Therefore, Shantell's strength comes with the support of her family and her inner strength to succeed. ... And the other question is, "Will I have the daddy's support?" ... All things considered, Shantell and her baby's father is a model of a strong black family. ... She has her baby with the support of the baby's dad and her family. ... In short, I would definitely recommend this movie to all black families. ...

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Janice has no brother and sisters and the majority of her extended family lives in Michigan. ... Her mother divorced her father when she was 4 years old and she resents her mother's decision to break her family up. ... Janice states that the most important values in her culture are family, spirituality, independence, service and respect. ... Janice credits the church for her spiritual faith and support and gives back to her community by participating in church activities. ... Despite having a small family she maintains a close relationship with her mother. ...

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Miss Watson has no remorse when it comes to Jim being separated from his family. ... Another character that helps to support Twain's views regarding slavery is Pap, Huck's father. ... Jim has a family of his own and ran away out of love for them and even becomes a sort of father figure to Huck throughout the story. ... White people treat blacks like their trash although they have a story and families along with emotions just like everybody else. ... They all have the potential to possess human emotion and to succeed in life and Twain supports this idea in Huckleberry Finn....

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This theme is supported by the mood created by the setting, characters, and their barriers throughout the play. ... Character also supports the theme of "Raisin.... Her dream was to own a house, with her family. ... Which was to own a home with a white picket fence, and a happy family. ... This led to larger sized families, jobs. ...

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The most important socialization agent would be Anne's family. I believe this because family is the most important factor in a child's life. ... A child is molded by the way a family treats the child and by their actions. ... Anne's family was poor. Her mother was trying to support the children and herself, she barely had enough money to feed the children. ...

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The most important socialization agent would be Anne's family. I believe this because family is the most important factor in a child's life. ... A child is molded by the way a family treats the child and by their actions. ... Anne's family was poor. Her mother was trying to support the children and herself, she barely had enough money to feed the children. ...

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Now without his financial support, Richard and his family are constantly left hungry. ... Even when Ella sues Nathan for child support, Nathan convinces the judge that he has already given them all the support he can. ... Soon after their arrival, Maggie's husband is murdered causing the family to move to Helena, Arkansas. Once again the family faces hunger. ... Not being able to make much money, Richards's family decides to separate him and his brother to make it easier. ...

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Black women worked in the fields if they were asked, they cared for the children of the family, and they cared for the field slaves and their families. ... Within the family, the female took care of the day-to-day house keeping, and her role was to be a housewife. ... Black men cannot get over the image of the matriarch, and keep producing babies with black women who have very little economic and social support. ... Othermothers offer the child another form of support besides their bloodmothers. ... This is different for black males because they are still looked at as the breadwinner, and ...

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It's a dream of every modern woman, who doesn't want just to stay at home, do housework and baby sit the children; they want to study high, to work outside so that they can support out their selves and be independence. ... Also, Mama is very proud of her family. ... That's his pride, of being the man in the family. ... Lindner and help the family to move to the new house. ... Family unite is a good theme in this play also. ...

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This conflict is supported by Sara's father trying to control everything she did, even though her father is a complete failure. ... The conflict is supported by Bigger's difficulty to be happy with who he is. ... Bigger had a hard working mother who was barely able to support their family. ... Sara and her sisters had to bring in all of the income for the family. ... Sara does everything she can, even abandon her family, to just feel accepted as an American. ...

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" –charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1911 Both black and white families struggled to keep their family alive. The little children in the families, they had no choice but to work, then be educated for their family to survive. Children are being put to work more hours for less money to support their family. Low wages family prevented their children from education. ... It was either good or bad for the family and the society. ...

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Her male characters are all surrounded by legacies that haunt them throughout most of their lives, and this legacy becones them to search out their own family or personal identity. ... Allen supports Morrison's male identities by providing a universal means of understanding for all readers. ... Allen is supporting the idea of male identities being the strong focus of Song of Solomon. ... Milkman is the legacy of a family of men who have done many things to find themselves and shape their life. ... Allen again supports the idea of Milkman's reassertion from immature selfish boy to ...

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Three essential behavioral factors are communication competence in the languages of both cultures, having a wide repertoire of social skills in both cultures, and social support from family/friends from both cultures. ... Discrimination from their institution include the schools lack of support for non-mainstream students, the disproportionate enrollment of African Americans in special education classes, and the disproportionate percentage of suspension or expulsion. This lack of support leads to low self esteem, low achievement, conduct behavior problems, high drop out rates, and...

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McIntyre seems sympathetic to the Guizac family and especially to Mr. ... Shortley's return, after their family had left the farm believing they were to be fired because of Guizac's efficiency, began his slow vengeance against Guizac. ... The video uses insight to support ironic characterizations of O'Connor's characters. ...

