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    Should parents smack their children? Today I will be talking about the consequences of smacking children‚ whether it shall be legalized or not. Also I will bring my own personal response at the end of my speech. But for now‚ I will begin with why people say it shall be legalized. Firstly‚ some parents say that smacking a child teaches them a lesson how to be well disciplined and indirectly tells the child not to commit this deed again. Furthermore‚ some parents may think that children are having

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    well being of children and young people 1.1. Outline current legislation‚ guidelines‚ policies and procedures with own UK Home Nation affecting the safeguarding of children and young people Children act 1989 The Children Act 1989 was brought about to help keep children safe and well and‚ if necessary‚ help a child to live with their family by providing services appropriate to the child’s needs. The Act imposes a general duty on local councils to provide a range of services to ’children in need’

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    DIVORCE‚ ATTACHMENT ANXIETY AND AVOIDANCE Studying Attachment and Avoidance Among Children of Divorced Parents Briana  Weems University of Illinois-Champaign/Urbana Campus Abstract Through extensive research conducted by Fraley and Hefferman (2013)‚ they have found that the attachment of children‚ especially in early childhood‚ has a positive correlation with whether or not the child’s parents are divorced. This study aimed to replicate Fraley and Hefferman’s attachment and divorce results

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    television educationally beneficial for children? Information from Boston Municipal Research Bureau suggests that children aged from 11 to 15 in Britain averagely watching TV for more than 50 hours per week‚ which may be considered as too much as nearly half of their daytime excluding 8 hours ’ sleeping period. (BBC‚ 2011) Since children ’s television-viewing time occupying almost a third of a day‚ the sense of its educational virtue has to be confirmed. By the means of children‚ Oxford English Dictionary

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    GOOD COUNTRY PEOPLE by Flannery O ’Connor The short story Good Country People was written by O’Connor. The story introduces us to well-educated a woman who was thirty-two years old. This woman has an artificial leg which was shot off in a hunting accident when she was ten. She went to college and earned a doctorate in philosophy. She has a heart condition; so she cannot work and has to live at home with her mother. The name given to her is Joy but she changed her name to Hulga. She mocks her mother

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    by Lars Eighner and‚ A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift‚ I noticed that the authors write about the concern they have for the unfortunate people in their countries. They also provide abnormal means of resolving the issue of poverty. The essay by Lars Eighner describes his experiences with Dumpsters and Dumpster diving. He then specifically informs the readers about how to look for food that is acceptable to eat. The author also tells of the different classifications of people that use Dumpster diving

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    Children Raised by Alcoholic Parents While reading “Who Are the Real Victims of Alcoholism” in my college textbook‚ I could not help but thinking of my own experiences as a child growing up with an alcoholic father. This essay was written by a student named Meredith Newmon Blanco. In her essay‚ she makes several strong claims on how children who are raised by alcoholic parents will grow up facing many troubling obstacles. Some of her examples are physical and emotional abuse‚ lack of structure

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    largest country in the world (after Russia‚ Canada and China). Including the states of Alaska and Hawaii‚ The US covers an area of 9 millions square km. It borders Canada on the North. Besides‚ it is such a great nation that it covers 4 times zone. Almost every kind of climate may be found there but the country lies mostly in the temperate zone. The US is a varied land of forests and mountains. If we look at the map of the USA‚ we can see lowlands and mountains. The center of the country is drained

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    currently 16 million American children who live at or below the poverty line as their parents struggle to provide for these children. Being a parent who is poor means that are not able to provide not only basic needs for a child but also how they parent the children. Being a child born into poverty‚ has them at a disadvantage. Yet‚ their parents and how they deal with them while parenting add on to more disadvantage. Parents are often lacking parental skills in order for the children/child to have a quality

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    Response Reading For “Good Country People” by Flannery O’Connor One thing that I’ve learned for sure is that most of the famous writers (so far‚ that is) have died at an early age. I see in her bio that O’Connor was one of them. Ok here we go; I see that I am in for a bizarre climax. [1] Well now‚ Mrs. Freeman‚ she sounds like a stubborn person to me‚ one who hates to admit when she’s wrong. She sounds just like my mother-in-law. I wonder what was considered “important business?”[6]

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