Parents Literature Reviews Samples For Students

The book “Fun Home” which has a subtitle “A Family Tragicomic” represented a graphic memoir that was written by Alison Bechdel in 2006. In this book, the author makes an account of her childhood and the memories she had while growing up in the small town of Pennsylvania. The focus of her story revolved on the complicated relationship she carried throughout her lifetime with her father. The common themes of the book of revolves around gender roles, sexual orientation, dysfunctional life with the family, suicidal tendencies and the function of literature in appreciating the ...

Part I

While Child Protective Services might find the dance that unfolds in Roethke’s “My Papa’s Waltz” to be a bit unsightly, it is clearly an event that the little boy enjoys, finding it a moment of bonding with his father. The fact that the boy’s “mother’s countenance/Could not unfrown itself”(Roethke 7-8) suggests that she disapproves of the father drinking. Indeed, the father has had more than a couple of shots, as the mere smell of it on his father’s breath turns the boy dizzy. This use of alcohol may well be just a form ...

We discussed post-colonial theory in terms of these categories: history, language, education, place, body. Discuss the novel as it speaks to at least three of these categories. 
In the Heart of the Country is a classic novel which demonstrates the relationship between whites and blacks in South Africa in the apartheid era. The principal topic which is very clear in this book is the history of the place where black South Africans are emarginated and almost eradicated by policies of resettlement applied by their white masters. In fact the main character in the book, Magda nurses a bitter hatred ...

Khalid Husseini an Afghan national has written a story named “The Kite Runner”. The writer himself belongs to the area from where the story erupts. In this story, the writer has very beautifully portrayed the various images of life.

Thesis statement:

The three stages in the life of a young boy have shown how bravely he faced all the hard situations in his life. Rising from a small area, and going up and then coming back to his roots, is the main theme of this story. The ethnic problems engulfed the happiness of a whole country.

Literature review:

This story is very deeply ...

Things Fall Apart was written by Nigerian author Chinua Achebe and was published in 1958. The title foreshadows the tragedy in the novel. Achebe borrows the title from W B Yeats’ poem The Second Coming: ‘Things fall apart and the center cannot hold’. The phrase things fall apart is used to show the images of more general chaos that follows in the novel. The second phrase is a kind of declaration that “the centre cannot hold,” It is relevant to Achebe’s novel as the traditional structure of the society is challenged by the coming of missionaries and the ...

Gender Divide

The gender divide is apparent in these lines where the roles of the father and the daughter and the responsibilities of a wife towards her husband are juxtaposed and arranged against each other. However, the duties of a wife are already pre-ordained. Jessica, the daughter of Shylock is ashamed of the deeds of her Father who is a stingy money lender bent upon extracting the maximum profit from all his victims. Thus, where the traits of a father may normally manifest themselves in the child, Jessica is happy and almost proud to say that despite being her father’s ...

‘Instructor’s Name’

Short fictions have various elements such as plot, theme, imagery, dialogues, setting and characters, each used in a specific way to express the views of the author, about the society in which he/she or the characters of their story is a part of. Using these elements an author drives home his/her point of view on worldly affairs. This essay is an attempt to explore the theme of loneliness and love, as portrayed in William Faulkner’s most anthologized short story ‘A Rose for Emily’.
‘A Rose for Emily’ is the most famous, at the same time, most shocking of ...

What Hamlet Has Changed and What We Learn From Hamlet and Hamlet the Play by William Shakespeare

Information Hamlet Learns Concerning Events in Denmark
Hamlet learns about various events in Denmark and finds out more information concerning his family, friends, reality, and appearances, balancing thoughts, loyalty, polities, and love. The new information that Hamlet learns becomes essential in his life and influences his perception and conception about various aspects in life. Hamlet realizes that Denmark is filled with corruption and is on the verge of destruction. He finds out that ruthless scheming by many people starting with the palace, and royal treason troubles Denmark.

Family

Hamlet learns significant information concerning his family. First, he finds out that ...

