Essays on Upbringing

Having rediscovered the traditional German fairy-tale about Snow White and the wicked queen, Neil Gaiman introduces a perspective, quite different from others previously expressed. In his story Snow, Glass, Apples Snow White and the queen appear in different colors. They are both strong, and they both appear to implement their powers in their own ways. In the story, Neil Gaiman seems to present both female characters from different perspectives, enduing them with both traditional and feminist traits of their personalities. The entire story by Gaiman seems to be a feminist interpretation of the traditional German fairy-tale by Grimm brothers. ...

Psychology

Hypothesis: Intelligence is not genetically inherited. Intelligence has less to do with genetics than with the socio-cultural environment in which a person has grown. The rise of genetics gave people a chance to prove that intelligence is genetically inherited. However, deep studies suggest otherwise. It is the environment and availability of resources that shape the intelligence of an individual. If people who are considered non-intelligent, are provided the same educational opportunities and social environment, then their display of intelligence will be on par with other people who developed in the same environment. Turkheimer and co-researchers (623) in their article ...

Introduction

Japan is reported to have the world’s third largest economy, which gives it an essential role in the global community. This calls for the need to understand the Japanese people’s self-concept and how they hold themselves up as individuals and as members of the society. It has been widely established that self-concept is far from being a static perception, rather it is a changeable system which is generally a result of an individual’s social relationships. It is observed that people normally hold a different perception of themselves as individuals, and as a social group member. Consequently, ...

Influence of Nurture on the Process of Becoming a

Abstract This is a research paper that presents connections between family’s part in the process of becoming a successful adult. It concentrates on answering specific questions: “How do families with all their complexity influence their children’s psychological development since the early childhood? In what way are the family background and students’ academic achievements (successful/unsuccessful life) related?” These questions are answered through analysis of a group of 15 people from different familial backgrounds, each of whom had a simple task of telling about their childhood experience. Information obtained is later compared and contrasted with various scholarly studies of ...

Thesis Statement: War completely changes soldiers who participate in it. The experiences during war directly affect the mental, physical and emotional behavior of particular individuals who fight in it more so when loss of close friends is involved. Permanent and lasting scars occur to the personality of any soldier which may be relived through nightmares or worse still lose of limbs, faculty of speech or mental trauma. In the Three Day Road, this is exhibited when Xavier and Elijah who are best friends from childhood are separated by the cruelty of war with Elijah consumed as collateral damage in ...

The exercise in self disclosure was an interesting one that got me to think sincerely about how deep my relationships with other people are. Generally speaking, I consider myself a fairly private person, and even in my close friendships I do not reveal a lot of information about my own life. Because I knew this, I was expecting that all four of my diagrams would be somewhat shallow in their relationships. I think this would be pretty obvious to anybody who looked at my diagrams, because in most cases my disclosures did not go past the first or second ...

It is always difficult to watch movies about impaired people, let alone see them in real life. However, it is the real life that we must accept. Cinema is an excellent field and sphere to analyze the potential symptoms of characters playing the role of an impaired man or woman. Forrest Gump is an excellent example of the director’s and actor’s mastery at showing the people what a real psychopathology is. Watching Forrest Gump one always thinks of the protagonist as mentally retarded (or rather suffering from mental retardation - a congenital form of an intellectual disability ...

According to Dekun Zheng (1983), China has been one of Asia’s most distinguished countries, and it has been known to have a class structure which has divided it into two Chinas. The upper class and the rural class has had clear demarcations in the country. The upper class of the Chinese civilization has enjoyed a luxurious lifestyle which has been visible from their expenditure, way of living and spending. Moreover, the author mentions the importance of gaining a classical education, which has been important to the Chinese upper class that helped them rise above the rural class of ...

For every Greek philosopher, interest in music was almost obligatory quality. According to the beliefs of the Greeks, music was an integral part of the philosophy. Aristotle was not an excpetioon and repeatedly spoke about music. When starting to discuss the special role of music in an ethical upbringing in his "Politics", Aristotle himself warned that he would only talk about some general issues because much had been said by those who were philosophizing about the music. As is known, Aristotle clearly distinguishes between theoretical and practical knowledge. Aristotle divides music at the same time into two very different ...

