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Helicopter parents are parents who are overprotective or pay extremely close attention to their child or children’s problems. Many parents don’t realize that they are drone parents until their 26 or 29-year-old child rely on himself/herself to solve a problem that they are facing because they lack the skill to solving it due to the parents hovering over them since they were kids. The idea of helicopter parents is supported in the article, “For Some, Helicopter Parenting Delivers Benefits,” by…

“In fact, we often try to do everything we possibly can to guarantee that our children will have every chance to attain every level of success. That means that we want to provide them with the means to match or surpass us--their parents--and the lifestyle they have experienced growing up with” (Glass 1). According to Peter N. Stearns, in the past 20 years parental over-involvement has increased markedly (Are You Too 1). The question is why is parental involvement increasing? Helicopter parenting…

Interviewee’s present life circumstances James E. was born Feb. 24, 1936, which has him at the time tested age of 81. James is an African American male and is married to his lovely wife Margret. He has 4 children of his own and with that comes 9 grandchildren and 2 great-grandchildren. James currently resides in a single family home located in laurel, MD. Nearby family members come by to visit nearly every week for dinner and quality time. James keeps himself busy by running his nonprofit…

Protecting a Child From Overprotection As kids grow up, most of the behaviors they develop and learn come from their family members, friends, but also parents. The way that the child is treated by his/her parents usually has a correlation with the child’s behaviors. Some kids happen to have a very distant relationship with their parent(s), as their parent(s) might not choose to be involved in the child’s life. On the completely other side of the spectrum, lay kids with parents who stick around…

Tiger parenting is a term which refers to strict or demanding parenting that pushes children to be successful academically by attaining high levels of scholastic and academic achievement, using methods regarded as typical of childrearing in areas of East Asia, South Asia and Southeast Asia. Children are punished for failure (especially in the academic world) and for not meeting up to the parents' expectations. Most people do not even know what tiger parenting is and for those who understand what…

The advancements that “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” made great strides in improving motion capture technology. Although I do not believe that the final product turned out to be very good, the techniques that were developed made other ambitious films a possibility. Specifically, the technique used to capture the subtle nuances of an actor’s…

Early within the film you would also notice that stop-motion animation is a little “jerky” but, when comparing the film to other films of the time being released, King Kong (1933) is rather glamorously and brilliantly crafted for its era. The majority of the film was created by the use of stop-motion animation puppets. These puppets were made of metal, ball-and-socket skeleton armatures, covered with cotton dental dam, latex…

The book I am going to be discussing is “Losing the Signal: The Untold Story Behind the Spectacular Rise and Spectacular Fall of BlackBerry” by Jacquie McNish and Sean Silcoff. Originally, BlackBerry was named RIM, which stands for Research in Motion and was founded by Mike Lazaridis and Douglas Fregin in in 1984. They both created a device where uses could type words that flashed on Television screens and they named it “Budgie”. Usually, the start of a new technological device or website, I…

RIM (Blackberry) What is the status of RIM today? RIM/BlackBerry share of the market has been sliding for several years far from being BlackBerry Nation, as written by Scott Elder in a Washington Post article (Eidler, 2015). Elder also refers to the handheld device as a “Crackberry” that in 2010 nearly 40 percent of the smartphones users owned a Blackberry. However, in 2011 BlackBerry share of the market had fallen to 20 percent while Apple and Android now held 70 percent of the smartphone…

Greatness is only rewarded to those who seek it, not to those who wait for it to be handed out. Accordingly, producing movies based on great works of literature means translating the original work into something that not only has a great moral, but that is also visually captivating throughout the entire duration of the film. Beowulf the poem was published by an anonymous author in the 900’s and reflects the Anglo-Saxon civilization which had just recently converted to Christianity at the time of…