The national ethos of Americans everywhere is no better represented than by the ever-present, American Dream that has captivated a worldwide imagination since its inception along with the beginning of the Unites States’ existence as a country. For many years, the American Dream has described a world of opportunity in which people of varying cultures and backgrounds enjoy equality in their pursuit of richer, fuller lives. It was this dream that brought the first immigrants to America in the first place, and it was again this dream that gave them the necessary impetus to stay and to improve the ...

Resentment is at the centre of the fiction. Most characters in play are resentful of others. George’s refusal to accept the marriage between Ann and Chris shows resentment. He claims that the family of Chris is responsible for their problem. The keller’s, according to George made their father to be arrested. George opposes the marriage between Ann and Chris because he believes that it is Joe who had destroyed their family. Joe’s father hates Joes according to the story told by George.
Sue is resentful of Chris. She blames Chris of Harming a bad influence on ...

Gods and goddesses play a huge part in The Odyssey, which retells the story of a ten-year journey of Ulysses from Troy to Ithaca. The story of Ulysses’ voyage has a lot of intercession from the gods and goddesses, which either aided or hindered the men of Ulysses in going back to their home. There is a great deal of interaction between the gods and the mortals in this well-known epic. It also showed some human characteristics that may have been reflected by the gods.
Gods are there to assist or to deter the mission of the people in ...

Part I

C. Discuss Cherlin’s argument for why Americans have both high rates of marriage and high rates of divorce compared to other industrialized nations.
Andrew Cherlin reviewed the historical changes while noting that marriage still remained the most common and effective living arrangement for bringing up of children. However, children are more likely to grow up in single-parent families, and to experience instability of families especially minority and poor children. His view why the US has high marriage and divorce rates, which is called family metabolism, is attributed to cultural and economic forces that have continually transformed family life ( ...

Abstract

The issues of food and feeding of autistic, as well as children with learning disabilities, frequently affect a number of families and significantly impact their lifestyles. These matters are quite difficult for the parents to deal successfully. The parents should be quite patient, careful and pragmatic in dealing with the food habits of their autistic children. It may take much time to prevail over the food and feeding issues of the autistic, as well as other disabilities of their affected children.
This report delves into the food and feeding habits of the autistic children as well as those children ...

As you have all had much practice in answering question on the different stories in this course, I want you to create your own questions on this story and answer the questions. You must create a minimum of 4 questions.

Enjoy and Good Luck!!!

- Why the Teddy Bears family were not really proper Teddy Bears?
They were not really proper Teddy Bears, because Father Bear was very big, Mother Bear was middling in size, and only Baby Bear was small enough to be called a Teddy Bear.
- Why did people raise their hats when Father Bear went by? Did he like ...

Two Kinds is a short story by Amy Tan in the book The Joy Luck Club. Tan writes about the intricacy of a daughter and mother relationship who migrated from China to America. The short story is about a Chinese-American girl named Jing-mei. Jing-mei lived in American and her mother believed that, as long as one lives in America, he/she can be anything she could ever wish to be and therefore, she was working hard to find her daughter’s talent. Jing-mei’s mother constantly tests her daughter for any talent, but any time she tries, no talent is ...

Among the saleable list of material items romance has been included both as a commodity and as an exchange means for other commodities. Taking advantage of the feebleness of humans’ inability to control their appetite and conspicuous growth in that weakness, the media has assisted immensely in fueling the concept of love as an idea, a mere delight for entertainment or a clown for the circus. The needs of just one man are unlimited and as he evolves, as years pass by, there is an expansion in the list of things to buy. Off which most are irrelevant to ...

American Literature: The American Frontier

The frontier seems attract men and retain them that they never leave and may rather die here than moving out. Some is associated with family ties. The jinx of the family, which is not new to American drama, is well embodied in True West. Each individual is born into a household and as such bears the burdens of the generations previous him or her. Though Austin has strained very hard to escape the hold of his family, all of his efforts have failed. He has strained to get a sense of individuality from his labor and his activities, but ...

