The bill allows states federal grant monies to each of them to assist families that need it based on specific guidelines and criteria. The bill states that the assistance is meant to be temporary and is so coined Temporary Assistance for Needy Families or TANF. The bill limits eligible families "generally to no more than 60 months (five years), consecutive or nonconsecutive, of TANF, with certain exceptions for hardship situations, minor children, or family members that have been battered or subject to extreme cruelty, including mental abuse." Although the monies are divided amongst...

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Assuming such a scenario, many companies believe that repatriates easily transition back into their former lives foregoing the need for support. ... Modification of salary and other compensation benefits/perks is typically the biggest re-adjustment that repatriates and their families must make upon return to their home country. ... In addition to orientation, Wynn will need to implement a support structure that not only adheres to the repatriate, but can also facilitate family re-integration, including employment-assistance for spouse, education support for children, housing assistance, and an...

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Family, peers, media, religion and cultural backgrounds all play an important part on influencing our values, knowledge and behaviours concerning mental health. ... Family and peers are vital to ensure that all are aware in promoting good health by positively influencing and providing the skills that are necessary. ... By acknowledging the possible resources presented, delivers people the chance to approach supporting services prior to helping with mental health. ... Young individuals who live in the urban areas have greater access to support services such as the Internet and councillors, th...

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Young and Willmott (1973) believe that the symmetrical family has become the typical family form in Britain; they believe that gender segregation still exist but symmetrical families are developing much more joint conjugal roles and that there has been a large amount of equality between men and women. ... Another aspect of the Symmetrical family is that the role of the 'breadwinner' is more shared that laid upon the male, as there are more families with both spouses in paid-employment than in the past. ... This supports Oakley's theories as they prove that there are still segre...

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In the novel Leila is seemingly trapped into living in Chinatown, bounded by her Chinese family ties, she refuses to leave in a way to take care of her family. Her Chinese parents strongly promote family allegiance in endeavors rather than setting their children free like European and American families. ... While Leon represents the patriarch in the family often leaving for jobs and going overseas, abandoning Mah. ... Leila's assimilation is ultimately disturbed in the sense that she has to negotiate between her family member's assimilation and her own. ... Leila's mother Mah is...

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Her use of expert opinion and statistics, as well as appealing to family values in order to better connect with the parental audience, helps Panahi to make more of a lasting impact with her arguments. ... Panahi uses this statement to appeal to the family values of the audience, making parents feel a certain amount of responsibility for their children's academic success or failure. This seemingly "unfair" combination of both "beauty and brains" contradicts the general belief of a "himbo/bimbo stereotype", making the audience want to read further in order to h...

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Prussia was a pulling agent, she was pro-liberal and pro-kleindutsch and pro-nationalist, she had the support of the princes which accentuates Prussia did not stand alone in the animosity of it all. ... The people of the states found unification to intellectual and aloof, their priorities did not lie in uniting, they only cared for feeding their families and keeping a shelter over their heads and having mobility to roam and some money to live but however their loyalty lay to their state and ruler but; not to a united German state this only exacerbated things and led to the failure of unificat...

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The learning outcomes of children from a "Working class" family home and children within a "Middle class" family home, both classes are different from each other, where middle class families focus on the child and more involved with their children as opposed to children from a working class family, where parents are less involved and allow their children to do things. ...

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Among these arguments that Charalambous defends are the following: although homosexuality has been practiced and accepted since ancient times, homosexuals were never considered to be on the same level as or as an alternative to marriage and the biological family; the primary significance of marriage is sexual reproduction, an age old solution to survival; and gay parents pose more of a threat of nurturing homosexuality in children than straight parents do.# Reviewing the article numerous times, I was positioned between aggravation and disappointment; it is unfathomable that the author of thi...

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This virus vector, together with knockout mice, has allowed us to study the role of pro-apoptotic Bcl-2 family proteins Bax and Bak in modulating the outcome of a Sindbis virus infection. ... We now support the hypothesis that Bak and perhaps Bax as well inhibits synaptic activity by regulating mitochondrial function, thereby protecting neurons and mice from Sindbis virus-induced excitotoxic neuronal damage. ...

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Poverty stricken families or individuals live their lives daily dealing with this problem and find it difficult to maintain their livelihood and has disrupted their view on the factors of economy. ... As days have passed, the times have been harder and have not gotten any easier after the great depression leaving several families in difficult situations that has led many talented and deserving individuals homeless. ... Individuals with high amounts of medical bills are who have no third party support will not benefit from this initiative since the cost of medical expenses come in such exponent...

