SOS Children's Villages

start life afresh in a new country. The unit begins with a brief discussion of the history of the Tamil-Sinhalese conflict. It then goes on to discuss the novel’s various themes like sexuality, representation of the political conflict in the novel, children’s games etc. A final note is on the significance of the novel’s title and narrative structure. The…

who is born to a young mother eventually become pregnant as an adolescent herself? The cycle of young motherhood is bound to repeat itself unless intervention occurs to aid the depression that is so prevalent within unplanned pregnancy. Unplanned pregnancies among teenage girls will likely never resolve, so with that in mind, what is the next step? What can be the focus in order that one is not concentrating on the elimination of unplanned pregnancies, which is impossible, but rather an…

matter among Umuofians. It is also a great example of shared and valued oral traditions in times of difficult problem solving. The Igbo tribe presents an oral type of society that has children’s folklore that lives through mothers’ and fathers’ mouths. The story of the tortoise is a one of the examples of unwritten children’s story that Ekwefi tells to Ezinma. Also, Ikemefuna introduces new unheard stories to Nwoye that demonstrates diverse folklore between clans. The violent stories that…

September 4. I have never had such a heavy heart for my family and the other Potawatomi people. I will never forget that day, the day my life was turned upside down. My family and I lived near Twin Lakes village. My husband, Elan, was a skilled hunter. He helped with gathering food for people in the village and helped protect our home. We had three kids together, two daughters and one son. My son, Beshkno, is my eldest. He was quite the little man, and was taking after his father. Next comes my…

Wahdati’s servant, who brings an interesting dynamic forward in that he initially lived in Abdullah’s village and was poor but later transitioned into living as a wealthy servant. The initial reaction to the Wahdati’s household is incapusulated in his shock at how the kitchen “had been built big enough to feed all of [Nabi’s] home village” (78). His focus is, in the beginning, that of a poor individual as he focuses on the amenities he never had access to and how they…

pleasurable tradition going on. After reading deeper, we discover this tradition is something people seem to be wary about, but don’t discover why until the ending. Shock is everything we experience once the short story is over because all along, the so called lottery, wasn’t a chance these people wanted to get or it would result as a terrible death. The author created this story in a way that allows us readers to interpret it in many different ways though. My overall understanding of Jackson’s…

now compared to the earlier generations who were to do what their parents told them or expected them to do. Education was giving the daughters a chance at a better job and income that may lead them to move out of the village leaving their homes. Then with moving out of the village and pursuing their education they did not have marriage on their mind. They were getting married later as well as choosing their own husbands. Although with the younger generations new changes and choice the state…

and, as some people may argue, monkeys. The animals and people which we view as savage, we came from. Shirley Jackson argues in “The Lottery” that this savage behavior is still embedded in human nature. In this short story, a seemingly ordinary village holds an annual lottery that takes a turn for the dark side. “The Lottery,” portrays society as barbaric, only masking their true behavior under the illusion of civilization as shown by the details Jackson uses to describe the setting and the…

Urbanization is the process of turning a rural area or village into a town or city. The population highly increased by the urbanization by having a lot of factories that supplied products in large quantities at low costs. There was one major negative effect of the urbanization, it was pollution. Smoke from factories…

In addition, a $10 million dollar program by the U.S. Department of Labor is intended to end child labor in the world's top cocoa growing region. The $10 million support and research program is to help local cocoa farmers boost their profit margins so they do not need to rely on child…