...Outline Quality I see stand out is being strong; to endure a lot of life’s moment with a smile 1. To be a mother is a job in itself. A. To endure child birth B. To be a single mother when your husband is deployed C. To function on a daily basis while holding on to doubt, pain. To be strong for family. 2. Greatest or worst experience in world-military spouse a. Changing of locations, deployments, orders at the drop of a dime b. Long nights, lonely days c. Wondering what will be or happen and what if?? d. Mom and dad. 3. Army veteran A. hundred degrees at day and night, sometimes real cold at nigh B. separation from family, newborn child C. long nights, even longer days, goodbyes My Rock, My Wife By Robert Dukes Robert Dukes Ms. Cadora English Comp 1301 January 20, 2011 Not one person in this world is the same. They may possess similar qualities but will carry themselves in their own unique manner. Defining women would be the most arduous task for anyone in this world and for men it's next to impossible. Sometimes, women themselves don't know how creative and unpredictable they can be! Their brilliance makes life easy, their smiles are a harbinger of joy and they are blessed with the power to create life! My wife Melissa has many qualities that make her who she is. She’s loving, compassionate, resilient and hardheaded. The one that stands out to me the most at any given point is the strength she possesses and...
Words: 1404 - Pages: 6
...How many of you have known a teenage mother at some point in your lives? Well you do even if you don’t realize it as I myself was a teenage mother. According to smith.edu over 1 million teenagers become pregnant each year in the United States with more than 530,000 of those giving birth. That means that 13% of the babies born each year are born to teenagers, most of whom are unmarried and do not have the financial ability to support a child. Today you all will learn about teenage pregnancy, including how many teenagers get pregnant and why, what challenges the mother and baby will face along the way, and what can be done to lower the incidence of teenage pregnancy. More woman than you realize will experience a pregnancy while in their teens. 40% of white woman and 64% of black woman to be exact. 80% of these teenagers are not married and even if they are married the chance of divorce is about 8 in 10. Every 56 seconds another teenager gives birth in the United States making this the country ranking number one for incidences of teenage births. 70% of these girls do not receive proper prenatal care putting herself and her unborn child at risk and 2/3 of teen moms drop out of high school. With no education she is forced to endure minimum wage jobs to support her child most likely ending up on welfare. With these startling statistics why do so many teenage girls get pregnant? Are they doing it intentionally? While 85% of teenage pregnancies are not intended that leaves the other...
Words: 1547 - Pages: 7
...Openness or Closeness the Best Answer? I experienced the most heartwrenching transition of a child going from a care giver to a social worker. My cousin was a single mother of three, and she had been arrested for child abuse. Seeing that no one was able to contact the father (a well-known drug dealer) of the youngest child, my mother offered to care for her for the time being. Little did we know the biological father had the right to come without notice and pick her up without any questions. Two months later, when he was ready to come get her from our home, removing her from being with us was a devastating sight. For she was happy with us and was able to keep close to her two sisters and family members. To this day, sixteen years later, we have not seen or heard from her. Yes, what I experienced was temporary guardianship, and it does not amount to what adoptions actually endure; however, the pain and frustration we experienced like families do in adoption cases was still there. In this summary, I will point out how both authors used quotation marks, and italics as a way of making their point. In the article “Closed Adoption Can Sow Bitterness and Discontent”, the author Marcy Axness shows how open adoptions can be done with proper guidance and the mindset adoptees should be in for understanding the birth mother’s rights. In comparison to the article “Privacy in Adoption Is a Human Right”, written by Thomas C. Atwood, he defends the right of a standard set of mandatory guidelines...
Words: 1320 - Pages: 6
...of his/her head to his/her toes. A woman’s baby can blink and is already assimilating into proper position for birth. Their baby can actually breathe, have hiccups, and cough. Although abortions can be scrutinized as a positive outlook for women, it should not be legal. These are hopeless lives that are being seized...
