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- 1021: Sweat By Zora Neale Hurston
- ... picks up an iron skillet to defend herself from him. This move takes Sykes by surprise and leaves her alone. This part in the story gives you a sense of encouragement and strength to overcome abuse and stand up for yourself. She was finally tired of him abusing her and hitting her. A number of women of today need that same encouragement to stand up from themselves and put an end to the physical and mental abuse. Another issue in the short story deals with adultery. Sykes is sleeping behind Delias back with a lady named Bertha. He parades her around town and rubs it in Delia face that he has ... another woman. This treatment of women happens a lot today. A lot women stay with their husbands even though they know they are cheating on them. A lot of women continue to take the verbal abuse because they feel they cant find anyone else. Delia stayed with Sykes because she had low self esteem, which was caused by Sykes verbal abuse toward her. He would take the covers from ...
- 1022: How Low Self-esteem Effects Anorexia
- ... not feeling equal to the people they know. Young people s self-esteem is affected by whoever performs the role of parents, as well as a few significant others. (Myers and Myers, 65) When a child feels that they are not equal to others or do not feel accepted, their self-esteem level can severely plummet, which may lead to diseases like anorexia. Another way that self-esteem is affected is ... of you because of your size, people who are overweight will never really be emotionally happy, and that overweight men and women are not capable of being attractive or loved. From these messages, a young child is taught to think that being overweight is wrong. If the messages are molded into the child s everyday life, he or she may grow up afraid of gaining any amount of weight. The fear of gaining any extra weight is more prominent in young girls and women [because they] have ...
- 1023: Life Or Death
- ... that death is inevitable. But most importantly how suffering and death have an impact on our daily and routinely concepts of love, friendship and responsibility. What is Love ? Is the love you feel for your child the same as the love you feel for your spouse? Is the love you feel for the brand new car sitting in the dealership the same as the love one feels for their parent? Love ... as parents and humans to pass on, and if we leave our children here, without a sense of accomplishment and satisfaction, our guilt could probably kill us before we actually die knowing and seeing the child living a life of sorrow and pain. But to many parents, the greatest accomplishment and knowledge is the children knowing and realizing what the meaning of love is and making sure the child has felt the love that their parents gave from start to finish was unconditional would probably be the icing on the top of the cake. The love for a child should be a durable ...
- 1024: Violence In The Media
- ... is broadcast or transmitted even in the news today is with reference to the chaotic condition of our planet, or something else that society as a whole sees as detrimental or damaging. "The average American child will witness...200,000 acts of media violence by the time that child graduates from high school. (Sherrow 6) "Children have never been very good at listening to their elders," James Baldwin wrote in Nobody Knows my Name. "But they have never failed to imitate them." (Sherrow 56 ... violence and later aggressive behavior warrants a major organized cry of protest from the medical profession" (Palmer 122). The issue of the public's infatuation with Media can be paralleled with that of a young child and his desire for candy and "junk foods." The child enjoys eating such foods, though they produce the harmful effects of rotting away at his teeth. With a parent to limit his intake of ...
- 1025: Prenatal Diagnosis: Heredity Disorders, Other Biochemical Diseases, and Disfiguring Birth Defects
- ... parents have in the case of sex-linked diseases that are not prenatally diagnosable is to determine the sex of the fetus. If a female fetus is found, the parents can be reassured that their child will not be affected (a critical exception is fragile-X). However, if it is determined that there is a male fetus present, there is a fifty percent chance that it is affected, (Milunsky, 1989). Since ... different hereditary biochemical disorders of metabolism are known. About 1 in every 100 children born have one of these biochemical disorders. (Nora, 1989). Many of these disorders do not cause mental retardation, or impair the child's normal development or general health to any great extent, if at all. Many others, however, cause severe mental retardation, seizures, stunting of growth, and early death. Close to 150 of these biochemical disorders can ... muscle tone, and eventually mental and motor retardation. Treatment of the fetus through the mother during pregnancy is carried out by giving her intramuscular injections of massive doses of vitamin B12. This method secures the child's health at birth, when a special low-protein diet is started. In this way serious illness, mental retardation and early death have been averted. Another considerably more common disorder is congenital adrenal hyperplasia ( ...
