Our society has created so many expectations of my generation, and generations to come. Today, it is ideal to balance a healthy school, work, and social life successfully; but how much of this is every kid in my generation actually capable of doing? ... In this essay I will analyze the complex human reality of expectations of my generation and the role it has assumed in my life. ... She would always ask me why I didn't want to be like my sisters, and what I hated them most was talking about my future with my mother. ... What my generation and future generations need to learn is with expe...

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Coming from the first generation of my family to actually have the opportunity to complete their education is a great privilege to me. ... I am fortunate to have been born in the United States and have the opportunity to make a better life for myself by graduating high school and then going on to college which will hopefully ensure a bright future for me. ... If I receive this scholarship it will enable me to continue my education so that I can have a future ahead for me. ...

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Living a routine life within the borders of a small town was enough for some, and an example would be Alice Walker's "Everyday Use;" a tale about the interpretation of the word heritage and the vast differences of new and old generation's way of living. ... She passed this old-fashioned way of thinking to her daughter, teaching her how to tend to household responsibilities, like churning butter and quilting to pass on their way of life to future generations. ... Maggie, who was brought up in a tunnel-vision home and had no enthusiasm to venture outside of her mother's...

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From your grandparents, to your parents to you, there are wide generation gaps that create large gaps for change in media technology. ... The changes in how it has affected these different categories throughout these generations have also been looked at in this research paper. ... In my grandparent's generation, their media was mostly radio and newspaper. ... In my generation, we watch T.V. just like the other two generations, we still have radio and newspaper, but the major difference is the internet. ... My mother said that the main theme for campaigns in her generation was the Vie...

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It also shows the difficult decision that the women had to make between selling their past and paying off their mortgage, or keeping their past and dealing with the problems that will hunt them in the present and the future. ... " At the end of the poem, the mother and the daughter agree not to sell the walnut tree and keep it for another generation, "So the black walnut tree swings for another year of sun and leaping winds." The walnut tree has been in the family for many generations and the women wanted to keep it that way for future generations to come. However, the last word of...

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What makes this dynamic complicated is the fact that families change and grow, which makes ownership difficult in the future as well as making it stressful on the business. ... If this process is not planned well in advance, many conflicts can arise that can ultimately terminate the business. 66% of all family businesses in the first generation will fail to succeed the business to the next generation. Of those successful family businesses that are passed to the second generation, only 10% of those businesses will successfully transfer ownership over to the third generation. ... Capital can be...

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In conclusion, the Feminist Movement has failed in the fact that families have not changed attitudes about gender neutrality in the world toward the next generation. ... Our future depends on the behaviors and attitudes of the younger generation and if we do not fix this issue, we may see even stricter gender roles in the future. ...

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The killer's statements about his life especially his own father reflects he too was subject to religious questions. and the fact that the lifestyles of the southern whites were descending is evidence of society's "demise" is blended into the story, and presented through an interesting generation gap. ... I guess that is how his generation acted in those days and time. The unruly children are representative of the breakdown of respect, and discipline, and are consequently a forecast of future generations. ... She may have started believing that Christ was no longer enough of...

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Theme and Close Reading for "Soon" Pam Durban's "Soon" encompasses the life cycles of three generations of the Long Family. Life comes full circle in every life represented and follows in the steps of the previous generation. ... Having her hopes dashed at a happy future, Elizabeth settles with a husband and has children, but both of these aspects in her life become unsatisfactory to her. ... Following her deeply rooted hopes implies that she wants her future to be prosperous and beautiful, unlike her own childhood. ...

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Instead of an uncertain but hopeful future, she faces a certain and unpleasant future that may well repeat her mother's sad life story d) I think it is difficult for our generation today to imagine how heavily the Irish were burdened by poverty and hopelessness. ... Zelda tries to convince her future husband of her extraordinary abilities as a house wife and espouse. ...

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They have become part of the entertainment lifestyles of three consumer generations. ... A culture is the learned values, beliefs, language, symbols, and patterns of behavior shared by people in a society and passed on from generation to generation. ... Since new couples are planning for the future, Cribs is a good show because it shows what a person can have in their life with a lot hard work and perseverance. ... They are the largest U.S. generation. ... They are sometimes referred to as the Vietnam, Woodstock, or Sixties generation. ...

