...half month old daughter is dying and she doesn't know what to do or how to react to losing her first born. Let me know your thoughts and any questions or answers that you may have Me:(I sit in the chair and as Cathy walks in I stand up and greet her, I put my hand out for her to shake and tell her my name is Mrs. Lemmers) I say hello Cathy, it is a pleasure to meet you. Cathy:Hi (she looks at me and begins to shake my hand). Me:( I shake her hand and with the other hand I extend my arm out to the chair to show her where sit) Please take a seat right here. Cathy: (she begins to sit down slowly) Me:I understand that you are to talk about your daughter that is dying. Cathy:Yes my daughter is dying and she is only 5 and half months old(she throws her hands down and begins to cry). Me: (I grab the tissues and hand her one) Cathy:(she says it slowing) My daughter is dying, My daughter is dying, and I don't know what I am going to do with out her in my life. Me:(I start to make eye contact with her and my stare becomes more intense, so that way she gets that feeling that I am really listening to her) Can you go into more detail on why you feel that you can't live without her anymore. Cathy: What I mean is that she is my only child, my husband left me and I have nothing else to live for without her in my life. Me:So you are feeling like you have no one else in the world that you need to live for or live without(I begin to nod my head and make begin...
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...March 9, 2012 Remembering an Event Essay Child Birthing that had changed my life 13 years ago I gave birth to a healthy girl who changed everything about me. Before her birth I was a carefree, immature party girl without a care in the world, after her birth I grew up stopped parting and took on the responsibility that was gifted to me. It has not been a stroll in the park more like a steep climb up a mountain, but it is not something that I would give up no matter how hard it can get. Before the birth of my daughter I was a carefree, immature party girl without a care in the world. I remember spending my days shopping at the mall, not worry about spending too much money. Spending my summer days at the beach of Myrtle beach, NC, going to amusement parks in KC and being at the clubs all night. I remember drinking and dancing the nights away with my friends. I remember just shopping, partying and having a good time. 13 years ago, September 19, 1998 it all changed, I gave birth to my daughter Carly. The day I went in to the hospital to give birth to her was a very exciting day, I checked into the hospital at 5:00 in the morning, they were going to induced me by 6:00 a.m. I remember lying there being so excited and just wanting to see her already. They came in and hooked me up to the IV'S I went 6 hours without feeling any pain, but being so bored just laying there, then the doctor came in and broke my water at 12:00 p.m. and that is when I started wishing it would really all...
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...World Adoption Month – When my husband adopted my daughter from a previous marriage, it was a celebrated day. But before he adopted her, I sat him down, as his lawyer-wife, and explained to him what this all meant. Not that the sweet, little blonde girl, who was already calling him “Papa” could do so legitimately. I meant what it all meant - legally. First of all, adoption has the effect of cutting off any legal ties between the birth parent and the child. In other words, if my daughter’s biological father happens to end up a million dollars and dies without a will, my daughter doesn’t get to share in the inheritance. Likewise, if my husband dies ten years from now without a will (that would NEVER happen, by the way), my daughter would...
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...Six Characters in Search of an Author (Sei personaggi in cerca d’autore) A COMEDY IN THE MAKING By Luigi Pirandello [1921] English version by Edward Storer [New York: E. P. Dutton, 1922] [see also 1925 preface by author] CHARACTERS of the Comedy in the Making • THE FATHER • THE MOTHER • THE STEP-DAUGHTER • THE BOY • THE CHILD • (The last two do not speak) • THE SON • MADAME PACE ACTORS of the Company • THE MANAGER • LEADING LADY • LEADING MAN • SECOND LADY • L’INGÉNUE • JUVENILE LEAD • OTHER ACTORS AND ACTRESSES • PROPERTY MAN • PROMPTER • MACHINIST • MANAGER’S SECRETARY • DOOR-KEEPER • SCENE-SHIFTERS Daytime. The Stage of a Theatre N. B. The Comedy is without acts or scenes. The performance is interrupted once, without the curtain being lowered, when the manager and the chief characters withdraw to arrange the scenario. A second interruption of the action takes place when, by mistake, the stage hands let the curtain down. [Lo straniero, conversazione alla finestra, 1930, F. Casorati] ACT I The spectators will find the curtain raised and the stage as it usually is during the day time. It will be half dark, and empty, so that from the beginning the public may have the impression of an impromptu performance. Prompter’s box and a small table and chair for the manager. Two other small tables and several chairs scattered about as during rehearsals...
