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European Families from 1300 to 1700 and the Roles of Women

This paper considers the European family units during this time period with the focus being on the roles of women in five pages. ...

Vincent Bugliosi's Helter Skelter

In ten pages this paper offers a review of the text written by the prosecutor of the notorious Manson 'family' murders of Sharon T...

1820s and 1840s Age of the Common Man

to make their own destinies -- to follow whatever dreams they may have kept harbored deep inside for fear they would never be able...

Fictitious Story on Viking Erik Olafson

In seven pages a young boy's journey that chronicles the everyday life of a Viking family is featured in this fictitious story. F...

The Theme of Violence in The Prince Of Tides

episode at some point in life. Depression often hits the elderly more than any other age group; however, with each passing ...

Familial Substance and Physical Abuse

In seven pages this paper examines family dysfunction and how it influences violent behavior and substance abuse. There is includ...

Dysfunctional Families in Antigone and Oedipus the King by Sophocles

not have written them. Sophocles wrote "Antigone"(c. 442 B. C) and "Oedipus the King" (c. 425 B. C.) among numerous other works. ...

Lorraine Hansberry's Raisin in the Sun and James Baldwin's 'Sonny's Blues' Compared

essence of Emersons claim for moral exuberance that galvanizes youthful idealism than Lorraine Hansberrys A Raisin in the Sun. Se...

The System of Trokosi

by a spokesman for the fetish priests, Togbe Atsu Eklo of the Adzimashi shrine, which appealed to the gods and their ancestors to ...

Cao Xuequin's Story of Stone

ideal of humaneness or goodness, and li to ceremonious behavior or to social norms in general. According to the instrumentalist, ...

Archie Bunker and Erik Erikson

In five pages the All in the Family TV series character Archie Bunker is the focus of an appllication of the 8 stages of psychosoc...

An Alcoholism Case Study

This paper consists of 14 pages and presents a case study of a 70-year old man that has struggled with alcoholism for a half centu...

Life and Contributions of Jesse Jackson

In five pages this paper presents Rev. Jackson's steadfast support of family values and applauds his contributions to civil rights...

Chapter Overview of 'Family, Gender and Employment'

In three pages this paper discusses this chapter in terms of the contemporary dual income family and also discusses gender bias an...

Alcoholism Causes and Effects

loss of control and inability to stop drinking once begun are symptoms that might be present. Suffering from withdrawal symptoms,...

Domestic Violence: Is Income a Factor?

domestic abuse one of the most troubling problems of our society. According to U.S. Department of Justice (2005) statistics...

Reich's "The Future Of Success: Working And Living In The New Economy" - Brief Chapter Overview

value amidst an ever-changing social landscape may present opportunity on the one hand but as Reich (2002) points out, it also ref...

Transient - and Disappearing - Benefits

true, but it seems as though these same organizations are being rather myopic in planning for the future. The single constant fac...

African-Americans and Reconstruction

organizations as the Freedmens Bureau and "Northern benevolent societies," and "after 1868, state governments" (Building the black...

Case Scenario/Alcohol Abuse

"chronic, heavy drinking" (Enoch and Goldman, 2002, p. 192). According to government standards, a woman is at-risk for heavy drink...

Behaviorism

- can condition (train) him to be whatever professional he chooses. This, he argues, is the basis upon which behavior is founded:...

Pay Equity

"oppressive child labor" was defined. Under this act those who are not paid the required level can reclaim the lost wages as wel...

Welfare Reform and TANF

One of the major features of TANF was the stimulation of state and local government to require an increase in their requirements f...

The Overworked American The Unexpected Decline in Leisure by Juliet Schor

able to analyze Schors findings through a careful definition of the problem, understanding the extent of it, considering how it ca...

A Livable Wage in NJ Case Study

that community is much higher than average. With the assumption that it is impossible to live on only twenty thousand per year in ...

The Chosen by Chaim Potok in Terms of Family Analysis

field. The friendship grows as a result of an accident which is also odd. In fact, Reuven and his father recognize that the acci...

Tutorial Letter on Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House

has been troubled for some time and they, at that instant, feel they would do anything to change it if only she would stay. But, t...

Society of India and Women

and their domestic responsibilities before themselves (Varma and Agrawal, 1992). In order to initiate sociological advancement, m...

Dr. Murray Bowen's Family Systems Therapy Theory and Pat Conroy's The Prince of Tides

to as nuclear family emotional systems. According to this concept, the family acts as a "unitary whole," which is affected by two...

The Evolution of Punishment in Criminal Justice

The evolution of punishment strategy has gone hand in hand with the evolution of society as a whole. Harris (1996), for example, ...