...take risks in life and overprotecting them would not help them to grow up in life. How will your child learn the same life lesson as you if you are not letting him/her do it? Helicopter parenting is harmful to our children because they need to learn that sometimes you have to fail in life, they also need to learn how to take responsibilities for their actions and also parents are pushing them to be rebel. In the first place, your child need to learn that sometimes you fail in life, as being overprotective with your child you are not letting her/him experience risks and take advantage in life. In the article “For some, Helicopter Parenting Delivers Benefits” by Don Aucoin, according to Newman “When parents are making decisions for their children all the time and protecting them, when they get out on their own they do not know a thing about disappointment.” (Aucoin 3) As can be seen, parents cannot keep their child in this bubble created by them. Therefore, parents need to learn that kids need to fail, they need to feel bad sometimes so they can learn how to manage their future....
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...Helicopter Parenting On September 29, 2015 I visited the Southwest Minnesota State University for a college fair. Maybe it was too early in the morning or all of the grumpy students take morning classes, but out of all the college students I saw a mere seven looked content. A 2012 survey conducted by The Association for University and College Counseling Directors Annual, or the AUCCCD confirms, seventy percent of campus directors believe that the number of college students with severe psychological problems has increased in the past year. The survey finds the number one emotional concern among college students is anxiety (41.6 percent) and the second most is depression (36.4 percent). What is causing this college student syndrome? The irony...
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...by people which typically with an aim, meaning and involve a choice. On a rational basis, one makes decisions to maximize self-interest and minimize own loss. (Pütz, 1992) Within this context, ‘Self-interest’ means the consideration of advantage, which refer to both the material and psychological one, for oneself when they are making a decision. This essay will argue that humans act with respect to the account of their self-interest, which is a collective sum of different subjective values, regardless of whether it is conscious or not at the instance. Such argument will be declared by analyzing two distinctive kinds of actions, relationship-related action and charity action, in terms of their ultimate causality with self-interest. One best example of action demonstrating self-Interest motivation is parental love, particularly in Chinese culture. Subjectively, one family members and friends are seen as part of their own property. Protecting and acting along the self-interest of their beloved one is actually a guarding of one own self-interest. Nowadays in Hong Kong society, ‘helicopter parents’ is a popular phenomenon. Helicopter parents are those who over-protect, over-control and over-perfect their children by not requiring the children to take care of themselves while having extremely high expectations about their children’s academic and extra-curricular achievements. (Bayless, 2013) These parents will clarify their own actions to be out of their love to their children. However...
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...A Critique Essay on “The Myth of the Millennials” The journal The Myth of Millennials written by Edward Koc (March, 2008) do not make the readers clear about the facts of millennial generation because the general analysis made by Koc are based by observing the attitudes and behaviour patterns developed at the time of childhood of this generation. In contrast Elam et al 2007 conducted a survey to understand the generational differences by learning online systems. The results showed that millennial generation believe in group activity are very close to their parents, techno-crate and believes in cool is smart. Whereas the findings of the study shows that Millennial generation are not interested in online courses and are more interested in connecting with people and becoming more social. The Critiques developed after reading this article are that Koc should have provided more real facts and statistics to the readers so that they can easily understand the fact of the article. Koc states that the millennial generation constitutes the new college students, who will play the critical role in shaping the US economy as this generation has a unique set of characteristics required in today’s job market. The evidences Koc has used to convince the readers about the Myth of Millennials are the surveys and isolated and uncommon cases which have failed in defining the characteristics of these generations. Koc has argued that previous generations were also passionate towards the work and looked...
