...Thommy Jacquet Jr English 101 2/8/12 Joy in Relationship and Family Joy is an emotion by well-being, success, or good fortune or by the prospect of processing what one desires: from the American Webster dictionary. Is life really about the 'money', the 'cash', who has the biggest gold chain or who drives the shiniest or fastest car, who sells the most albums or who has the most respect? Today happiness is viewed in many different ways. Everyone defines happiness according to their personal perspectives. Each individual describes their inner feelings in a way that can't be compared with another. Joy originally and logically means the inner state of well-being or a pleasurable or satisfying experience. It enables people to profit from their highest: thoughts, wisdom, intelligence, common sense, emotions, health, and spiritual values in life. Also joy can be anything a person finds success or good fortune in. For example, if a person enjoys reading books for fun, for their spare time so that is saying that the person finds happiness behind reading books or if a person enjoys spending time with their family so that is saying that person finds happiness being with their family. Most of the joy that we experience comes from the feeling of love. So many people look to their relationships, especially marriage to give them the joy that they cannot find on their own. Love is not enough to provide joy, then there must be many frustrated lovers in the world. The belief that love...
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...Divorce and changing family patterns have strongly impacted family relationships and support for intergenerational families. When it comes to providing care for elderly parents in the family, it is reported that divorce and stepfamilies affect the amount of support that is given to the adult parents. Research suggests that out of all the gender-by-marital status combinations, it is seen that the group experiencing the lowest level of personal care from their children are divorced fathers (Family Relationships and Support in Old Age, Smith, 2016). When finding information on adult stepchildren in regards to their aging stepparents it is seen that their relationship is more fragile then the relationship between a an adult child and their biological...
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...Relationships between Families by Hammurabi’s Law Relationships between Families by Hammurabi’s Law Hammurabi laws deal with all aspects of everyday life, and it describes both major and minor offenses and their punishments. It is one of the first written codes of law in history, and it is the longest code that has been discovered. The laws were made to equalize society, establish justice and fairness, bring about the rule of righteousness, and protect the weak from the strong. However, the rich and poor, men and women, and elites and commoners were treated differently under the law. This deepened the social hierarchy and distinctions between classes and genders, which soon became normal and accepted in society. L. W. King states that “Hammurabi laws also influenced the need for one, powerful leader. It used the political power to generate bonds between the people of different races and backgrounds. The Code of Hammurabi was developed by the Babylonian ruler, Hammburabi. He ruled Babylon, which he expanded to cover most of Mesopotamia, from 1792-1750 BCE. Laws, judgments, and decrees were incorporated into the 282 laws that make up the code. The code was given to Hammurabi by the sun God, Shamash. The Babylonian God, Marduk, facilitated Hammurabi's rule. He gave Hammurabi the authority to rule Babylon. Also, the code gave people moral standards, created distinct social classes, and worked to create equality. It was supposed to "protect the weak from the strong", but it in...
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...asked what matters most to them in their lives, chances are their response has to deal with their friends, and their family. Everyone has some relationship with their family, good, or bad. The real question is, what about those who never experience what it’s like to have a family present throughout their lives, helping them grow and learn to become a working part of society? I should make it very clear that my Mother, Father, and little Sister are the three most important people in my life right now, but I always tend to think about other families. Not just minority families, or the families less fortunate than I, but in particular, Native American families and children who lose their mothers. Last semester, I was in a class with a Native American student who reported to the class that around...
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...The relationship between Jonas and his family resembles a highly formal version of the traditional family unt. While the relationship between the Giver and Jonas is the more casual father-son relationship.There is a caring familiarity in both relationships, but the Giver-Jonas relationship has a more genuine and deeply involved emotional attachment. The idea of sameness has made emotional responses obsolete and unnecessary, this is not an ideal that i feel makes a good family. In the relationship between Jonas and his parents, there is a general caring of each other, but no true emotional attachment. It is more like an instructional or teaching environment. When he asks his parents if they love him, they correct him because the word love is...
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...Rachel Deere Access the view that family relationships have become more equal. Different sociologists have had different views to whether family relationships have become equal. Researchers have measured different aspects of equality/inequality in family relationships. Some have concentrated on the division of labour in the home, examining the allocation of responsibility for domestic work between husband and wife and the amount of time spent by each sex on particular tasks. Willmott and Young are amongst those who have argued that family relationships and roles are equal. However, Ann Oakley has researched into the area of family relationships and has found little evidence that couples share equal division of domestic tasks. Rather than seeing a march of progress towards symmetry since the 19th century as Young and Willmott do, the feminist Ann Oakley (1974) shows how the housewife role has become a more dominant role for married women. The rise of industrialisation in the 19th century was said to have led to the separation of paid work from the home meaning women were gradually excluded from workplace and confined to the home with responsibility for housework and childcare while men became the breadwinners. Parsons claimed that this socially constructed the housewife role and that is wasn’t a ‘natural’ role brought upon by the economic dependence on men. Oakley views that although there was an increase in the number of married women working in the 20th...
