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The mother-daughter relationship – probably one of the robust bonds of the nature, is displayed in a distorted manner in The Rocking Horse Winner of D.H. Lawrence and also Amy Tan’s ‘Two Kinds.’ Both these short stories explain how the parental-love and the relationship between the parent and children get strained. This essay attempts to explore the ways in which parental-love has been portrayed in both these short stories.
An atmosphere that is full of unconditional love, ease and permanence is one that is optimal for the growth and development of a ...

Fairytales generally offer children a very limited choice of heroes and villains, and they cast men and women in stereotyped roles, because they are meant to socialize children according to the values of the society and according to their expected gender roles. Two feminine characters found in many fairytales are the wicked stepmother and the young and beautiful heroine, who is often a princess. In such fairytales as Grimm brothers’ “Snow White”, “Cinderella” and “Mother Holle”, the stepmother is an intruder who occupies the role of the good mother and persecutes the young, beautiful and kind heroine. She is ...

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The right to decide whether a woman is ready to bear the responsibility of a child, a life, should be granted to the woman. Currently, abortion is illegal in several countries across the globe, some even going to the extent of endangering the mother’s life so as to avoid aborting a fetus. While most of the arguments against legalizing abortion have been founded on the concept of the fetus’ right to life, there is also great contention that a woman is the best judge of whether she can carry the responsibility of the child. Hence, the legalization of abortion should be allowed in ...

Margaret Cezair-Thompson novel, "The True History of Paradise,” is a story about Jean Landing, a Jamaican woman who is determined to escape from her motherland of Jamaica. It is in 1981, and the country is sliding into anarchy after continuous political unrest. The author intelligently injects the storyline with the whole family background of Jean and Jamaica’s whole history. This Jamaican history stretches from the pre-Columbian days up-to-the time Jean gets on her flight. The unfolding political turmoil in her country of birth causes her to make a decision to flee immediately. Even before making her final preparations, she receives piercing ...

Why the Decision to Have an Abortion is the Right of Women.

Abortion in Healthcare: Why the decision to have an abortion is the right of women
The right to decide whether a woman is ready to bear the responsibility of a child, a life, should be granted to the woman. Currently, abortion is illegal in several countries across the globe, some even going to the extent of endangering the mother’s life so as to avoid aborting a foetus. While most of the arguments against legalizing abortion have been founded on the concept of the foetus’ right to life, there is also great contention that a woman is the best judge of whether she ...

Abortion is defined as the act of clinically or surgically terminating pregnancy. A clinical abortion involves the use of medication to get rid of a pregnancy while a surgical abortion is carried out in the operating room whereby surgical equipments are used. There are many concerns on whether abortion should be permitted. Some people equate abortion to murder while others are neutral. This has resulted in two schools of thought; pro-choice and pro-life. Pro-choice are those who believe the woman should make a choice. On the contrary, pro-life are who believe abortion to murder. Therefore, it should not be legalized. Consequently, abortion ...

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Gertrude Simmons Bonnin, who was born in 1876, was an educated and very influential Native American woman. She belonged to the Yankton Sioux tribe and was sent off to study in a missionary school at the age of eight. The writer struggled and faced many hardships at the time when prejudice prevailed towards the culture and traditions of the Native Americans. The women were the ones who suffered the most. When she began to write, Gertrude adopted the name ‘Zitkala-Sa’ as her pen name. She began to publish her work criticising The Carlisle Indian School from the 1900s. Her ...

Amy Tan’s Two Kinds depicts the life of Jing-Mei Woo, a young woman of Chinese – American descent. Woo recollects her mother’s sadness because she had lost her parents, her home, her twin daughters, and her first husband before she fled China. In addition, Woo looks at her mother’s strength, because she shows no regrets about losing everything, and yet is able to embrace the American Dream. Woo rebels against the lesson her mother teaches, even though they can teach her to appreciate that reality everyone can succeed if they have faith and perseverance. Woo’s mother, Suyuan, ...

