...Mother The poem “Mother” is a song written by the British band Pink Floyd, and it appears for the first time on their album “The Wall” from 1979. The poem is about a guy who’s got a very overprotecting mother. His mother wants to interfere in everything in her son’s life, and therefore he doesn’t get to do anything by himself. He doesn’t get to develop. The themes in the poem “Mother” is development, adolescence & the “mother to son”-relationship. The poem isn’t shaped like a normal song. It contains four verses, where the first and the third verse, plus the last sentence are the son talking to his mother, and where the second and the fourth verse is the mother talking to her son. In the first verse, the son asks his mother seven questions about the outside world. The mother replies to him in the second verse, where she is telling him that she is going to take care of him (“Momma's will keep Baby cozy and warm.”) They keep on communicating with each other all the way through the poem. It also says in the second verse, that “Momma's gonna make all of your nightmares come true. Momma's gonna put all of her fears into you” I interpret that as a very overprotecting mother, who always keeps everything that she think is dangerous away from her child. In that way, the child won’t get the experience that he needs to be an independent person, so he’ll take over his mothers fears, when he grow older. In the third verse, the boy is telling his mother about a girl. He is worried that she...
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...Families are thus the building blocks upon which rests the fate of society. For the development of good families, a mother plays a vital role. Mothers have a lot of responsibilities, from the beginning of making a family until the time when her children are old enough to be independent and make their own families. However, life is not easy nowadays. Earning money is difficult that is why a lot of mothers chose to work. Unlike before where only men or fathers earn in a family, on this generation it is very common that mothers are also working in order for their own families to have a better future. In line with this, education can be of great help for mothers to get a better job. Because better job means bigger salary especially when the degree they got is very in demand nowadays or in different countries where the offer is nicer. Education also helps mothers to get a better position in the company which may give them benefits of earning enough money for the budget of the family. These women are strongly motivated by the desire not only for personal achievement but also to create an opportunity for a better future for their children. For them, with a valuable certificate or degree in hand, they will be highly equipped and have the credentials to earn a family-supporting wage and opens a lot of doors for many other career opportunities and advancements. Working mothers nowadays are now taking the “multi-tasking” to another level. They juggle work, education, childcare and running...
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...One of the most important people in everyone’s life is our mother. Before birth, their body was in pain to carry us in their wombs for about nine months. They vomited their food, they suffered from headaches, and felt the weakness of their body every morning. But because they are mothers, they never complain. They make all these sacrifices wholeheartedly without anything in return. Being a mom is not a job. For me, it is the most wonderful part of being a woman. It is something you learn as you go and constantly striving to be a better person for your child. Our children are our future so we have to do our best at raising them to be the best people they can be. It has the challenges especially in these difficult economic times. It’s hard to maintain the happy and secure home their children are used too. It’s hard to keep them out of all the stress of difficult financial situation without making them insecure or worried. Our mother is the one who changed our diapers, stayed up late for us and sacrificed everything she had just for us. She often takes the fallout for the toddler tantrums and the teenage angst. Despite that, she generally loves her children no matter what they do. We sometimes extol our mother’s sacrifices from when we were infants, yet, we cannot describe her “real” sacrifices and hardships unless we experience them. They care for us as if we are golden treasures that they are eager to protect us from harmful humans and incidents. In the middle of...
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...It is easy to say that a mother has had the most influence on your life, she taught you how to walk, talk, drink and among many other things hopefully right from wrong. A good mother is there for you most of your life, quick to lend a hand or offer advice when needed, but the trait that impacted my life the most was the integrity my mother exhibited with me and the people lucky enough to have met her. My mother is the most influential person in my life.She has taught me various things in life and her endless support has made a difference in my life. One thing I have learned from her is how to have a success in every step of life. Growing up and seeing my mom struggling and facing the obstactles of life. She was the one who taught me A to Z of life,and taught me several key points to spend a hurdle free life. One of her keys to having a successful life was to always provide excellent helping hand to my father.Another thing she taught me was to always have a clean and spotless character because it increases the moral and value of life to live safely.Seeing my mother as a successful woman has made me aspire to be like her one day.My mother has also always given me endless support while growing up.As I look back at the things I have done in life, it would not have been possible without having someone special like my mother in my life.She has given me endless care and love.I am very thankful and blessed to know my mother has made a difference in my...
