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Lan Cao's Monkey Bridge and Cause and Effect

based on actual wants or desires. The effect of this societal pressure causes her to refuse help and support which might otherwise...

Generation Representation in Amy Tan's Short Story 'Two Kinds'

a person tried hard, anything could be accomplished. Therefore, she saw it as her duty to lead her daughter towards becoming an A...

Model of Parenting Developed by Jay Belsky

to Belsky. These factors include the quality of the maternal relationship. Child characteristics that may influence how parents re...

The Impact of Alcoholism on Families

placed in foster homes, which they were told would happen if just one more report was filed with protective services. The oldest ...

Working Mothers and Flex Time Concerns Case Study

program part of this problem, and should these issues really be addressed? It would be hard to actually tell if the family-friend...

Working Mothers

exist even though he cant see them, and he realizes that they have properties that are independent of his actions upon them" (Meye...

'Father and Son' and 'Mother and Child' by Langston Hughes

of every class" (Scott). Lucy eventually "became the planters own slave, and sometime thereafter gave birth to his daughter, Maria...

The Characters of Arthur Clennam and His Mother in Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens

there would have been no new barrier between them--and followed the old man and woman down-stairs" (Dickens Chapter 3). In this...

Zora Neale Hurston's 'The Gilded Six Bits' and Alice Walker's 'Everyday Use'

are putting their own histories together, and finding out about who they really are. Mamas relationship with her two daugh...

A Discussion of Christian Elements in the Epic Poem Beowulf, and in the Character of Beowulf Himself

the first great epic poems of English history is thought to have been written around the time of the first half of the 8th century...

More Work for Mother by Ruth Cowan

these attitudes, through an analysis of the shifting relationships between gendered activities, as well as technical and social ch...

The Plight of Abandoned Children in the US and the World

juvenile charges, it can be argued that this particular field holds a great deal more ethical conscience than any other. Often vu...

Joyce Carol Oates' Short Story 'Shopping'

than relating the events of a shopping trip. "Shopping is really the story of a mothers (Mrs. Dietrichs) relationship with her t...

Migrant Mother Photograph of Dorothea Lange

the effects of the Depression. It is debateable as to whether Roosevelts New Deal actually did as he proposed, but what it seems t...

Jonathan Kozol's Ordinary Resurrections

see that the children bear the brunt of the negativity that exists. According to Kozol most of these children have never had a ...

Death of Addie Bundren in As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

death, Addie exerts control over her family because they seek--by fulfilling her last wish--to somehow make a connection with her ...

Motivating Mothers Who Work

mothers entering the work force we begin by examining the two, beginning with mothers who have to work. In understanding that ma...

Analyzing The Revolt of Mother by Mary E. Elkins Freeman

Biography of Mary E. Wilkins Freeman Mary E. Wilkins Freeman was born in 1852 and grew up in poverty due to...

Negative Effects of Single African American Motherhood

other American kid does, but what she lacks is an intact family with a live-in father (Ingrassia, 1993). She was born to a 16-yea...

Single Black Mothers

communities where young women find themselves with child. Nationally, 69 % ("Detroits," 2002, p.PG) of births in the black communi...

Immorality of Surrogate Motherhood

technology grows, so will options in conception and birthing. One can only imagine that the future holds a scary world of artifici...

Investigating the Concept of the Theatre of Cruelty

the aims of all serious dramatists, especially with reference to the way in which the stage becomes not only the central focus for...

Comparative Analysis of 2 Texts on Women's Issues

Tanenbaum points out, "Even today a common way to damage a womans credibility is to call her a slut" (2000, p. 2). In many ways, ...

Terry Williams' Refuge A Story of Adaptation to Disaster

In five pages this paper compares the death of the author's mother to the natural disaster of wildlife refuge flooding. There is ...

Marsha Norman's 'Night Mother, Life and Death

In five pages this paper discusses the life and death issues between mother Thelma and her suicidal daughter Jessie Case and the s...

Tillie Olsen's 'I Stand Here Ironing'

This paper of 5 pages considers the trials and tribulations of the relationship between mother and daughter with the added difficu...

Parents in the Fiction of Guy de Maupassant

In five pages this paper examines the French author's short stories 'Mademoiselle Fifi' and 'Boule de Suif' in terms of how they r...

Jean Jacques Rousseau's Confessions, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and the Elements of Autobiography

In a paper consisting of five pages Barbara Johnson's theory that autobiography involves a child's narrative as symbolically killi...

Feminine Relationships in 'The Girl' by Le Sueur

In four pages this essay discusses the feminist movement in terms of the story's portrayal of women's relations and mother and dau...

The Concepts of Slavery and Motherhood in Toni Morrison's Novel Beloved

This 8 page paper considers Sethe's sense of what it means to be a mother in Toni Morrison's novel Beloved. The writer argues that...