Jamaica Kincaid’s novel Annie John (1991) is a pure reflection of female relationships that might be seen to go against societal norms. In the novel, the author creates a heroine who struggles in her search for self-identity but whose life is dotted with affection for fellow women starting from her mother to other girls with whom she interacts. The theme of homosexual or homosocial female love is present in the story and is best expressed through Annie John, the protagonist in the book. Annie expresses her desire towards her mother especially when she gets jealousy of the relationship ...

Entry One: When I Am Old, I Shall Wear Purple

The first thing I thought of when I considered the idea of aging issues was a poem by Jenny Joseph, who wrote Warning, the first lines of which are, “When I am an old woman I shall wear purple/ With a red hat which doesn't go and doesn't suit me” (Sachteleben 2009). Joseph was born in 1932 in England composed this ode to being elderly in 1961. Although she grew up in a different generation, Joseph’s poem still resonates. In some ways, there is a certain freedom for the elderly. Many people spend their younger lives trying to do the right thing, ...

My family used to own a farm that took up about 120 acres in northeastern Texas. The nearest town was a sleepy hamlet called Ector, that had about 800 people in it when I was a kid; the town has grown smaller since then. Bonham was further down the road, the seat of Fannin County. When I was a kid, you could go into Bonham to bowl or watch a movie, or even shop at Wal-Mart. But we didn’t do any of those things when I was a kid, and we went down to the farm. Instead, we stayed there – first in the old, ...

Toni Morrison’s novel, Song of Solomon focuses on the lives of one, black family unit and in particular, the novel’s central protagonist, Macon ‘Milkman’ Dead III. The novel presents women in a number of ways: as victims, as being in adoration of men, as nurturers and as ‘Earth Mothers’ who embody the plentiful nature of the Earth. This limited view of women is presented in terms of the limited options that ex-slave, black women had. A feminist reading of this text would also need to incorporate a reading of gender relations within a black community as women, and in particular, ...

The only path that a man can really change is the path that comes from his own soul. In Toni Morrison novel diverse themes have been captured to reflect the ironies of life which are in one way been sustained by symbolism of life to produce seamless situational metaphors in more intricate imagery. The ironies of life can be seen where the author illustrates Bottom as gift from a Master to his slave, though it was a trick despite convincing the unknowing slave that the land was close to the heaven for it was hilly. In essence, this demonstrates the symbolism of ...

Romare Bearden’s painting entitled “The Family” (1941) shows three distinct images of members of the family: the father, mother, and child. The racial or ethnic background of the family seemed to stem from the African origin due to the black color of their skins. Likewise, the images are painted from the style which was representative of the cubism style, where the figures were apparently depicted in geometric shapes. For instance, there were different images at the background which are similar to geometric shapes like the triangle, oblong, square or rectangle, and circle. A white cloth hanging just at ...

Angela Locke’s essay “Born Poor and Smart” offers a pointed critique of social stratification and the cultural divides between rich and poor that maintain these systemic inequalities. Detailing her poor childhood and the long, arduous road she took to becoming financially solvent, Locke offers a laconic, straightforward essay that speaks truth to power while also demonstrating the problems the poor have in being able to uplift themselves out of poverty. While Locke misses a few fundamental differences between the rich and the poor in her logic, “Born Poor and Smart” offers a significant sense of ethos and pathos ...

Tennessee Williams is one of the best-known playwrights from the mid-twentieth century, becoming famous for his work The Glass Menagerie in the year 1944. Although Williams would go on to create a variety of different pieces of literature and a number of stage classics, The Glass Menagerie remains one of his most well-known and well-loved pieces. Much of Williams’ work was later adapted for use in the cinema, and the movies made about his classic pieces became popular as well. Born to an overbearing father and a typical “southern belle” mother, Williams was a sickly child who tended towards books and studying rather ...

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(1) A word child was identified as legitimate child, there is a gap in arguing in case of illegitimate child.
(2) It was concluded that if a woman is not a lawful wife of a father and this child is his legitimate child, than this child cannot have illegitimate mother

Question 2

(3) Graham-Perkins JA argued that (1) supports the fact that a child can be legitimate child of his father and cannot have illegitimate mother, while the primary argument of Smith JA puts parents in a different situation regarding the custody.
(4) He argued that if the situation (2) occurs, ...