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...to the love that a mother feels for her children. Most women are inherently excellent mothers. Women carry their young before they are born and then continue to nurture them throughout their childhood and even into adulthood. Mothers make sure that their children are safe and happy throughout their childhood. It is the unconditional love that a mother feels that drives these feelings. It is hard to describe the feeling that a mother has towards her children. In fact, most people do not understand unless they become a mother themselves. Raising children comes with its own share of frustrations, from the needy new born baby that requires regular care to the sullen teenager, a mother's job is anything but easy. A famous saying states that "God could not be everywhere and so he invented mothers", these words are a great inspiration to mothers across the world. When all is well, a mother puts her children before anything else, including their own comfort and happiness. Mothers give an awful lot of support to their children, whether it involves very visible support or simple background encouragement. Not only do mothers support their children, but they also often hold the whole family structure together. This role is not always plain sailing. A mother can also be upset or hurt. Remember that a mother often takes the fallout for the toddler tantrums and the teenage angst. Despite this, mothers, generally, will love their children no matter what they do. Mothers are meant to be the...
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...Having a serious mother is quite beneficial for children to form their personality traits. They can learn how to become ethical people and be able to solve their problems independently under their mothers’ nurturing from when they are young. However, almost all children just want to have a good-natured mother who can smile gently and forgive them whenever they make mistakes instead of punishing them. How is your mother? If anybody asks me this question, I will answer that she is truly fantastic. Although being a serious mother, she has a nice appearance, terrific personalities, and interesting hobbies. First of all, my mother is actually ordinary, but she is a good-looking woman in my eyes. She is average height and has a spender shape. As a Vietnamese woman, my mother has a round face and long black straight hair which cascades over her back like a waterfall. She also has a sweet smell of lotus and smooth tanned skin. Unlike some other serious women, my mother usually appears with a sweet smile on her red lips that can make other people comfortable. Under her thin black eyebrows, there are dark brown penetrating eyes framed by long lashes. They seem to brighten my world whenever I look at her. Although my mother’s nose is not really tall, it is straight and thin, so it makes her facial structures harmonious. When she smiles, her face scintillates delight since her cheeks turn pink and two black pupils stretch out. My mother has a narrow and sloping shoulder that makes her...
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...Mother… This word associates with something sweet, tender, nice and merciful. We are born little and defenseless to this world and at once we submerge in the heat of her love and anxiety. We listen to her soft voice while she sings songs over our beds and calm down. The great number of dear to the heart words can be said about mothers. She’s the only one person who will understand and forgive everything. The mom’s kiss will heal all the wounds – either psychological, or physical. In the mother’s look you will never see falseness or cunning, as it always radiates bigheartedness, compassion and sincerity. It seems that your mother’s eyes can see you through and read your soul. Her smile will be recognized among all the other smiles in the world. The way your mother treats you in your childhood will shape your character and influence your world outlook a lot. When you are grown-up and face some issues at work, you will imagine what your mother would do in this situation; and it helps you a lot. In the most complicated situation you can ask for advice from your mother and she will be more than happy to answer and help you. She is your most sincere and true assistant. Unfortunately, not all the relationships between mothers and their children are as afore said. Some mothers are unable to understand how important their influence on their children is and lose the connection with their children. In my opinion, it is the worst thing for any mother. In order not to lose the connection...
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... I seemed to recall when he stepped through the door. Leaving behind a bittersweet reminder as I held the pastry in tiny palms, my world was torn asunder that afternoon. From that moment, the recognitions from childhood to adulthood encompassed my mother. The outcome of my father’s absence was a tightened clutch on my mommy’s sleeve when I was a little girl. Flooding emotions swayed by her gentle words of comfort blossomed into adoration for my mother’s accomplishments and determination in the face of adversity. These reflections shall merit my opinion that women play a greater role in raising children in society than men ever could. The first experience to verify my presumption was the first day of elementary school. Children clung to their father’s as though they were their foundations. My mother’s hand was tender, like she was cradling me in her palm. When she guided me through the door of the classroom, I recall her gentle words of encouragement were very different from the stern unmoving speeches by my classmate’s fathers’. A father’s lesson was spoken like a lieutenant to a trainee soldier. I always despised their methods and saw them as intimidating. Yet, when the moments came of moral and ethics, my mother told me stories and fables. They were scriptures of fantasy and folk-lore that still etched a lesson of life into my thoughts. My best friend would tell me that her father was a “magic man”, who would take her to lost ruins and bring back history in...
