... with social and emotional wellbeing variously described in terms of mental health, resilience, psychosocial competence and the like. While the discourse of wellbeing is now widely appropriated as a way of capturing our aspirations for children and young people, the term itself is poorly defined and under-theorised (Griffiths & Cooper, 2005; Hamilton & Redmond, 2010; McAuley & Rose, 2010; Noble, 2008). There is a significant instability and ambiguity around the term ‘wellbeing’ both in public policy and popular discourse. Ereaut and Whiting (2008) contend that signals a shifting set of meanings, that is, it represents what is collectively agreed by a group or number of groups constituting the Aristotelian notion of ‘the good life’. In similar vein, Ryan and Deci (2001, p.141) propose that wellbeing is a complex construct that concerns optimal experience and functioning, which will of course be somewhat relative to context. While it is beyond the scope of this paper to canvass literature the theoretical and philosophical underpinnings of wellbeing it is worth pointing out that the current research on wellbeing has been derived from two broad perspectives: the hedonic approach, which focuses on happiness and defines wellbeing in...
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...“Toto, I've got a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore.” Everybody knows this quote from The Wizard of Oz, but do you know the actor who played the part? A woman named Judy Garland had played the part of Dorothy, along with many other successful roles. This essay talks about Judy Garland’s early life, adult life, significance in the 1920’s and 1930’s, her later life, and her death. Judy Garland had helped many people get through the great depression even though she was depressed herself. On June 10, 1922, in Grand Rapids, Minnesota, Judy Garland was born. (imdb.com) Her parents were Francis and Ethel Gumm. Furthermore, her siblings were, Dorothy, who was 5 years, and Mary Jane, who was 7 years older. Ever since the sisters were little they...
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...There were many key factors that made early life in Virginia miserable. Many of these unfortunate events began before the settlers even arrived at Virginia, and many died on the four month long expedition through the Atlantic Ocean. Once the remaining crew arrived at the New World, conditions did not improve and due to many different aspects. Lives of early Virginia settlers were made miserable due to consistent high death rates and food shortages. Hardships began even before the settlers first arrived on Virginia’s shore. Many traveler’s died on the four month voyage such as in April 1607 when only 105 of the original 144 settlers arrived to Chesapeake Bay. The hard times continued that summer when 46 more settlers died and even still in the winter months when by January, only 38 men were still alive. The death toll was still shocking even 15 years later in 1622 when roughly 3,500 Virginians went missing. There are some theories that account for some of the missing people, but cannot rationalize the whole sum of people. Some theories include the immune system being weakened by the voyage, diseases including malaria and typhoid fever, and poor diet. Another reason life in early Virginia was miserable was because of food shortages. The lack of food especially hit hard during the winter months when farming did not occur. During the winter of 1609, the food supply they had including sheep, goats, hens and hogs dwindled, so the settlers had to switch to eating “doggs catts ratts...
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...ntroduction MIchelangelo was known for his artistic ability or to some people a turtle from teenage mutant ninja turtles. Michelangelo was an artist, he sculpted, he painted, and was a poet. Michelangelo was also an inspiration with his early life and where he got. Michelangelo was a very determined sculptor and very talented. Michelangelo was hard working especially with his sculpting. Early Life Michelangelo was known for his artistic ability or to some people a turtle from teenage mutant ninja turtles. Michelangelo was an artists, he sculpted, he painted, and was also a poet. Michelangelo was als ( Biography.com ) Michelangelo was born on March 6, 1475 and died on...
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...Early life and education Early years [pic] [pic] Muhammad Yunus at Chittagong Collegiate School, while visiting the school in 2003. The third of nine children,[10] Yunus was born on 28 June 1940 to a Muslim family in the village of Bathua, by the Boxirhat Road in Hathazari, Chittagong, in the British Raj (modern Bangladesh).[11][12] His father was Hazi Dula Mia Shoudagar, a jeweler, and his mother was Sufia Khatun. His early childhood years were spent in the village. In 1944, his family moved to the city of Chittagong, and he was shifted to Lamabazar Primary School from his village school.[11][13] By 1949, his mother was afflicted with psychological illness.[12] Later, he passed the matriculation examination from Chittagong Collegiate School securing the 16th position among 39,000 students in East Pakistan.[13] During his school years, he was an active Boy Scout, and traveled to West Pakistan and India in 1952, and to Canada in 1955 to attend Jamborees.[13] Later when Yunus was studying at Chittagong College, he became active in cultural activities and won awards for drama acting.[13] In 1957, he enrolled in the department of economics at Dhaka University and completed his BA in 1960 and MA in 1961. After graduation Following his graduation, Yunus joined the Bureau of Economics as a research assistant to the economical researches of Professor Nurul Islam and Rehman Sobhan.[13] Later he was appointed as a lecturer in economics in Chittagong College in 1961.[13] During...
