Essays on Abandonment

Meaning of Neighborhood Stabilization Program

NSP (Neighborhood Stabilization Program) is an initiative established by the U.S Congress with the objective of stabilizing communities that have been subjected to property abandonment and foreclosures. This program was initiated under Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008, and it was intended to repurchase and redevelop the abandoned and foreclosed properties and homes (Neighborhood, 2016). Low- income individuals who default to service their mortgages usually have their residential property repossessed by the lenders. People are evicted from their homes, resulting in abandonment and foreclosure of the property. Such property would remain under the ownership of private lenders after ...

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Introduction: Domestic violence: profile of an offender

In the past, an act of domestic violence was not considered as a matter that merits the engagement of the law. Though men have pummeled, maltreated, and molested their intimate partners for years, the common comprehension of society was that abuse and maltreatment of women was as a part of the marriage. It was only to the end of the 1970s that domestic violence was understood as a criminal offense that warranted the involvement of the criminal justice system. However, there has been much contention as to the establishment of a general, universally accepted ...

Human Rights for Orphans and Abandoned Children without Adequate Care

The issue of human rights of children is regulated by the Convention on the Rights of the Child with its Protocols. They refer to the protection of a child, prohibition of child labor and other issues that are fundamentally important and protect children’s dignity. However, some categories of children require special attention and care with this respect. The human rights of orphans and abandoned children constitute a specific issue, as they have fewer chances to be protected by parents and relatives. Therefore, as a violation of their rights may seem easier, these children need more legal protection. The ...

The modern society places huge expectations of conformity on the individual, forcing them to question their identity and place in the society. Parental presence and acceptance, class, income, race and physical appearance become important in how well individuals get accustomed to the often rigid demands of the society they live in. Philosophers, poets and novelists throughout history have written about the feeling of abandonment by a parental figure or a class and the resultant agony it brings to their protagonists. Werther in The Sorrows of Young Werther, the creature in Frankenstein, Lily Briscoe in To The Lighthouse and Bartleby ...

Introduction

Female genital mutilation (FGM) is a concept used in regards to practices that involve the partial or total removal of a female’s external genitalia for reasons that are not medical in nature (Burrage 56). In most instances, female circumcision involves the use of makeshift, rudimentary, or unsterilized tools. The practice is a clear expression of gender inequality that demeans women’s position in the society. It has extensive social and physical consequences to the victims. FGM/C is not the like male circumcision that is thought to helpful in preventing HIV/AIDS transmission. Concerns about FGM gained support in the ...

Edgar Allen Poe: few names such as this one can strike both fear and adoration in hearts of literature students everywhere. As a writer, Poe was known for his macabre stories that often ended with characters becoming ill, being buried alive, or dying other gruesome, torturous deaths. The tone of his works is fairly consistent, with most of Poe’s work having a dark, moody, and an overall melancholy tone. With his stories being favored as a topic of research for many English students, I began to wonder about his personal life. What struggles was he grappling with that ...

Overview

Stray animals often refer to cats and dogs that were once domesticated and have wandered from their abode. According to the Oxford Lafayette Humane Society, “there are approximately 70 million stray dogs and cats in the US.” (Animal Overpopulation) These animals can often be seen wandering in neighborhoods or on busy streets. Animals become strays for a number of reasons. This may include; loss or abandonment by pet owners, animals who are not neutered reproduce, insufficient shelters and animal care centers, lack of financial support from the government and so on.

Increase of stray animals in neighborhoods

(a) Stray animals in neighborhoods often increase when ...

Water is an important element in this world that brings with it freshness and purity in the lives of human beings, animals and plants. Its importance in the lives of human beings cannot be underestimated. In Robinson’s novel, Lila constantly comes into contact with water. The author has used the transformative healing characteristics of water to depict change in the life of Lila. Through the characters and scenes, the reader is able to learn the varied struggles of Lila with fear of love; faith, family, and domesticity with clarity through water which symbolizes change all which Lila interacts ...