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...“ Why Chinese mothers are superior” Liliana Martin/w204551844 PSYC 2314: Mon-Tues 10:30-1:00 Summer 2015 “Chinese mother are superior” after hearing this quote it makes me feel angry and it makes me feel like if I was from a race or a country where we are less than or unworthy of being a mother as if my mother that is Mexican was underneath every Chinese mother. My first thoughts are; “Yes! Chinese people might be smarter and more stable than us Americans, I have heard about how Chinese parents are extremely disciplined and strict on the way they raise their children” but I have never thought they were better than my parents. I have never thought about anyone in particular being better than any other person but after reading this article” why Chinese mothers are superior” I can honestly say that Chinese mothers have an excellent way of raising their children and perhaps they have better styles on raising their children. I don’t consider them being superior but I do agree that many of their mother techniques are superior. From generations and generation’s Chinese mothers have always strict to their children, a lot more strict than the average person. China, with over 1.370537 billion people (including Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan) as of April, 2011, is without doubt the most populous country in the world. It is also the oldest race in the world. Chinese government is almost as strict as mothers are with their children. It is a communist country where there is only one...
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...Kin Kang Dr. Tredennick English 330 12/20/13 Cymbeline as Mother When reading through Shakespeare’s tragicomedy, Cymbeline, I tended to want to find the archetypal vices in the heros of the play. Among the most honorable characters: Posthumous, Imogen, Guiderius, and Arviragus, we find that only Posthumous seems to have the only recognizable character flaw in bargaining off his wife for gold. In almost all respects, the children of Cymbeline are perfect characters within the Elizabethan patriarchal ideal. The three of them have an incomplete parentage in the play, having an absent mother, and being displaced in the case of the boys. With the role of motherhood being so very important to child-development, the question becomes: how did these perfect characters get this way without the essential role of the mother? Of course in the heavily misogynistic society, the mother plays the part of enemy even in parenting, as the female body and character is something that must be conquered in order to successfully rear virtuous sons. In this play, this challenge is sidestepped by Cymbeline’s claim to motherhood. In Cymbeline, Shakespeare creates a familial fantasy within which the role of the mother is fully excised from the gender play of traditional Elizabethan parenthood, fostering purely masculine childrearing. Cymbeline takes on the role of the mother, embodying a purer space for child development that rids itself of the female body: the source of contamination to the ideal...
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...Mother Teresa How effectively has Mother Teresa demonstrated the possibilities of living the kingdom values of love, compassion and faith in the parable of the Good Samaritan? Quote By Mother Teresa: “There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in - that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.” – Mother Teresa Biography: Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, also known as Mother Teresa, was the third and final child born to her Albanian Catholic parents, Nikola and Dranafile Bojaxhiu, in the city of Skopje on August 26th 1910. When Mother Teresa was eight years old her father died suddenly and it left the family devastated. After her father died, Teresa’s family held their religious beliefs tightly and strongly. When mother Teresa was 12 years old she heard call from God to serve God as a nun this meant that giving up all her worldly possessions and her family possibly forever. She thought about if she should be a nun to serve God for five years, during this time she did many religious activities such as singing in the church choir, helped her mother organise church events, and went on walks with her mother to hand out food and supplies to the poor. Finally after 5 long years she accepted to serve God as nun when she was 17 years old. At this time she as read many articles about the work of catholic missionaries in India and...