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...The Relationship between Family Systems and Healthy Development Meriqua D. White Liberty University The Relationship between Family Systems and Healthy Development Family systems can have a positive or negative, direct or indirect effect upon the development of children. Though many environmental influences play a role in a child's life, the influence of the family system or family structure is by far the most important. Inside the context of a family, a child learns to respond and interact within a social context (Feldman, 248-249); begin to understand how others think and reason about behaviour (Feldman, 250-251); learn to deal with the parenting styles within that family (Feldman, 252-254); and sadly, some children experience neglect, abuse, crime, and violence and are forced to learn what it means to be resilient and to overcome (Feldman, 255-258). What Is a Healthy Family System? Barnhill (1979) notes eight dimensions of a healthy family system: individuation vs. enmeshment, mutuality vs. isolation, flexibility vs. rigidity, stability vs. disorganization, clear vs. unclear or distorted perception, clear vs. unclear or distorted communication, role reciprocity vs. unclear roles or role conflict, and clear vs. diffuse or breached generational boundaries. These eight dimensions denote that children have a stable, balanced environment in which to grow and learn. Children learn to interact with family members and with others outside the family unit better if...
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...sociology view of the family relationships between the industrialisation (24 marks) Talcott Parsons argued the reason the family structure was changing from an extended family to a nuclear family was because the nuclear family was more useful to industrial society, he says this because it is more efficient and fits the needs of society as it’s geographically and socially mobile therefore promotions are easier to get through their own efforts. Parsons saw how the rolls of men and women had developed in the families and he said it was best for society. Parsons argued there are 2 types of basic society that will fit the needs: modern industrial society and traditional pre-industrial society. When Britain changed from a rural society to one where people move to the cities and work in factories and mills, the structure of the families had to change. Parson had said pre-industrial society was made up of extended families but the modern industrial society brought the idea of a nuclear family. Laslett studied family life in the pre-industrial society in 1972. His theory was that in 1564-1821 only 10% of households had kin beyond the nuclear family, therefore structure the family in pre-industrial society was nuclear this criticises parsons theory. Nuclear families are more popular because people married later in their lives after a couple of years of marriage the parents of each partner would die; therefore they wouldn’t live with them. Anderson studied families in Preston. He said...
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...‘out ‘mong the sheep’ opposed to being at home with him. In contrast to this ‘Sister Maude’ is a love triangle between two sisters and a lover where we see extreme amounts of sibling rivalry as the relationship between them is also torn apart similar to that in ‘The Farmer’s Bride’. Alternatively ‘To His Coy Mistress’ shows us a man encouraging his infatuation to seize the day whilst they are still young before it is too late. All three poems have a sense of ‘Carpe Diem’ which suggests that time is of the essence and no one can afford to waste it. At the beginning of ‘The Farmer’s Bride’ the speaker questions his decision to marry the girl when she was possibly ‘too young’ but continues to explain that he was preoccupied with ‘more to do at harvest time than bide and woo.’ This is suggested to the reader as an excuse to why his spouse’s mental condition remained unnoticed over the duration of their marriage. Another implication from this could be that the couples haste to marry was their downfall as again ‘too young maybe’ could infer that she was not ready for this marriage and the pressure from the farmer to make such a commitment is what led her to begin to dislike him and fear men in the process. The farmer not realising seems the most feasible explanation as Charlotte Mew’s family had a history of poor mental well-being which is most likely to be reflected in her work. This is similar with ‘To His Coy Mistress’ which also opens with a strong statement about the...
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...Family relationships are an important piece in many works of literature. In particular, this plays an important role in the three short stories “Everyday Use” by Alice Walker, “Good Country People” by Flannery O’Connor, and “Rappaccini’s Daughter” by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The varying levels of love and care provided by the parents, and the attitude that is projected back by the child in response is what moves the plot forward and provides details for bigger themes in many literary pieces. In the short story “Everyday Use,” Mama doubles as the narrator and the reader sees things through her point of view. She has two daughters; Dee is the oldest and Maggie is the youngest. Dee has moved out of the house and changed her way of life drastically; she has changed her name to Wangero Leewanika Kemanjo...
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...Stress Management Affects the Work and Relationship of Less-Fortunate Families The word “stress” is derived from the Latin strictus and the Old French etrace. In the past, the word has been used to designate both a stimulus (a force or pressure that causes distress) and a response to that stimulus (adversity, affliction). Currently, it is used to describe a situation wherein a person suffers an adversity that still persists even after mustering up all the necessary resrouces, threatening their well-being (Auerbach, 1998). Despite this, the so called “eustress” (or “good” or “pleasant” stress), a word coined by Hans Selye during the 1950’s is described as the state wherein a person incorporates the feelings of stress in his work, using the stress as a driving force to ultimately complete a task that is initially daunting. Stressors are the sources or causes of stress. These include physical, emotional, intellectual, social, economic and spiritual factors (Girdano, et al., 1997). Stress Management is the ability to reduce stress arousal or to cope competently with stressors. The paper aims to identify the different stessors within the household and explain, in depth, how these factors affect the family dynamics. By the end of the research, the proponents aim to provide several coping methods appropriate for the types of stress families are experiencing. We have identified verious stressors of parents and children among less-fortunate families. Stressors of parents include financial...
