What does family mean to you? ... Another key concept that is seen within the family, are the different roles that family members take. ... Days like these are outweighed by the tremendous social support that Katy and her family receive from neighbors, relatives, and the nation as a whole. ... After looking at all of the components, from the support of the kids to Katy's uplifting words, it is definite that the Soulas family has shown a complete equifinality towards happiness. ... They not only go into roles that individuals choose in a family, but also how families r...

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They vary between one family and the next. ... This perfect image is not widely supported in reality. Breakdowns between families, particularly between parents and children, are a common occurrence in today's hostile world. ... Real families do not always follow the perfect ideals that television demands of them. ... These feelings may evolve into resentfulness and result in a break in once close family ties. ...

• Word Count: 1761
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

He yearns for support from his family, and dislikes the way in which they live. In the play, Walter pleads with his family for support and states, " I got me a dream" (Hansberry 33.) ... The major way to support one's family is through making money. ... Walter sees his job as a chauffeur as, for one, degrading, and not a way to make the money he needs to support his family. ... Having that role would also give him control over his family and would grant him with the concrete ability to protect his family. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

This paper examines current problems related to women's work and childrearing, focusing on role conflicts, women's well-being, and supports from family including husbands, government and companies, and in the end looks for possible solutions. ... It is clear that women's participation in labor decreases her whole family's economic hardship. ... The second is social support. ... The last is external support. ... Are supports for workingwomen enough in Japan? ...

• Word Count: 1966
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• Grade Level: High School

Cleaver was the lone breadwinner who supported his family and even had time to play catch with his kids, or go on a fishing trip from time to time. ... The men are still expected to support the family in the 90s, but they are also called upon to be much more then that. ... Today's economy and standard of living has changed from that of the old and to expect everyone to be able to support a family with one job is unrealistic. There is a price to pay for be both a financial supporter as well as the family man. ... During the time that this show was made, women were expected to be the "t...

• Word Count: 1718
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• Grade Level: High School

She loves her father and stays with his family to be near him, but she is forcibly married off to a shoemaker. ... According to Al-Hibri, even when she traces her family tree only the names of male members of the family are written, as if the women don't exist. ... In a fundamentalist society, especially Islamic one, women are not allowed to work outside of their houses, this is the reason sons are expected to grow up and support the family, and this is equivalent to carrying on the name of the family. ... However the entrance of Laila and her feministic leaning give Mariam a support tha...

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• Grade Level: High School

She cooks for her family and tends to her children. ... She is portrayed as jealous upon her first visit to the Burden family's home. ... She was able to support herself and her child through hard work and perseverance. ... These girls came to America with their families to help out on their father's farms or the farms of other families to support themselves. ... She found joy in her family and within herself. ...

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The importance of imagery in this context is that it is rich in rhetoric and therefore supports masculine power. ... The Imagery here supports masculine power by arranging it into a new configuration of the human relationships. The family is perceived as the basis of gender with the elevation of the father to the status of the sole parent while the mother is completely removed and does not play any role in the family (Fowler 54). ... According to Fontenrose, the imagery of the animal single parent means that the father is the head of the family and the mother is technically placed outside th...

• Word Count: 1671
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Traditionally, from the beginning of time, humans have always raised families as a unit, with each individual contributing towards the family to help in any way possible. Family was considered the foundation of living and a permanent support system that you can always rely on, to the extent that those seen living without family were questioned and evidence of this is still present today in some cultural practices (such as arranged marriages). ... A familial support system has shifted from a given to a disposable feature, where people would be willing to trade it in for individual goals. Billy ...

• Word Count: 1889
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

They have done this by challenging concepts of gender, the family and the unequal division of labour underpinned by a theory of patriarchy that has come to reveal how it operates to subordinate women and privilege men, often at women's expense. ... Walby's explanation sees the household production as being a key site of women's subordination but acknowledges that the domestic area is not only one that women participate in. she shows how the concept of patriarchy is useful in explaining the relationship between women's subordination in the private and public arenas by s...

• Word Count: 2399
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Muslim women have a great responsibility to the family. ... Islamic family role provides them with security and ensures them with a social and economical shelter, first within the family then in the community. ... Though the spiritual standing of men and women are the same before God, he has ordained that men assume the leadership role in the church and home and that woman assume the support role (Brown). ... In essence, the role of a wife is to support her husband, to make him successful and the role of the man is leadership. ... Jewish worship is based on the home front or the family. ...

• Word Count: 1448
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• Grade Level: High School

I will use examples and insights from the text, video clips and lecture, and my own media experience to support my observations. ... This movie showed a destitute and struggling family embracing hope. ... Their overall goal was to find a man and then have a family. ... In this show the ideal family was shown. ... There are many examples (shown in video lecture #6) of commercials that support these statements. ...

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According to his essay men are supposed to accomplish three things in order to gain respect which are having kids, supporting them and finally looking after them. ... It's women who let man support them and their children. ... Gilmore's example of Alfredo supports this idea. ... Yet others mock his attitude to the point where his family's pride was put to shame. ... Obviously these men receive criticism from both sides of the family. ...

