Essays on Family Life

Introduction to Entrepreneurship

Introduction to Entrepreneurship

Introduction

The term ‘entrepreneurship’ became very popular in the 21st century when people recognized the importance of introducing major changes in the world. Today, many people abandon their career as an employee and start entrepreneurial ventures with intent to earn unlimited income and to meet their self-actualization needs. Considering the scope of entrepreneurship in supporting a country’s economic growth, governments worldwide are willing to finance potential entrepreneurial start-ups today. This paper will critically explore the scope of entrepreneurship, giving particular emphasis to the operations of small business houses.

Obviously, time and money are two important factors ...

Introduction

Sexual behavior has a direct impact on the family life experience as sexual activity is an essential part of a healthy relationship. But, sexual activity can also cause disruption and confrontation in family life when one or both partners are indulging in sexual activity outside their relationship. Many couples and families are broken due to the sexual behaviors of partners. The worst case is when partners hide their sexual activity from each other or have secret relationships. Such scenarios have a negative influence on the family life and changes the family dynamic in many cases, as people cannot ignore ...

Critical Review of Program Evaluation Study: Family Life-Skills Program

A Critical Review of Program Evaluation Study: Family Life-Skill Program Introduction There is sufficient evidence suggesting that the Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) program in New Hampshire, USA is giving increased attention to women empowerment by introducing the Leadership for Employment, Achievement, and Purpose (LEAP) curriculum that involves a welfare-to-work process. The program evaluation authored by Wichroski et al. (2000) seeks to determine the impact of the program in relation to the program objectives and expected outcomes. On the other hand, this discussion will determine the adequacy of the evaluation by looking into the methodology and the areas ...

Introduction

The World Health Organization (WHO) says that there are about 400 million people around the world who are currently suffering from a mental illness. If all types of mental illnesses are considered, then it is safe to say that about one in four people will suffer from a mental disorder at one point in their lives. Out of the many mental illnesses, there are some that inflict a severe toll on their sufferers, on their lives and on their families as well. The effects of mental illness can be devastating on a person. However, those with even the most ...

Film Studies Portfolio

Xavier Dolan’s “Laurence Anyways” Film Review

An extremely ambitious project from a very young director, Xavier Dolan, the romantic drama “Laurence Anyways” follows the love story between Fred (Suzanne Clement) and Laurence (Melvin Poupad). Ironically, although they both have masculine names, Fred and Laurence are women. A transgender who had lived as a man, Laurence comes out with the revelation that he has always felt as a woman inside, and continuing his fake male life would kill him. The filmmaker situates this unique love story in the 1990s, a time when transsexuality was still considered an illness, and ...

Frank Lloyd Wright’s Home and Studio remain the finest specimen of the architect’s innovative approach to the design of buildings in general and spaces for living in particular. The house is located in Oak Park, Illinois in a historic neighborhood which was later adorned by a number of other Wright’s houses representative of his unique style. While construction began in 1889 as soon as the architect married Catherine Tobin, the building was reconstructed and expanded for the next twenty years to arrive at the form one can see nowadays, restored by the Frank Lloyd Wright Trust. ...

The most important quality of a leader is the ability to inspire and motivate his or her subjects. Inspiration comes in many ways; the ability to keep the team focused on its goals, encouraging members to be creative and fearless while putting across their ideas and having a direct relationship with team members to understand some of the challenges they might be going through in their day to day activities. Particularly, the ability to motivate innovation comes handy in complex situations, like when the team is caught up between a rock and a hard place, and an extraordinary reaction ...

Question 1

(a.) The federal government determines a measure of poverty by comparing pre-tax income with a cost of minimum and standard food diet in the country which is updated annually basing on the Consumer Price Index (CPI). Professionals have defined absolute poverty with the emphasis on the monetary aspect of it. As such, according to the government Absolute poverty refers to a situation where a person's financial ability is insufficient to maintain the minimum standard of living (Bogenschneider, 2014). With the increase in scrutiny on social welfare issues, experts find several drawbacks on the government guidelines used to define absolute ...

Introduction

The effects of child abuse are risk factors for later lifespan development. There are public policies in force about this issue. There are extreme risk factors associated with child abuse that may not be prevented by public policy. Both internalized and externalized problems that can result from child abuse often lead to overall adjustment issues (Leeson, 2011). Victims of child abuse often suffer an inability to accept their abuse, as well as having difficulties with transitioning through other life experience (Leeson, 2011). Intervention can also be harmful to child development. Ill-treatment and neglect is a public issue because children ...