Words: 686 - Pages: 3
...others. Once she is diagnosed with gestational diabetes if it is left untreated, it can lead to complications such as pre-eclampsia and high birth weight. Marsha Jones was a mother who was diagnosed with gestational diabetes she talks about her experiences, “During my pregnancy, I had to endure constant blood work, eye exams, glandular checks, examination of my feet and hands (because there was a risk of blood clots forming in my lower extremities), and fetal monitoring to ensure that my daughter was developing properly and that there were no birth defects. If she grew too rapidly (shoulders bigger than her head), delivery would be tougher.”...
Words: 693 - Pages: 3
...Indian, and Rachel, a Choctaw maiden, survived the “trail of death” and brought their two children, Courtney and Lucy, to the cane lands. John Hawk soon after became ill and passed on, leaving Rachel and the two girls to become slaves and chattel. Courtney soon became a mother to Eliza, a half-breed daughter from Master Ford George. As Eliza grew older, she too bore a child for Master Ford George after spearing him through the heart and giving birth on her own, away from the plantation. This child is George Fortman, by whom this interview is held. George and his mother are well taken care of by the George family throughout his childhood, as they both work as slaves for the family. George is educated by Mistress Lorraine, Ford George’s widowed wife, and lives to see the beginning and end of the Civil War. I found that the most troubling piece of information from George Fortman’s interview is his recollection of his mother’s own troubling past. From her confusing childhood as a halfbreed, to watching her mother grieve over Master Ford George’s infidelity to the disturbing relationship he had with her, Eliza faced many hardships. She was forced to kill the man who violated her, flee from her home and give birth to her son on her own. I find this extremely troubling, as a woman, to even think about facing this challenge. This reading, however troubling it may have been, did not...
Words: 521 - Pages: 3
...form of murder. The embryo is a still an underdeveloped human being with the same right as the parents. The taking of a human life by another human life is easily defined as a homicide, which will be punished by law. Many people don’t know what abortion is, who can receive an abortion and why people would even choose to get them. While we are on the topic of abortion, I am pro-choice. THE TAKING OF A LIFE 3 The act of abortion should be banned because it means deliberately taking a human life. I believe that every form of the act, without any exception should be outlawed because it is taking a life. From the moment that a child is conceived, embryo to birth, that child is a human being that is separate from it mother. The taking of a life by another human being is defined as a murder and is punished by law. I also feel that a woman’s body is her own to do whatever she wants. First, before a person makes a decision to abort a child, they should know what abortion means. The dictionary defines abortion as: The termination of pregnancy and expulsion of an embryo or of a fetus that is incapable of survival. That means inducing birth to kill the fetus, or baby before it is carried to full term. Sometimes early in a pregnancy, a woman will go to their doctor, and take a pill, it would terminate the pregnancy. If the woman is...
Words: 564 - Pages: 3
...d’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy and A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini. Though each book is written in a different era and continent from each other, both authors have taken a profound look into the lives of women who, in submission of the society they live in, persevere and carry on their lives no matter what. Though Hardy’s Victorian countryside and Hosseini’s war ridden Afghanistan have very different plot lines, both novels develop the theme of inner strength of women through the protagonist’s characteristics, the conflicts in the plot and setting. In 1891 Hardy wrote Tess of the d’Urbervilles. The novel received a public outcry and was criticized for its taboo topics and insight into a ruined woman’s private life. The passionate and intense Tess Durbeyfield, whom the novel is centralized around, faces more tragedy and injustice in her adolescent years than any women could bear and perseveres through out. Tess’s character, as well as the women around her, shows the true inner strength women possess. From the early days of Tess’s journey, the inner strength of her character is shown as she plays caretaker to her large family. Hardy presents Joan Durbeyfield, Tess’s mother: as superstitious, faintly childlike, and essentially harmless, and he had remarked that between her and Tess ‘there was a gap of two hundred years as ordinarily understood’...Hardy encourages us to be critical...
