a Foundling

There were, however, certain situations where infants would not be found in the baptismal registries. The only infants who were absent from the records were the stillborn infants. Stillbirth was the largest single component of reproductive mortality and accounted for around two-thirds of the total death rates among infants. As baptism could not be administered to the dead, stillborn infants did not appear in the baptismal records. For this reason there is no way of ascertaining the number of…

Ever since the creation of written language, humanity has been connected on profound levels with each other impossible by other means. However, the gap in between separate languages has also hampered this connection in the lost experiences of translations. Although the nature of language itself is universal, the differences between two languages often obstruct the reader's ability to fully comprehend a piece of literature. The translator's struggle to balance between poetic purposes and the…

widely known short story that Chopin wrote is the story of “Desiree’s Baby”. The story is about a woman who has struggling relationship with her husband. The story begins when Armand Aubigny all of a sudden falls in love with Desiree, who was a foundling discovered by Monsieur Valmonde. She and Armand marry and have a baby. When the baby is born, Armand is at first delighted. However, the baby’s skin color soon shows signs of the baby being a “Quadroon”. Armand assumes that because of Desiree’s…

Catherine used all her resources to cover for her weak points. During her reign, Catherine made many reforms in areas of social, educational, and political life of Russia. Of these reforms her educational and economic policies are most gallant as they uniquely transformed Russia. Catherine the Great improved Russian education especially that of the children and women. Although her institution was originally meant for her grandsons, Catherine adopted basic principles to every childhood education…

suffered by the taxpayers for the underfunded pension funds and debts of the poorer and more profligate EU members. In Dicken’s Great Expectations, Pip came into unexpected wealth, and he squandered it. Heathcliff in Brontë’s Wuthering Heights was a foundling who became richer than his adoptive family was, but he could not lay aside venomous revenge for how they treated him in his young…

A. The Profession of Social Work as a Career Goal The United States is a country known for protecting and defending their people especially their children. However, after centuries of our society condoning all types of atrocities from infanticide to exploitation of children’s labor and the many attempts to form a functional child welfare system, children who are victims of abuse and neglect do not receive the adequate services and support they need. Abuse comes in many different forms and it…

Interlude: Read with your Ears In this chapter, Foster points out the mistake of reading with “our” eyes. Instead, the use of the “inner ear” benefits strongly configuring the thought process and the significance of using past recollection. The “inner ear” that Foster mention involve sorting information from specific words or phrases to bringing readers to a particular past knowledge: “whether...information comes from print or film...simply read [from] the text” (217). The “inner ear” Foster…

Growing up as an orphan was difficult and finding homes was too. Children who found homes were often wanted for their work or were often abused by their adoptive parents. Without the the Orphan trains, the many children would not have parents or a home. The Orphan Trains ran from 1854 to 1929 which was initiated by a social welfare reformer Charles Loring Brace. When the movement began, it was estimated that approximately 30,000 abandoned children were living on the streets of New York. Most…

Is there sufficient evidence to support belief in God? God is immaterial, He is eternal, incomprehensible, and that is, God was and always will be. Thus, He is the Absolute Creator, which, by definition, no one has created. In order to breathe, we aim not to see the air, but to utilize it. Moreover, the air is invisible. However, it does not negate the invisibility of its necessity and certainly does not deny its existence. Man verifies the existence of the object or event either through direct…

How would you characterize the child’s attachment style? (1) Anges was very engaged in encouraging Max to explore his environment during his earlier developmental years, especially when he started crawling. Max would crawl a little and then turn to Agnes for reassurance. Even after Max was removed from her care and placed in a daycare setting, he was eventually able to adjust to the staff at the facility. Now that Max is living with Kelly, there is evidence in his behavior that shows he has…