...dispels myth of failing single parents Penny turner would never say that it was easy to bringing up a child alone, but she have taking care of Jordan since he was born, from nine years ago. Penny means that it has become easier for her to teach Jordan the value things in live, because she hasn’t so much money. She means that Jordan is better off with just her, without his father. a lady named Teresa Goodman says that It is better for the child to live without conflicts, and is some child just live with one parents they get a lot more attention. Not all single parents has been created by failed relationships, some people want to brining up a child alone, maybe because their parents did that, ore because of their partner has died, or many other things. Rebecca tells her story about her bad relationships, and her boyfriend who’s leaved her when she was just nine month in her pregnancy. A.2 gives an outline Some positive things with single parenthood in the tree texts “Mothers Without Men”, “survey dispels myth of failing single parents”, and “Single moms by choice or Circumstance” is that there is very positive things about the single parenthood. Mothers Without Men.. positive things about Mothers Without men, is that now you can get a baby whit out a man in your live, but with Donor insemination for single woman. negative thing is that, some women means that if they not find mister right gay, the cant have any children, because no man, no child. survey dispels myth of...
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...Richard Leinicke Instructor Kelly English 105 8 February 2012 Being a Single Father in America What does it mean to be a single father in this country? At the time that my wife and I separated, I had no clue to the challenges that lay ahead. I had never given it much thought because like every married guy out there, I was never going to be without a partner to help me raise my kids. But I knew, that given my situation , I could not let them stay with their moth-er. And before you roll your eyes and say “yea, right”, I will just say that when it was all said and done and had gone before a judge, he too agreed with my opinion and awarded me full cus-tody of our two young boys. But, that is where the inequities and even prejudices started to ap-pear. My lawyer told me I could ask for child support but that I would likely get very little if nothing at all. And then if I did win a small amount that collecting it would be even tougher. I did not make a lot of money but it was more than she made. This way of thinking is so foreign to a man because we usually think of custody and all that goes with it being in favor of the wom-an. Most men, I was soon to discover, automatically just gave the kids to their wives and asked how much do I have to pay? I saw that this was not just a cliché but something that occurred with great regularity. They were usually...
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...Essay Single parenthood 1. Summary. The article "survey dispels myth of failing single parents" from 2006 is written by Denis Campbell. the article is about three single mothers who are raising their children alone which they believe are better for both the parent and for the child. The women in the text tell us about a few benefits from being a sole parent in charge, like they become stronger as a person because they are forced to take a decision themselves, based solely on their experience. They also mention that they can provide their children a with harmonious and safe upbringing and they don't have to divide their attention between their children and their partners. The article also says that single parent families have been associated with a lot of negative things and thoughts, and people always have been prejudiced against single parents, but this article shows some of the positive aspects of being a single parent. 2. Outline. In the three texts; "Mothers without men", "survey dispels myth of failing single parents" and "single moms by choice or circumstance - required reading", we can find similarities like positive/negative sides of single parenthood. One of the positive views we are introduced to is that if you are a woman, you do not have to wait for the perfect man to get pregnant, you just go to a sperm bank and look for a man that has got the traits you are after, and in that way your child would not witness a parent leaving, unless the mother dies of course. Another...
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...community. Single parenting and contributing factors that provides a cause and effect on the life of a child. That myths and stereotyping can cause problems in the raising of a child. That some men in the African American community lack confidence to follow their dreams, having a job to provide for their family and knowing that there is an answer to all questions to ensure the moral development of a child. The argument is to convince the reader that good responsible child could be raised by either a single parent or jointly. (Informal Fallacy identified as Composition) * Identify the barriers and lack of support from fathers in the African American community. The argument is that the African American male is undependable, uncommitted to marriage, prone to engage in violence, corrupt behaviors, and/or physically absent due to abandonment or incarceration. The argument is that this stereotype or myth has largely contributed to the fact many women raise children alone drawing from the conclusion that these myths take on a life of itself. That myths and stereotyping can cause problems in the raising of a child. That some men in the African American community lack confidence to follow their dreams, having a job to provide for their family and knowing that there is an answer to all questions to ensure the moral development of a child. (Informal Fallacy identified as Hasty Generalization) * Children deprived of the right of responsibility. There are too many mothers and fathers...