Reflection on Clinical Practice

Reflection on Clinical Practice

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In advanced nursing, acute care of pregnant women is an important part. The challenge that is common in this field of nursing is that the nurse must consider the wellbeing of the developing fetus in addition to that of the mother before taking any interventions. One of the first cases I handled was that of Mr. & Mrs. Peterson. I met Mrs. Jessica Peterson, 31 while she was 4 months pregnant after she was diagnosed with gestational diabetes mellitus. From her medical records, this was her second pregnancy with the first one having ended in a miscarriage ...

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Eucharistic adoration
The Rite of Eucharistic Exposition and Benediction
Role of the Eucharistic adoration
Introduction: Qurbono.
Parts of the Maronite liturgy:
Service of the word
The Anaphora
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Adoration is man’s way of acknowledging that he is God’s creation (CCC, no.2628). Man pays his homage to the ‘King of Glory’ through adoration. Adoration comes with humility and shows our supplication (CCC, no.2628). Eucharistic adoration refers to honoring or doting Christ’s Eucharistic presence (Catholic church.org 1). Catholics are able to truly contemplate ...

Introduction

Grave of Fireflies, or ‘Hotaru no haka’ in Japanese, is a powerful and compelling animated film which was released in 1988 (Ebert). This 88 minutes long film was directed by Isao Takahata with the animation being done by Studio Ghibli, which has created a name for itself for producing quality and acclaimed animations. The movie’s story line is modeled on a novel bearing the same title, written in 1967 by Akiyuki Nosaka. Apparently, the author had undergone an experience comparable to that of Seita, the protagonist in both the film and the autobiography.
Grave of Fireflies has a growing audience of ...

Sonia Sotomayor

Sonia Sotomayor became the first Hispanic Supreme Court Justice in August 2009, and the third female justice in the history of the Supreme Court (Greene, 14). This is a remarkable feat by any standards, and as she recounts in her book, My Beloved World, the journey to the Supreme Court was not easy. The book recounts her childhood, growing up in the projects in Bronx, through school, and through her career up until her appointment to the Supreme Court. Though one would expect a book by a person of her stature to contain jurisprudential and philosophical views, the book does not contain ...

Helping of a Family

In this scenario, there are a number of perspectives that emerge. First, the parents of the child are divorced. Second, the father is the custodial parent while the mother is a non-custodial parent. Third, the mother has a drinking problem, and it is yet to stop. Finally, the patient is a child, and thus his or her decisions are dependent on parents (Spencer, 2000). In approaching this scenario, APA standards 3 and 10 would be extremely significant. Standard 3 is about human relations and subsection 3.10 is about informed consent. According to APA (2010), there is a need to obtain informed consent of the ...

A slave named Androcles once escaped from his master and fled to the forest. As he was wandering about there he came upon a Lion lying down moaning and groaning. At first he turned to flee, but finding that the Lion did not pursue him, he turned back and went up to him. As he came near, the Lion put out his paw, which was all swollen and bleeding, and Androcles found that a huge thorn had got into it, and was causing all the pain. He pulled out the thorn and bound up the paw of the Lion, who was ...

How can Child Support Enforcement be Improved in the U.S.?

Differences between the Welfare System of the 1970’s and the Current System.

How can Child Support Enforcement be Improved in the U.S.?

Throughout the history of making public policy to support children with the social services (welfare programs) efforts have been made to mirror changes in family dynamics. For the most part policy makers have shown a willingness to incorporate the suggestions based on social science research into public policy.

The 1970s were a big turning point for how child support problems were to be handled. Up until that time ...

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The paper critically analyzes the various ideas put together by Freud on what essentially classifies and outlines the personality and nature of men and women and accordingly the relations between them (Engler and Barbara 23). The paper also discusses how the characteristics exhibited at the diverse levels of social utilitarian engagements bringing out the relation to Freud’s view of the potential between the men and women independently as well as in social context. The paper also examines the Freud’s views in light of Marx’s discussion of the relation between the potential of men and women. In ...

