The value of family has, however, shifted from generation to generation, from collective to its current individualistic state. Billy Elliot is a clear representation of the deviation of traditional family values of the American Dream and the current generation gap in between traditional and current family values, familial hierarchy and gender roles with in a household. ... Billy clearly does not belong where he is, yet when the students start dancing, the camera angel focuses solely on the dancers feet, eliminating our ability to tell which dancer he is, and we see here that although he migh...

• Word Count: 1889
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

This leads them to focus on family life in America. ... In order to reverse the current deterioration of child well being in our society and to strengthen marriage, the council proposes four goals, briefly described. ...

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People evolve into their current selves as a result of their surroundings and what they allow to influence their psyche. ... This is why I am currently working on my own clothing line called "Hooligan Life.... I know that if I continued to live my life focused on walking in my sister's shoes, I would not have found myself; I would not have found Simone. ...

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Money should be focused primarily on education, as it is the most important need and want of any kid in the world today. ... The family should have the list for every money being spent from the daily current account. ... If the family is a middle income earning family, then focus should be on maximizing the essential expenditures and then worrying about the leisure expenditures. ...

• Word Count: 949
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There are mainly two reasons why women quit their job after giving birth to a child; to focus on housework and childrearing, and the difficulty in managing both work and childrearing. ... 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. ... When women are working, they only have to think about their work and focus on being effective. ...

• Word Count: 1966
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• Grade Level: High School

Discussing how and why the ghost story genre focuses on dysfunctional families. The Victorian ghost story usually focuses and reflects on the role of family life in Britain, highlighting the key issues in which shows that families were dysfunctional in this era. ... The women in Victorian society were encouraged to talk but did not have any real knowledge about literature or politics/current affairs. ... Gaskell focuses and emphasizes the relationship of the rivalry of the sisters throughout which can be alarming and distressing for the reader as they can relate to a breakdown with a family me...

• Word Count: 1318
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Canada's current policy has three classifications of immigration: Family Reunification, Economic Immigrant, and Refugee. ... Immigrants who have an education, ability to learn, who are skillful and willing to contribute to the Canadian economic goals are more in favor of entering Canada by the current policy of immigration (Creese, Dyck & McLaren, 2008, p.270). ... On the other hand, the neoliberal approach focuses more on the new immigrant and what the person can bring to Canada. ...

• Word Count: 1742
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This year's KIDS COUNT Data Book, the sixth annual edition, places a special focus on a problem that is at the heart of many current social policy debates: the increasing fraction of our children who are growing up without their fathers actively involved in their lives. ... Because many of the children currently living in two-parent families are projected to experience a divorce before they grow up, more than half of today's children are likely to spend some of their childhood in a single-parent home. ...

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The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold and Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn both demonstrate the many variants of these reactions – such as focusing solely on the death and dissecting it or pushing it to one side and acting as if it never happened. ... Both books have been published within the last ten years and so, follow the same recognizable current reactions in society today They demonstrate the grief that is felt and the publicity violent death is given – this is especially highlighted in Sharp Objects: two deaths occur in a remote town and somehow the media are able to find out about...

• Word Count: 1993
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Much of our current life right now depends on our family support. It may not seem like it at the moment, but if your parents constantly hassle you to do better in school or to focus and comprehend, you will achieve those genes. ...

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As the story unfolds and we see the violence that occurs between the current boyfriend and husband this statement becomes very telling. When Frank is murdered the film focuses on how both of his parents deal with the grief and struggles over losing their only son. ...

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The key feature that Tyler focuses in on the most in her novels is the tension that develops between the members of the family. ... Although a few of the characters feel trapped in their current surroundings, they are able to find a peaceful co-existence between their past and their future and escape the "traps" life throws at them, and their solution comes through in the form of family. ...

• Word Count: 834
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"A Good Man is hard to Find" focuses mainly on the personalities and traits of the two main characters, grandma and The Misfit. ... The grandmother displays no self-awareness and is not open to reality and the current world around her. ...

