...Childhood has never been a fixed universal experience; it is not considered a universal experience because everyone lives in a different environments. They deal with parents single, together, or in the middle of divorce. In some cultures children to be married and forced into having children before they even turn 13. Because in that society are not considered as children when they hit a certain age, even if it is only around 10 or 12. In some tribes the parents stop providing for the child when it turns five years old, at that age it is expected to look after themselves and if it cannot and is eaten by a predator they do not care as it as the infants responsibility to look after itself. In other tribes around the world women who have children and become a mother do not enjoy the role, they barely keep their children alive and most of the time hopes for a wolf to take it away. So that they are no other burdened by a child. All parents raise their children differently to the next. People are raised with different morals cultures, beliefs, influences and norms. Each culture has their opinions on what is considered to me expected and accepted. Not only that, but as we grow, we form our own identities. Through out our teen years we start to disagree with our parents, even before that we have friends and peers who influence our decisions as well as people we meet as a result. Think of childhood as something with no absolutes. Childhood cannot be fixed because everyone leads...
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...Many sociologists see childhood as socially constructed; as something created and defined by society. Many argue that what people mean by childhood, and the position that children occupy in society, is not fixed but differs between different times, places and cultures. It can be seen that by comparing the western idea of childhood today with childhood in the past and other societies. It can be determined by many sociologists that there have been many changes in society that have affected children over the last 50 years, however there are several there are several different sociological views on whether these changes have been beneficial to children or not. Functionalist sociologists have the “March of progress” view, as they believe that the experience of childhood has massively improved over the last 50 years. They take the view that childhood is socially constructed and vary between times, places and cultures. There are important differences between childhood in western societies today as compared with both present day Third World countries and European societies in the past. For example, in the middle ages, child labour was basic fact of life for almost all children, while schooling was available only to the wealthy. These differences raise the question of whether the changes in the status of childhood that we looked at earlier represent an improvement. The “March of progress” view argues that, over the past few centuries, the position of children in western societies...
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...Harmful Effects of Child Abuse and Neglect On behalf of the NCANDS in 2016 there were 676,000 victims of abuse and neglect. A national study conducted by several researchers with the help of the National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions (NESARC), Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (4th ed., DSM-IV; American Psychiatric Association, 1994) accompanied by the Alcohol Use Disorder and Associated Disabilities Interview Schedule-DSM-IV Version (AUDADIS-IV), the Adverse Childhood Experiences study (ACE study; Dube et al., 2001, 2003), the Conflict Tactics Scale (Straus, 1979), and the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire (Bernstein et al., 1994) supported the theory that there is a direct correlation between child...
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...Cassie is a Hispanic, 14-year-old, female, who is currently in foster care due to her out of control behavior and overdose of Tylenol that brought her to the emergency room. Based on the background information, Cassie’s current situation can be understood from the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) concept. ACEs are traumatic events that can have negative, lasting effects on health and well-being (Chapman, Dube, & Anda, 2007). Cassie is dealing with PTSD, which is a personal experience that involves actual threat to one’s physical integrity, due to her childhood trauma. Biologically, Cassie’s PTSD is impacting her brain development due to poor behavioral choices that are harmful to the brain. For example, Cassie’s out of control behavior puts her body in a state of arousal, and high alert because neurologically she doesn't have the capacity to return back to baseline where her parasympathetic nervous system kicks in and signals the brain to relax and rest (Cozolino, 2014). Therefore, the stress hormone cortisol remains throughout her body, which is toxicity to the body and mind....
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...Throughout a distinct period of history, weather 5 years old or 50, no one is ever too old to learn anything. Learning is an ongoing process; it doesn’t happen from one certain time to another, but rather an entire lifetime. Almost every action that’s taken, is the result of past learning. Learning is the basic acquisition of knowledge or skills through study, experience or by being taught. A lot of people’s learning just comes out of the blue. In other words, learning occurs randomly throughout a person’s lifespan either by experience or by gaining information. Thus, the more experienced, the more knowledgeable. Learning is never confined to just the four walls of a classroom. It doesn’t consist of only hours of studying or reading. Instead learning covers a much wider perspective and never stops after high school, college or even after retiring from a job. There is never one particular form of learning. There are a variety of forms and each one doesn’t necessarily have the same impact. Starting from childhood to adulthood, such different forms are: Playing, watching, listening and of course doing. The reason for these contrasting forms of learning is so that, the needs of different people can be addressed and so that one has the freedom to grasp knowledge in a diversity of learning skills. While a young boy walks across the streets, there are undoubtedly a number of things that he adopts. There are possibilities that the student may see another young man walking his dog...
