... An offspring of himself that can make the world a better place. For the past two decades their role is being stripped from them, society not only says but also states that the father role is no longer needed or necessary, because he is the reason why there is complete discord and mayhem running rampant in the world. But society is wrong. Fathers are not to blame. Only society is to blame for the decline of the gods. In fact, I could argue that fatherless girls have a more profound and long-term impact on society than fatherless boys. You see, boys without dads often act out in spectacularly violent and disruptive fashions, whether it’s flash mobs or gang membership or rapes or robberies. When a fatherless boy is acting out his pain, we know it. However fatherless girls are seldom this dramatic. Instead, they act out their pain and suffering in different ways. Fatherless girls are far more likely to drop out of school, suffer from depression or other emotional disorders and mask their pain through increased promiscuity. In short, fatherless girls have babies. Without fathers. Since the 1960s, women have been sold a bill of goods when they were told they could have it all. And for too many women, “having it all” includes having children without the financial support of a husband. For most men, marriage instills a sense of maturity and responsibility. They will work hard at whatever job they can find in order to provide for their wives and children. This is the fundamental...
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...THE OF THE ST CENTURY 21 THE OF THE 21 CENTURY ST Other Best-Selling Books in the Rich Dad Series Rich Dad Poor Dad What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor and Middle Classes Do Not Rich Dad’s CASHFLOW Quadrant Rich Dad’s Guide to Financial Freedom Rich Dad’s Guide to Investing What the Rich Invest in That the Poor and Middle Classes Do Not Rich Dad’s Rich Kid Smart Kid Give Your Child a Financial Head-Start Rich Dad’s Retire Young Retire Rich How to Get Rich Quickly and Stay Rich Forever Rich Dad’s Prophecy Why the Biggest Stock Market Crash in History Is Still Coming… and How You Can Prepare Yourself and Profit from It! Rich Dad’s Success Stories Real-Life Success Stories from Real-Life People Who Followed the Rich Dad Lesson The Business School for People Who Like Helping People The Eight Hidden Values of a Network Marketing Business Rich Dad’s Guide to Becoming Rich Without Cutting Up Your Credit Cards Turn “Bad Credit” into “Good Credit” Rich Dad Poor Dad for Teens The Secrets About Money—That You Don’t Learn in School! Rich Dad’s Before You Quit Your Job 10 Real-Life Lessons Every Entrepreneur Should Know About Building a Multimillion-Dollar Business Why We Want You to Be Rich by Robert Kiyosaki and Donald Trump Provide Insight on How to Improve Your Financial Future Rich Dad’s Increase Your Financial IQ How to Get Smarter with Your Money Rich Woman: A Book on Investing for Women ...
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...Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie warn us about the single story in “The Danger of The Single Story”. Everyone has many complex stories in their life. These stories can be about their culture, religion, race, gender, economic background or talents, but people these days are just ruining these incredible stories with stereotypes and view others with a single story. The single story is not a wrong observation about someone but is just an unfinished story that we didn’t know about that person. I still remember the “single story” that I had to deal with when my family moved to America from Vietnam in 2010. I attended a good quality middle school in Oakland, where a lot of middle school students thought an Asian immigrant student like myself was bad at English in learning and communication. Therefore, they made fun of my accent, and the way I pronounced words in English. I was motived to show them that I could get better at communication. There was more to...
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...can make it tougher to attain opportunity fairness because they amplify social class segregation and possibly bigotry. Willie James Williams Sr. Willie James Williams Sr.; born the 3rd child of Frank and Alma Williams on the 4th of July, 1939. He didn’t get to know his father like most sons do, because his father was killed on the train tracks of Sylacauga, Alabama. The cause of death was stated in a report saying Frank fell asleep inebriated on the rail road tracks. The cause of death was and is very suspicious because Frank Williams was a deacon in the church where his Father-in-law was pastor and since Frank Williams had never tasted alcohol in his life; his death is still a mystery. During those times many African Americans were being targeted by the Klan and they were still active in...
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...before. Born and raised in the country side of El Salvador, my father, from the day he could start to walk has been working with his brothers, sisters and father and mother to just barley live on their own. He would start his day off by waking up as soon as you can see and start working until you couldn’t see no more. He has been doing that for 13 years of his life. Every day would be a challenge to him because he would perform different task every day that not your average teenager would do here. Living in the same room with 6 of your brothers, with no bed has truly made my father what he is today. At the age of 18, my father made one of the hardest decisions of his life and that was migrating from El Salvador to the United States of America. He started his journey in the United States by buying a flight from California to Boston and that’s when it all began. Coming to Boston, my father did not know what to expect. He didn’t know how to communicate, how to get places or where to be. He started off by staying with his brother in Cambridge. From there on he learned everything from his brother. He learned how to drive, how cook, how to communicate and where to go. From there on, he lived on his own in Somerville. During his life, my...
