...wonderful meals. We stayed there for a week. After one week, we returned to our home. It was the best memory of my childhood and I'll never forget my first holiday with my family. The worst experience: Narrative I went to the Emergency Room for the first time when I was eleven years old. When I was riding a bike in front of my grandmother's house, I tried to do a trick. I messed it up in the end and headed to the ground with my hands down. I fell hard on the ground, my left wrist was twisted the wrong way. At first it did not hurt at all, but a short time later when I looked at my warped and twisted ankles, sudden excruciating pain, my whole body was wrapped. Rolling around on the ground yelling and cussing in pain, my parents saw what happened and came running to my aid. After about ten minutes of yelling and screaming, I finally got up and held my wrist as I walked to the car. The whole way to the hospital the pain got worse and worse. Later I foound out the increase in pain was due to swelling the broken bone. After waiting impatiently, I finally learned that x-rays were taken and my wrist was broken and my doctor put plaster on my broken wrist. It was the worst day of my life and I’ll never forget the pain I had. First Love: Narrative I may not have had a first love to remember, but I still remember vividly my first crush. First, Her name was...
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...obesity. This lawsuit raised some controversial questions about corporate responsibility versus personal responsibility. Is McDonalds truly the cause for this child's weight problem or the individual or even the parents themselves? There are studies that show an individual could be obese due to genetics but it is absolutely a matter of personal responsibility. Mcdonald's advertising did not force this family into their restaurant or force feed them double cheeseburgers everyday to their child. It certainly did not mislead this family's knowledge about the importance of a living a healthy life style and the importance of eating right. In some ways the idea that obesity could be a matter of corporate responsibly completely undermines the decisions of American people and how they live their lives. People who think that McDonalds advertisements are unfairly advertised to society and to children forget to realize that is the companies rights to advertize however they freely want. In the first amendment of the constitution it clearly states the protection of freedom of speech and this includes commercial advertising. A wide majority of companies like McDonalds advertises to children to a extent. The reason why is because it works. Children are easily influence with music, toys and characters such as Ronald...
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...How Children Are Impacted By Marital Infidelity Abstract This research will show how a parent’s infidelity can impact their children’s perspective of marriage, love and intimate relationships. The study was conducted in April 2014 and explored the impact of a parent’s infidelity on adults through a review of literature and critical analysis of the information in an ethnographic, qualitative manner. Table of Contents TITLE …………………………………………………………………..…1 ABSTRACT ……………………………………………………….….…..2 Introduction ……………………………………….………………………4 Research on infidelity …...………………………………………..……….5 Social media as a source to increase cheating………………….………….6 Adult children of parental infidelity…………………………………….....6 Results of children with cheating parents …………………………………7 Assumptions and Limitations ………………………………………….…..9 Conclusion…………………………………………………………………11 Work cited …………………………………………………………………12 Infidelity A business owner has been married to his wife for only 25 years. This couple has 3 children. The couple appears to be happily married, and they have a nice home. A late Friday night after he leaves his company he decides to go to a bar with his cousin and leaves the wife to take care of his and his cousins kids. At the bar the man and his cousin go to the bar to order a beverage. Not after ordering his drink, a woman goes up to him. She asks the men if she can join them. The three of them seem to enjoy...
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...unthinkable happens; thousands of children are involved in crimes. They are the victims of sexual abuse, kidnappings, violent attacks or online predators. Data collected from the NCVS (National Child Victimization Survey) in 2010 showed that male (14.3 victimizations per 1,000) and female (13.7 per 1,000) youth were equally as likely to experience violent crimes such as rape or sexual assault, robbery and aggravated assault. Compared to a study done in 1994 when male youth (79.4 in 100) were nearly twice as likely as female youth (43.6 per 1,000) to be victims of serious violent crimes (Lauristen and White). Because of the increase in children crimes, many investigators are strictly being assigned to cases that involve children as the victim. With the many...
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...http://www.child-abuses.com/tag/types-of-dysfunctional-families Roles of Dysfunctional Families "The Good Child" - often the family hero who assumes the parent role 2. "The Problem Child" - becomes the scapegoat 3. "Caretaker" - takes responsibility for the emotional well-being of the family 4. "The Lost Child" inconspicuous, the quiet one [References] Bradshaw, J. (2010). Dysfunctional Family. Retrieved from http://www.wordiq.com/definition/Dysfunctional_family WHAT GOES WRONG IN DYSFUNCTIONAL FAMILIES? * Deficient Parents Deficient parents hurt their children more by omission than by commission. Frequently, chronic mental illness or a disabling physical illness contributes to parental inadequacy. Children tend to take on adult responsibilities from a young age in these families. Parental emotional needs tend to take precedence, and children are often asked to be their parents' caretakers. Children are robbed of their own childhood, and they learn to...
