In he painting Freedom from Want, Rockwell cleverly creates an image of a family sitting down to Thanksgiving dinner to show the relief from hunger and loneliness. ... Rockwell places the people close together so one can imagine the closeness of the family something which many desire because their loved ones were either recruited to fight in the war or have left home to find a decent job to help support the family. Norman Rockwell used this painting to promote his vision of an ideal America where people do not suffer from hunger and family members are close to one another. ... Norman Ro...

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Congress passed the Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1965, thus allowing more Korean family members and entire family groups to enter the US, Korean Americans could once again provide their extended family groups of families and friends with the physical, emotional, and financial support they needed in their new homes. ... Korean names are usually made up of three syllables: the first is the family name, the second is the generational name, and the last is the personal name. Because family names custmoraily come last in the US, Korean Americans are often addressed incorrectoly. Even whe...

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Alternatively, Moria Eastman says the meaning of family is, "whatever the family means by family is what the family is. Everyone knows who their own family is." ... Studies have shown that single-parented families have the same problems which face homosexual families. ... Particularly amongst the younger generations, teenage pregnancy has led to many single-parented families due to the partner not supporting the child and on the common grounds of rape. ... Through homosexual relationships, de facto relationships and single-parent families a successful family is possible. ...

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Thus, although American Capitalism gave rise and support to America being the land of freedom and prosperity, the sharpest challenge came in the 1930s. ... Thus, in 1929, the top 0.1 percent of American families had an aggregate income equal to that of the bottom 42 percent. The top 5 percent of American families received 30 percent of the nation's income; the bottom 60 percent got only 26 percent. About 71 percent of American families had annual incomes below $2,500. Nearly 80 percent of the nation's families had no savings; the top 0.1 percent held 34 percent of all the savings. ...

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." - Fortune Magazine Table of Contents Introduction The Rise of the Automobile The Styling Redesign The Role of Attainable Pricing for the Masses The Emerging American Obsession The Impact on the Nuclear Family Redefining the American Teenager The Rise of the Hot Rod Culture The Rise of the Excess Culture Baby Boomers and Redesign Converting from Chrome to Muscle The Automobile as Identity Downfall and Decline Conclusion Bibliography Introduction With the end of World War II, the United States returned to a different life and culture than the one it had left behind at the start...

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Born into the Marlborough family with its history of government leadership, Churchill believed from a young age that he had a supreme destiny. ... During his first ten years in Parliament, he expressed strong support for imperialism and the use of force in its support, was strongly against socialism and communism, against women's suffrage despite earlier support, and took strong stands on economics and trade and other social issues; these opinions brought him both support and criticism. ... As appeasement lost public support, however, Churchill rebuilt his reputation and continued to lam...

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Notably, it can be deduced that personal or family concerns were perhaps the most comprehensive factors that prompted the Italians to immigrate into America. ... The dynamism of Italian immigration may also be attributed by the immigration of women and families. ... Instead, most of them organized themselves in form of families. In fact, Italian immigrants associated and established close links with fellow immigrants from same families. ... In addition, the United States lacked family support system, which is a core component in the Italian contexts. ...

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Julie Otsuka's book When the Emperor was Divine tracks one Japanese family uprooted from their house in Berkeley, California and sent to an internment camp in Utah during the World War Two. ... Second, the handsome and polite father has a descent job to support his family. ... Also, these are ordinary things owned by a Japanese family, and in our common sense, people keep stuffs taken from hometown just for the memory or because of their cultural blessings and lifestyles. On the one hand, destroying letters from the Japan might indicate that the family has some hidden information or secre...

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Along with this loss of territory came increasing population densities as displaced families sought new land to farm. Traditional swidden farming methods, though the most efficient method of utilizing tropical soils, require large amounts of territory for the support of relatively few people as fields are rotated about every three years and new fields must not be adjacent to the one just abandoned2. ... Living conditions were harsh with several hundred workers forced to live in a single large hut with open sides and no separation of men and women or even family units really possible. ...

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Was it a result of the New Deal that redirected the focus of Americans back to the federal government, instead of self-preservation, expecting it to support the nation's welfare? ... The end of World War II brought thousands of young servicemen back to America to pick up their lives and start new families in new homes with new jobs, and American industry expanded to meet peacetime needs. ... Stereotypical images of suburbia supported the view that the nation was becoming conformist: cookie-cutter Levittown houses, mothers staying home to raise children, white-collar husbands, and backyar...

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To understand how this wonderful piece of music came together the way it did, it is necessary to not only understand the major regional and world events of the time period, but also the personal and family life of the composer himself. ... This hemiola pattern creates a more chaotic, unaligned feel, and completes a perfect metaphor for World War II: the precise duple first half representing the beginning of the war, when everyone was happy to support the war effort and fueled by patriotism, and the chaotic compound second half represents the later stages of the war, when everyone was desperat...

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People were beginning to go back to work and make more substantial incomes so they could provide for their families. ... They were peaceful people who had steady jobs; families and owned homes just like every other American. ... Going against the evidence the President and other executives racially profiled all Japanese Americans as people who supported the Japanese Imperial Army. ... Also the government had the support from many non-Japanese American Citizens that voiced strong opinions of the Japanese. ... When Japanese Americans were relocated into internment camps they were placed in small...

