The Kallikak Family

American Society have sensed changed from the Leave it to Beaver, nuclear family of the 1950s and sixties. From the suburban household with a husband at work, wife at home and their children, playing in the front yard. Brought upon many changes in the past couple of years to the staple of the nuclear family. Yet the traditional family still survives today, only to integrate and become a category among the varied families that now shape the new American society. This melting pot of families has emerged out of decades of movements and events, though the twenty-first century brought a surge of change to what is now viewed as the many faces of the modern American family. The 1950s was an age of prosperity and comfort, with an underlying tone of conformity. Along with the American economy booming so did the American family in size and affluence. Postwar prosperity led to the redefining the American Dream. No longer was America fighting Nazis overseas nor were…

another, how our families are formed, and what classrooms look like today. I believe more behaviors are endorsing gender norms than challenging them. Language is something we learn at a very young age, what we do not learn is that it is filled with gendered biased words that have become second nature for us, as humans, to use. Other languages have masculine and feminine nouns to help indicate the difference in words, the English language not so much,…

just prior to my birth. As a result, I was raised with an English cultural background. However, due to the similarities between Australian and English culture, stemming from the colonisation of Australia by the British in 1788 (Moreton-Robinson, 2003), English culture and its role in colonisation means that it is the dominant and privileged culture in current Australian society (Moreton-Robinson, 2003). Therefore, it is hard for me to identify any cultural differences. Consequently, I began to…

For many years our government has not been able to accommodate for the needs of millions of foster children in our nation. Simply our leadership has failed to construct a system that provides nurturing home for the children that have been abused or abandoned. Andy fights his way through the system, attempting to create a name for himself other than a foster child. He undertakes lots of agony as he placed in a foster home with a family named the Leonard’s. At the Leonard’s house there was several…

to fire him from the company. My mother told my father at that time” god helps those who help themselves.” Then my father decided to take the responsibility. But he needed help, he was telling my mother” why do not you manage the company.” The reason that let my father ask her that is my mother had a good experience because she used to help her father who is an extremely successful businessman in Saudi Arabia. In fact, my mother helped my father a lot with that company. In sum, today my father…

Case History Background Information Antigone is a young Theban princess of 19 years. Much of her family members have recently perished. The deaths include Oedipus (Antigone’s father and former king of Thebes), Iocaste (Antigone’s mother), and Polyneices and Eteocles (Antigone’s brothers). Her family members that still remain include her Uncle Creon, her Aunt Eurydice, and her cousin Haimon whom is also her betrothed. She is of Greek ethnicity and presides in the city of Thebes, where is she is…

stories we read are narratives. However, a movie, a television show or a song, could also be a narrative. Even our lives can be considered our own personal narratives in which we are the writer, the main character and often times the reader. “Life as a Narrative” demonstrates how certain events, both minor and major, can alter the course of the story. In our own life narratives we are the main character but in another person’s narrative we may be just a guest appearance in a particular episode…

In Black, White, and Indian: Race and the Unmaking of an American Family, Saunt explains how the Grayson family tree became a tale of avoiding, dismissal, and denying a part of ancestry as well as family history. In a broader context, it can be traced to America’s denial of being related to African American slaves. As well as the idea that many families ancestors slept with their slaves and created a family tree that connect families together. Saunt mentions in a broader context of brother vs…

Women, Men, and Food I grew up in a very traditional Mexican family with my culture interspersed throughout all the food I ate everyday. My mom had a part-time job and stayed home to cook and clean like her mother had done and her grandmother before her. That was the routine from the time I was born until I got to the fourth grade. During that point of my life, fresh homemade tortillas were ready on the table by the time I got home from school with some kind of delicious accompaniment.…

1950’s family life has taken a turn for the worse. What was once the idealistic Jones’ type of family soon discovers that they’re advanced way of life isn 't all it’s cracked up to be. “The Veldt” by Ray Bradbury is a short story that plays off of the manipulative relationship between spoiled children and their parents, and the paranoia of technology being able to overpower (or in this story’s case kill) mankind in the hands of what should be an innocent child. I was genuinely interested in the…