...believe that when they grow older they will be nothing like their parents or family. No matter what people want to make themselves believe; everyone pulls traits, ideas, views on world problems, and many other aspects as well from their life growing up. All of these qualities are what give people their self-identity. Not every person will be the same or view things the same way, each family has gone thought different journeys in their lives, some families have different cultures while others are from different eras and hold different traditions. Each one of these qualities that come from a family creates persons individuality and can create a self-confident person or a low one. With all of this said, people gain their self-identity from the psychological development, era of their family, traditions in the home, and the location they were raised in. There are many different scenarios a person could go through to develop their self-identity. An individual could have grown up in a loving and family oriented home. With a father who made sure to discipline when needed, but assured his family with knowledge of growing up and encouraging his family to do their best at everything. “Advice to My Son” was a poem written by Peter Meinke and it reflects the analysis given before. Meinke’s poem is about a father who is giving his son advice about the life ahead of him. In the first part of the poem the father tells his son that he needs to live each day as if it were his last, but also...
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...Children are young people that are not ready to face the world on their own. They need help and, their source of help is their mother and father. A mother and father are the people who have responsibilities over their children. Both parents have different tasks and jobs they do for their children. As a parent, they both have very different obligations. The responsibilities a mother has are very different compared to the responsibilities a father has. A mother’s job is to nurture her child, and a father’s job is to protect his child. A mother’s obligations for her child start right away. From the moment the baby begins to grow in her womb, the list of responsibilities begins. A mother is responsible for safely carrying her baby in her womb for nine months. She has to do everything carefully and cautiously. The baby in a mother’s belly is so fragile. A mother also has to watch what she is eating and drinking during her pregnancy. For nine whole months, a mother is sacrificing her wants and desires in order to create a healthy child. After the baby is born, even more responsibilities come a mother’s way. A mother is responsible for nurturing her child. She’s there to care for and encourage the growth of her child. If her child is hurt, the mother is expected to take care of him and make him feel better. If he is sick, the mother is the one that stands by his side, making sure that all his needs are met. A mother usually cooks and cleans for her children. She makes sure her kids...
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...Is it true that both parents from a family should bare an equal responsibility in order to take care of their own children? I think it’s essential to raises up a child by providing them love and care from both sides of parents because as we grow up, our parents have already taken two really important roles to teach us many life lessons but also to nurture us by his or her life-long experiences. However I think due to gender differences, both parents may have different views and roles when they’re teaching the children. More importantly, if both of them assume equal responsibility in raising a child then the child may live in a family that surrounded by warmest love but at the same time the possibility of family breakdown or separation will be prevented and the child may have a positive attitude on choosing the right path in their upcoming futures, too. Throughout the childhoods of children, what are some major roles of both parents and why is it so important to share balance responsibilities in order to raise a child? To answer this question, we need to notice that in an economic perspective, nowadays in the society of Hong Kong, fathers still pretend a really major role in order to work outside and earn money to support the needs of the family, especially the tuition fees of children. But also due to this reason, fathers in a family who act as a breadwinner will always have less time to stay at home in order to communicate with their children properly and also to play with...
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...STEVEN HERRICK EXPLORE THE THEME OF GRIEF AND LOSS IN “LOVE, GHOSTS AND NOSE HAIRS”? The Australian author Steven Herrick, explores the theme of grief and loss in the novel Love, Ghosts and Nose Hairs. He explores different ways that family members deal with the loss of the maternal figure. He also explores the life of Jack, a sixteen year old boy dealing with the loss of his mother. A lot of strong relationships were lost, and each family member dealt with the loss in completely different ways. Herrick shows the readers what it is like to lose a family member and the ways that some people could deal with the grief of that loss. While reading the book the themes, characterisation, language and symbolism. Herrick explores the different methods used to deal with grief and loss in the book Love, Ghosts and Nose Hairs. Herrick uses poetry...
