...Abstract – This study reviews several empirical researchers which highlight 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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...What is a relationship? A relationship is the state of being connected between two or more people. It is a meaningful sharing of experience and understanding that makes a person partially or completely trust another person, therefore allowing that individual to be a part of his or her life. A relationship is not a binding contract, but a mutual voluntary agreement that comes from all of the involved parties. Consequently, relationships exist in everyday life that form bonds. A relationship is a bond formed when people possess working associates, romantic partners, and family. People create relationships with their working associates to complete tasks and to make the workplace less monotonous. They collaborate with others to increase their...
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...Jesus Soto Paper 4 — Ending Relationships I am implementing the ending process of a relationship with a past friend; we were close friends, and our friendship appeared to be evolving into a romantic relationship. I recognized that our friendship was changing, and I allowed it to because initially I did not directly address my feelings and because I liked our connection, but eventually I decided against our friendship becoming a romantic one. I did not have the same romantic attachment towards my friend as she did for me and although I wanted the close connection of a relationship I realized that it was not for the right reasons. When we talked and I told her that I did not want to our friendship to be more than a friendship she told me that she felt betrayed; it was as if we had broken up, even though we were never in a romantic relationship. Although we ended that conversation rationally, and agreed to continue our friendship, our relationship has never been the same; there is lots of tension,...
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...Essay #2 The definition of a relationship is the way in which two or more concepts, objects, or people are connected, or the state of being connected. When you hear the word, people automatically think of relationships being between two human beings. People can have a special relationship with anything. It can be with an object which captivates you, a gift you received from family member, or even a space which is only your own. An important relationship in my life happens to be with my television. The relationship with my television has made me very grateful since it has become my source of comfort, control, escapism and knowledge. My television is my rock of sorts. The one thing I can always turn to when I am searching for comfort. Many of you are probably wondering how my TV is able to give me a source of comfort when it is an inanimate object. Well, thats the greatest thing about it. If one is depressed, then the TV is just a few clicks away from a good comedy to lighten my mood. When one is angry it can turn to an action movie to relieve or channel my anger. Then, if one feels a bit stressed, it has various exercise shows or even some calming music channels. And of course, my love of sports can be satisfied at anytime. From football to tennis, I can have it all at my finger tips. Having cable offers me hundreds of comforting options. And just like that, the television just knows what one needs at that moment and can do so with no talking and best of all...
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...A Storybook Relationship Every day the world presentsobstacles to overcome burdened by vast emotions carried inside that person that demand acknowledgment and closure. I can remember the consumption of those emotions and feeling the weight of the world on my shouldersas my soul,famished from interaction,wailed for a release. Yearning to vent yet demanding a method to protect my most valuable possession, my mind. I opened a door to unsurpassed wonder.A relationship that I was able to flow with emotions unbridled, without fear of discovery. Days passed, then weeks, and one day the realization came that years were gone but each moment lived on shared and captured, escaping the prison of time. Easily now I shed my armor and poured out my ramblings to an open book that consume all my inequities and reinvigorated my goals.These moments that I share in this special relationship shape me to grow from the past and prepare for the future. Unfettered,capabilities to share my innermost thoughts allowed captivated watch as I begin to blossom into a mature strong being able to stand back and marveled as the story unfolded. A connection so powerful that others long for the ability to have their words caressed and accepted. My aptitude to cope with the grind of life increased as the pages filled up. The ivory shelf above my bed cradled the secret books housing the foundation of character built over the years, strengthen by an everlasting, unbreakable, and irreplaceable bond.Each page of my journal...
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...to learn about acquaintances and strangers as well. These should be face-to-face interviews. Introduce this assignment by introducing each subject one at a time. Who are they? What is the nature of your relationship? Next, ask a variety of questions to get them to consider not just their definition of happiness, but its origins and development. You can use these sample questions to get you started, but should add more questions or change the interview as it develops: Has your definition of happiness changed over time? What experiences have influenced your definition? Do you expect the definition to change again? Follow the Unit 4 template for this assignment in DocSharing. It includes submitting a transcript of your interviews, including your questions, so take notes or record the discussion. Finally, you should draw conclusions about the process and the answers that were given. Compare and contrast the results of the interviews. Discuss what was similar or different in the replies, whether the subjects were honest, or if the concept of happiness was difficult to define. The essay should be at least 750 words and should employ terms from the text. The assignment should be completed in Microsoft Word and should follow the template provided for the sample transcript, essay, and reference page. CLA assessment: This unit 4...
