Both nationally and locally the protection of vulnerable individual forms part of the safeguarding adults agenda. Local boards are responsible for delivering a multi-based agency to respond to the safeguarding of adults. They are also responsible for conducting Serious Case Reviews when someone has died as a result of abuse. Nationally there are legislations that provide the basis for dealing with vulnerable adults that are being…
In De Quincy's philosophical essay On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth, De Quincy develops certain theories towards this topic. Based on his essay I agree with his theory due to the reason that he states "some great storm of passion--jealousy, ambition, vengeance, hatred--which will create a hell within him; and into this hell we are to look." Macbeth as well as Lady Macbeth let jealousy and vengeance consume them that when they executed Duncan it was as if their human self left and hey became the Devil and opened the gates of…
Dolan, Frances. Marriage and Violence: The Early Modern Legacy. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008. Historians, for a large part of recent years, look for support and readings from interdisciplinary work. Frances Dolan, an English professor, answers this search in her Marriage and Violence: The Early Modern Legacy.…
In a marriage, there is a stereotypical saying that those who are married have a happy life; however, that is not the case for John and Ann in the story of “The Painted Door.” They are a married couple living on a small isolated farm in the middle of nowhere and are faced with challenges and struggles as a couple. John, Ann’s husband, is very simple minded character who is content to spend the rest of his life farming and raising livestock. He truly believes that the only way to satisfy his wife, is to work all day so that he can save enough money to eventually buy her a new home and beautiful clothes to wear. John’s character at the beginning of the story shows that he is your typical hard-working farmer; however, the complex and challenging decisions…
In the short story collection Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri, the two stories, “A Temporary Matter” and “This Blessed House,” illustrate how the differences between two people can ruin the relationship in the long run. The first story in the collection is about a couple who lost their baby after birth. This traumatic event causes them to drift apart and to not feel the same love for each other that they once had before. The second story is about a newly married couple who, after buying a house, learn that they can not cooperate with each other. The couples’ personality differences are brought out when dealing with challenging situations.…
Alex Vanover Mrs. Commodore CR English 3A 13 June 2017 A Marriage in a Pickle Dish Marriage is a commitment by two people that love each other so much that they decide to stay together forever. Sometimes however, people get confused by feelings and emotions and make the wrong choice. The novel Ethan Frome, by Edith Wharton, explores this very concept. The author uses a pickle dish to symbolize the destruction of marriage and broken relationships.…
Communication is Key Marriage, a time of either happiness or despair. The important factor that decides what kind of marriage the couple will have is based on their communication with each other. Many authors have written about the types of marriages people have with each other, but Jill McCorkle’s “Snakes” and George Singleton’s “Pitching Pennies” truly cover the varieties of all marriages. What both McCorkle and Singleton state, is that to have a full martial life together a couple should be able to talk with each other. McCorkle’s “Snakes” tell of how a union stayed together because of their ability to talk with each other.…
Meg Jay, a clinical psychologist, argues in her article “The Downside of Living Together” that couples can increase their chances of making mistakes by moving in together. She also mentioned that couples who cohabited have greater possibility of divorcing and creating unhappiness. Although Jay’s paper had a great organization and she strongly argues her points about cohabitated by providing facts and sample which happens to be her client, were unrepresentative, weak and illogical. The author used her client Jennifer as an example to show that cohabitation is not a good choice for couples.…
In this paper, I will argue that in “The Cohabitation Epidemic” Neil Clark Warren does not successfully support his conclusion stating that people should be alarmed by the current situations of cohabitation epidemic between couples (Vaughn 482). The author spent a myriad of time discrediting cohabitation between couples as not the right form of trial marriage, which to me is lost in the mix. The author begins his story by explaining the social changes that have taken place during the previous decades, indicating the adverse rise of “cohabitation partner couples/ households (Vaughn 481).” Therefore, all the psychologists who possess knowledge of working with both the married and single couples must get alarmed when such cohabitation cases are…
Most individuals enter a marriage with certain expectations; they expect to be loved, cared for, cherished and above all, respected. However, this is not always the case. Marriage can quickly transform from a wonderful holy union to a dangerous and oppressive force. In Sandra Cisneros’ “Women Hollering Creek,” and Kate Chopin’s “The Story Of An Hour,” we are told the story of two women whose expectations of marriage failed in comparison to their reality, as well as how drastically this influenced their mental stability and actions during and after their marriage. The stories express how all marriages, even the kindest unions, may be inherently oppressive.…
The process of a marriage or divorce will never be easily explained. How do these people make a marriage work, how have they been successful or failed? Marriage has been studied over the years and these two authors give insight into how it has changed. Stephanie Coontz, author of “Origins of Modern Divorce'', writes about how marriage has changed in history. She talks about how marriage and divorce have changed, why people married, and why they divorced.…
Rhetorical Analysis In her essay, “The Disestablishment of Marriage”, Stephanie Coontz guest columnist teacher at The Evergreen State College, illustrates the change of the standards of marriage “demanding different things from marriage then in the past” with the use of studies and data. Coontz shows the data on how the present day marriage has changed from are ancestor’s views of marriage. Coontz discuss how marriage is no longer the center institution that organizes people’s lives.…
We had the perfect couple at the beginning of the movie, but as it proceeds the husband starts to develop some kind of scorn for his wife because she's getting more work done than he does and because they rarely spend time together anymore. Marriage fits into the Structural Functional Theory because a marriage is basically two people working together to lead a life. Like a machine, if a part of the marriage stops working the whole machine stops. In the movie however, marriage is involved with two of the theories, Structural Functional and Social Conflict because even though Mrs. Gruwell failed to be available to her husband because of her devotion to the kids, her husband failed her by starting to believe he was "the wife" in the relationship now. That part specially made me angry because there is nothing wrong with being the wife in a relationship, and just because he felt his manliness was being threatened by the hard work his wife was doing he decided to…
Dishonesty, hatred and protectiveness operate together in this short story, to demonstrate that a family should be a unit that has respect, affection and honesty towards each other in all situations that arises at various times. Dishonesty provides a central role in this story.…
In McKnight Malmar’s short story, “The Storm” she illustrates a neglected marriage between a wife and husband. Janet Willsom returns home from visiting her ill sister during a torrential storm hoping her husband, Ben, would be waiting for her. When she arrives home, Ben is nowhere to be seen and the storm’s intensity will not allow a cab to reach their house from where Ben works in the city. For the next few hours, Janet putters around waiting for her husband’s return. Throughout the evening, she hears heavy footsteps on her door step and claims to have seen a man peering through her window.…