While cults have been part of American culture throughout the country’s history, most have emerged during periods of social turmoil. In the early 19th century, America experienced an incredible increase in number of both religious and secular cults although most of them quickly faded away. In The Kingdom of Matthias: A Story of Sex and Salvation in the 19th Century America, historians Sean Wilentz and Paul Johnson look at the emergence and activities of a notorious cult that operated in and around New York City. Led by Robert Matthias, the cult briefly flourished during the early 1830s by ...

There are a lot of themes which were popular in the past and still are actual. Gender roles are one of them. This topic has been always very important and very popular. Gender norms have changed with society and have a big influence. It also depends on the region of location, its culture, religion, traditions, historical beliefs, and habits. “Gender roles are the product of the interactions between individuals and their environments, and they give individuals cues about what sort of behavior is believed to be appropriate for what sex” (Blackstone). Very often says that the role of women ...

Introduction

In the lion share of cases the life perception, its values and strategy are determined for individual in one’s parent’s families. Thus, it is critically important to maximize the probability for each particular child for living with one’s parents, and address the existing pitfalls of the institute of family with corresponding policies. This paper would be dedicated to representation of the core aspects of the family policy -as an intentional course of action for minimization of the need of engagement the child protective services into the process of assistance of the children, who fall into the ...

In the world, about half of marriages of 25-40-year-olds end in the collapse, and in the majority of these families have children. Influence of divorce of parents on the psychological state of children of their future life cannot be overestimated. Family is the most important thing for a child. It satisfies the basic children's psychological love, communication, security needs. From the first days of birth the baby learns how to feel, to love, to trust. The child learns the example of parents to build further relationships, perceive the good, to experience crises (Pickhardt, 2011). Therefore, destruction of the family ...

Bronfenbrenner’s Theory of Ecological Systems analyzes the development of a child within the larger framework of relationships that define the surrounding environment in general. In this regard, Bronfenbrenner classifies the environment into a set of distinct, carefully defined and complex layers, with each having a particular effect on the development of the child. Emphasis is placed on the fact that the biology of the child is a key factor behind his or her growth and development. The factors at play in the process include the family, both nuclear and extended, which defines the community in which the child ...

Introduction

Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) is an excellent example of physiotherapy. Even though it has been applied in various contexts including family issues, the model was specifically designed to cure depression and other related illnesses (Spiegler, Guevremont & Spiegler, 2013). It has not been clear as to who came up with the model, however, the idea was conceived by stoic philosophers, as for that reason, the model is significantly attributed to stoicism. Notably, Epictetus and Aaron T. Becks are thought to be the original developers of the model. Currently, family therapy is the most popular and relevant form of cognitive behavior ...

Family Conflict: Family conflict can be described as any issue of contention between members of the same family. It could be between siblings, spouses or other extended family members (Malek, 2013, p. 1). Causes of Family Conflict: Conflict in the family does not come from nowhere. There are always indicators and cause factors and the top four causes of conflict in the family including Finance and Jobs, Sibling Rivalry, Child Discipline and In-laws and extended family interference will be examined (Banks, 2015, p. 1). Strategies for Managing Family Conflict: healthier ways of resolving conflicts in the family can be ...

Reference 1

Lambert, E. G., Minor, K. I., Gordon, J., Wells, J. B., and Hogan, N. L. (2016). Exploring the Correlates of Perceived Job Dangerousness Among Correctional Staff at a Maximum Security Prison. Criminal Justice Policy Review. 00 (0). DOI: 10.1177/0887403415623618. The signs of mental health disorders do not reveal themselves at work most of the time. Only in rare and isolated instances, will the potency of the problems manifest. In addition, the other correctional officers and staff might not have adequate knowledge to corroborate evidence. Hence, this peer-reviewed paper will provide the parameters for testing. The variables, components, variances, and ...

The process of parenting is complicated in all families as it requires the collaboration of all the family members in order to build a harmonic and strong structure. In military families, this building can be complicated by the various circumstances that could be caused by the military occupation position. Betsy Flanigan in her interview states that one of the most challenging things while living in a military family is the long term absence of the husband. The focus and the main responsibilities depend on the one that stays in the house, in this case – the mother. The statuses she ...

