Women were the providers; gathering the food, trading with other tribes, making spiritual and political decisions, all while taking care of the entire family. ... The girl was able to show love for her family and children, and showed strength by being able to take care of herself and her children. ... Once she found out he was a bear, and became one herself, she was forced to chose between her husband and children, or her family in the village. ... Fleur got herself into trouble at times, and once had to change into a pig to save herself from a fellow gambler, Lucy, who "pushed her against...

• Word Count: 1714
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

He moved his family around often always searching for a better life, but for the most part this failed to materialize and the family remained quite poor throughout most of Stegner's childhood. ... I can imagine the good gray poet, not afoot but definitely lighthearted, taking to the open road down Highway 66, and I can see his eagle eye and his wind-split beard, and hear his words as he squints westward along the vista walled by the work of the latter-day pioneers. ...

• Word Count: 1836
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The English colonies were split up into three parts: The New England colonies, the Middle colonies, and the Southern colonies. ... In New England towns, if there were more than fifty families, an elementary education was necessary and most of the adults were literate. ...

• Word Count: 1667
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Here is one point where the ideal becomes fragmented and split:  some imagine Squanto, a savior who helped a group who were on the brink of death to survive, and then once the pilgrims had the ability to live on their own means of survival, it's almost as if he was some sort fairy godmother, waved a magic wand, things were better, then 'poofed' into disappearance (at least within storytelling). ... Paul Dunbar's "Sympathy" paints this metaphor between him and his race, the gap and loss of this time, and the brutality it leaves upon the souls generation after gen...

• Word Count: 1871
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In these longhouses lived several families, each with their own fire, but they still shared the heat and cooking facilities of these fires with the other families living in the longhouse. ... Sailors began to split up the voyage by stopping at the cape of Africa. ...

• Word Count: 3521
• Approx Pages: 14
• Has Bibliography