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...Frey Claffey English 2000 February 8, 2010 Word Count: 797 The Family’s Feud It is easy to come across stories in the news about husbands beating wives, robberies and murders in low-income areas. There is evidence that supports that the myth of the people who live in these areas and commit these crimes generally are unhappy, lack proper virtues, and have unhealthy lifestyles in this decade is true. The opposite pattern is true for those living in areas with strong family values. These neighborhoods generally have a happier, healthier, and more morally driven population. People who grow together as a married couple in the 2000’s tend to raise children that grow up to be happy and virtuous for the good of society. Roland Barthes explains: A myth, like the one mentioned above, “postulates a relation between two terms, a signifier and a signified”, families being the signifiers and their values being the signified (Barthes 112). The trends are that happy families tend to lead more productive lifestyles just as dysfunctional families are more prone to immoral ways of living. This essay will explain how nuclear families benefit society by providing children a better chance to live out successful lives. Families with one father and mother are essential for the proper and ethical upbringing of children. In her book, Urban Neighborhoods, Networks, and Families, Peggy Wireman contends that because “parents are the prime influences of a child’s life children tend to mimic their behaviors”...
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...In the article ‘A Poor Excuse for Marriage’, the author brings forward a very good point. The idea that marriage gets a woman out of poverty is a myth. In some cases, a woman with ah good paying job could marry a man with the same good paying job and still end up poor. Marriage does not guarantee that if the woman is in poverty that she would get out of it. No one, be it government or individual has the power to tell anyone to get married. Marriage should be an important decision that is thought out carefully before undertaken. A marriage just for the sake of getting out of poverty is the same as an arrange marriage in my book. The 22-year-old woman in the article is doing what is best for her and the child and not what society may think. I...
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...Athena was born fully grown from her father's forehead. This Greek goddess has no mother, but there are tales that say Zeus may have been with Metis around the time Athena arrived. Athena is the goddess of wisdom and warfare. She is known for her strategic skill in warfare and is known as “companion of heroes” and is the patron goddess of heroic strive (“Athena”). The Athenians considered her their “protector” and in honor of this, they named their city after her; Athens (“Myths”). She is commonly symbolized with an olive tree. Her sacred animals are the snake and owl. Athena is usually described as a rosy cheeked girl with a muscular body (“Athena”). She was one of the three Greek goddesses that remained a virgin (Littleton 171). Athena is one of the only goddesses that shows heroic skill and wisdom and she is one of the most important Greek and Roman goddesses known during this ancient time period....
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...In 1985, Richard Ramirez told police, “I spent my childhood in fear because all the other kids my age picked on me because of my appearance, but one night I went to the bedroom of one of the boys who tormented me and something came over me; something evil….a craving, that his death would satisfy me. Later as I was running from the scene, covered in blood, I thought ‘Was I a monster like all of them said or was I just pushed too far? (Hansen.)” Serial killers are one of the most fascination and morbid groups of people to study. A serial killer is someone who kills three or more people with a cooling off period (Hickey). Now the FBI has changed it to two people. In between their crimes the serial killer appears normal and fits in with society quite well. Serial killers are very different from all other murders. A serial killer is smart, cunning, and will conceal everything they can. A mass murder kills or tries to kill a lot of people at one time; like shooting up a school or movie theater. A spree murder kills one or two victims here drives to another town and does it again. There seems to be no logic to mass and spree killers. A serial killer is very special and has certain characteristics. Serial killers aren’t caught more quickly, because it is possible that many would-be serial killers are apprehended before they kill the three or more victims required to qualify them as such in the Bureau of Justice Statistics. Similarly, it is certain that some serial killers are detained...