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The American message was: if you support attacks on America, no matter how tangential the connection, we are going to take your governments out wherever they are. ... More importantly, however, is the fact that this Iraqi government has historically supported and aided different terrorist organizations in furthering their destructive goals that aim to raise fear in nations that operate under ideals of freedom and liberty. ... The same held true if someone overheard another referring to Saddam in derogatory ways and failed to report it to the authorities, even if that someone was a family mem...

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there was rising unemployment and this led to unrest in many cities and many people began to support the Communists. ... In October 1922 Mussolini threatened to march on Rome if he was not appointed prime minister. the king of Italy, Victor Emmanuel III, who supported Mussolini, refused to back the existing government and invited him to become prime minister. ... A belief in at least some traditional hierarchies: the army, the family, sometimes the church. ... Their policies include fervent belief in Jewish conspiracy theories and Holocaust Denial, the forcible repatriation of non-whi...

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Family is important that we support and care for each other in every trouble and conflict (Whitbourne). ... In Asian American families, being good parents is equated with having children who perform well academically. ... This Tiger parenting described in the book is a stereotype of Asian families. ... Finding solution through communication would create a loving family environment. ...

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This paper will discuss how soldiers in WWI and WWII changed the way English was formed with particular focus on the letters they wrote letters to their families back home. Through the wide use of letters as the key form of communicating with family and friends and the communication they had between themselves in the trenches, a myriad of words and phrases came into common use. ... This is supported by the letters archived from WWI and WWII, which suggest that the soldiers spelled words according to the influences of regional pronunciations and, to some extent, personal preference. ... For th...

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During the 1910's, individuals all over Australia came together to support one another through the times of burden, arduousness and encumbrance that they were faced with. ... Since then, Anzac Day has developed into a day for Australians to honour those that risked it all in an attempt to bring peace to the world, and also to support the men and women currently serving in the National Australian Defence Force. ... The legacy of Anzac has become a fundamental part of family life (Skwirk, 2014). ...

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In the 90s, just after the fall of communism, the countries of central and eastern Europe received the promise of their inclusion in the structure of NATO in exchange for full support of the US political aspirations. ... Americans started preparation to take their part in the war in Near East with almost full support of most western countries including (at least formally) Russia. ... As another example we can provide an issue of Russia's involvement in the war in Syria and support Bashar al-Asad regime.13 Also in Caucasus former Soviet republics, especially in Georgia. ... From the one ...

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The United States immediately gained UN Security Council support for the defense of South Korea and committed American ground troops to the war. ... This led to the first authorized cross-border visits of family members separated since the Korean War, the start of mail service between the two countries, and agreement by both sides to reconnect road and rail links long severed by the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ). ...

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These groups largely view Australia as an important local enemy, both because of it's Western culture and because we have supported regional stability and independence for East Timor-. ... Although the writer uses a lot of Appeals to the writer's sense of secureness and attacks the readers fear there is no evidence of other appeals such as Tradition, Family values, Patriotism, Security, Justice and Emotional appeal. ...

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Increases in exports due to the stronger price competitiveness of Japanese products also supported the sustained rise in business activity. ... For example: "in order to pursue wet paddy rice farming, the village communities of pre-industrial Japan had to be bound together, and family connections cemented this social and economic interdependence. Just as individual were linked to families, families were linked to village communities, village communities looked to local lords for protection and favour; just as local lords looked to the Tokugawa shogunate" (Abe, 1995). ...

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The Royal commission included recommendations on updating the legislative system as well as addressing critical issues for women such as poverty, family law and the need for a federal representative for women ("The Royal Commission on the Status of Women" 2013). ... All in all, thanks to The Royal Commission, women were able to have a status that supported their belief on equal rights, and measures were taken to further provide them with succession on their road to equality. ... Her plan for action pertaining to women, has gained her many female supports such as Tess Klaver, who wa...

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Transvaal's ambition for self-rule, foreign presence and support created heated arguments for the strong supporters of imperialism in England. ... As foreign investment in the republic grew along with German diplomatic support for the Transvaal the imperialist in England believe there was a concerted attempt to undermine Britain's supremacy in South Africa. ... In December 1895, Leander Starr Jameson, a fiend of Rhodes, lead a band of 600 British armed men in an unauthorized attempt to support the rebellious Uitlanders in the South African Republic. ...

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Officially known as a United Nations police action, this battle between the communist North Koreans, supported by the Sino-Soviet Bloc, and the capitalist South Koreans, backed by the US and its allies, revealed the extent to which the Cold War would affect US foreign policy, as well as, domestic issues. ... This is perhaps, no more clear, than in the strict roles followed within the American family. The "Nuclear Family", as it was known, consisted of a working father, a homemaking mother, and their 2.3 children, deviance from this structure was rare and when it did occur it was severely fr...

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If the league needed an army then they would need to ask a country to lend them troops, if there were casualties (and there always are casualties) the the president of the country who lended them the army would be responsible and would need to take all the blame from the families of the casualties so it might then reflect on their elections or the amount of support he has, so no country would want to lend their army because it is in the interest of the politicians to keep their army safe. ...

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