The Addams Family

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…

reinforced by everything we do. There is not excepting it. There are many things in our world that are starting to make a change in how we see it can really be more destructive then helpful. We see it in how we talk and converse with one 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…

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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 different form of abuse Andy experiences including medical neglect, emotional abuse, and physical abuse. Medical neglect is witnessed in the beginning of Andrew journey with the…

Buckle Down To Become a Hero Nowadays, education has become a serious issue among people because everything has to deal with education such as applying to a company or being a professor and so on. There are lots of people saying that studying years are the best time in the life and I would definitely agree. My hero is my father who had done a lot to complete his degree. As a child, I had always looked to my father as a hero. To me, he was strong enough to take on an army one handed, tall enough…

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 a princess in the royal family. She is very head strong, and…

A “narrative” is defined as being a “written or spoken account of connected events” (“Narrative”). Narratives can take many forms. For instance, in english class many of the short 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,…

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. Anything…

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…