Summary and response paper to The Prodigal God Book

Almost everybody has the knowledge and is well conversant with the story in the bible about the prodigal son.it was a parable given out by Jesus. Quite a number of people have got comfort in the parables moral that is about the free forgiveness granted to the repentant prodigals. The prodigals had consumed their lives with misuse living. But, we could ask ourselves if that is the whole point of that story. Keller in his book argues that Jesus’ parable as he sees it is more properly a tale of two sons who are lost, the loving father providing ...

Children are most delicate and vulnerable to the legacies of racism and sexism, they will often find their life opportunities limited or destroyed if the racist oppression internalized within families and communities continues unabated. Black women are mostly represented as unattractive, uneducated, and their inherent value as human beings faces constant attacks from a Eurocentric ideal of beauty that doubly oppresses black men and women. In most cases, the children are not protected from the realities of their environment, and their parents are, in fact, a direct cause of the traumas they experience. The young women are exposed to ...

Myths are stories that are aimed at providing justification to things people lacked understanding about. Other theories argue that myths are simply distorted explanations of real historical events. One such myth is Sunjata. Sunjata, a hero who founded the Mali Kingdom, is an African King whose story is characterized by supernatural elements ranging from his birth to his possession of beyond the ordinary strength. He is a champion of South Saharan epic Africans.
The people in these cultures believe that Sunjata, the hero of an African epic of community existing around the southern Sahara. The king referred to as ...

Engaging in the many forms of social media is a routine activity, which, researchers have shown to be of benefit to adolescents and children by enhancing communication, technical skills and social connection. Social media sites for example Facebook, Twitter, Whatsapp, and MySpace provide multiple daily opportunities for connecting with classmates, friends and people sharing common interests. In the recent years, the number of adolescents and pre-adolescents using these sites has increased dramatically. According to a recent study, 22% of teenagers log on to their favorite social media more than ten times a day. In addition, more than a half ...

Horatio: "Before my God, I might not this believe without the sensible and true avouch of mine own eyes.

For they are the actions that a man might play,
But I have that within which passes show,
These but the trappings and the suits of woe. (I.ii)
This passage gives information that makes Hamlet more complex and not simply seem crazy. No one believes that he has seen the ghost of his dead father, and considering that his father’s ghost asks him to get revenge for him by killing the King, he reacts with emotional distress. His emotional outbursts and strange comments have everyone around him believing he has gone crazy and that the ghost of his ...

Retaining Careers Contribute to Child Well-Being and Future

Introduction
The purpose of this literature review is to assess various researches into the positive impacts of being a working mother, and to assess whether or not working mothers have positive impacts on their children’s well-being and future when compared to stay-at-home mothers. Evidence suggests that working mothers can serve as good role models and caregivers for their children in comparison to mothers who stay-at-home with their children (Figes 1) (Heinrich 122) (Sherman 1). The labor participation rate of mothers with underage children was almost 70 percent in 2013 (“Latest Annual Data”). These statistics suggest the importance and ...

In the short story The White Umbrella which is written by Gish Jen readers come across a young Chinese girl and her sister Mona who are not happy about the idea of their mother going out to work. Their family relocated to the United States from China and as it is their father’s income cannot meet all the needs of the family. It turns out that it is improper for their mother to go out to seek employment because this goes against their tradition and beliefs. The young girl and her sister Mona cannot get everything that they ...

Written by Stephen Adly Guirgis, The last days of Judas Iscariot is a play about the trial of Judas Iscariot betrayal to Jesus Christ. The play starts with Henrietta Iscariot (the mother of Judas) who says, “The world tells me that God is in heaven, and my son is in hell. If my son is in hell then, there is no heaven. ” With the statement, Henrietta was defending Judas by insinuating that if Jesus died for human sin then her son might as well as be forgiven. The scene then changes to the courtroom where Judas is motionlessly sitting ...

Introduction

Rural urban migration in search of greener pastures and better living conditions has led to the escalation of homelessness in major cities of Egypt. Children are the most affected considering their tender age and the fact that they cannot do most of the things for themselves. Most parents abandon their children as they realize the challenge of providing for their needs. Other parents perish in sickness, disease and accidents and hence leaving behind helpless children. With no one to take care of them, destitute children end up spending their lives in their streets with the hope that they will ...