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...English B examination A. 1. The article Survey Dispels myth of failing single parents describes Britain’s most negatively stereotype, one-parent families. Penny Turner, who is lone mother, but she don’t see it as something negative. Penny don’t have many money, but it doesn’t change anything for her. She think it’s easier for her, to teach her children the value of things. A survey of single parents’ attitudes to their situation, tell us, that large numbers of Britain’s 1.8 million lone mothers and fathers feel positive about rearing children on their own. Theresa Goodman think it’s better for the child to live without all the conflicts a marriage can bring, and the child get often more attention. The moms in this article, think that their children are better without a dad, because they think, there will be a lot of conflicts, and because there is only one to decide for the children. 2. I will make one list with positive side and one negative side, with the three articles in one list. Positive side of single parenthood It’s possible to get a baby without a man, but with help from Donor insemination for single woman. It’s easier to teach the children the value of things in live. It’s easier to teach the children in the things the mother or father means is the right way to do things. As a single parent, you will find out who your true friends really are. Negative side of single parenthood Some women means that if they not find Mr. right,...
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...Troy the film and myth The myth referenced in the film Troy is about how the Greeks, led by the Greek king, Agamemnon, defeated the kingdom of Troy, whose king was Priam. The story has it that Helen, the queen of Sparta, was seduced by Paris, Prince of Troy, to go to Troy and leave Menalaus, king of Sparta and her husband. Because of this betrayal Agamemnon, brother of Menalaus and king of the Greek city-states assembled a great army to sail across the Aegean to conquer Troy and take Helen back to Menalaus. The legend says, the city of Troy had a thick impenetrable wall that could not be breached by conventional means. Every army that stood to fight in front of the walls continuously failed. After 10 years of fighting, the Greeks finally had a plan to get their armies inside the walls of Troy. They made it appear as they had left. Before they left they built a great wooden Trojan horse. Inside the horse were Greek soldiers, who quietly waited until the horse was brought into the walls of Troy. After the city fell asleep, the Greeks opened the main gate and let the Greek armies into the city. After the city was sacked, Helen was taken back to Menalaus, and Achilles, the Greeks greatest warrior was killed in battle with a poison arrow to his heal. The movie revolves around Achilles and his struggle with Agamemnon which is documented in the myth. The movie had only a few similarities to the character of Achilles. He was definitely portrayed as a great, and inspirational...
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...Compare and contrast the Biblical creation myths with other creation myths from Greece and the Ancient Near East. This essay will compare and contrast the Biblical creation myths with other creation myths from Greece and the Ancient Near East. It will first discuss the initial creation of the universe followed by the creation of mankind and finally the recreation of man whilst drawing parallels to Sumerian and Babylonian texts, The Old Testament and Hesiods Theogony. In paying particular attention to the chronology of each myth it will be shown that the creation myths regarding the universe and mankind evolved from as far back as the Sumerian stories. From the fragmented Sumerian tablets discovered throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries , (that date back as far as the third millenium B.C.) Sumerologists, such as Samuel Noah Kramer, have deciphered the oldest cosmogonic concepts ever found . Kramer explains that because the Sumerians lacked "scientific methods of definition and generalization " to make sense of the origins and the working of the universe they attempted to provide explanation through the use of poetry, epic tales and hymns . The only scientific information they had access to was what could be seen around them, that being Earth, Air, Heaven and Water , and according to the Ancient Sumerians it was through these essential elements that the universe came to be and it begins with Nammu, the primeval sea. From the primeval sea was born...
