Name: Junique Wright Date: 11-11-2013 Block: 3 Did TV change American families or Did America change TV families? During the 1950’s commonly known TV shows like “Leave It To Beaver” depicted the perfect American household: White‚ suburban‚ breadwinning father‚ homemaking mother and their kids also known as‚ Family. Today “traditional” families have drastically changed and in accordance‚ so have television families. TV changed in order to stay current and gain/ maintain audience(s).
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The three main causes of changes in American families are the rising divorce rate‚ changing role of women‚ and changing attitudes about marriage. The first main cause of changes in American families is the rising divorce rate. The rising of divorce rate has increased for a long time. This increasing has caused too much changing in the life of American families. First‚ divorce has caused single parent for children. Most children who have single parent will have hard life. For instance‚ they live
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position of leaving your entire family behind? Well‚ I have an opportunity to make that choice this coming summer. I have a choice between staying here in the United States and playing baseball for an American Legion Team‚ The Outlaws‚ or leaving the US and playing for an Ambassador Baseball Team in the Dominican Republic. This decision is tough considering no one in my family can come along. Also in the sixteen years of my life‚ I have never been away from my family for an extended amount of time
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sixty years the dynamics of the American family has changed. Families today face more challenges and often to respond in ways that may seem logical but that pose potential risks to their children. In the Sixties the average family consisted of a working father‚ a stay at home mother and on average‚ 2.5 children. But today the family structure has changed. In the book‚ The Changing Rhythms of American Family Life‚ the author states that when considering how families have changed over the past several
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The 20th century observed extraordinary changes in the structure and dynamics of American families. The remarkable shift began with the Progressive Era‚ which spearheaded the emerging concept of marital happiness‚ an idea that marriage should be composed of emotional ties between the husband and wife. The Industrial Revolution further reinforced these rising ideals with economic and technological transformations that encouraged people to choose partners based on emotional attraction than financial
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becomes addicted to smoking‚ drinking and going out to night clubs. This conclusion leads me to think that he has the common issues that teens deal with daily. Although Holden secludes himself from the rest of the world‚ he is very much like a typical teenager when it comes to having problems in school. Holden reveals a strong hate for school. In chapter one‚ he states that “he didn’t know anyone at Pencey that was splendid and clear-thinking and all. Maybe two guys. If that many.” (pg. 6) Later
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dictionary.com. I decided to research the African American culture because their culture interested me most. The structure in African American families is often an extended family with non-related “family” members. The family is typically matriarchal because African American families are far more likely become single parent’s households. Grandparents are respected and often take care grandchildren while the parents work. In the African American community‚ the elder is very rarely place in a nursing
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Rationale: This book was written by Jacqueline‚ an African American author. I choose this book because I think it is a great representation of cultural diversity. It is about a rope that became an important item for an African American family. The family used the rope for three generation. The rope moved with the family from South Carolina to New York in the period of The Great Migration. The family used the rope in different ways such as: to jump‚ to tie things‚ to dry sweet flowers...etc. It is
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Does the American Family Have a History? Family Images and Realities A revolution has taken place in family life since the late 1960s. Today‚ two-thirds of all married women with children--and an even higher proportion of single mothers--work outside the home‚ compared to just 16 percent in 1950. Half of all marriages end in divorce--twice the rate in 1966 and three times the rate in 1950. Three children in ten are born out of wedlock. Over a quarter of all children now live with only one parent
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of slavery on the African American family were tremendous. From slave mother’s and father’s having their children taken away and sold‚ to brother’s and sister’s being split apart‚ to having the actual slave-owner being the one to father children with slaves‚ to even say that African American families even existed might sound ridiculous. But they did exist; it just depends on what you might define as a "family". Slavery did not weaken or dissolve the African American family. Instead‚ it brought all
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