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...Are Fathers Necessary for Children’s Well-Being? Abraham Bartoah [Institutional Affiliation(s)] Taking Sides: Clashing Views in Gender Abstract The content of this essay is to observe my opinion on fathers and how they impact growth of a child. This essay will note from the text researches conducted on others view on the topic. Also it will explain in detail my thought and opposition I have after reading the text. Are Fathers Necessary for Children’s Well-Being? Since Adam and Eve the idea of there being a mother and father to raise a child has existed. But most certainly since then the world and ways of life have changed drastically. In today society many can argue the importance of having father around to raise a child. It can also be argued that father or no father a child can grow up to just as healthy and able as a child raised with both parents. From personal experience the need of a father in a child growth is not crucial. Being a boy doesn’t mean that only a male can teach you to be a man. There are many aspects to child growth that anyone can provide whether it’s a mother and father, just a father or just a mother. I feel that child growth is more based on the personality and attitudes that that child is surrounded by. According to professor Natasha J. Cabrera and the EHS studies they suggest that a father who has a highs school degree or higher have their children performing better in development. this in my opinion isn’t accurate. The test conducted where only conducted...
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...explains that illiteracy is such a minor priority to most Americans that doing things like their taxes or electing a new president doesn’t require them to be experts in illiteracy. Bringing in emotional story and a good slogan with words like pro-life, hope, maverick, war on terror. The American people are easily manipulated and are reeled in to the fight between truth and lies. He explains that America is so blind when it comes to signing a contract, policy agreement, or a legal document. Most if not all the time they barley even start reading. It’s hard to admit but at the end even I agree with Hedges logic. Every time I download a new software or log into my bank account never have I set there and read the agreement start to end. Just the other day I was reading the fine print in my insurance contract and I was amazed at some of the things that we assume are covered like roadside assistance. I always just assumed that if I get a flat tire I can call a tow truck and get it fixed. But when you read the actual fine print it states that only the original owner in my case it’s my dad who would be covered under the membership otherwise its coming out of your own pocket. He describes the change from print based to image based society. Print base is the good old days when we got newspaper and...
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...American public sees the lives behind the term immigrant. When people think of an immigrant, many negative connotations such as illegal come into mind. While some immigrants are in the country illegally, not all are. Immigrants can also be residents or naturalized citizens of the country. What an immigrant truly is “a person who comes to live permanently in a foreign country” (Google, 2017). They are not a group of people that can be defined by one depiction; immigrants can be brown, white, a single mom, a teenager, or a dad. Many people cannot imagine what the lives of an immigrant is like. A fraction of the population does not understand why people move here...
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...Single parenting Single parenting is where a parent lives alone and takes most of the day to day the responsibilities in taking care of a child or children without a spouse or partner, in other words single parent involves a single person plus a dependent child (more likely to be a female parent) and is sometimes referred to as the broken nuclear family (where mom and dad and kids live under the same roof but parents decide to spilt-up). In Trinidad and Tobago there are 18 percent single parent and 9 percent single parent extended families (extended single parents is where the parent is living with their family such as mom, dad, siblings etc). How does one emerge as a single parent? There many reasons people in society become a single parent. Some reasons are:- Divorce -this is where a couple who have been married and have taken legal action of ending the marriage contract. In Trinidad and Tobago within the period of 2011 to 2013 there are 7,123 couples who applied for divorce. The rate of divorce in Trinidad and Tobago is 26.6 percent. Families are rapidly declining in our country and family foundations are weakening which brings a lot of negative side effects. In the U.S. the divorce rate is 40 to 50 percent of married couples divorce. Divorce can stem from misunderstandings between couples, the relationship grows apart, financial problems, intimacy disappears, not having a shared vision of success and also getting into the marriage for the wrong reasons. Unwanted...
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...last week, where I held some productive bilateral talks with your leader, Lady Gaga. (Laughter.) She was wearing 16-inch heels. (Laughter.) She was eight feet tall. (Laughter.) It was a little intimidating. Now, I don’t want to give a long speech. Cyndi Lauper is in the house. I can’t compete with that. (Applause.) But I wanted to come here tonight, first of all, to personally thank Joe for his outstanding years of leadership at HRC. (Applause.) What he has accomplished at the helm of this organization has been remarkable, and I want to thank all of you for the support that you’ve shown this organization and for your commitment to a simple idea: Every single American -- gay, straight, lesbian, bisexual, transgender -- every single American deserves to be treated equally in the eyes of the law and in the eyes of our society. It’s a pretty simple proposition. (Applause.) Now, I don’t have to tell you that we have a ways to go in that struggle. I don’t have to tell you how many are still denied their basic rights -- Americans who are still made to feel like second-class citizens, who have to live a lie to keep their jobs, or who are afraid to walk the street, or down the hall at school. Many of you have devoted your lives to the cause of equality. So you know what we have to do; we’ve got more work ahead of us. But we can also be proud of the progress we’ve made these past two and a half years. Think about it. (Applause.) Two years ago, I stood at this podium, in this room, before...
