Parent-Teacher Association

impacts the nature of young adulthood. I interviewed a pair of 19-year-old twin sisters. They are freshmen students at the University of Missouri and were born and raised in Iowa. Neither of the siblings are currently employed. They grew up in a two-parent heterosexual household and do not have other siblings. One of the sisters, Evelyn, said that she is in a committed relationship with her boyfriend. The other sister, Anna, is not currently in a relationship. The similarities and differences…

Victor Hugo once wrote: “Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise”. Grief never ends. It haunts and buren 's someone 's life for years. In M. L. Stedman’s The Light Between Oceans, grief, loss, and healing is a recurring theme in the novel, as all characters go through at least one devastating loss. Hannah’s husband has died, her daughter’s alive but not with her. Isabel and Tom have two miscarriages and a stillborn baby. These situations are hard for everyone to cope with, and…

A parents first priority should always be their children. In the memoir The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls wrote about her daily struggles growing up with her parents. Rex and Rose Mary were unfit parents because they were inadequate role models, made selfish acts and failed to be concerned about their children’s safety. Rex and Rose Mary Walls were unfit parents because they were inadequate role models. Jeannette’s parents were giving the wrong examples like using inappropriate language and…

Allyson Milvo was born in OKC, OK on 20 September 1979. Her parents were unmarried at the time and she came into this world with one older brother. Her birth father decided to leave and never look back but her mother would marry a few years later and he would adopt both children and vowed to raise them as his own. Unfortunately, this marriage would end shortly after it began and her…

Pennsylvania. She is a mother of three children, two who are young adults and one who is 16 years old. When Susie was first diagnosed with cancer at the age of 30 and was given 6 months to live she gave custody of her two oldest children to her adoptive parents and gave full custody of her youngest to the biological father. Although Susie beat cancer she never got custody back of her children. Over the past two years, Susie youngest daughter has been using drugs and alcohol, running away, and…

I kept my cool walking out of my manager’s office. Keeping my emotions off my face has never been particularly difficult for me. However, at this moment the struggle was real. I slightly clenched my hand and flashed a fake smile while walking past my co-workers and their gray dull cubicles. The second I was out of the office, I dropped the smile and continued the 15 minute walk to my car. A small hint of relief hit me when I entered my car. I could finally release this pent-up energy inside and…

I honestly this situation helped my parents and, now that they are back together, made their relationship much stronger. When my mom left, she was in a very dark place. She was depressed and need to see what life was like without anyone holding her back. After living on her own for almost…

The child-parent relationship is, perhaps, the most foundational and important relationship that any human will ever have, and as such many literary works over the centuries have examined this relationship. The two poems, “First Thanksgiving,” by Sharon Olds and “Winter Stars,” by Larry Levis are examples of two different ways that such a literary work can be done. These two poems have numerous parallels, although their similarities only serve to highlight their differences, which can be seen in…

life and sometimes isn 't appreciated as much as it should be. Most people don 't realize that one day in your life you are going to be forced to be independent and on your own. Many people you rely on aren 't going to always be there for you and parents unfortunately don 't live forever. It is the ideal dream to one day branch off and be on your own, instead of being dependent on someone else. Growing and going to college or starting your own family is perfect of examples of how majority of our…

years of marriage. At the time I had no idea on how to feel about it and wasn’t sure exactly why they had made this big decision, but as the years passed I slowly gathered the information and pieced it all together. In about November of 2010 my parents had separated, but remained under the same roof until late March of 2011. The reason they had made the decision to stop their marriage was because my father had many issues that he refused to fix. My mother told me that after my second sister…