...To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel written by Harper Lee. It is set in the 1930s in the south of the United States, a time and place when the equality between African Americans and those of white America was non-existent. Atticus Finch, one of the main characters in the book, plays a single father of two young children, Scout and Jem. It is his loving care, reasoned approach, belief in justice and equality, and courage that make him a great father and a good role model for his children. Throughout To Kill a Mockingbird, Atticus shows a genuine love for his two children. It is clear from the way his youngest child, Scout refers to him, that he is affectionate and protective. The final sentence of the book confirms this. ‘He turned out the light and went into Jem’s room. He would be there all night, and he would be there when Jem waked up in the morning’ It is a relationship of mutual respect between the children and their father. He speaks to them on a mature level, is never condescending and explains patiently whenever they have questions. The children feel comfortable communicating openly with Atticus and he is never dismissive of their feeling or concerns. ‘Bit by bit I told him of the day’s misfortunes. - “And she said you taught me all wrong, so we can’t ever read anymore, ever. Please don’t send me back, please sir.”’ When Scout doesn’t want to go back to school, Atticus explains the importance of learning and offers gentle advice. Although Atticus struggles to maintain...
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...through unintentional and or intentional coaching, this is called influence, and this influence can come from opinions from authority figures, trusted family members, and even cultural beliefs. In a situation like this it is known as the interference theory, which suggests that forgetting is caused by other memories interfering with the retention of the target memory (Anderson, 2010). For example a husband and wife have three kid’s two girls and one boy, and they end up going through a divorce. The husband gets the little boy, and the wife gets the two girls, the wife gets a boyfriend and they move to another state, at this time the girls are ages two and three years old. The wife knows that her boyfriend is molesting her girls, and she does nothing about it for the fear that he will leave her. The three year old is really pretty with blonde...
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...“Photograph of My Father” in His Twenty-Second Year by Raymond Carver, all the narrators have a relationship with their fathers. The narrators describe the negative memories of their father of either: drinking, being abusive, being fearful, or being a negative role model but, all still find the love for their fathers. In “My Papa’s Waltz,” the narrator describes his father as a drinker, “the whiskey on your breath” (line 1). The narrator wasn’t happy with his drinking, it made him feel sick, “Could make a small boy dizzy” (2) Similar to the narrator in “Photograph of My Father in His Twenty-Second Year,” demonstrates he was bothered and ashamed of his father, “I study my father’s embarrassed young man’s face. / Sheepish grin, he holds in one hand a sting/ of spiny yellow perch, in the other/ a bottle of Carlsbad beer” (lines 2-5). Both narrators have a negative memory of their fathers drinking. Different from the other narrators, in “Those Winter Sundays,” the narrator has a negative memory of his father calling him, “When the rooms were warm, he’d call,/ and slowly I would rise and dress, /fearing the chronic angers of that house” (lines 7-9). All the narrators had negative memories of their fathers. All three narrators had role model figure from their fathers. “In My Papa’s Waltz,” the narrator describes his father as being abusive, “The hand that held my wrist/ Was battered on one knuckle; /At every step you missed/ My right ear scraped a buckle” (9-12). His father was abusive...
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...My Father Affects Me I am the only child in my family. I am the apple of my parents' eye. My mother gives me all the things I want. However, my father looks solemn. He never talks too much to me. Maybe he is busy all the time, and maybe he does not like to express his feelings. For this reason, I can remember all the things that happened between my father and me. A hero, he affects my whole life. When I was seven years old, I was in primary school. I remembered clearly our teacher told us that we should tell our parents to cover our school books for us in order to protect them. When I came back home, my father did a really good job. He used calendars to make many styles of covers for my books. He showed me how to make a cover. I smelt a book's scent while watching my father construct book covers. I was really happy with how my books were covered. After one semester, our teacher told us to cover our books again. As usual, I asked my father to help me. My father said, "You should do it by yourself." I begged my father to do it for me, but my father never helped me again. Thus, I had to cover them by myself. I took scissors, glue, and calendars. I put a book on a calendar and surveyed the shape; I imitated my father to pack, to cut, and to glue. I forgot how long it took me to finish them. I just remembered all of the books' covers were too ugly, yet I was not sad because I did the whole process by myself and enjoyed it. Hence, I never asked my father to help me with it. I learned...