Monsters are creatures that everyone is told that lurks in the darkness of the night. They are hideous, grotesque creatures and would kill you as soon as they look at you. It is something inhuman that has no regard for life, life, and anything good in the world. Mary Shelly brought to life a monster in her novel Frankenstein. She lures the audience into believing that the monster Victor Frankenstein created is the true horror of the novel. However, if one were to examine the deeds of Victor Frankenstein he would take the honor of being the real monster ...

Crimes are unlawful, unjust, shameful or senseless activities. It can also be defined as a violation of morality and is punishable by law. Crimes are defined by criminal law that is a body that has rules that prohibit character that the government indicates as harmful to the society. Crimes can be divided into four major types that are personal crimes, beginning or incomplete crimes, statutory crimes, and property crimes. Beginning or incomplete crimes are the crimes that begun but were not completed, they include attempted robbery and conspiracy. Statutory crimes are the crime of a state and can be ...

The film, A Brand New Life (2009), directed by the celebrated cinematic artist, Ounie Lecomte, is a South Korean work that can surely be deemed as a fine work of art. The film is one of the best examples of the cinematic work directed by a woman director as the filmmaker exudes her aesthetic quintessence and perfect use of the cinematic techniques to leave a lasting impression in the minds of the avid audience. This is a very sensible film about this 9-year old girl who is left at an orphanage by her father who has remarried. Before coming ...

Question 1

Female infanticide is one of the oldest practice in China. This practice is streamlined towards family planning in society. Female infanticide refers to the abandonment and killing of baby girls. This traditional practice is believed to have spanned for more than 2000 years. In fact, the practice is dated from Chinese antiquity (Mungello, 2008). The practice is traced to the abandonment of children during Zhou dynasty. The main causes of female infanticide in China are both cultural and material. Female infanticide was carried out through burying alive, poisoning, drowning, suffocation, stabbing, and strangulation. The practice started in China because ...

Scenario 1

What theories of team behavior might assist GS in taking on his new role? In the given scenario, GS has been given a team of 24 employees who all have been working in the office for more than 5 years. This shows that all the team members are completely familiar with the organizational culture and norms, and are also well adjusted to their job roles. Furthermore, GS’s active interest in promoting conformity and harmony is also well-liked by all the team members, which also indicate that everyone is on the same page. These factors indicate that the team ...

The book titled The Color of Water by James McBride is an autobiographical affair which describes the life and happenings of the author’s mother, Ruth. The book is also a tribute to Ruth’s life and all that she goes through in the course of life. Ruth is presented as a strong woman with great ambition and strength. The book is not only representative of her journey and struggles; it is also her development as a person, a Christian, and a woman during the course of her life. She is the central figure in the novel and her ...

While every theoretical framework has merit, this author believes that many of the dominant theories-- realism (specifically neorealism, in contrast to “classical realism”), liberalism and neofunctionalism--are inadequate in their ability to properly describe the changes that have taken place in recent Turkish international relations. For the purposes of this study, the author has concluded that the most meritorious theories which can be applied towards Turkey are three main bodies of the “New Institutionalisms”: Rational-Choice Institutionalism, Sociological Institutionalism and Historical Institutionalism. These theoretical frameworks have been chosen because of their flexibility. A major drawback of most theoretical models is ...

Borderline personality disorder’s main feature is instability’s pervasive pattern in self - image, interpersonal relationships and emotions. Individuals with BPD often demonstrate behaviors of self-injurious character (suicide attempts, cutting and risky behaviors of sexual character), usually they are very impulsive. In most this disease occurs by early adulthood. Persisting for years not stable pattern of interaction with other people is usually connected with early social interactions and the person’s self-image. Such people feel sensitivity to circumstances in the environment. Impending rejection or separation’s perception may result in complete changes in behavior, self-image, cognition and affect. ...

