FROM MARIA COLWELL TO VICTORIA CLIMBIE: REFLECTIONS ON A GENERATION OF PUBLIC INQUIRIES INTO CHILD ABUSE Plenary paper by Professor Nigel Parton for the BASPCAN conference‚ July 2003 (published in Child Abuse Review (2004)‚ 13 (2)‚ pp80-94) In his statement to the House of Commons when presenting Lord Laming’s Inquiry Report into the death of Victoria Climbié‚ on 28 January 2003‚ the Secretary of State for Health‚ Alan Milburn‚ said: It is an all too familiar cry. In the past few decades there
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During a time period in which advice literature on child rearing often prompted parents to use harsh means to raise their children‚ Lydia Maria Child’s The Mother’s Book stands out. Unlike other advice literature books from the 1800’s‚ it offers sensible advice without the need for severe punishments. In fact‚ in an excerpt of The Mother’s Book‚ included in the book Going to the Source‚ Child provides her suggestions for handling teenage daughters‚ and states that what a mother needs is “a ready
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the individual and the state is perpetuated in Metropolis‚ and it is in its plot that the modernists fears of the machine age are evident. Robot Maria is used as a narrative device in Fritz Lang’s Metropolis to orchestrate chaos and disunity in the city‚ perpetuating the conflict between the Head and the Hands. Rotwang creates her as the antithesis of Maria and the personification of vice‚ so Joh Fredersen can use her to “…sow discord between them and her!” It is in the visual representation of the
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Maria Tatar’s new point of view on the famous old tales is that fairy tales served as a window into the world of grown-ups‚ providing a safe perch from which to explore children anxieties. In order to teach children to be good‚ but first we have to show them what’s bad. By adding some of the lurid staff‚ such as brutally violent‚ wicked stepmother‚ and wife-killing baron into the fairy tales to show the negative side. With parents appropriate explanations and their own cultural translations will
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Maria Montessori was an Italian philosopher she was a single child raised by wealthy and well-educated parents‚ she was also very bright‚ studying both modern languages and natural science. Graduating from technical school in 1886‚ Montessori went on to attend Regio Instituto Tecnico Leonardo da Vinci. Where she became the first woman in Italy to qualify as a physician. Throughout her time Maria often worked with children with learning difficulties in socially deprived areas‚ due to her interest
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question things that are unfamiliar or unorthodox to us. A fairy tale is a form of literature that is unorthodox in its subject matter but promotes morals that are generally applicable to those from all walks of life. In “What is a Fairy Tale?” by Maria Tatar‚ it is made clear that we must question the deeper meaning of these stories if we want a more clear understanding of how and why society functions the way that it does‚ because society and culture themselves are built upon stories and literature
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segments of “Mirror touch” and “Contagion and Maria Bamford” are told by Alix Spiegel and Lulu Miller‚ I have learned that we somehow are tangled by things and entangled with people around us every day. Entanglement‚ from my perspective‚ is something that entangles and is twisted. As listened‚ I noted that there are three main points in their story through the interviews with Amanda – a lady who can feel what other people are feeling physically‚ and Maria Bamford – a comedian; that prove to me our thoughts
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CHAPTER I PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND A. Introduction We are all familiar with what a computer is in a specific‚ contemporary sense. Personal computers (PCs) are found in most aspects of daily life‚ and for some it is hard to even imagine a world without them. But the term means more than simply the Macs and PCs we are familiar with. A computer is‚ at its most basic‚ a machine which can take instructions‚ and perform computations based on those instructions. It is the ability to take instructions
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Components of Culture “We can imagine culture as invisible webs composed of values‚ beliefs‚ ideas about behavior‚ and socially constructed truths” (Trumbull and Pacheco 10)‚ says Elise Trumbull and Maria pacheco‚ the authors of “What is Cultural Identity”. There are many things we have the inclination to do every day‚ that we do not realize exemplify of our cultural identity. In order to understand the enigma of one’s cultural identity‚ he or she needs to understand what the term means. According
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answered easily if it wasn’t for Thomas’s never-ending responses constantly spawning‚ changing‚ and disappearing in his flustered mind. A factor that he didn’t want to risk was running through the same situation he experienced with Maria Cosway. His thought so attraction to Maria Cosway in the late evenings of December led to nothing but dispassionate‚ midnight love letters that
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