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...and we were very poor. My father, a Italian Immigrant came to Brazil in the 1950’s to escape the second world war II and to start a new life. Our family were very poor and even tough we didn’t have all the material stuff my mother, a Portuguese decedent were very religious. They brough religion in our every day life and every Sunday we went to church, follow religious holidays and most important of all. My father one rules was that everyone must sit in the dinner table every night and pray the blessing we receive that that, even tough we didn’t have much. I didn’t understand sometimes why we would that every day instead of playing with the others kids. In the beginning I tough it was a tortuture sitting in that table for dinner and having the same thing almost every night instead of playing outside with my friend I had to follow my father’s order because I knew the consequences and it wasn’t very good. The years part and little by little my brother and sisters were getting married and our daily reunion at the dinner table started to fade way and I started missing it. Our daily dinner reunion started to become Sunday reunion when we meet after church on Sunday for Lunch. This tradition lasted for a couple of years until I decided to go after my own luck and moved to the United States in 1996 to look for better opportunities in life and in a couple of years later in 2000 my father passed away and tht was the end of our family tradition. My father was a good man, he raised...
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...Copyright # Taylor & Francis Group, LLC ISSN: 0748-1187 print=1091-7683 online DOI: 10.1080/07481187.2011.553312 BEREAVEMENT EXPERIENCES OF MOTHERS AND FATHERS OVER TIME AFTER THE DEATH OF A CHILD DUE TO CANCER RIFAT ALAM Department of Psychology, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada MARU BARRERA Department of Psychology, Haematology=Oncology Program, Child Health Evaluative Sciences, Research Institute, Hospital for Sick Children and Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada NORMA D’AGOSTINO Department of Psychosocial Oncology and Palliative Care, Survivorship Program, Princess Margaret Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada DAVID B. NICHOLAS Faculty of Social Work, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada GERALD SCHNEIDERMAN Department of Psychiatry, Hospital for Sick Children and Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada The authors investigated longitudinally bereavement in mothers and fathers whose children died of cancer. Thirty-one parents were interviewed 6 and 18 months post-death. Analyses revealed parental differences and changes over time: (a) employment—fathers were more work-focused; (b) grief reactions—mothers expressed more intense grief reactions that lessened over time; (c) coping—mothers were more child-focused, fathers more task-focused; (d) relationship with bereaved siblings—mothers actively nurtured relationship with child; (e) spousal relationship—parents reported...
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...A 5 years old boy finds himself sheltered by his father when his father carries him on his back in the 2 kilometers road back home in the night and tells him softly "I am ok", despite he fell off because of a pot-hole in the road An 8 years old son couldn’t feel the brave expectation from his father when he tells him " Lost in a fight, still crying? Next time don't cry after a fight, remember?" An 8 years old can remember forever a simple spelling lesson he was given by his father after reading his essay "People don't use "and" after a comma, you know?" A 12 years old son takes many years later to fully understand the lesson his father gave him when he play balls and lost. His father doesn’t mind giving him money to continue playing until he wins in a match. But he lost finally. His father waits until the evening and tells him "You should know when to stop. Don't just play when you feel you can" A 13 years old boy takes long time to know how psycho his father was when he want his son to have a close girl friend. When he finds out, the chance has lost. A 14 years old son knows that men can cry when he sees his father crying, but why his father cry is the thing he keeps in his mind secretly. A every ages boy can know he is everything to his father when he see his father proud of him everywhere, every time, despite with his immaturity thinking, he knows he is just a normal boy like other boys The biggest lesson about heartless...