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...At some point in your education or your career you will be required to make a presentation about yourself or to write an autobiography as an assignment. Some people will welcome the opportunity to share their own personal experiences, while others will dread it. Whether you love this assignment or you hate it, you should start with the knowledge that your story is much more interesting than you probably realize. You may as well make the story enjoyable to your audience! An interesting story will get a better response from your audience and a better grade from a professor. These tips are intended to help you determine (perhaps to your surprise) how interesting your story really is! Adding Some Spice Your autobiography should contain the basic framework that any essay should have, like an introductory paragraph with a thesis statement, a body containing several paragraphs, and a conclusion. But the trick is to make your life story an interesting narrative with a theme. So how do you determine your theme? You've probably heard the saying that diversity is the spice of life. While the saying is a little old and tired, the meaning holds true. Your job is to find out what makes your family or your experience spicy and build a narrative around that. In other words, you will research on your own life. Start your research by taking a close examination of your life and taking notes on the things that make you interesting. Your Family Background Just like the biography of a famous...
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...human beings. Both of them experience growth, development, and perish in a similar manner. Just as human beings enjoy their youth and cherish it throughout the rest of their lives; similarly, nature, in this case blackberries are seen as being appealing when they are fresh. With the use of similes and metaphors, Seamus Heaney compares the experience of picking blackberries with life itself. The reader is able to imagine the cycle of life, all the way from childhood to aging, the same way a blackberry’s own cycle from being fresh to rotten. Human beings treasure their memories of youth and many times wish they could return to that period of time. When Heaney says, “You ate that first one and its flesh was sweet” the reader gets to perceive the image of how he remembers that time in which he could enjoy eating the fresh blackberries. Enjoying eating this fruit can be referring to a childhood in which new experiences would seem as being thrilling. As the poem continues to develop, the blackberries appearance starts to worsen “a rat-grey fungus glutting on our cache the juice was stinking too”. As time passes by, the fruit gets to start getting rotten and to emit an unpleasant smell. The scent of an old fruit can then be compared to an elder whose hygiene is not what it used to be when he had greater mobility or health. The image created by a blackberry from the moment of being picked up to the rotting gets to represent the process human beings experience as they grow older. Life...
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...Early childhood experience, an indicator for distress? We live in a busy world with all kinds of life events competing for our attention. It is no wonder that we drop the occasional ball when juggling different needs. Sometimes stressors converge and can overwhelm us. We are unable to bring the usual resilience to meet the challenges we are faced with. It may be that home and work life stressors are just too much to bear and we need the help of outside agencies. This bucks our natural tendency to shoulder the problems and work through them independently to bring about successful solutions and outcomes. Just talking through our problems with a good friend can be enough to support us through but on occasions resorting to a counsellor and sometimes medication is necessary and helpful. What neuroscientists are finding is that there are some people who are more susceptible to stress than others. Brain imaging techniques [functional Resonance Imaging (fRMI)] show that structures in the limbic system of the brain associated with emotional responses , can suffer damage. This predisposes some individuals to significantly more emotional affects by stressors. The HPA axis controls our reactions to stress and comprises of the hypothalamus, pituitary gland and adrenal glands. When a perceived threat is experienced the HPA axis produces a number of hormones to engage the body in “flight or fight “mode. Exposure to chronic stress will cause neuronal damage in structures within...
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...has unforeseen consequences. Victor finds himself wishing he never knew how to create life in the first place. The creature Victor creates has a similar experience with knowledge and the experiences that come with it. The monster is alone from inception, leading him to teach himself everything that...
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...their strengths and weaknesses. Expectations * Broad and meaningful research on the leader’s style, practice and evolution, using a range of sources (including videos, blogs, biographies, articles and more). * Go beyond the easy/obvious sources for information. * Complete coverage of the topics, with insights that go beyond simply reporting facts. * Well-crafted document, with logical flow and clarity of view * Excellent grammar, punctuation, composition and professional style. * Including correct use of citations. Overview of contents * Executive Summary: Overview: Summary of key findings and analyses * Section 1: Describe the leader's childhood narrative. What early experiences contributed to their becoming a leader? Why were these experiences important and/or impactful in either positive or negative ways? * Section 2: How would you describe this person's leadership style (or styles)? What are the strengths and weaknesses of the styles they use? How has their leadership style made an impact on the course of their career and personal life? Did their style change? If so, how and why? If not, why not? * Section 3: What would you say are the key contributing factors that led to this person being a successful leader? Why were these factors important? * Section 4: What are the...
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...My Experiences as a Writer Thus, I wrote about my life, the summer vacations or silly, imaginary things. I felt intimidated by the prospect of having to fill a page as much as by the endlessness of those first minutes I needed to find a start over than, “Once upon a time.” I like to write. My first experience as a writer started in elementary, around age 12 when I wrote a story. Every now and then, during English class, we were told to write. As I recall, the assignment mostly was to “write about anything” which was very exciting. My Aunt Carol helped me plans ideas for my story. Then, we sat to write down what we had processed. My story was coming together very well. My story was a great, it was about a haunted house out in the country. This is where my writing took off. When I received my paper back from the teacher, she gave me an A on my story. Everyone in my family was so happy for me. My experience as a writer has been extensive. Currently, one writes extensively for school purposes, personal, and as a hobby. For example, I write for my online English and Math classes, whether its discussion threads, questions or essays. One of my experiences that has been bothering me inside since I was a child, it was the sex abuse I encountered as a child. Like many of us, if sex abuse has not happened to you, sex abuse is an ugly thing for a child to go through. Kids at school found out, and started making fun of me. That to me was the...
