The short stories" Rules of the Game" by Amy Tan‚ and "Who’s Irish" by Gish Jen deal with immigrant mothers and their experiences with their daughters. Each story tells how their is a strain on the mother-daughter relationship and a gap with culture. In "Rules of the Game"‚ Amy Tan’s narrator is Waverly Jong. Waverly is forced throughout the story to discover what game she is playing‚ and what rules she must follow in order to succeed in life. Waverly’s chess playing becomes a metaphor for her struggle
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Finding All Fifty Shades Talita – Eugenia Sigillo Hellenic American University Abstract Fifty shades of Gray is no literary masterpiece‚ nor does it hide some life changing meaning between its pages‚ although this could be debatable. My interest was aroused when I started reading various comments on the book and how “hideous” it is. I am a person who usually enjoys literature and art‚ that is trashed by others‚ who tries to find a meaning behind a simple dot on a
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of physical discipline (i.e.‚ spanking) and disruptive disorders in children is found in studies of European American families‚ research on African American families has found a negative association or none at all. Moreover‚ a review of the literature indicates that the positive association between spanking and child behavior problems is bidirectional for White families‚ whereas it is the product of reverse causation (i.e.‚ negative child behaviors result in spanking) in Black families. The implications
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considered emotional abuse. Children who have been emotionally abused tend to remember the harmful words that were said to them much clearer than they would a spanking they may have received Another type of child abuse is that of physical abuse. Physical abuse can come in the form of cigarette burns‚ grabbing a child too hard‚ strangulation‚ and spanking or hitting a child too hard. Physical abuse happens mainly to the children where the parents know that the children can not fight back‚ such as with smaller
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Causes and Effects of Child Abuse Child Abuse and Domestic Violence‚ 2009 Listen Causes of Child Abuse Child abuse is primarily a problem within families. Even though abuse by nonfamily members does occur‚ most victims are abused by one or more of their parents. For this reason‚ much of the research into the causes of child abuse has focused on families and the characteristics and circumstances that can contribute to violence within them. The 1975 National Family Violence Survey and the 1985
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consequences for your failing and making low grades‚ which was followed by a spanking. I think that the communication could have been better‚ such that the message would have been understood and received better. My belief is that the cultural factors that might have influenced my mom’s parenting approach were spankings from her childhood and her parent’s childhood and so on. My mother and my father were raised getting spankings if they did not do something right or if they were disobedient as punishment
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other people have judged it and labeled it deviant. Example: Some parents absolutely prohibit physical punishment of children‚ such as spanking‚ while other parents regularly use physical punishment to enforce household rules. Are parents who spank their children deviant? The answer depends on what is considered acceptable behavior in that given household. Though spanking is inherently neither right nor wrong‚ it is subject to the often harsh judgment of others. I think it is very important to always
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developmental periods. The results from this questionnaire will be included in the final report and it will be compared to how much young adults know about crime and what the reality is. Sample Questions: To what degree do you think spanking is acceptable? Do you think that spanking is a form of abuse? Do you agree that children who are aggressive and violent at childhood are most likely to become criminal offenders at adolescence and late adulthood? What in your opinion makes young children who are abused
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English 110 Danielle Stephen 10/8/14 “Discipline vs. Child Abuse” Matthew A. Cornblith Coleman University 1 How far is too far? Some people believe that child abuse is an acceptable form of discipline‚ however I do not. There is a fine line between discipline and child abuse. What is discipline? Discipline is “the practice of training people to obey rules or a code of behavior‚ using punishment to correct disobedience.” (https://www.google.com/webhp?hl=en&source=hp&btnG=Google+Search&gbv=2#hl=en&gbv=2&q=discipline)
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Leave me alone or I’ll scream! I’m calling the authorities and tell them you are abusive. These are threats we hear today from our youth. Very little respect is shown to those in authority. Parenting guidelines have diminished over the last fifty years leaving us with a compromised future. Single parenting and busy schedules are only the beginning of the problems we face with effectively raising the adults of tomorrow. These concerns and others have placed a part in removing the much needed
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