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...FAMILY DYNAMICS Relationships in Marriage and the Family Instructor: Donnie Hilliard Faulkner University April 24, 2012 Shannon Hendricks In my reading of the chapters that dealt with what relationships are about I pondered over the parts that dealt with the sexuality part I was shocked to read some of the findings. I thought that the reading would consider with that of the Holy Script but to my surprise it was more secular. I found it to be very aggressively written, so much to the degree that I question if I were reading the right material. I read that it mattered not who fell in love but that they loved each other. Now I agree with that if the relationship is heterosexual but if not I cannot agree. Love is never the same in any relationship, meaning no two people love the same at the same time. People have misinterpreted lust for love. If you were never taught the difference then it might be a controlling factor in your relationship, whether it is good or bad, that might be a communication problem with two people. Sex is very important in any relationship, I do agree but it should not control the relationship or the two persons in the relationship. How often do we talk about our sexual acts with our friends and try to compare them, wrong move. Should we be evaluating our bedroom acts with that of another? We will share that before we share with our friends how much money we make. Differences in Partners ...
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...who are most profoundly affected. The invention of Internet genuinely allows humans to connect with others instantly whenever we want, which is a good thing, or is it? A new addiction (to smart devices and social networks) has been formed during our time, yet the consequences have still been taken for granted. Internet has made people unload themselves much more easily. But not many adolescents are able to realize that this results in careless word choices. Instead of long, thoughtful lines, youngsters just type in whatever they’re thinking without considering the outcomes. And frequently enough this does ruin their relationships as the “readers” couldn’t handle the arrogant statements sent to them. According to recent surveys, smart devices and social networks are pulling people, especially young ones, out of the physical world. Internet-based relationship has its downsides. There is a reason why we call the net “virtual world”, which is basically because it’s not real. Some teenagers admit that being aware of the fact, at times they are still startled by the way others are transformed on the Internet. As a result, I suggest that you should spend time building your friendship face-to-face, not on Facebook or other tools. Not that I deny the huge benefits technology has brought to our lives in general and communication in particular, but still I have to state the risks it accompanies. Be aware of what you may come in contact with and you might not end up...
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...I have always had trouble getting along with my mother. Ever since I was old enough to have an opinion and arguably before then, my mother and I have been at odds. On top of that, I never even had a great relationship with my dad but that's a topic for another post entirely. A vast majority of my friends, peers, and coworkers have a relationship with at least one parent. It has really caused me to question a lot about my faith, myself, and the fairness of not being able to choose one's parents. The idea of a parent is a tough one. What does it take to make a parent? What is a good parent and what is a bad parent? Absentee parents fall somewhere in between because even if they live at the same address as their children, they're emotionally unavailable. According to dictionary.com, the definition for parent is: a mother or a father. I'm no expert on the etymology of words, but I think we should redefine parents a bit. A parent is someone who loves, nurtures, and cares for their young. There are plenty of "parents" in the world who may not have bore children of their body but have certainly bore children of their heart. As a young Christian, I have been tormented by my relationship with my mother and my other family members. Over the years, my relationship with her and my siblings has deteriorated tremendously. On the one hand, Christians are told to be loving. We are to endure with one another and bare with one another. This is noble philosophy and life doctrine but implementation...
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...It is certainly possible to argue that Angela Carter presents a large number of family relationships in a sinister and distorted manner. Many, though not all, of her stories feature family structures lacking any of the traditional bonds and affections which typically accompany a family. In stories such as the titular Bloody Chamber, The Werewolf and Wolf Alice, Carter presents a wide variety of distorted family relationships. “There was a bloody stump where her right hand should have been, festering already.”- These lines are what reveal Carter’s truly horrific distortion of a family relationship. This is where it is revealed that the grandmother who Red is visiting has attempted to kill her, and the lack of emotional language is what truly reveals this to be true. Not only does Red allow the villagers to “pelt her [grandmother] with stones until she fell down dead” but she also moves into the home of her grandmother and “prospered.” The stark words of the final statement, ending with “prospered” allows a reader to see that there was no love between these two members of the family, as Red is willing to ignore the memory of her grandmother to not only survive in the place where she struggled to survive, but also to live well there. By doing this, Carter not only suggests that it is impossible for generations of women to do well without destroying one another, as society isn’t able to accept the changing perceptions women have of the world, and so younger women learn to exploit...
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