Handbook for an Unpredictable Life: How I Survived Sister Renata and My Crazy Mother, and Still Came Out Smiling (with Great Hair) is the story of broadway and film star Rosie Perez’s tumultuous and turbulent childhood. As a very young child, Rosie was placed in a Catholic home for children in the heart of New York City where she and numerous other children suffered unspeakable abuse at the hands of the nuns. Amazingly, Perez was able to turn the abuse she suffered into fuel and determination to drive her wildly successful dance and theatre career. Perez broke boundaries ...

Introduction

Fathers should be treated equally as mothers in family court decisions as too many times the mother is favored because of the nurturing stereotype. Fathers are denied the opportunity to take care of their children in a situation where nurturance and care are needed. As such, the stereotypes are helpful in the evaluation of the unambiguous nature of the fathers in nurturing children. Mothers have been favored from time to time following their ability to take care of their children. Upon a court case, the mother is viewed as the favorite in handling the children in case of a ...

Introduction

Exordium The death penalty is something which has existed for centuries in various countries, but recently it has been coming under increased scrutiny. More people are turning to the view that it is somehow inhumane, or perhaps that it is immoral to say that we who obey and make the law are better than those break and oppose it, while still committing the same acts as they do (presuming that the offenders are murderers, of course). It could be said that the death penalty was a simple solution for a simpler time. Today, not only do we have the ...

The social scientific question analyzed in this paper is the influence of the family size on the process of socialization. Socialization is the process of integrating into a particular group and imitating the patterns, behavior, and worldview established in this group. It is influenced by the family, day care, educational institutions, peers, community, and mass media (Persell, 1990). The family plays a significant role in making a child involved in the community. From the first days of his or her life, the child is surrounded by the family members. The relations inside the family, traditions, upbringing methods, moral principles ...

Obesity can be defined as a medical condition in which a person has excessive level of fat in his/her body. Obesity can be determined with the help of Body Mass Index or BMI. A person is considered overweight if his/her BMI is higher than 25 and less than 30. However, a person is considered obese if his/her BMI is 30 or above. Obesity is adversely affecting the society, especially children. If it continues to grow at its current pace the U.S. health care system could face major problems, and it calls for major steps to be undertaken by the ...

The changing status of children and self-report

Some children tend to be more privileged than others. This is usually so because of the levels of resource access they have and the kind of parenting they undergo. The kind of environment where they are brought up is also a contributing factor. Inequality is not only limited to social classes as it also evident in the same social classes (John, 2013). This is mainly influenced by parent’s preferences and their involvement in the upbringing and day to day activities of their children. As such, some children end up short changed as their parents focus more on other ...

People expect Christians to live morally acceptable lives and rightly so. Christianity teaches virtue like honesty, sexual purity, and kindness. Statements such as "What would Jesus do?" are used a lot especially in television shows for comic effect. At times these statements feel provocative role in his or her Christhood. However, looking deeply into such remarks makes a Christians take a little offense to what is said to them. For instance, Jesus would never be adulterous. Jesus would also never steal nor covet another man's property. Doing what Jesus would do is not so offensive. Therefore, Christian worldview recommends ...

Dolly Parton: Career and Influence

Abstract Dolly Parton is an American singer and songwriter whose overwhelming success, especially in country music, makes her a perfect example of how women can succeed in the music industry. This paper explores Parton’s career, which was influenced by her poor upbringing in a family of twelve siblings, as well as her desire to convey messages of female equality. Dolly Parton was born in 1946 in Tennessee, and pursued music from the age of six. She has released 43 solo studio albums, received numerous awards and appeared in both television and film. The paper addresses the theme of ...

Introduction

Family is one of the interesting sociological phenomenon. Studied by many sociologists and psychologists, this concept persists to be one of the most dynamically evolving issues on the contemporary societal landscapes. In particular, traditional conceptions regarding this form of social organizations are being gradually replaced by the modern approaches to understanding a family, delineating the scopes of roles and responsibilities of the family members, as well as determining the family membership criteria (Shepard & Greene 82). As far as a dogmatic conception of a family is concerned, under this term the one should understand a group of people, which is ...

