...Growing up, we tend to look up to our parents/guardians and all that they do. Our parents are there to help us celebrate our best moments in life, to kiss our cuts when we fall down and hurt ourselves, to love us, to nurture us, to be our backbone. We learn life-skills from them such as how to walk, how to count, how to tie our shoes, how to ride a bike, to stand up for ourselves when dealing with bullies, we are even taught about the birds and the bees. But what happens when we’re the ones teaching our parents? In Cormac McCarthy’s novel, The Road, we are met with the nameless characters, known as a father and his young son, who travel and attempt to survive post apocalyptic Earth. They set out to the south west in hopes to find people just like themselves, who are still morally correct in a world full of cannibalistic savages. The father shows the boy how to survive through making fires, dispersing their daily intake of food, sleeping in various locations, and other ways just to be safe and healthy. The father teaches him that they are the few morally correct people still left on Earth, as he wishes to teach his son as much as he can, before the father’s time runs out. The boy is seen as a God-like figure to his father as he is a beacon of light in a world full of darkness, the hope of the future, due to his correct moralities, as this reflects onto the father in various situations through the novel. It is quite notable that though the father plays an influential figure for...
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...throughout. I think the readers will have agreeable attitudes towards the issue of school bullying. I think the readers will feel the same way when it comes to how schools are lacking to respond to bullying issues around the schools. I think the readers will influence my letter by commenting and adding on to what I am presenting. 5. Context: I will just include relevant information that affects the support that I am providing in my letter. 6. . Personal Experience: I have been bullied as a child. There was a girl who attended the same elementary school and she bullied me every single day. I am not sure why she picked me to pick on but she did. I was so scared of her but I had to find a way to stop her from humiliating me. I was so scared to even tell the instructor on her. So one day, I just got tired of her bullying me so I should her that I was no longer scared of her. After that, I never had a problem with her again. 7. Summarize/Paraphrase: a. Mr. Smith (2014) stated that bullying can be...
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...Why Are We Scared Of Growing Old? Most people who are 59 or 65 or even 70+ do not think of themselves as old. Generally, people think old age begins around when you are going. The gateway to old age has been moved back, because we’re living longer, people are staying healthy longer and people are remaining active longer. You can see famous musicians like sir Paul McCartney who is 73, and he played at Roskilde Festival, which takes a lot of energy. Most boomers have changed careers multiple times, 50 percent have changed spouses. They’ve relocated their careers, their lives, their friends again and again. And so why would they stop doing that when they have more free time and when they are a bit older? You knew you might live 60 or 65 or 70 years. So you learned until, let’s say, 20 years. Then you worked and raised your family for approximately 40 years, and then you rested. How bad can a society with welfare allow treating the elderly people? And vice versa: How much can the elderly people allow to require of the society? All taxpayers and adults/elderly people are part of the welfare society. So all that we need, regardless of age, gender, religion and ethnicity are to be considered and treated as part of the welfare society with access to institutions and services, which are built up in our society today. The elderly people can of course allow requiring just as much as younger...
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...himself many reasons why he should not contact her so he doesn’t get hurt in the end. He tries so hard to protect himself by shutting things out that could potentially hurt him. Holden Caulfield the protagonist isolates himself, has many fears, especially about growing up, and can’t connect well with people. Holden isolates himself from his society. Holden then becomes...
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...I really like prisons The day I turned 11, we met ”The King of Leaves” when leaving the residence. His nickname arose from his skills in raking fallen autumn leaves. My mother took me to school that day, probably in order to help me carry the cake or the ’flødeboller’ that I was to give to class. Seeing the King of Leaves, I happily told him about this being my birthday. He instantly wanted to give me a gift, some Ga-Jol liquorice, which was everything he had at the moment. Our joy was short. My mother was kind, but determined, when declining the gift. One does not accept presents from inmates, that’s it. Other children knew prisons, too – though to them they had to to with the Dalton Brothers (from the European cartoon called Lucky Luke), the Beagle Boys and cartoon-striped uniforms for inmates. I knew those, too, but at the same time I lived in a real prison: The State Prison of Sdr. Omme, where my father was the warden. The prison entailed three zones: Outside, inside and the inner core, which was home to the inmates and where I was not allowed unless with my father. We went there way too seldom. At the age of five – ten years, I would have spent most of my time in the ‘inner core’ if I had been allowed. The inmates were just as fond of the prison child as I was of them, but apart from that the prison was really interesting. I was allowed to go much more often to the office building, on Sundays, where the head quarter officers offered me Danish pastry (a...