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...In this paper, I have included three families of three different heritages. The families are the Williams, Vargheses, and the Wiezinskis. Each are from a different heritage, the Williams being from Germany, the Vargheses from India, and the Wiezinskis from Poland. All of the information is different and shows how diverse our world is. All the names used in this paper have been used with the full consent of their owners. I will start with the Williams. The main person whom which I interviewed was Jon Williams. His mother was Anna Claudia and his father was Hugbert Williams both from Germany. He does not know his grandfather on his mother’s side but he does know his grandmother. His grandmother was Veronica Koopmann. His father’s father was Greichi Williams, and his grandmother on his father’s side Schreiezch Bell. Jon was an only child in his family. All of these people in his family are from Germany and are 100% German. Jon Williams grew up in the suburbs of Tampa and later moved to the suburbs of Chicago. Both his father and his mother grew up in Germany. Jon was born in the US after his mother and father came to America in 1987. His mother was 27 and his father was 30. He still remains in contact with relatives, parents and his children. Jon has 2 girls and 1 boy. The places where his relatives are varied, a few live in America but most of his relatives are in Germany, in the city of Berlin. He usually visits his far away relatives once or twice a year and goes weekly to...
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...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 support for young children. When parents are involved in the education of their...
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...taking charge of the family roles, they did most of the outside task, disciplinarian in the family. Men in our current society are now stay at home dads, gay or straight, are adoptive or step parent to children. Men in the late 1950’ s had a lot of responsibilities many men would wear their business suites every morning and then come straight home, and be a father figure to their children, and a husband to their wife. During the late 1950’s it was a time where boys were strictly raised as boys and girls were also grown up to only know the roles of women. The expectations of fatherhood was taken vary seriously in the late...
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...Love There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human society are created, strengthened and maintained (Churchill 198). It acts much like the tentacles of an octopus, but which offers comfort, relief, compassion, strength and bonding. Take an orange for example. How it is subdivided into many sections conjoined but still sweet at the same time. That is how a family is, or should be rather. There are several ways in which to define a family, most commonly being a social group comprising of a father, mother and children. It can also be people living in the same house under commitment and sharing the same objectives and goals (Jeff 32). Under a more general definition, it can be a group of people under the same lineage or sharing a common the same ancestry. Families can be classified depending on their composition. The ways in which the society views a family keeps on expanding every day however, Emerging trends and new ways of living also play major roles in shaping numerous definitions available for the term. Some include; people affiliated by matrimony, adoption, obligation, blood, history, and economic dependence, shared memories or even love just to mention but a few. Most often confused with family is the term household, which refers to a group of individuals residing under one roof but may be of different ancestral backgrounds (Craig 99). Mostly, a family refers to individuals that are related by...
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...our family dynamic has changed very much, and has come a long way. As of right now in 2012 we have the most diverse families such as ; two Moms, two Dads, One mother , one Father, father and mother, and interracial couples as well. In the article Gay donor, Gay Dad? It related a lot to what we were taught in class about aspects of families and the sociology of the family. Sociology of the family is the systematic study of a family, how they live? Who does the parenting? Who does household chores, occupations, and much more. In this article it talks about two same sex parents who are seeking a gay male to donate his sperm so they can raise a family. It relates a lot to what we were taught in class because we discussed in class about same sex marriages and relationships, and would it be difficult for the kid to be raised with two mommies or two daddies. In the article it also discusses who does the diaper changing and takes care of the kids most of the time. In class we spoke about parenting and sometimes there are women who are just single mothers and do all of the work, and vice versa with fathers. In our society today there are so many different aspects to what one may call a “family”, and by that I mean that one child who does have two mommies or two daddies, or just one may love it and be fine with the life we live. In our society today I think that we are slowly adapting to other ideas of a family besides the “nuclear family” and...
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...issue in The New York Times article “What are Father’s For?” defines the gender argument that father’s may or may not necessary members of the family unit. The issue of single parenting or two-parent parenting is brought forth as a way to show how different children are raised with and without a father. The major issue put forth in this debate is directly related to the premise that a father may or may not fulfill a unique gender role in the family that the mother may not possess. These are the important aspects of “What are Father’s For?” which examine the necessity of the father as child-bearers in the modern-day family unit. Summary of the Debate: The first side of the debate on the necessity of father’s is based on the gender essentialist view that the father and mother have unique roles in the family when raising their children. For...