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Living in such family, the self-worth of individual cannot be realized and the only thing you can do is obey the order of head of family and follow the family decision. ... In today's world, the modern "nuclear" family has been replaced to the traditional family. First, modern family has decreased in the areas of family size; the family usually has two generations consisting of father and mother and their children. ... Lastly, family is not the force to against individual to realize self-worth and social value any more, even more the family member become main force to support yo...

• Word Count: 1927
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Kantrowitz supports the fact that society determines the role of men and women. ... Instead, she should be playing house pretending to have a family consisting of a mother, father, and a baby. ... Commercials that advertise laundry detergent, such as Tide and ERA, support this saying. ... As one of my professors once said, "In a family, the man is the gasoline in the car and the women is air freshener." ... Even though today more and more women are working to support themselves or their families and taking on the roles of men, the public image of women is still perceived differently. ...

• Word Count: 1554
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Some men stay at home while their wives go to work and make the money that supports the family. ... Today women are encouraged to rely on themselves and not look for a man to support them. ... Yes women are still seen cooking, cleaning, and taking care of the family, but she is also holding down a full time job. ... Nowadays as each decade passed, women have been feeling more and more empowered wanting to support and take care of themselves. ... Women were labeled and deemed to be weak and fragile and who can only survive if they are supported by their husbands. ...

• Word Count: 1639
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Jennifer Donnelly uses simile in likening words with shining, luxurious pearls and symbolism to represent Mattie's mother's support of Mattie's dreams and her love of learning as a legacy. However, Mattie's integrity hinders her from breaking her promise to her mother to "never go away" and abandon the family. ... She continues to support her family despite her opportunity to study at her dream college. ... " Through the use of a rhetorical question, the author has emphasised the authority Mattie's father has over her and also shows us the underlying v...

• Word Count: 1463
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

First, I will analyze the impact of various agents of socialization, such as media, family, school and peer group, in portraying men to be more aggressive than women. ... Furthermore, family plays an important role in enforcing the norm and stereotype of men and women created by the media. Boys and girls are treated differently by their family members from the day when they were born. ... For example, schools offer more support and encouragement to male students for their participation in competitive sport activities, but not for the female students. ... Governments are directly or indirectly ...

• Word Count: 1418
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Their social class is also shown by the manner of speaking of Billy's family. ... The next thing preventing Billy from dancing is his family. ... He does not get the support that most boys get from his family, especially his father, who expects him to box, to follow the traditions of his family. ... Billy clearly does not live up to his family's expectations. ... Billy goes to boxing because it is a tradition for all the men of his family. ...

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Many poorer Asian families think that having a son is more helpful than a daughter. ... Women are treated unequally in many aspects of society, at work, school, family, etc. ... In effect, women accept and even support an ideology that works against them. ... In some cases, it has strengthened the position of women in families. ... It is clear that women now support the idea of quotas thanks to its simplicity. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

From that example, we can vividly see that family and society already construct the ideas of the ideal men and women. ... These approaches come from your social group; it might come from your teacher, neighbor, or even your family. In fact, family, as the smallest unit of society, plays the greatest role in shaping the image of the "ideal" men and women. ... They think that all a woman has to do is do household chores and raise her children while man is the breadwinner of the family. ... Nonetheless, when a married man comes home late, the public would only think that he is such a hardwork...

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Growing up in western Baltimore in the 1950's, Johnson was raised in a large family. The family was consisted of twelve members; eleven of which lived under one roof, at one time. ... Families actively play a role in gender-role-socialization by the ways in which they organize the environment for the child. ... Johnson goes on to say that fighting and arguments were very common and reoccurring in her family household. ... Johnson supported herself teaching without a degree until she was able to further her education. ...

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She was always assumed to be under the protection of a male guardian, who was responsible for her financial support and acted as her reprehensive in all legal matters." ... To such life glory belongs" [802-842] Medea's speech in the beginning of the play supports her dominance throughout the rest of the play. ... Although Antigone is seen to been preforming a traditionally female duty in burying the dead, she is also, in a very masculine fashion, defending the interests of her family. ... Antigone's cause has received divine support, but too late. "Sophocles" Antigone shows ...

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The Libman ad tells readers that they are credible by including their family made logo, along with the year they were established. For over 100 years, the Libman family has made quality a focal point of their products and messages to consumers. ... The fact that Libman is family made since 1896 in the USA, makes the readers know that their products are well-developed. ... The company shows effectiveness with the supporting evidence that they can be trusted and that people should buy their products. ... Without specific data to support their claims to being a "better" product, Libman...

• Word Count: 2344
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In a system, these inequality-supporting cultural ideologies heavily put an emphasis on the idea that gender differences are due to biologically based traits that are inherent and unchangeably "natural" for both males and females. ... She was raised in a high-achieving and well-intentioned family. ... In that "perfect" looking family everything seemed right and smooth, but there were unspoken high expectations. ... During this time, I can only remember how stressful, how depressed and lonely she seemed, Even though we all were next to her, supporting and saying a blameful w...

• Word Count: 1909
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate