools were not necessarily harmful to black children; great African American such as Frederick Douglas, Booker T. ... The court had to make its decision based on whether or not the authors of the Fourteenth Amendment had desegregated schools in mind when the amendment was written in 1868, but based on whether or not desegregated schools deprived black children of equa...

• Word Count: 936
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Millions of other Blacks were torn from their African homes and carried to the New World before the slave trade was ended. ... This network was called the Underground Railroad. ... "Stations" along the way--barns, attics, storerooms, secret rooms, and even straw mattresses--were places where the fugitives were fed and sheltered. ... The book does have a small anti-slavery message, but there is still a negative view of slavery in her book. ... The book does not talk about the horrors of slavery. ...

• Word Count: 928
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

First, illiterate people can cause economic losses in their work places. ... I struggled with reading and writing in Korean, so I did not catch the main idea on the text book and understand my instructor's criteria. ... It can be called inter-generational cycle of illiteracy. Usually, the illiteracy begins from children's home to see their parents who earned poor school progress reports, and parents cannot help their children in when they are in poor condition. According to Wild, "Without books, newspapers or magazines in the home and a parent who reads to serve as a role model, many...

• Word Count: 954
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography

During World War I, more than 200,000 African Americans fought in the war in Europe thinking by when they come home there was going to be a change in equality and civil rights. ... Scopes a biology school teacher challenged a state law called the Butler Act prohibiting the teaching of evolution. ... The case was called the Scopes Monkey Trial, Clarence Seward Darrow volunteered in the case to be the school teacher lawyer fighting for his job. ... To conclude in the 1920's, people were moving to cities and others in small towns thought the city was bad and wasn't a place to live they ...

• Word Count: 1130
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School