Words: 4291 - Pages: 18
...just a child bearing machine, (3) ability to get rid of unwanted children and my last point I will cover is (4) rape and incest that they would other wise be forced to bear. The first premise I will cover is (1)Woman's health, this can cover multiple topics in itself. Anywhere from stress on the mother to conditions called an ectopic pregnancy, this is when the new human implants itself on the wall of the fallopian tube instead of on the wall of the uterus. If left alone, the fallopian tube will eventually rupture and cause the death of the mother and child. In this case, there is no way to have a baby born alive, so it must be removed to save the life of the mother. 1 There are many other problems that can cause difficulties for the mother but not severe enough for her to die. Conditions like Toxemia, Placenta Previa, and Placental Abruption. Usually when these problems come up the woman must have an abortion to save her life. Other health reasons that do not evolve the mother dyeing is things like Stress. Stress can cause the mother to give birth to the baby pre-term, and also at a low birth weight.2 Typically, one in 10 women delivers pre-term which is 37 weeks.3 Giving birth to a baby pre-term means that the baby could later get chronic lung disease,...
Words: 1419 - Pages: 6
...Abortion Abortion has been a very controversial topic in American history ever since the court ruling in the case Roe vs. Wade. The court ruled that abortion is okay when the heath of the mother is at risk. Another case that increased the number of abortions was Doe v Bolton. The courts expanded the definition of health for the mother to include familial, financial, psychological, and well-being as determined by her physician. The contemporary issue that surrounds abortion is when does life begin because that questions decides whether you are killing a human or not. Many Christians that hold a biblical worldview will say it begins when the egg meets the sperm. A non-Christian would say it begins at a certain trimester and or when the baby is born. These two views can be worded as pro-choice and pro-life. The biggest issue that separates the two is whether it is morally right or wrong to kill a baby in the womb which then raises the question of when life beings. Abortion will continue to be a very controversial topic all throughout the world and the Untied States, but can be stopped with people that care about life and what it means to be human. A question that needs to be answered when talking about life and death is what is the meaning to life. The bible makes it very clear as to what the meaning of life is. Man is to seek after God always and keep his commandments as it says in 2 Timothy 4:1-5 ,”I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the...
Words: 877 - Pages: 4
...leader will set the tone for the way the organization functions. It is a personal belief of mine, to passionately serve those you seek to help a leader must empathize and identify with the organizations vision. The organization that I have chosen to create is called “Love Doesn’t Hurt”. This organization was created to assist young mothers and pregnant young mothers from the age’s fifteen until twenty-two. “Young women who give birth while attending a community college are 65 percent less likely to complete their degree than women who do not have children during that time”(NCSL, 2010).The young women that will benefit from the success of this program are from lower middle class or below poverty level. Many of them will be at risk for not completing their education and lack a support system. The graduation numbers in 2016 are alarming and the cycle of poverty is becoming more difficult to break. According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, “Only 40 percent of teen mothers finish high school and of that 40 percent, fewer than 2 percent finish college by age 30” (NCSL, 2010). I was not a teen mother but I was a young terrified mother at the age of 22 years old. I had a year and half left to complete my undergraduate. I know firsthand, how vital a positive family support group is in completing your educational aspirations. “People expect their leaders to speak out on matters...
Words: 858 - Pages: 4
...Greek Hero’s, True Tragedy English 103 Greek Mythology December 12, 2010 The Greeks looked at their gods with attributes they only wished they could attain. They developed stories of extraordinary people that were the offspring of immortals such as Nymphs or gods like Hermes or Zeus. Most of these stories consisted of labors, quests, or bloody wars, where the heroes were at the epicenter of the tale. What made these heroes so great was not just the fact they had godly attributes or completed monumental tasks, but endured more tragedy or more bliss than any common Greek would undergo. One tale commonly told was that of a demigod named Achilles. His mother Thetis was a Sea Nymph, and his father was Peleus, was the king of the Myrmidons. Most stories of Achilles revolved around war, where either his gift was at his greatest or worst. Every Greek sought him for battle so his skills would tip the balance to their favor. No myth exemplified this more than that of the ten-year Trojan War. An excerpt from a translation written by Apollodorus that accounts this time state, “He also took Lesbos and Phocaea, then Colophon, and Smyrna, and Clazomenae, and Cyme; and afterwards Aegialus and Tenos, the so-called Hundred Cities; then, in order, Adramytium and Side; then Endium, and Linaeum, and Colone. He took also Hypoplacian Thebes and Lyrnessus, and further Antandrus, and many other cities.” (Frazer) By many accounts, you could argue that...
