...baby was so much fun, but I soon learned that it wouldn't be easy caring for a baby all day long every day. Day one began my journey, when I introduced Lauren Ashley to my friends and family. I fixed her curly brown hair up in a bow, and I put on her a newborn diaper. There were so many styles of diapers to choose from in the store; it was mind-boggling. She had the cutest little ears I had ever seen. It was very heavy carrying Lauren Ashley everywhere all over school, including my books! The only time I needed a babysitter was when I had football games, pep-rallies, cheer practice, and class, so basically all day. I saw right then that daycare would be a necessity. I hired my parents, my grandmother, and my friends to baby sit. Whenever me and the other cheerleaders went to practice, we created a daycare in Mrs. Dennis' classroom. If Lauren Ashley were a real baby, I would pay around $90.00 a week just for her to go to daycare, and that doesn't include any extra food or diapers I would need to send. I also couldn't imagine having to wake up every two hours all night long to feed, change diapers, and rock Lauren Ashley back to sleep. But, I know I would really love my baby, so I would take care of her the proper way. One day when I really have kids, and they are girls, I am going to name them Julia- Love and Lauren Ashley. If I have a boy, I am going to name him Colton Bradley. Hopefully, whomever I marry will think the same. I have decided I only want a few children, about 3...
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...harder to talk to than girls and girls are perceived to be more gentle and easier to get along with. Some individuals are more aggressive as children and then grow out of that phase, whereas, other children become aggressive over time and are that way as adults. Today, we will explore the idea of how aggressive behaviors differ between different age groups and how these behaviors affect the relationships that children have with their peers. This is an important topic to because many people don’t realize that aggressive behaviors are a normal part of child development and that they don’t always lead to bad social skills and relationships. A study was done by Deynoot-Schaub and Riksen-Walraven (2006) that consisted of the observation of seventy 15-month-olds in their day care centers in order to try to explain the relationship between how they communicated with each other and their temperaments, along with other correlations. Seventy children were randomly chosen from different child care centers that agreed to participate in the study in the Netherlands and they were assessed for peer-peer interactions and peer-caregiver interactions by visitations to the child care centers made by the researchers and a questionnaire given to the parents about the children’s general temperament. Seven groupings were assigned for the children’s contacts with other children and their caregivers so that the children’s behavior could be categorized. The results of the study included more positive...
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...Too Sexy Too Soon? A Case Study of Abercrombie & Fitch Stephanie Roussell / MC 7999 / 11.21.11 Introduction Abercrombie and Fitch, an American retailer with nearly 800 U.S. and international stores, is no stranger to controversy. The company has long profited from shock value and consumer backlash not only in its marketing, but also in its clothing and employment practices. Known for its preppy, casual style of mid-luxury clothing, the retailer is a mainstay in the American shopping mall. But recent controversies about its product style and marketing practices have kept the company continually in the news. The latest controversy is no different. In March 2011, the company posted a new product on its Abercrombie kids website: the “Ashley” bikini, a striped triangle bathing suit, sized for girls ages 8 to 14. It seemed innocent enough until one small word in the clothing description caused a firestorm of media and activist backlash. The website described the bikini as a “push-up,” complete with “extra padding for breast enhancement.” (Mendez, para. 1) Because this description was added to a website that markets to girls as young as 2nd grade, it caused an uproar about the company’s intentions of over-sexualizing young girls. Comments began pouring in decrying the company’s apparent lack of decency or sensitivity. All were asking the same question: “how soon is too sexy?” Did this controversy expose a company intent on objectifying young girls? Or is it another cog in the...