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...My Daughters' Dating Rules A ballon can not stay as a ballon with out rules. The ballon must have right actions so it dose not pop. It is almost like dating. I have important rules to make sure my daughters stay safe. Her bedroom door must stay open when she is alone with her boyfriend she must not go alone to drive-ins with her boyfriend. I need her to know how serious it is to date. So I am allowing her to date at 15. I need my daughter to mature about dating. She must be safe at all time in a relationship. Rule are very important when it comes to dating my daughter. First, I would never let them be in a room alone with the door shut. I do not want them to do anything sexual at their age. Especially, in my house around anyone. Hopefully,...
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...learns that his eldest daughter Goneril is not welcoming him as he thought it would be. Goneril dislikes how Lear is chaotic and immature along with his rowdy knights. King Lear, upset by her behavior, decides to move out of the castle and move with Regan instead. This connects to the motif of family and betrayal because Lear’s children are finally becoming rebellious like a regular family would experience. However, Lear’s children are destroying the desires he hopes to have in the future. In this scene, Lear uses a metaphor to describe Goneril and her actions going against his pursuit of pleasure. Lear compares Goneril to a inseparable disease that will lead him to his inevitable suffering and destruction. Lear cannot really separate from Goneril because she is related to him by blood and it is his responsibility to take care of her. Quotation Three “Fathers that wear rags, do make their children blind. But fathers that wear bags, shall see their children kind. Fortune that arrant whore, ne’er turns the key to th’ poor. But, for all this thou shalt have as many dolors for thy daughters as thou canst tell in a year” (II.iv...
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...Espeut Decision-Making Process So far in my life I haven’t had to make so many hard decisions, but the one that really was a tough one for me was coming back to school. I had just left my boyfriend of five years with my daughter who was not even one years old yet. I was going to be on my own having to pay bills, take care of my daughter, and make sure I could provide for the both of us. I had already gotten my certificate in Massage Therapy and that was the job I was in when I left. My career did make me enough money to pay bills but it left me short on doing things with my daughter and getting food and clothes on our backs. So I decided to sit down one day and think about what I wanted to do with my life and where I wanted to be in the future. I have never really been one to just rush right into something without making a list of pros and cons, and I did just that! First thing I decided to do was to make a list of pros and cons and based on the outcome I would understand if I could financially afford it, and if it was worth the time. I did pros and cons to going to a community college vs. online college. Being a single mother I couldn’t give up time with my daughter especially if I didn’t have someone to watch her. That was the biggest con to going to a community college. My biggest con to going to an online college was whether or not I would make myself sit down and do the work or not with a toddler running around. After looking over my lists I decided I could do the work and...
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...as clothing and jewels), money, servants, or land. THE CONCEPT OF DOWRY IN DIFFERENT RELIGIONS Dowry (Dhaaj) is prohibited in every religion which cant affordable for the bridel’s family or more value demanding or asking form the Groom’s family. DOWRY In Islam There is nothing called ‘Dowry’ in Islam a Muslim father does not have to bother for dowry . On the contrary, Islam enjoins the groom to give a ‘Bridal-Gift’ or ‘Dower’ as a token of love and assurance to his wife at the time of marriage. The practice of dowry among ignorant Muslims is a result of the influence of the evil practices of the society they live in. Islam does not put any financial burden on the father of the girl. A Muslim father is told to get her daughter married away in a most simple ‘Nikah’ ceremony solemnized by a ‘Qazi’ (priest) in a mosque) The Holy Qur’an instructs the believers "And give the women (whom...