The movie is interesting and educative. It shows that the wicked shall not thrive. Blood in the movie symbolizes purity as her mother wished she should have a pure heart. The dwarves said she is pure and will be going to heal the land. Blood in most fairy tales symbolizes purity of the heart. A child learns that being pure at heart is a good thing. The apple in this fairy tale symbolizes poison. It also symbolizes deceptive behavior from the beginning where William plucks the apple for Snow White, but deceptively eats it. The wicked queen gives her the poisonous ...

Experts in child development and related practice hold a common view that parents should learn parental sensitivity to child behavior. The responses that parents give to their children have a significant impact on the development of the child. Interestingly, studies on the parental sensitivity project limit focus on the adolescent mothers and fathers. Parental sensitivity focuses on the response pattern to the infant’s behavior.
Mary Ann McGovern article “Sensitivity and Reciprocity in the Play of Adolescent Mothers and Youth Fathers with Their Infants” explore the adolescent mothers and father’s sensitivity and reciprocity to their four month old infants. ...

Primary elective Cesarean Section is safer for infant and mother

Preferred above Emergency C-section

Possible resolutions – Evidence based studies should be conducted

Ethical dilemmas appear as moral conflicts everyday in nursing practice interventions. The anticipation of every nurse is that one day while engaged in this vocation an ethical dilemma will surface. Contemporary nursing practice forces the nurse to be a patient advocate also, besides execution of daily tasks to enhance life. Maternal infant nursing, as any other part of the discipline form time to time, forges ethical considerations at all levels of practice. In this discourse the writer will advance an argument for primary elective caesarean section and how ...

Zora, the author of Dust Trucks on a Road, was born in 1891 in Notasulga, Alabama and died in 1960. She was regarded as one of the best and contemporary American novelists, anthropologists, and folklorists of the Harlem Renaissance (Meisenhelder, n.p). While she was three, her family moved to Eatonville Florida, one of the first all-black towns to be established in the United States. This was a place where the blacks existed independently and as they desired. Due to this, Zora often referred to it as her birthplace. The death of her mother was the beginning of her misery ...

In order to deal with this effectively, I would consider the best applicable moral rule and apply. Here, a mother has been cornered by socioeconomic circumstances to continue violating the law in order to manage stress while ensuring she takes care of her kids. My first consideration is the fact that there is a lack of support system for this woman given that her ex-husband does not support her. Moreover, her mother believes that she is paying for her sins and that she neglects caring for the younger children. Another cause of ethical dilemma is the aspect that she lacks a good ...

Abortion Under this neutral, it would seem, short word, there is hiding the real human tragedy, crime, and simply put, murder. Yes, it is a murder indeed, an attempt on the life of a small, completely innocent person. Whatever attempts to justify this act: financial situation, the circumstances, etc., they still do not remove responsibility for infanticide. After all, every person, since he/she is conceived, has the right to be born, to develop and to live.
Doctors often suspend from a crime under the guise of cold terms, calling the baby just an embryo. In fact, in this way they are ...

The story gives some clues to understand why Diaz thinks about Yunior's motion sickness. Firstly, the father warns the mother not to feed him before the car travels. Thus, when Yunior is full driving, it is relatively higher possibility that he will vomit. Thus, his stomach is sensitive to the motion, and if his stomach is empty, he can stay without vomiting in the traveling car.
Also, in the car, Yunior tries to stay still. There might be two reasons behind this: 1) he does not want to attract his father's attention on him and 2) he wants ...

Population- adult women, including the pregnant women

Intervention-avoiding chemicals during pregnancy
Comparison –miscarriages
Outcome- the patients will have fewer complications during pregnancy
PICO Question
In pregnant women, how effective is it for them to avoid working in chemical based conditions and environment?
Background
Most women fail to take precaution measures during pregnancy, where they work in every provided condition. Some women only think that they should stop working only when they are in the advanced stages of pregnancy. For example, in the provided case, Maria is working as a cleaning agent in a household cleaning company, which specializes in cleaning small residences ...