Executive Summary . 3-4

History .. 4-5

Strategic Elements 5-6

Critical Events .. 6-7

Leadership 7-8

Mission and Vision Statement . 8-9 External Assessment 9-13 Analysis of Competitive Position 13 Internal Assessment . 13-17 Current Strategy 18 SWOT Analysis 18-21 BCG Matrix . 21-23 IE Matrix .. 24-25

Possible Strategic Alternatives 25-26

Evaluation of Current Organizational Structure .. 25 Recommendation Changes .. 25-26

Situational Analysis . 26-29

New Turnaround Objective .. 29

Proposed Measures . 29-31

Funding this Turnaround Effort 32-33 Financial Projections 33-34 Conclusion 34

References 35-36

Sears Holdings Corporation Executive Summary Sears Holdings is a major brick-and-mortar retailer in both the United States and Canada. As such, it sells a wide variety of products, including appliances, consumer electronics, apparel, tools, sporting equipment and ...

Annotated Bibliography

Introduction The correctional system in the United States is a complex and overcrowded problem in recent times. The staff in these facilities is often undertrained and overworked. They lack the professional experience and due to heavy attrition rates, are unable to operate any reliable mentoring programs. This gap increases the stress which exceeds the paradigm of work and invades the private lives of the correctional staff. This paper unlocks the psychological problems that fester correctional staff in the United States. Annotated Bibliography 1. Lambert, E. G., Minor, K. I., Gordon, J., Wells, J. B., and Hogan, N. L. (2016). ...

It seems like nowadays the concept of feminism gained a negative connotation equating its followers as fanatics and usually mocking their intentions. This movement, which managed to bring freedom and rights to women, is considered today as obsolete and irrelevant, as society believed that females were fully liberated. However, it is far from being true. Female professionals are still paid less than their male counterparts, women are stilled viewed through the prism of patriarchal values, and the dissemination of power between men and women remains unequal to these days. In order to revive the memories of the achievements gained ...

The Class

The Lady “The Lady” is a historical movie based on a life story of a political icon and a Nobel Price winner Aung San Suu Kyi. It is directed by Luc Besson and won a number of awards since the day of its release in 2011. It is a historical drama that tells a story of a struggle, fight, and love of the woman called the lady or the iron orchid. 1. What key event happened in 1947, as depicted early in the film, and how do you feel this may have affected the young Aung San Suu Kyi’ ...

Human Relations

Before setting out to impress or strengthen one’s image in the workplace, it is essential to conduct a self-exploration. The evaluation will assist an individual to understand himself as well as his roles and purposes in life. Self-exploration is a series of three activities. They include self-concept, self-efficacy, and self-esteem. Self-concept ensures that the employee or person has strong personal perceptions. It helps in self-development and verification. Self-esteem, on the other hand, gives the individual meaning and a sense of belonging in the workplace. Lastly, self-efficacy acts as the bridge between self-concept and self-esteem that influences emotion and ...

The ideology of domesticity

The women played an important role in the ideology of domesticity. Domesticity is an act of living together in a family and a home. The home life started during the 1800s and it was a time when people considered that women should stay and work at home instead of going outside. The women were expected to perform different tasks at home for other family members. Later educating women through different manuals and conventions changed the concept of domesticity. The women started the feminist movement and were informed that both men and women have equal rights. The paper investigates that ...

Parents are the first to guide children in their individual, social, academic and professional development, as they are the first point of contact for their youngsters. Even when they grow up and enter a formal educational program, parents are still important actors in providing children with education and guidance in life. This is why, it is recommended designing a family life educational (FLE) program that addresses parent education and guidance. This FLE program would provide an understanding of how parents teach and influence their children and adolescence to make sound decisions throughout their life. The program is also intended ...

Sears, Roebuck and Company commonly known as Sears is an American company that was incorporated in 1886 by Richard Sears and Alvah Roebuck. It became a subsidiary of Seers Holding Corporation in 2005 after a merger with Kmart Corporation. Contemporarily, the company is domiciled at Hoffman Estates in Illinoi. The company majorly deals with clothing, electrical appliances, home products and services, automotive repair tools and products and other hardware. It has around 1700 operational stores across the US. It had approximately 300,000 employees in 2011. The company also operates in Mexico and Canada. In Canada, it carries its ...

Divorce cannot but influence children on the part of their psychological and thus physical state. It has harmful effects on young children, as well as on adolescents. These effects the person feels the whole life. However, there are short-time and long-time effects of parental divorce. This paper is a literature review, which observes some articles concerning the divorce effects on children.