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...his memories of his father? Bill Bryson’s narrative piece My Dad presents his father in mostly a frugal light. Throughout the text Bryson tells the audience a story of his childhood Summers travelling throughout the United States, however his language used jumps back and forth between his current self and him as a child ‘so that it resembled a porcupine’ and ‘it was like a bomb’ as he and his siblings would virtually throw out ‘flaming’ concoction of eggs, apples, and matches. Bryson’s tone is often pessimistic, as he cynically details out the roadhouses in which would be a ‘relative treat’ from his Father, he carries on to telling stories of siblings and him eating and ‘refuse to eat anymore’ of the undercooked food. Bryson uses many quotations from all his family members, this is to provide both examples and for the audience to understand the hierarchy in the family. It is clear through analysis that his Father was the one who held the highest ranking, as Bryson describes his Mother to use very few words, however the word’s she did use showed a lack of authority ‘I don’t know’, ‘dear’, ‘honey’, ‘can I…’ this gives the impression that Bryson’s father may have been abusive, the text does provide other examples of this for instance when they do not...
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...My family name is Liu, the fourth largest family name in China, the largest family name in Jiang Xi province. I had asked my father about ancestor, he told me he just know them came to Hu Bei from Jiang Xi several hundred years ago. Jiang Xi is on the right side of Hu Bei, I am not sure the exact reason why they moved, if guess based on the history experience, I think it is about famine or war. Most Chinese ancestor are farmer several hundread years ago, because we were agricultural society. It means most people are very poor. In my country, every family very value the education, if one of their son got number one in the entire country, he will be a magnifico, the whole his family, relatives and neighborhoods would feel the unique honor and money. I do not remember this clearly, I asked my father whether a ancestor had a good position in the rank, he told me my grand-grandfather or my grand grand-grand father had got “Xiu Cai” in the rank. “Xiu Cai” is a not very good position, there were many “Xiu Cai” appeared every year. But it also brings some extent honor and economic support. Another grandfather got a champion in Gong Fu. It is not a same level as the civilian. But it was also good for my ancestor family at that time. My grandfather died before I could memory things, so all the story heard from my father. His job is a captain of the team which form of farmers. I do not what the responsible for he, because that job and organization way had disappeared. My father told...
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...Ph.D. Student, Department of Sociology, College of Social Sciences and Philosophy University of the Philippines, Diliman, Philippines E-mail: shiro.ito@up.edu.ph Received: March 27, 2011 Abstract This qualitative case study aims to explore reasons that led to the absence of the Japanese father from the family, how it affects the present situation of Japanese-Filipino children (JFC), and to conceptualize socioemotional factors that influence JFC’s life. The study covers current situations and socioemotional and socioeconomic problems of JFC and used standard qualitative techniques to gather field data. This study has identified that JFC are shaped by sociocultural and socioeconomic differences between Japan and the Philippines that play in individuals’ lives and decisions. The union of two people from different cultures and nationalities coupled with socioeconomic struggles and each individual’s underlying reasons to unite (marriage/cohabitation) may also lead to their separation. Furthermore, the study identified several unique socioemotional factors of the JFC as well: perceived unique ethnicity, the retention of a degree of love to the father who abandons them, and the need to see their fathers instead of feeling hatred and anger. Despite their abandonment, the JFC feel proud of their Japanese culture. Finally, JFC feel they belong to two culture groups; they consider knowing and belonging to both cultures to be their destiny. Keywords: Ethnicity, Filipino, Japanese, Children...
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...personalities and behavior change over time. In the story, Night by Elie Wiesel, a story is told by Elie Wiesel himself about how he and his family were captured by Nazis in 1944 and thrown into concentration camps. He recalls events that happened in that dark time period like how he and his father were separated from his mother and three sisters when they arrived at the first concentration camp, Auschwitz. Also, he talks about all of the horrible things that went on around him including the horrible conditions that he and his father had to go through. The people in the concentration camps changed throughout the story due to the circumstances they were in. The first thing that the reader notices about the people in the camps is that they had turned on each other and helped destroy each other physically while imprisoned by the Nazis. The reason for this is because they are each desperate to survive and will do anything to stay alive even if it means killing each other for food. Also...
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...was the only one that was different. All the girls were blond, and during lunch she would never sit with the popular people. Toula was embarraela and didn’t even seem happy that her family would be at the dinner with Ian’s family. All her family were from Greek they even brought her grandma to live with them in Chicago and that her brother was told by his father to get married with a virgin Greek and had to work. Toula was a good worker, she worked with her aunts restaurant in Chicago called dancing zobras. And she even went to school, that’s where she met lan Milliar....
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