The first of these is translated into English as "we"re shaving the child." ... The shaving ceremonies last for one day and include the shaving of the heads and eyebrows of the mother and of the child. This event takes place in the morning, and that night, the child is given a new name. ... This daylong ceremony involves the piercing of the child's ears. Increasingly large plugs are then put in the ears to stretch out the holes, which enhance the child's beauty. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The film is seen from the viewpoint of the eldest child, Frank, beginning as a six year old. ... Detailed Summary: This is just the story basically Ab ;0) The film opens in Brooklyn, New York 1935, where Irish immigrants Malachy and Angela McCourt and their four children are celebrating the birth of their fifth child, and first girl, Margaret-Mary. ... Frank, the eldest child, is sent to the bar to shame the father into coming home. ... He is an alien in his parental homeland, the oldest child of a father whose background in "the North" engenders continual suspicion, and a mother (Angela of ...

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• Approx Pages: 14
• Grade Level: High School

Research reports are divided on the causes of school violence. Some refer to family situations. They say that when students are likely to live in poverty, witness drug abuse at home, have parents arrested and/or sent to prison, then it is not surprising how many students behave well, rather th...

• Word Count: 2600
• Approx Pages: 10
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Generative-transformational grammarians believe that a child is born with linguistic competence, which enables him to acquire his native language. ... Without such a social and cultural environment, the child cannot acquire his language at all, though he is born with a linguistic mechanism. ... Consequently, it is believed that the process of child language acquisition is also the process of his cognition and understanding of the world and the process of the development of his cultural competence. ...

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On December 7, 1941, the Japanese led their first attack on American soil by bombing the naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. This attack was the turning point for America's role in World War II. On December 8, Americans anxiously sat around their radios, ready to hear President Roosevelt address the...

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Abstract Beliefs in conspiracy theories are widespread throughout the world, in every culture and community. They range from a world take over by secret societies to rigged Olympic games. Many are short lived, however, others seem to become self-perpetuating animals preying particularly on th...

• Word Count: 9660
• Approx Pages: 39
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School