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...impending doom. Perhaps it's all in my imagination, Ashley Patterson thought. I'm working too hard. I need a vacation. She turned to study herself in her bedroom mirror. She was looking at the image of a woman in her late twenties, neatly dressed, with patrician features, a slim figure and intelligent, anxious brown eyes. There was a quiet elegance about her, a subtle attractiveness. Her dark hair fell softly to her shoulders. I hate my looks, Ashley thought. I'm too thin. I must start eating more. She walked into the kitchen and began to fix breakfast, forcing her mind to forget about the frightening thing that was happening, and concentrating on preparing a fluffy omelette. She turned on the coffeemaker and put a slice of bread in the toaster. Ten minutes later, everything was ready. Ashley placed the dishes on the table and sat down. She picked up a fork, stared at the food for a moment, then shook her head in despair. Fear had taken away her appetite. This can't go on, she thought angrily. Whoever he is, I won't let him do this to me. I won't. Ashley glanced at her watch. It was time to leave for work. She looked around the familiar apartment, as though seeking some kind of reassurance from it. It was an attractively furnished third-floor apartment on Via Camino Court, with a living room, bedroom and den, bathroom, kitchen and guest powder room. She had lived here in Cupertino, California, for three years. Until two weeks ago, Ashley had thought of it as a comfortable nest, a...
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...The idea of determining what our appearances and our clothes are being the focus of what direction that the lives of our young girls lives are going is very prominent in our lives today. Our young girls are being influenced by what we allow them to see in the women who are in media and we need to take a stand and not allow our young girl to focus on their looks taking away from instead of their education and their future. “Once a young girl is to arrive at school education should be their focus, there needs to be a state law that would allow a dress code in place when at school. According to the Public School Review, school administrators and parents believe that adopting a uniform dress code creates a more conducive learning environment because students are not distracted by the way they or others look and can focus on academics.” Many times parents think that uniforms being a requirement is just a nuance and an extra cost for the parents. Although it might seem a reasonable request, to many, because school dress codes and even school uniforms are common and often supported by teachers and administrators, who frequently complain about students that have decided to push the limits of good taste and their parents let them do this. They allow their daughter to walk out half dressed showing their mid drift or wear shorts that look they are wearing bathing suits. By providing a uniform policy that does not allow shorts or skirts of a certain length and shirts that cover themselves...
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...G&L (print) issn 1747–6321 G&L (online) issn 1747–633X Gender and Language Review You’re Wearing That? Understanding Mothers and Daughters in Conversation. Deborah Tannen (2006) New York: Ballantine Books, pp. 272 Reviewed by Ashley M. Williams Deborah Tannen, as Michael Billig (2000: 129) noted in his review of her 1998 book The Argument Culture, has a particular knack for writing best-sellers that ‘can outstrip the celebrity biographies, cookery books and sex manuals that dominate the non-fiction book trade’. Indeed, Tannen’s latest addition to her oeuvre meant for popular consumption, You’re Wearing That? a New York Times bestseller, is no different. Focusing on mother-adult daughter conversations and the tensions that can arise from these relationships, Tannen’s goal is to help readers understand and overcome these problems. In addressing her readers, assumed to be women, she writes that: our deepest wish is to be understood and approved of by our mothers and daughters. We can get closer to that goal by listening to the ways we talk to each other, and by learning to talk to each other in new ways (p. 32). In privileging mother-daughter relationships, Tannen often mentions that these relationships are like any other, only more so – and thus the tensions, disagreements and arguments involved are more intense, personal, and potentially damaging. As in her previous popular works, her evidence of the difficulties in these relationships draws...
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...While monetary costs for inmates are large and irrational, the penal system and it’s prisons also present another cost: the price of liberty, and subsequently the cost of dignity. The current penal system stands by the moral that anyone who goes against the law will be punished by loss of liberty (Mathiesen, 2006, p. 132). Costs extend well beyond imprisonment, however. Liberty is seemly restored but upon release, in exchange for freedom, most “ex”offenders are subjected to social stigma that can follow them for a lifetime (Mauer & Chesney-Lind, 2002). Mathiesen (2006) writes that “the prisoner [should] be restored to his or her old form, notably the form before the crime…and the prisoner is to have his or her honour returned” (p.27). In a...
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...In 2013, Dr. Howard Schneider ,a pediatric dentist, lived in Jacksonville, Florida and was sued by nearly twenty patients for allegedly performing unnecessary surgery on kids—pulling out their teeth for no reason, and in some cases hitting or choking them. Dental Malpractice occurs when a dentist separates from the dental standard of care in its community and as a result of that deviation a patient is injured. In some circumstances when a pediatric dentist starts having behavior problems like carelessness or inattentiveness it may cause issues during a procedure. They may perform unnecessary extractions of teeth, give unsafe amounts of anesthesia, and also use unsterilized dental equipment which causes infections and long term complications...