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...Professor English 1113 26 October 2014 Fathers on Television The article “Wow! A show with a smart father!” by Jaime J. Weinman argues that the role of a father on television is either portrayed negatively or basically nonexistent. She is able to provide numerous examples of television shows that have cut out the role of a father figure all together, it’s stated this may be for financial reasons. She also discusses television shows that portray the father in a negative way. The author then gives an example to the reader of a television show that depicts the father in a positive light. The father of Veronica Mars, Keith Mars, is said to be one of the few positive examples of a father on television. The fact that he’s portrayed more as a role model than just sitting around telling her life stories makes him more realistic. The author clearly states that this is a father that can actually teach his child something and at the same time is likable enough that his daughter wants to spend time with him. The author’s intended audience is a genre of readers that are young enough to be knowledgeable about the different television shows while also being able to recognize the lack of a father’s presence. I believe her targeted reader is actually her real reader as well. It’s easy to read to the article and remain interested when you’re able to recall the television shows that are discussed. The author, Jaime J. Weinman, also makes a clear argument based on popular shows that...
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...spend a few hours together. They have not seen each other in 3 years, and Charlie feels “terribly happy to see him again”…he feels his dad is “his flesh and blood, his future and his doom”…this perception changes as Charlie observes and suffers his father´s behavior. The intense feelings of love turn into sad disappointment, and a bitter realization of how the father really is…. Comment. Introduction Reunion means two or more people coming together again after a period of separation. This story tell us about young boy named Charlie. He has approximately 17 years old. His mother get divorced three years ago with his father. After this occurrence he hasn’t seen his father. He is going to visit long-unseen father in New York. This event is very important and exciting for him. He has some feeling about this meeting. He doesn’t know what he can expect from his father. Charlie’s father is a well-educated man with a high salary. He is also a very impolite person. He offended people in the restaurant and he didn’t want to listen anyone except himself. This behavior leads us to conclude even well-educated people can be arrogant and be cruel. Charlie was disappointed his behave. He understood why his mother divorced his father. He also finds out that his father didn’t care much about him. The boy realize he lost his father. The relationship between Father and the son is very neglected. They didn’t have a contact for 3 years. Every child in this situation would feel a little bit pushed...
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...and not getting a chance to even be with their new parents, it would be terrifying. Having a baby can be exciting and scary, so if the responsibilities are shared among the parents and they spend more time with the infant or adopted child, both will see that they have less duties to take on. Because fathers and their adolescents will share a better relationship, the entire family will benefit intellectually and psychologically, and each spouse will have a better martial relationship with one another, more fathers should take a paid paternity leave. The history of Paternity leave in America is not long, but as for other countries they...
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...his memories of his father? Bill Bryson’s narrative piece My Dad presents his father in mostly a frugal light. Throughout the text Bryson tells the audience a story of his childhood Summers travelling throughout the United States, however his language used jumps back and forth between his current self and him as a child ‘so that it resembled a porcupine’ and ‘it was like a bomb’ as he and his siblings would virtually throw out ‘flaming’ concoction of eggs, apples, and matches. Bryson’s tone is often pessimistic, as he cynically details out the roadhouses in which would be a ‘relative treat’ from his Father, he carries on to telling stories of siblings and him eating and ‘refuse to eat anymore’ of the undercooked food. Bryson uses many quotations from all his family members, this is to provide both examples and for the audience to understand the hierarchy in the family. It is clear through analysis that his Father was the one who held the highest ranking, as Bryson describes his Mother to use very few words, however the word’s she did use showed a lack of authority ‘I don’t know’, ‘dear’, ‘honey’, ‘can I…’ this gives the impression that Bryson’s father may have been abusive, the text does provide other examples of this for instance when they do not...