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...Each memory, experience and event that occurs in a person’s life is essential to help discover the person they have grown to become. Our childhood, in particular, is important to reflect on because that is when we experienced things for the first time and where we learned from our mistakes (Cottingham 2008). It is through narration that we are able to understand how our childhood and our past has affected us and created who we are as a human being. We must recognize the importance of old memories and how well we are able to explain them. It will be examined how the actual occurrence of an event differs from the way it has been told. With every action we take, there is always a good reason for doing it. According to philosopher Charles Taylor, this is called “an orientation to the good.” He believes that to make sense of our lives and have any identity at all, we must have an orientation to the good (Cottingham 2008). The direction of our lives depends on this good as well as how motivated we are to get to the place relating to this good. What Taylor is trying to say is that without having motivation behind each decision we make, our reason for existence is meaningless. This is an excellent point because it is what makes us all individuals. Although many people may experience the same thing, the way it is interpreted is what makes each person’s identity unique. We are able to create incentives that push us do better in everything we do and make us work hard to achieve...
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...personal experiences and the manner with which they were dealt. Cultural values and social expectations contribute greatly to the attainment of freedom. The environment in which one is brought up creates the basis of the values and expectations that one grows accustomed to. This fundamental experience forges the personal ideas that shape one’s thoughts and actions. The discontent that Chris McCandless (Into the Wild) experiences is inversely reflected upon his parents’ expectations of him, shown in the scene where Chris is standing outside a restaurant and peering at the man within. The expectations that his parents held of him pushed Chris into the direction of the man he sees within – wealthy, successful and socially respected. However, by stepping away from this, be his disregarding his upbringing, his fundamental values and the expectations held of him. This leads to the deep unhappiness and discomfort that restricts one’s attainment of freedom. Freedom cannot be achieved if one’s fundamental point of view, forged by cultural values and expectations, is disregarded. One’s point of view is largely influenced by past experiences in life. These experiences and the manner with which they are dealt help create the psyche that shapes the individual’s thought processes. It is with these ingrained thought processes that an understanding of the world is created. This situation is presented in Into the Wild as the audience is introduced to the nature of Chris’ childhood and adolescence...
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...shanties. Inside the shanties nick can here the woman scream. Her husband is also there, lying in the upper bunk. Nicks father performs the caesarian operation on the woman with a jackknife. After the operation the husband of the woman has committed suicide. He has cut his own throat. Nick sees him lying in his own blood. Nick and his father sails home in the daylight, but the uncle stays at the camp. Nick asks his father some questions, and lets his hand trail through the water, and in that moment he feels quite sure he will never die. Nick is the main character of this short story. Nick is a young boy accompanying his father, a doctor, on a mission (Nick lay back with his father’s arm around him. p. 12, s.11-10). In this text Nick gets to experience a very traumatic thing; suicide. Nick seems quite interested in the process of the work, because he handles the situation without crying or really having a reaction in that major. In the ending of the story Nick says he felt quite sure he will never die. He asked his father why the husband committed suicide, and his father answered that he thinks it is because that he just couldn’t stand things, he had no strength to see his wife in pain. Nick does now feel that he has so much strength because he has witnessed these traumatic and painful things, so now nothing can kill him. He feels immortal. Nick’s father is a doctor. He seems very ambitious (he was feeling exalted and talkative as football players are in the dressing room after a game...
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...contributions to the overall project and report. We are grateful to Status of Women Canada for funding this project and for the continued sponsorship of the Ontario Coalition of Rape Crisis Centres. We also thank the members of our Advisory Committee for pushing and challenging us throughout this project. We thank the women who facilitated focus groups and helped us contact the women in this study. Finally, this report would not be possible without the contributions of the women who told us about their experiences. © 2004 Centre for Research on Violence Against Women and Children ISBN# 0-9688655-3-4 1 “To understand violence, we have to examine both the personal experience and the terrain of that experience.” Dr. Yasmin Jiawani This report is built on the personal experiences of women who have experienced workplace harassment, but their stories are also about the “terrain” or the context of those experiences. In drawing out the commonalities of their experiences, we have begun to shed light on the terrain. We must transform the terrain if women are to have equality and safety in their workplaces. 2 We dedicate this report to Theresa Vince whose death in 1996 changed the views of many people in Ontario about sexual and workplace harassment. Her tragic and untimely death showed us that workplace harassment can no longer be easily dismissed as a trivial problem. Fundamentally, the goal of this report is to prevent any other woman from losing her ...
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