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...offenders directly insult their victims through intimidating and hostile messages. In the more public form, cyber bullying can include actions such as posting embarrassing or nude photographs of victims without their knowledge or permission. These photos are often adulterated to depict the victim in compromised or defaming poses. Cyber bullies also spread lies and rumors via texts, instant messages, and Facebook posts. Additionally, perpetrators often steal passwords to victims’ online accounts and post humiliating remarks while posing as the victims themselves. Various studies attest to the pervasiveness and severity of cyber bullying in society. The Cyber bullying Research Center surveyed 4,441 US subjects from the ages of ten to eighteen in February 2010. The study assessed the prevalence of information and communication technology among the subjects, as well as the subjects’ history with cyber bullying. The study concluded that 83% of the subjects use cell phones, 31.5% use their cell phones for online access, 47.1% use their cell phones...
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...Abstinence- Only Vs. Comprehensive Sex Education Nickenha Ashley SOC 233 Professor Singer October 31, 2013 The debate about “abstinence” vs. “comprehensive” sex education has been occurring for at least three decades. The common ground that drives these competing approaches is concern about the negative consequences of adolescent sexual activity to the health and well-being of individuals and society. The debate about these programs were re-energized recently based on the research of about four different abstinence program, where teens in that study reported that they did not abstain from sexual activity more than non-participants. Based on these results it has come to the conclusion that the abstinence approach to preventing teen sexual risk behaviors does not work. My position on this topic is that I feel that all schools should implement the comprehensive sex education class rather than the abstinence only. The abstinence only approach to sex education does not protect young people from HIV/AIDS, sexually transmitted infections, and unplanned pregnancy. This approach will likely have serious unintended consequences by denying young people access to the information they need to protect themselves. Sex education will prepare them only for when they want to make that decision but will clarify that having no sex is the only way to truly prevent any accidents. The idea that sexual activity is the ticket to popularity is burned into teens brains by media, through television...
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...Shaping Parental Authority over Children’s Bodies ALICIA OUELLETTE* INTRODUCTION....................................................................................................... 956 I. SCULPTING, SHAPING, AND SIZING CHILDREN: FOCUS CASES.............................. 959 A. WESTERNIZING ASIAN EYES..................................................................... 960 B. HORMONES FOR STATURE ........................................................................ 961 C. LIPOSUCTION ON A TWELVE YEAR OLD.................................................... 963 D. GROWTH STUNTING ................................................................................. 964 II. THE LAW, MEDICINE, PARENTAL RIGHTS, AND CHILDREN’S BODIES ................. 966 A. BACKGROUND LAW ................................................................................. 966 B. APPLICATION IN SHAPING CASES .............................................................. 969 C. ROOM FOR REGULATION .......................................................................... 971 III. WHAT IS REALLY WRONG WITH MEDICAL AND SURGICAL SHAPING OF CHILDREN? ............................................................................................................ 973 A. THE NONSUBORDINATION PRINCIPLE AS A LIMIT ON INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS 974 B. CHILDREN AS PERSONS, PARENTAL RIGHTS ............................................. 977 C. MEDICAL AND SURGICAL SHAPING OF CHILDREN IS DIFFERENT ............... 981 IV. CONCERNING...
