Fatherhood

It’s well known that no person alive live a perfectly but a 12-year-old who goes through betrayal from every single person she trusted or getting raped and knowing she’s expecting a baby from her own father, is overwhelming. Toni Morrison does exactly that with her character Pecola in The Bluest Eye. The Bluest Eye shows that childhood experiences shape how people become later on in life. They can become abusive, powerless or unwanted just like the people in Pecola’s life who have not only hurt…

With the rise of gay liberationist movement in the post-Stonewall era, overtly ‘gay’ and ‘lesbian’ perspectives began to be put forward in the nexus of ‘new gender studies’. If ‘queer studies’ as an umbrella term has already raised an entire set of questions and issues about identity, sexuality, race, desire, and gender, ‘black queer studies’ attempts to zoom in the fraught relations among and between these often overlapping narratives of black and queer identities. Work on ‘men and…

Well You Did It, (You’re a) Man In the 2005 hit country song, Something to Be Proud Of, Montgomery Gentry provides three values that make up a rural American family man. By emphasizing the ultimate form of nationalism, family rather than bachelorism, and hard work to achieve financial stability, the artists portray a successfully sculpted masculine model that, by their definition, is “something to be proud of”. I argue that the importance of these three values is passed down from father to son…

The Effects Of Divorce On Children Let’s be honest, divorce is one of those trending topics that we all love to gossip about but never really discuss. We enjoy sharing the latest scandal and drama from Hollywood, but truthfully we pray not to see the same demise. In reality, divorce is as close to a battlefield as most civilians will ever experience. Opposing sides fighting for their own personal freedoms and the factors that caused the breakup become ammunition. Unfortunately between these two…

Juno Macgruff a 16 year old highschooler finds out that she is pregnant by her long time best friend and admirer Paulie Bleeker. Juno tells her father and mother, they are shocked and very worried about how this was going to affect their daily lives. Her mother suggests that she keeps the baby and that she will help Juno care for it. Instead Juno decides to make her own decisions. She thought about an abortion. On her way to the clinic she comes across a classmate outside that is protesting for…

Hunter Rycerz Theresa Detrich English 104 16 November 2016 Knocked Up Did you know that over 7.3 million babies are born to teenage mothers each year? (Carol J. Williams) According to an U.N. population study that was released in October of 2013. That’s not even the half of that’s not counting the babies being aborted or miscarriages. Have you ever seen a young girl between the ages of 15-19 walking around with a new born baby or baby only saying the words “mama” around that young teenager?…

Marriage, a religious sacrament among Roman Catholics. This sacrament is when a man and a woman are legally bonded together in one union for what is supposed to be and everlasting love, or as they would say during their vows to one another ‘til death do us part. Divorce is the seven letter word that ends the legal bond between the two parties. When two people mutually decide to end their marriage it is through divorce, the divorce plays a very important role in every member involved in the…

Born on January 22nd, 1980, to a seventeen year old mother and twenty-one year old father, Michael Steele began life with the odds against him. Originally from Point Pleasant, West Virginia, Michael and his parents moved to Tulsa, Oklahoma when he was two years old. Michael’s young parents enjoyed drinking heavily and experimenting with drugs. Although his father was a hard worker, and his mother was a loving homemaker, they frequently drank and did drugs in the presence of their son. At the age…

Deadbeat, good-for-nothing, and nowhere to be found often describe the plight and resentment towards those whom are considered unfit in parenting. Single parents have an even tougher dilemma raising their children bearing only half the love, half the support and half the attention a traditional couple could offer. However, not everyone shares the same tune as individuals like Armin Brott champion the potential of single parents (more specifically the single dad). Even with a stable nuclear…

and similar facial features. I do not think I will ever be able to diagram out my reasoning for my motivations during this event. I do, however understand that there is something inexplicably different about the bond of motherhood that the bond of fatherhood could never…