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Literature Review
The learning of a language for children is a very wanting task. However, children acquire language with relative ease as they experience various learning situations from their caregivers, siblings, and parents. In addition to this, children acquire various languages within the broad outline in accordance to a common trajectory (Ruston, & Schwanenflugel, 2010). Despite the ease of acquiring language, there are striking individual differences in the rate and timing of lexical and syntactic growth even among siblings.
The differences in the rate of acquiring language is quite significant due differences in environment. The role of parents can influence ...

Literature Review

Background of Study
Homeschooling and traditional public schooling are two different techniques of education. Ultimately homeschooling is the youngster’s teaching place apart from the official school backgrounds and is typically assumed to be reliable by parents or tutors. Notwithstanding the designation, only a portion of home schooling may be done in the family home, with the rest being done inside the traditional public schools. The homeschooling in the present situation is a substitute in industrialized republics to choice for parents in voluminous realms.
Many debates are going on about the education system of the United States, and when ...

IV.

It was early in the morning, and everything in Abraham’s

and Eliezer, the faithful servant, accompanied him along
the road until he turned back again. They rode along in har-
many, Abraham and Isaac, until they came to Mount Mo-
riah. Abraham made everything ready for the sacrifice, calmly
and gently, but when he turned away and drew the knife,

Isaac saw that Abraham’s left hand was clenched in despair,

that a shudder went through his whole body — but Abraham
drew the knife.

Then they returned home again, and Sarah hurried to meet

them, but Isaac had lost the faith. Not a word is ever said of
this in the world, and Isaac never talked to anyone about
what he had seen, and Abraham did not suspect that ...

In Sherman Alexie’s book War Dances, the author navigates his precarious position in between white and Native American culture, attempting to reconcile the creature comforts and medical science of Western civilization with the innate attributes of the Indian experience. In his titular story, “War Dances,” the slow death of his father and his gradual hearing loss from a hydrocephalic tumor are greeted with the same sense of humor, Alexie attempting to hide his utter fear and his grief at the loss of his father with sardonic jokes and poetry.
The effect of white subjugation of Native Americans, and ...

People are either given or seek empowerment from various sources. Some situation that offers empowerment can be viewed by society as morally wrong. Other types of empowerment could be seen as a source of inspiration. In Richard Wright's "The Man who was Almost a Man" and Langston Hughes' "Mother to Son," readers are presented with two very different views on empowerment that they can compare.
In "The Man who was Almost a Man," the reader is introduced to Dave, who is seventeen years old. He lives in a world that is dominated by other people who do not view ...

“The Storm” consists of five parts. The opening scene shows two men in Louisiana, who are caught by gathering storm at a local store. Bobinot and his four-year-old son, Bibi, decide to stay there while the storm passes. Bibi looks wise and talks with his father on equal terms. In a brief conversation, they remember and talk about Calixta, Bobinot’s wife, and Bibi’s mother, who is waiting for them at home. Bibi is worrying about his mother who stays at home with no protection. Then boy’s father buys a can of Calixta’s lovely shrimps. The ...

The short story, ‘Ethan Frome’ written by Edith Wharton in the early 1900’s, tells the story of Ethan who grew up on a farm where his descendants lived and worked and died. Ethan’s story is told from the first person point of view and details the story of a sad and unfortunate young man who lives in a New England village. The choices that he has made have him trapped hopelessly in situations that befall him one by one. Ethan had left home to study technology at a college in Worcester. He had big dreams of living ...

How does the narrator’s point of view affect the story?