Words: 1135 - Pages: 5
...Everyone is human By Sasha Smallwood English Composition 106 Everyone is judged at one point in his or her life. One person might be judged by the color of their skin while others are judged due to something as simple as the clothes that cover their back. Does anyone really stop to think how it affects the inside of a person who is ridiculed about something such as a birth defect in spite of how they may my look on the outside? What if this person is a child that has to go through everyday worried about what jokes might be made that day regarding his or her appearance. What does it say about our society when people are oblivious to their own flaws and have jokes to ridicule someone else about something they have no control over. Through child hood until the present day I have maintained a friendship with a special person in my life that was born with a disease, called Hairy Nevigh, which tremendously affects her physical appearance. She had moles that cover all of her skin except her eyes and mouth. Growing up I always considered her to be very brave whenever someone would point, stare, and ask her “Do you have chickenpox?” She would always smile and reply to them that she was simply born that way and that they were moles. Of course the children were inquisitive at that point and proceeded to ask questions concerning their welfare such as...
Words: 654 - Pages: 3
...Life isn't always what it seems because with the dawning of each new day you never know what to expect. Therefore, when things in your life go awry, you must have faith. Faith you ask, what's that? The answer may vary slightly depending on a person's cultural, social, and religious beliefs but overall the meaning of faith doesn't change. The dictionary definition of faith is "belief in something for which there is no proof and complete trust." Martin Luther, a German theologian, defined faith as "God's work in us that changes us and gives new birth from God." Although, everyone's definition may be worded differently than the dictionary or Martin Luther's definition the basic premise will remain the same. To explore this concept that faith has the same meaning I asked family and friends of different ages, life experience, and religious background what faith means to them. I began by asking my little sister, who is in the fifth grade, she told me that faith means to believe, trust and have hope. My sister has not experienced a lot in life yet so she has not really had to rely on her faith as much as her elders. Next, I asked a classmate who is Catholic and has grown up in a different racial culture than myself. She said faith means believing in something that is unseen. Despite the fact that she has never seen something, she still has faith in it. Without knowing her life story, I can tell from her definition that she has had to rely on her faith several times...
Words: 378 - Pages: 2
...after twenty-two days are killing a live human being. Although pregnancy can be frightening especially when it is unplanned it still does not give anyone the right to kill another living human being. Abortion should be illegal because the fetus is a living being with brain activity, it can cause the next baby to be pre-mature, and the mother can establish post mental health issues. If a woman gets pregnant after an abortion her chances of having problems with the pregnancy are higher. British researchers have found, “women who terminated a pregnancy increased their risk of giving birth prematurely in subsequent pregnancies” (Healy P1). Often when babies are delivered prematurely they have health issues. These health issues can cause hospitalization for weeks or even months in some cases. Not only did the woman take away a life, but she has now put her future babies in danger. Not only can abortion cause future pregnancy dangers but also it can cause mental health issues for the carrier. Often women who have abortions suffer from mental issues related to their abortion. Some research has discovered that women who have an abortion can endure more than double the possibility of having depression issues than other women. Priscilla Coleman, of the British Journal of Psychiatry, studies showed that with abortion comes a thirty-four percent higher risk to anxiety disorders as well as a thirty-seven percent increased risk of depression. Research proves, “This was more than double...
Words: 832 - Pages: 4