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Schools in the North were supported by Protestant church organizations, so they sought to instill in their students the current ideals of Puritan morality. ... They acquired as a part of their family traditions the patterns of behavior which were associated with the idea of the southern lady and southern gentleman. As a rule, these families formed a closed circle from which excluded all who could not boast of similar ancestry and did not conform to the same standards of morals and manners. ... Whether "gentleman" or "peasant", we all want the same thing, to be treated fairl...

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His logic might reason that abolition propaganda will not be supported in the South and only intellects, the voting population, have the capacity to produce change. ... But first and foremost, in order to obtain his audience's sympathies and support, he must prove himself a man worthy of being listened to. ... Douglass especially connects the female role with family values. ... The adulteration of Southern family value may have been enough to get Northern attention. ... munication with his family. ...

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In the way the main character Troy impacts his family, August Wilson provides an Insightful look into the culture and history of 1950's black America. ... What should we expect, he was abandoned by his mother at age eight, fled in a brutal, lustful father at age fourteen, began steeling for a living and served fifteen years on a murder charge He holds a steady but disagreeable job as a garbage collector, supports a wife and son, stays sober six days a week, wins his own private civil right battle to become a driver and remains faithful to his wife Rose for eighteen years before ...

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The immediate environment of the family is one that has crucial influence of the development of a child, because it can either facilitate or impede the process. ... This situation vastly contrasts to the notion of the traditional nuclear family, where you have a married mom and dad living with their biological children. ... As Essie Mae's mom worked to support her family, having to deal with the economic hardships required her to make daily accommodations in order to meet the needs of her family. ... The incidents in specific are centered on issues stemming from the relationship between t...

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When the slaves learned they were free there was a feeling of excitement, followed by one of the reality that they were now responsible for providing for their families, shelter, food, clothing and a better way of life. He talks about the connection and bond that they continued to share, as the slaves began to prosper and the master and his family began to suffer. ... The part where is education was put on the back burner as a result of a need of income to support hi! s family. ... He believed that man must have skills and should be able to provide for himself and his family. ...

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We see in this production racism, alcoholism, interracial marriage, gambling addiction, and family abandonment. ... Broke and unable to support his wife and their new daughter, Kim, Gaylord thinks it will be the best for his family if he just leaves. ... The showboat family, in general, treats each other with as much decency as the Mississippi law will allow. This illustrates good family values and how we can overcome whatever happens and no matter what " Ol" Man River Keeps On Rolling Along." ...

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At the same time, median family income was declining faster for the minority groups than for whites (The Huffington Post). ... In fact, the richest households garner much of their wealth from stock, while middle and lower class families gain their wealth from housing. ... With the 2012 elections coming up and the economy in a state of unrest, Obama is losing the support of many of these same voters (Kim)....

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Pecola's family, the ultimate victims of this destructive cycle, have deserted their search for beauty, preferring to accept their ugliness in an act of hopeless fatalism: "You looked at them and wondered why they were so ugly; you looked closely and couldn't find the source. Then you realized that it came from conviction, their conviction They had looked about themselves and saw nothing to contradict the statement; saw, in fact support for it leaning at them from every billboard, every movie, every glance"(pg 39). ... She has many problem is her life, starting with family issues, ...

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During his first fifty years, Brown moved about the country, settling in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, and New York, and taking along his ever-growing family. ... His lack of funds, however, did not keep him from supporting causes he believed in. ... The community had been established thanks to the philanthropy of Gerrit Smith, who donated tracts of at least 50 acres to black families willing to clear and farm the land. Brown, knowing that many of the families were finding life in this isolated area difficult, offered to establish his own farm there as well, in order to lead the blacks by...

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Willie would go on to plead guilty in a family court and sent to a juvenile prison. ... Fox Butterfields research revolves around the Boskets family history and focuses it in a way to demonstrate the source of Mr. ... Butterfield states that he traced the Bosket family back to a county in South Carolina called Edgefield. ... He would argue that poverty, race, or broken families had nothing to do with crime. ... Butch began to stay on the path of trouble living in Harlem, Butch would stick to the street life and continue his acts of criminal activity due to his rough surroundings and the lack o...

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It follows young Richard through his youth, examining the hardships and obstacles faced by both him and his poverty-stricken family. Richard's only thought is to find a haven outside the prison that is his family's circumstances. ... Throughout his life, Richard faces the need for a loving family to help and encourage him, but his family in a way, unknowingly help to form his independence. Richard's family was unable to provide what a family is normally supposed to, which was love, acceptance, and security. ... His family never fully supports him in his journey and make his stud...

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