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The basis of the “Beowulf” storyline finds its basis in a similar named warrior who lives to be the greatest combatant that ever lived. As the plot begins, Hrothgar, king of Denmark holds a celebration to his powerful and successful reign. However, terror marks the nights as Grendel a demon residing in the kingdom cannot tolerate noise and as a result, attacks the village whenever there is a celebration (Heaney 3). The wealthy mead-hall, christened Heorot, in which the celebrations are held, becomes a slaughterhouse as Grendel attacks and kills the Danish warriors. This rapidly decreases the ...

Socialization is an aspect of human life that entails people coming together and leaving as one. There are many things that come together to form the social life of an individual. These range from socialization aspects, religion, culture, education, status, and roles. All these fit into a social portrait that can best describe an individual in the sociological perspective. The family, education, culture and social class play a key role in shaping an individual socially.
I am a male of a mixed ethnicity, specifically from an Aboriginal father and an Indian mother. I am the first born in a family of four. I ...

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In the poem, we are confronted with the question of the moral obligation of a child to his or her parent. To understand this, we must first understand the relationship between the mother and the child. Let us first analyze the personality of the mother, the Chippewa woman that the poet had reiterated.
Right from the start, it was clear that the mother was alone and had no one to depend on but herself. “Far from the Fort and far from the hunters, a Chippewa woman ...

Michele Causse ingested 15g of powdered Nembutal, dissolved in 60ml of normal tap water, ending her life. In Switzerland it’s legal to assist someone in ending their life if it is not done for egotistical reasons. Michele Causse loved life but didn’t want it to lose form; she’s basically saying that although she loves life it’s all downhill from here because of her health. Life is only going to get worse, so she wants to end on her terms instead of slowly deteriorating into a creature that can’t feed itself. She already can’t shop ...

Tony Nicklinson suffers from locked in syndrome as a result of a stroke, he is unable to communicate verbally or physically, and he is completely paralyzed from the neck down, he is literally a prisoner in his own body.

The fifty-eight year old was denied the right to die by the high court.

“I have locked-in syndrome and it makes my life a living nightmare.
I cannot speak and I am also paralysed below the neck, which means I need someone to do everything for me.
For example, 90% of itches have to be endured because by the time someone comes to scratch it and I have laboriously explained where it is, the itch has ...

Abortion is acceptable when medical reasons justify it but in some countries or societies like in USA abortion is widely accepted even when medical reasons are not indicated. Some medical reasons that allow abortion to be procured include impending pregnancies, when the developing fetus has a defect or genetic problems, the pregnancy is harmful to the health and wellbeing of the mother, when the pregnancy resulted after a traumatic event such as rape or incest or the woman may not wish to be pregnant for personal reasons.
Medical abortion conducted in the first trimester by a qualified medical expert reduces complications ...

The modern debate over abortion has raised numerous attentions from various disciplines across the world. Each discipline argues different positions, and there seems to be no emerging agreement. Certainly, Socrates and Herodotus would have their stand on the currently abortion issues. Just like other scholars, Socrates and Herodotus would have their view on how abortion issue is affecting the society.

Socrates and Herodotus would have not had allowed abortion to take place in the current society. However, it would have appeared to approve abortion in certain circumstances. Their perception of abortion would resemble most arguments offered by various scholars. ...

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3. How is the setting in the stories listed below essential to our understanding of the events in these works?
The setting of the story, The Lottery, stirs the readers to the very core as it helps in setting up the ambiance that leads to the climactic sequence in the course of the narrative. The description of the beautiful day and the open space in stark juxtaposition to the final barbaric act in the course of the story makes one understand the dichotomy between the societal norms and logical outlook. Right up to the very end, one is unable ...

Maryse Conde’s ‘The Tropical Breeze Hotel’ is a pre-colonial play that focuses on the issue of the black body and struggle for power and identity. The Black Body is an issue that has a long history from the pre-colonial period and some authors have addressed the issue using dramatic writing. In the play, Conde unleashes a power struggle between the two characters, Emma, and Ishmael, which reveals a gender-based struggle or grasp for an identity. The author uses the two characters who constantly appear to switch roles as a way of balancing each other’s character. The play ...

