Apostolic Fathers

“When adolescents themselves are the recipients of aggressive parenting, they are likely to imitate this behavior in their relationships with siblings and peers” (Steinberg, 2014). Because Lilly has witnessed and been the victim of her fathers’ rage and anger she began treating her friends the same way. As her behavior continued, Lilly’s friends stopped talking to her. Once she transitioned into middle school, Lilly became friends with a group of older adolescents. This group does not…

Seamus Heaney, both of them focus and prioritize the father role in their lives; however, it is the two speaker’s point of view, of what they were perceiving back then as a child is uncommon to each other. The speaker in the poem “Those Winter Sundays,”…

which left him scarred. Tom has seen many deaths in the war, but has overcome the trauma. Even on Janus, Tom encounters more death. Tom is faced with of two miscarriages, a stillborn baby, and the death of the father of Lucy-Grace. When Lucy-Grace washes up on Janus with her dead father, Tom is forced to make a decision whether he will bury the dead man’s body in silence or will go public and lose the living baby Isabel had grown fond of, so he decides to bury him: “Bury them. Mark the…

A parents first priority should always be their children. In the memoir The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls wrote about her daily struggles growing up with her parents. Rex and Rose Mary were unfit parents because they were inadequate role models, made selfish acts and failed to be concerned about their children’s safety. Rex and Rose Mary Walls were unfit parents because they were inadequate role models. Jeannette’s parents were giving the wrong examples like using inappropriate language and…

1. I live with my mother, father, and brother. 2. Parents’ occupation: Mother- She is a writer/poet who published one book and contributed in many anthologies. She is planning on releasing a few books soon. Father- Senior Software Developer 3. College parents graduated from: My father first attended Pusan National University, South Korea and got his Bachelor’s in Physics. During this time in college he was in the Korean army. He then attended Kyungsang National University, South Korea…

Mothers are usually the rock and foundation of a family when it comes to being taken care of. In the 1950’s. Mothers were almost looked at as maids. Staying home all day, taking care of the children, cleaning the house, and having dinner ready by the time her husband came home from work, wake up and do it all over again was a mother daily schedule. “We American women need every laborsaving device there is. There are more demands on our time than it is humanly possible to fill, and we are…

doesn’t tell us though, is that sometimes these statistics can turn out quite differently. Allyson Milvo was born in OKC, OK on 20 September 1979. Her parents were unmarried at the time and she came into this world with one older brother. Her birth father decided to leave and never look back but her mother would marry a few years later and he would adopt both children and vowed to raise them as his own. Unfortunately, this marriage would end shortly after it began and her…

The crispy grass of a summer afternoon over a silky picnic blanket. Mathew was there sitting and eating his favorite peanut and butter sandwich. What is better than eating his sandwich was his family together. Father was setting up a game of football while mother was trying to find that sunscreen that she has sworn to have put it in her utility bag earlier in the morning. Mathew’s older brother, Robert, cried out to his distressed mother, “Mom! Where is that power bank charger? I have to make a…

April 16, 2015. It was a Thursday, and I had just finished writing an exam for a night class I was taking. April 16, 2015 was the day that she left, and the day my life was flipped upside down. The day started out as any other, there was no indication that it was going to happen; we all thought our lives were going well. She clearly didn’t think so. Because I was taking night classes, I would always call my mother while I was walking to my car after class, as I was uncomfortable walking to…

I come from a household of girls. I am the oldest of three daughters where the only male is my father- that is including pets. For most of my life, my mother (who graduated with honors from the University of Texas) was also the primary provider for my family and my father was a stay at home dad who went to college, but never graduated and was never great at school, to begin with. From an early age, my dad was the one who dressed me and interacted with me more on a daily basis up until around…