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What word comes to mind when you hear mother, father, brother, sister, aunt, and uncle? When most people hear these words they think of their family, but what really makes a family? The common image that comes to mind when thinking about family is a mom and dad and their children. Nowadays that is not always and families are coming in all shapes and sizes. There are, “... single-parent families, stepfamilies, cohabitating families- those with unmarried domestic partners-…,” (McCaffrey, 2013, p. 3)

These expeditions prepared England for an age of colonisation and trade expansion, which Elizabeth herself recognised by establishing the East India Company in 1600. The arts flourished during Elizabeth's reign. Country houses such as Longleat and Hardwick Hall were built, miniature painting reached its high point, theatres thrived - the Queen attended the first performance of Shakespeare's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'. Composers such as William Byrd and Thomas Tallis worked in Elizabeth's court and

At the start of the First World War the citizens of the United States were deeply divided on if the country should be involved and if so how much. Thanks to the mass amounts of immigrants that had established what was now a great nation America had become a country made from a diverse and multi-cultural fabric. This led to many opinions and views on the war effort. On the side that was against the war there were many out-spoken citizens that took to the streets and voiced their concerns. The government’s

Fast food has become a prominent feature of our diet. The fast food market in the United Kingdom compared to other countries such as India, is not growing that rapidly. In India it was calculated that the food market grows by 41% every year. In the United Kingdom the fast food market has grown by 4.8% in 2006. This means, that fast food purchases are increasing tremendously. The option of takeaway food has caused this increase in figures as it becomes a lot easier for people to purchase food without

Karlie Davis Dr. Brian Hesse Introduction to American Government and Politics 11-11-14 Illegal Immigrants Coming to the United States Illegal immigration and border patrol are becoming two of America’s top problems. The border separates Mexico from the United States, in particular Arizona and Texas. The fence is becoming a bigger issue for illegal immigrants to cross which, in turn, is making it an issue for border security. Different comparisons between Arizona and Texas and their state laws

Ellington’s band thrived and played all throughout Washington and Virginia, usually playing for embassy and private parties. His band included Sonny Greer on drums, his childhood friend Otto Hardwick on alto saxophone, Elmer Snowden on banjo and Arthur Whetsol on trumpet. The group performed for both African-American and white audiences which was quite rare in those times. When Ellington’s drummer Sonny Greer joined the Wilber Sweatman Orchestra

On June 26th, 2015, the Supreme Court established, in Obergefell v. Hodges, that no law in the United States could bar a same-sex couple from getting married. The court decided that the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitutions Equal Protection and Due Process Clauses guaranteed marriage as a right for same-sex couples. The First Amendment protects the freedom of religion in the United States and has been used widely to protect the actions and beliefs of religious individuals in discriminating

New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, lawful case in which, on March 9, 1964, the U.S. Supreme Court governed consistently (9–0) that, for a slander suit to be effective, the complainant must demonstrate that the guilty proclamation was made with " 'genuine perniciousness', with learning that it was false or with neglectful failure of whether it was the truth or not." Specifically, the case included a notice that showed up in The New York Times in March 1960 that sketched out how African Americans had

life of 'a proper man'.   With Jorgen Tesman, Ibsen portrays a husband who succumbs less obviously to society's expectations of a good marriage, but who is nonetheless always quietly encouraging his wife to act more appropriately. Elizabeth Hardwick even suggests that

Bilingualism has been commonly used in scientific and common nomenclature to refer to the knowledge and/or use of two languages, though the specifics of the definition have been widely debated (e.g. Altarriba & Heredia, 2008; De Groot & Kroll, 1997; Grosjean, 2010). In fact, one half (Grosjean, 2010) to two-thirds (Walraff, 2000) of all people in the world have been estimated to routinely use more than one language in everyday communicative contexts. Given this global linguistic profile, it has