John Updike’s famous short story “A & P”, first published in 1961, remains a much-anthologized story. Updike chooses as his protagonist and first-person narrator Sammy, who works as a check-out clerk at his small town’s A & P store. By narrating events from Sammy’s point of view and characterizing Sammy as he does, Updike makes the events in the story credible and justified to the reader. Therefore, the choice of Sammy’s point of view affects not only the story itself and what happens in it, but it also has a profound effect on our response as readers.
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Fun at home is a novel with medium popularity as it allows the reader to look at the character's developing prejudice in unusually cherished technique. Despite the fact that it places the reader to view the subject's experience and thoughts, the author places the readers in the scenes as the beholder, giving them a chance to look at both the cultural forces and the subjectivity of the narrator that molded her. Fun at home focuses on Alison's family and revolves around her relationship with Bruce, her father. Bruce worked as a high school teacher and funeral home director.
Various ...

Publication

What publishing company published the book? How reputable is it and how do you know? What are their review policies?
Reception
What (peer) reviews can you find? Where? What is the general consensus? Who has cited this article, and in what kind of publication?

Who is the author and what is their academic background?

Where are they working now (and at what capacity/rank)?
What else have they published (recently?), and how much is actually related to the topic of this article?
Explain the title. Does it really fit the thesis statement, or is there any shifting or gapping? What kind of shift/gap/miss and how does this affect the ...

Children are always taught to render love and respect to their parents. As children, there also appears a steady obligation to take care of our parents especially when they are already old. Personally, my mission in life at this point of my life is to be successful in my career and seek for an employment that would render me greater income so that I would be able to provide my mother’s needs all the time. This paper presents the story titled The Rocking Horse Winner and how the story connects to my own life situations.
Many people are ...

Literature Review: Childhood Obesity

Literature Review: Childhood Obesity
Childhood obesity has become a global scourge and an uphill task for many parents to handle. Obesity is a condition that is characterized by an increase in body weight caused by excessive intake of fats. Parents are the main determinants if their children will become obese or not. Therefore, educating parents on how to tackle childhood obesity by providing healthy lifestyle choices to them is the main way of preventing obesity in children. Childhood obesity is preventable.
This review will discuss ways to educate parents on how to tackle childhood obesity. Obesity is considered to ...

Abstract

This paper aims at identifying and elaborating the development and functions of the human placenta, an organ that supports growth and development of the fetus. The human placenta is a fetomaternal organ that supports the development of a growing embryo by providing nutrients and gas from the mother to the embryo. Notably, the human placenta facilitates nutrients and gas exchange between the fetus and the mother which helps in maintaining fetomaternal tolerance. The placenta can release metabolic products into fetal and maternal circulations and it also metabolizes various substances. It also protects the fetus against maternal diseases, infections, and ...

On October 27, 1932, Sylvia Plath was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1932. Her father was a professor at Boston University and her mother was a student there. Sylvia’s father died when she was a child and this loss was said to have influenced her writing in later years. She was dedicated to writing, began keeping a journal as a child, and began submitting her poetry to magazines when she was in high school. Remarkably, Sylvia graduated summa cum laude from Smith College even though she had attempted suicide at least once and suffered from depression during her ...

Doubt can never be compared with certainty in terms of providing a sense of community powerful as faith. A community in doubt is a divided community sine people live with mistrust and cannot tell what they expect of that community. As a single mother, I have never trusted any man who claims that he can take care of me and my child. It is not easy to trust a man anymore after what I have learnt from my married friends and how their husbands are unfaithful. This doubt creates mistrust a and poor social bonds between me and men ...

Impact of Divorce on children

A divorce can be a very traumatic experience for a family, more so for young children. Not only do they have to face the insecurities arising from a broken family, there can more far reaching impacts on their well being. This paper seeks to review literature to evaluate whether children belonging to divorces families are more likely to suffer through domestic violence. Four research questions were formed to analyze this impact and have been discussed in the following sections.

Question 1: Who are most likely to go through abuse?

According to several researches, there are specific situations of some families such as financial stress, domestic violence, social isolation, marital ...

Sometimes people are searching long time for a place where they will feel comfortable. It depends on many factors. Memories are too important. In my opinion, if something bad happens in the house where you live it will be hard to stay there longer. The same thing happened with the author of the story. After her parents, divorced house where she lived with her parents became prison for a little girl. People can create a mood of places. No matter where you live. People who live around you are important. First piece"yellow house" is a good example of ...

