...Making the Connection Can the actions of the father effect your family? In the stories Notes of a Native Son, Killings, Under the Influence, and All Over but the Shoutin the father makes all of the difference in the lives of the people around him. Whether the father is a drunk, never there or just a horrible parent, it effects the children’s lives in all types of ways. The father figure in a family can either make or break a family in the stories Notes of a Native Son, Killings, Under the Influence, and All Over but the Shoutin. In the story Notes of a Native Son the father figure was in a sense, nonexistent in the family. This was because the son of the father was a second generation free slave so the son earned everything he earned and the father almost taught him nothing. Some fathers are there in their children’s lives but do not have an impact and just let the kids be which can either be a good or bad thing for the children. The son admired his father in his looks and how he took care of himself, but never admired how unappreciative his dad was of his skin color even though he was a handsome man. In the story Killings the father played a different role in wanting vengeance for his son’s death. There was nothing wrong with their family and the kids had everything going for them as they completed college...
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...Assignment 1: Exploration of a Professional Journal Article in Psychology Title: The Role and Influence of the Father on his Child Anthony Hunt Professor Carolyn Bird Psy 100 This research article reviews the effects of the father’s influence on his child. It involves interpretative phenomenological analysis of eight participants and the recurrence of information provided in case notes of three men and five women. This research is based on philosophical discipline originated by Edmund Husserl (1913). Husserl developed the phenomenological method to make possible a descriptive account of the essential structures of the directly given. Phenomenology emphasizes the immediacy of experience, the attempt to isolate it and set it off from all assumptions of existence or causal influence and lay bare its essential structure. (Encyclopedia Britannica, 2012) During my research I have gathered from this information why a father’s personality and behavior may effect a child’s social and emotional adjustment. Particularly, how children obtain and maintain healthy relationships with others in their future. The purpose of this research is to examine the role of the father and his child’s upbringing and to determine whether that role has a positive or negative effect. The findings will support the eight recurrent themes evolving from the 12 master themes of the eight participants. In accordance to the overall field of Psychology, this review relates to Chapter 8, Friendship...
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...These three enlightenment thinkers were some of the most important influences of the Founding Fathers and their thinking. John Locke influenced the Declaration of Independence, Montesquieu influenced the U.S. Constitution, and Thomas Hobbes influenced both. They influenced the Founding Fathers’ creation of our American Government. John Locke was a very popular Enlightenment thinker. He said that people form government to protect their natural rights. Natural rights are rights that everyone should have. These natural rights include life, liberty, and the right to own property. "According to Locke, people have the right to revolt against it if it has ceased to uphold it's end of the bargain." (classroom.synonym.com) This is what John Locke thought...
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...Influence of early attachment relationship on development Introduction: It is understood, through lifespan psychology, that the psychological development of an individual is a process that continues throughout an individual's life, this development consists of both internal and external dynamics. The well theorised theme of attachment forms the basis of this study. Attachment focuses on the formation of early relationships and their influence on later developmental outcomes. The social constructionist perspective explores "how knowledge about sex and gender has been constructed within particular historical and social contexts" (Wood et al 2007) this perspective assumes that the knowledge comes from social contexts and is evidenced predominately by an individual's use of language. This study explores the paradigm of attachment from the social constructionist perspective. The paradigm of attachment is concerned with a "strong, ongoing emotional bond between two people" (Wood et al 2007) and suggests that attachment is fundamental to emotional, social and cognitive progression. Bowlby, an attachment theorist purports that attachment is a survival instinct in infancy, and once established it remains relatively fixed throughout life. Positive attachments created in vertical relationships, that is an "attachment to someone who has greater knowledge or social power - a typical example is a child's relationship with a parent or a teacher" (Wood et al 2007) forms a secure foundation...
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...The Fathers We grow up in life living the social norm of having a mom and dad in our lives. Whether they stay married or end up divorcing, the majority of us have a mother and a father in our life. It seems to be our human nature to search for that figure we are missing in our life if we don’t have one of our own. In the memoir The Mountains and the Fathers by Joe Wilkins, we follow a boy search for a father figure he so desperately wants to find. He develops many father figures throughout the memoir, some are good figures and others are bad. In the end he still learns valuable lessons from each one, shaping him into the man he becomes by the end of his memoir. As it might seem apparent, the man that is considered the good figure in the memoir didn’t share all the lessons Wilkins would learn throughout his story. He would learn a lot from both the good and the bad and attempt to fill the void he formed when his father passed away. A figure that begins to take a big role I thought would be Wilkins grandfather. After his father died he had his mother to raise him which was hard at times. Wilkins would spend a lot of long hard days working with his grandfather on the farm learning how to ranch. His grandfather would teach him lessons that at the time might not have hit Wilkin as much as it did when he got older and could better understand what seemed as senseless things at the time, really meant. Wilkins would look to his grandfather to fill that father figure...