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...Early Life: Butch Cassidy was born on April, 13, 1866, in the city of Beaver, Utah. When he was born he was named Robert Leroy Parker and Butch Cassidy was the name he created for himself later in his life. Robert Leroy Parker was the first of thirteen children to be born to the couple of Maximillian Parker and Ann Campbell Gillies. Maximillian Parker, Ann Gillies, and their respective families were all converted in Scotland and England to the Mormon, A.K.A Latter Day Saints, religion and immigrated to Utah in the United States. Maximillian Parker was twelve-years-old when his family arrived in Salt Lake City, Utah in 1856 as mormon pioneers. Ann Gillies was fourteen-years-old when she and her family left Tyneside, England and immigrated to...
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...On September 21, 1645, Louis Joliet was born then, soon after birth, was baptized. Louis Joliet succeeded in his earlier life, his North American traveling, and his later years. To start with, Louis Joliet started his life in a great way, being baptized after birth. Born around the 17th Century, Louis entered school ,at a young age, to study on philosophy and religious statements to advance in his goal of reaching priesthood. Also studying in music, Louis advanced in becoming a skilled harpsichordist and church organist. Leaving the seminary as an young adult, he decided to go into fur trading instead. Secondly, in 1673, Louis went on a private expedition to canoe on the, what would be called, Mississippi River. After a month of traveling...
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...1958–75: Early life and The Jackson 5 Michael Jackson was born the seventh of nine children on August 29, 1958 in Gary, Indiana, an industrial suburb of Chicago, to an African American working-class family. His mother, Katherine Esther Scruse, was a devout Jehovah's Witness, and his father, Joseph Walter "Joe" Jackson, a steel mill worker who performed with an R&B band called The Falcons. Jackson had three sisters: Rebbie, La Toya, and Janet, and five brothers: Jackie, Tito, Jermaine, Marlon, and Randy.[3] Jackson had a troubled relationship with his father. He stated that he was physically and emotionally abused during incessant rehearsals, whippings, and name-calling, though he credited his father's discipline for his success.[4] In one altercation recalled by Marlon, Joseph held Michael upside down by one leg and "pummeled him over and over again with his hand, hitting him on his back and buttocks".[5] Joseph would also trip or push his sons into walls. One night while Michael was asleep, Joseph climbed into his room through the bedroom window, wearing a fright mask and screaming. He said he wanted to teach the children not to leave the window open when they went to sleep. For years afterward, Jackson said he suffered nightmares about being kidnapped from his bedroom.[5] Joseph acknowledged in 2003 that he regularly whipped Jackson as a child.[6] Jackson first spoke openly about his childhood abuse in an interview with Oprah Winfrey broadcast on February 10, 1993. He...
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...most of the people in the early colonies lived and worked on a farm. The owner used to have big land and large plantation where a poor people used to work day and night not to earn wealth rather survive. The day of a people used to start early in the morning when the sunrise and ends when the sun sets. The farmer did not use to get benefit from the daily hard work. They used to have porridge and beer to be ready for the work every morning. In the early colonies, the farmer's house was used to built by Edwin rice. The men used to work outside in the farm field and at the time of springtime they would be filling and planting the fields. They used all the hard labor with the help of an animal. And in the fall time they collect the harvest and...
