It had managed to rap itself so tightly in the daily bind not to care about any actual member of the family that could be sick or aging. ... The play confronts being alive and how to behave with the awareness of death. ... It would be the definition of the song the "Little of Lady from Pasadena" how as we get older we do slow down but grow. ... That this society has a problem with how to treat the elderly, how to respect the wealth of knowledge that they have. ... The play reflects modern trends on the elderly and the perspective of how they are dealt with....

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• Grade Level: High School

He explained how horrible jail is and when his grandma still comes and visits him she still cries even after all the years he has been in jail. This just shows how much being in jail effects family members. ... No teachers wanted to help her even learn because of how bad it was. ... Kim loved music and loved to rap. ...

• Word Count: 716
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• Grade Level: High School

"Headlights," is a song by American rapper Eminem, featuring Nate Ruess. ... Third, he expresses how his childhood was really tough to go through by mentioning that their house was like, "Vietnam," and that he and his mother can figuratively, "from an atomic bomb equivalent to Chemical Warfare," when they are together. ... Yet, he never asked about his father and didn't realize how difficult it was for his mother to raise them alone. ...

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• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

How can someone promise to lend a hand when they left you astray? ... The refugee camps were horrible and my mother was worried about us living there due to people assaulting, harassing, and rapping others. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

He had been born into a family of troubles and could not escape it no matter how hard he tried. ... "But Buster Brown is a man of contrasts I guess, a guy who at first glance seems to be taking care of a child that he later turns out to be doping for his porn movies, a guy who wants to help kids who"re homeless and all that but also wants to suck and fuck them too, a Christian in a Christian van who turns out to be a has been actor with an English accent looking for kids to be proteges and turns out to be a white guy who likes gangsta rap and manages a band and calls them niggers who tu...

• Word Count: 701
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

How do ones life happenings reflect upon their lives? ... "Her childhood was scarred from the time she was five to eleven years old, when she was often beaten and rap! ... She decided to wait a while and see how things went because she realized she could just burn everything later; why not see where it takes her? ... She wanted to shoot because of how cool it seemed. ... This is how it relates to Allison's life theme, she wanted desperatly not to be abused, to be treated like all the others, and still to this day that is her dream....

• Word Count: 1369
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Mama, Dee, and Maggie each have their own views on how they perceive and appreciate their heritage. ... "Everyday Use," speaks from Mama's perspective which helps reveal how she feels about herself, as well as her two daughters Dee and Maggie. ... Contrary to her looks, Maggie is homely and has a heart of gold: "Maggie is the arisen goddess of Walker's story, she is the sacred figure who bears the scarifications of experience and knows how to convert patches into robustly patterned and beautifully quilted," (Baker 457). ... Maggie, much like Mama, with little educ...

• Word Count: 1247
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School