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    happened to them. Some of them were citizens of the United States. some of them were separated from their families. Some of them were children who had no idea what was going on. Children. Babies. Adults. All yanked from their homes. Yanked from their lives. Some people’s lives were destroyed that day. People lost their children. People lost their families. People lost their homes. People

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    Depression. The three main industries were coal, railroads, and homes. In the coal industry, it lost 50% of its profit to hydroelectric and natural gas plants, resulting in unemployment. Other companies and businesses who relied on the coal industry started going out of business and losing workers. The railroad industry also lost workers due to truck, buses, and cars. Businesses who built homes also lost their workers due to low demand for glass, lumber, landscaping, plumbing, etc. because of the insufficient

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    immortal childhood, so he abandons his parents and takes Wendy with him. Wendy and Peter in “The Veldt” get so caught up in their virtual world, just like peter in his Neverland, the children begin to abandon their parents. Eventually the kids believe that they can survive without their parents, like perter pan and the lost boys felt, only now this Neverland is represented

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    In the stories The Children and Where are You Going, Where Have You Been, both authors captivates their audience through similar contexts. Both authors intrigued the audiences of juveniles because their characters consist of ages between 13 to 18. They reached out to the younger generations to teach a lesson of how quickly one could become lost within society. Society makes a person lose value in their culture and family virtue. The Children of Julie Otsuka, took place from the fields of Japan to

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    Childhood grief is such a painful experience, yet it often goes underestimated because as children grow most physicians, educators or clergy are unable to recognize the signs of depression, loneliness or isolation in grieving children. Statistics show that one in nine Americans lose a parent before the age of 20 (Zaslow, 2012). Death of either parent is devastating, but the death of a father leaves children wondering who will take care of them. Fathers are seen as the protectors in our society

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    The Breadwinner System

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    percentage is fifty-four percent. Davis links women’s entry into the paid labor market to a series of interdependent social forces connected to the rise and fall of the breadwinner system. Under the breadwinner system, the woman bored and reared children, cooked meals, washed clothes, and cared for her husband’s personal needs, but her economic role changed to an unprecedented

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    What Does Peter Pan Mean

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    Peter Pan Literary Analysis Conceptualize having to live without a mother or a role model. This is what life was like for the lost boys ever since they fell out of their baby carriages and were never found again. In Peter Pan, by J.M. Barrie, Peter and the lost boys spent their lives in Neverland without a mother or an adult role model. This is why they took Wendy Darling in as their mother. This was a substantial point throughout the book which can be identified through the theme: loving mothers

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    Parable Of The Lost Sheep

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    the ‘Parable of the Lost Sheep’ being illustrated by the differences in detail found, in comparison to the Gospels of Matthew and Thomas? The Parable of the Lost Sheep is one of the many parables Jesus gave during his lifetime. It is found in the two canonical gospels: Matthew 18:10-14 and Luke 15:3-10. It is also found in the non-canonical gospel of Thomas 107. It is about a shepherd who leaves his flock of ninety-nine sheep behind to go look for the one sheep that is lost. This context is similar

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    traditions, they also lost their identity. Assimilation is based on the assumption that white Australians are superior and that black Australians are inferior. Assimilation was focused on children because they believe that it is easier to teach children and because they adapt faster than adults. The children were forcibly taken away from their parents and were sent far away to be “educated” of the Western way of living and to forget about their own culture. These children are known as “The Stolen

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    Peter And Wendy Analysis

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    the relationships between parents and children serves not only to portray the personality of each character but to challenge and further complicate the conventional ways of defining family. Contrary to the conventional belief, which considers family caring and egalitarian, the parent-child relationships seen in Peter and Wendy, however, undermines such conception by mirroring the tension and inequality in a typical family. Despite those imperfections, children nonetheless still rely heavily on the

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