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These were ruled by Frenchmen who were usually close to Napoleon as a family member or as a close friend, such as Jerome Bonaparte who was King of Westphalia and Joachim Murat who was King of Naples. ... For example, Napoleon appointed family members and close friends as leaders of countries within his Empire. ... The clan system was based on the principle of supporting family members or friends due to the fact their loyalty could be rarely questioned. ... However, the French soon began to impose heavy demands on the Belgians to support the French Army. ... Throughout Napoleon's military...

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Although the two sources are conflicting they are remarkably similar, both are biased towards one party and both use words and phrases such as "massacre" and "we must protect ourselves" to provoke an emotional response from the public and create support for their viewpoint. This created anger in Irish communities as these sources polarised loyalists (in support of the army) against Republicans (in support of the March) which led to distrust and often violence. The conflicting attitudes of these two sources still affect current attitudes today, the evidence that would later ...

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"Most elected officials within the political elite are dependent upon wealthy families and corporate leaders for their initial financial support, and military leaders are appointed by civilians who win control of the executive branch. ... An examination of the interest group system in the United States today reveals that there is a major flaw in the pluralist theory, which supports the equality of all interest groups needs. ... Although the majority of citizens may support an interest group, without money, it is unlikely to get the support it needs. ... Further, another issue with pressur...

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Through the Agrarian Reform Laws (1959, 1963), land was distributed to more than 200,000 peasant families, and 70% of the Latifundio lands (large estates) passed into state control. ... But this was not a consideration, for Eastern Europe supported it, and had it not been for the revolution many farmers would have been driven into poverty through bankruptcy, which led to local rural support. ...

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The IAF assembly as such is independent and not connected to any particular church.The IAF netwok has brought together whites, African-Americans, Mexican-Americans, Catholics and Protestants for mutual support in addressing matters of common concern. ... In support of this he writes, "For example, recent studies reveal that, although they oppose such preferential racial policies as college admission quotas or job hiring and promotion strategies designed to achieve equal outcomes, most white Americans approve of such opportunity-enhancing affirmative action policies as race-targeted programs fo...

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Although some emperors, such as Augustus, tried to retain an image of the republican form of government, so as to not upset the upper class and keep the support of the senate, in reality the senate provided little successful opposition and simply acted as a reminder of the power which it once held, often referred to by scholars as the 'Republican Façade' . ... Augustus' own conservative attitudes helped to keep up the Republican Façade and the support of the senators. ... Augustus attempted to raise the tone of the senate, reducing the number of senators to 600, hence Augustus...

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Breaking bad about a cancer-stricken chemistry teacher trying to support his family that includes a newly-born and a son with cerebral palsy through the methamphetamine industry all the while pushing the boundaries of moral justification. ...

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Therefore, in terms of Eisenstein's argument that women's girl bodies determine democracy; free from violence and sexual abuse, free from malnutrition and environmental degradation, free to plan their own families, free to not have families, free to choose their sexual lives and preferences, I agree with this view; that is, "democracy" [from this perspective] would examine a freedom, liberty, or independence of women and girls in order to gain access; such as, to have reproductive freedom, a secure , qualitative life and their own chosen life, the same social position comparing to me...

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Each team allies itself with specific charities, many of which bleed over from team to team, to help the unfortunate families and ailing citizens of Pittsburgh. ... Flowers then thought hard about where to make the donations, and he ultimately selected the families of two World Trade Center victims who were life-long fans of the Steelers. ... The outpouring of support from just one team and its players is a vast help to the community, but Pittsburgh is fourtunate to have two other generous professional teams as well. ... The charitable success continues with the Penguins, who work in conjun...

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In a follow-up study of 100 Harvard students to their midlife, Vaillant (1977) found that intellectual ability was not significantly associated with any of his measures of adjustment, which included mental health, physical health, family relations, and success in work. ...

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When starting to get deeper into the text the reader starts to see how the author use of supporting facts start to sway the reader to think more deeply as to why it took so long to achieve this major goal of the segregations of schools, the author shows the person reading how our state and local authorities responded to this case such as wanting to bring the revival of relentless organizations such as the Ku Klux Klan, and also the harassment of organizations such as the NAACP. ... There is a correlation that if you are born into a family which is well of you are more likely to go to a good sc...

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This process is also critical in building coalitions in support of the balance of power. ... However, new diplomacy is characterized by the democratization of their selection; family and social class are less important. ...

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There's a correlation between the number of people marrying and cohabiting, as the number of people marrying decreases, the number of people cohabiting increases, however Robert Chester (1985) suggests that the majority of couples who cohabit see it as a trial before marriage, Ernestina Coast (2006) supports this as she discovered 75% of the cohabiting couples said they planned on getting marred in the future if their relationship is healthy. ... Although for the majority of cohabiting couples, cohabitation is only a temporary phase for others it's not, for some it's a permanent...

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You don't really get a reward besides a bonus but really it's not always about the money, just knowing that you're happy and have support from your friends and family is the best reward anyone can receive. ...

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