Becoming Stronger at Broken Places

The article Becoming Stronger at Broken Places: A Model for Group Work with Young Adults from Divorced Families written by Sally M. Hage and Mia Nosanow particularly deals with long-term effects that divorce have on children. These effects ...

In the environment nowadays, globalization has a significant effect on the contemporary family life in various ways. It affects both directly and indirectly through the strategies brought forward by social and economic policies. Therefore, to understand the effects globalization has on the changing nature of families, it is vital to know the definition of both globalization and families. From this viewpoint, globalization can be defined as an uncontrollable force that brings about the free market ethics as well as the preservation of transnational movement of labor, goods, and capital (Sherif-Trask 15). On the other hand, families are crucial in ...

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 ...

Modern America is in a situation of global transformation in all spheres of life. This is most clearly manifested in the radical change in traditional family values ​​and marriage, which leads to the erosion of semantic values ​​of the American mentality, the historical model of social change in the institution of family and marriage. “There is evidence, however, that the structure of social relationships in the United States has shifted in recent decades” (McPherson et al., 354). This paper discusses how television broadcasts family values ​​and patterns in American society during a few decades. In the 1950ies American family ...

Introduction

Juvenile crime or offending by minors has become an issue that deserves critical examination given its impacts both on the criminal justice system and the society at large. A juvenile or a delinquent refers to a person who has not reached the age of majority and who has come into contact with the criminal justice system as a result of having committed a minor offence which would normally be criminal if committed by an adult. Examples of juvenile or status offences include truancy, disobedience of parents, shoplifting, consumption of alcohol, tobacco purchase or smoking, sneaking out of school or ...

Introduction

In the contemporary world the use of new media, and in particular social media, has become an essential need in the society. Social media include Web sites that allow social interaction such as social networking sites like MySpace, Twitter, Facebook; gaming sites such as Second Life and Club Penguin; video sites such as Vimeo and YouTube; and blogs. Such sites have provided a fertile ground for communication and entertainment especially for the teenagers and the young adults. According to the prevailing studies, 75 percent of the teenagers are in possession of cell phones, and 25 percent utilizes them on ...

People are living in the Internet age where there is a lot of media saturation. In essence, there are a lot of digital creations from the televisions, radios, phones, the Internet, and other devices that facilitate social networking. Digital creations such as movies are no longer, for humorous purposes, but incorporate reality shows such as “Keeping up with the Kardashians” which portrays different family interactions. The digital culture through the Internet has rapidly spread the information. In today’s society, you will find television set. Children are exposed to them since infancy. According to Television and Family, television is ...

SOCI 221 FINAL PAPER

1. List the main points the Pope discussed in the chapter revolving families. 2. Pick one aspect listed in the document and argue the churches position.

Do you agree with the pope/ or disagree?

Explain your opinion. Abstract Amoris Laetitia is in the first place a solidarity manifest to the people who feel lost in the family life. Being an admonishment as a matter of form, it yet bears resemblance to a heart-to-heart talk showing compassion, kindness and affinity for humanity. Referring to Gospel as to an unquestionable doctrine, it emphasizes the cordial closeness with every human including those who are far from being perfect. The document ...

Islam in Saudi Arabia

Introduction. In his book Islam in Saudi Arabia David Commins takes us through the journey of Islam as a religion in Saudi from the eighteenth century up to the twentieth century. Chapter three is titled Wahhabism and the modern state. Wahhabism rose when Wahhab and Ibn Saud signed a pact giving rise to the state of Saudi Arabia. Having been promised power and religious legitimacy by Wahhab, Ibn Saud then pledged to ensure that the teachings of Wahhabism were carried out in the entire Kingdom. In this chapter, we see how subsequent rulers handled crisis through initiating changes like ...

Introduction

Introduction In the contemporary world the use of new media, and in particular social media, has become an essential need in the society. Social media include Web sites that allow social interaction such as social networking sites like MySpace, Twitter, Facebook; gaming sites such as Second Life and Club Penguin; video sites such as Vimeo and YouTube; and blogs. Such sites have provided a fertile ground for communication and entertainment especially for the teenagers and the young adults. According to the prevailing studies, 75 percent of the teenagers are in possession of cell phones, and 25 percent utilizes them ...

In this article, it was claimed by McDonald (2006) that core reasons for the low rates of fertility in advanced societies are the economic and social changes - new capitalism and the social liberalism respectively. Even while there is still stong personal desire for intimacy and individuation in families, the new economic and social realities are faced by the spouses and that is why, the family desires are not reached by significant number of families to the full extent. That is why, the institute of family has faced with significant risk, associated with these changes - both in terms ...

