Oh, Mom! – A Brechtian Analysis of Well by Lisa Kron Most of us can relate to the adolescent struggle against a matriarchal force – almost mystical, but for sure one that seemed to be all powerful and overwhelming as well as nurturing. For many of us, that struggle to assert our own independent identities extends well beyond our years of teenage development and stays with us well into our later adult lives. This can stem from resentment, or an anxious desire to right any believed wrongs and thus clear the air of any enmity.…
In everyday conversations, people communicate using rhetorical strategies without knowing it. It is a natural communication skill everyone develops throughout their lives. For example, they may successfully lie to their bosses that they’re sick or tell their parents why they came home late. Similarly, written works contain rhetorical strategies to make convincing arguments. For example, William Zinsser wants to tell parents, professors, and college administrators what they may not know about the conditions of students.…
The emerging sense of empowerment and entitlement in children raised by concerted cultivation can cause major problems in society. In Annette Lareau’s article Invisible Inequality, she talks about the different methods of parenting based on class. She argues that middle-class parents use concerted cultivation and working-class parents use natural growth. Lareau claims that neither method is completely desirable over the other (Lareau, 105). However, both of the articles above give an example of a negative effect from concerted cultivation.…
The House of Bernarda Alba and Suppliants both address the common issue of how the parents of the girls handle various issues in their life: marriage, decency, honor and respect. However, how these parents go about enforcing these rules on their children vary from levels of abuse to helpful suggestion. Bernarda likes to rule her daughters with an iron fist and know everything they do while Danaus watches his daughters and gives his own wise commentary when necessary. Their parenting styles are both valid and work to raising children, however, most children will respond in a much more effective manner to kindness and respect. Both parental figures believe what they are doing is what’s best for their children and for everyone’s lives.…
There has always been a conflict as to how a new generation should be raised, with either tools from the present or stories from the past. The balance is hard to find, in trying to pursue one the other may be lost, nevertheless parents keep trying to achieve equilibrium. In a world full of change, new technology and advancements, there is little room or space to try to be raised the way your parents were. The process of passing down traditions and values is far from what it was even a few years ago. The many changes have shown to make parents feel inferior towards offspring, the education is better and the opportunities infinite, Roch Carrier in “A Secret Lost in the Water” has reflected so in the narrator of the conte, the education a…
Kass brings up a few interesting topics in his article Preventing a Brave New World, but his main point is mostly on the negatives of the development of cloning. Kass’s argument is that if we develop cloning, we’ll develop desensitization towards the matter and before we know it, cloning will embed its way into the mainstream of human society. At first glance, most people might say “That’s ridiculous and too outrageous, it’ll never happen!” ; however that’s what most people probably said when Huxley’s Brave New World was published and just deemed the book as another science fiction dystopian novel. When I read the book myself, I honestly was surprised at how the society in the book paralleled with modern day society that we have now in America.…
Appropriation is the social, passionate, and legitimate process in which kids who won't be raised by their introduction to the world guardians turn out to be full and perpetual lawful individuals from another family while keeping up hereditary and mental associations with their introduction to the world family. Selection has numerous aspects and touches individuals in various routes—contingent upon their part and viewpoint. While anybody can watch over a tyke in requirement for short or long-haul periods, for example, a child care circumstance, appropriation is an alternate circumstance that requires a vastly different duty. Appropriation is the legitimate demonstration of for all time setting a tyke with a parent or guardians other than the…
"Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person 's character lies in their own hands." - Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl, (260). From the beginning of a child 's life, their responsibilities as parents or guardians are to show them right and wrong. How the parents or guardians act directly affects how the child acts. Years pass, and many monkey-see-monkey-do 's later, that child, now a young adult is ready to start making choices on their own.…
Erikson’s Theory and Adopted Children The adopted child 's trauma begins the moment they are separated from their biological mother at birth and can last a lifetime. This sounds terminally depressing; however, this paper will shed light on a topic much overlooked, giving discernment, showing although there are challenges to be faced, it does not necessarily mean the outcome is doomed to be hopeless. Most adopted children make it through adolescence just as others do. This paper will bring attention to the unnecessary suffering caused by grief, guilt, shame and mistrust.…
Individuals carry a great responsibility as they start to expand their families and become parents. Parents are expected to instill morals, guide children through the early stages of life, befriend their children, and support their children through the rollercoaster of life. Unfortunately, some parents neglect these expectations, potentially affecting children by leaving them abandoned and closed-off to the world . In Mary Shelley’s Gothic novel Frankenstein, Shelley examines parent-child conflicts relationships, between both the Frankenstein family and between Victor Frankenstein and the Creature to illustrate the struggles of living with a distant and uninvolved parent can inflict on an individual. How the Frankensteins raise their children…
I myself had to fight back my dread of you almost every day I was at Hailsham". The clones were able to interact more with the rest of society because their appearance did not hinder them as it did the monster. Even with appearance aside, both were feared and became social outcasts trying to fend for…
From clones in Star Wars to genetically modified and cloned dinosaurs in Jurassic Park, the concept of cloning has always been portrayed as an interesting and exciting concept. The question is no longer if cloning is possible, rather if it should be done. Dolly is the name of a sheep that has the honor of being the first mammal to be cloned by a group of scientists in Scotland. Dolly was born July 5th, 1996 and passed away in 2003. She lived for six and a half years, as a normal ewe typically would.…
Of the many different relationships people form over their life span, the relationship between parent and child is among the most important. Having a parent-child bond is one of the most precious things in life, but sometimes it always does not work well. There can be situations in families that may cause the parent and the child to experience difficulties, however, In Mary Shelley's novel, Frankenstein, the importance of taking responsibility for one’s child is an important theme. Clothing, food, shelter, education, and love are among the necessities needed y every child.…
For many, a father is one of the first people they see when they are born. Everyone has a father, but some are not lucky enough to grow up with a strong father figure in their lives. Whether emotionally or physically, an absent father can have detrimental effects on a child, and girls that grow up with an absent father will have psychological issues later in life. Development As a child develops, they are shaped by their parents.…
In this world there is a diversity in the human behaviour. Some people show good manners and character, whilst others do not. However, what is often forgotten and to some extend taken for granted, is that a great person does not immerge out of now where. It is through care and nurture from the parents that conditions the child’s willingness to show kindness and respond positively to discipline. Yet the arts of parenthood cannot be taught or understood by everyone, and results to an imbalance in the parenting, where it is either too loose or too uptight.…