- 1026: Marilyn Monroe
- ... at Los Angeles General Hospital at 9:39 am on June 1st, 1926. The hospital in which she was born is now the County University of Southern California Medical Center. Marilyn was born an illegitimate child whose father (Edward Mortenson) had deserted her mother (Gladys Baker). However, her real father was Stanley Gifford who left Gladys when he found out she was pregnant. Her mother worked at the Consolidated Film Industries ... twenty-two. They dated for several months to get to know each other better. And just three weeks after her birthday, they had their double-ring ceremony. In those days, she would be considered a child bride. Wouldnt she be considered a child bride now? Marilyns Aunt Ana designed her wedding gown. Marilyn was listed as her niece on the marriage certificate. At this wedding she had six mothers claim her and all wheeping when she ...
- 1027: Cloning
- ... clinic will clone an embryo, and then test it for genetic disorders. If the embryo tests negative for genetic disorders, then the fertility clinic implants a clone of that embryo. This should guarantee that the child would not have any genetic disorders. (Benoit 2) Amazingly, the first attempts at artificial cloning were as early as the beginning of this century. Adolph Eduard Driesch allowed the eggs of a sea urchin develop ... to many diseases. There are also possibilities that nuclear transfer could provide benefits to those who would like children. For instance, couples that are infertile, or have genetic disorders, could use cloning to produce a child. Equally important, women who are single could have a child using cloning instead of in-vitro fertilization. Nuclear transfer could also provide children who need organ transplants to have a clone born to donate organs. Cloning could also provide a copy of a child ...
- 1028: TV Violence
- ... own view on the affect violent TV has on chidren. The first position I will examine is the one in which it is believed that, without a doubt, violent TV increases the likelyhood that a child will behave in a violent manner. This stands is examined in the Maclean's article intitled,"Power to the people. Television's teen Rangers Kick up a storm. The author of this article, Particia Chrisholm ... act more violently is an experiment conducted by Leonard Eron and his collegues. In these studies, Leonard Eron and his collegues studied childern for a number of years and measuread peer ratings obtained from each child's classmates. By doing this, they could see if violent TV changed the attitudes of the children. In the end, it was concluded that violent TV significantly affected the way in which the children behaved ... The other position that can be taken when discussing this issue is one in which people believe that violent TV does not affect the behavior of children. In the Canadian Forum article, "TV and The Child Savers. Bad Habits and The Boob Tube" this position is discussed. The author, Thelma McCormack discusses the goals of the action group that refers to themselves as the Child Savers. According to this article, ...
- 1029: Scarlett Letter 2
- ... witch baby (Matthiessen 104). She is a baffling mixture of strong emotions with a fierce temper and a capacity for evil. With Pearl, Hester s life became one of constant nagging, and no joy. The child could not be made amenable to rules. Hester even remarks to herself, Oh Father in heaven if thou art still my father what is this being which I have brought into the world (Hawthorne 89 ... 108). Their sins include lying to the people about the affair that led to Pearl. Hester realizes what Pearl represents when she does not hold Pearl up in front of the A. She carries the child around because it is a direct reflection of her sin. Hester is, wisely judging that one token of her shame would but poorly serve to hide another (Hawthorne 48). Dimmesdale s sin is not adultery ... into something overpowering and horrible, it is Pearl who points at it, smiling at her mother with the elfish intelligence that was so familiar an expression on her small physiognomy (Hawthorne 99). Even as a child, Pearl is affixed to the letter and, putting up her little hand, she grasped it, [the letter] smiling, not doubtfully, but Piyasena/Pine 4 with a decided gleam (Hawthorne 90). Pearl s tendency to ...
- 1030: A Modern Version Of Oedipus Ki
- ... him, offering the baby for sacrifice to the gods in order to change the ancient prophecy. The warrior obeyed and took the baby far away from the tribe but he simply couldn't kill the child. Instead he took the baby to another tribe, located in a very distant place, a lace that would be safe from being conquered by Wind of Rage. When the warrior reached the tribe he gave the child to a servant he encountered near one of the main lagoons. The warrior explained the situation briefly to the servant and asked him to raise the baby as his own and then he left. Many ... the son she had with Wind of Rage was killed due to the same prophecy. At the same moment that Wondering Feather spoke these words an immense terror arouse in her interior because maybe her child was not killed after all. She started thinking a lot about the matter and decided that it would be wiser and safer to stop searching for the truth. But despite how hard she tried ...
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