The play Ma Rainey’s contains several characters who wield power over the other, and their circumstances. Power in this instance is an individual who has go the ability to influence another person’s circumstances by their actions or inactions. A person who thus has this attribute in them, gains the advantage of soliciting their partner’s bidding at will by playing into their power over them. Power in a character is an important ingredient in the play as it helps run the plot and sequence of the play by creating both opportunities and conflicts for the progression. In ...

Living with a child with special needs can have profound effects on the entire family, including the extended family members, siblings, parents, and the child. It can affect all aspects of family functioning, since they have to be on the watch for the child. On the positive side, living with a child with special needs can expand horizons, develop family cohesion, increase the family members’ awareness of their inner strength, and promote connections to community groups. On the negative side, this child will need time, physical and emotional demands and financial cost in order to make the child’s ...

Did the Welfare System Cause the Dissolution of the Black Family?

Introduction

In 1965 when the civil rights movements was experiencing an explosion, Daniel Patrick Moynihan penned a report to President Johnson claiming that one of the major reasons for poverty amongst black Americans was the fact that a quarter of black families were being headed by women. While that report caused a lot of uproar for the then White House aide, today we still see that many African American homes are manned by single women as many black babies seem to be born outside of wedlock. This is a ...

Family, Identity and the “American Dream” in Death of a Salesman

Arthur Miller's 1949 play, Death of a Salesman tackles the issues of identity, family dynamics and the pursuit of the “American Dream” using the Loman family as a model to illustrate these concepts. The play starts with Willy Loman, a traveling salesman, returning from a botched business trip. Willy expresses disgust towards his oldest son, Biff, who has failed to do anything substantial with his life. Biff and his younger brother Happy take their father out to dinner where Biff has a flashback to the time he visited his father in Boston and discovered Willy was having an affair ...

Analysis of the Poem Do Not Get Gentle into That Good Night

Dylan Thomas wrote the poem titled Do Not Get Gentle into That Good Night in 1951. It is one of the most popular and well-known poems by Thomas. It is dedicated it to his dying father. Therefore, the main theme of the poem is death. Yet the poem goes beyond the classical understanding of death. It is full of feelings, full of energy and even “gives a sense of rising hysteria” (Kendry).Thomas uses a special poetic form of villanelle for his work. This form contains two repeating rhymes (night/light/right and so on) and this repetition helps the author ...

This paper will reflect over one of the classic literature works of King. It will reflect the interruptions of the one haunting message from the book. It will reflect over interviews and reviews regarding the book. Last it will prove why this book is a true haunting of horror and science fiction.
There will not be certain of events that will proceed. This will focus on aspects of the book that gave Goosebumps. The reason it is not being presented in chronological order of events for this is a reflection. The haunting of wheel of fortune was one that ...

Introduction

The relationship between Titus and his daughter Lavinia in the Shakespeare’s early bloody; Titus Andronicus is portrayed to be a weak relationship. It is not a good relationship, which exists between a father and his daughter. Titus does not show real love towards his daughter as a father. Titus seems not to love her daughter as expected from the father. When Lavinia is violently raped by Demetrius and Chiron after killing Bassianus after Aaron persuaded them, he was supposed to take actions after learning the raping of her daughter. Lavinia was violently raped and those who raped her ...

Titus Andronicus is one of Shakespeare’s less well-known tragedies, a gory, dark tale of a disgraced general going to incredible means to take his revenge on the Goths who stole his position and mutilated his daughter, Lavinia. The relationship between Titus and his daughter Lavinia is perhaps the emotional core of the play; after Lavinia is brutally raped, Titus’ reaction is just as much for his sake as for hers – not only is he taking revenge upon her violation, but of the theft of his own position as celebrated Roman general. Of course, Titus’ parenting skills can be ...

Choice of Topic

Prenatal development refers to the growth that takes place in the life of human before their birth. During this stage, the maternal and paternal parents should be very much concerned about the welfare of their unborn baby. I am particularly interested in this topic because it touches on a very significant matter. It is important for everyone to be knowledgeable on the exact steps to take during this period. This is because many parents make a lot of mistakes which end up ruining the lives of their children in the long run. Since most of such mistakes are done ...