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...abuse, and neglected. Every year, there are thousands of children are physically abused by no one else but their parents or relatives (Child Abuse). Although a child can be neglected or suffers from physical damage, he/she has to suffer the most from emotional damage because those emotional traumas can last a lifetime (Child Abuse). Children who have been abused are scared to tell anyone about what they have experienced or choose to be quiet because the person who mistreated them is someone they are scared of, or someone they love very much (What to know). Surprisingly, parents are the most likely to abuse their children because of their mental issues or their history of abusing childhood (What to know). Also, when abused children become abusing parents, they tend to have a higher risk of anxiety and depression, therefore, they have more problem trying to maintain lasting and stable relationships (Child Abuse). The reasons why adults express abusive behavior are when they do not now how to apply the right methods to discipline their child, and when adults have temper problems due to excessive use of alcohol and drugs (Why). In addition, the closer the child to the abuser, the more serious the emotional damage will be (What to know). Therefore, early identification and treatment is very important to minimize the long-term effects of abuse (Child Abuse). If a child has been abused, a child’s safety is the primary concern, he/she needs to be in a safe environment away from the...
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...Each and every person is unique and has their own experiences, but if there’s anything that we all have in common is having fear. Fear is a feeling that everyone has felt at one point in their life; whether it’s fear of spiders, public speaking or heights everyone has felt it and has possibly tried to overcome it. In my case my fear was roller coasters back in eighth grade and just like many people I was determined to overcome my fear. There are three things to look forward to in eighth grade; being the oldest and feeling a sense or leadership, being the last year of your middle school experience, and the end of year field trip to Six Flags. Of course I was excited for all these things except for one, the Six Flags field trip. However, fourteen...
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...the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt." This quote is by Max Lerner. The things that kids go through to enter maturity can be complicated. Their task is to come across themselves, and grow into the mature person they will become. There are facing some difficult journeys filled with new things, difficult situations, confusion, and a loss of childhood innocence. The novel Bless Me, Ultima, written by Rudolfo Anaya, is about Antonio Marez, a young boy who has to make his way into maturity and in doing so he deals with some things that are not common for a boy his age. Antonio becomes emotionally mature from crying about deaths to staying tough when he sees the decease, intellectually mature by showing how intelligent he becomes and physically mature by changing in size and strength. For example, Antonio is the reason for many of his parent’s arguments that occur. They fight over what Antonio would be when he is older. This is not something usual for a seven years old kid. Most kids his age are spoiled by their parents and family and all they do is play with the other kids and just have fun. However, Antonio is stuck between two fires and he is thinking about what he wants to become, due to his parents arguments. Antonio’s mother wanted him to be extremely intelligent, and she wanted him to be a priest when he grows up. She said “An education will make him scholar, like-like the old Luna priest.”(57)...
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...In his work “No Ghost Stories at Camp” Alex Beam asks, “Isn’t conquering fear an integral part of growing up?” which it is. Furthermore, a bunch of twenty year olds can’t be running around college campuses freaking out about a spider in their dorm room. It would be outrageous. Although, the horror genre may still give hordes teenagers a chill, but these aspects of pop culture can help them conquer their fears. When several summer camps avoid telling spooky stories around a fire, as they are inappropriate for younger audiences, children are not experiencing something that will eventually help them mature into...
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...emotion that we need to use. She says that “Children need to be frightened. We all do. It’s an emotion that was given to all of us and it should be exercised. When you don’t exercise it, you lose your sense of fear. That’s why my granddaddy told me scary stories. He wanted me to know that only fools rush in where angels fear to tread. You should be a little hesitant occasionally, his stories were saying, you should think twice before going into the woods, there just might be a hairy man, and you need to be cautious.” Jackie feels quite confident in this notion, and it makes sense. Identically, if children are never shown the horror genre, would they even know that dangerous articles exist? The next generation would be filled with total airheads. Not afraid of anything, not necessarily brave, just clueless as to what in fact happens outside their comforting walls. Is that a pleasant idea? No. Thirdly, the bulk number of people is required to conquer their fears eventually, so it is not necessarily an inadequate artifact to let adolescents experience scary movies and books that are a part of the horror genre. In his work “No Ghost Stories at Camp” Alex Beam asks, “Isn’t conquering fear an integral part of growing up?” which it is. Furthermore, a bunch of twenty year olds can’t be running around college campuses freaking out about a spider in their dorm room. It would be outrageous. Although, the horror genre may still give hordes teenagers a chill, but these aspects of pop culture can...