Many of us, when we think about our histories, do not realize how influenced we are by the institutions are us. Whether it is by religion, class, work, a different institution, or a combination of a few, who we become has much to do with what we witnessed, and what went on around us, how we were raised, and the opportunities that were presented to us in youth. In some cases, these institutions began before we were born. For me, it is a combination of institutions. While many played small roles in my upbringing, as well as who I ...

The “Horatio Alger myth” refers to an American classic success story, which represents a trajectory arc from “rags to riches”. The origin of the myth can be traced to Horatio Alger Jr’s writings and novels that were popular after the American Civil War. On the other hand, the “Trading Places” is a 1983 American film produced by Landis John, and it embodies the “Horatio Alger myth” (Trading Places). The film depicts the idea that a person, regardless of their upbringing and social background, can rise from rags to riches. Billy Ray Valentine is one of the main characters ...

Bill Gates, as any outstanding personality is unique. However, today we will not argue with those who criticize him. We will apply the golden rule of business, which reads: "Learning should be from the successful people." We will talk about what events from the biography of Gates and the quality of his character helped him to become what he is. He is the legendary founder of Microsoft, who is also the richest man in the world for over ten years. He is a charismatic business leader, innovator, has a knight title in the UK and is the father of ...

The childhood experience has great effects of the individual’s social and personality development. A maltreatment experience during childhood can impact the development of emotions and behaviors through adulthood. As per definition, a child maltreatment is a child abuse and neglect that happens to those children ages 18 years old and below. WHO presents the common child maltreatment that includes physical and emotional abuses. Particularly, the types of child maltreatment are physical abuse, emotional abuse, neglect, sexual abuse, and exploitation . These maltreatments result in the potential harm in terms of health, behavioral development, survival, dignity, and trust of the ...

Personal Ethical Action Plan

Personal Values Values, to me, are the driving force of life and form the basis upon which I check my accomplishments. I believe that even though success can be measured in many ways, no matter how successful one is in life, without values upon which their decisions and principles are governed, their success can be rendered meaningless. I draw my values from my culture, upbringing and my sense of morality and purpose, drawn from my experience and interactions in the society. I can summarize my values as follows:

Spirituality Coming from a background of staunch religious upbringing, I value ...

Criminology is a subject that is a very complex debate within the United States in that there are a plethora of theories attempting to explain why there is such a high crime rate. Many of these theories link the heightened crime to the disparity between the class systems that has an affect on the educational level of the citizens, (Gesualdi, Louis, 2014). Other theories relate to the lack of connection between morality and the current generation, (Gesualdi, Louis, 2014). The final theory is that crime is directly tied to the lack of jobs, (Gesualdi, Louis, 2014). These three theories ...

Introduction

Diego Rivera is a Mexican artist famous for his painting of murals. Julia Alvarez is a native of the Dominican Republic, and is a famous writer. These two artists have many similarities. They were both raised in affluent families. They both were exposed to cultural revolution, and they both portray their life experiences in their art. However, the two artists have a significant number of differences. These dissimilarities can be attributed to the level of acceptance and popularity that both have received.

Diego Rivera

Diego Rivera was an artist who lived from 1886 to 1957. He was born in Guanajuato, Mexico. ...

[Your instructor's name] [The course] [The date]

The influence made by emotions and senses on understanding cannot be overestimated. I have decided to investigate more into this matter because I believe that such research might enhance my knowledge of the course and improve my perception of the matter in general. I would like to get deeper into the matter since I do not feel totally confident about my grasp pf this issue. The scholars have performed various researches studying the connection between the empathy and comprehension under different angles of analysis. They study the nature of emotions and senses ( ...

Introduction

A crime is defined as an act or omission, which establishes an offence, and is punishable by law. Crimes are committed by both males and females in any society, and the United Kingdom is no exception to this rule. Naturally, the gender of a person often dictates the rate, type and the extent of crime committed. Although a committed crime has the same legal consequences, there exists some differences in terms of who commit them, the rate of their commission and the extent to which they are committed. The rate of crimes committed by males is more than that ...

