... web of lies. Stripped of every trapping for example, Carrie's relationship with Drouet and later Hurstwood, is that of prostitution. Carrie does not love them; she compromised the Victorian idea of social morality of her time, engaging in a sexual and cohabitating relationships with these men, only because ... out of the apartment into cheap hotels and eventually ended up on the street. Just like Hurstwood's earlier decline from a privileged position of family and work in Chicago, his decline with Carrie also came at the cost of him not fulfilling his social responsibility and traditiona...

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... for that production were larger than that of many productions I have directed, they remained comprised of older individuals, theatre practitioners, and family and friends. While the audiences for both these productions appeared to be younger than the typical audience for a major theatrical production, neither ... watching something more interesting, provocative, entertaining, relevant to me, and free of charge, on my computer. As a person who was brought up to love theatre, and who has spent my life devoted to creating theatre, I find these feelings especially disheartening. If I am havi...

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... gay community are eager to defend. The only thing that should matter in a marriage is love and to deny gay marriages is a form of minority prejudice. Thus, if two people of the same gender love each other, they should be allowed the same privileges as a straight couple. For instance, ... if a marriage is about two people who love each other, the nation should acknowledge all unions instead of discriminating same-sex marriage. In other words, two individuals ... [same sex marriage]" (Human Rights Campaign, 2011b). Since the majority of traditional marriages are based on love and eventu...

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... British soldiers saw surrounding them during their occupation of Manhattan during the Revolutionary War. Sanderson fell in love with the simplicity of the landscape and decided he wanted others to "fall in love with New York's original landscape (Eric Sanderson, National Geographic 2009)." "For almost a ... detailed porcelain dishware and delicately carved pipes. "Ceramics from an Irish tenement at 472 Pearl Street were used to discuss how a typical family probably set their table and decorated their apartment. (Yamin 2001, 4) Examination of medicinal bottles found in another lot help to...

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... and cultural factors. These factors can be broken into four primary categories: intergenerational transmission of violence, social stress, social isolation and low community involvement, and family structure. There are four types of child abuse: physical, emotional, sexual, and neglect. In almost all cases of physical abuse the parents are to blame ... Abuse America, 1) The treatment of injuries caused by child abuse costs $6,205,395,000 a year. (Prevent Child Abuse America, 1) Mental Health and health care provide family preservation, rehabilitation, and treatment programs, which costs ...

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... important to Whitman's way of thinking, and had much influence on his both democratic and urban poetry. Times were tough financially for his family, but Walt often liked to distance himself from them and ride the ferries from East River to New York City. During these commutes ... O bells! But I with mournful tread, Walk the deck my Captain lies, Fallen cold and dead." In this collection it is apparent that Whitman's love for democracy was diminishing after seeing the destruction it could cause against fellow man, though at first it was for a cause that furthered unity and equality ... d...

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... (Gaustad, 1991). In generally all the cases, this behavior is because of a loyalty to what is termed their family. This family is said to contain all of the love and attention that is not given at home by either the parents or the caregivers. When these youth are of ... gangs is their ability to respond to student needs that are otherwise not met. As stated above, they often provide youth with a sense of family and acceptance otherwise lacking in their lives. In addition, especially in these times with the recent mass gangs" immigration of many groups to our ... brought my peers into th...

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... first place. In today's world, children are seen as individuals who have certain rights as human beings, and who are worthy of external (or non family) protection. This has not always been the case. For the better part of the 19th century, there were no rules or regulations in effect that ... prevented the mistreatment of children, since they were thought to be completely under the control of their immediate family (University of Delaware). It was not until 1874 that the first organization concerned with the protection of children was established in New York. The ... the responsibility...

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... even more difficult, "I was afraid they would define me by my gayness, not by my personality or self worth. Not knowing their reaction, I put myself at risk for losing my family's love and much of what I consider to be important in my life." Because of false stereotypes and unwarranted prejudice towards them, the process of "coming out" for lesbians and gay men ... cause a great deal of emotional pain. Lesbian and gay people often feel different and alone when they first become aware of same-sex attractions. They may also fear rejection from family, friends, co-workers and religious ins...

