Childbirth

People ask questions like, why do people drink alcohol? Why are women who are pregnant and taking drugs doing this to their unborn child or children? Many individuals have reasons for everything they do. Lots will go out and have a fun as others will drink to forget the day or stressful things in their life. The effects on babies whose mothers abused drugs and alcohol while pregnant can lead to many problems when they are born. Children who are exposed to different kinds of drugs and alcohol can…

A child that rides a bike has heard their mother say “Wear your helmet,” a seemingly endless amount of times. Why? Because, it is a preventative measure and any mother knows it is better to encourage their child to wear a helmet than to treat a head injury. Birth control is like a bicycle helmet in the sense that it is more protective and reliable than just trying to be careful, however, it is expensive and difficult for many women without health insurance to obtain. By making birth control free…

Looking for a Drama filled, love story with an unexpected twist and a happy ending? This could be the right choice for you. But, it will defiantly be a different type of Drama. This episode of the American Horror Story show can be considered to have a Female Gothic sub-genre. The Female Gothic sub-genre deals with women’s transition from an adolescent to adulthood and or post traumatic depression after child birth. This sub-genre has many conventions like a male heroine, Victorian homes,…

Mistakes in life (A Discussion on three messages from The Great Gatsby, by Francis Scott Key) So many times in life we have regrets. Things that we wish we could undo, or something that we could go back and do. "Some women will regret having had an abortion, just as some will regret having a baby, getting married, dropping out of school, or a thousand other life choices that people make.” (Talbot). Each human being makes thousands upon thousands of decisions a day, whether it’s which way to…

Mary Oliver reveals conjectures people make about other people and other cultures in her poem, “Singapore.” Oliver shares a woman’s experience in an airport bathroom. The speaker in the poem is inwardly conflicted, and her internal thoughts displayed throughout the poem alter. At first, the poem reveals the speaker’s thoughts towards a woman working as a custodian at the airport as degrading and poignant. The speaker judgmentally feels sorry for the woman and takes pity on her. The speaker’s…

Keshawn White Jiles 5th Period 5th Jan. 2018 Identity Crisis Jasmine by Bharati Mukherjee details a story about the identity alteration of a Punjabi girl from India. The protagonist of the novel, Jyoti, conveys the story from her point of view when she is 24 years old. At the time she is pregnant with Bud Ripplemeyer’s baby. Jyoti narrates the novel through flashbacks and retellings of her experiences. She tells the story of her experiences in America as she becomes her own individual. When she…

Although the image looks like an advertisement or a meme, it is a public service announcement.They are not trying to sell a product. Rather, they are trying to sell a message in the form of a billboard. The group is "Live Action” ,a pro-life organization led by Lila Rose, and their message is one of mercy for very small babies in the face of abortion in our country. More specifically, they are calling for all people to take action, as their name implies, to vote for pro-life politicians and to…

In Patrick Lee’s and Robert P. George’s, On The Wrong of Abortion, it is argued that abortions are objectively immoral. To support this conclusion, Lee and George state that, the fetus is a complete person in an immature phase of development, that the fetus has the potential to develop into a “person” and that abortions are intentional killings. Pro-Choice defenders argue that a human fetus is not a human being because it cannot live on its own, that they are not ‘people’, and that the mother…

The “The Yellow Paper” wall paper is a short story written in 1899 by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The short story is about a middle-aged woman that suffers from depression has a mental breakdown during her stay at a rental house. During her stay at the rental house there is a yellow wallpaper in her bedroom that initially disgusts her but becomes her obsession before she breaks down. The yellow wallpaper plays an important role in this story because it causes the narrator to break down and…

Weaning: Weaning signals the end of one phase and the beginning of another stage. It is also known as “complementary feeding”. Actually the minute baby eats something other than breast milk, weaning has begun. Weaning is the term that connotes a certain maturity on the baby’s part, which allows the baby to switch from breast milk to other foods and beverages. The main concern in weaning is when and how to wean. Weaning is done to preserve child’s enjoyment of food and drink to…