Mother College Essays Samples For Students

Generally, it is assumed that mothers are very loving and they bond with their small children since the time of birth. At times, it can be assumed that this bond is natural since it starts right from pregnancy when the mother starts touching the child while still in the womb. After all, the child grows inside the mother and this is an automatic way to bonding (Palmer 1). However, I have come to realize that there is a kind of bonding that exists between a mother and her daughter (Johnson 64). This phenomenon is quite interesting and there is the need ...

Kangaroo Mother Care: The Benefits of Skin-to-Skin Contact with Newborns

Kangaroo Mother Care, or Skin-to-Skin contact with a newborn immediately after birth, has proven to be a highly beneficial practice, with hardly any negative impact. Kangaroo Mother Care, or KMC for short, provides a newborn the warmth, stimulation, safety, protection from infection, and love that they need. KMC has benefits for not only the newborn, but also significant benefits for the mother, including a boost in her self esteem. Through various studies, pediatricians and obstetricians have found little negative impact through the use of the Kangaroo Mother Care method. The only time it should not be used is in emergency situations, where a newborn ...

“Two kinds” is a short story authored by Amy Tan. Tan creates the romantic concept of cultural origins and touches on lost ethnic essence to reconfigure and radically undercut notion of ethnic essence. The story is about a mother and daughter who abandon their culture to embrace the American Dream in the hope that anyone in America can succeed. At the root of the story is protagonist’s interpersonal dissonance brought about by the phenomenon of mass immigration. Tan manages to bring out clearly deception of complexities in mother-daughter relationships but focusing on disruptive distance between mothers originating from ...

This paper will talk about pregnancy. It will give the physical and the psychological changes that the pregnant mother will experience throughout the period of pregnancy. Pregnancy is a journey will ensure the safe delivery of the baby while maintaining the mother in a healthy condition. The paper will also talk about the tests that the pregnant mother will undergo during the period of pregnancy because in this period the mother faces many risks of getting a disease basing on the previous pregnancies or developing conditions. The diet that the pregnant mother uses in the period is also of vital importance and ...

Toni Morrison’s Sula and Jamaica Kincaid’s “Girl” are two texts that explore the African-American woman’s quest for sexual and social autonomy, in that both texts contend that the African-American woman’s construction of a sexual identity is primarily shaped by the women who raise her, as well as societal expectations and traditions. The process by which an African-American mother or mother figure teaches a young African-American female about sexuality is often laden with religious indoctrination, accusations of licentiousness, personal anecdotes about male duplicitousness, and fearful warnings about chastity. Both texts illustrate how the enforced standards and multiple instructions ...

Annie John is the protagonist of the novel “Annie John”, a bildungsroman, written by Jamaica Kincaid in 1985. Annie’s sexual development, which is the part of growing up, changes her as a person and her stepping into adulthood is monitored. Her life in a small city becomes boring and unfulfilling as she grows up. At the beginning of the novel, Annie John is ten years old and she has a strong relationship with her mother. However, the situation changes when she enters puberty and gets her period and other female characteristics. As she reaches the age of fourteen, ...

Earth population exceeds 7 billion people, 7 billion of the completely different personalities, with a different skin pigments and the eye shapes, various beliefs and religions, interests and hobbies. But no matter who the person is, what he is and where he lives, he has one common feature with all Earth's inhabitants – a love to his Mother.
I want to tell you about my Mother, about the funny and important moments and their significance in my life.
I had been a long-awaited child and my appearance brought the happiness to the family. I was the only child, so all love ...

A Child Called It is a book written by Dave Pelzer. Dave writes this book as an abused child who went through a horrific experience. In the first part, he writes how he was horribly beaten, and even forced to swallow his own vomit, ammonia, and even soap. Dave writes about the horrors children go through when abused. A Child Called It is an unforgettable account of an abused child who was brutally beaten, burned, starved, and tortured with an unstable alcoholic mother. A child Called It is an incredible emotional story where the author describes how he endured unthinkable suffering ...

Motherhood is a sacred act for each woman. It is the most powerful and spiritual component of a woman’s life. Published in 1987, “Beloved” by Toni Morrison depicts heart-wrenching lives of African slaves and explores the mother-child relationship and the experience of black women in an unjust and prejudiced society. “Beloved” was based on the real story of a slave woman called Margaret Garner who killed her own child. This masterpiece emphasizes the barbaric and cruel effects of slavery and oppression of black women in the circumstances of racial inequality and abusive behaviors. They were not allowed to ...

