It is important to know how to best raise a child so that they may lead more productive lives down the road and not be forever scarred as adults. ... Often times the emotional role that a father can play in a child's life is overlooked. ... For example, if the father has remarried after divorce or if a young boy lives with step parents of either sex, than he is just as likely to act up as a boy without any father. ... The independent variable will be whether or not a boy lives with his father or with other relatives. ... There is a great deal of research to back up the claim that fath...

• Word Count: 4534
• Approx Pages: 18
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Family and transience played major roles in both author's lives while religion and rebellion were important forces in Barnes" adolescence and Hale discussed her adulthood more thoroughly in her work. ... Although Hale and Barnes were both native westerners, transience also greatly affected their lives. ... The incessant anguish Hale's mother and sisters inflicted on her shaped her entire life. ... Both women had a great deal of interaction with their mothers while their fathers played more distant roles in the womens" lives. ... Campbell blamed nearly everything that had gone in...

• Word Count: 2962
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: High School

Each woman is faced with basically the same type of event in her life and each reacts differently to that event. ... Ida Ida seemed to be an average 15 year-old girl who lives at home with her mother and father, Annie and Lecon and her sister, Pauline. ... She and her sister basically were raising themselves during difficult time periods in their lives. ... It did not seem like she was leading a life feeling guilty or second guessing her decisions. ... She was in the role of the caregiver, which was one she had assumed all of her life. ...

• Word Count: 3938
• Approx Pages: 16
• Grade Level: High School

She did not really pry into our social lives or teach us about life. ... I was hardly applying myself academically and my social life at school was utterly miserable, to say the least. ... I wondered throughout the years why my father was not in my life. ...

• Word Count: 2758
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Her mom in the first few years of my nieces life acted like a mom instead of a grandma to Princess' daughter . ... The teen is already going through so much at home, having added such a huge social role to her life. ... They have different lives, different responsibilities, and interests. ... It captures each and every moment in these teens life after becoming a parent. It is a spin off from "16 and Pregnant " which chronicles the lives of four teen moms: Briana, McKenzie, Alex and Katie. ...

• Word Count: 2751
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Oedipus, the protagonist of Sophocles' play, Oedipus the King, goes through a transition in his life. He experiences a life altering change, just as Connie, the protagonist of Joyce Carole Oates' short story, "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?... Whereas Oedipus searches diligently and years to learn the truth about him even though, at one point in the play, he knows that the truth night have ill effects on his life and ruin him. ...

• Word Count: 2789
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

All his life he was addicted to drugs and admitted several times to rehab. ... I feel shame writing and he has no shame that all his life he left his wife and children struggle. First he was absconding for many years leaving family struggling with life alone behind. ... But he forgot he is a father, and no father I have seen who screws his daughter's life and marriage for his own selfish needs. ... The first father I ever seen in my life who, support all shameless acts of his daughter. ...

• Word Count: 4191
• Approx Pages: 17
• Grade Level: High School

Summary - This is the story of two families who have been neighbours for a long time. The first family is the Kellers; Mr Joe Keller, his wife Kate and their two sons Larry and Chris. The neighbouring family is the Deevers; Steve Deever, his wife, his son George and his daughter Ann. The ...

• Word Count: 3955
• Approx Pages: 16
• Grade Level: High School

Han Nolan in my view is a wonderful author, she has written books that reflect on the harsh problems people face in their lives. Nolan is the author of "Born Blue" which tells the story of a child growing up and making her life a mess. ...

• Word Count: 2988
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: Undergraduate