Nettles by Vernon Scannell The poem ‘Nettles’ by Vernon Scannell revolves around a father’s perspective on an accident involving his son‚ through which the poet explores a father-son relationship‚ wherein the father tries to protect his son from the various difficulties in life. However‚ despite his efforts to shield his son from these problems‚ they will be a constant threat in life. The boy here is a metaphor for the army‚ with the nettles being an extended metaphor of recurring war. The combined
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beliefs‚ tennis‚ values‚ attitudes‚ and mindset. My mother is the most inspiring person in my life. I have learned so much from her‚ just from seeing her care for my siblings and myself. My mother has taught me that strength and independence are important in life and that I can never stop at what I want to do. I am very thankful for the love and life I receive from my mother. I have always thought of my mom as strong and independent. My mom is the mother of four children‚ all of which she raised on her
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Why Chinese Mothers are superior Every parent wants to be proud of their children‚ to see them succeed in school‚ music‚ sports or whatever path they may choose. The professor and the author Amy Chua wrote the essay “Why Chinese mothers are superior”‚ where she tries to compare western parents to Chinese mothers and their different methods of raising children. Plenty of the people reading this essay may get the wrong idea and misunderstand‚ when Amy Chua tries to present Western parents as bad
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Mother Tongue- Based Multilingual Education (MTB-MLE) One of the changes in Basic Education Curriculum brought about by the new K-12 program is the introduction of Mother Tongue- Based Multilingual Education (MTB-MLE) specifically in Kindergarten‚ Grades 1‚ 2 and 3 to support the goal of “ Every Child- A- Reader and A –Writer” by Grade 1.” MTB-MLE refers to “first-language-first” education that is‚ schooling which begins in the mother tongue and transitions to additional languages particularly
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their caregivers may become strained or almost non-existent. Regardless of cognitive impairment‚ my personal caregiving commitment is to communicate‚ communicate‚ and communicate some more with elders in my life‚ including my beloved octogenarian mother to whom I am a full-time caregiver. There is always something to talk about unless caregivers choose otherwise. Clinically diagnosed Alzheimer’s‚ other dementias‚ Tourette’s syndrome and strokes are just the tip of the medical iceberg of chronic
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In Mother tongue‚ Amy writes how her mother who couldn’t speak well Standard English was treated unfairly in the foreign land. In this essay‚ she mentions some stories related to her childhood experiences which were happened to them. "... I had plenty of empirical evidence to support me: the fact that people in department stores‚ at banks‚ and in restaurants did not take her seriously‚ did not give her good service‚ pretended not to understand her‚ or even acted as if they did not hear her." Amy
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demands of the developed world and the continuous pursuit for a better life have led to the increase of double-income family. Mothers usually opting to continue to work few months after giving birth then has naturally become common in some nations. Significantly‚ this trend brings about some inevitable drawbacks in every family‚ but also it has considerable benefits. If mothers have their own source of income‚ they can undoubtedly improve the financial condition of their family. Raising children has
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There was a family in a small city in California. The family consisted of a daughter of sixteen years old and her parents. The father worked at a bank and he had a boring job. The mother worked as a cleaner in wealthier houses. The next morning was just a normal morning‚ until the daughter that who called Juliet got a phone call. The message from the phone call was not a really pleasant message. Her grandmother was in the hospital. The grandmother of Juliet lived in Washington and that was almost
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British Literature 8 November 2012 Attitude Towards Women One of the most prominent themes in the Canterbury Tales is the attitudes of the pilgrims towards women. There are two distinct sides in the dispute: that women are simply objects of lust that must never be trusted‚ and that women are highly respectable and loving. The Shipman ’s Tale starts off this debate with his depiction of women‚ which was less than favorable. The woman who is depicted in this tale is the wife of a merchant. She
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MOTHERS DAY…. While being pregnant ‚ and having to tell the loved ones around me was major. I had also been suffering from a very deadly and hereditary disease‚ I was what some people call a functional alcoholic . And now finding out that I was also pregnant. While my disease was never a big deal to me and my life style. It was now a big change I was not prepared for‚ and there would be changes I could never prepare for. I couldn’t sleep‚ hot and cold sweats‚ withdraw‚ and shakes. It was now
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