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Young and Peter Willmott The 4 stages of family life Young and Willmott conducted studies of family life in London in the 1950s to the 1970s. In their book “The symmetrical family 1973, they attempt to trace the development of the family from pre-industrial England to the 1970s” using a combination of methods such as historical research and social surveys, they suggest that the family has evolved through 4 main stages. Much emphasis is however concentrated on working

Everyday Use - Rough Draft WRIT 161 - M04 The two girls don’t value the quilts in the same way because even if they are sisters, they didn’t grow up the same way, they don’t have the same level of education, and they don’t have the same values of family. I don’t believe that you can love one of your child more than another one but I do believe that you can feel closer to one. That’s what happens in Everyday Use. A mother has two girls, Maggie and Dee, but the two sisters are the complete opposite

world, then Helen, Jane and finally Paul. The family is happy, although a Down's syndrome child was born into Sarah and Williams family. The extract can be divided into 3 parts: a) From the beginning to l. 22 “And she would be right.”: Harriet cannot manage without help after Dorothy's departure. b) From l. 23 “It will be easier ....” to l.44 “... washing up.”: D & H have an argument/ quarrel: Harriet insists that the whole family come for Xmas as usual whereas David thinks

Lourdes is knocking at her mother’s home. Her mother is opening the door. Her Mother: Hello darling! It makes me feel good to see you. Lourdes: Me too! I come to take some news about you, so how are you? Her Mother: Oh you are cute! I’m fine thank you and you? Lourdes: Fine too. But we must speak. I have something’s to tell you but it’s delicate. Please understand me. Her Mother: What’s your problem? You frighten me. Please speak! Lourdes: I leave to United States of America. Her Mother: What

baby : Luke is born in the family bed with the help of Dr Brett. It was an easy baby and the lovatts were a happy family, all it's idyllic ! There is blissful atmosphere as in a fary tale. Then, in 1968 the second baby Helen is born. Next Jane in 1970 and finally Paul in 1973. Harriet pregnancies were not with some pain. She had been sick, slept badly and full of minor problems . One child after the other is born and re-united relatives (Harriet's and David's family) always crowd around the

love, did you sleep well ?" On the point of confessing that she had had the worst night of her life, something stopped her and she smiled back. "Yes, Mum, fine." Watching her mother quietly for a moment she remembered the photographs of her in the family albums. Her mother, now faded and anxious, had once been pretty and lively and had glowed with happiness as her married life began. And yet, looking at her kneeling there in her dressing gown, Britt felt herself to be a cuckoo in this poky(1) suburban

Chapter 1 Ten-year-old Jim Burden is sent to live with his grandparents in rural Nebraska when his parents die. Jim and Jake Marpole, one of the Burdens' farm-hands, travel to Nebraska on the railroad together from the hills of Virginia. An immigrant family, the Shimerdas, is traveling to their destination as well. Like most other immigrants, the Shimerdas left their native Bohemia and moved to America for a better life. Like Jim, the Shimerdas have no one to turn to in a new, frightening place. Chapter

action take place in Paris where since some years, a rich family, the Ziarnoswki, and a poor black one, the Makumbe, are batting. It started with a supposed robbery commited by Mrs. Makumbe, the maid of the Ziarnowski's family. Hamadou, the son of the Makumbe's is in love with the beautiful blond Joanna. Mr. Ziarnoswki organise a party in a club in order to present to his daughter Juliette, a boy called Jean-Louis which is a son of a bourgeois family. Jean-Louis seems to be interested by Juliette whose

Cinderella's destiny Once upon a time a charming man who had married a generous woman and had with her a beautiful and gentle little girl. The little girl had inherited her mother's quality. Some time after, the mother was dead and she left her husband alone with his daughter. One days, this kind father met a woman then he had married with her quickly. His wife had two daughters who were cruel and bad like her. She revealed her true face just after the wedlock. She imposed herself and gave at

The play is set at the royal court in Troezen, on the Peloponnesus coast in Southern Greece.[2] Act 1. Following Theseus's six month absence, his son Hippolytus tells his tutor Theramenes of his intention to leave Troezen in search of his father. When pressed by Theramenes, he reveals that the real motive is his forbidden love for Aricia, sole survivor of the royal house supplanted by Theseus and under a vow of chastity against her will. During her husband's absence, Phèdre has become consumed by