Essay on Borders

Introduction
Identity is a strong personal bond created in one’s character. There are several models expressing the nature of identity, and each model is expressed in the characters in this story. The mother would not give up her identity and declare herself American or Canadian. It seems the boy was either not understanding or in denial of what was happening as his focus throughout was on past experiences and food but yet was learning his identity through the interactions of his mother. The daughter in the story had a great desire to leave the reservation, but then reconsidered ...

Two Kinds is a story found in the book ‘The Joy Luck Club’, written by Amy Tan. The short story is about the conflict between a mother and her daughter who are clearly separated by things such as age, culture and perception. Jing-Mei Woo is the main character, and it is clear from the beginning that the high expectations her mother has over her affect her way of life. Through the unfolding events that the author gives, we get to understand the course that events took. In essence, whereas Woo saw Jing-Mei as a prodigy in piano playing, Jing-Mei detested this internally ...

THESIS: The tone of Jamaica Kincaid's "Girl" is one of the most important and telling aspects of this poem - both Mama's and the daughter's tone of voice (the daughter's voice implied) indicate a dramatic sense of hypocrisy and resentment on the part of the mother.
I. Introduction-

Synopsis of Poem

Thesis
II. Main Supporting Point: Mother is overbearing (bossy & strict). She tells her daughter how to set a table for different meals, how to cook things and how to pick out bread.
(Examples to support)

A. Example: "This is how to make a bread pudding / This is how to make doukona."

B. Example: "like a lady and not like the slut you are so bent on becoming."

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Soledad is often painted as a novel that was written in the vein of the great magical realist writers: Angie Cruz is thrown in with Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Lara Esquivel. While these are prestigious names to be connected with, this description of Soledad as a work of pure magical realism weakens the underlying themes of the book rather than strengthening them: Soledad is the picture of a life-- of a way of life-- in New York City. The titular character, Soledad, wrestles with her feelings of love for her home and the people who fill it and the conflicting desire to escape ...

Introduction

This literary comparative essay gives an insight of differences and similarities that are revealed in “The Rocking Horse Winner” and the “Hamlet”. “The Rocking Horse winner” is a story that is based on the social status and desire for money as the main themes. The story is authored by D.H. Lawrence who focuses on the story of the young boy, Paul, who thinks that by winning his mother love, he has to search wealth though gambling His mother thinks that they would be rich if Paul would be lucky. Paul asks his mother why they are happy and the mother ...

“Girl” is a critically acclaimed short story by the Caribbean-American writer Jamaica Kincaid. It was first published in 1978 in The New Yorker magazine. The story revolves around the stream of consciousness interaction between two women, a mother and a daughter. The mother is giving wisdom to the daughter in the form of short, declarative sentences and commands. The conversation ranges from advice about domestic chores to advice about sexual chores, indicating that both housekeeping and sexuality are a part of a woman's domestic labor. The mother dominates the conversation, as the daughter only seems to speak twice, although ...

I am a specialist in early childhood development, and I visited a colleague in her offices. She is a pediatric consultant, and we were seated in the waiting room. The waiting room had three people, and one of them was a young mother with her two-year-old girl and supposedly her nanny. The waiting room is colorful and has friendly objects that children can use to play. A television set is also available and with the kids’ songs playing. The child has been brought for a general check-up, and her weight is somehow below average.
I sat there for more ...

Nothing strikes the human chord of emotional impact as poetic expressions based on historical events. Straightaway, the reader realizes the innocence of a child is coupled with a parental attempt to veil the horror of murderous and hateful events occurring in their community. The writer of the poem, Ballad of Birmingham, by Dudley Randall uses a theme of irony as a core device in the piece. The most provocative words integrate into gaining the significance of the content. To summarize, the poem is a conversation between a mother – presumably and obviously black Americans – and her child, whereby the child wants to go to the protest ...

Introduction

Amy Madden’s harrowing memoir Stolen Beauty: Healing the Scars of Child Abuse takes the reader through her terrible history of child abuse at the hands of her stepfather, Ed, and the effects it had on her future relationships. In the meantime, she also reveals her own ways of coping with said abuse, from finding her faith in God to learning how to forgive her abusers and understanding their own fears and anxieties. The book is a haunting tale of control, power, abuse and family, as Amy goes through many different stages of trauma that continue even into adulthood. Examining ...

