Mother's Day

Tunku Varadarajan in his article, “A Mother’s Love” says, “It irritates me that so many women think they are entitled to both brilliant, unimpeded careers and medals for being the world’s greatest mothers. You cannot have it both ways.” However, as parents who let children grow up with daycare…

Barbara Bush said she was "in good spirits" in recent days | Barbara Bush in health problems, will not seek further treatment Former first lady Barbara Bush, despite having health problems and refusing to continue receiving medical treatment, remained in "great spirit" during her last days, according to her granddaughter Jenna Bush Hager. In fact, since Monday night he was alert and talking about a bourbon, a source close to the Bush family told CBS News. The source said she is being treated…

This amount is rather significant regardless of a family's yearly income, so it is absurd that mother’s are expected to be able to take off a year of work without pay and be financially stable to support a child. The argument against a mother’s lengthy maternity leave is the system of structured early education, but values across varying cultures place a lot of emphasis on the formative time spent between a mother and…

Muertos” or “Day of the Dead, (English and Spanish will be used interchangeably in the paper), is complex and combines Indigenous culture with Catholicism in Mexico, to create a unique celebration of life and death, which is evident the rituals, foods and arts. The festival blends two different ideologies, yet in ways similar, to create an entirely unique Mexican national festival. Though the Day of the Dead celebration is believed to be more closely related to the Catholic feast days of All…

talking to her friends Jillian and Claire in the candy shop she works in, called Jan The Candy Man, and she is stocking up the truffle pyramids while Jillian talks to her about Valentine's day, which happens to be Piper’s birthday. Jillian is trying to convince Piper to help her make a plan for Valentine’s day. My story is told by Piper, the main character, and is in the point of view of the first person. An example from the book would be; ‘I shrug. “I just don’t see the point. It’s not like…

While forms of childcare have existed long before the development of formal daycare agencies, the first known daycare for children in the United States was established as the Infant School Society of Boston in 1828. Child care encompasses various types of care provided to the child, such as care provided by an agency, care provided by relatives or other family members, care provided at their own home through the use of a baby sitter, care provided at someone’s home where other children are also…

A day in the life of a high school student. Today was the day. It was the day that I had pictured in my head since I was a child. I remember the last day of 8th grade. A stream was flowing down out of the eyes of my friends. I would miss them. I thought that day was going to be the worst. Boy was I wrong. I was standing there that morning as my mother’s camera flashed. It felt as if it was going to be the last time she saw me…

take low income jobs and it was too hazardous to take their kids in. instead of the government paying for daycare they gave the woman pensions which is like a salary to stay at home. By 1930 almost all of the states in the union passed some form of mother’s pension law and pushing childcare more into charity instead of government matters. Even with the government…

known him, whether it was through a television screen or in real life. He was well known around the world as the person to bring smiles to faces to everyone around him. It was almost lucky, in this sense, that he always wanted to bring a smile to his mother’s face to let her know how much he loved her. Williams was raised mostly by his maid who had quite the sense of humour, teaching him all of the jokes that got him started. Even if it was a rough start with being voted Least Likely to Succeed…

hand he does not like. Christopher had a timeline of everything he did in a day, and the exact time he did them. Part of that timeline was his morning ride into school. One the way to school christopher counted the car he passed and their colors. Christopher determined if he saw five red cars in a row it was going to be a good day. However, if he saw four yellow cars in a row, it was going to be a black day. A black day means he doesn’t allow himself to eat anything, and he doesn’t speak to…