...Mother Courage and her Children (1939)(1) by German playwright Bertolt Brecht and Love in the time of Cholera (1985)(2) by Colombian author Gabriel Garcia Marquez explore the theme of obsession and its’ detrimental influence on human relationships. Whilst in the plays the protagonists’ obsession leads to the destruction of relationships with loved ones, in the novel a thwarted relationship leads the main character to develop dual unhealthy relationships with women. The first sees him obsessed with his lost first love and the second is a sexual addiction spanning more than 600 ‘conquests’. Whilst Mother Courage and Florentino are both driven by obsession, these vary in their focus. Mother Courage lives in the time of the Thirty Years war and runs her own cart selling wares to the armies to survive and support her children. This business and the pursuit of money becomes an obsession for her. On page 73, Scene 9 Mother Courage declares: “Sometimes I sees meself driving through hell with me cart selling brimstone, or across heaven with packed lunches for hungry souls. Give me my kids what’s left...” This line juxtaposes the images of heaven and hell and brings to the readers mind a well-used phrase that people use to emphasise their dedication to a task, ie “I’d drive through heaven or hell...”. Whilst it becomes apparent to the reader that Mother Courage is obsessed with making money from the war, in Love in the time of Cholera Florentino’s obsession is with...
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...Name : Vigiline B. Apoli Title : “Mothers - at - Work and Stay - at - Home Mothers on Children’s Attitude towards Family and Learning: Basis for the Development of SOME (Strengthening Oneself through Mother’s Enduring) Love Program” Degree : Master of Education Specialization : Guidance and Counseling Key Concepts : Mother - at – Work, Stay - at - Home Mother, Children’s Attitude, Family, Learning, and SOME Love Program” Adviser : Peter Howard R. Obias, Ph.D. Statement of the Problem The purpose of the study was to find out the impact of mothers- at-work and stay-at-home mothers with their children’s attitudes towards family and learning. It also looked for a program that would help in further strengthening the love of their children towards their mother. Specifically, the study sought to answer the following: 1.Determine the profile of the respondents with regards to: a. mother – at - work b. stay – at - home 2.Determine the scores of attitudes of the respondents in terms of: a. family b. learning 3.Find the significant difference between the profile and attitudes of the respondents. 4.Develop a proposed program to be used as intervention based on the results of the study. METHODOLOGY Research Design This study used a descriptive survey method that utilized an attitude scale to determine the impact...
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...The one person I look up to the most is my mother. She is a very hardworking and caring mom who is always there for me when I need her. Every time I have a problem or have a bad day, she is the person that makes everything better. I know I can trust her with anything, and to me that’s one characteristic that is very important. My mother has always given me wise advice. She has taught me so many things that will help me through life. She has always told me to stand up for what I believe in and not let others persuade me. She is always faithful and always there to listen. I know I can always count on her with anything. `One characteristic that stand out the most is her caring attitude toward us. She puts us children first in front of herself. Always making sure we are having a good day, and having food on the table when we come home. She has always helped me with school and I can remember when I was younger she would stay up all night helping me study for all my tests for school the next day. I remember a time when I was in middle school; I was having a lot of difficulty with my friends. They would constantly start drama and I would be in tears coming home from school. My mom was the one person who would give me the best advice on how to deal with the situation she would always be there to tell me everything is going to be okay. She has even helped me out with my hard breakups with boyfriends. She is the one person that knows when something is wrong. Recently, I just broke up with...
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...On the Acts of Love between Mother and Child in Toni Morrison’s Sula By Professor L.B. Johnson English 102.103 5 December 2011 Alicia D. Davis Professor L.B. Johnson English 102.103 5 December 2011 On the Act of Love between Mother and Child in Toni Morrison’s Sula Thesis: Eva is conflicted with the choice of putting her son, Plum, out of his misery or watching him die slowly; sacrificing herself to save her daughter, Hannah, or watching her burn; Eva is conflicted with the love she feels for grand-daughter, Sula and the contempt she also holds for her. I. Eva is left with the choice of putting her son, Plum out of his misery or watching him die slowly. A. Eva decides to remove stool from her son, Plum’s rectum to put him out of his misery. B. Eva decides to kill her son, Plum, to put him out of his misery. II. Eva is conflicted with the choice of sacrificing herself to save her daughter or watching her burn. A. Hannah’s dress caught fire and her daughter Sula watches. B. Eva jumps from a window to try and smother the fire with her own body. III. Eva is conflicted with the love she feels for Sula and the contempt she also holds for ...