As Americans’ addiction to unhealthy foods is becoming more and more alarming, it is high time to ask ourselves, what could help people to take back the control over their own bodies? In her essay, called “My Accidental Ramadan”, Krista Bremer describes Ramadan as a tough, yet useful period during which her husband had to refrain from falling prey to his own food cravings and hunger while also trying to maintain a positive attitude. While this ritual seemed cruel and unnecessary in the beginning, Krista eventually understood that it represented a kind of triumph of the mind over the ...

Throughout her life, Mother Teresa struggled with negative feelings of doubt and faithlessness in her religious beliefs. Her struggle lasted for 50 years, and this pained her a lot and left her with feelings of heavy loneliness. In her letters, she wrote of how she did not feel God’s presence in her life in heart (David 107-113). Critics, atheists and secularists, usually think that her letter proved that she was just an hypocrite with no real relationship with God, and subsequently no faith in him and have even gone ahead to call her just but a celebrity (Brian ...

TRAUMA & ATTACHMENT

Childhood is one of the most important phases of one’s life. It prepares the base of our lives. The experience a child has in his early life influences his character and emotions. There are many theories put forward by different experts who support the importance of childhood experiences in shaping our character and the nature of interpersonal relationships. Freud’s theories have been the milestone in this regard. He has explained the role of child’s experience in his sexual expressions as an adult. The impact of trauma starts affecting a child even before he is born, that ...

Out of the many social problems in the world today, teen prostitution is one that is a serious one that afflicts society negatively. Many young teens, prior to their age of consent are involved in sexual activities and practices where they are acting as the prostitutes to serve their various needs. Prostitution in itself is a stigmatized term, and the act of prostitution is disliked in society. The act of prostitution when carried out amongst adults is recognized not as much of a problem as it is for teenagers or children. But it is surprising to discover that many ...

An orphaned child, according to Islamic law and as Islamic scholars agree, is a child below age 18 who parents, particularly the father, has died (“The Child’s Mother Died Will the Child be Called Orphan?” n. p.). The Arabic term for the word “orphan” is yatim, which means “singular” or “alone” (Al-Funaysan n. p.). Under the Kafala system, there are categories of orphans that can be adopted. Two of the more important categories include (a) the foundlings, children whose parentages are usually unknown, and (b) the children of imprisoned parents, especially when they were sentenced to stay a ...

1. Like everything in Pecola’s life, her being pregnant is packaged with her ugliness. Instead of seeing compassion for Pecola, as a young girl in a difficult situation, they use this fact to criticize her. Morison includes a number of fragments of conversation on the issue. Some say that it is Cholly, her father. They imply that even though she is twelve, she is to blame for the pregnancy: “But you never know. How come she didn’t fight him?” (Morison, 189). Others use it to remind themselves how ugly Pecola is, “Ought to be a law: two ugly people ...

Introduction

The image of a child soldier is a difficult one. In some parts of the world - most especially in the Middle East, children are known to take up arms and be trained in such a young age to be soldiers. Seeing a young child holding a weapon as deadly as a machine gun is like looking at a deeply ominous and incongruous image of childhood. Despite the amount of abhorrence this picture may display, it is indeed an unfortunate reality that the world is facing right now. Children are becoming more and more exposed to different forms of violence. It may be true that not ...

National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) is a charity organization that works in the protection of children in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. NSPCC orient its work to social, cultural, educational, research tasks, involving different forms of public and government support. NSPCC is lobbying the government on issues relating to child protection, and creates a campaign for the general public with the intention of raising awareness of child protection issues. Various objectives of the NSPCC in various directions require the allocation of their marketing strategy. NSPCC orient their work not only on the final recipients of charitable ...

‘Parent turning’ is an article about a woman with five children, with one infant who is merely a week old and in the opinion of many, she is violating more than a few child laws. She has children running around rampant in an old and run-down apartment with pretty much no clothes on. But to answer the question regarding whether or not she is a child abuser, we would have to investigate what child abuse is essentially defined as. According to the US state law, child abuse can be defined at a minimum as any failure or act committed by a parent or a caregiver which ...