Out of the Dust is a 1934 historical fiction novel written by Karen Hesse. The setting of the novel is in a struggling farm in Joyce City in Oklahoma. The novel talks of the challenges faced by Billie Jo a 13 year old girl and her family. It tells of Billie’s struggles as she grows up in Oklahoma Dust Bowl during the depression. Billie’s father was a farmer but his crops failed to nourish because of the drought but Billie was determined to make a better life for herself. Billie was a pianist and got a chance ...

Boiled Chicken Feet and Hundred –Year-Old Eggs: Poor Chinese Feasting speaks about a person’s journey to and from places that have made an impact in her life as an adult. The narrative touches on several aspects of the culture of the Malaysian-Chinese. The reader is convinced of the authenticity of the descriptions because the author of this piece is from Malacca, Malaysia. In the narrative, the main character talks about staying in the US and here, the author would again draw from her own experience as she has come to the US for graduate studies and have opted ...

Introduction

Those Winter Sundays," by Robert Hayden and bilingual bilingue by Rhina Espaillat address the past events as they appear in the memories of the authors. Notably, there are certain issues, which occur in our routine lives at our tender ages, which indeed have significant impacts in our memories even in future. Some occurrences should be kept as preserve for future reference as they indeed play significant roles in our lives. Ideally, it is quite important to compare and contract these two poems because this will give different and similar experiences that people have in their young age compared to ...

Question One

One the major epigraphs used by Edna in the Down by the River is ‘Darkness is our souls, do you not think? Flutier. Our souls, shame-wounded by our sins.’ This is a wise quote from Ulysses. It is figurative and useful in helping the author to deliver her message to the audience. In deed, it provides a different source of voice which directly influences me as a reader. As she explains, the sins of the society have placed people like Mary in a very desperate situation. As a vulnerable lady, every thing seems unfair to her. At one time, ...

Also referred to as the maniac depressive illness, the bipolar disorder is arguably the most controversial diagnosis. Webb (2006) argues that the controversial nature of bipolar disorder is mostly experienced when the patient is a child aged below 10 years. This, according to Faedda and Austin (2006) is because the condition is associated with symptoms that are so much similar to such other conditions as the Attention Deficiency Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Due to the overlapping nature of the symptoms, there is likelihood that physicians will misdiagnose the condition. What makes the condition even more controversial, according to Faedda and ...

Root cause analysis is problem solving approach that is used in many fields. It is mainly used in areas that are more technological and involve machine use such as engineering and even finance. However with the need for better problem solving methods, other professional areas have adapted this system in streamlining their operations. The medical field is one of the fields that have adopted this approach to ensure that there is quality service delivery. It is a problem solving method that focuses on finding the main cause of a problem and analyzing why the problem happened (Nicolini, Warin, & Mengis, ...

The memory play, Glass Menagerie, is based on the narrator’s memories, Tom Wingfield. The play was set in 1937 in St. Louis and Tom is the protagonist. Tom Wingfield was an aspiring poet and toiled and moiled so that he could support his Mother and Sister. Tom Wingfield is an aspiring poet and he works as a shoemaker in a warehouse. He is the one who narrates the story in the play, Glass Menagerie, and all the events are determined by the memories in his mind. Despite that he loved his Mum and sister; he feels that he ...

Analysis - "The Mother" and “Daughters”

Poetry about family can often reveal fascinating dynamics in these omnipresent and complex relationships. In Gwendolyn Brooks' "The Mother," the regret and guilt that a woman experiences upon reflecting on the various abortions she has had throughout her life is presented in an intriguing and haunting way. The suffering that the mother expresses in this poem is done through Brooks' expert use of figurative language and repetition, as the potential these children had before her abortions, as she sees them, is made clear. Meanwhile, Lucille Clifton’s “Daughters” allows a young woman to imagine the grandmother she never met, ...