Why do people divorce? Because they think "I lost something rather than gained in marriage because of physical and mental damage." They want to get happiness through divorce. Do you think this thought apply to everybody? No. Here is an exception - the grandmother. Recently several suits of divorce w...

From small tribal village to the technologically advanced metropolitan, all human societies share a common practice that is marriage. What is marriage? The Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary defines marriage as a formal and legally recognized, agreement between a man and a woman thus making ...

Korean Domestic Violence A 48-year old Korean woman, mother of two sons, has been living in Los Angeles for seven years now. On the evening of July 15, 1997, her husband comes home late at night from his financially shaky liquor store in East LA. He is tired and frustrated from the d...

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...

Homecoming Night October is normally a very chilly time, but tonight was different it was actually quite pleasant with a great, cool, calm breeze. You could hear the crickets chirping in the meadow across from the football field. Everybody was out enjoying the beautiful weather for...

A Good Script Gone Bad Lorraines Hansberry's "A Raisin in the Sun" was published in 1958 and released as a movie directed by Bill Duke in 1989. He casted Danny Glover as Walter Lee, Starletta DuPois as Ruth, Esther Rolle as Lena, and Kim Yancey as Beneatha. As I Watched the movie...

The Joy Luck Club AN-MEI HSU: MAGPIES The story starts with An-mei Hsu talking about her daughter's (Rose Hsu Jordan) troubled marriage and how it's starting to fall apart. Rose thinks she is severely suffering and all she can do is lie down on a psychiatrist's couch squeezing ...

Matt Hensley 10/29/01 Book Review "Wild Swans: Three Daughter of China" "Wild Swans" is a gripping account of the lives of three generations of women in 20th century China. Jung Chung is the author of this book, and the third of these heroic women. Born in China in 195...

Problems in Juvenile Delinquency The post world-war II era saw an unprecedented rate of growth for America. The birth of Corporate America gave people an opportunity to move out of the cities and into kinder, more picturesque suburbs. Women were entering the workforce in greater numbers. Wit...

In this semester, we read many incredible survival stories of the youths under disastrous historical crisis. These characters, we read about, went through enormous of hardships and fears; but with courage and determination, many of them survived and lived on. However, in many cases, these charact...

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 ...