On March 10, 1957, Osama Bin Muhammad Bin Awad Bin Laden was born. He is better known today as Osama Bin Laden. He began his years of life living in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. His birth father was Muhammad Awad Bin Laden, and his birth mother was Alia Ghanem. Alia was originally from Syria when she married Osama’s father.
Osama was the 17th child born to his father out of 57 kids. He was the only child of his father and his mother. Muhammad had nine other wives before Alia. His father was born a Yemeni settler who lived ...

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Sigmund Freud believes that people who experience anxiety unconsciously deal with it through a number of strategies called defense mechanism. Three of these defense mechanisms are Displacement, Rationalization, and Denial. Displacement happens when “the expression of an unwanted feeling or thought is redirected from a more threatening powerful person to a weaker one” (Author, Year). I have seen this many times before from my friend. Whenever he gets frustrated at work or whenever he feels tired, he tends to express his frustration towards his wife. This leads to many arguments, and sometimes, unintentional verbal abuse. One time, ...

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Atwood’s Main message
As a visionary writer, Atwood has authored many books. What is common in Atwood’s books is that she attempts to put across one message over and over again. This is the message on the woman’s voice in the society. Atwood effectively passes this message in a unique manner by reconstructing her version out of ancient myth stories. Old pieces of literature were synonymous with stories of feminist exploitation. The society of the time was characterized with giving a woman no chance whatsoever. They had no say in most society matters even by a little ...

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The Opposing Emotions Found in Roethke's "My Papa's Waltz"
Roethke's "My Papa's Waltz" is a very brief poem, but one filled with powerful verses and a plethora of emotions. It is a poem that talks about a bedtime dance performed by a father-son duo. The poem has given birth to multiple interpretations over the years, regarding the speaker’s emotion towards his father. While some argue that the poem is about a father physically controlling or even abusing his son, some see it as an expression of love by a clumsy and rough, yet, affectionate father. However, familial relations are a complex subject, and ...

A movie that tickled my curiosity is the movie Wadjda. The plot of the movie is set in Saudi Arabia, a country culturally different from the USA. The fact that Saudi Arabia is one of the most closed countries in relation to women's rights was the crucial for arousing my interest to watch this movie. The movie Wadjda was released in 2012 and it immediately occupied the interest of the public opinion about the position of women in the Middle East. The main characters of the movie are Wadjda, a young girl, and her mother who is trapped between the culture ...

Amy Tan’s “Two Kinds” is a passionate recollection of her experience growing up in America to immigrant parents whose cultural values and beliefs are at conflict with her own. Tan explores her rebellious childhood under an overwhelming mother who appears to have planned the entire future for her daughter without even taking her opinion into account. Like many immigrants to America, Tan’s mother believes America to be the home dreams where everyone can achieve anything they want. This is depicted in the first line of the essay; “my mother believed you could be anything you wanted in America” ( ...

Summary of the Study

The research conducted by Choi, Palmer, and Pyun, entitled, “Three measures of non-resident fathers’ involvement, maternal parenting and child development in low-income single-mother families,” tried answering the research problem whether there is an association between three independent variables and four dependent variables. The independent variables included the non-residential Father’s: frequency of contact with their respective children, amount of payment for child support, and quality of father’s parenting. The dependent variables were: children’s cognitive development, children’s behavioral development, maternal parenting, and maternal parenting stress. The research utilized the quantitative method of analysis. It also utilized mediation ...

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Oppression is an issue that has long been debated over the years. It is also one of the most important issues that continue to persist until today. In relation to gender, women are the common target of this phenomenon due to the patriarchal mindset that most societies have. In an article by Kathy Caprino, women’s oppression was described as “the most critical moral challenge of our time.” Unfortunately, this treatment of women had become so common and even accepted that people no longer care ...

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Many of us have this thought that true love and deep emotional relationships only exist in television soap opera dramas, of which is entirely not true at all. True love does exist in real life situation among the few that are blessed to the point of having to enjoy it. There was this young couple that used to be blessed such that they could give out their life for each other if need be without hesitating even a second. The couple used to live country called Bama that was by that time ruled by a tyrant regime of President Daniel and ...