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...An essay on ‘over-parenting’ 1. Summary - The text is about an over-caring single mom, Robyn Lewis, with two boys, Ethan, 21 and Brendan, 18. Robyn is very involved in her son’s lives, by helping them with literally everything. All from doing their laundry to checking their personal e-mails and bank account balance. Brendan and Ethan are both attending college, away from home, and Robyn has a full-time job. Brendan and Ethan are very grateful for their mother, and describe her as a secretary, because she is organizing everything in their lives, for them. The author and consultant on parental relations, Helen Johnson, says and thinks that parents like Robyn Lewis, are far too involved in their children’s lives. She describes Robyn as a ‘Helicopter Mom’, which is a mom who does everything for her child. 2. Outline - In text 1 over-parenting is presented by describing a family, with an over-caring single mother, which does everything for her two sons. The mother believe that by doing everything for them, will keep balance in their lives; “We don’t know how to balance much of our lives yet when we’re 18”, she said. Helena Johnson is a consultant on parental relations, and she says: “I can understand why a parent would think, ‘I’m just doing what I think is right for my son or daughter.’ The problem is, they’re doing exactly what’s wrong for their son or daughter,” So she thinks that by doing everything for your child, the child won’t be self-reliant, the child will be the...
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...college-age student. Especially when you have overbearing, over protective parents. The article “No Escape From Helicopter Parents” explains that in great detail and acts as a means to inform and/or make people, parents in particular, aware of what their actions have on their offspring. I grew up as a military brat (US Army) and traveled all over the place. My parents were young and actually still growing up when I was a kid. So I wouldn’t classify them as “helicopter parents”. In this essay I will go in depth on the targeted audience, the purpose of the article and the larger context or the article. This article is clearly aimed directly at parents. The author even goes so far as directly addressing them by using “you” and in a sense pointing them out. The article flat out tells the targeted parents which are “baby-boomers” that they are too obsessed with their children. The term “baby-boomers” refers to people born post WWII which would include parents who are 51 and 70 years old today. The writer feels that these parents are guilty of inflating their kids’ egos as well as are more concerned with being their kids friend as oppose to being their parent. The purpose of this article is to bring to the attention of parents, in particular the “baby-boomers” the impact of their parenting style. They have good intentions with the “hovering” and lenience in parenting but it in fact cripples children. Constantly being there and endorsing mediocracy actually enables them to become...
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...Today's younger generation are arguably the most overworked generation America has seen in many generations. Frank Bruni tells describes of this in great detail in his reading “Today’s Exhausted Superkids”. Frank Bruni shares a well written article about today's overworked teens and the amount of sleep that seems to be lacking in the majority of their lives, and he provides evidence and other supporting writers but lacks in statistical evidence and disadvantages of lacking sleep. Bruni provides many statistical evidence and facts that help persuade the reader to see the topic from his perspective. He tells that “55 percent of american teenagers from ages 14 to 17 reported that they were getting less than seven hours of sleep a night”. Also...
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...Essay #1 - What are the four fields of anthropology and how do they relate to each other and to history, sociology, political science, philosophy and psychology. The four fields are: Physical Anthropology, Archaeology, Linguistic Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology or Ethnology. Anthropology is the study of humankind which can entail uniqueness, racial division, physical characteristics, geographical division and social relations of his or her environment. Anthropologist tries to discover if there are structural similarities and all four subfields bridge the gap between the knowledge and the human race. Physical anthropology is the human adaptation or alteration comes from this research for example genetics and forensics. Archaeologists seek and examine artifacts whether it is trash, historic or prehistoric. Linguistic anthropology is how language is used and acquired in a social network of humans historically from caveman’s to modern language today. Cultural anthropology or ethnology is the study of progressive culture throughout the world. Political Science relates to anthropology is tremendous as modern research is racial divide, customs and habits of man which has helped us the real background and development of the primitive man or woman. The behavior of man is biased by his racial origin and surroundings in which he or she resides. Sociology is the study of human culture or societal relations which relates to our four subfields of anthropology as sociology is part of...