Introduction and Background

Tom Scott is a thirty-three year old man living in Fargo, North Dakota. His case is a point of interest because he is struggling with alcohol addiction and cigarette smoking, he used to take drugs, and has developed a negative attitude towards life and habits that places his wellbeing in jeopardy. Tom’s upbringing was unlike that of most children, particularly those that grew up in stable home environments. From Tom’s family history, it has been learned that he was brought up by a single mother, who was a drunkard and was often physically and emotionally abusive towards him. As a result of his ...

Role Model Review: The Values and Worldview of Mother Teresa

Introduction

This essay seeks to expound on the values and worldview of Mother Teresa, with regard to family, the nature of God, career as well as social issues. The essay compares and contrasts the authors personal views and experiences with those of Mother Teresa, the role model. It also attempts to explain why the role model should be emulated by all.

Throughout her lifetime, Mother Teresa,was always remembered and commended for her selfless service to humanity. Through her “Mission of Charity,’ Mother Teresa was able to connect and help many people in the world, as well as, serve as a true icon for others to emulate. Under her selfless leadership, the mission virtually made such an impact; that all countries in the world have played host to some of her charity work.

Mother Teresa was particularly touched by the plight of the poor, the sickly and the hopeless.Through her mission, she personally ministered to many individuals; visited those who were in need, as well as, helped to create homes for the poor and orphaned. Even in her death, her charity continues to spread the message of peace, love and unity (which she believed to be the key pillars for a prosperous and harmonious world).

Family issues

Mother Teresa’s world view revolved around service to mankind.She believed that man was made in the image of God. Therefore, she genuinely felt that by providing service to mankind, she wasproviding service to God. On that notation and genuine belief, she spent her entire life traversing the world preaching the message of love.MotherTeresa, believed that love for the world begins with love for the family.

In Mother Teresa’s speech (when she received the Nobel Peace Prize), she told the audience that the only way to maintain world peace was for each of the attendants to go home and love their family. Although Mother Teresa, by virtue of her religion never got married; her actions and activities reveal her deep seated values of the family institution. Her charity work all over the world has been very instrumental in maintaining the oneness of the family institution.

I strongly believe that charity begins at home. The love for others should begin with the love for ones’ family, since they are closest. This, therefore means that if each person loved their families, and showed love to all people in the world, then it's obvious that the world would be peaceful, just as envisioned by Mother Teresa.

Although Teresa valued and treasured the family institution, she herself never got married, most likely because of her Christian faith. This is in contrast with my personal world view. I believe that people should get married and have babies. In accordance with the Bible, in the book of Genesis, the Lord God commanded the first human creation, to go and multiply. In accordance with this commandment, it's my believe that people should get married and get children, which contrasts significantly with Mothers View.

Money/ Career

Mother Teresa was a career nun, and spent her entire life ministering to the people.She believed that everything that someone had or was blessed with, was vanity. This is because it did not utilized for the service of humanity. Mother Teresa could not understand why people would have more than they needed, when others were dying of lack.

The Catholic faith that Mother Teresa professed did not allow nuns to even earn a salary(and because of thisshe was never a rich person). She dedicated herself entirely to her lifetime commitment and genuine efforts to selflessly serve mankind (with no ulterior motive or propositions).

I agree with her, on the point that people should not possess more that they actually require, at the expense of the many poor people. Global statistics indicate that there is unreasonable inequity between the haves and the have-nots in the society that we live in.

However, most countries and economies are capitalist in nature, and this allows for people to own as much as they can be able to afford. Understandably, therefore, I do not find anything wrong with owning property, or even being wealthy, even in the face of poverty. This is because, socialism has been criticized for fostering laziness amongst the citizenry, since they hope to benefit from the free goodies that are availed in the view of Mother Teresa. This, is in sharp contrast to her views that we should share the little that we have.

Today, the Missions for Charity foundation is still present all over the world. It relies on entirely on donations from well-wishers for funding of their global and humanitarian efforts. It can therefore be said that,Mother Teresa was a successful in furthering her activities, and her convictions that all mankind is the same, and created in Gods same image. Therefore, man should use all what God has given freely, to freely serve the less fortunate, the poor, the sickly, and the orphaned.

Social Issues

As a catholic nun, Mother Teresa lived a life of piety and purity as was a requirement of her faith. She believed in a life of purity, as the Catholic faith demanded that nuns remained chaste all through their service.However, throughout her entire life, mother was always involved in helping in one way or another in the society.Through her Mission for Charity, Mother Teresa interacted with many people, and made many friends. Up to her death and sainthood, Mother Teresa is remembered for her contribution to the society.