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...daughter held. The mother was in shock about the untouched photographs of the model saying, “Look! She has stretch marks!” You could hear it in her voice how surprised she was as she showed her daughter. Girls who shop with their mothers become influenced by the images around them; a survey of girls’ ages 9 to 10, shockingly resulted in 40% of those young girls begin to lose weight. It is very damaging that the media has critical effects toward a women’s self-esteem, which may trail from adolescent age to middle age. Tall, thin, curvy and leggy with big breasts, flowing hair and toned bodies would be how you would describe a perfect ideal body, however that is not always the case. Over the past few centuries, Media has increasingly lead young girls into internal conflicts upon their image. From the latest TV shows, magazines and now the use of social media; Female celebrities exemplify this perfect ideal image. Adolescents visualize these female celebrities as their role models and begin comparing their own body image to theirs, forming discrepancy of unrealistic body shape. Bell states, Negative body image may be defined as the psychologically salient discrepancy between a person’s perceived body and their ideal body (479). This definition is the truth in what many girls experience when comparing their body shape to female role models. The photographs of models raise attention of unrealistic beauty being celebrated by the media, these models have airbrushed skin or effortless...
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...Single parent home Ashley Reid Psy Topic proposal Capella University August 11, 2013, Year “Seventy percent of all children will spend all or part of their lives in a single parent home.”(Dowd)The family structure has changed significantly in the last fifty years with higher percentages of marriages ending in divorce, and higher rates of childbearing out of wedlock. In this study the writer will show that the children of these families are affected dramatically both negatively and positively? Problem Statement Children being raised in single parent homes have a higher chance of poverty, delinquency and high school failure. Background of Study The US census bureau reported that 30 percent of children live in a single parent home. Are children that are raised by one parent verses both parent receiving the short hand of the deal? Children with single parents were twice as likely to have psychiatric disorders, attempt suicide, and abuse alcohol, and three to four times more likely to use narcotic drugs”.(The Lancet,25 January 2003.) In 2009 the New York Times found that the time spent with a single parent during the formative preschool years seems to have particularly bad effects on a boy’s education,” (Shelia Fitzgerald Krein,, 2009.) Single mothers who work outside the home appear to provide greater incentive as role models for their daughters than there sons, The role-model influence in the case of the girls appears to compensate for the loss of the mother’s...
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...Running head: SAME-SEX MARRIAGE The Opinion of Younger Generation about Same-Sex Marriage 1400I022 Christina, student 1400I033 Elsa, student 1400I038 Ashley, student National Taichung University of Science and Technology Department of Applied English Instructor: Professor Cary Stacy Smith, PhD Allocation of work Name / Number | Allocation of work | Christina / 1400I022 | 1. Introduction 2. Literature review 3. Reference | Elsa / 1400I033 | 1. Results and Discussion 2. Conclusions 3. Appendix | Ashley / 1400I038 | 1. Cover page 2. Abstract 3. Method 4. Paper organization and Final editing | Abstract In the past decades, same-sex marriage is not generally acceptable to most people. People are more conservative about the issue. However, recently people have become more open-minded. Therefore, in the study, the authors want to know the change about younger generation’s opinion toward same-sex marriage. The authors want to know whether the younger generation is more acceptable about same-sex marriage. The authors focus only college students in the study. Thus, to find out the attitude of younger generation, the authors have designed a series of study. The authors expected to interview 15 college students with 30 designed open-ended questions about same-sex marriage. The question can be divided into three parts which are “How would people react if others are gay”, “How would people react if he/she is gay” and “What people's...
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...Social Influences on Behavior Debbie Noonan PSY 300 October 15, 2011 Ashley Dolecki Social Influences on Behavior Social psychology is the scientific study of how people think about, influence, and relate to one another. These are the broad questions that social psychologists and personality psychologists seek to answer. By exploring such inner motivations such as traits, attitudes, and goals and looking at the situation or context such as social norms, social psychologists seek to unravel how interactions such as romance, friendship, aggression, and group interactions affect social areas of our lives. Although personality psychology focuses on the individual, and social psychology on the situation, the two perspectives are often explored together in explanations of human behavior in psychology. This paper shall outline human behavior changes based on two social situations, teasing and prejudice, and the precursors and consequences of those behaviors. Teasing is almost as much a part of childhood as skinned knees and runny noses, but the effects of that teasing can have long-lasting and profound effects. Is there a place for this behavior? We do playful teasing every day, poking fun at the coworker who is always running late, commenting on someone’s choice of words, or even making innocent comments about our spouse’s choice of clothing for the evening. Is this teasing acceptable in all situations? How do we know when it isn’t? One of the...
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