1). First give a brief description of the character with enough detail for me to understandthe character in context (10 points). Dr. Meredith Grey from Grey’s Anatomy (2005) Dr. Meredith Grey is the main character in Grey’s Anatomy which is aired on ABC channel. Meredith is the daughter of Ellis Grey, who was a renowned General Surgeon. Ellis worked at Seattle Grey Hospital where Meredith spent most of her childhood because her mother was always very busy doing surgeries. When Meredith was five years old, her parents got divorce, because her father (Thatcher) came to know about ...

Introduction

The one child policy in China caused many aspects relating to gender parity. This is reflected on the composition and structure of the population in china. The introduction of the one-child policy in 1978 in china contributed to numerous effects on the female population. The problems relating to high sex ratios in the population of china are mainly as a result of the one-child policy in china. The impact of the one child-policy in China made it an issue of concern due to the harmful effects on the lives of women in the society in a number of ways. This policy ...

English

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice, and most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.” Steve Jobs

Who can ever forget that mercurial genius and co-founder of ‘apple,’ and who branded Macintosh as ‘the computer for the rest of us’? None today, toddlers included, can escape the impression left behind the man, who left us grieving the loss of, not an individual, but a person who could have given us more. Apple has revolutionized ...

Shelley in Frankenstein and Goethe in The Sorrows of Young Werther wrap their stories around two characters whose mental torment and physical actions are similar to one another. Both the stories deal with characters who are struggling to find happiness in their lives in the world they live in, but they could not because of rejection. Werther was seeking to be loved, and have a family with the girl she loved. On the other hand, the creature in Frankenstein was also seeking for a companion and people to relate with and call family because he was all alone. He was seeking ...

- Introduction Human trafficking has been defined by the Anti-Trafficking in Persons Act of 2003 as "trafficking in persons as the recruitment, transportation, transfer or harboring, or receipt of persons, with or without the victim's consent or knowledge, within or across national borders by means of threat or use of force, or other forms of coercion, abduction, fraud, deception, abuse of power or position, taking advantage of the vulnerability of the person, or, the giving on receiving of payments or benefits to achieve the consent of a person having control over another person for the purpose of exploitation which ...

(Insert Title) The court case of the United States versus Collier is a very unique one. In this court case, cited U.S. v. Collier, 29 M.J. 365; William Collier is appealing his case to the Supreme Court. Originally, Collier was convicted by the courts for failing to obey orders from a military-warrant-officer. Resulting in a violation of the Uniform Code of Military Justice. In the original court hearing, prior to his appeal, the judge took sides with the warrant officer and rejected William Collier’s defense. The judge in this ruling was Judge Sullivan. The main issue at hand in ...

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 conditions of their ...

The short-term and long-term effects of child abandonment and neglect are not things to be taken lightly (Trocme & Wolfe, 2001). Statistics indicate that child abandonment and neglect contribute to nearly half of all annual fatalities associated with child maltreatment (Erickson & Egeland, 2002). This paper opines that annual deaths associated with child neglect can be reduced by half if decent measures are established to minimize child abandonment and neglect. In addition, statistics indicate that child neglect or abandonment tops the list of child abandonment charts. This form of child maltreatment is not only the hardest to evaluate, but also ...

The city council general meeting is set to follow a specific procedure that is predefined. The procedure means successful flow of the agendas of the meeting. The meeting aims at discussing the planning of the city. The agendas aim at the progress of the city and the necessary conditions to be fulfilled to ensure the success of the agendas. The meeting is under exclusive discussion, which gives it excellence and defines success for the parties involved. All the parties involved in the discussion aim at developing exclusive analysis and understanding of the matter at hand. The meeting goes on ...