Introduction

The novel, The Scarlet Letter, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne in 1850, has a protagonist named Hester Prynne who was forced to live in solitude for her act of adultery. The novel is phased in the era of 1960s which is almost two centuries prior to its year of publication and aims at explaining the plight of a woman who was forced to live with the imposed consequences by the members of the Puritan community in the city of Salem, Massachusetts. With respect to the analysis of her character in the novel, there are some stark contradictions affixed to her ...

There have been conducted numerous studies on fantasies experienced by men and women. The human mind can be named sexually dimorphic, that supposes that we consciously realize the difference between “man” and “women” fantasies. Thus, Balbus (2002) and Chodorow (1991) discuss the ideas that women and men have different types of fantasies. Balbus` work “masculinity and the (M)other” reveals the mothering theory that seems to explain how that come that females are more likely to suffer from the narcissism of the “ideal object” or to defend against the anxiety of separation from the mother that can be called ...

Pat Mora is an Hispanic-American author. She was born in El Paso, Texas in 1942. While growing up, Mora attended Catholic schools, although her religion is described as “Ecumenical.” (Gale n.p.). She was raised in a bi-lingual family, and her works have been written in Spanish and English. Mora has received many accolades for her writing of children’s literature, which speaks to young Hispanics. Her poem, “Gentle Communion,” reflects her Hispanic heritage, and Catholic upbringing. One cannot discern by reading the poem, if the persona is male or female. Since the author is female, further gender description, when ...

Abstract

Everyone has their own individual character. People’s characters may be similar but definitely are not the same. Most people do not have issues with it and have no problems with their interactions in society and compliance with its laws and regulations. However, some personal features are very different from the expected norms and from generally accepted rules of behavior that cause irritation, discomfort and lack of understanding of others. Such features of temper can cause problems, which affect not only patients but also their close and distant surroundings. Such condition is called personality disorder. Worth noting, that patients ...

Background of the Problem

It is important to notice that entrepreneurship is one of the most discussed phenomena in academic research literature. There is a great amount of studies proposing multiple theories and concepts that define entrepreneurship, yet there are still more questions than answers in this area. Designating the factors of success in this area is difficult, as each case of entrepreneurship is individual. Entrepreneurship is vital for the economy of the state. For instance, the survey conducted by Jean Yusuf among entrepreneurs determined that the entrepreneurs can alter the world by contributing to the world economy with their innovations that make ...

Born in Chicago in 1978 to an Egyptian-Greek mother and a Palestinian father, Randa Jarrar grew up in different countries including Kuwait, Egypt, and back to America in New York. Her book A Map of Home is about a rebellious girl, Nidali, who is the daughter of a Palestinian father and a mother who has Egyptian and Greek ancestry. Born in the America, Nidali narrates about her upbringing in Kuwait, the teenage years she spends in Egypt after her family freed Kuwait in order to escape the war following the Iraqi invasion in 1990, as well as her family’ ...

Upbringing of children is the issue of scientific concern all over the world. No wonder, as proper approach in education is the prerequisite of bright future of next generations. That is why millions of educational approaches are discussed, reconsidered and applied every single day. Frankly speaking, each perspective has both strong sides and weaknesses, which means there is no universal direction, equally applicable under every condition and workable like panacea. Actually, each perspective should be modified in accordance with environment – natural, social, cultural – in order to provide as favorable conditions as possible. In other words, each perspective has its ...

The process of socialization is essentially institutionalized phenomenon that realized through a system of specific social institutions. They designed to shape and adjust the social qualities of the person in accordance with socially significant values ​​and norms of society, as well as to limit or strengthen the impact of various factors or to neutralize them. Gender relations is the backbone for the reproduction of a particular type of family, self-determination of the men and women in society, the choice of strategies for decision-making. Socialized identity of any type of society is extremely important to undergo gender-role socialization. Basic school ...