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...The death of a mother is the first sorrow wept without her. ~Author Unknown A mother holds perhaps, the most important place in a child's life. The loss of a mother, then is perhaps the biggest loss anyone has to deal with. Unfortunately, the death of a parent is something most children have to see and experience. While some people naturally hold the capacity to endure such a heavy loss, for some it is indeed a tough period to get through. No matter what kind of person the sufferer is, a few words of sympathy from close ones are always comforting. With the knowledge that there is someone who shares the grief, and is there for support in such trying times, indeed gives the sufferer the strength and courage to pull through. For most of you, deciding what to say when a person loses her/his mother is difficult, because it is an extremely sensitive time and you don't want to say anything that will deepen the grief of the sufferer. As such, you may take a look at these words of sympathy that may help ease the pain arising from the loss of such an important figure in one's life, and utilize them to make your close one, who is grieving the loss of her/his mother, feel comforted. Words of Condolence For the Loss of a Mother No words of condolence you put together can heal a person grieving the loss of her/his mother. But it can definitely provide a small amount of comfort, in knowing that someone is there to share the grief and to be there when needed. This gives them courage...
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...In the midst of this world's poverty and pain, Mother Teresa of Calcutta has shone the warm light of God's love and compassion on us all. This is what the Church affirms in raising her to the rank of blessed — that it was his light we beheld in her. "You are the light of the world," Jesus told his disciples, in words that echo down to this day. "Come, be my light," Jesus similarly urged Mother Teresa at the outset of her mission. "Bring me into the dark holes of the poor. Come, carry me, I cannot go alone." Throughout her life on earth, and now even more fully in the Kingdom, she stands as a beacon of light reflecting the heart of God to those who seek him, who seek signs of his nearness and care in the darkness of human suffering and sin. Through her message, proclaimed not as much with words as deeds, rich and poor alike have felt inexplicably drawn into the mercy and solace of God's tender embrace. Her life has truly become "something beautiful for God" — and what is more, something beautiful from God. She is indeed a "sign for this generation" — an incontrovertible sign that "God still loves the world today." Her work, though touching every social ill, was not only or even primarily social work. In Mother Teresa's vision, feeding the hungry and caring for the dying are not ends in themselves, but a share in Jesus' own redemptive "work of love" for the least and the lost. In the face of the overwhelming needs of the poor, abandoned in Calcutta's streets and...
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...In a society where social media is an outlet for posts promoting unrealistic standards of relationships, exposing unfaithful spouses, and throwing the term love around extremely lightly, the feeling of “hate” is more often than not the first response to dealing with an issue. This issue immensely contributes to the thought that hate is only waiting to be provoked. Although these feelings of resentment and betrayal flourish in our more sensitive generation, love is innate; and if you truly love something, you will not have to be taught to love again. To have a true understanding about what love is, you have to start at the root. When you are born, you immediately have a special bond with your mother. Instinctively, you look to her to survive....
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...A vast amount of love is created differently in these poems. Rossetti and Armitage display true love in "Remember" and "Mother any distance", for example when Rossetti says "no more hold me by the hand", the affection is clear; likewise in "Mother any distance" when Armitage says "a second pair of hands" the reader is able to feel the true love between the mother and child. However, in the two poems "My last duchess" and "Daddy" the poets Browning and Plath display the hatred that is created between the characters. Fore example, "You disgust me" portrays the powerful hate in the poem, also shown in "Daddy" when Plath says " I have to kill you." This demonstrates across the unusual quality of the relationships. Furthermore, we can also see fake love is created in "La Belle Dame Sans Merci" and "Salome." Duffy highlights the fake love in "Salome" when she says "i'll do it again." This shows the reader that her "love" was effortless and non meaningful. This is also shown by Keats in "La Belle Dame Sans Merci" by the line "as she did love." Fake love is brought upon this poem because the love created is not real and the reader realises that love is blind. We see true love in "Remember" and "Mother any distance." For instance euphemism is used when Rossetti is asking somebody she is in love with to remember her when she is "gone away." This shows the reader that Rossetti is thinking about dying but does not want to leave the world without knowing that her lover will always remember...