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...The Hunger Games: Action-film feminism is catching fire Lisa Schwarzbaum Burning up Jennifer Lawrence’s Katniss Everdeen is both strong and vulnerable – a new kind of action heroine who has powered The Hunger Games: Catching fire to a $158m US debut. (Lionsgate) Jennifer Lawrence’s Katniss Everdeen is a new type of female action film icon, and moviegoers should be very excited about that, writes Lisa Schwarzbaum. As Catching Fire ignites on movie screens around the world, this is what we know about the 21st Century heroine called Katniss Everdeen: she is strong but also soft. She is brave but she has doubts. She is a phenomenal fictional creation, yet is real enough that moviegoers can draw inspiration from her values, her resourcefulness, and her very human inner conflicts. And she is played by Jennifer Lawrence, who appears not only to be handling her current duties as Hollywood’s finest model of well-adjusted millennial female stardom but doing so with charm. Everdeen and Lawrence: golden girls both. Personified in Lawrence’s lithe movements and cool, focused gaze, Katniss is a brave, resourceful and independent-minded fighter; but she is also a troubled and vulnerably guilt-ridden human being. Nina Jacobson, the producer of the Hunger Games film franchise, puts it this way: “She is a singular heroine in that the burden of survival weighs on her. She has a ton of survivor’s guilt. And she keeps surviving.” Girl on fire It is strange that behaving like a well-adjusted...
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...Contents Preface Acknowledgments Introduction 1 BRAIN POWER Myth #1 Most People Use Only 10% of Their Brain Power Myth #2 Some People Are Left-Brained, Others Are Right-Brained Myth #3 Extrasensory Perception (ESP) Is a Well-Established Scientific Phenomenon Myth #4 Visual Perceptions Are Accompanied by Tiny Emissions from the Eyes Myth #5 Subliminal Messages Can Persuade People to Purchase Products 2 FROM WOMB TO TOMB Myth #6 Playing Mozart’s Music to Infants Boosts Their Intelligence Myth #7 Adolescence Is Inevitably a Time of Psychological Turmoil Myth #8 Most People Experience a Midlife Crisis in | 8 Their 40s or Early 50s Myth #9 Old Age Is Typically Associated with Increased Dissatisfaction and Senility Myth #10 When Dying, People Pass through a Universal Series of Psychological Stages 3 A REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS PAST Myth #11 Human Memory Works like a Tape Recorder or Video Camera, and Accurate Events We’ve Experienced Myth #12 Hypnosis Is Useful for Retrieving Memories of Forgotten Events Myth #13 Individuals Commonly Repress the Memories of Traumatic Experiences Myth #14 Most People with Amnesia Forget All Details of Their Earlier Lives 4 TEACHING OLD DOGS NEW TRICKS Myth #15 Intelligence (IQ) Tests Are Biased against Certain Groups of People My th #16 If You’re Unsure of Your Answer When Taking a Test, It’s Best to Stick with Your Initial Hunch Myth #17 The Defining Feature of Dyslexia Is Reversing Letters Myth #18 Students Learn Best When Teaching Styles Are Matched to...
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...Outliers THE S T O R Y OF S U C C E S S MALCOLM G LAD W E L L # 1 bestselling author of The Tipping Point and Blink $27.99 $ 3 0 . 9 9 in C a n a d a Why d o s o m e p e o p l e succeed far more than others? T h e r e is a story that is usually told a b o u t extremely successful p e o p l e , a story that focuses o n intelligence a n d ambition. In Outliers Malcolm Gladwell a r g u e s that the true story o f s u c c e s s is very different, a n d that if we want to u n d e r s t a n d h o w s o m e p e o p l e thrive, we s h o u l d s p e n d m o r e time l o o k i n g around them — at s u c h things as their family, their birthplace, or even their birth d a t e . T h e story o f s u c c e s s is m o r e c o m p l e x — a n d a lot m o r e interesting — than it initially a p p e a r s . Outliers e x p l a i n s w h a t the B e a t l e s a n d Bill G a t e s have in c o m m o n , the e x t r a o r d i n a r y s u c c e s s o f A s i a n s at m a t h , the h i d d e n a d v a n t a g e s o f star athletes, why all t o p N e w York lawyers have the s a m e r é s u m é , a n d the r e a s o n y o u ' v e never h e a r d o f the w o r l d ' s s m a r t e s t m a n — all in terms o f g e n eration, family, c u l t u r e , a n d c l a s s . It matters w h a t year y o u were b o r n if y o u want to b e a S i l i c o n Valley billionaire, G l a d w e l l a r g u e s , a n d it matters w h e r e y o u w e r e b o r n if y o u want to b e a s u c cessful p i l o t . T...