In my unbiased opinion, I totally agree with Mother Teresa, on the fact that true Christians should emulate the life of Jesus Christ and attempt to live a life of purity and piety as is required in the Holy Bible. The Bible in the new testament exemplifies the life of Jesus Christ when he was in this world. He fed the hungry, healed the sick, gave hope to the hopeless among many other good deeds.

In a real world situation, however, it's quite difficult to manage to live the life of Jesus of Jesus Christ, in the present world, where there have been many changes in the social set up in the world that we live in. We have the social media and the internet that has significantly changed the way people live. These have therefore made it very difficult for people to live the lives of piety and religion that was lived by Mother Teresa.

This is in great contrast to the modern Catholic Church, which has been marred with a multiplicity of allegations. The church contrasts significantly with the worldview of Mother Teresa, in that most of the activities that are being witnessed in the church today leave a lot to be desired.

Recent media reports indicate that the papacy has been unable to deal with the rampant cases of child sexual abuse among the Catholic faithful. International media are also reporting that the actions taken by the catholic church globally, has not been deterred to the perpetrators of such vices, and the cases are on the increase.

The church seems to have lost the morals that are exemplified in the holy bible. People no longer love one another in the church. In fact, the average catholic is more concerned about amassing wealth, more than serving humankind, as is commanded in the holy Bible. This is in complete contrast to the work, actions of Mother Teresa(who would highly contempt such activities).

Nature of Gods

All throughout the bible, God is portrayed as a loving person, who cares for his people, and provides for them. God is the only hope that human-beings have, as his love is steadfast and endures forever. He revealed his love for his creation by sacrificing his only son, Jesus Christ to die for the sake our sins. In the New Testament, the bible talks about the love that God has for humanity. It furthermore describes in great details, the numerous acts God displayed his power through his son, Jesus Christ. All the acts portrayed are symbolic of the love that God has shown to human kind.

Most significantly, the bible talks about Love as being the greatest commandment of God. It explains that if we love one another, as we love our God, then the world will be free of all evils.

During her days on earth,Mother Teresa displayed an unconditional amount of love to mankind. This is because she believed that if she had to love God, then she had to Love mankind; and such love could only be shown through acts of kindness and mercy towards the less fortunate. Her Mission for Charity organization is a clear depiction of how she lived and the great love that she had for Gods people(Corsgrove,2006).

On a personal perspective, I agree with the teaching of the Bible as well as the world view of Mother Teresa with regard to the nature of God.I believe, just as the Bible says, that we are all made in the image of God, and therefore we should attempt to portray the image of God in our day to day activities.
On the contrary, there is little love for others in the world today. The activities that we witness in everyday life show a lifestyle that is devoid of the love that God commanded that we should show to one another.

If people followed the footsteps and teachings of Mother Teresa, then the world would be a great place to live in. No one would rise against one another, as well as, love and live harmoniously together. Then and only then the world would experience great peace. That is why I believe that everyone (including myself) would gladly emulate Mother Teresa.

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Childress, K. (2012).Christianity after Religion: The End of Church and the Birth of a New Spiritual Awakening.HarperOne, 304 PP.

Corsgrove, M.P. (2006) Foundations of Christian Thought: Faith, Learning, and the Christian Worldview.Kregel Publications.

Council for Secular Humanism (2013) The Affirmations of Humanism: A Statement of Principles. Retrieved February 15, 2013 from: http://www.secularhumanism.org/.php? section=main&page=affirmations

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The Robber Bridegroom is a fairy tale written by Eudora Welty in 1942. Eudora’s story is based on the original The Robber Bridegroom by Grimm Brothers. The story is about the life of Rosamond, a beautiful woman who was raised by an evil step mother after the death of her mother. The novel opens with Mike Fink meeting the robber Jamie Lockhart, who later on kidnapped Rosamond. As it progresses, it follows another character, Clement Musgrove to his home where he stays with his second wife Salome and Daughter Rosamond. After Rosamond was kidnapped by the robber Jamie Lockhart, they ...

In “Uncle Rock,” Dagoberto Gilb produces a piece of prose fiction, which is succinct and concise. The narrative is written from a third person perspective and concentrate on Erick, the protagonist. He is eleven and being brought up by a single mother in Los Angeles. The mother is a beautiful immigrant from Mexico, though Erick has no sense of his original homeland, Mexico. Erick is confronted by dilemmas as the mother tries to create a new identity by finding a rich man as a husband. For the most of the story, the protagonist is mum and never engages in ...

