This is my first draft of essay 3 -- Position Paper. For this paper, I have read the Chapter 5 of The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down and I reviewed the articles about child abuse and neglect from government and scholarly journals as well as news articles that detail other situations that resulted in children being removed from the home. I think Lia Should Have been Removed from Her Parents' Home. It just contains introduction, body and conclusion. I need gather more evidence to support my viewpoint in next semester for English…
In my opinion, I think the essay “The Price We Pay” by Adam Mayblum was written extremely well because it contained a very personal and devastating experience in which the writer will never ever forget his long journey, as well as his co-workers long journey out of the North Tower of the World Trade Center before it collapsed. I felt the essay portrayed very descriptive scenes and events that took place on that day which made the reader want to read on. In addition, I felt that you could sense his compassion for his co-workers and his sense of duty to alert the firemen and women about people he left behind. Nonetheless, his story tells of events that took place inside the building while having no sense of what was actually occurring from…
Blood, starvation and depression: would you want to experience these if you were a foster child? Imagine being slapped by your caretaker and getting dragged across a hardwood floor getting splinters just for making a small mistake as a kid.…
How would children act if they were not talked to for the first thirteen years of their life? Two case studies in the past showed how children would act with no interaction from other people. One child was a boy named Victor and the other was a girl named Genie. Both of the children did have similarities, but they also had many differences.…
Colette’s Children’s Home (CCH) is a non-profit emergency and transitional housing program for homeless single women and homeless women with children, with five facilities in the Orange County area. The organization was founded by Pamela Hope, Kevin Craig and William O’Connell nearly a decade ago, and holds its headquarters in Huntington Beach, California. The organization attempts to reunify mothers with their…
The Children's Liberation readings were interesting because, for many, children are not viewed as oppressed. The "oppression" that they endure is oftentimes understood as their necessary role as subordinates to adults. However, the readings made me see that there is a lot of hypocrisy in demanding liberation, in fighting so that no group has power over another, but also acting as a restrictive authoritarian over children on a daily basis. In "Children's Liberation Resurfaces in the 1970's," we clearly see this hypocrisy via Sally's conversation with her daughter, Beth, who points to the use of children as pawns in women's liberation activism. The fact that the kids were invested enough to create their own organization, newsletter, manifesto,…
“Where Children Live” by Naomi Shihab Nye describes children as they grow and create their identity. Nye creates many pictures of places where children play. The pictures also portray images of activities children commonly do. The speaker is a grown person who has gone through the cycle of child to growing into identity.…
Dorthea Lang photographed “The Migrant Mother” in 1936, during the middle of the Great Depression, in a black and white style portrait. I assert that single mothers, during the Great Depression, struggled harder back then compared to now. Social services, food, or housing programs were not yet established within the local, state, or the federal government. On the contrary, single mothers today have many government and non-profit agencies that lend aid. Lang’s picture clearly channeled my sympathies by drawing my attention to this family’s plight. A haggard tent, filthy hygiene, and worn out old clothing point to severe stages of poverty. Once full of joy, the beautiful eyes of the mother, tell a different story of a life full of worry, doubt,…
While sitting in my dining room, next to the kitchen, I see my mom rubbing her boots with each other in an effort to slide them off. She had just come from work. She leaned to her left to place her hand on the wall to find balance. Walking towards the living room, she observed grains of yellow lentils scattered over the dark and light brown rug next to the sliding ride that my little nephew was enjoying. “Did you guys not vacuumed today?” in her regular authoritative, demanding voice. Her jacket with a sticker of Foster Farms smelled like raw chicken as she proceeded to take it off. While she was removing her jacket, she kneeled down to give a kiss to my son. She is only five feet and chubby and seems like someone who have a low and calm voice.…
Final Paper Jacoby Blakeman The Lost Daughter of Happiness Word Count: 2030 In the Lost Daughter of Happiness, Fusang is perceived to be nothing more than a worthless, stupid, and weak prostitute to the public. I believe though, that she is actually a very intelligent person and her acts of silence, submissiveness, and ignorance are her acting strong to get through her situation of being a kidnapped so she can then be with her true love Chris. From the beginning of the story Geling Yan describes Fusang not to be just like all of the other kidnapped Chinese woman who are turned into prostitutes.…
Many children across the country live in families with an unemployed parent. This issue brings upon many negative affects towards the children in those families. Although the children are not the ones who are unemployed, they have to suffer the poor outcomes that come along with this hardship. The article, “Unemployment from a Child’s Perspective,” by Julia B. Isaacs show that more than one in six children are affected by parental unemployment in the year of 2012. Though different families cope with this situation differently, it is proven that the children tend to go downhill due to their parent’s stress.…
Children who have been abandoned by their parents and are brought up by animals or, in some rare cases, are left to survive alone in the wild are called feral children. Like isolated children, they have no human contact whatsoever, but isolated children are barely kept alive and some may be raised with minimal human contact. All feral and isolated children do not have the same experiences as each other. That difference may be the reason for their varying rate of recovery. Isolated children are like infants; they don’t know how to do anything. Whereas feral children may learn how to do things from animals such as getting/eating food and walking/crawling. It is easier to teach and influence isolated children in comparison to feral children who already have accustomed to doing things a certain way.…
Setting : Home of the Helmers with a pleasant inexpensive outlook representing a wealthy,comfortable middle-class family of the 19th Century which Ibsen referred to as a place being in Norway but in extent of its universal themes ,English playwright of the 20th Century,Bernard Shaw quotes the setting as ‘Every Suburb in Europe’,too.So social that everywhere was the social power and the lack of social power significant.…
The lost childhood: Slave Youth, was written by Wilma King in 1995, and as the title of the book indicates, it is a detailed study of the experiences shared by slave children during the 19th century. This book takes a much closer look at the lives of slaves all over the Unites States. Although I was skeptical about this assignment, I was astonished at some of the things that I learned in this book The author does not take her information from outside sources only, but actually gets stories directly from the slaves themselves. This book has opened my eyes to the horrifying situations that slaves had to endure during the 19th century. There were certain parts of the book that drew me more than others, such as the chapters about slave infancies, and the chapters about leisure, and labor. Wilma King takes on a personal role I interviewing former slaves herself, as well as using certain documents as proof, and assessing information from former slave autobiographies. Wilma King made a huge contribution to the understanding of slave history.…
One notable trend affecting the world wide church is the plight of Orphaned and Vulnerable Children, populating much of the developing world, with large concentrations on the Asian and African continents. This research paper attempts to provide some detail regarding how vast this problem is and what some experts in the field have to say concerning this issue, and finally taking a look at one secular organization’s model which offers and excellent pattern for addressing this issue. Orphaned and Vulnerable Children (OVC), deserve the attention, love and support of the worldwide church, and their plight offers a strategic means by which the church can carry out its mandate to make disciples.…