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...procedure and just now alert enough to receive your treatment. The nurse told you that his daughter and wife were killed in the accident and the decision has been made not to tell him about their deaths for ‘his own good’. The staff has agreed to tell him when he is more physically and mentally stable. As you walk into the patient’s room, he immediately asks you about his wife and daughter. 1. What do you say? a) From a Deontological standpoint, what do you say? Why? A Deontological theory states that at least some actions are right and wrong, therefore we have an obligation to perform them or refrain from performing them, without consideration of the consequences. This theory follows the belief that our actions should be universal which means that everyone would act the same way with the same set of circumstances. It would be difficult to decide what to say, because I would want to be told the truth but would also want the best end result. The patient will find out about their deaths whether I tell him now or not. If I am not to consider the consequences, I would tell the patient about his wife and daughter dying in the accident. b) From a Teleological standpoint, what do you say? Why? A teleological theory asserts that an action is right or wrong depending on whether it produces good or bad consequences. Since the staff has agreed that telling him that his wife and daughter died in the...
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...because of my age, what I’ve experienced in life, each time I viewed the movie, my mind set are different as well, yet everything I watch this movie it brings tears into my eyes. When I was younger viewing the movie, which was very close to reality to what actually happen to women in China in the time, I think now when I view the movie, I’ve missed the whole point of the movie, it was really describing the relationship between mother and daughter in different time zone and culture background. “As cultural institutions, mass media often reflect some aspects of the society in which they operate. The critically acclaimed film The Joy Luck Club (1993) reflects diaspora experiences of Chinese immigrant women and depicts intergenerational tensions between Chinese mothers and their American-born Chinese daughters. It also reflects the struggles, dilemmas, and conflicts in the search for identity and self-development among Chinese and Chinese American women.” (Yea-Wen, C. (2007). The storyline is centered upon Jing-Mei Woo also referred as June, who struggles to deal with the recent death of her mother Suyuan Woo, throughout the movie. The movie takes place at a reception held on June’s behalf before her trip to China to meet her twin half-sisters who were abandoned by their mother many years ago. June struggles with her mother’s past which she never fully understood. Though Suyuan dies before the movie begins, it is revealed that Suyuan was forced to abandon her daughters after contracting...
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...don’t think that we’ve made a mistake, what might be acceptable in my point of view might be unacceptable in others point of view, We human beings are walking offenders. To make it up for the mistake, a proper apology should be given. Apologies are considered important in any society; it is a powerful way to regain trust of the victim. However, a person should be careful when giving an apology, because it can backfire to make the matter worse and create a bigger conflict, even if your intentions are sincere. Hence, before giving an apology a person should consider what elements to include in it to make it as effective as possible. Effective apologies have the same effect as the offenses that inspire them. For an apology to have maximum effect, it should include five dimensions “ The 5R’s ”, Recognition, Responsibility, Remorse, Restitution and Repetition. 1. Recognition: to admit the offense; acknowledge that an offense had happened that requires an apology. This step is apparent to the offender, and is important to the victim; to make sure that he knows what he has done wrong and why the victim is disappointed. Ex: I recognize that my actions have hurt you and you no longer trust me. 2. Responsibility: the offender should take liability for what he have done and the consequences of his actions. Without making excuses the offender acknowledges his responsibility. Ex: I take full responsibility for my actions. 3. Remorse: the regret of the offender; is the part...
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...the daycare of my infant daughter. I was observing the behavior of my daughter Sofia who is 20 months old compared to other children of the same age in their environment. She has around 25 pounds and a height according to their age. Physical Development For her age she is physically developed since I can see as I walk and begins to develop the art of running. I can see how she plays and tries to talk like their peers. I could tell that my daughter is healthy and has good physical development. Cognitive Development According to Piaget's stages Sofia is in preoperational stage because for example, when all children are playing with small toys, my daughter loves to be playing with the cups and plates imagining that there is there food, finding the ramekins from the kitchenette and pretends that she was cooking. (Make- believe-play) Another example is when the teacher offers water in a plastic cup and my daughter asks the bottle because it is easier to handle, faster and can take more water. Emotional and Social Development According to Erikson's stages, Sofia is on autonomy versus shame and doubt, because I have noticed that she wants to be alone, playing with toys alone without sharing, something that made me laugh was, when I saw that children have been playing with her but she will not like to share what she had in her hand until she gets something back. I want to give another example to support my study, it’s when the teacher put them music, my daughter was the first to...
