Essays on Mother-in-law

Q1 (a). In this speech, the writer is the speaker. I learnt much about the writer, who is also the speaker by reading through the speech. From the first part of the speech, “Fans, for the past two weeks you have been reading about a bad break I got.” it describes the writer’s experiences about a bad break he got. The author explains to his fans about what had happened in the past two weeks. He also explains his seventeen years of experiences with his fans and how they have shown him much kindness and encouragement. He feels ...

Age: 32 years

Sex: Female

Marital Status: Married

Occupation: House wife

No. of children: 6

Religion: Islam

Gulsanga Sodozai is a female villager in Andkhoy, Afghanistan. Andkhoy is a town/village in the northern Afghanistan in Faryab Province. The population of the area according to the census in 2004 is 37,100. The town is located at the northern part of the province having the national border with Turkmenistan (“Andkhoy”).

Source adopted:”Map of Afghanistan”.

Figure 3 Map of Andkhoy

Source adopted: “Andkhoy”

The town was first founded by Alexander The Great. It was remained the part of Bokhara but ...

In her book, Dionne Brand portrays a clear picture of what tags along when one identifies themselves with a certain people from a certain culture. Through her various life experiences we are able to have a clear view of what goes down when people get tangled in others of a different culture from theirs. Some occurrences are sickening as you have to endure doing what probably never crossed your mind. Different cultures trim people differently and the difference may be so crucial as to make those in a foreign culture feel left out or else in the wrong place. When Africans were being traded ...

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Mass media is a powerful tool that influences people’s attitude and way of thinking. In forming a perception about male and women, media contributes to the stereotypes people develop about men and women as a result of the roles they portray in movies and TV shows. Looking closely at TV shows today and the years passed, these stereotypes on men and women are easily observable.

In the medical drama Grey’s Anatomy, Dr. Christina Yang was a cardiothoracic surgical

fellow at Seattle Grace Hospital. She was a successful surgeon and had to give up having a family in order to continue with her career. Later on she became the director of cardiothoracic surgery at Klausman Institute for ...

Freud noted that it was possible to have the duality of drives in the sense that every engagement entails more sinister dimension of hatred and aggressiveness. A number of people can be bonded together in love implying that people are connected together as a shared identification. When people are driven by hatred and aggressiveness, it is likely to realize that it is hard for a human to unrestraint the inclination towards aggression. As a result, the cohesion between members of the society is made easier. For instance, when a particular group is connected with universal love as the foundation for togetherness, the members ...

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Osonye Tess Onwueme’s “Tell It to Women” acts as a time capsule, taking the reader back in time to postcolonial Africa and a time or erratic feminist behavior. The book’s primary purpose appears to show the separation between traditionalism and modernism, as different cultures interacted and blended. However, this is not entirely clear until the end, when a concise meaning for culture is given. Tess Onwueme believed culture was derived from the passion that ignited the very culture’s desire to stay together, it appears. The familiarity of their arts, traditions, customs, and manners were all a part of the culture. ...

Even in our quickly advancing, modern world where it appears that men and women are on an ever-evening playing field, there are some parts of the world where women are still hidden in complete obscurity. Sometimes women are so undervalued in a family they are killed once they are born, or murdered because the dowry that came with them on their wedding night was not large enough. India is a place where to be a woman and to be afraid are sometimes synonymous. Forced into labor before their bones are even fully formed, and never allowed to make a real decision for themselves, ...

Introduction and biographical information: The poet Adrienne Rich was an intellectual and poet whose work life spanned about 70 years. She began as an award-winning formal writer of lyric poetry and published as early as 1951. In the 1960s and 1970s she changed her style to feminist free verse poetry. She addressed political issues. She had married into the traditional wife and mother roles while at the same time being an intellectual. She and her husband separated and then he died in 1970. Rich was faced with being a single parent to her three sons. Rich’s poetry reflected her ...

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THE OLD TESTAMENT BOOKS EXODUS This is a law book, the second book in the Hebrew bible and is also one of the Torah books that are believed to have been authored by Moses himself. The book simply means the act of going out. The main theme addressed in the book is all about the suffering of the Israelites and their departure from the land of Egypt to their promised land. The theme of salvation and theophany are manifested in this book whereby the meaning of God’s salvation history through actions that give identity to the ...

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Marilynne Robinson brings us a story of women in her novel, Housekeeping. Most of the characters on the novel are women. Men are not featured in this novel. Robinson sets the novel so that only women are left alone. We are told of the tedious tasks that these women had. We are introduced of Ruth and Lucille, her younger sister. They were brought up by many caretakers. Many questions sprout regarding the mystery of the many caretakers of these girls. Could it be their behavior that made them move from one caretaker to another? All these questions abound, there comes ...

Tribute to Mother-in-Law on Her 70th Birthday

Among the Ten Commandments documented in the Bible, one comes with a promise. That particular commandment is “Honor Your Father and Mother”. But I would say, Honor your mother-in-law too because she gave you a family of your own. Being 40 years of age, I cannot forget to thank God for letting me blow that many candles. However, I thank God more because mother-in-law blows her 70th candle today, which means that she is now 70. I have a lot to owe to you mother-in-law, the most significant being the handsome man I call my husband. But that is not all that ...

Depression is a universal problem that is not only present in old people but is also in young and middle age people. With a world-wide presence, depression is a dangerous problem that is oftentimes fatal. As Hasche & Morrow-Howell (2007) document, depression is a cause of several negative outcomes for older adults, rendering it neither an unacceptable nor normal component of the aging process. Recalling vividly, Mr. B, aged between 65 and 70, was one of our neighbors back in India and belonged to a rich family though his family was not supporting him in any way. Whenever I saw him he always looked ...

The six stories that we have read as a part of this unit are rich in terms of expression of theme and characterization. All of the authors weave images together to create powerful rhetorical arguments that entice the reader. From battlefield scenes to questions of the meaning of life, each story has a vivid collection of images that serve to bolster the ideas that the authors want to express. The actual battlefield in which “The Field” takes place sets the tone and mood for the entire story. The three characters must hide in an underground crate to avoid the continuous ...

6 Things to NEVER Say to Your Daughter-In-Law: Stereotypes of Our Society

The so-called hatred between the mother-in-law and the daughter-in-law has been the bases of numerous jokes, stories, songs and movies. This is one of the stereotypes which is a global one. However, every one of these jokes and stories only feeds the relationship between these relatives. Perhaps if they didn’t know they are supposed to be on tight ends with each other they wouldn’t be. This article has a goal of keeping these two women friends or at least maintaining a good relationship.

This piece provides advice for the mothers. At the same times it touches the stereotypes connected with ...