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...Social Learning Theory. Bandura’s (1993) vicarious conditioning/social learning theory stressed that behavior patterns are developed through observation and direct experience within biological limits. It emphasizes that human behavior is the mutual interaction between cognitive behavioral and environmental dominants. People are affected by external forces although they can choose how to behave. Bandura further claims that one effect of observation of models can lead to the acquisitionof responses and to the change of frequency of behavior already learned. Social learning theory explains human behavior in terms of continuous reciprocal interaction between cognitive behavioral and environmental influences. Within the process of reciprocal determinism lies the opportunity for people to influence their destiny as well as the limits of self-direction. A direct and complex interaction may positive interactive reflection of a good relationship. It is clearly important that for any individual, a constructive environment may help to maximize his full potentials in dealing with future undertakings; the parents and significant others place more importance influencing the total-well-being of an individual. The child’s first place of contact with the world is the family. The child, as a result requires initial education and socialization from parents and other significant persons in the family. The parents are, in short, the child’s first teacher. They are the first and primary source of social...
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...the correlation between fathers of minority groups work characteristics and their children’s cognitive development in their preschool years. Baker recognizes that the relationship between mothers’ work environment and children’s cognitive development has been extensively researched, but the influence of fathers’ work characteristics has not. Since mothers’ work characteristics influence on their children has been studied quite a few times, it is known that mother’s work characteristics are directly related to the development of their children. So since, this is known, the influence of father’s work characteristics on their children needs to be...
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...relationship between father involvement and divorced father’s psychological well-being. According to Ryff (1989) psychological well-being is active engagement in a number of existential challenges. The father not successful in marriage or divorced was not achieved Erikson’s generativity which they were unsatisfied and not well-being. However, the positive relationship between father’s senses of competence involvement in child-related activities was stronger for divorced fathers. Research consistently shows that positive father involvement provides important benefits to children. Father involvement is negatively associated with divorced father’s psychological wellbeing...
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...In everyone’s life, something motivates them to act a certain way, or relieve stress. With regard to Franz Kafka, a playboy life style caused some of his personal life to be paralleled in his works. His fear of corruption in politics was enough inspiration to write numerous books and short stories. However, his overbearing father is the most apparent influence when he writes. Franz Kafka lived a warped life epitomized by his continual commitment of adultery, sensitivity to the corruption of modern political systems, and deep rooted abuse and rage of his father converge together in his novel, The Trial. Throughout The Trial, Kafka eludes to many instances where a character cheats on his or her significant other. The first instance occurs when K. arrives in the courtroom for his second hearing and he begins to talk to a woman who interrupted his initial hearing. The woman says, “The Court are woman chasers… even my husband has to get used to it” (Kafka 35). Kafka was a notorious adulterer, and had several short and long-term...
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...life experience can tell a lot about a person and can influence others to become a better person. Many people have very sad life experiences, and others have had a great life experience. Each experience tells a life lesson that everybody can benefit from. In this case, my father’s life experience has motivated me to become an even better person. Life experiences from others can impact another person life to become even greater. That is what my father has done. His life experience has made me become an even better person than what I was 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...
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...American male, and his life as he grows up in a town occupied by the mob in the 1960’s. Calogero has two strong influences in his life. They are his father Lorenzo a proud middle class bus driver and a mob boss named Sonny. In the film there are three scenes that especially demonstrate the influence Sonny and Lorenzo have on Calogero. An example of Lorenzo’s influence on his son takes place in front of their apartment building in which Calogero witnesses a gruesome crime committed by Sonny. Lorenzo basically instills in Calogero that he needs to lie and say he saw nothing. He is teaching him not to be a rat. When the police later question Calogero and have him look at a line up of suspects he denies knowing all of the men there, including Sonny. An example of Sonny’s influence is when Sonny belittles Mickey Mantle in front of him by saying “Mickey Mantle earns $100,000 a year. How much does your father make? You don’t know? Well, see if your father can’t pay the rent go ask Mickey Mantle and see what he tells you. Mickey Mantle don’t care about you, so why should you care about him? Nobody cares.” This causes Calogero to have negative feelings about Mickey Mantle, someone he had idolized his whole life. Calogero was so influenced by what Sonny had told him that he went home and threw all of his baseball cards away. When his father asked what he was doing, what was the matter with him, Calogero replied “Mickey Mantle ain’t gonna pay the...