Mystery of the Maya civilization

Maya civilization is considered as a mysterious civilization that existed in ancient time. However, the mystery of the Maya is still not undiscovered as no one is sure about the Mayans, their method of living and the the exact reason of the rapid collapse of the Maya civilization. It is believed that the Maya civilization started on 12th August, 3113 B.C., but the archeologists believed that the Maya civilization came into being in 3000 B.C. The Maya civilization, however, disappeared mysteriously in 800 A.D. – 925 A.D. The Mayans lived majorly in the areas, which are now known as Northern Yucatan ...

Executive Summary

Apple is an American corporation that designs, develops, and sells computers, electronic devices and various software. Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak founded it in 1976. For over 20 years Apple mainly were manufacturers of personal computers. However, at the beginning of 2000s, Apple presented a new line of MP3 players, mobile phones and tablets. Apple’s CEO claims that the company obtains the following core values: “we live to make great products, we believe in simple, not in complex, we only participate in markets where we can make a significant contribution, we say no to a thousand of projects just to focus ...

For my own part, I must confess that my interest in the book is entirely on the side of the monster. His eloquence and persuasion, of which Frankenstein complains, are so because they are truth. The justice is indisputably on his side, and his sufferings are, to me, touching to the last degree. (199) Frankenstein is full of terrible murders, and passionately-expressed emotions of enmity and hatred between Frankenstein and his creation. But who is most to blame for the series of murders which continue right to the very end of the novel when Victor dies on Robert ...

Abstract

Sexual addiction is a controversial topic that lacks substantial data. However, a psychosocial and neurotransmitter theories have been postulated in order to shade light on this disorder. Sexual addiction denotes sexual urges, thoughts or behaviors that appear out of an individual’s control or extreme in frequency; extreme addiction to sexuality (Kingston & Firestone, 2008). Addiction, on the other hand, denotes the state of behavior that goes beyond the boundaries of social norms and hinders a person’s ability to develop healthy relationships or function appropriately in life’s general aspects (Kingston & Firestone, 2008). In this paper, I provide theoretical explanations for John’ ...

The resultant effects of recession on vacancies and housing policies in major Sunbelt cities are regrettably devastating in the society. According to Alexander (p. 89) ad Fisher (p. 36) in their independent studies of the house vacancies in these major Sunbelt cities, they indicate that in most instances, housing values revolve around community stereotype and welfare. Consequently, the Sunbelt cities managers have a difficult job in ensuring that they adopt reliable policies, which are aimed at evading the vacancy problems. According to different studies, the house vacancies and depopulation in major Sunbelt cities have emerged due to the loss in ...

Introduction

In the film Forgiveness: A Time to Love & a Time to Hate, there are three scenes in Act II which brings about the concept of forgiveness and the power it has on everyone. The first scene is when the mother left her husband and kids and started to focus on herself. The handling of the responsibility of raising her kids caused a strain in her to the point where she would get sick and have anxiety attacks. This led to her being suicidal because she couldn’t bear the weight of burden of being a conscientious wife and mother. The next scene ...

Ne Neoliberalism refers to politically motivated ideologies that allowed shifting of economic factors from the public sector to the private sector. According to these ideologies, a government encourages private investors through a series of policies and changes in the market structure. For instance, governments initiated tax reforms in broadening of the tax base, reduced deficit spending, imposed limitation on subsidies, withdrawal of fixed exchange regime, and encouraged privatization. Neoliberalism in the Middle East and Egypt had a significant impact on the socioeconomic and political perspective. Neoliberalism in Egypt ensured free market and private enterprises regardless of socially harmful inflicted on the society ( ...

It is generally known that nowadays’ family institution is in the doldrums, with divorce rate being at its highest, parents not wanting to raise mentally handicapped children, abusing proscribed substances or not being able to maintain them. These are very few reasons that cause parents to abandon their children only for them to be adopted by a new family if they have such luck. However, as per scientific researches, children to enter a new family face a whole variety of mental issues that may keep them from growing into fully-fledged individuals. They have hard times trying to get themselves acclimatized in their ...