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...A consideration of the growth of the female of Hong Ying’s “daughter of the river” Name: Guokun He Student No: 5904913 Paper: Chin 343 Lecturer: Dr Haixin Jiang Brief outline: This essay takes <Daughter of the river> for an example to analyze the growth of the female in the early 1960s. <Daughter of the river> is written by Hong Ying and published in 1997. With raw intensity and fearless honesty, Daughter of the River follows China's trajectory through one woman's life, from the Great Famine through the Cultural Revolution to Tiananmen Square. From the perspective of content, the novel adopts autobiographical components based on the author's own life experiences, involving in the physical and psychological crisis of the protagonist. This essay will take different examples discuss the growth of female in the modern Chinese literature. outline: 1. Introduction Daughter of the River is a memoir of China concerning the growth of the female in the early 1960s written by Hong Ying. Born during the Great Famine of the early 1960s and raised in the slums of Chongqing, Hong Ying was constantly aware of hunger and the sacrifices required to survive. As she neared her eighteenth birthday, she became determined to unravel the secrets that left her an outsider in her own family. At the same time, a history teacher at her school began to awaken her sense of justice and her emerging womanhood. Hong Ying's wrenching coming-of-age would teach her the price of...
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...feel I’m frozen in time: scenes of my fondest memories of my mother playing in my mind but in slow motion. I see her vividly she is walking by swiftly in her rose colored house dress, brown slightly worn shoes, the aroma of Maxwell house coffee perking, and the scent of crispy bacon sizzling in the skillet, all reminding me of those early morning winter days in Ohio, bitter cold but warm at the same time surrounded in so much love. My mother, “Mamma,” was not only a great parent to my siblings and me but her parenting reached far beyond her children. She was a mother figure and a listening ear to many of my friends but one in particular who did not share the loving, caring and wonderful bond I shared with my mother. I remember a particular time in my best friend, Jackie’s life when she was 15 years old, who could not talk to her mother about a very difficult situation that occurred in her life. Her mother was a self absorbed, unhappy woman, who was more attentive and obsessed with her husband’s indiscretions. She consumed all her time and energy in trying to figure out what was going wrong in her marriage than to hear the cries and frustration, the deep dark place her daughter was in and had no guidance to find her way out. In the midst of Jackie’s most complicated problem during this time in her life, she came to my mother and shared her most horrific pain and sorrows. I remember my mother taking Jackie’s hand, looking in her eyes, and listening to every...
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...As Forrest Gump once said himself, "I'm not a smart man, but I know what love is." Forrest Gump showed viewers can love without any requirements. Many people thought Forrest couldn’t love the same or do the same things because of his lack of intelligence. In most cases, Forrest was taught how to love before he returned the favor. Forrest’s unconditional love showed throughout the whole movie. Unconditional love is something Forrest was taught at a very young by his mother. In the 1950s being a single mother was challenging. Forrest's mother supported him through many of his ups and owns and never made him feel like he was worthless or unintelligent. Forrest's mother sacrificed her own morals to get him into a school. There are many things...
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...of truth empirical truth and necessary truth. These are statements that require a great deal of thought. Knowledge of Belief The person that I chose to write about who I truly believe loves me is my mother. I believe mothers are born with the distinct characteristic for love. Some may confuse the meaning of love with being a provider all of which falls under the characteristics of a mother’s love but different meaning. There is no concrete evidence that proves mothers are born to love but through experience and physical emotions I have come to believe it is true. I could begin the discussion by stating I have five other siblings but the topic of the discussion is me and my mother not my siblings. My mother has displayed her love for me in many ways. I grew up in an era when things weren’t as plentiful as they are today. The community and the environment that I was raised in wasn’t the friendliest or safest place to raise a child. There have been many times my mother has deprived herself of or went without things because she knew it was more important to take care of my needs first. There is no concrete evidence that would prove my mother loves me, only the actions and reaction she has demonstrated shows me that it is true. The first sign of empirical evidence would be when my mother showed me that she loved me was when she had to get up every morning in time enough to prepare me for school, walk me to the babysitter house and then she had to be at the bus stop before 6...