English

“Girl” is a short story written by Jamaica Kincaid and lists things a daughter should do and when to do them. In this story “girl”, a mother tries to give advice and instructions to her daughter who is growing up. The poem between the mother and the daughter ends with exchange whereby the daughter directs questions to the mother after all the comments. Girl’s theme is a mother-daughter dispute as the mother goes all the way teaching her daughter on how to be a good woman in the future times (Edwards et al, 45). The daughter seems not to appreciate the mother’s ...

Abstract

Shakespeare’s plays ‘Romeo and Juliet’ and ‘Hamlet’, both tragedies have at their crux a strained relationship between the parents and their children. It is this strained relationship that causes a rift between them and ultimately leads to many of the decisions that the children make. Hamlet has a love-hate relationship with his mother that colors his views on other women and Juliet has a very formal relationship with her parents. Marrying Romeo is more of a teenage rebellion against her oppressive parents. In the two plays it is the rather dysfunctional and strained parent-child relationship that forms the ...

The whole world has witnessed many wars in the last century. Among them two dreadful World Wars, some civil wars as well as many other wars are there. In the era of globalization, still some nations on our planet are fighting against terrorism. The beginning of twenty first century America was shaken by the terrorist attack on World Trade Centre. The progress and the development suddenly stopped. The bombardment on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was one of the most brutal act in the history of mankind. Japan was devastated. One more example is the Taliban’s terrorist activities in Afghanistan, ...

English

“Girl” is a short story written by Jamaica Kincaid and lists things a daughter should do and when to do them. In this story “girl”, a mother tries to give advice and instructions to her daughter who is growing up. The poem between the mother and the daughter ends with the exchange whereby the daughter directs questions to the mother after all the comments. Girl’s theme is a mother-daughter dispute as the mother goes all the way teaching her daughter on how to be a good woman in the future times. The daughter seems not to appreciate the mother’s advice and after ...

Prose Commentary

Prose Commentary
Selected Scene: “Disney Brave” is a story about a princess named as Merida, she was a brave girl who has expertise and skills in archery. The Scottish kingdom of DunBroch was the princess kingdom, and she was living with her mother, father and 3 triplet brothers. The scene I have selected is after ten years have gone her mother Elinor wanted her 16 years old daughter Merida to become a ladylike princess and act as royal children does as she has born as part of the royal family. Also, she should carry all the kingdom qualities in her to govern ...

The story by Amy Tan and that by Jasmin Darznikboth talk about languages. For this reason, they come in handy in helping deduce the importance of language to an individual. Language is one very vital tool for the purposes of communication. According to Amy Tan, language is a way in which one can understand another person. Conversely, every living being has a language that he or she understands clearly. From the point of birth, human beings begin learning a particular language. The language learnt at the time of birth is the language that the person’s guardians speak. This is the mother ...

Write an analysis of any one major character in Beloved

Introduction
The novel Beloved is the work of Toni Morrison an African-American female writer. It is an interesting story that revolves around the period after the American Civil War which took place between 1861 and 1865. This narrative is based on a true story of a black slave called Margaret Garner who, during the slavery period, had escaped from Kentucky to Ohio which was then a free state. Margaret killed her two-year old daughter than have her face the horrors of slavery after state officials invoked the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 and attempted to take her back to her master. ...

Published in 1889, Laura Esquivel’s Like Water for Chocolate is set in revolutionary Mexico of the early twentieth century. At that time, society and the family institution exercised an authoritative and oppressive control on women’s activities and expression; in fact, such control had existed since colonial times, Up until recent times, women had been playing a subservient role from which even in the twenty-first century they are still struggling to break themselves free. Not only were women denied participation in society and politics as individuals with their own voice and identity, but they were mostly confined to ...

Needless to say, the 21st century provides a challenging situation for working mothers. Women who choose to develop and pursue careers while establishing families with children often find themselves in over their heads. These women are forced to keep up with their professional lives in addition to keeping up with maternal duties that have been set well in advance of the current era. Therefore, the rules that the women of the modern era follow are ones set up by those women who were strictly focused on being a homemaker and mother. Fulfilling the role of one’s career in ...

