Essays on First-Born

Introduction

Born First, Born Smarter is the title of an article of a study conducted by Robert Zajonc and Gregory Markus in 1975 (Zajonc and Markus, 1975). The researchers planned to study why previous research had concluded birth order in a family relate to definite characteristics (Zajonc and Markus, 1975). Several studies found out that first-born child tend to be less reckless, more verbally articulate, better performing in school, more active, more likely to go to school, and tend to exhibit a greater aspiration to achieve (Zajonc and Markus, 1975). They also found that first-born children tend to score higher on tests of ...

Introduction

Different members of the family have different responsibilities, which, in most cases, are socially construed. Responsibility comes with duties that an individual is supposed to perform. At times, such duties depend on the gender that one belongs to. All societies have behavioral and sociological norms that a society deems appropriate to be performed by different individuals of the family depending on the gender they belong to. This is called gender roles, and they differ from society to society, depending on the values they attach to the genders. Gender roles in the family and responsibilities depend on traditions and culture that ...

China’s one child policy was enacted more than three decades ago to curb the rampant growth of the communist country’s population. China is the world’s most populous nation and its rate of growth before 1979 meant that it would continue being the highest populated country in the universe. In 1979, the country had a population of over 972 million people and after the one child policy was passed, the rate of growth is currently at 138 percent over the three-decade period. This policy was focused on the urban living Chinese who constituted 51 percent of the country’ ...

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The essay is going to explain why conquistador is a legacy of the primogeniture. Considering my family history, it will highlight how it affected our family set up. The essay will also discuss how the law of primogeniture effected where our family moved and lived. Finally, the paper will explain the lessons learnt from handling this task. (57 words) Primogeniture refers to the situation where the first son in a family inherits all the titles and property following the death of his father. The law of primogeniture applies when the father dies ...

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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 language ...

Abstract

In the present paper, the personality of John Fitzgerald Kennedy is discussed from the perspective of psychoanalysis. The main emphasis of the psychoanalytical discussion of this prominent personality is placed on his relationship with the father, and the elder brother Joe Jr. and how they have influenced his value system, life path and place in the American history. In other words, the complexity of relationship between those three people is analyzed as main psychoanalytical context for JFK’s life and activity. John Kennedy is analyzed in accordance to the classical Freudian psychoanalytical model. The emphasis is placed on his ...