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...FEAR OF MYTHS CURTIS BRAY JR MY-HA NGUYEN ITT ARLINGTON Author Note Abstract When I was eight years old, I remember having had many scary things happen to me. There is one scary moment that I still remember like it was yesterday because it was very difficult to forget, especially when you have been traumatized by a scary situation. Being an eight year old child, all I wanted to do was play without thinking about the consequences of not obeying my mother. At that time, one of the myths was that if children did not obey their parents, they could see the devil. According to the myth, the devil would appear to the children because they opted to ignore what parents were asking them to do. There are many other myths like this one some of these myths my mother and grandparents told to my brothers and me about. I thought that they was making a lot of emphasis about these myths because they wanted us to be obedient all the time, and I was insisting on not believing them, but One day, my mom asked me if I could go to the store to buy something for her and I replied to her, “Mom, why do not you send my brother?” I told my mother I did not want to go outside because it was very dark. I remember it was around 8:30pm or 9:00pm. Having in mind that my mother was getting angry at me because I was not obeying her, I decided I was not going to do what I was being asked to do. Finally my mom forced me to go to the store and she said to me, “The devil is going to appear to you, and...
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...Comparison of Creation Myths Carin M. Valencia HUM / 105 February 11, 2013 Gerald Grudzen PhD. Comparison of Creation Myths In the Chinese creation myth of Yin and Yang, it is taught that in the beginning, before the existence heaven and earth there was nothing but chaos. It is this chaos that eventually gave birth to one God and one Goddess and they would create Heaven and Earth and come to be known as Yin and Yang. “Yin gathered into herself all that was dark and heavy. And, like a thick, plodding mass, Yin sank downward into the earth and became one with it. And earth became square.” (Rosenberg, 2006, p.345) “Yang gathered into himself all that was bright and light. And, like a mist, Yang drifted upward into Heaven and became one with it. And Heaven became round.” (Rosenberg, 2006, p.345) It is also said, that Yang’s breath became hot and made fire and the sun, while Yin’s was cool and created water and the moon. From these came celestial bodies as well as different bodies of water, settling with their creators in Heaven and on Earth. The sheer essence of the Goddess Yin and the God Yang become the four seasons and from that comes all that is in existence, plants, trees, insects, humans etc. In this myth we see the two become separate entities that together form all of existence. The celestial beings and water together help to create all living things upon the earth that has been created. We see no destruction caused by the previous chaos, but the opposite, it is...
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...Myths in Developmental Psychology Anne Arundel Community College PSY 211-876 Professor: Lori K. Perez Prepared by: Srijana Khatri January 25th Development psychology characterizes the human growth thought the elder less for example childhood to middle hood to late adulthood so on. Developmental psychology study the human growth and the development ,but also the combine not only physical development but also cognitive ,social intellectual, percertual, personality and emotional growth. It also studies how we grow up in deferent culture and what we learned there. In different culture have there on life style also have myths which are very old they are coming from generation to ganerasion.all culture have developed their own mythology which does not have any scientist fact proof. It is important for us to understand development psychology .how we experience our lifestyle in different culture from parental growth to late adulthood and even after death. From the day we are born all of us experience our lives as member of a culture and our culture have many myths example I ma going to decries five myths in this assiment. According to the book “Human Development: A Cultural approach with Additional Material Custom edition for Anne Arundel community college :Human development mean the way people grow and change across the life span ; including people’s biological, cognitive ,psychological, and social functioning. From the day we born we all start our lives as member of a culture...
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...school or anywhere else; a paper-writing “service” (online or otherwise) which offers to sell written papers for a fee. Below is an original passage from a source followed by four passages that paraphrase and/or quote the source. For each of the four passages, identify whether it is or is not plagiarism and briefly explain your answer. This is the original text from Elaine Tyler May’s “Myths and Realities of the American Family”: Because women’s wages often continue to reflect the fiction that men earn the family wage, single mothers rarely earn enough to support themselves and their children adequately. And because work is still organized around the assumption that mothers stay home with children, even though few mothers can afford to do so, child-care facilities in the United States remain woefully inadequate. 1. Since women’s wages often continue to reflect the mistaken notion that men are the main wage earners in the family, single mothers rarely make enough to support themselves and their children very well. Also, because work is still based on the assumption that mothers stay home with children, facilities for child care remain woefully inadequate in the United...
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