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- 1041: The Shelter Of Each Other, A B
- ... time when parents are preoccupied with ending their day. They may want to wind down, or are cooking dinner. They are in a state of mind where they aren t fully aware of what their child is watching. The lead stories, and headlines of newspapers, are often about crime, whether it is murder, assault, drugs, etc. Since the media has made us all equal, we are becoming a culture that is ... the Internet to stay abreast of changing technology. The mother is on Prozac. The oldest daughter is anorexic and has accumulated major medical bills. The middle daughter was dabbling in drugs and alcohol. The youngest child is afraid to leave the house and spends all of his time watching TV. He doesn t want to go to school because he is picked on for being different. Contact with the great outdoors ... cure. There is also popular psychology, which is seen as a business. At best, the buzzwords created teach communication skills, stress management, and impulse control. At worst it is oversold. Words like dysfunctional and inner child are a common part of our language. We are labeling each other rather than fixing whatever ails us. Pipher has identified ten mistakes that therapists make: 1. Most therapists only hear the patient s ...
- 1042: Biography of Dr. Maria Montessori
- ... teacher, Whose task it was not to judge the children. She felt it was the teachers role to help guide and enlighten something that was asleep in the student. Mental work would not exhaust the child, it would give the child nourishment. Through her observations and trial and error, she developed what became known as the Montessori Method of education. She experimented with materials that would awaken the childÕs potential. It was a radical departure In ... a ChildrenÕs House, was opened. Dr. Montessori did not place children in restricting environments, but instead designed them to reflect children. The rooms were set up like a house, with the then-revolutionary idea of child-sized furniture. Tables and chairs were child-sized and materials were placed on low shelves to be easily reached by the students. In addition, many of the skills were designed to teach children how ...
- 1043: Grades Do Not Acurrately Reflect What A Student Has Learned
- ... not learned. A student who is obsessed with grades is often a troubled one. Much stress is accumulated because all that matters is having an A on that next report card. Anything less, and the child isn't satisfied. In many cases, a student merely memorizes the material needed to get a good mark on a test, and everything is forgotten within a few days. The student gets the A, and ... Philip too hard to bring home all A's, or a coach is concerned with Susan's eligibility for a school sport. Maybe a teacher wants to see Philip make the high honor roll. The child begins to feel that if he does not bring home these outstanding grades all of the time, he will disappoint someone. The student never really takes time to think about what he wants to get ... in every class. People all have their own personal limitations, and with some people, C's are the best that they can do. This can be extremely frustrating if a parent is intent on the child bringing home A's and B's. In these cases the child is too unstrung and stressed out to learn anything. However, to those students who aren't only interested in grades, but are ...
- 1044: Pre-Eclampsia and Eclampsia Disorders In Pregnant Women
- ... eclampsia is hypertension and eclampsia is the worsening of pre-eclampsia where the woman experiences convulsions or goes into a coma. The complication of eclampsia in a pregnant woman can put her and her unborn child at risk. A risk that may be fatal. This is only to briefly define the disorders. Furthermore, I predict that women who have suffered from eclampsia do need future medical help due to the permanent ... if the blood pressure gets out of hand suddenly, the disease may progress to eclampsia. Eclampsia is pre-eclampsia that has progressed to the point of convulsions and possible coma. Resulting in retardation for the child with lack of oxygenation and other proteins to fetus. A term that must be known is chronic hypertension due to increased pressure in the arteries and often associated with atherosclerosis (collections of fatty substances on ... more severe; from convulsions to coma. There is blindness, brain hemorrhaging, renal failure, hypertension and arrhythmia; the damages are permanent that leave the mother having to change her life style after the delivery of her child. As with pre-eclampsia, eclampsia can affect every organ and body system, causing either permanent damage or death of the mother and baby if not vigorously managed. Preventive measures start with exercise and diet ...
- 1045: The Scarlet Letter and Symbolism
- ... 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 ...
- 1046: Beloved 3
- ... feed her. .and I could not let her nor any of em live under schoolteacher. That was out (163). But was that really an excuse to use for what she had done by taking her child s life? Paul D, who was her long-lost friend for eighteen years, disputes her reasoning for killing her child. He states, The prickly, mean-eyed Sweet Home girl he knew as Halle s girl was obedient(like Halle), shy(like Halle) and work-crazy(like Halle). He was wrong. This here Sethe was new ... saw what Stamp Paid wanted him to see more important than what Sethe had done was what she claimed. It scared him (164). Paul D was bewildered and outraged by Sethe s actions towards a child and found it unforgivable. Because she killed her child others deemed her a demon, incapable of love, and her younger daughter began believing that was true. She was deemed insane and others around her ...
- 1047: Feminism And Gender Equality In The 1990’s
- ... country where they know "what life is all about." (See Endnote #1) I have often consulted my grandparents about their experiences, and I find their historical perspective enlightening. My grandmother was pregnant with her third child in 1949. Her work experience included: interior design and modeling women’s clothes for the Sears catalog. I asked her to read the Friedan essay and let me know if she felt as moved as ... a mother. Justice Blackmun delivered the following opinion: Maternity, or additional offspring, may force upon the woman a distressful life and future. Psychological harm may be imminent. Mental and physical health may be taxed by child care. There is also a distress, for all concerned, associated with the unwanted child, and there is the problem of bringing a child into a family already unable, psychologically and otherwise, to care for it. In other cases, as in this one, the additional difficulties and continuing stigma ...
- 1048: Abortion
- ... s mistakes. I mean, if one is going to screw around and accidentally get knocked up, why should they have to be responsible for the outcome of messing around. Why not just murder the unborn child. That is what goes on daily, slaughtering of young, innocent children, that if born, would easily find a home. What did they [the unborn child] do wrong? Oh nothing, it's just that the mother and/or father are just so lazy and irresponsible that they would rather see their child be butchered than have to change it's diaper or feed it. Society today does not respect life and therefore accepts the murdering of unborn children. A major factor that is missing is society ...
- 1049: The Women Of Poe
- ... by his mother? Another tale, "Morella," expresses similar archetypal ideas regarding reincarnation. In that tale, the daughter of the beautiful, mysterious, and Ligeia-like Morella is born at the instant of Morella's death. The child is reared by the narrator, but oddly, he gives her no name until several years have elapsed. He decides to have the child christened. He whispers, perversely, in the holy man's ears that the child is to be called Morella, when the child collapses onto the family vault, proclaiming, "I am Here!" After the second Morella dies, the narrator finds the family grave empty when he lays the daughter ...
- 1050: Feminism And Gender Equality In The 1990’s
- ... country where they know "what life is all about." (See Endnote #1) I have often consulted my grandparents about their experiences, and I find their historical perspective enlightening. My grandmother was pregnant with her third child in 1949. Her work experience included: interior design and modeling women’s clothes for the Sears catalog. I asked her to read the Friedan essay and let me know if she felt as moved as ... a mother. Justice Blackmun delivered the following opinion: Maternity, or additional offspring, may force upon the woman a distressful life and future. Psychological harm may be imminent. Mental and physical health may be taxed by child care. There is also a distress, for all concerned, associated with the unwanted child, and there is the problem of bringing a child into a family already unable, psychologically and otherwise, to care for it. In other cases, as in this one, the additional difficulties and continuing stigma ...
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