Codependent No More

family members, as mentioned, can become codependent on a loved one’s alcohol abuse, or at least be significantly affected. As a general rule, these people have a greater likelihood of having emotional troubles compared to children who grew up in sober homes. Early exposure to an alcohol abuser can also increase the child’s propensity to have a problematic relationship with alcohol. In general, children of individuals who abuse alcohol are four times more likely to abuse alcohol…

Attachment theories explain bonds between infants and caregivers while Cognitive theories attempts to explain human behavior by understanding my thought processes. For Attachment Theory, the requirement is to identify what kind of attachment was had as an infant. As with most infants I needed my parents in order to develop and always needed them around at all parts of the day. My attachment level to important people in my life still shows struggles of separation anxiety even as an adult.…

Ralph Tyler’s reflective ideas best relate to my field of interest Parental involvement and support is a key ingredient to meeting the demands of these schools. With more parental guidance and assistance, students have shown academic progress and improvement (Child Trends, 2012). Community development encompasses the relationship that Tyler draws between the school and the learner’s development. In the recent period…

Although slavery was thought of as being the only cause for the Civil War, the States’ Rights were also a main contributing factor. The States’ Rights were an ongoing struggle dealing with political power in the United States between the Federal government and the individual states. The term States’ Rights symbolizes the resistance of some states to federal laws. These states didn’t want to be controlled and experienced a lot of racial discrimination and segregation. They felt there were too…

and servant. Hegel’s theory of self-consciousness rests on the notion that only in recognizing the awareness of the other to one’s own otherness can self-consciousness be achieved. The essence of the dialectic is a mutually acting and affecting, codependent relationship between master and servant that is, however, asymmetrical. The essential nature of the master is to be for itself, while the servant is a “dependent” or “servile” consciousness that essentially is for an other. (§189) This…

facing levee failures were primarily black. Officials and environmental regulators failed to provide proper flood and hurricane standards, leaving poor black sectors of New Orleans to take the heaviest financial loss and mortality rates. If there was more focus on this minority group they may had been better prepared for a natural disaster. One of the most common environmental failures communities face is lead poisoning, which was precisely what happened in flint, Michigan. Although this…

was in rehab. He drew farther into his own personal addiction with his son’s issues, closing himself off from the rest of the world around him, instead solely reacting to Nic. It was not until he reached the point of understanding he could do nothing more to help his son in which he finally began to emerge from the isolation of codependence he had built around himself. Both stories follow experiences of unintended isolation, as both Herren and Sheff lost who they truly were due their relations…

economies of the peasant community. Land values have doubled creating a land rush; as a result, landlords have raised the tax to operate on their land leases based on this new value. As a result of the dam installation, higher yield makes the land more valuable. This changes the conditions of land rental and tenancy; outsiders can pay a…

The act of suicide has long been criticized as a selfish and devious act among many people. Contrary to popular belief, some people believe that suicide is self-empowering and a courageous act of self control. In Marsha Norman’s 1947 playwright, Night Mother, the main character, Jessie Cates, commits suicide in which she is criticized and condemned by her mother, Thelma Cates. The character Jessie, is described as woman in her late thirties, fat, controlled by her mother, unfashionable, and is…

In Pamela Petty’s The Baby and the Bathwater: A Tale of Standards and Storytelling, she made the argument that the practice of storytelling needs to play a more integral part in today’s education system. According to Petty, the process of telling stories helps students retain knowledge and learn course material through the use of interesting tales not found in textbooks or through the use of technology. By using storytelling in different forms (music, poems, books, oral stories, etc.), educators…