... latest model year purchase. But Americans had not just redefined the outside of their home; they had redefined the inside as well. In the kitchen, the open floor plan, featured refrigerators painted similar colors to those that you would find in the automobile showroom, often they were shaped like ... for adult Americans, it became the status symbol of the teenage world. In Morgan's 1953 Look article "What a Car Means to a Boy," he discusses the implications of a boy's own car, the boy driving the family car, and what driving means to the parents of a young driver -- all important aspect...

• Word Count: 7127
• Approx Pages: 29
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... do not actually feature in the film, although they do in the book. The ashes are the remains of a coal fire, since expired, in the family kitchen. Angela, the mother, after years of disappointments and heartache brought on by her irresponsible husband, the death of several of her children, and abject poverty, is ... , calling her horrible names. From her viewpoint he has become his father. He moves into his dim-witted uncle's house and gets a job as a telegram boy. He falls in love and has sex with a rich girl, who soon afterwards dies of consumption. Frank is consumed with guilt, belie...

• Word Count: 3537
• Approx Pages: 14
• Grade Level: High School

... Red Candle Lindo Jong's story is about familial obligations and honor. Following ancient Chinese custom, Lindo's parents promised their daughter, when she was only two years old, to eventually marry a boy named Tyan-yu. Though most people in China had adopted more modern concepts of marriage, Lindo's parents were from the old school. When her parents were forced to leave their ... will stop being Chinese. Finally, "Half and Half" refers to the state of the Hsus before and after the drowning of Bing. In fact, Tan described the beach where the boy dies as "a giant bowl, cracked in half, t...

• Word Count: 6459
• Approx Pages: 26
• Grade Level: High School

... other women in town, and tended to household chores. Up until about the age eight, boys and girls wore the same thing. They only wore wool or linen dresses. After a boy reached the age of eight or nine, he would begin to help out with the father's job, which was farming, and a dress would not suit the job very well. Girls ... structure, there was usually only one or two rooms in the house. Now there were separate rooms for different types of activities. The even started giving rooms names like the kitchen, bedroom, parlor, chamber, loft, dinning room and living room. With all of this ro...

• Word Count: 3125
• Approx Pages: 13
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... or within a family, odds are that kids will know about where they are kept and perhaps even be curious enough to actually use them. In October, 1997 a 16 year old boy shot and killed his girlfriend and her best friend while they were exiting a Mississippi school leaving six others wounded (Liesen, Owens). The spontaneity of young children and guns are a lethal ... persons intended of being murdered have a lot more time to react to a speeding car than a bullet. There are a lot of things that can be used to murder someone such as: a kitchen knife, a baseball bat, a screwdriver, a sharp pe...

• Word Count: 2579
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School