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...The Effects of Divorce on Children The statistics for divorce in the 1990's suggest that nearly sixty percent of marriages end in divorce. Given this startling figure, the presumption can be made that many children will experience some effects caused by the life-changing event called divorce. What is it exactly about divorce that causes negative consequences for these children? In what ways will these children be affected? Will these effects show outwardly? The unsettling fact is: young children of divorced parents face great psychological challenges due to the environmental conditions and changes associated with divorce (Wolchik and Karoly). When we pass the year 2012, we will see two groups of working age adults emerging. One group will have received psychological, social, economic, educational and moral benefits and the other group will have been denied them all. The first group will have grown up with both parents present in the house and the second group will have not had both parents present. Parental conflict appears to have a pronounced effect on the coping efforts of children. The intense anxiety and anger between some parents in the early stages of divorce is real. Often time’s parents allow their children to get in the middle of fierce verbal fighting between them. Berating the other parent in front of the child is another way of placing the child in an unfair position, which in essence is expecting the child to choose between the parents. Any form of parental conflict...
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...than harm, and so far people see that good things such as an increase in country’s gross domestic product and economic output from those country is happening. But, that’s just a glance of external view out of a lot of things that really happened inside of the country that legalize prostitution itself, such as morale issue and women trafficking. This writing will boldly show and explains the arguments against legalizing prostitution and why a country like Indonesia should not legalize prostitution. Some people, whom agree to legalize prostitution, come up with arguments that from their point of view will bring more goods than bad. First, they argue that legalizing prostitution will decrease the number of sexual harassment and rape. They believe that by the legalization of prostitution, it will reduce the number of unwanted sex since it is now woman’s choice to get in to the business of prostitution or not and it will not be called as rape if both parties are willing to have sex. Second, It will be better and safer for sex-workers if prostitution was legalized and regulated. This point argue that if prostitution was legalized then there will be less crimes against (un-legalized) prostitutes and make sure that if crimes against prostitution happened, it will not go unpunished since prostitution is a legal job, regulated under the law itself. Third, they argue that there will be no hired underage and trafficked women hired by pimps and brothels if prostitution was legalized as a job...
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...they work. Slavery had previously existed throughout history, in many times and most places. The ancient Greeks, the Romans, Incas and Aztecs all had slaves. To be a slave is to be owned by another person. A slave is a human being classed as property and who is forced to work for nothing. Andrea Levys’ novel entitled “The Lost Song” and Edward T. Jones’ “The Known World” revealed to us the plight of being a slave rooted from their ancestral family and own personal experience as a slave. The two books have the same plot that unraveled the world of human existence happened in 19th century where forced labor centered in the sugar cane plantation. The main characters have a slight difference because the first one is directly the slave victim and the latter is born slave but became a slaver, owning a slave he bought. The Lost Song is set in the time of slavery and it is a story about a person’s life and the times they lived through. July a black house slave, is the main character that tells her own story. It features her mother, her father, her owner, her lover, her children. It’s the story of her life lived in a society so strange to us that we can barely understand it. Dramatic events in the story happened in Jamaica during this time – real events, like Baptist Wars, the period of Apprenticeship, and emancipation itself. Thomas Kinsman's mother has lived most of her life with...
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...Racism and Research: The Case of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study Rohan Lalani Sociology 1301-304 San Jacinto College Professor Ann Reynoso Semester- Fall 2017 10/5/2017 This research article is about the experiment initiated by the U.S public health services in 1932 in Macon county, Alabama. The experiment was to determine the natural course of untreated, latent syphilis in black males. The test included 400 syphilitic men, and in addition 200 uninfected men who filled in as controls. The main distributed report of the investigation showed up in 1936 with resulting papers issued each four to six years, through the 1960s. At the point when penicillin turned out to be generally accessible by the mid-1950s as the favored treatment for syphilis,...
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...false and only proved his innocence along with the witnesses testimony. Why he was arrested is still a mystery, but after being realised he had lost everything. The wife he once had divorced him along with denying his request to see his children, his house, and job all gone. There are many cases like his own were innocent people are destroyed because of the mistake of the so called people of the law. Evidence is overlooked or ignored but the other problems are how prejudice we can be as human beings. Humans judge unintentional which can cause bias convictions. The law has become untruthful at times inflicting fear into those who should feel at peace around the law proving many ideas. That the Criminal justice system is inequitable and need to be reformed. For as long as we can remember the Justice System has been putting away many different types of criminals. Laci Peterson, a 7 month pregnant woman had been butchered. This woman was found near a marina, the male fetus was discovered one mile away at a beach in San Francisco months after the murder. Exposing the...