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...For many, the beliefs and realizations they hold are often shaped by their early years. Experiences impact and model the way many look at the world. John Wycliffe and John Huss are no different and the early lives of these men give insight into their later teachings. Little is known of John Wycliffe’s early life. He was born sometime between 1320 and 1328, most likely in the Yorkshire town of Wycliff-on-Tees, to a family of lesser nobility and educated at Queen’s College, Oxford, in the 1340s. He received a bachelor’s in the Faculty of Arts in 1356, a bachelor’s of Theology in 1369, and a doctorate in late 1372. There is no doubt that his exposure and witness of the 1349 Black Death and the Hundred Years’ War affected him, but the years...
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...The first child of Augustine Washington (1694–1743) and his second wife, Mary Ball Washington (1708–1789), George Washington was born on their Pope's Creek Estate near present-day Colonial Beach in Westmoreland County, Virginia. According to the Julian calendar and Annunciation Style of enumerating years, then in use in the British Empire, Washington was born on February 11, 1731; when the Gregorian calendar was implemented in the British Empire in 1752, in accordance with the provisions of the Calendar (New Style) Act 1750, his birth date became February 22, 1732. Washington's ancestors were from Sulgrave, England; his great-grandfather, John Washington, had emigrated to Virginia in 1657. George's father Augustine was a slave-owning tobacco planter who later tried his hand in iron-mining ventures. In George's youth, the Washingtons were moderately prosperous members of the Virginia gentry, of "middling rank" rather than one of the leading planter families. At this time, Virginia and other southern colonies had become a slave society, in which slaveholders formed the ruling class and the economy was based on slave labor. Six of George's siblings reached maturity, including two older half-brothers, Lawrence and Augustine, from his father's first marriage to Jane Butler Washington, and four full siblings, Samuel, Elizabeth (Betty), John Augustine and Charles. Three siblings died before becoming adults: his full sister Mildred died when she was about one, his half-brother Butler...
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...Early Life John F. Kennedy spent his early life in Brookline, Massachusetts, and had eight siblings. Kennedy spent his early life in private schools due to having a wealthy family, and spent two years in the Navy. The bag of money represents how Kennedy had a rich past due to his relatives being in politics and how Kennedy had more opportunities than others.The reason that they had the money was from his family's political influence, which exposed him to politics at a young age. Also it influenced him to get involved in politics, Kennedy was introduced to politics at an early age due to his dad being the ambassador of Britain, both of his parents were members of Irish Catholic Political family, and his grandfather was a politician and a mayor....
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...Early life James monroe was born in Westmoreland County, Virginia on April 28, 1758. When he was young he father died this allowed him to enroll into a university for the law. He left shortly after to fight in the revolutionary war for the U.S. He fought with George Washington in the battle of Trenton and was severely wounded. Major Event 1 While fighting the war James Monroe meet someone who would change the course of his life. He meets Thomas Jefferson and began to learn law under him. This directly affects his political views and mindset which lead to his later life. From this, he takes up after Jefferson and becomes the governor of Virginia. Middle Life After the war Monroe focused...
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...The early life, crimes, and Missouri execution of Joseph Franklin Of the 69 Missouri executions between 1989 and 2013, the Joseph Franklin execution is amongst the most notorious. Having admitted to killing approximately 22 people, Franklin's crimes were race driven, and he viewed people of African-American or Jewish descent as enemies to the Caucasian race. His murder spree lasted for three years, from 1977 to 1980. The Years Before the Joseph Franklin Execution On April 30, 1950, in Mobile, Alabama, Joseph Franklin was born Joseph Clayton Vaughn. He was born into poverty and suffered frequent and severe abuse. It was in his teenage years that he began to develop a strong interest in Nazism and the Klu Klux Klan. Eventually, he even changed his name to honor Paul Joseph Goebbles, who served as a Nazi propaganda minister under Adolph Hitler....
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...When one thinks of some of the greatest writers in the world, C. S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, and others may come to mind. However, these literary greats did not ignore what other books were written before their works. Authors learn from what previous writers created before them, so that they may build on what foundation was lain. This is the case with George Macdonald, a lesser known but influential author. Macdonald pursued excellence through his early life, his adult life, and earned recognition for his literary accomplishments. George Macdonald’s early life was intriguing and important to shaping who he became. George Macdonald was born on December 10, 1824 in Huntly Aberdeen, Scotland. Perhaps, as a young child he had no clue as to what...
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