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    superior, expected to do more household chores and discipline is enforced more strictly on girls than boys. (2001) Just like the Filipinos have these double standards so do many Hispanics. For example, like in the movie Real Women Have Curves, the mother just wanted her daughter to become a housewife and she didn’t think it was right for her daughter to go to college. Mary knew that if she confronted her parents they wouldn’t understand so she hid it from them. A little after she found out she…

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    An Analysis of Tortilla Soup Tortilla Soup is a film that does more than give the viewer a good feeling. Tortilla Soup is a film with many uplifting qualities that the viewer can relate. The opening scene draws the viewer in as the main protagonists, Martin Naranjo played by Hector Elizondo, prepares a large meal with many different dishes for his family. The way that Naranjo manipulates the kitchen cutlery demonstrates that he is more than a cook. His skill demonstrates that he is a fine chef.…

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    The Road for an Independent Boy On September 1, 2010, I woke up earlier than an ordinary day because in China we started the fall semester every September 1st. On the first day of my high school, I had to face the problem of living without parents because my high school was far away from home. In the morning, my mom was packing something like toothbrush, toothpaste, towels and shower gel for me. My brother was surprised, and he shouted, “Oh my god! What’s happened? Why are you packing three big…

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    Social Experiment: Defying a Norm For my social experiment I received consent from not only the Walgreens pharmaceutical manager but also the store manager to stand outside and ask a handful of customers walking in to purchase me an over-the-counter drug: Plan B One-Step pill. The nonprescription product: Plan B One-Step pill is a 1.5 mg tablet for women to take up to 72 hours after she had unprotected sex. One must be 17 years old to purchase the “morning after pill.” Note: I was not soliciting…

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    Family Interview Report

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    I chose to interview two parents from different families and different towns. Hoping that I would see two different cultures and different worries come out. One was a mother and one was a father. The dad is a father of five children; ages 15 to three. The mother has two children and both are under the age of 5. I stuck mainly to the material and prompted for more response when needed. How is the world different today for your children compared to when you were a child? C – They don’t have…

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    not an easy task to accomplish, but with a variety of steps and motivation, it can be possible. To address the issue of the generalizations placed on new mothers, Nelson suggests a solution that could help. Even though women often take time off to care for children or other reasons, that should not limit them to just completing the role of a mother. During that time period where women need to take time off, they should “do something, even if it’s small — even if it’s ten hours a week. Something…

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    Family involvement is an important aspect of students learning and education experience. Parents taking a role in the literacy learning of their children lead to more engagement and higher readiness levels of individual students. By creating a partnership with families, education becomes an experience spanning both in the classroom and at home. It is evident in many forms that the more parents work with their child at home and the more they show interest in their students learning, the more the…

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    Teenager getting pregnant for has been frowned on many years Every parent has high hopes and dreams for their children the News of a “baby coming can be shocking and disappointing to parents. But this story is not about facts of teen pregnancy, it is a story about a young girl who overcame the impossible At the time of conception, she still believed that anything could be possible. That young girl was me. It was 1986, Ronald Reagan was president, Mike Tyson was the youngest heavy weight…

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    Tom has returned from serving in the war and moves to complete isolation on Janus.“The men he had accompanied to the border of life would be mourned by a mother, but on the battlefield, the loved ones were far away and beyond imagining” (93). Many people died during the war, and Tom had to see the men die which left him scarred. Tom has seen many deaths in the war, but has overcome the trauma. Even on…

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    and us kids with so much compassion and patience. She homeschooled all four of us all the way through school and was basically my Dad’s secretary and personal assistant with all of the many different projects that he did on the mission field. My mother is also just the person that if I ever need to talk to someone about something, I know I can call her and talk to her. She will listen, and she will understand. Because of the example of my mom, I want to serve and listen to others as well.…

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