Tradition and culture is an important theme in immigrant literature, especially between generations. There is a certain anxiety that develops in the relationship between parents and children of immigrant cultures; the younger generation is eager to shuck the exotic, alienating traditions of their parent’s host nation in order to fit in, while the older generation fears the ending of the traditions that helped define who they are and their culture. Meanwhile, these children of immigrants maintain a certain longing for their culture’s traditions, creating a metaphysical tug-of-war that occurs within these divided family dynamics. These tensions and anxieties are reflected ...

Life is a journey that is marked with challenges, and obstacles, but one should strive overcoming them at whatever cost. We are born and raised in different environments; an aspect that defines and shapes our personality, behavior and identity in life. Based on the challenges one goes through in life, we tend to develop, and subscribe to certain philosophies, which define, and shape our thinking, and I am not an exemption. My past life was marked with numerous challenges because I was born, and raised by a single parent (mother) in my home country; Kenya. Life was hard because my mother ...

Abstract

The Farm Security Administration (FSA) was established to address chronic rural poverty during the Great Depression in the US. A string of known and unknown artists was hired by the organization to capture the images of poverty and lives of rural farmers, with the hope of garnering support for them. The essay describes FSA briefly and then goes on to select a social documentary photograph from an FSA photographer. It evaluates the photograph and how successful it is in expressing the hardships faced by countless rural farmers and migrants during the 1930s. The essay discusses the selected photographer Dorothea ...

Introduction

The controversies surrounding Mother Teresa of Calcutta became evident through her letters which revealed a huge discrepancy between her inner state and the public demeanor (Van Biema 38). In the public, Teresa had displayed the image of a woman in perfect union with God. However, the letters reveal the doubts that engulfed daughter of Calcutta for nearly six decades. It follows that most of the life of Mother Teresa was filled with doubt about the existence of God. The absence of God in the life of Mother Teresa sharply contradicted her vision and passion regarding the art of giving. ...

I was fourteen when I first heard of the “F” word. I was walking down the street to a friend’s house when a man standing by the corner suddenly said it to my face. This happened in the UK where I was taking up an English course. I did not know what the word meant, but by his facial expression I knew that it was nothing good. At this time, I was just starting to learn English, and the word did not appear in the textbooks. ...

The breastfeeding of a baby by the mother is an important act of nurture that deserves to be encouraged for the interests of both the child and maternal health. Mothers are supposed to breastfeed their babies sparingly to assure them of normal health and proper growth and development. Many organizations such as the WHO, the CDC as well as the American Academy of Pediatrics encourage extended baby breastfeeding as a way of ensuring the health of both the child and the mother and as a way of mitigating public health problems (Ketan & Ketan 2005).
Doctors and medical experts usually state that ...

Introduction

Language is an important aspect of human beings that helps in shaping the identity of an individual or a certain group of people. People from a particular region or community are able to identify persons from another different community based on the uniqueness of their language dialect or accent. When a person speaks their mother tongue, other people can easily know the specific nationality or cultural background. They are therefore able to identify them as different. This way, language shapes a person’s or community’s identity, especially where people are interacting in a mainstream culture and/or a standard language. It is important to discuss ...

Neil Gaiman's children's novel Coraline is a tale of mother and child, of belonging, and of the difference between fantasy and reality. Moving into an apartment made from a divided home, Coraline finds a way to escape her boring, disinterested parents into the "Other World," a place of what appears on the surface to be Coraline's ideal world. Her Other Parents are exciting and pay attention to her, she has much more exciting toys and games, and even the elderly neighbors are exciting to be around. However, as Coraline learns, there is a heavy price to pay for being in this world. Coraline is a ...

Write an analysis of any one major character in Beloved

Introduction
The novel Beloved is the work of Toni Morrison an African-American female writer. This is an interesting story that revolves around the period after the American Civil War which took place between 1861 and 1865. The protagonist of the story is Sethe. Sethe’s character is built on a true story of a black slave called Margaret Garner who, during the slavery period, had escaped from Kentucky to Ohio which was then a free state. Margaret ended up killing her little daughter after state officials invoked the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, a law that allowed slave-owners to go after slaves ...

Mirror stage is an important term in Jacques Lacan’s psychoanalytic theory. In his early works, in particular, in the report of the Fourteenth International Psychoanalytical Congress in Marienbad, Lacan considered the mirror stage as a phase in development of a child aged 6 to 18 months. Beginning from the 1950s, Lacan described the mirror stage not as a certain moment in the life of a child, but as a subjectivity structure or paradigm of Imaginary. There were several scientists who greatly contributed to the study of the mirror stage. Among them there is Jacques Lacan, who made this concept known to the public. ...