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...Essay on “Liking is for Cowards. Go for What Hurts” We’re spending more and more time online and less time out in the real world. But is modern technology really doing us harm? And are we missing out on a lot of important stuff when we hide behind our screens and use a mouse as our mouthpiece? These are some of the important question that arise from reading Jonathan Franzen’s essay, “Liking is for Cowards. Go for What Hurts” from 2011. The 51-year-old author puts our daily internet routines into perspective and forces us to think critically about what we are doing online. But he beats around the bush for a while before he starts presenting his actual message. He thus starts out sharing a personal experience of getting a new smartphone and uses this as a starting point for voicing his concerns. Jonathan Franzen is aware of the danger of scaring off those young readers who might be fed up with older people complaining about the youth of today, “Very probably, you’re sick to death of hearing social media disrespected by cranky 51-year-olds” (ll. 140-142). He therefore catches this young audience’s attention by comparing his relationship to his outdated smartphone to a relationship of romantic nature. He uses familiar expressions like “trust issues”, “accountability issues” and having “outgrown the relationship”. In this...
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...We all know love. We have all loved in some kind of way. We love our parents, significant others and even our friends. But we can also love other things like animals or material things. But what is the difference between loving and liking? And is it better not to love and feel pain or to love and be hurt in the progress? Jonathan Franzen seeks to answer these questions in his essay “Liking Is for Cowards. Go for What Hurts”. The essay “Liking Is for Cowards. Go for What Hurts” is, as mentioned, written by Jonathan Franzen and published in The New York Times, May 28, 2011. Jonathan Franzen is born in 1959, and he is an acclaimed American novelist and essayist. The essay is based on the commencement speech he delivered at Kenyon College in Ohio, USA. “Our technology has become extremely adept in creating products that correspond to our fantasy ideal of an erotic relationship, in which the beloved object asks for nothing and gives everything, instantly. (…)” As Franzen claims in his essay, many people can feel like they love their technological object. It gives them a satisfaction, which human interaction maybe wouldn’t. Franzen however thinks, that people in general don’t love material things: they like them. There is a major difference between loving and liking – even though it might appear small. “Liking, in general, is commercial culture’s substitute for loving.” Products are made to be likeable, but if that concept in transferred to a person, you would instantly see...
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...Journal of Information Technology Education Volume 2, 2003 An Overview of Current Research on Automated Essay Grading Salvatore Valenti, Francesca Neri and Alessandro Cucchiarelli DIIGA - Universita’ Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy valenti@inform.unian.it neri@inform.unian.it alex@inform.unian.it Executive Summary Essays are considered by many researchers as the most useful tool to assess learning outcomes, implying the ability to recall, organize and integrate ideas, the ability to express oneself in writing and the ability to supply merely than identify interpretation and application of data. It is in the measurement of such outcomes, corresponding to the evaluation and synthesis levels of the Bloom’s (1956) taxonomy that the essay questions serve their most useful purpose. One of the difficulties of grading essays is represented by the perceived subjectivity of the grading process. Many researchers claim that the subjective nature of essay assessment leads to variation in grades awarded by different human assessors, which is perceived by students as a great source of unfairness. This issue may be faced through the adoption of automated assessment tools for essays. A system for automated assessment would at least be consistent in the way it scores essays, and enormous cost and time savings could be achieved if the system can be shown to grade essays within the range of those awarded by human assessors. This paper presents an overview of current approaches to...
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...Edith Cowan University Academic essay Academic Tip Sheet This academic tip sheet: • explains the academic essay as an academic style of writing; • looks at the structure of an academic essay; • looks at the main types of academic essays; • explains how to write an academic essay; and • provides you with a quick checklist that covers most aspects of writing an academic essay. CRICOS IPC 00279B What is an academic essay? For our purposes, we can define an academic essay as a document that has a defined structure – an introduction, a body and a conclusion. What are the main types of academic essays? If we look at the intent of the academic essay we can define three main types: • Descriptive – describes a subject, e.g.; a person, place or event. • Expository – explains a concept or theory. • Argumentative – presents an argument through reasoning and the use of evidence. 01/08 The argumentative essay Most academic essays will require you to present an argument through reasoning and the use of evidence. In the process of planning and drafting your essay, you will need to respond to the assigned question by thinking, reading and writing your way to a considered position/stance, or thesis statement. The thesis statement is expressed as one or two sentences in the introductory paragraph of your essay, and supported in the body of the essay by a series of topic sentences, one in each paragraph. Each topic sentence is in turn supported by evidence and examples from...