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...individual who can teach them about teamwork and problem solving; the individual turns out to be the father of the house. Skills learned from a father, or father figure, are extremely important in the child’s adolescence and adulthood. In The Other Wes Moore, by Wes Moore, male figures, specifically male role models, play an important part in both Wes Moores’ lives and young boy’s lives in general, eventually making or breaking their future. The author, Wes Moore has many important male role models in his life that enable him to live up to his full potential. Uncle Howard, taking the place of Moore’s deceased father, encourages Moore to strive for higher education over a career in basketball one day as they play the game in their neighborhood. This example clearly depicts the influence of Uncle Howard on Wes Moore, the author, in his education and the influence that eventually earned Moore more opportunities in his later life, such as careers and scholarships. The harsh reality that Uncle Howard speaks to Moore and the emotional support he gives, helps Moore to get back on the right track and create a better and...
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...Parental influence in sexual decisions of teens and adolescents. Parents can be one of the strongest influences in an adolescents’ life. Studies have shown that higher levels of parental involvement in their child’s life are linked with lower levels of delinquency, violent behavior, high school dropout and drug abuse as well as with higher levels of educational attainment (Moore & Zaff, 2002). For this study, we will look specifically at parental influence to reduce adolescent/teens decision to become sexually active at an early age. There are many reasons why this topic warrants deeper research. Early adolescent sexual experience is said to be lined with various risky behaviors, including unwanted pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases (Kirby et. al, 2005, Ryan et. al, 2008). With huge emphasis placed on the role parents have in their children’s’ lives, it is conceivable that their impact can play a role in deferring teens/adolescents from engaging in sexual activities thus lessening the dangers that surround sexual promiscuity. It is also extremely critical to understand if parental involvement has a connection with the timing of a teen/adolescents initial sexual encounter. Child Trends analyzed the most recent data published from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (1997). This cohort study attempted to investigate how parenting practices that happen before their adolescent/teen become sexually interested and active will affect their decision...
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...Moral Politics: How Our Parents Have Influenced Our Political Minds How was your childhood? A question frequently asked when encountering new acquaintances. The human mind is very inquisitive, and with that said you can tell a myriad of things about a person based on their childhood. Professor George Lakoff, a Professor of Linguistics at UC Berkeley has crafted together an insightful collection of information based of two different child-rearing models. The Nurturant Family Model which is the Progressive Worldview, and the Strict Father Family Model known as The Conservative Worldview. Exploring these two very diverse models Professor Lakoff believes that you can determine what type of political mind a child will have based on their upbringing. Which do you think you were? To be succinct, The Nurturant Family model is one of being cared for and cared about, having one's desires for loving interactions met, living as happily as possible, and deriving meaning from one's community and from caring for and about others. With that being said, Professor Lakoff feels that the child will have the highest moral values such as empathy and responsibility; effective nurturing is imperative based on these two moral values. In society, nurturant morality is expressed as social responsibility. This requires cooperation rather than competition, and recognition, and recognition of interdependence. Nurturant morality is help don’t harm approach. The Nurturant Family model is characterized...
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...His father has a cattle farm and runs an excavating business. On a typical workday, he is working with the cattle or pouring concrete for the excavating business. The greatest influence to him in life is his father. He has learned the importance of a strong work ethic from his father. His father wakes him up on workdays at 6:00 AM to eat breakfast together, and then tells him what he has to do at work for that day. He enjoys not having to travel far to work every morning since he lives on the farm and his father appreciates the help. Miles enjoys spending time with his dad, hunting and fishing also. His dad does not have much time to do those things, but when time allows he enjoys every minute of it. Miles father is his greatest influence, but his twin has helped him in being a hard worker also. Having a twin brother makes Miles always wants to work harder and accomplish more than his brother. He enjoys being close to his family and working with them almost every day and hopes that he and his brother can stick together and keep it going in the...
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