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...The Tenth Mother 1. “The Tenth Mother” is a short story about Dawn who is considering raising a child through adoption. Not long after she is put together with a child named Douglas. Douglas is a troubled kid who has been left for adoption because his ill mother is unable to care for him. He has been with serval different parents and is now left with Dawn who his eighth adoptive mom. Dawn is pleased and delighted at first, they go kite flying, ride the trains together and spend good quality time with each other. However, one day everything changes when Douglas kills Eartha, a cat that lives with them. Dawn suddenly changes her entire mind. She no longer feels any remorse and is abundantly fatigued with him. She describe him as being the devil and having the same qualities of an allergy. Nevertheless, she tells him that she will care for him and never send him back again, but she is being deceptive with her lies. In the end she sends him back. 2. Dawn is a single woman who works as an administrator at Hatbox Theatre Company. She lives with a cat called Eartha. When Dawn becomes the new mother for Douglas she feels a connection when she says “He does a speedy head swivel to check the others aren’t watching, then tucks his hand in mine. It’s dry, sticky. It hot-wires to my chest.” (L. 81) The fact that Dawn feels this deep connection towards Douglas clearly shows how much she cares for him in the beginning. They go kite flying, ride trains from west to east London...
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...negative effects on student achievement. Regardless of whether they are single or married, mothers who work full-time often have less time to spend with their children, a condition that may lead to lower achievement and increases in behavior problems at school. For many single-parent families, however, children receive more benefits than harms from their mother's work. In addition to the income working brings into the family, African American children in elementary school actually do better in school when their mothers work outside of the home. The fact that children from low-income, single-parent families actually earn higher grades than children from two-parent homes with similar income suggests that single parents who work teach their children coping strategies that limit the impact of financial hardship, low parent involvement, and other risk factors. http://library.adoption.com/articles/single-parenting-and-childrens-academic-achievement.html Working mothers 'harm A-level chances' by LAURA CLARK, Children who are still too young for school when their mothers return to work may go on to get lower A-level results, research suggests. A pupil's chances of gaining at least one A-level fall by up to nine per cent for every year a woman works before the child reaches the age of five, it is claimed. The price paid by some youngsters will come as a shattering blow to the army of mothers trying to fill the dual roles of breadwinner and parent. The study by Essex University found...
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...“Why Chinese Mothers are Superior” The writer of the article, Chua, uses the terms “western mother” and “Chinese mother”, respectively about a mother who doesn’t expects a lot from one’s child and a mother who doesn’t accept lesser than the best. Chau, who herself is a “Chinese mother”, means that the “Chinese mothers” believe in and support their kids more than the stereotype western mother does. According to her ”nothing is fun until you are good at it”, and therefore it is necessary to be extremely focused at the goals one wants to accuse (for example to become a master at piano playing). According to her the “Chinese mothers” sacrifice themselves more for their children than ”western mothers” do. Chau’s extremely authoritarian upbringing is way to much, do you ask me, but still I see the reason in what she says about giving children self-confidence: When your child comes home with a bad grade and you praise her only, you have said indirectly, that your child doesn’t have the potential to achieve any better. This view the child will take over and her/his self-confidence will fall. The genre of the article is expressive and persuasive because of the fact that Chau has a point of view, which she wants to share with the reader and convince that she is right about her opinions. The majority of the moods of appeals is logos, but still there is a use of ethos and pathos in it. An example of logos is this: “In one study of 50 Western American mothers and 48 Chinese...
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...B Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior “Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior” is an article from The Wall Street Journal. The sender Amy Chua, a professor at Yale Law School in USA, is comparing the Chinese upbringing to the Western way of upbringing. Mrs. Chua is trying to explain to the receiver, western parents, that there are pros and cons when you look at the Chinese way of educating children, but she also shows, that it leads to good results. The argumentation, in Mrs. Chua’s article is open. By using the open argumentation is gives Mrs. Chua the chance to show of her own opinion. And thereby reveal a little bit of herself to the reader. “For example, my Western friends who consider themselves strict make their children practice their instruments 30 minutes every day. An hour at most. For a Chinese mother the first hour is the easy part. It’s hours two and three that get tough.” Here Amy is arguing which of the cultures that is the strictest when it comes to the children’s after school activities. Later on in the text she even gives an example of how she makes her own children practice. “Lulu could not do it. We worked on it nonstop for a week, drilling each of her hands separately, over and over.” In this paragraph on page 9, we can see how she is clearly in favor of the Chinese method, which she uses herself. Amy Chua uses all of the known forms of appeal to convince the reader. Mrs. Chua starts out with the logos appeal form. “..there are tons of studies out there...
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