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...moment of birth, the infant will seek the nurturance and love. The infant will then start to respond with an attachment to the primary caregivers. During time the infant will then start to gain attachment towards others as well. However, the attachment that the infant will have for others may not be the same attachment that they have with their primary caregivers, but the attachment will be just as strong to all those who give consistent, loving and a responsive caregiving to the child. After watching the video of Harlow’s Monkey Experiment it has proven to show how love is just a powerful of a condition, just like hunger and thirst. The feeling to be loved is satisfying because of its affectionate and intimate nature. My friends would always talk about how love is blind or unconditional. From watching this video, it made me understand a little of what love is, in the sense that we have absolutely no control over it, since love is basically chemistry. In the 1950s a psychologist named Harry Harlow had conducted an experiment on maternal deprivation in rhesus monkeys. This experiments was setup to study the landmarks not only in primatology, but also evolving the science of attachment and loss. Harry Harlow showed that the mother’s love for the infant was more emotional rather than physiological. To conduct the experiment the first step was to separate the infant monkeys apart just a few hours after their mothers had giving birth to them. Harlow had then arranged for...
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...for love at all. She has seen her mother go through four previous marriages and is headed on to the fifth. She never knew her father and the only thing he left behind for her was an old song. The cynic in her is challenged when she meets Dexter, a boy who forces her to change her perspectives on love and life itself. With the family example she has had when it comes to love, the role of social networks is key in the progression of Remy’s past relationships and Remy and Dexter’s current relationship. When Remy meets Dexter, she is at a crossroads in her life. She has just graduated high school and is about to head to Stanford University in the fall. Her mother is about to get married to her fifth husband and Remy is praying that this one will last. Dexter has come to town with his band that moves around every so often and is determined to capture Remy’s heart. Once he has, Remy is decided that their relationship will only be temporary and that she will leave for Stanford in the fall with no strings attached. When it came to love, Remy did not believe in it due to the examples that had been set by her mother. Dexter, in his own unspoken way, begins to break the cold exterior of her heart and even when they were broken up, she realizes she has begun to love him. Even after her mother’s fifth marriage fails but not by her mother’s doing, Remy realizes that her perspective was all wrong. Love is not the same for everyone and that when one takes a chance when it comes to love, it can...
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...woman.”(1.2.146) This suggests that Hamlet thinks that all women in the world are weak and act in the same way. At the beginning of the play, Ophelia describes Hamlet’s love for her that Hamlet has a great affection on her and he has made the holiest vows to her. However, Polonius still asks Ophelia to leave Hamlet. Later in the play, Ophelia follows her father’s advice and rejects Hamlet’s love. Hamlet starts to treat Ophelia terribly. It brings to a question that whether Hamlet loves Ophelia or not. Hamlet is angry for Gertrude’s remarriage to Claudius because he loves and cares about his mother. It is the same for Ophelia. His mad and angry acts towards Ophelia show readers that he loves and cares about Ophelia because no one will be mad if he is betrayed by someone who is insignificant to him. The ways Hamlet talks and treat Gertrude are almost the same with the ways treats Ophelia. This shows Ophelia is as important as his mother. Hamlet is upset for his mother’s hasty remarriage and his thought of his mother worsen when the ghost tells him that Gertrude marries to a person who is the murderer of his father. He loves his mother so much that draws him to madness. He starts to treat his mother badly. “What wilt thou do? Thou wilt not murder me? Help, help, ho!” (3.4.22-23) He is being violent to his mother to show his anger. Relatively, He is being rude and mad to Ophelia after her rejection too. This indicates that Ophelia is another important woman in Hamlet’s life too....
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