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...The reason why I believe I am a better man is because one I have changed my attitude about life and the negativity of things. Second, I have come to the realization that it is not all about me anymore because I have my four year old daughter who is my world. Last, but not least I wanted a better way to provide for my daughter and myself , which was coming back to school to get more knowledge and a degree so I will have a firm paying job that will help reach the goals that I have put forth for myself. To begin, I must say my attitude about life was very frustrating. I looked at things as if the world owed me something. I never took the time to take into consideration how tender this life really is. We only get one life with limited opportunities in life. I had to get in my right mind by looking back on certain situations I was putting myself in and the outcome of those situations. I was looking at a short life for myself and a daughter without her father, which is a horrible thing for a young lady to grow up without. I had to get down and ask God to be my leader and to come on in and have His way. I believe that was the best move I could have made to begin this new journey to becoming a better man. I came into realization that these things about me were not what should be in my mind to be trying to accomplish. It was just selfish of me to even think of myself when I have a beautiful four year old daughter to raise and make sure that her life will be smooth. I stepped up and turned...
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...April 2014 Influential People After a long day at work and finally reaching home with my daughter, I am stressed out. As my daughter and I enter our apartment home, the smell of Hawaiian Breeze Glade air freshener immense my nose. As I change out of my uniform, I realize that laundry needs to be complete and begin the process. My daughter is present and asks “Mommy can I help?” “Yes baby!” I say. Without hesitation she begins to put the white clothes inside the Whirlpool washing machine. Her short little frame pressed against the washing machine as she struggles to reach. She then looks at me with her almond shaped eyes stretched wide, “Mommy, I’m done, what’s next?” I respond, “Thank you Mari, you are such a big helper but I had a long day so it is best we wind down.” Instantly her mood shifted. Mari was torn into pieces. She loves to help me and I admire her willingness. Being only three years old at the time, it’s hard for Mari to understand the answer “no”. Her face clearly showed disappointment with tears streaming down her face. Her caramel skin, thick dark brown hair in two oversized ponytails, with pink lace clips in the front looks so adorable. I dread seeing her in dismay, but tonight was not the best night for activities. My mind was overwhelmed with burdens, frustration, and agony. I was crying internally but I couldn’t make it noticeable. I plead my case to my daughter as I had to slightly pull her to the bathroom. In a matter of time she calmed down and...
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...OVERCOMING MY BIGGEST LIFE HURDLE: BECOMING A SINGLE MOM Kiera Bronson Herzing University Life has a funny way of slowing you down when you’re cruising in the fast lane. I was living a carefree life; college was the only thing on my mind. I was fully involved in my schoolwork and I always had to make perfect grades. Being in a relationship, let alone having a child, was the furthest thing from my mind. My mother always said that even if it doesn’t look or feel good, it’ll always workout for my good. Becoming a mother was the scariest, confusing, and most important thing I've done in my life, but being a single mother was too much to handle. After my freshman year of college I decided I needed a change of scenery. I moved to Arlington, VA since my dad and boyfriend lived there. A couple of months into my sophomore year I got some news during a routine checkup that was going to change my life forever. I was pregnant and at 19 about to be someone’s mother. I didn’t know what to do. Without my mom being there I am one hundred percent sure that I would've lost my mind. After I found out everything was going great, we went to all the doctor’s appointments together. He was there every step of the way, it seemed like we were in it together forever, or so I thought. He became distant and I began to realize he wasn’t who he said he was Coming around everyday turned into every other day and all the phone calls turned into text messages. I was five months pregnant with our daughter...
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