Introduction

Empowerment can be defined as the process of increasing or raising the capacity of an individual to make choices that will help them realize their goals or outcomes. Empowerment can take the role of a whole organization where the different individuals’ capacity is increased to make better choices that will transform to better lives and desired actions. Increasing the efficiency of an individual to perform a task better means empowering the named individual to realize his/her set out goals. Fairness in organizations is one of the means of empowering the individuals as there is collective improvement in service delivery. Monitoring the ...

Arthur Miller’s iconic play Death of a Salesman is rife with symbolism, rich characters that welcome in-depth study and debate, relationships between different characters that warrant close examination and themes and motives that range from statements about the American Dream and socioeconomics to the importance of place, feminism, gender roles and familial relationships. One of the most prominent themes in Death of a Salesman is that of betrayal. Arthur Miller thoroughly and effectively examines betrayal and the different forms it can take. Betrayal and abandonment, a form of a betrayal, characterize nearly all of the significant relationships in the play, particularly the ...

Even as recently as the years leading up to World War II, if a young woman reached the age of 20 without receiving a marriage proposal, she was viewed as someone who might never get married. After World War II, in which women were invited to enter a vast diversity of career fields for the first time (because the available men were all off fighting Hitler and Tojo), women found that they wanted to remain in the career field, and marriage became an option rather than an economic necessity. The entry of women into the career field, the acceptance of cohabitation as a ...

The book Urban Outcasts: A Comparative Sociology of Advanced Marginality by Loic Wacquant is basically a response to the moral breakdown that was happening in Europe. There was already a breakdown of both law as well as social order in the urban peripheries in Europe cities such as Lyons in France and Bristol in England. This breakdown in law and social order expressed itself in the widespread presence of destructive gangs of youth in these cities. He then explores the question as to the extent the rioting that occurred in the cities replicated itself on the other side of Atlantic. In ...

The two stories, “Hills like White Elephants” and “The Story of an Hour”, resonate around the feminist and Marxist ideas in unique and interesting ways. The stories are narrated from a third person with the authors keen to bring out capitalism and the ever present male chauvinism. It is this paper’s position that the two stories though within the same context, express different political ideology. The “Hills like White Elephants” appears to support the chauvinist approach in life while “The Story of an Hour” contends and disparages male chauvinism while promoting feminism. This paper shall analyze the political undertones ...

After birth, most children are raised by two parents, a father and a mother. Both the parents have certain duties to fulfill when raising a child and both of them are expected to uphold their duties. A majority of parents who are raising their children in this modern era face numerous challenges because they do not assume equal responsibility. When one of the parents begins assuming more responsibility than the other, the shifting dynamics of modern life can lead to problems in raising a child. What many parents fail to realize is that when it comes to raising children, they both need to ...

Personality Disorders are a type of mental illness that includes a wide range of problems dealing with the world at large, and a number of perception problems that make living an ordinary modern life very difficult for the sufferers. There is a certain stigma attached to these kinds of disorders that often keeps sufferers from seeking treatment. The name applied to this group of disorders is misleading, since "personality," in common usage, tends to connote some kind of control or willfulness on the part of the sufferer – this leads many people to think that the sufferer is somehow at fault for the illness. ...

Abstract:

Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a personality disorder that may have devastating consequences for the sufferer, their family, friends, work colleagues, and acquaintances. The diagnosis is often feared and greatly misunderstood. This review seeks to understand the nature of the disease and the problems it may cause. This analysis of the literature provides an overview of the diagnostics, epidemiology, course, and treatment of the disease. It discusses the implications of the disease to the patient’s family and their ability to have gainful employment. This paper seeks to aid in the understanding of the disease and treatment modalities available. ...

