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  • Point In The Play Mama's Nurturing Attitude
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    Keeping It Together What a loving mother! Lena Younger, or Mama, is nurturing and supportive when it comes to raising and maintaining a family. Personally speaking, being nurturing means to love, care for, and show concern over someone. Analyzing Mama's relationships with family members can show us her view on parenting and ultimately show us her devotion to her family. In A Raisin in the Sun, by Lorraine Hansberry, Mama is a nurturing mother who cares for and protects her family in her struggle...
  • Families Of Employed Mothers
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    To Work or Not To Work The Dilemma of the Working Mother INTRODUCTION: The discipline of Sociology has long been interested in the study of human behavior. This interest grows from the sociological conception of relationships which distinguish the individual and differentiate him from other members of society. Through the ages, man has been influenced by social interaction and cultural surroundings. Sociologists have also recognized that a social institution consists of a concept and a structure...
  • Problems Within Dadis Family
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    Mike Martins March 7, 2000 Video Reaction Paper Due: March 10, 2000 In the film, Dadis Family, a group lived in Haryana in northern India. This was a system that was a matrilineage society and it is bases on the mother-in-law. The mother-in law was the head of the household and ran almost everything, from managing the finances to taking care of the children, the mother-in-law held the power in the family. The nuclear family all stayed in one household with some exceptions. In the old traditions ...
  • Working Mother
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    Mothers in the Workplace As Barbra drops Jessica off at the regular day-care, staffed with well-trained, caring professionals, she stops to think for a moment. Is this the right thing for our daughter Should my husband or me stay home with Jessica, even though we can't afford to Will day-care cause problems for Jessica that we can not foresee These are just a few questions that a mother might ask herself as she gets herself off to work. Most working mothers feel like their dedication should be t...
  • Extended Family Members
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    Immigration to the United States took place in 1962 from Ciudad Juarez Mexico. Members of the family consisted of a husband, a wife and two young boys ages one and four. The husband a skilled cobbler had a good grasp of the English language, although heavily accented. His knowledge of the language was centered around the necessity of business communication. Motivation for immigration was economics. The husband pursued an invitation from a shoe manufacturer to construct custom boots. The family o...
  • Special Care Of His Mother's Coffin
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    As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner is a story about a family's odyssey across the Mississippi countryside to bury Addie Bundren, their wife and mother. Addie is a hidden character throughout most of the book. We read and see the views of her family while they take her to get buried in Jefferson, and gain different perspectives of this character upon which the story is based. All we know about her in the beginning is that she is lying in her bed dying while people surround her in complete silence...
  • Dysfunctional Family
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    Family What is a dysfunctional family According to Webster Dictionary dysfuntional means "abnormal" (Webster's Dictionary 66), while the word Family means "related group of people". So if you put both definitions together you get an "abnormal related group of people". To many people in the US think that a dysfuntional family is a bunch of deranged psychos, I should know I was one of them. Truth be told I'm not to sure what a dysfunctional family is anymore. I always thought it was a family that ...
  • Raisin In The Sun By Lorraine Hansberry
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    The Difference of Mothers in The Glass Menagerie and A Raisin in the Sun The plays, The Glass Menagerie and A Raisin in the Sun, deal with the love, honor, and respect of family. In The Glass Menagerie, Amanda, the caring but overbearing and over protective mother, wants to be taken care of, but in A Raisin in the Sun, Mama, as she is known, is more or less, the overseer of the family. The prospective of the plays identify that we have family members, like Amanda, as overprotective, or like Mama...
  • Lenore's Problems With Caroline And Her Family
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    Conflict Management The case that is being analyzed is about the power issues between Lenore and Caroline. This paper will assess the power relationship between the two and explain in great detail the power balancing strategies that can be used. Also included in this paper, will be the Wilmot- Hocker assessment guide. The Wilmot Hocker Assessment Guide will be the basic foundation for this paper. This assignment will explain the goals of each individual and the messages they use to achieve them....
  • Personality My Mother
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    One's personality can be understood from the people they mingle with". With this said, I find myself most influenced and inspired by personalities similar to mine. Whether it is an innate biological factor or a result of my upbringing, I find myself to be an anthology of all the personalities within my immediate family. My family's personalities and leadership qualities are all similar and have been highly instrumental in my own personality. One would ask, "what type of personalities do your fam...