Idealization is a part of every religion. To the Christian’s Jesus is the epitome of an idealized human being. His idealization is particularly apparent in the accounts of the beginnings of the church. If one is to look at the time of Jesus after His resurrection, a much idealized individual was presented to the apostles. They were frightened at first but later began to relish the splendor of Jesus. One of the first questioned Jesus asked of the apostle was that He was hungry. He wanted to eat with the apostle; Of course, He probably was not hungry ...

Gender Aspect

My female gender has affected my life in both negative and positive ways. The gender roles in the Hispanic culture have shaped my life because of being exposed to very tough roles and responsibilities that I have committed to undertake passionately. As a female in the Hispanic culture, I have been forced to portray high levels of responsibility in all my endeavors, be it religious and show maximum self-sacrifice in whatever I do. The exposure has helped me to develop quality values and principles in life that ascertain that I am always responsible in whatever I do. Through the ...

Introduction

Lopez Ostra was a Spanish citizen who filed a case before the European Court of Human Rights through the European Commission on human rights. The claimants accused the Spanish government of failing to protect his privacy, home, and family life against pollution from neighboring factories which amounted to a violation of the right to healthy environment and the right to respect the private home and family life. This case was anchored on the responsibility of the state to be held accountable for actions of private entities within its jurisdiction. It is a sophisticated case that was instituted under the ...

The Name of the University

The City Abstract Today, the family is one of the issues that is widely discussed among the society and sociologists, as it is the phenomenon that is very hard to define in the modern day society. The purpose of this report is to provide the critical view on contemporary issues of the family that include, first of all, the status of traditional family types like the nuclear and extended families, and, secondly, to understand the concept of family diversity in the British society. Another purpose of this paper is to identify factors and changes that contribute or influence family ...

Thesis statement: Edna achieves her awakening thanks to her social problems that push her to discover herself and her freedoms while Nora’s family life when she starts to question her morality courtesy of her familial obligations that pushed her to indebt secretly herself.

INTRODUCTION

Society and gender roles Introduction of the required texts Introduction of the two protagonists, Edna and Norah and their awakening Thesis statement NORAH HELMER AND HER AWAKENING TROUGH FAMILY PROBLEMS Treatment by her husband Her maturity as exhibited through borrowing of money Her acknowledgement as an unhappy woman Her disengagement from her “play- room” of ...

Austin Peay State University

Family Description History The Cappadoras are an upper-middle class American family, consisting of a husband (Pat), a wife (Beth), and three children – Vincent, aged 16, Ben, aged 12, and Kerry, aged 9. When Ben was three, he was kidnapped by a strange woman with mental health issues at Beth’s high school reunion, resulting in tremendous guilt for Beth. However, recently Ben has returned to the Cappadora’s life; after some time in which he claimed to be a boy named Sam Karras, Beth discovered that he was, in fact, Ben, who had escaped after the woman committed suicide ...

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Questions: 1. What inspired you to become a social worker? 2. Where did you study? 3. What do you find the most difficult in your job? 4. What is the most rewarding thing in your profession? 5. What previous experience have you got? 6. What features do you find the most important for a social worker? 7. What requirements are there for a worker in your field? 8. How does your work influence your family life? 9. How important do you find the relationships with colleagues for your job? 10. ...

'Work-family balance', or WFB, is the topic that has garnered the interests of academicians, management Tsars, and researchers. With growing competition and stress in the business environment, family life is likely to get affected thereby putting a negative impact on the work productivity. Thus, making a balance between work schedule and family life is of utmost importance if one wishes to have an overall satisfied life. However, identifying related family-specific variables and studying their impact on work-family conflict ( WFC) are some of the pre-requisites to boil down to the balancing part. This paper aims to review the available literature ...

The movie “Julie and Julia” touches upon diverse issues. It is a very interesting movie to analyze. It can be discussed in terms of blogs, cuisine and people’s relationships. Mostly, the movie discusses the life of women. In the Julie/Julia venture, Julie Powell utilizes her blogging to bring others into her space. By opening her family life to others, her kitchenspace turns into an open space, however just in the digital sense. By expelling protection and segregation from the mathematical statement, the limits of the kitchenspace are redrawn. The blogosphere is a comprehensive, group based, and generally open ...