You can feel the intensity the moment Frank lays his eyes on America and how overpowering he feels. 2. ... Both our fathers were never there to support us. ... She has a son and a husband, but never complains about giving Frankie or Malachy something to eat when they were hungry. ... Margaret doesn't go that far, but she takes care of her family and makes sure the children are properly brought up with dignity and teach them about their religion. ... Frank has seen the pain in his mother's eyes when the children went without food and clothes. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Hopefully they understood that their parents loved them so much that it became so unbearable to let them go. There were only heartbreaking farewells for parents that chose to let their children go so that they could possibly escape what was to come. The parents were trusting strangers to take care of their children in their place. ... This is an amazing account of just how far parents were willing to go to give their children a chance. ... Most of the prospective foster parents wanted girls, sometimes boys, who were between the ages 3-7 and had blue eyes. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

As the days went by and Cristina began to wear long, loose dresses, Vittorio notices his world change before his eyes. ... One day when the children arrived back from their visit to their father's place, the elder daughter tells her mother that she wants to go and live with her father. ... Many items such as cars and telephones were not available in the village. ... For this reason, every year, increased number of men and their families were packing their up possessions and moving to America and Canada, places considered a whole different mythical world. ... From their conversation it...

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I love to watch movies, do homework, and also just rest in this room. ... Everyone has their different opinions about everything, and religion is one of the biggest topics. ... Honestly after a long church day our family tradition is to go out to eat then watch sunday night football. ... Yes, all dogs are special to their owners, but this was different. ... Those deep brown eyes sparkled with a beauty that was hard to walk away from. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Microsoft Electronic Publishing, 2001) We enter further into the story as the Prussians arrived, and they were billeted with the people of the area, according to their wealth and resources of each family. ... They understood, with some difficulty what she wanted and gave her their names; she insisted they write it down on a piece of paper along with their addresses of their families. ... As she was standing there watching, she was "armed with a gun, her dead son's rifle, to make sure that none of them could escape."" ... They were not allowed to vote, they were not allowed to work j...

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In terms of emotional and physical strains, it is perhaps the caregivers and family who suffer the most for they live with the disease consciously, never losing the knowledge or understanding of what is actually going on. ... Even though they often forget their pain and condition, they are sometimes victims of abuse. ... Results were similar for regular use of aspirin, but not for any other medicines examined" (AlzheimerSupport.com, 2002). ... She then describes her feelings at seeing her grandmother at a family picnic planned for celebration before her grandmother was sent to a home: "I wan...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Aaron and his family were sold about three or four times until they were purchased by a slave owner by the name of Bosket, that's when they received their surname Bosket. ... Also in the beginning stages of this chapter the whites began to become enraged due to the fact that blacks were given the right to vote and there were more blacks in the population then whites, so when the votes came about the blacks were voting for the republicans whom would be fighting for black people's rights, the ratio is said to be 4:1 blacks. White southerner's seen themselves as above the law, h...

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• Grade Level: High School

She spent time with her friends and drank a tea from Dunkin Donut's, her favorite, at the waterfront watching the bay waves go up and down. ... The police are on their way. ... They were killing me. ... But I felt jealous and mad that some of those people still had their mom and could go back home to their pre-existing life. Their life could resume back to usual. ...

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Their relationships with their own mothers, friends, extended family, the child's father, and most importantly, their child are gravely impacted. ... The teen is already going through so much at home, having added such a huge social role to her life. ... All the people in attendance were my family. ... By June, I was going to be a mom and they were going to be a highschool graduate. ... I watched a complete season of a show called "Teen Mom 3" where I have analyzed specific scenes to either support or negate my thesis. ...

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She recalls her African American studies in 10th grade, a private school, opening her eyes to the oppression and guilt that her grandfather had gone through. In this class she found African American classmates who were educated like her and other ethnic backgrounds enjoying each other's company without worrying about the color on their skin. ... These values were instilled by her mother and grandfather's teachings and life experiences. Janice believes watching her mother's resilience and independent nature has fortified her independent familial beliefs. ... Janice defended h...

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The event that is being focused on is the loss of the parent(s), whether the parent was known or unknown, and the loss of their childhood and how this affects their behavior. ... She and her sister basically were raising themselves during difficult time periods in their lives. ... During Clara's pregnancy both girls were sent away to a convent to have the child. ... Children who do not develop autonomy may doubt their abilities and their capacity to act on the world and develop feelings of shame (Sroufe, Cooper, & Dehart, 1992). ... The decisions that were made during the time Ida wa...

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Thus, people could obviously secure larger and more reliable satisfactions than by their individual or family efforts. ... Family drama, or "domestic" drama, is centered on characters‟ intimate relationships, their actions towards each other and their responses to the surrounding circumstances and events. ... Specifically, Stephanie Coontz, in "The Way We Never Were" (1992), refers to a „family drama‟ as "a staged play that contains any group of two or more persons who engage in ongoing intimacy and obligation, whether they do so because of birth, marriage, adoption or choice.... Th...

• Word Count: 9352
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School