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...The act of cheating is considered taboo in society as we know it today. Cheating on school exams, in sports and in relationships are almost always frowned upon, thus, portraying the “cheater” as the bad guy, and his act morally wrong. When it comes to cheating to get ahead in your education, the only person you are hurting is yourself. For example, a student has to write an essay on a specific topic, but because of a full schedule including sports and music lessons, along with poor time management, the student finds himself sitting at the computer the night before the essay is due, completely drawing a blank when it comes to beginning the essay. It is easy to go on the internet, search for the topic and then find several websites dedicated to essays on that topic. The student using another person’s essay as their own will only hurt them in the long run. They may be caught and punished for plagiarizing, as there is a multitude of software available to detect plagiarizing. A teacher gives the assignment to measure the student’s understanding, ability, and comprehension of the actual act of writing the essay. It is with these assignments that the student can learn and perfect good writing habits, a skill that is taken with them into adult life. Cheating in sports has been happening for a very long time. As far back as 1919, cheating was recorded in the baseball World Series; the cheaters then became infamous for their cheating behavior rather than their performance on the field...
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...Unity and Coherence in Essay Writing Skills for unity, coherence and development of a paragraph are not only applicable to writing an individual body paragraph when we write an essay, but can also help with handling the relations between body paragraphs. Unity Paragraph unity refers to the harmony between the topic sentence and supporting sentences in a paragraph. If we want to achieve such unity, the first thing we do is to decide on a topic sentence. When we write a single paragraph composition, the topic sentence is usually very broad because the paragraph may be dealing with many things which need a broad topic sentence to cover them all. However, when we write an essay of several paragraphs, the topic sentence for each body paragraph should be fairly specific because each body paragraph deals with only one of the many things stated in the thesis sentence. Take, for example, one of our familiar subjects, describing one’s hometown. If we are assigned to write one paragraph, we can begin with such a broad topic sentence as “My hometown is an unforgettable place,” and then proceed with describing the things that make it unforgettable, for instance, its beautiful landscape, its hospitable people, and its impressive modern industry. However, if we are to write an essay on the same subject, a statement like “My hometown is an unforgettable place” will become the thesis statement, while the things that make it unforgettable will be discussed in body paragraphs, perhaps...
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...Up, Up, and AWA: Scoring Well in the Essay Section A five-part GMATTERS series, August 2005 PART ONE: This week we begin a new series on the Analytical Writing Assessment ("AWA") portion of the GMAT, otherwise known as "the essays." Because they do not feed into the overall score out of 800 (they are scored separately, on a scale of 6 points), they are often neglected. They do serve a purpose, though, and you need to take them seriously, even if they do not warrant the bulk of your study time. The essays are the first section of the exam. You have 30 minutes for each of two essays, for a total of one hour before the quantitative section begins. So if you do not write essays during at least one of your practice exams, you will probably find it surprisingly tiring the day of the exam when you have to head into the math section after an hour of writing. First, you should be aware of the two types of essay you will be required to write. One is known as "Analysis of Issue." The other is known as "Analysis of Argument." They demand different approaches and need to be understood in their particularities. Let's talk first about "Analysis of Issue." In "Analysis of Issue", you will given a statement (the "issue"). For example, "Responsibility for preserving the natural environment ultimately belongs to each individual person, not to government." (This is an actual GMAT topic and is property of GMAC which is no way affiliated with Manhattan GMAT.) Your task now is to decide whether...
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...The relationship between a paragraph and an essay is symbiotic; you can't write an essay without using paragraphs, and four or more consecutive paragraphs about the same subject matter become an essay. Both paragraphs and essays have a distinct beginning, middle and end. They're also both composed of five sections: A paragraph typically has five sentences, and an essay, five paragraphs. Topic Sentence * Both paragraphs and essays begin with a topic sentence, or a thesis statement, that explains to the reader what the paragraph, or essay, is about. A thesis statement for an essay is longer and more detailed than the topic sentence at the beginning of a paragraph. For example, a thesis statement for an essay might be: "The gravity of marriage becomes more apparent over time; newlyweds imagine a glamorous life ahead and cannot yet imagine the test their love will endure, while couples married for a decade or more are beginning to understand the depth of their promise." A topic sentence for a paragraph might simply be: "A lasting marriage requires many levels of compromise." Supporting Details * Paragraphs and essays both require supporting details that elaborate on the statements made in the topic sentence or thesis statement. In a paragraph, each subsequent sentence builds upon the point made in the topic sentence and the sentences following the topic sentence are called "supporting details". In an essay, the first sentence in each paragraph discusses points made in the thesis...
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...When it’s been like this for so long, you don’t remember how else it could be. How could an emotionally abused child know about anything else? Hollywood portrays positive relationships between parent and child--but you’re told no real family is like that. Experiences such as my father killing my kitten is something that most children don’t see, but that was something that has since made me afraid of all that he was capable of. I remember being so excited to enter into middle school because, for whatever reason, I thought the yelling, scrutinizing, and manipulation would stop then. That’s not how it went though--it continued then got even worse in high school. It was hard for me to concentrate, complete my work, or even believe in myself. It’s hard to imagine you can do well in school when the man you’re supposed to look up to is continually telling you that you’re inadequate. I was constantly criticized over things...
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