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...the 1940’s. He lived in Chinatown but was the only Chinese person at his school. This made his day to day difficult. What made it worse was the evacuation of Japanese to internment camps. In fear of being separated from his family, his father made sure everyone would know that he is Chinese. “...his father pinned a button to his shirt that read, “I am Chinese”.” (Ford, 12) Henry wore this button every single day. His world was changed for the better when a new girl joined Rainer...
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...secret that is killing me inside since I was 13. I’m a gay man. I think I’ve always known since I was a young child, as I remembered seeing ads of male athletes and their chiseled bodies and being so oddly intrigued by them, but I chalked that to admiration and curiosity. When I realized that my curiosity wasn’t going away, I felt fear. You see, my parents have made their anti-gay stance well-known, throwing tons of derogatory terms when the entire family has gathered at the dinner table or in the car. They would tell stories of gay people they’ve met and express their disgust to my face, and cautioned my brothers and I to not be gay. They...
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...2000 by Robert T. Kiyosaki and Sharon L. Lechter. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without permission in writing from the publisher, except by a reviewer who may quote brief passages in a review. Published in association with CASHFLOW Technologies, Inc. “CASHFLOW” is the trademark of CASHFLOW Technologies, Inc. For information address Warner Books, 1271 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020. A Time Warner Company ISBN 0-7595-8139-8 A trade paperback edition of this book was published in 2000 by Warner Books. First eBook edition: February 2001 Visit our Web site at www.iPublish.com ACKNOWLEDGMENTS On April 8, 1997, Rich Dad Poor Dad was formally launched. We printed a thousand copies, thinking that quantity would last us for at least a year. Over a million copies later, and not a dollar spent on formal advertising, the success of Rich Dad Poor Dad and the CASHFLOW Quadrant continues to amaze us. Sales have been driven primarily by word of mouth, the best kind of marketing. Rich Dad’s Guide to...
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...Over the course of the semester, I have learned a lot about myself and my family as a whole. Family problems and social change has made me realized that family plays an important role in shaping your actions and forming your perceptions. Family dynamics have obviously changed over the centuries; things that are going on in this day and age are not the same as it was decades ago. As for my family, we come from an Afro-Caribbean background; we are natives of Haiti. My parents migrated from Haiti to Bahamas and from there to America with four children, in hopes of providing a better future for us. They worked odd jobs here and there just to provide shelter, food, and other necessities that we would need. The only burden my parents ever placed on my siblings and I, were to receive an education and strive to be successful. They made many sacrifices to provide us with these opportunities, and for that I will forever be grateful. Nonetheless, I will be discussing the differences between generations of my family. I decided to interview my grandmother Ermilie and my father Luc. Themes in Ermilie’s Life (born 1936) Ermilie is my grandmother on my mother’s side. She is the only one of my grandparents that is still alive. Seeing that we were immigrants for quite some time, I only had access to my immediate family and a few cousins. I met my grandmother for the first time on June 4th, 2014. Over the years I could only talk to her; it was a joyous moment for me to finally put a face with...
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...shows and movies portray life to be something other than that of being realistic. There was a time when HIV was a scare, but now that folk are seeing victims living with this disease longer due to the medication at hand, the use of condoms have decreased. Since the ninety's, teen pregnancy have decreased but remain to be at a high level. Some believe that pregnancy among teens are okay in that they are permitted to marry young. We the people in America don't see this as being normal. Americans see teen pregnancy as being a deficit, a henderance to life. Not only does teen pregnancy cause a delay in life for some, the health risks can be life threatening. Research shows that 85% of these pregnancies are unplanned, which in any population can increase the risk for problems. The biggest risk for teen mothers is delaying prenatal care or worse, 7.2% received no care at all. (Weiss, August 2013.) Some teens are ashamed of their situation and refrain from telling their parents or someone who would be able to guide them to the help needed. They are afraid of what would be said or worse. Parents should establish a relationship with their children where that they feel comfortable coming to them with any problem he or she may have. Sitting down and talking to your kids will instill some knowledge of the risks and consequences of choices. The lack of prenatal care increases risks to the mother and the baby. Being that the nutrional need increases for both child and...
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