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...In this paper I will be looking at the movie The Blind Side and analyzing the character of Sean Jr., known in the movie also as S.J. I will be looking at S.J.’s development in Sigmund Freud’s latency period and Erik Erikson’s stage of Industry vs. Inferiority. I will also write about the traditional and alternate paradigms that relate to this character in the movie and the risk and protective factors that affect him. At the end of the paper I will discuss why looking at a person in all of these different aspects is important in the work of a generalist social worker. The Theorists In our class discussion and PowerPoint, we learned that Sigmund Freud believes that a child goes through five different stages before they reach the maturity of...
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...today i am going to talk to you about phobias. So what is a phobia? A phobia is an extreme fear of or to something. A phobia is learned through heaps of fear resulting in a phobia that lasts for a long time. Where did the word phobia came from? It came from the latin word phobos which meant fear and a lot of fear and a tad more fear. There are three main types of fears: specific phobias, social phobia and agoraphobia.Specific phobias are ones that are phobias with living creatures, for example spiders, bats, snakes and flying.These are some of the phobias under specific phobias. Social phobias, these phobias are phobias that come in when you are with friends or even at school. Agoraphobia, this is a type of phobia that makes you scared of yourself in situations where there is no escape, it may include traveling in buses, cars, planes, large shopping malls.This may cause panic disorder. Some phobias originate from traumatic childhood experiences whilst others we are not sure about. How can you get rid of your phobia? Well you can have exposure therapy which is the most effective way, but you can also have hypnosis treatment, but that is not the best because people have been know to do the opposite and be so confident it nearly kills them! Here are a few facts to show you that phobias are not always bad they can be good also. Nearly 17% of people with social phobias develop depression. The majority of people use medications, but around 30% use illegal drugs or...
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...It was morning and I was a little seven year old getting ready for school. As I was getting ready for school my mom was talking on the phone. A few minutes passed and she hung up and she started crying. Instead of walking away I went to her and we sat down on the couch, and she told me that her dad passed away which means my grandpa passed away. He passed away a few days after he got released out of the hospital. I had to go to school that day anyway, but that day I left early. When I got home my mom had packed our luggages, and next thing you know we are in a car on our way to California. I remember when I was growing up I would love to see my grandparents, and when my grandpa went to work I always waited to see him and gave him a hug....
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...“Sonny’s Blues” VS “Why I Live at the P.O.” Comparing and contrasting two stories can be a difficult task when one does not understand the plot of a story. Plot is simply the arrangement of the action, which can consist of any type of event or a series of events that go on in the story. It is also important to know about the structure of a plot to understand what is going on in the story. A plot consists of action, along with exposition, rising action, turning point (climax), falling action and a conclusion (Booth, et.al, 2006, p57). I chose to compare and contrast “Sonny’s Blues” and “Why I live at the P.O.” because both of their plots revolve around siblings and their struggle to accept each other. In “Sonny’s Blues” brother is struggling with Sonny’s addiction to “horse” and in “Why I live at the P.O.” Sister is dealing with the jealousy she has towards her sister, Stella-Rondo. James Baldwin uses the plot of “Sonny’s Blues” to show how difficult it can be to reestablish a relationship with family after years of no contact. He uses a difficult time such as Sonny’s addiction to heroine to have his brother want to be a part of his recovery. Brother finds out that Sonny has gotten into trouble and is scared about the situation along with scared for Sonny. He is scared because he had his suspicions but he did not want to know anything about it. Brother just wanted to believe Sonny “… was wild, but he wasn’t crazy” (Baldwin, 82). He had always believed his brother...
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...Bambara, one could notice the high tension that Sylvia and Miss.Moore have. It is made clear from the start that Sylvia is already a troubled young lady that is at a constant war with herself. Building up to this experience Sylvia is pushed over the limits when she finds out that not only Miss.Moore moves into the neighborhood but is also going to take the children's summer away. Sylvia seems to not like Miss.Moore because she is scared that Miss.Moore will take her spot and or show the kids that Sylvia is not all that she seems to be. In the beginning of the story, it is evident that Sylvia seems to have an attitude problem with other people. Sylvia says, “back in the days when everyone was old and stupid or young and foolish and me and Sugar were the only ones just right” (Bambara #).One could notice that Sylvia say me and Sugar instead of the saying Sugar and I. Which shows that Sylvia has this demeanor of everything has to be around her. Or it could be taken that Sylvia does not care about school and she does not pay attention in school. Maybe that is why Sylvia has such a hatred for Miss.Moore. However it is clear that Sylvia...
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