Cоurse

Dаte Love Speaking about love, people usually mean love between a man and a woman. However, there are a lot of other, not less important, situations of love: love of children or parents, love for one’s job or one’s country. But the love between a man and a woman can be very different as well: amorousness and mature love, love-passion and love-habit, consumer’s kinds of love or a giving love. In psychology, love usually is described as a feeling that can grow. Appeal to someone can lead to amorousness; the latter one can lead to ...

Introduction

Fried Green Tomatoes is a 1991 comedy dram film written by Carol Sobieski and Fannie Flagg. The film tells the story of a friendship between two pairs of women – Ruth and Idgie during the Great Depression of early 1930s as well as that between Evelyn and Ninny in the 1980s. It happens that Ninny knew Idgie and Ruth and she tells of the stories about these two women to Evelyn who is in her middle ages (Avnet, 1991). The central issue in the film concerns the murder of Ruth’s abusive husband Frank after which numerous accusations on the ...

Background of the Problem

It is important to notice that entrepreneurship is one of the most discussed phenomena in the academic research literature. There is a great amount of studies proposing multiple theories and concepts that define entrepreneurship, yet there are still more questions than answers in this area. Designating the factors of success in this area is difficult, as each case of entrepreneurship is individual. It is claimed that entrepreneurship is vital for the economy of the state. For instance, Yusuf emphasized that the entrepreneurs can alter the world by contributing to the world economy with their innovations that make people’s ...

Family is an important social institution of society. Family`s activities (relationships between parents, parents and children, methods of upbringing and others) are determined by the system of legal and social norms. The original foundation of family relations is marriage. Marriage in human society is considered to be the only acceptable, socially approved and fixed by law form of allowed and also mandatory sex relations of spouses (Strong & Cohen 142). Marriage is a set of formal regulations defining the rights, duties and privileges of a husband to his wife, and two of them in relation to their children, relatives ...

The book is a story about a Chinese mother and the differences she faces in communicating with her own daughter – married to an Irish - in raising her granddaughter, Sophie. It depicts an ideal scenario of difference in thinking between generations, and how children belittle their parents once they get older. Moreover, it also shows the differences in the Chinese culture with the Irish culture particularly related to the upbringing of their offspring’s. As times progress so does the way of living and the thinking of society’s younger generations. This is one of the main elements that ...

The question about the role of man and woman in the distribution of household tasks and the upbringing of children is one of the most discussed in every family. This issue has a fairly wide range of options, so we cannot generalize that in each family division of responsibilities occurs in one way or another. Often, it happens naturally and depends on peculiarities of each person, but there are some common established rules how should the distribution of responsibilities in the family happen.

Chores

Female chores should primarily include cooking and washing the dishes. Clean dishes are a measure of ...

Various issues arise in families and many of those problem cause controversies and different opinions. One of such problems is spanking children. One part of parents sticks to one educational methods, while others prefer different means of raising their kids. Spanking children is a wide-known method of trying to teach kids of what is right and what is wrong, because the fear of physical punishment might make children behave better and not to do certain things. Still, different families have different views on this issue. It is always challenging to raise kids, because numerous factors have an influence on ...

Summary of “Tar Baby” :

Tar Baby is an interesting novel in that it is the love story of two black individuals. Typically, in literature we have seen the plight of the interracial couple explored; however, in Tar Baby, we see the plight of a couple within the Black race explored, (Morrison, Tony, pg. 3). Tar Baby essentially highlights the hierarchy within the Black classes as the two characters explore their potential to have a viable love affair. What ends up transpiring as a result is that the characters face the fact they often feel homeless in the world around them because it is ...

Abstract

Society often finds itself constructing a structural model it uses to determine whether people are best suited for marriage. Culture plays a central role in the construction of that model and through it, people get to see the perfections and imperfections they can live or without in marriage. Before making a choice for a marriage partner, many people always want to be sure whether their partners are the best choices and how their cultures interplay with theirs. If the two cultures are way different, and no one is willing to compromise, then that marriage is bound to fail or ...

Gender and Culture

Gender is a characteristic of differentiation, which helps us group humankind and other animals in specific groups. There are only two types of gender that are male and female gender. Having in mind that culture is the norms and values of an individual way of life. I will show the values of either gender and compare the conventional practices. Give the similarities thereafter, and show the stereotypes that may have been used to guide the practices of the gender in question; I will also discuss the responsibilities of each gender. Moreover, I will give my perspective on the validity ...