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...I want to thank everyone for being here today. The whole Smith family is grateful for your thoughts and prayers. I have been preparing for this day for about 20 years. I thought my father was going to die 20 years ago. He had a heart attack. His brother had died in his 60’s of a heart attack and his father had died of a heart attack in his 60’s. My father was 61, not a good record. So I cherished every day I had with him these last twenty years. To make it another 20 years is truly remarkable. We owe that mostly to two things: my mother and his grandchildren. My mom and dad were married almost 49 years, another pretty remarkable thing. I will never, ever forget how well my mother took care of my father. As with everything in our house, she was in charge of his health, thank god. Thank you mom for all you did. My father loved his grandchildren. Every single time I spoke to him he would say, how’s the baby. In the last couple of years I would say what baby? He would say you know who I’m talking about. I would say dad she’s ten. I said to him one day you treat your grandchildren better than your own children, he said that‘s because I had to raise you! My father could be brutally honest. My father’s happiest days were having everyone at his house, all his children and grand children. Many a birthday or anniversary we were all in my parent’s backyard having a great time. One of the great memories I have is being at my cousin Michele’s wedding last summer....
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...senior year in high school; the fourth high school I had been to in my whole high school career. My father and I never had a very good relationship but he was my only hope of getting back on track and of getting my diploma. It’s heart breaking to think that the person you have known your entire life and can’t even think of what his favorite color is horrible. It’s pathetic to say that about my own father but I quickly learn to deal with it. Throughout the year I started to make friends and I had one that I called my best friend. This was also her first year too just like me and we could definitely relate to each on all sorts of levels. We got along so well that we were eventually attached at the hip and no one could ever get in our way. People would say we were like two peas in a pod. At that point in my life I needed someone like her. I needed a friend and someone who could take my mind off my family distractions in my life, like my father. I know my father loves me but he never showed me the love or compassion I needed as far as what the responsiblities a father should have been in his daughters’ relationship. After the first half of the year, things started to get rough between my father, his girlfriend and I. His girlfriend was at that point trying to become my mother. I already had a mother and being who I was I was tough and was considered a “tomboy”. I had a very tough heart and a shield that was impossible to break down. Spring break rolls around and my fathers’ girlfriends...
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...short story “Mule Killers” is dealing with. Mule Killers is told by a narrator, who is telling the story of his father meeting his mother. It is a son telling about his father telling his son what happened the year he was 18 and the mule killers came. So the story takes place in two times, the present where the father and the son are picking asparagus in the garden and the past where the life of the father was changed for good. It all takes place in a farming area in America at the time where modern machinery reached the farms in Nashville. Tractors started to take over the farm and were therefore setting mules out of work. The narrator’s grandfather “…goes to Nashville and buys two International Harvester tractors for eighteen hundred dollars, cash…” (Page 9, line 13-14) The father is in the sons telling an 18-year-old teenager meaning that he is a little uncertain and confused about growing up, and with small ability to express his feelings towards other people. The uncertainty and suppression of his feelings will later in the short story have critical consequences, as he manages to make a young girl pregnant, without wanting to marry her. The father was imaging that he was with Eula, a girl from the town who he liked a lot – unfortunately for the father the love was not returned. The above-mentioned episode takes place just after another episode where the father, in an attempt to make Eula jealous, dates another girl. However,...
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...Aim The aim of the study was to report the findings of the treatment of a five-year-old boy for his phobia of horses. Procedure/Method Freud used a case study method to investigate Little Hans? Phobia. However the case study was actually carried out by the boy?s father who was a friend and supporter of Freud. Freud probably only met the boy once. The father reported to Freud via correspondence and Freud gave directions as how to deal with the situation based on his interpretations of the father?s reports. Freud noted that it was the special relationship between Hans and his father that allowed the analysis to progress and for the discussions with the boy to be so detailed and so intimate. The first reports of Hans are when he was 3 years old. Findings/Results The first reports of Hans are when he was 3 years old when he developed an active interest in his ?widdler? (penis), and also those of other people. For example on one occasion he asked ? Mummy, have you got a widdler too?? When he was about three years and six months old his mother told him not to touch his widdler or else she would call the doctor to come and cut it off. Around the same time, Hans? mother gave birth to his sister Hanna, and Hans expressed jealousy towards her though this disappeared after a few months. When Hans was almost 5, Hans? father wrote to Freud explaining his concerns about Hans. He described the main problem as follows: ?He is afraid a horse will bite him in the street, and this fear seems...
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