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Dealing with the Effects of Child Abuse, Overcoming Obstacles, and Friendship in Barbara Kingsolver's 'The Bean Trees'

life choices. Deciding to leave was easy; figuring out where she was heading proved a more difficult choice, one that would ultim...

The Environment in Literature: Ecocriticism, Ecofeminism and the Concept of Dwelling

That is, non-ecocritics appear to be uncomfortable with criticism that acknowledges the fact that it is possible the natural world...

Effect of Childhood Experience of Sex Abuse on Marriage

a history of child abuse has an effect on their marriages. Literature review While it is generally accepted by the vast majority...

Kingsolver: “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle”

of oil a year per citizen" which is almost as much as we use in our vehicles (Kingsolver, Kingsolver and Hopp, 2007, p. 5). The hu...

Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver

on the other hand, believes strongly in not using pesticides or otherwise strongly interfering with nature, although she also does...

Role of Faith/Cry, the Beloved Country

of Western superiority, is the only correct view. By this novels end, it is clear that what Price calls "faith" is rather cultur...

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver and Applicatioins of Erik Erikson and Lawrence Kohlberg's Theories

for their ethical behavior. He identified six stages which were classified in three levels: pre-conventional, conventional and pos...

Overview of Child Abuse

This paper describes the effects of child abuse on child development and also the problems that is causes in later life for the ad...

Barbara Kingsolver's Pigs in Heaven

love of this frightened child is the healing agent that helps Turtle to grow. The symbolism of Turtles name, for she has retreate...

Barbara Kingsolver's The Bean Trees from a New Historicism Perspective

gas in Taylorville, Illinois" (Anonymous The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver bean_trees.asp). A small abandoned Cherokee child es...

Child Abuse/Its Effects on Self Esteem

This research paper discusses the apallilng statistics pertaining to the abuse of both children and women. The writer focuses on t...

Barbara Kingsolver's The Bean Tree and Single Mothers

In five pages this text is discussed in an overview. There is 1 source cited in the bibliography....

Alcoholism's Social and Psychological Effects

In eight pages this paper examines the US abuse of alcohol in a consideration of causes, psychological and social effects, and tre...

Program/Aiding Adult Female Victims of Childhood Sex Abuse

research shows that the majority of women, and also a percentage of men, who seek treatment for substance abuse disorders indicate...

Terrorism: Impediments to International Cooperation

as acts that are committed by non governmental bodies or representatives. This definition, of course, varies significantly accord...

The Vicious Circle of Child Abuse, Juvenile Delinquency, and Future Abuse

windows. Those windows include the children themselves but they also include society as a whole. Child abuse can be either...

Terrorism: Impediments to International Cooperation

been developed on the international level. Acts of terrorism can be loosely defined as acts perpetrated against citizens to insti...

Forms of Child Abuse 2

In five pages various types of child abuse are discussed in terms of statistics, situational assessment, and suggested improvement...

The Dental Industry and Abuse Alert

transfer their own disrespect onto their families in the form of domestic violence. Loss of control is often an issue that is not...

Holding the Line

The writer examines the Barbara Kingsolver book Holding the Line, which discusses the 1983 mining strike in Arizona. The book reve...

Natural World and Being Human According to Barbara Kingsolver and Gary Snyder

humans in the natural world. As Kingsolver does in her essay "High Tide in Tucson," Snyder considers the fact that humans are part...

Symbolism in Great Gatsby & Animal Dreams

retinas are one yard high" (Fitzgerald 15). The student researching this topic will note that there are divergences from the stu...

Literary Depiction of Africa

limited at best. The average American will probably not ever venture off her shores. Often, the more technologically advanced cult...

Independent Taylor Greer's Journey to Maturity in The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver

aware that her and her mothers poverty had placed them at the bottom rung of Kentuckys socioeconomic ladder, with the chances of u...

2 Adolescent Peer Interaction Journal Articles Reviewed

most part, peer groups are formed out of a similarity in interests and personality behavior. This clearly explains the reasons wh...

Connectivity, External and Internal Drive Bays

front panel." Kozierok (2001) also explains that the term "external drive bay" is a "bit of a misnomer" in that the term ex...

Adolescent Children of Alcoholic Parents

In a paper consisting of ten pages the impact of parental alcohol abuse upon adolescent children's behavior and effects upon their...

A Case Story Involving Adult Child Abuse

missing the fundamental basics of human life; as such, a legal shift in focus took place in order to provide them with more emphas...

Abuse Cases, Elder and Child Abuse

This paper first describes 2 cases of abuse, one that pertains to elder abuse and the other to child sexual abuse. Then, the write...

Domestic Violence, Children Witnesses

This paper pertains to domestic violence and its negative effects on child witnesses. The writer considers the issue of whether w...