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...and Other Stories Arthur Dobrin © 2010 2 Arthur Dobrin CONTENTS Passing Stranger — 3 Love the One You’re With — 19 Lemon — 40 Shila — 59 Ayew’s Last Letter — 73 Girls in Paradise — 80 The Coriolis Effect — 98 The Train to Amsterdam — 121 Black Ice — 134 (E)ruction (D)isorder — 154 Coral Fish — 169 In Treasured Teapots — 179 Deep Well — 196 The Harder Right — 210 Notes — 222 THE HARDER RIGHT 3 Passing Stranger A WOMAN. Perhaps that’s why. The first and still the only in the clergy association. Or maybe it is because of where she is from. No one from San Francisco had come to live here before. Occasionally an outsider moved to this town, in the northern tier of the state, but the flow is almost always in the other direction, away from, not into. And the few that do come to stay aren’t from California, a place that to this day, decades after it had long faded, is believed to be an incubator for radical lifestyles and subversive politics. 4 Arthur Dobrin Or perhaps her name—Ailanthus—a strange one, where here, if you are named after flora it is Rose or Violet or another sweet smelling flower that could be grown in the garden. It must be a name given to her by a hippie mother, a band given to bestowing peculiar names on their children. No one knows of a girl being named after a tree. They never heard of an ailanthus...
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...P LA T O and a P LAT Y P U S WA L K I N TO A B A R . . . Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes < T H O M A S C AT H C A RT & D A N I E L K L E I N * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * P l at o a n d a P l at y p u s Wa l k i n t o a B a r . . . PLATO and a PLAT Y PUS WA L K I N T O A B A R . . . < Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes Th o m as Cat h c a rt & Dan i e l K l e i n A B R A M S I M AG E , N E W YO R K e d i to r : Ann Treistman d e s i g n e r : Brady McNamara pro d u c t i on m anag e r : Jacquie Poirier Cataloging-in-publication data has been applied for and may be obtained from the Library of Congress. ISBN 13: 978-0-8109-1493-3 ISBN 10: 0-8109-1493-x Text copyright © 2007 Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein Illlustration credits: ©The New Yorker Collection 2000/Bruce Eric Kaplan/ cartoonbank.com: pg 18; ©Andy McKay/www.CartoonStock.com: pg 32; ©Mike Baldwin/www.CartoonStock.com: pgs 89, 103; ©The New Yorker Collection 2000/ Matthew Diffee/cartoonbank.com: pg 122; ©The New Yorker Collection 2000/ Leo Cullum/cartoonbank.com: pg 136; ©Merrily Harpur/Punch ltd: 159; ©Andy McKay/www.CartoonStock.com: pg 174. Published in...
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...Contents Title Page Dedication Prologue CHAPTER ONE: Republicans and Democrats CHAPTER TWO: Values CHAPTER THREE: Our Constitution CHAPTER FOUR: Politics CHAPTER FIVE: Opportunity CHAPTER SIX: Faith CHAPTER SEVEN: Race CHAPTER EIGHT: The World Beyond Our Borders CHAPTER NINE: Family Epilogue Acknowledgments About the Author Also by Barack Obama Copyright Prologue IT’S BEEN ALMOST ten years since I first ran for political office. I was thirty-five at the time, four years out of law school, recently married, and generally impatient with life. A seat in the Illinois legislature had opened up, and several friends suggested that I run, thinking that my work as a civil rights lawyer, and contacts from my days as a community organizer, would make me a viable candidate. After discussing it with my wife, I entered the race and proceeded to do what every first-time candidate does: I talked to anyone who would listen. I went to block club meetings and church socials, beauty shops and barbershops. If two guys were standing on a corner, I would cross the street to hand them campaign literature. And everywhere I went, I’d get some version of the same two questions. “Where’d you get that funny name?” And then: “You seem like a nice enough guy. Why do you want to go into something dirty and nasty like politics?” I was familiar with the question, a variant on the questions asked of me years earlier, when I’d first arrived in Chicago to work in low-income neighborhoods. It signaled a cynicism...
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