Honor your father and your mother

There are numerous difficulties that I will face as I work toward my goal of earning my degree in nursing. I am a mother of a little boy with special needs. My son has Wolf-Hirschhorn Syndrome and he’s sick frequently. When my son gets sick, he usually has seizures, so unless someone is CPR certified, I don’t let anyone watch him. That being said, child care for my son will be one of the biggest complications I will face. With that being said, I will miss a lot of classes and it will be a…

Imagine being forgotten by your father, bullied by your step-mother, and tormented by your siblings. Adeline Yen Mah endured these things every day, with her only escape as school and her roommate, Aunt Baba, and her grandfather, Ye Ye. In the memoir, Chinese Cinderella by Adeline Yen Mah, Adeline has a troubled youth. The people that she looks towards for support are Ye Ye and Aunt Baba, and they help her to overcome her abusive childhood. Adeline’s grandfather Ye Ye cares for Adeline in a…

Many of us have heard the quote, “United we stand divided we fall” There is a lot going on in the world right now. If you look around you can see division occurring right before your eyes. Races are divided, families are broken, church attendance is decreasing and people are angry. This quote means that if we stand together with unity we can conquer whatever obstacles that may come our way. If we are all divided with our personal agendas we fail and there will be no victory. There are a few…

cause change in her. (BS-1) Najmah’s father and brother are taken by the Taliban. (BS-2) Najmah’s mother and newborn baby brother are killed in a bombing. (BS-3) Najmah meets Nusrat in Peshawar and Nur returns to where Najmah is. (TS) There are several different experiences throughout the book that contribute to the development of Najmah’s character. (MIP-1) Najmah’s father and brother being taken by the Taliban is a major experience for her. (SIP-A) Before her father was taken, Najmah has all…

Superman and Batman are well-known superheroes in today's society. Do you think it's because they are portrayed with heroic characteristics and are never defeated? A true hero is not only someone that undergoes many obstacles, but faces risking his life for the lives of others. The fact of them going above and beyond to achieve their mission is idolized in the eyes of anyone. In order for there to be this so called epic hero, there must first be an epic. An epic, according to Aristotle is a…

opposed to Homer, he begins with an emotional meeting of father and son, only to end with a prophecy, ““Let me clasp your hand, my father, let me- / I beg you, don’t withdraw from my embrace!” / So Aeneas pleaded, his face streaming tears. / Three times he tried to fling his arms around his neck, / three times he embraced- nothing,” (Aen. 6: 805-809). Aeneas, unlike Odysseus, begins with an emotional journey. He must grieve for his father who has died and tries to embrace him. After a few…

His mother stayed home while his father worked at a warehouse. He lived in the middle class, so was neither rich nor poor. He was the oldest child of 3 children. He experienced death at a young age when his youngest sister died with little known cause. He remembers it being hard for his mother to cope after the death. She became less loving to the others in an attempt to not become as attached to…

pondered why there are some people who are well to do with life and there are those that are not. My mother told me that…

piece of his land after his death. King Lear was unable to perceive the truth about what was going on in his kingdom. He didn’t realize that Regan and Goneril didn’t love him. They were only pretending while his daughter Cordelia who truly loved her father refused to play the game. This clearly showed a power struggle within the family. The two daughters Regan and Goneril decided to make a run for the power like a government coup. In this poem there is another relationship shown with King Lear…

further behind. William Pollack created the term “Boy Code”. The Boy Code is a set of rules, assumptions, models and expectations that our society has used since the nineteenth century, for boys to adhere to. This includes the code of silence, hiding your deepest thoughts and feelings, showing vulnerability is a sign of weakness and you may be teased, and that it’s unacceptable for men and boys to display “feminine” qualities, fear, uncertainty, or loneliness. Boys learn the Boy Code on…