The "blues" trace their history from the early 1900s, originating from the African-American slaves and plantation workers of the time. It often speaks of mourning, melancholy, pain, hardship, bad luck, and oppression, among others, but there are blues songs that also sing about overcoming adversities and trials in life. Generally, the lyrics are frequently sentimental and the music uplifting and speaks volumes about deep, authentic emotions (Kopp, 2005). Comprised of several blues genres, the songs may be categorized into traditional country blues, boogie-woogie, jump blues, cool blues, Chicago blues, and West Coast blues (Kopp, 2005). One blues subject ...

Because most modern plays do not have narrators, when the character Tom Wingfield is speaking as the narrator of The Glass Menagerie, the audience will pay more attention to his words. In part this is because he directly addresses the audience, and in part because of his comments about the other characters and himself. In some ways, the occasional use of a narrator makes the play seem slightly more modern in style, at least to audiences familiar with the television narrative device of “breaking the fourth wall,” in which a character on a television show speaks directly to the television audience instead ...

Analysis of Sugar

The traumas of early childhood linger with us well into adulthood, whether we know it or not. Edgar Allan Poe, for example, had to sit and watch his mother cough herself to death from consumption, as a toddler, while she was in her dressing room; his father was nowhere to be found. The effects of this emotional damage did bring us the amazing literature that poured from his pen, but it also brought him an extremely unstable life, including relationships that ranged from the inappropriate to the bizarre. In the story of Sugar, things are no different. Her mother had ...

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 ...

The main drive for me joining MA studies was to further my theoretical knowledge development in Art and Architecture outside the commercial context within which I have been working. This journey in my career outside class has been intensive and productive. It has led me to places would never have thought to visit. This journey has also challenged my understanding on what can be considered as photogenic subject matter. The nature of my work initially concentrated around the genre of documentary photography. Consequently, I have found my self delving deeper into its style, methods and story telling values. I ...

Holiness can be defined as the state of being holy, pure and sanctified. From this definition holiness assumes an evangelistic approach making it more precise in terms of purity and sanctification. It is used in many religious settings making it a common word used for a universal description across all religious faiths. Therefore, holiness is a universal religious word used to mean a state of sanctity and purity way from sins or evil. In many religious settings, holiness comes with self denial and total submission to a supernatural power and divine law of the supernatural being, common described as the Only Holy and owner ...

1.0 Introduction

Terminating parental rights is a legal action undertaken to end any rights a parent has to their child. This legally ceases any relationships and concerns the parent has in their child. On getting a termination of parental rights, parents become as good as strangers to the child. They can neither concern themselves with the ethics of this child, nor make any provisions in terms of child support. Such a parent can have no input in any of the necessities of the child throughout their lifetime. They don’t even have the right to contact their child. To some parents it can ...

Psychology

Parental death in childhood is a traumatic experience for any child. Each child handles the passing of a parent differently and the ability to experience normal grief can depend on experiences before the death. Some children need no professional help after the death and seem to handle the tragedy by the normal grief process. Others have problems with depression or anxiety in the short-term; some children ‘act out’ with inappropriate behavior. The long-term consequences of the loss of a parent in childhood can be very strong; so strong that the consequences may be carried on into adulthood.

The intensity of the impact of childhood ...

A lot happens in one hour in this very short story by Kate Chopin. It is not an action filled story, but the emotions of the protagonist, Mrs. Mallard, are racing up and down like a roller coaster. We learn in the first sentence that she is “afflicted with a heart trouble.” Perhaps her heart is weak from a previous illness, but no details are given. Her sister and her husband’s best friend have come to tell her very gently that her husband has been killed in a train accident. They want to be able to tell her before she hears the ...

The Kid, a 1921 film directed by and starring Charlie Chaplin, is a tale of a tramp (Chaplin) who happens upon an abandoned baby and raises it as his own. Made in 1921, this film draws greatly upon Chaplin's own experiences as a child, and was a breakthrough for the silent film actor from shorts into successful feature length films. Still reeling from the end of World War I and the start of Prohibition, the United States in 1921 was dealing with its newfound prosperity and stricter moral code on the part of the state. This film helped to prove that Chaplin's comedic stylings ...