Poverty is one of the most acute social problems of nowadays. Today, it seems that the technological advancements as well as the profound changes in social structures make it possible to get rid of poverty entirely, especially in well-developed industrialized countries like the United States. However, poverty is not as easy to vanquish as one might think. In order to understand how to eliminate this social failure of even the most advanced societies, one should understand clearly the factors which lead to it in the first place. The story of Sue Christian, described by a journalist Monica Potts in ...

In the educational process religion can both reveal the identity of the teacher or learner (the teacher in the hijab, a student in the bale), and be an object of study (religious wars in Germany in the course of history). However, religion as a separate subject is only possible with a developed shared understanding and consent. Such an agreement would mean changing of the political system and the Constitution. Both the Church and the school have a single task: to shape the minds of people in order to instill in them certain social and intellectual skills. This is a ...

Everyone is acquainted to the notion of a teenager. In the American culture, there is the concept of a teenager, which determines the socio-demographic group of people aging from 13 to 20 years. This period of life is quite difficult for the teenagers as they are tempted by the desire to commit forbidden things and even break the law. The reasons for this may be numerous as the social group of teenagers is a complicated notion that demands special attention both from the parents and the state government. Every year juvenile delinquency increases largely and there should be observed ...

Introduction of Topic and How It Relates to Education

It is widely acknowledged that the educational process is very important for community improvement. A person develops under various circumstances, but there are basic factors which impact every person, no matter how different his/her life is – that is family (first of all, parents and also siblings and relatives) and educational institution (school, college, etc.). The family is the first environment the child is born and develops in. It is the place where a person establishes his psychological, social, physical, mental, and behavioral character. Parents’ influence lays the ground to the majority of future achievements and failures of a child ...

Abstract

In the last decade, the general issue affecting the learning environment is the alarming rate of failure in mathematics amongst African-Americans and low-income students. This issue is of concern to both educators and researchers who view the subject as an avenue of achieving a very high economic status. The rationale behind the project is that there have been continuous decline in the performances of AYP (Adequate Yearly Performance) tests.

It was found that African-American preferred a social learning environment to achieve academic success. The literature review on preferred learning style amongst the risk groups was guided by questions such as: Do ...

Often, an author will write about what they know best. Which, invariably, is their own experience of life, love and everything in between. Authors do this for a number of reasons: because they know it so well that they can make an excellent story of it; because they usually have a message that they wish to convey to the world as a result of that experience. Tell Me a Riddle is a collection of short stories, written by Tillie Olsen, first published in 1961. It is a prime example of an author writing for the purpose of conveying a message: Olsen was a well-established feminist writer; her ...

Abstract:

This paper analyzes the quality of early childhood educators, the importance of early childhood education, the difference between the children who have attended early childhood education and those who have not. In this paper, we are also going to observe the challenges that are faced by early childhood educators as well as what to be done to improve their well being so as to see them through successfully in their career as they take care of the minors. Introduction: Early childhood education is of paramount importance in minors since, it nurtures and empowers young minds with crucial ...

African American vs. Caucasians

Introduction

Physical punishment refers to any form of punishment that is inflicted on the body of an individual. It is quite different from the pecuniary punishments, which have nothing to do with the physical body of an individual. Most of the physical punishments occur in two major scenarios. These include the physical chastisement with respect to an offender. This is a punitive measure for one who has committed a crime. The other aspect is corporal punishment of children. This can be utilized as a disciplinary measure in schools as well as a method by parents of a child, in an effort to instill discipline ...

Gish Jen, the author of “Who is Irish” gives a recount narration of an elderly American citizen woman aged sixty-eight-years-old and of Chinese ethnicity. This immigrant struggles to cope with other cultures that are different from her own. Although the main character has spent her lifetime in the United States, she is still suspicious of other cultures and races. For instance, she is doubtful of her own son-in-law who is of Irish origin. There sinks into deeper suspicion to learn that her grandchild has opted with all conviction to uphold American values.

Due to her distrust of other cultures this ...