Plantain Medicine that Treats Everything Throughout years‚ I was taught to believe that the best medicine is not a pill‚ but a folk medicine. The most common folk medicine in my culture was plantain. This herb meant to help in a variety of sicknesses. For instance‚ when I got food poison followed by high fever‚ vomiting‚ and diarrhea‚ my mother prepared a tincture based on plantain‚ vinegar and salt. I had to drink 15 drops of this mixture every hour and after 5 hours the reaction
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Should Both Parents Work If you are married it is likely that both you and your spouse work outside the home. Dual income with no kids would be the norm. But‚ what happens when you and your spouse start having children? Realistically is it necessary for both parents to work while raising young children? This debate has stirred up much conflict in today and time. There are two very conflicting answers. The first answer states the cost of raising and supporting a family is so high that in order to
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"Should Parents Vaccinate Their Kids?" "The number of reports of influenza-vaccine–associated Guillain– Barré syndrome to the national Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System increased from 37 in 1992–1993 to 74 in 1993–1994‚ arousing concern about a possible increase in vaccine-associated risk" ("The Guillain" par. 1). Vaccinations have been around for many years and are supposed to help children. So‚ what if statistics showed you they didn’t‚ would you rethink your decision? Most people believe
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SHOULD THERE BE A LICENSE TO BECOME A PARENT? I was skimming through a newspaper recently when I came across a really bizarre news article. The article was about a Pakistani man having 23 wives and 93 kids! This man aims to complete a century of children by 2013‚ with the hope of getting his name in the Guinness Book of World Record. He is a resident of Dubai and the government of UAE is supporting him and his largely extended family with 60 thousand dirhams per month. Isn’t this really absurd?
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Should parents spank their kids or not? Parenting can sometimes be a very strenuous job. It is a blessing to have a child‚ yet raising a well brought up kid carries a lot of responsibility. There are so many dilemmas that parents face during this demanding road and still‚ there are so many different opinions about proper nurture. Should a parent be strict or easy going? Should parents spank their kids or not? The latter is the question that is being discussed in this essay. While there are many
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children will spend all or part of their lives in a single parent home.”(Dowd)The family structure has changed significantly in the last fifty years with higher percentages of marriages ending in divorce‚ and higher rates of childbearing out of wedlock. In this study the writer will show that the children of these families are affected dramatically both negatively and positively. Problem Statement Children being raised in single parent homes have a higher chance of poverty‚ delinquency and high school
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single parent homes. As compared to over forty to fifty years ago‚ single-parent families are common in today’s world. A single parent is a parent with one or more children‚ who is not living with any of the children’s other parents. The percentage of children who live with two parents has been declining among all racial and ethnic groups throughout the years. It has been found that children in single-parent homes generally fare worse than those in homes with two parents. In today’s single parent households
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injury. So‚ are parents actually teaching their children violence? When a parent spanks a child‚ whether they are aware of it or not‚ they are teaching that child violence. They are teaching them that hitting someone else is okay. In his article "The 13 Ways Spanking Harms Children‚" Michael J. Marshall‚ PhD‚ says that "children who are spanked engage in more hitting and fighting than those who are not physically punished by their parents." Relying on spanking when parents think its needed
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vaccination. Despite controversies regarding vaccinations causing autism‚ parents should vaccinate their children because of the importance of herd immunity and the economic benefits that accompany it. Herd immunity is a practice in which “the risk of infection among susceptible individuals in a population is reduced by the presence and proximity of immune individuals” (Fine et al.). More simply‚ “a pattern of immunity that should protect a population from invasion of a new infection.” (Fine et al.)
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definitively recognizable or known. Our identity is formed by the people around us; mainly being our parents. We have no considerable identity that lasts with us our entire lives. Rather‚ our identity consists of an on-going process in which our behavior follows patterns based on the patterns we see in the people around us. From the moment our life begins it is shaped by our parents‚ even before birth they have given you your genetic material‚ which plays a big role in our appearance and how others will
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