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... , but as an entity punk was an anarchistic representation of freedom and of sexual (and asexual) perspectives, identities and self-expression. It mocked the everyday standard existence of the American family, and the nine-to-five ethic. Bands like the New York Dolls, and the White Trash Debutantes dressed in outrageous women's clothing and played loud, distorted, simple progressions with hard ... , driving beats behind them. A transvestite screaming "I want to know what love is!"," with a syringe full of heroin sticking out of her arm was not something mom and dad wanted their daughter to...

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... (Durkhiem 1964: cited in Jureidini & Poole 2000:35) saw men became stereotyped and expected to be bread winners and women were stereotyped as incubators and child carers. Patriarchy within the family was accepted as the norm as men were believed to be naturally aggressive (according to sociobiology)and have a need to dominate the ... family, women were believed to be naturally passive, nurturing and even to have a need to be dominated (Jureidini & Poole 2001). . Sociobiologists ascertain that men have an innate attraction to fertile women. ... University Press Myers, David. G., (2001)...

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... , a wheat farmer, a few years later, she moved with her mother, sister, and two brothers to Vancouver, British Columbia, where she attended local primary and secondary schools. Mrs. Martin supported her family by renovating and selling old houses, and throughout her youth Agnes Martin took various jobs with mining and logging companies to supplement the ... family income. Moving to the United States in 1932, she took classes at Western Washington College in Bellingham from 1935 to 1938. Between 1937 and 1953 Miss Martin taught in public ... in New Mexico, the critic Dore Ashton, writin...

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... and the Legend of Sleepy Hollow. This last one is the story of a professor making his way in a town, Sleepy Hollow, in the outside of New York. He falls in love, makes an enemy and disappears, but that is not the complete story. Washington goes much deeper using American politics, folklore and cultural surrounding from the time to influence his acclaim ... character Ichabod Crane, who can be related to the Yankee and his enemy Brom Bones, who personifies the Dutch from New York (Ringe 1). His would seemingly make it prone to family prejudices, a younger parallel to the European aged com...

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... . One of the best examples of this I can find is from my own experience: In the fifth grade, a boy named Tonino Solimine (who is the third Tonino Solimine in his family) moved to my middle school from his hometown of Staten Island. His New York accent was so incredibly thick that during the spelling bee, he was asked to repeat the ... many ways, worrisome. To many purebred New Yorkers, this part of the city's culture is representative of its rich history, and, without it, the New York that they know and love simply isn't the same. However, resistance to change is not unique, and, if anyt...

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... social responsibility may not often be listed high on the publics list, but it is a simple thing for the company to do and it will bring customer loyalty in every family where a child is returned and saved form a life of possible starvation, prostitution, or death in the streets. The small business man might not be able to give a rise home to ... Plastic Company fired the supervising engineer for plant efficiency in New York who then took his complaint (rebuffed by supervisors) to a local television station, this triggering the national scandal of Love Canal. Suppressing Information: Eq...

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... five thousand dollars by an alumnus of a local high school in exchange for his son's services. Chris was a mere thirteen years old, a child prodigy, at the time. While the Webber family declined the offer, the money eventually became too good to pass up (78). The investigation conducted by the NCAA eventually revealed Webber had accepted $280,000 from a Michigan booster while ... sold drugs in order to pay his tuition (Colbert). These are just a few of the many startling examples of how the business of NCAA hoops often takes precedence over the love and integrity of the game. While coll...

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... . She goes on to point out even more about the negative way society treats gay relationships and how gays feel about it, she gives a brief example about a couple applying for a family membership to the Y in Madison Wisconsin and being turned down because they were both women. Implying that, " something as small as that can make you small"(411). Quindlen tells how ... we will find it just as incredible that two people of the same sex were not entitled to legally commit themselves to each other"(411). Quindlen's article maintains in all, love and commitment are scarce enough and it seems r...

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... truth than any other medium. It is in the most respectful corner of our living rooms, where once our grandfathers use to tell fairy tales. It is a member of our family that holds some magical ties with the outer world, through which we learn the deeds of our times. "It is the head of the household in the traditional sense that ... a small number of Americans after an atomic blast. The film dramatically showed the dark side of the nuclear technology. In 1982 a Canadian director, Terri Nash, made a documentary called- If You Love This Planet, and won an Academy Award. In his work, he used...

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