Knitting

(P7) To begin observing the intricate connection between hyper-parenting and love, the linking factor, survival, must first be addressed. In her article, “The Changing American Family”, Natalie Angier addresses how “family has changed in recent years” and how the interpersonal relations of a family are much different today than they were in the past (Angier). In her article, Angier addresses how many recent changes in family dynamics, such as the increase in hyper-parenting, are due to changing…

encompassed by water-worn stone. The winds change and the smell of moss and sea salt returns, and the gulls migrate in innumerable flocks as wide as the wood and white as the moon. The fishermen begin to take longer journeys and their wives cease their knitting of warm clothing. The gulls stop here every year to feed on the eggs of the crabs. For a few weeks the beach stinks of rotting crabmeat. Hermit crabs trade shells along the coastline. On the horizon, where the sky meets the water, you…

Brief Intro: The Home as Workplace is an article by Bettina Bradbury, in which she discusses how the beginning of industrialization changed how families made a living. Industrialization grew from around the 1850's to the end of the century making families become dependant on a wage (177). Wage earning altered the family dynamic in terms of daily tasks and jobs having to be preformed. Men and older children began earning wages in factories and other industry occupations and women had to perform…

World War I divided rather than unified the Australian nation’. Critically discuss World War I played a significant role in Australian history between 1914 and 1918. Throughout this period of time Australians were rushing off with great passion to enlist and fight in a war that was meant to end all wars. Not only did this time period raise problems that progressed overtime, the consequences to the Australian nation were ones of conflict, grief and segregation of what could have been peaceful…

Using untamable power to pursue a goal and the destruction that ensues are motifs present in both the outpouring of creativity expressed in the Romantic period and the culminating events of the French Revolution. Those ideas are clearly present in works such as “Ode to the West Wind” by Percy Shelley, “A Poison Tree” by William Blake, and A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens. “Ode to the West Wind,” which predates the Revolution by 70 years, is centered around the invocation of a powerful and…

The 1800’s is when anti-abortion laws started to become a big part of American society. America had separated itself from England but continued to model some of its laws after England’s. Since the times of the American Colonies, abortion has been one of the biggest controversies in America and many laws about abortion have been passed and vetoed. The history of abortion is just as interesting as what the future holds for abortion. Throughout history, and up until 1973, abortion has been…

The Pro-Choice argument is that that women have rights over their own body and have the right to choose what they wish to do with their body. The Pro-Life argument that women do not deserve to have those rights which means they would be forced to go on with an unwanted pregnancy. Many people believe abortion is wrong because it is taking away a life, however abortion performed at an early stage in a pregnancy is not taking away a life. Therefore, abortion should be legalized throughout all…

Walter, a 7.6 year old, received a speech-language evaluation to assess his language abilities. According to the American Speech and Hearing Association (2017), school speech-language pathologists are required to adhere to the CCSS. While it is a requirement to adhere to the CCSS, doing so also provides students with the repeated exposure of the curriculum, vocabulary, and multiple opportunities for practice. To assess Walter’s receptive language, The Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT) (Dunn…

It’s not every day that you volunteer to be humiliated, abused, and laid on by sweaty adolescent boys. Maybe you do; I don’t know your story. The point is that I personally wasn’t a huge fan of any of these things separately, let alone all in one wrestling practice. If you asked me in middle school how I would look back on my wrestling days, and how those days would develop me over the years, I would have shrugged. That’s a confusing question, I can’t see the future, and who are you to be…

The Many Reactions to War The characters of “The Return of the Soldier” and “Pale Horse, Pale Rider” waver from wanting to acknowledge the war and its effects to wanting to erase all traces of the war. Within both novellas there are characters who want the war to go on so that it can run its course, and there are characters who just want the war to end so that their loved ones might be safe. With the war being so prevalent in everyone’s daily lives, there is also the feeling of needing to…