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The current daily hassles of less sleep, job duties, and longer mornings getting ready are also stressors in her life. ... Her emotion focused coping has also played an active role in her ability to take control of stress. By viewing the positives in her life and changing the way she views the negative stressors, she has maintained focused attention to her many roles as mother, wife, student and employee. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Why does our nation focus its attention mainly on the financial well-being of our children and not their emotional stability? ... While there are many aspects involved in raising children in split families, we will focus on the resources available to both custodial and non-custodial parents. ... My husband and I being in a current custody and support battle ourselves, I can attest to the extremely limited resources that a non-custodial parent has, and we are merely asking for visitation at the present time. ...

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While some consider that parents are responsible for their children's material upbringing and that they need to provide their offspring with the basic needs, others believe that parents primarily need to focus on the intellectual upbringing of their children. ... As a social worker, Jeannette's family would be a tremendous challenge due to her parents currently falling into the motivational interviewing definition of "pre-contemplation.... As they progress through the contemplative stage into the preparation stage, the focus and direction becomes clearer for both the social work...

• Word Count: 1035
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The article "Early care and Education for Children in Immigrant Families," written by Karoly and Gonzalez, examine the current role of and future possibility that early care and education (ECE) programs have in promoting healthy development for immigrant children. ... Karoly and Gonzalez, however, focus their study on participation patterns specifically of immigrant children. ... Patterns such as this have been confirmed in their studies by data taken from the 2000 Census and the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study- KIndergarten Cohort (ECLS-K) with a focus exclusively on preschool childre...

• Word Count: 1482
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The article "Children of Lesbian and Gay Parents", by (Patterson, 2009) is to focus on the children who are beginning raised by lesbian and gay parents. ... The article "Families created through surrogacy by Marks, A., & Jadva, V. (2011) explains there focus on the relationship with mother and child. ... This article focuses on the topic of queer parenting. ... There is currently queerer parenting occurring in today's society. ...

• Word Count: 1434
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Currently, here in America she works from home due to her having a difficult acclimating to our language for several years after arrival to the U.S. Assessment of Time Factors According to Year she is present time focused and according to her culture believes that everything is "good and it will be all fine"." ... She is currently a stay at home housewife running a business from home. ...

• Word Count: 2075
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In Ovid's Metamorphosis, Narcissus is a handsome young man who saw the reflection of his face in the waters of the Styx River. He became so captivated by his own reflection, that he sat looking at himself until he died and a small flower grew in his place. After the manufacturing and widespread exi...

• Word Count: 1988
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SUMMARY: This paper will focus on the roles of women from different cultures during this contemporary time. ... Although, in America, the role of women have been developed to its current stage through a lot of historical struggles such as the Civil Rights Movement. ... Over time, women have overcome several struggles to reach this current stage where equal opportunity is granted, discrimination is considered unconstitutional, and their work is accepted and appreciated. ...

• Word Count: 2258
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She currently resides with her mother Lisa and her 3 other younger siblings. ... She has had many problems with the law which has led up to her current situation of being on house arrest. ... Sarah must review how she is currently living and change her ways to be a more responsible young adult that would include staying out of any trouble. ... Her mother works to provide for the family but she is not focused on Sarah and Sarah's needs. ...

• Word Count: 2398
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In the current study, Children's opinions about their associations with parental figures and imprisoned parents, evaluated guardians' recognitions and emotions about adolescents, and inspected relationship among relationship judgments, contact with detained parents, and conduct issues in children of imprisoned parents in the setting of an adolescent advising program. ... Considering the present situation of the exploration, these hypotheses help us focus the influence of the relationship of a tyke and their detained guardian. ... Research that focuses on children whose parents are i...

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Current research on parental bereavement have associated poor health conditions such as depression symptoms, low self-confidence, low academic qualifications and poor family support in bereaved young adults. ... My research on the effects of bereavement on young adults involved focus group interviewing that involved 26 women and 7 men all aged between 20 – 35 years. ... Additionally, from the focus group discussion, the extent of support from social and institutional affiliation upon parent bereavement had significant impact on the bereaved young adults. ...

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Although the discussions of how the family melodrama differs from the family sitcom is focused on interaction with others, it has become increasingly clear that both formats have varied their family oriented structure to the interaction between coworkers and partnerships. ... Her big trials and tribulations involve her current feelings and circumstances surrounding these boys and Felicity's reaction and action when it comes to conflict. ... It focuses on the issues that everybody can relate to - attraction, lust, ideally the opposite sex, which then brings up love. ...

• Word Count: 2043
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate