Parents are their children's first influential teachers. ... For example in August Wilson's play Fences, Troy Maxon demonstrates how basic parenting skills allows only for a concrete and straightforward relationship with his boys. ... Department of Health and Human Services Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration reports a method on how to engage in a healthy relationship, "which highlight the importance of spending time with family to foster communication, provide positive reinforcement, role model, teach social skills, and to bond.... Undoubtedly parents play the vit...

• Word Count: 1330
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography

They were separated from each other by electrically charged fences that lines their borders. In August 1942, the womens" section at Auscwitz I was moved to Birkinau. ... On the borders of Auschwitz I and Birkinau, electrical fences were put up. ...

• Word Count: 4730
• Approx Pages: 19
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Others think being married, having a wife, a son, a daughter, a dog and a white picket fence as the American dream. ... The audience can imagine a southern couple, best of friends, in their latter years at home on an August night finishing a dinner complete with collard greens. ... His view of success is clearly materialistic and ultimately teaches his children wrong values concerning the role of success in establishing his own American dream. His son Biff is thirty-four years old and still lives with his parents and can not get a job and keep it. ...

• Word Count: 1902
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

Large-scale purges struck the country, targeting all levels of society--including children: Stalin reasoned that parents were more likely to confess to trumped-up charges of subversion and disloyalty if they knew their children's lives were at risk. Then, in August of 1936, Stalin engineered the first of what came to be known as the Show Trials, in which he accused Zinoviev, Kamenev and their associates of conspiring (with the exiled Trotsky) against Stalin and the government. In an amazing scene that was broadcast around the world--and which played a large role in exposing the true natu...

• Word Count: 5151
• Approx Pages: 21
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Every family yearned for a white picket fence, a suburban house, and green lawns. ... Pop culture began to target this new, marketable social group; movies, music, and literature started to define their roles and their fashion tastes. ... By mixing blues and gospel and adding swiveling hips, he got the attention of both young girls and angry parents. ... At first his parents insisted he study political science. ...

• Word Count: 5852
• Approx Pages: 23
• Grade Level: High School