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...my surprise they found that when the strangers thought they were the only one around 85% of them helped. When the strangers thought that there was one other person 65% of them helped. Only 31% of the strangers helped when they thought that four other people were around (Senghas, 2007). As astonishing as this research is we witness this type of disregard for other citizens everyday. A famous true story that showcases how people will ignore someone in need is the story of Kitty Genovese. Genovese was attacked and murdered for 45 minutes in public. More appalling than the murder was the fact that 38 people watched and did nothing (Senghas, 2007). According to the bystander effect if there were fewer people around, Genovese’s life may have been saved. Other researchers have done studies similar to the one that Latane’ and Darley conducted. In a study of High School and...
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...desk. By 15 the visions of The Device—a girl entering a ballroom, a man dying on the battlefield—seemed more real than her actual adolescent life. She would sit with it, motionless, oblivious to everything around her, for hours on end. Its addictive grip was so great that she often stayed up half the night, unable to put it down. Reading the words, “She would sit with it, motionless, oblivious to everything around her for hours on end,” in most cases that is the harsh...
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...Actions Speak Louder Than Words One cannot learn to dance simply by watching. He must interact with the music, not through his mind but through is body. Calculating the mathematics of dance out on paper will help you no better understand it than watching a muted movie … blindfolded. In Michel de Montaigne’s narrative, “On Educating Children”, he explains how one must put forth character and intelligence before knowledge. It is simple to read then reread for the sake of memorization. For instance, during my toddler years I was able to recite the ABC’s forward and backwards, but if you had asked me to read The Great Gatsby by Scott Fitzgerald, you would be in for a surprise, for I would had introduced characters and plots unknown to man-kind! My point being, just because I was able to regurgitate the alphabet, did not mean that I truly understood the each of the letters. It is through the action of practicing the ‘words’ when one can begin to naturally enrich his mind with understanding. Not all children are one in the same. In today’s educational system, children are treated as just that, identical. So it would come to no surprise to Montaigne that out of a class of 30 individuals, only one or two students would have properly understood the material that was “taught” to the whole class. Montaigne states, “Spewing up food exactly as you have swallowed it is evidence of a failure to digest and assimilate it; the stomach has not done its job if, during concoction, it...
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...Bois, 1970 The Band-Aid Over a Bullet Wound: How American Charter Schools are not the solution to Systematic Inequality When I was in first grade, my parents pulled me into a room and sat me on my mother’s lap. I was seven at this point, but I was always small for my age so I was still able to do this. I remember being nervous because they were acting so serious and I wondered if they were getting ready to break some bad news. I sat patiently, attempting to read their facial expressions to see if I was in trouble or if something bad had happened. And then the question came… “Maryam…Where do you want to go to school next year?” For the first few years of my education I attended public school. I went to B.M. Williams Primary School in Chesapeake, Virginia and to say I loved it would be an understatement. I was always “advanced” for my age. My teachers told me I read on a fourth grade level. I aced my math drills like they were nothing, and I always ended the year by taking home tons of awards and certificates such as “Best Reader” and “Most Likely to Become President.” School for me was the center of my world, not only because I was seven and what else do seven year olds do besides go to school, but also because my dad was a teacher. I always understood the value of education being that my father devoted his whole life to it. My parents came from very poor backgrounds, growing up in the slums of Philly. As a child, I remember my parents being in school for as long as I could...
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...FEMALE SUICIDE TERRORISM - BLACK WIDOWS - Current Affairs: Conflict and Violence in Contemporary Eastern Europe Tereza Režnarová 201200250 Mark Eaton May 29, 2012 [Zadejte text.] Table of Contents 1. Introduction .................................................................................................................. 2 2. Terrorism ...................................................................................................................... 3 2.1 Suicide Terrorism ..................................................................................................... 3 2.2 Female Suicide Terrorism ........................................................................................ 4 3. Chechnya and Women ................................................................................................. 4 4. Female Chechnya’s Terrorism: Black Widows ......................................................... 5 4.1 Black Widows ........................................................................................................... 5 4.2BlackWidowsandfewoftheirtargetsinRussia .............................................................. 6 4.3 Black Fatima ............................................................................................................ 7 4.4Interviews with the closest people of Black Widows ................................................. 7 5. Two the worst massacres ........................................................
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