  • German Irish Ethnicity
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    Name: Title: The impact of ethnicity on my family Subject: Due Date: Growing up, my family consisted of my mother, father, and my three brothers. My father was of German decent and my mother was of Irish. There was a stigma attached to being a German American back in the late 1940's and as a result, my father would have nothing to do with this German heritage. He changed his name from Willie to William and as a great disappointment to my grandparents, refused to learn the German language. Even w...
  • Assumptions Regarding A Family
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    Family, Marriage, and Gender Roles At the core of American identities and American dreams lies a family. Throughout time, families serve as a connection between the individual and the outside world. The individual's identity, his or her dreams, in large part depend on the family of origin or a family of choice. The individual is shaped through beliefs, values, and assumptions that the family holds about the world and that are based on family member's experiences and collective memory. The family...
  • Closed Family
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    A Closed Family: Growth Through Suffering The novel Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant is one of Tyler's more complex because it involves not only the growth of the mother, Pearl Tull, but each of her children as well. Pearl must except her faults in raising her children, and her children must all face their own loneliness, jealousy, or imperfection. It is in doing this that they find connections to their family. They find growth through suffering. "Cody Tull, the oldest child and the one most da...
  • Hari And Lila's Hut
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    ESSAY NO. 2 In Annita Desai's novel, the treatments between male and female characters are totally different. It is described in the novel that the male characters are always lazy, selfish drunkards while the female characters are diligent and always keeping the family together. Annita tried to illustrate the readers how Indian people live in the village of Thul and how urban Indians live in the capital city of India, Bombay. In the creative novel of The Village by the sea, the two characters th...
  • My Mother's Side Of The Family
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    Family history is very important to an individual. By knowing where you come from, you can have a better perspective of your life. Having a clear understanding of your family background allows you to better appreciate the things that you would normally take for granted. The house, the car, and the average clothing may look better when one sees the sacrifices their family has made. They will see that their family has worked very hard just so their family can experience the better things in life. ...
  • My Name To Liang Heng
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    Political turmoil, loyalty to the party, reforms, and the escape from political scorn, tore the many Chinese families apart in the time of the Cultural Revolution; especially once the Great Leap Forward was enacted in 1957. As expresses in Liang Heng and Judith Shapiro's Son of the Revolution (1958-1981) the at home family life was not only difficult, but often didn't exist. The fact that ones actions could be accepted by society one day and could be criticized by it the next often lead to an un...
  • Request Of Their Deceased Mother Addie Bundren
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    The short novel "As I Lay Dying", by William Faulkner revolves around a poor country family and their journey to fulfill the request of their deceased mother Addie Bundren, to be buried in the town of Jefferson with her relatives. The Bundren family consists of Addie and Anse Bundren and their five children: Jewel, Darl, Vardaman, Cash and Dewey Dell. Each sibling has their own defined personality and they all coupes with their mother's death in their separate ways. Faulkner explores how the dea...
  • My Mother Cry
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    For as long as I can remember I, as many kids do, have looked upon my mother as a matriarch. She is the foundation of my family. I am the youngest of 8 children. If I, or any of my siblings, ever had so much as a sniffle Mother was at our side, tissue in one hand, thermometer in the other, ready to nurse us back to perfect health. I have always seen Mother as the strongest most competent woman on the planet. The day I walked into her hospital room and saw my very pale, very small, very weak moth...
  • Family Therapy Challenges Individual And Family Relationships
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    It is difficult to imagine a braver act from a family than its entering into therapy as a group. I think it is fair to say that it would not be my family that takes such a courageous plunge. The prospect is fraught with fear for me, and I am probably the most likely member of my family to risk it. Risk it, indeed. It is not likely that my family would be willing to sit as a group in the presence of a professional that may have the ability to see through all the pretense and falseness, even lead ...
  • African Americans Families
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    There are 6 people in my family and we are African Americans. I have 4 siblings, one girl and three brothers that were born in Opelousas. When I was two years old my father left us. Growing up in Opelousas was a lot of fun. In those days it was still rather rural. My friends and I grew up playing stick ball, dodge ball, and other neighborhood games. While growing up in Opelousas, my mother passed along all she knew about the family history. I knew my family history "by heart". I was told how Afr...

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