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The Memories Left Behind This was a very difficult assignment for me because I didn't know exactly what I could leave behind to offer to others and future generations. I was contemplating talking about my terrific experiences with the handicapped or meeting so many different types of people in ...

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They fail to see that this is the place where their children can succeed and have a chance at a better future. ... In my family my sister is the first from our entire generations to have received a bachelor's degree. ... Which is a great liberation for our future family and our past. ... Our future generations won't have to start from the bottom anymore. ...

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This institution will persist in future with some great changes in the patterns and some of marriage patterns practiced earlier will not remain practical anymore. ... Traditionally, it was considered that a number of families from different generations are involved in the completion of different stage or phases of family life. ... The same hilarity will repeat making another family life and each child will experience the same cycle making another generation (Glick, 1989). ... Joint family system is when two or three generation lives together in the same residence. ... Therefore, these children...

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There are powerful leaders in every generation who will seek to abuse this technology for their own purposes making cloning extremely dangerous to pursue. There are so many dangers and health risks that come along with cloning that continuing to experiment with it is only asking for trouble in the future. ...

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Their sons and daughters will be more likely to repeat this health pattern and continue it in the future when is their time to find a partner and build a family, changing a new generation to be more just. ...

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With these quotations, it's easy to realize that first, parents want to take control or preserve their daughter's purity for their future husbands. Then, issues of sexual development and education are passed through generations with obvious negative and traumatic consequences. ... Sophie's mother becomes obsessed with protecting her daughter's virginity and begins testing her with this humiliating tradition that has been inherited from many past generations. ...

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The third is a narrative on the future. ... This may mean that the ordeals of women does not end with Aunt Jennifer, but continues for the next generation. Also, the use of the term "mastered" as if to say she was enslaved by the marriage or that perhaps all women of her generation were enslaved in marriage. ...

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The mechanism seen is an intergenerational transmission of the emotional wound brought upon one as a child and passed onto the next generation of children. ... Research has linked the lower socio-economic status with harsher discipline, at times abuse that is passed onto future generations of children. ...

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Spouses of the independent women have had to develop a whole new life filled with different questions regarding lifestyles completely separate from those that their parents faced in previous generations. ... If a husband and wife decide to both develop careers in order to support their family they must reevaluate their roles as future workers and parents. ... In order to find out where this new generation stands on this issue, I interviewed 10 students from the freshman class, both male and female. ...

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This number is expected to increase over time with the number of elderly expected to increase in future generations due to higher life expectancy than in previous generations. This exorbitant number shows justification for future research and implementation of new government assisted programs. ... Discussion The health care industry must perform in depth studies to identify the immediate positive and negative effects associated with caregiver burden in order to influence future programs relating to this problem. ... In the future we may see an organization set up to address the needs and con...

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Rather than thinking only for his wife and children, the buyer now thinks about his extended family and future generations. ... Another example could be that the buyer now wants to buy a house in a stable community for his children and future generations to grow up in. ...

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To him having a son means he would be immortalized as his name would be carried on to other generations. Based on the interpretation provided by Al-Hibri, a Middle Eastern feminist, the need to have a son is great because it is believed that through the son the family name would be carried on in future generations. ... In fact the doctor says that the family eventually does come to get the mother and child but this is done to show their displeasure and also is a disciplinary action so that in future she meets their expectations (6). ...

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According to their research, reported in their 1997 book A Generation at Risk, the worst situations for children are high-conflict marriages that last and low-conflict marriages that end in divorce. ... But in marriages that are not fraught with severe conflict and abuse, future generations would be well served if parents remained together until children are grown." ... Quite often, the failure to separate family issues from business issues causes conflict that can threaten the future, or even the survival, of the family-owned business. ... The Future - your own and others' expectations....

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In traditional society, there are always three or more generations in the family and it provides the strong binding between each member. ... 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. ... In contract, in modern society men and women are equal in law through the efforts of several generations of women. ... Along with the development of social process, it will develop towards in a good direction in the future. ... Eliminating child labor is a big challenge Children is the future of the...

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