Slavery formed the backbone of the South economically. It was just as much the political and social basis of Southern identity, too. With the invention of Eli Whitney’s cotton gin, southern plantation owners had to buy more slaves to keep up with the demand for cotton. There was an ever-present demand, particularly by Northern states, for cotton. There became a growing economic dependence on slavery. James Henry Hammond’s manual, Instructions to His Overseer (c. 1840-1850), was designed for use on his large South Carolina estate. He was a strong supporter of slavery and the originator of the famous line, “Cotton is king.”…
In Bullhead City, Arizona, the city Sue Johnson and her husband thought would be a great place to raise their two children, one of their children, Scott dies in a mysterious shack fire. Sue and her husband moved from California to Arizona in the year 1973. Less than fifty yards from their new home, there stood an old shed, once used by copper miners as a powder magazine. Soon enough it became a playhouse for Scott and his friends, while Sue kept a close eye on the kids. On April 3rd,, 1974, at 3:45 P.M., the bullhead City Volunteer Fire Department responded to a call, the shed (The old powder magazine) was on fire. A former Bullhead City Fire Chief Larry Adams says he can remember the details very vividly: “What I could see through the smoke is what appeared to be upholstery on the floor. When I got the pike pole, I stooped down to look under the smoke to hook this material and hook it out to extinguish it.”…
7.1 Describe how to recognise the severity of burns and scalds to an infant and a child and respond accordingly…
Aunt Harriet had produced a deviant baby. She loved the child and could not stand the thought of it being taken away and sent to the fringe. She went to her sister, Davids’ mother, and asked if she could change babies for one or two days. Her intentions were to get a certificate to prove she has a real baby.…
She went back to bed after locking the doors and turning off the lights. When Jennie was awoken a second time, it was because she heard a large noise, sounding like something had fallen onto the roof. She looked at the clock, seeing that it was around 1:30am and then smelt smoke. After waking up her husband George, she shouted out into the hallway, telling her children to leave the house, carrying her baby outside. Along with the baby, three of her other children had made it out of the house, until George and Jennie noticed that the five children who had stayed up late that night, hadn't made it out of the house. When George went back to get the children from the room, the fire was too strong and he could not get into the house. He then went to grab his ladder to see if he could climb into their bedroom…
12. If n is a rational number, then the solution to x2=n are rational numbers.…
Baby’s father Jules has raised her in a very deprived environment. Ultimately, this has made obstacles for Baby which she manages to overcome and learn from. One of the most drastic examples of Baby’s hardships is Jules being arrested for possession of heroin outside of their apartment building. Baby tries to reach him but is hit by a car as she crosses the street, without Jules even realizing. It was in this moment that Baby realizes Jules needed more care than she did, “I ran across the street to get to Jules and to try and save him” (O’Neill, 56). Nevertheless she still needs a parent figure, but manages to cope without any help.…
This is the number one issue in The Glass Castle from Rex and Rose Mary’s failure to provide all four of those factors to their own children. An example of this is when Jeannette was 3 years old and cooking hot dogs by herself her dress then catches fire. After this incident the mother Rose Mary still allows Jeannette to cook for herself, this is an obvious sign of child neglect. Jeannette Walls writes those parts about her childhood a lot like a journal entry and not like a memoir. In Jeannette’s life, an event triggers her to have a thought about what happened when she was 3 years old she begins to think that fire is a recurring thing in her life. The quote also gives evidentiary support that in Jeannette’s writing she gives very little personal reflection and it is a very detailed piece of…
There are a number of possibilities for who could be to blame for the incident involving the child. It could be said it is the fathers fault because he was the one who first began taking extra measures to ensure safety. Others may believe that the mother was to blame because she was fearful of people coming in the gates which lead her husband to take those extra measures. Or it could be a combination of both the mother and father because they were not being attentive toward the child while the incident occurred. The same could be said for the housemaid and gardener, and because of this, it is not possible to put direct blame on one person for what happened to the boy. The plaque that says "YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED" could possibly just be a warning to those who wish to break in or perhaps it could be a reminder to the family that they are safe even though they fear more and more every…
frighten the child. The story also shows a glimpse into real issues that couples day to day can face, which…
The Water Child chapter is about a woman named Nadine who is suffering from depression from losing her boyfriend and aborting her child. Nadine depressed state reflects over into her exclusion of those around her including her ex-boyfriend and her parents. Nadine avoids talking to her parents because she fears that they will be able to sense her pain through her voice, talking to her family will further sadden her. Nadine’s refusal to talk to her parents over the phone is because the love they share for her will remind her of the love she probably could have shared with her baby. This reminds her of how selfish she was to abort her baby because she knows about her parents love for her and the sacrifices they did for her; she was not selfless…
At the beginning of the book it shows a family trying to survive in the shelter of their home. After some time they realise that the radioactive dust has been coming in through the chimney. They realise that they have been eating and drinking contaminated food and water. However, they refuse to give up because they know Catherine is capable of surviving. They persist and continue looking after eight year old Catherine as best they can. Catherine shows that she is determined to survive; she made sure she drank bottled water and ate canned food to avoid the possibility of contamination and she spent almost all her time in her cubby house under the table so she had little chance of breathing in contaminated air. It was like she had an instinct to survive. With the exception of Catherine, all the family get radiation poisoning as they ate, drank and breathed in the contaminated food, water and air. Sarah felt it was best that Catherine moved on to live…
When her father leaves a pail of kerosene next to the stove, the pail sets on fire and then Billie Jo accidently throws a pail of burning kerosene over her heavily pregnant mother. “Billie Jo threw the pail, they said. An accident, they said. Under their words a finger pointed.”…
McCarthy places an emphasis on the mother's body as a vessel of creation, the only form of creation in a world filled with death and destruction: "Always so deliberate, hardly surprised by the most outlandish events. A creation perfectly evolved to meet its own end. [...] A few nights later she gave birth in their bed by the light of a drycell lamp." While she labours to create a child, however, "Her cries meant nothing to [the father]" (54): as a man, he does not identify with this labour-as-creation . In fact, there doesn't even seem to be a memory of creation once the mother is gone. When the father and son find the charred remains of a roasted baby, the boy asks, "Where did they find it?" because, in a male-centric world, they are capable only of scavenging canned goods and old shoes (200). The idea of someone creating the baby is an alien one to a boy who has grown up only in the ravaged landscape that is now the world.…
The father begins spending less and less time at home, resulting in Dave getting even more beatings from his mother because she is blaming him for the issues in her marriage. That summer the family goes on a vacation and it seems as if Dave and his mother are getting along better until one day he is playing with his brothers and she scolds him for being too loud and is not allowed to go with them to the slide. Dave's mother punishes him even further by taking a dirty diaper and smearing it in his face, trying to get him to eat it. When he refuses she hits him and then the abuse stops long enough for her to tend to the baby and then she rubs another dirty diaper into Dave's face and tells him again to eat it. Just in time, the family returns and the abuse stops with his mother throwing a washcloth at him to clean himself up and then forces him to sit in the corner for the remainder of the night. The next chapter has Dave's father coming home even less, but when he does he helps Dave to wash the dishes. When his mother scolds his father saying the boy should not be helped, Dave's father becomes rarely seen at…