The first time I visited my girlfriend’s mother, I found a hole on my socks when I took off shoes
The big day had come, finally my girl friend’s perfect strict mother took some interest in knowing more about me. I was invited to my rich girl friend’s bungalow. In fact palace would be the right word.
I was busy rehearsing in my mind on my greeting lines which would impress Clara’s mother straight away. After all it was almost like impressing a queen. I wanted everything to be just perfect. I was telling myself ...

A mother is someone who, after giving birth to her child, is capable of loving her baby until she breathes her last breath. She loves whole-heartedly and passionately. She cares for her family and most often, considers her family’s needs before hers. However, just like any other human being, mothers are unique in how they show their love for their family. The five common types of mothers are perfectionist mother, unpredictable mother, the best friend mother, the me-first mother, and the complete mother.
A perfectionist mother ensures that her family looks faultless and ideal in every way. ...

English

There exist conflicts between the older and the younger generation, in relation to moral, cultural and behavioural presentation. The story talks about the mother-daughter relationship, in the line of perceptions and objectives of life. First, the mother is a perfectionist and cautionary towards daughter’s life. What is more, the conservative nature of the mother raises conflicts the modern generation. On the other side, the daughter adopts contemporary way of life and resigns to the mother’s wrath on ideal living. The chronological structure of the story addresses stages of human development among women. The study aims at extrapolating on ...

Summary of the child birth class

The birth class was scheduled on October 05, 2014 from 9:00 AM until 5:00 PM at Sebily Memorial Hospital. It was made up of twelve women with each woman having a partner accompanying them to the session. The instructor always insisted on the pregnant mothers coming with a trusted friend or husband to the class sessions. The instructor was called Mrs. Danielle Kontz. She had been with the class from the beginning where she had twelve women and two nursing students. The class was very intense; it was eight hours long in which she talked about a topic for half an hour ...

Children need their parents at home as much as possible for the most beneficial child nurturing and emotional stability. Is it better for a parent to stay home or leave the child with a caregiver? This decision shows how important a parent’s choice is. It defines a child’s future. There must be better ways or programs that a country can offer to avoid these challenging conditions that poor parents face. Ultimately, the mother usually has the hardest decision deciding whether to leave her child with a caregiver and work in a different country or stay at home and suffer through the financial challenges. If a ...

Describe the child’s gender and age. Note the physical characteristics such as color of skin, hair eyes etc. Is an adolescent typically developing or has special needs? Include any special needs like physical or learning disabilities:
The child is 13 years old. She has blonde hair, blue eyes, and is approximately 5’2’’. She is slightly overweight for her height, but her weight fluctuates regularly. She is Caucasian. She has certain special needs, though mainly due to mental distress due to family issues. She has been through a great deal of stress in the past two years due ...

Summary of “Mother Tongue”

In the essay “Mother Tongue” the American writer Amy Tan gives her personal account of the different types of English that she has dealt with throughout her life. She is the daughter of Chinese immigrants and was brought up in California: in her text she recognizes that because of this combination, and especially due to her job, language has always been a constant subject of analysis. It was the fascination about it that drove her to spend significant time in thinking of how any style of communication can affect the way we create images and express ourselves with complex thoughts. ...

The case concerns an African American woman, 26 years old who is working but has no kids. She was the only child in the family who was brought up by her mother since her father died while she was 3 years old. The woman had a problem of expressing herself to her mother, so she could tell her grandmother the love feelings she had towards her mother. The three lived together.

Theory for treatment plan

Understanding an individual’s behavior is a complicated task, which requires a learning experience. Human behavior is unpredictable and complex and trying to understand it requires a high degree of accuracy. Different ...

The case concerns an African American woman, 26 years old who is working but has no kids. She was the only child in the family who was brought up by her mother since her father died while she was 3 years old. The woman had a problem of expressing herself to her mother, so she could tell her grandmother the love feelings she had towards her mother. The three lived together.

Theory for treatment plan

Understanding an individual’s behavior is a complicated task, which requires a learning experience. Human behavior is unpredictable and complex and trying to understand it requires a high degree of accuracy. Different ...

Jamaica Kincaid’s “Girl” is a poetic construct of no beginning and no end, an intrusion into a list long recommendation of a mother to her daughter on how she should attend to her work in the domestic sphere and how it will put her back on the right path in life, instead of the one she is supposedly, on now. The mother fervently believes that by telling her daughter exactly how to do her womanly duties, the daughter will be saved from a life of debauchery and promiscuity and she will become an empowered (female) head of household and eventually, a prolific member ...

