My first abortion was the most painful, unforgettable thing I had ever experienced.. It was not something I never want to go through again. I was only fourteen years old, a freshman in high school. The pain I endured was more mental than physical. Although it happened well over five yea...

The various ways in which domestic service, home care and nursing are structured and performed are well accounted in Global Exchange by Grace Chang and Diverted Mothering by Sau-Ling C. Wong. These two articles give indeapth analysis of how migrant and immigrant workers are treated by not only thei...

Magnolia is a film about nine different people who are faced with regrets. "We may be through with the past, but the past ain't through with us." This is a line in the movie that best describes the plot. Each story consisted of complex situations that somehow correlate with one anot...

We as a society are fortunate. We have the luxury of advanced technology to include: computers, telephones, video teleconferencing equipment, cellular phones, beepers, and hospitals with the latest gadgets and gizmos. Our technology is available only because of documented historical accounts. Our ...

I live in the city of Highland Park, home to 57,566 residents, predominantly of Latino descent by the 1970's. Highland Park is a historic neighborhood in Northeast Los Angeles. It is inhabited by a variety of ethnic and socioeconomic groups and it is with in these groups that drugs, gangs and v...

"It takes a village to raise a child" is a quote that rings true in the African and African-American community. Starting with one's African roots and transcending to slavery, it was not uncommon for a woman who was not the biological parent of a child to raise him/her as if he/she were her very own ...

My book report is on the book The Angel Trilogies. It is really 3 books in one, though I did not know it at the time when I had selected it for my report. The first book in the trilogy is Angels Watching Over Me, the second is Lifted up by Angels, and the third is Until Angels Close My Eyes. I will...

After the Bomb - Book Summary After the Bomb written by Gloria Miklowitz is a thrilling novel that takes place before, during, and after a bomb which supposedly was sent from Russia by accident. L.A. and surrounding ...

Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon is the story of Milkman's search for self. Milkman appears destined for a life of isolation and self-alienation. The Deads exemplify the patriarchal, nuclear family that has been a stable and critical feature of American society. The family is the institution for...

THE INCREASING CHAOS OF MARRIAGE Men and women are like the human cell; they're the basic units of life. We can't have one without the other. Thus begins the attempts at relationships between the two, and that's where it all starts. Men and women have numerous differences that ...

The main reason as to why I am here is so I can get a degree and get ahead in life; not to mention that it is also expected of me to go to college. To elaborate more on that there are several subcategorizes that could better tell you about why I am here at Eastern Michigan University. The four thin...

You, Too, Can Raise a Family While Working and Going to School It is not easy when you get older and decide to go back to school, especially if you are a 36 year old mother of four. There have been many occasions when I have thought that I should have gone to school much earlier in my li...

Chapter 1: I feel bad that Aunt Martha doesn't ever get her money back. She worked so hard for so many years to earn that money to buy her children's freedom and now she'll have to start all over again. It is very demeaning to Linda for her to work for her dead mistresses daughte...

Teen pregnancy is a major issue in the United States of America. Teen pregnancy rates in the United States are twice as high as they are in other developed nations such as England, Whales and Canada and nine times as high as Japan and the Netherlands. The U.S. national campaign to prevent teen pregn...

Epilogne to House of the Spirits After reading House of the Spirits, I was left with many questions. Thus, I decided to write an epilogne, and my objective being to bring and 21st century resolution to this horrible period. The story follows the original narrator, Alba, and is told in first pe...

The Road from Coorain By Jill Kerr Conway I found it very difficult to read this book. I understand that it is the story of Jill Kerr Conway's life, and that it would be hard to make a life sound interesting where you grew up isolated until you were 11years old, never coming in contact with...

A Worn Path"A Worn Path" by Eudora Welty, is the tale of the unstoppable love and careof a grandmother for her grandchild. It tells a story of sheer determinationas Phoenix Jackson makes a long journey into town to get medicine for herchronically ill grandson. She strives forward despite frequent ob...

In their life, at one point or another, people deny to themselves and others what they really feel and what really happened. Some people go on living their entire lives denying their true emotions. In Toni Morrison's novel Sula, characters constantly denied their feelings and their actions. Sula Pea...

In their life, at one point or another, people deny to themselves and others what they really feel and what really happened. Some people go on living their entire lives denying their true emotions. In Toni Morrison's novel Sula, characters constantly denied their feelings and their actions. Sula Pea...

Gambling With a Life"Poor Devil, poor devil, he's best gone out of a life where he rides his rocking horse to find a winner(Lawrence 803)." D. H. Lawrence ends The Rocking - Horse Winner, with such a profound statement. One has to ask the question, why such a profound statement? This story is about...

The book "Medicine River," deals with the main character's quest for a home. Will, who is the main character, goes through many events in his life that effect his quest. The book is written in a different, but effective way. It flows from Will's current life to Will's past life in separate paragr...

The Grapes of Wrath," by John Steinbeck is a book about the Great Depression, and one poor sharecropper family's struggle to survive the worst deprivations that American society had to offer. Set in the 1930's, in America's "Dust Bowl," it is the tale of the Joad family, a large clan of poor Okla...

In Buchi Emecheta's "The Joys of Motherhood" novel, the main character, Nnu Ego shows what it means to be a woman and a mother in Nigerian society. Also, Emecheta explores the idea that women having the ability to bear children are the only way to define femininity and womanhood in t...

Addie Bundren conjures up the central darkness derived from her death and directly or indirectly causes actions in which each Bundren character takes advantage of Addie. With the character's actions revolving around her death, William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying reveals the truth about the people who ...

IntroductionFamilies that have children with psychological challenges are often helped by the use of a support group. The adults find other parents who can relate to the issues they deal with, the non affected children can find friends who understand the challenges of dealing with an affected sibli...