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Term Project Paper: Understanding Family Secrets For our project, we have decided to take a closer look at the topic of family secrets, and more specifically at the four different types of family secrets. Family secrets involve information purposefully hidden or concealed by one or more family members. The four types of secrets are sweet, essential, toxic and dangerous. Galvin, Braithwaite, & Bylund (2015) describe sweet secrets as those that protect fun surprises and they are time limited.…

We’ve all experienced it before, the pursuit of forgotten memories; the tinge of helpless perplexity that stumps our consciousness, bothering us until our obstinacy relents to a shrug of the shoulders. Amy Herzog’s play, The Great God Pan, explores such sensations. Burgeoning playwright Amy Herzog attempts to illustrate this pursuit through the character Jamie, a potential victim of child molestation. This November, The Great God Pan opened at Davidson College’s Barber Theatre. Directed by Dr.…

Family Structure: How it affects religion and higher education The primary focuses on research of the family structure are the effects it has on higher education and religion. Studies have shown that family structure plays a critical role in many aspects of life, such as the development of children as well as the physical and mental health of children. Using mainly works published since 2006, a review of the literature on the family structure and their effects of religiosity and higher education…

“Blacks are more likely to get divorced because, first they are poorer, and poverty strains marriages…” -Andrew Cherlin. During the past half century, African-Americans have become the most unmarried people in our nation. A substantial amount of evidence through using extensive research has shown that the decreasing rate for African-American marriages is an issue that is widespread throughout the country, although this particular topic isn 't the main precedence throughout society it still…

Being in a fandom is a mentally and physically exhausting yet beautifully rewarding folk group to be a part of. There are an excess of fandoms that I can speak about being in like being a ‘Potterhead’ or a ‘Whovian’ or even better a ‘Trekkie’. However, the fandom that I take the largest part in and have the deepest love for is the Lord of the Rings fandom. I grew up with a mother who was a ‘Ringer’, as we are sometimes called, and that is what truly sparked my deep love of Lord of the Rings and…

academic performance of children. Poor children have lower IQ scores and are more likely to dropout of school and experience poverty as adults. Children whose parents have higher educational attainments also perform better in school while children in stepfamilies or with plenty of siblings have lower test scores and educational attainment”. In this statement, the author is emphasizing the fact that the rich keeps getting rich while the poor keeps getting poorer without nothing in hand. This is…

Cinderella is a popular folk tale where a common girl goes from rags to riches. The story of Cinderella has received some criticism because Cinderella is too passive and has a man save her from her suffering. Revisions of traditional folk tales have become popular. Some authors do it to give it a modern day twist and have it reflect modern day society. Cinderella is one those stories that has slowly become modernizes with a feministic approach. The two Walt Disney versions Campbell Grant’s…

what really makes a family? The common image that comes to mind when thinking about family is a mom and dad and their children. Nowadays that is not always and families are coming in all shapes and sizes. There are, “... single-parent families, stepfamilies, cohabitating families- those with unmarried domestic partners-…,” (McCaffrey, 2013, p. 3). T.V shows have even started to reflect these changing family structures, especially the show Modern Family.This show not only has the typical family…

Introduction The author will relate his family of origin in the context of a systemic analysis, an underlying theme, and identify an evidenced based practice (EBP) which will address the challenges presently affecting the family. The author conducted interviews with two family members and conducted a review of family artifacts for anecdotal information. While there is no particular reason to doubt the validity of the information related by said interviews, the author makes a point of…

The glamor, the glitz, the glory, and the glitter. Think about it. Little girls look up to princesses. Cinderella is a fairytale that has been told for years and has been an influence on young girls all over the world in many different cultures. Before given this assignment I had no idea that there were other versions out there of Cinderella but I am so glad there are. The Cinderella that you know I guarantee is not the same Cinderella that someone else knows on the other side of the word.…