SOCIAL INTERVENTION.

Introduction.
Social work is a discipline or a profession that is practiced by qualified sociologists. It involves seeking to facilitate the wellbeing of individuals, communities or even societies (Siporin, 1975). Social work enhances social change, cohesion, empowerment, and development. Social work is interconnected with social justice, Human rights, and respect for diversities. It involves the provision of social welfare in order to alleviate the economic and social problems that people face. Such difficulties include health care, education, and food security (Sach, 2003). A sociologist connects people and structures so as to tackle the challenges of life and promote the ...

Jamaica Kincaid, an Antiguan-American novelist, wrote the short story under consideration. It presents one paragraph, which is really a flow of advice the mother gives to her daughter. The pieces of advice are separated with either semicolons or commas, while stops are completely absent. The end of the text is left open as it finishes with a question mark. Interestingly, the long list of the mother’s advice is interrupted twice with her daughter’s remarks highlighted by italics. Overall, the text produces quite an unusual effect due to the extraordinary punctuation. Therefore, the list of advice, the main ...

This is a story based on advice a mother gives her daughter. The mothers’ advice explains how to do normal household chores. This will assist the daughter to live on her own. She tells her daughter how to cook, sew, plant, act, speak, and tend to a home. In the story, the author discusses things that her daughter will need to know how to do. She explains to her daughter how to act in church, and how to live properly as a lady. The mother tells her daughter how to fix food so that she will not go hungry. ...

Discussion Questions

How does the author's mother come up with enough money to send to her parents?
Diaz's mother was jobless. However, she was able to gather and save few dollars from whatever came on her way. Regardless of how little the family earned, she could save, scrimp, and stash to make sure she had enough dollars to send to her parents. According to Diaz, she deducted some dollars from the cash that her husband gave her for family's daily expenses. Consequently, the family could hardly get soda, juice, snacks, or even labeled clothes. The family had to live broke and ...

In Mother Tongue, Amy Tan explains three simultaneous aspects and types of Englishes, which she believes are commonly spoken or used in different cultures. She explains these Englishes to include the “simple English,” which she claims that she spoke to her mother; the “broken English,” which her mother used with her; the “Watered down English,” which represents her translation of her mother’s Chinese. The author also includes in her essay the English she imagines to be her mother’s translation of Chinese if her mother could speak perfect English. This essay has something magical about it because of ...

Child abuse is a serious issue around the world today. The problem continues to increase do to substance abuse, uneducated parents, a continuing cycle of abuse, and varying other factors. There are many different types of abuse, all ranging from neglect to physical abuse. Each type of abuse can have many different outcomes. The child can be emotionally or psychologically troubled later in life. The child may even die as a result of abuse if nothing is done to help the situation. Many of these issues and more are addressed in Dave Pelzer’s “A Child Called ‘It’”.
Many people do ...

Toni Morrison’s ‘Beloved’ is a violent, gritty yet deeply moving novel set during the slavery era and the terrible grief of the slaves. The novel touches upon a lot of subjects such as slavery, love, motherhood, racism, violence, guilt, loss and more. Sethe is the protagonist of the novel, her life shaped by her being a black woman and a slave. Sethe, her husband and few others work as slaves in the Sweet Home plantation. Although they are slaves, life is tolerable for them. Things however change when Mr. Garner, the owner dies and the schoolmaster, his brother takes over the plantation. ...

There was once a race of great and peaceful people. They were not very tall, all even the biggest of the adults no more than 5 feet tall the men and no more than 4 ½ feet tall the women. They made beautiful works of art and decorations of gold which they mined from the nearby mountains and silk spun tapestries that were glorious to behold. They lived together across a wide green land, happy to greet the day with the suns birth but sad to bid the day farewell with the suns disappearance over the silvery blue mountains. On one side ...

Jeanette Walls is a writer who is also a journalist. Jeanette was born in Phoenix Arizona. She attended an affiliate college of Colombia University called Barnard College where she graduated with honors. The Glass Castle written in 2005 is one currently her bestselling novel. Jeanette Walls grew up in a stubborn family that refused to conform to the demands of the immediate society. Her parents non-conformity according to most people, was their not only a source of blessing but also a curse. Besides Jeanette, the family also had three other children. In their younger ages, the family lived like nomads moving across the southwest ...