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    Australian families face solidarity and Division: Numbers of sole parent households are increasing, with predictions of a 65% increase within Australia by 2036. Although financial assistance is provided by the welfare system, families continue to experience financial hardship. Recent statistics suggests, that sole parent families are at the highest risk of experiencing disadvantage. Why are so many Australian sole parent families living so close to or below the calculated poverty line?…

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    Why Youth Join Gangs

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    To provide a generalized concept of how youth gangs in this essay, it will be used in broad terms of persons aged twenty-five and younger and group engaged in unlawful behavior (Esbensen, Ni He, and Taylor 2001:106). Based on peer-reviewed research youth join gangs because of parental, school and peer influences. A prominent force that invites youth to join gangs is parental influences. Research has shown parent relationships and family structure to have a key role: a questionnaire answered by…

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    Well, my essay is about marriage between people of the same gender, i chose this topic because it made me very interested, since nowadays it is very common but society does not consider it a good thing. To start off, should of know that is the marriage between people of the same sex, also is known as marriage homosexual, marriage equal or marriage gay, recognizes legal or socially a marriage formed by Contracting Parties of the same sex biological or legally recognized. At present, many…

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    theory. Therefore, in this essay I will be examining the strengths and…

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    I Just Wanna Be Average

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    People in similar circumstances and environments may have different perspectives or attitudes towards similar things or even the same things that may lead them to different or similar outcomes. The protagonist in the essay “ The Achievement of Desire “ written by Richard Rodriguez and Mike Rose in “ I Just Wanna Be Average”. Both Went through the same educational experience as a result of they were both looked down on or expected to do worse because of their status. Both Richard Rodriguez and…

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    MK Assantes Family

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    Essay 2 on Buck (research paper) M.K Assantes’ family was strange when it came to communication. MK and Uzi father was never home, and their mother was dealing with severe depression. MK and Uzi both liked to run to streets. MK looked up to his older and only brother, which is very common in younger siblings, but Uzi wasn’t the influence that MK needed. After Uzi got sent away to live in Arizona with his uncle, Mk was on his own, and started to rebel more than ever. Could this all have been…

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    ‘’The effect of living in poverty on family units and individual’’ Mother Teresa said, ‘’We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved, and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty’’. In the essay ‘’What Is Poverty?’’ by Jo Goodwin Parker, she describes how her life ling in poverty felt like and her daily struggles in raising a family. While the book ‘’Color Of…

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    Bharati Mukherjee’s essay “Two Ways to Belong in America” and Morgan Spurlock’s “30 Days – Outsourcing” highlight some differences and similarities between Indian and American culture by detailing the experiences of real life individuals. In terms of day to day experiences, the lives of Americans and Indians could almost not be more different. Societal, familial, and job-centric norms all vary across the two cultures. However, in the ways that all humans do, the people of both nations can be…

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    something, and even generate serious judgements about controlling. Due to different opinions of people about the rightness or wrongness of control, both authors give out their explanations of the value of control. Sherry Turkle, the author of the essay of “Alone Together”, introduces…

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    called “The land of opportunity.” I worked hard several zillion minutes to get where I am at today. When I write this essay, I imagine you at your desk reading every word meticulously. Writing this essay today opens up my past, present and future. Eleven years ago, April 12, 2006. Today was my long waited journey to America. Tears swelled in my eyes as I looked away from my families, friends and my beloved country. As I slowly walked away I told myself, “It’s just a new beginning, Duyen; you can…

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