The aim of this paper is to compare and contrast two beautifully rendered pieces of literature; The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros and ‘And the earth did not devour him by Tomas Rivera. Both the novels will be discussed in juxtaposition to each other to aid the process of drawing out similarities and highlighting points of comparison. To commence, it must be noted that both the authors are chicane identity wise and hence much of their work is set in the same background. Both the authors are successful in launching their plots’ owing to their knowledge of ...

Introduction

Dr. Antonia Pantoja was born in 1922 in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Born out of wedlock, Pantoja grew up in the hands of the grandparents. They later moved to Barrio Obrero where the workers never paid rent but annual tax. This helped them cut down their monthly expenses. She was a teacher, a social worker and an advocate of the society. Her life was an uphill task that saw her overcome many obstacles. All her life was submerged in helping others and serving her community in Puerto Rico. Her services were not only felt in her community but also in the ...

- Introduction of the topic of homosexuality
The topic of homosexuality attracts global debate with different institutions taking different stances on the matter. Homosexuality refers to the formal agreement between two people of the same sex to indulge in sexual activities and to a greater extend even live as couples. The so called liberalised institutions argue that there is nothing wrong with that and that the parties involved do it with their consent. Other institutions especially the religious groups sharply criticise this behaviour and condemned the entire act of homosexuality. This, they argue, leads to moral decadence of the ...

The dystopian fantasy “The Hunger Games” presents intriguing sexual dynamics. The characters are multi-faceted and display uncharacteristic gender traits. “The Hunger Games” blurs the line between what is considered masculine and feminine in terms of relationships. By exploring the relationships that form within “The Hunger Games” I propose that we can better analyze social trends regarding gender and sexuality. By looking at examples of gender role reversal in “The Hunger Games”, such as Peeta’s affinity to baking or Katniss’ for hunting, one may discern that traditional gender roles are not as important in a relationship as many may think. ...

Victorian era saw many social, political, economical and religious changes. French and industrial revolution changed the whole cycle of this era and this massive metamorphosis is visible in the novels and essays of this time. The Bronte sisters, Dickens, Jane Austen and Eliot portray the effect of these changes on the lives of the people quite aptly.
Bleak House by Charles Dickens is not only a story about passions, unfulfilled love and heart break but also about the major differences and clashes between the upper class and lower class. Similarly Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte shows the love of ...

The uncanny, a concept coined by Freud, postulates that something can be both familiar and foreign to someone - if something is uncanny, it is recognizable, yet alien. "An uncanny effect is often and easily produced by effacing the distinction between imagination and reality, such as when something that we have hitherto regarded as imaginary appears before us in reality, or when a symbol takes over the full function and significance of the thing it symbolizes" (Freud 15). When someone looks at something they find uncanny, they are paradoxically attracted to and drawn away from that thing simultaneously. It is one ...

Question one

Susan’s mother was initially aware of the abuse but got reluctant to report her daughter’s case to relevant authority, which amounts to a breach of law punishable under the Florida statutes. This is because, the law demands mandatory reporting of any child mistreatment. This will render Betty accountable for the whole act even if she was not directly involved. Even if she were not aware, the law under the code of default care would still bind her. As a single mother, Betty ought to give an optimum care to her young daughter since the law remains to hold despite ...

Stereotypes are generalizations, or assumptions, that people make about the characteristics of all members of a group, based on an image about what people in that group are like (Colorado.edu, 2012) Most of the time these stereo types are inaccurate because every individual is unique in his or her own way. Our background greatly influences our personality and beliefs but that is not the only factor that defines us as a person and people often fail to take that into account. One of the biggest negative impacts of stereotypes is that they distort our perceptions. When we look at someone and ...

Introduction

This paper describes in detail approaches that ought to be taken in order to have a win-win mutual agreement between a mother and her daughter-in-law in a more clarified and compassionate way. This can be seen where the daughter-in-law wants to cook for her husband and spend most of the time with him. This is usually not possible due to the fact that the mother of the son also wants to be in the presence of her son with the impression that he is still her little boy (Covey, 2009). Moreover, the mother believes that she is the right person to spend ...