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Essays 301 - 330

Uncertainty and Culture Change

parents for the safety of their children, wanting to know where they are and who they are with. There is an increased feeling of t...

Abuse and Family Violence

behavior. This concept of "mother blaming," then, has influenced the view of low-income families, single-parent families and the ...

Families in Poverty and Welfare Reform

study also integrates data that relates to educational gains and other measures that can reduce the use of welfare, reduce the pov...

Discussion of the 'Middle Child Syndrome'

Many - if not most -- social psychologists would readily agree that human interaction is always representational of joint interact...

Working Parents and Creative Benefits

In fourteen pages this essay describes the rewards of balancing work and family life with research on benefits that are family fri...

Crises of Natural Disasters and Family Interaction

In five pages this paper examines what happens during a natural disaster to families and family relationship dynamics with coping ...

Rick Porrello's The History of the Cleveland Mafia

In 10 pages this memoir considers the author's family's organized crime activities during the Prohibition era. One source is cite...

Crested Kimono Questions

In five pages this paper compares the image of Mother in Navajo and Japanese families as represented in Kinship and Gender and in ...

Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller and the Loman Family's Symbolism

finally come to terms with the reality of the situation. Happy, of course, is a chip off the old block, confined into his narrow a...

Black Families in White America by Billingsley

the black family, which had brought them from their early salve days to the current condition that is admittedly less than stellar...

Family Secrets and the Harm They Cause

In five pages this paper discusses how pregnancy or suicide family secrets can have a harmful impact on the members of families. ...

Overview of Family Nurse Practitioner

crosses over all these disciplines (Warda, 2001). Family is defined broadly to incorporate the diverse structures of family in to...

Children, New Family Structures and Their Impact

In five pages this paper examines 1990s' family research in a discussion of how children are being affected by families and the re...

Vietnam War Soldiers and Suicides

claims that the Vietnam soldiers had a 72 percent higher rate of suicide than their other military counterparts (Bower, 1987, p. 1...

Food Budgeting in Relation to the US Poverty Standard

lower than in other parts of the country. There is not a great deal of industry in the area; housing is relatively inexpensive. ...

Differences Between Dysfunctional and Functional Families

Actions and behaviors therefore are at least partially the result of the inherent relationships that exist within the family. ...

Aspects of Family Therapy

to the position of trying to improve the clients ability to change and control themselves, self-organization also lined to circula...

Massie Affair & Detective Fiction

PBS, tells the story of this despicable episode in the history of American jurisprudence. The saga of the Massie Affair begins in ...

Octavio Paz/Diego Rivera

portrays him "wearing the local costume of the Cuernavaca region and carrying a sugarcane=cutters machete ("Agrarian Leader Zapata...

Family Stress and Family Systems Theories

as separation and the breakdown of subsystems. This will continue until a new point of equilibrium is reached (Ackerman, 1985). ...

Families with Single Parents and Family Therapy Implications

parent, and have difficulties in terms of adequate supervision. II. Review of the Literature and Application to the Single-Par...

Overview of the Latino Family's Life Cycle

use of "Latino" and "Latina," which are Spanish words, have been viewed as more inclusive and politically correct (Delgado-Romero,...

An Atlanta Homeless Families' Overview

evil, they also do have some concerns and want to help. The first thing that must be done is to analyze the problem. It is importa...

Family Violence and Making the Family Unit Stronger

in quelling situations of domestic violence and child abuse. II. Domestic Violence Domestic violence is a serious problem an...

Family's Need to Earn More Money

trapped. Our era has prompted most to believe that yesterdays luxuries are indeed todays necessities. By way of two acclaimed l...

American Families v. Chinese Families

the woman more "desirable" and therefore more likely to marry and not be a burden on her family any longer (Family Structure, 2003...

Nursing Research Article 'Predicting Family Health in Families of Young Adults with Severe Mental Illness' Reviewed

new research is needed in the area. The style of the literature review is appropriate in that the author divides it into we...

Family Buffers Against the Negative Impacts of Work Family Conflict

be expected, conflicts between an individuals work and their family can result in a number of negative consequences. Lowered job ...

Family's Role in Nigerian, Russian, and Mexican Cultures

Family and its importance to these world cultures are examined in a paper consisting of five pages. Six sources are cited in the ...

Overview of a Family's Holocaust Horrors in Tale I of Art Spiegelman's Maus

In ten pages this paper examines Art Spiegelman's cartoon book in a consideration of how one family managed to survive the Holocau...