The thesis of the three stories are that who we are‚ our sense of identity‚ is at least in part shaped or affected by circumstances beyond our control and/or by the people who have authority over us. This theme of parent/child relationships applies to the three stories‚ “Rules of the Game” and “Two Kinds” both by Amy Tan and “Through the Tunnel” by Doris Lessing. In the story “Rules of the Game”‚ Waverly and her mother both work together to make Waverly successful in chess‚ but it does cause tensions
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basket back home after that. The couple asked him why he did so. The child replied that he wanted to use the basket to dump them in the forest when they were old. In the end‚ the couple quickly brought their father back home. The moral lesson is one should not dump their aged parents. Nowadays‚ many children are dumping their aged parents by sending them to the old folks’ home due to different kinds of reasons as well as excuses. Although many people feel that sending their aged parents to the old
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Stay at home verse daycare. Family is a very important part of a child’s life. In a family‚ a child feels safety‚ he or she is surrounded by love and attention. This could be a reason why most parents do not want to send their child to daycare. They do not want to leave him or her with strangers. It is a really hard decision for parents to stay at home with their child or to send him or her to daycare; however‚ sometimes home environment cannot be enough for the child to develop well. There are
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Eliana Dockterman’s article concerning Digital Parent Trap discusses how some want their children to have technology and some don’t. In Dockterman’s article she uses dependable evidence‚ reasoning‚ and highly academic word choices to prove a strong point about technology. First Dockterman uses dependable evidence in her article to get the readers attention to think about technology. She uses the fact “While there are dangers inherit in access to Facebook‚ new research suggests that social-networking
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Parents Interview Report: Question: What are your political & economic views & how have they changed? Response: My mom is a republican and has many opinions. For example‚ a couple is: she is against abortions‚ gay rights‚ and keeps a strong stance in holding to the standards of our fore fathers. She thinks that we should keep more of our manufactured goods rather than trade out of the country so much‚ in doing so we should take the expense to produce in American more than in other countries
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mandatory for adoptive parents to allow biological parent access to their biological children it simulates other people around the world to fight for what they believe in and vice versa.Throughout previous history in the United States‚ adoption has gone on since the 1920’s. When an adopted child is placed in another family the birth parents must give up their parental rights in order to move on with an official adoption. Some rights may be relinquished for birth parents or legal guardian after
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interesting thing is that 51% of those teens use social media daily. With all of that information I personally feel that parents should monitor their child’s social media accounts. If parents monitor their child’s social media accounts it could help it could help keep the child safe‚ it could help parents feel at ease‚ and it could help parents educate their kids. My first reason why parents should monitor a child’s social media is because it allows them to see who they talk to and what they talk about which
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Parenting is one of the most difficult things one can do. There are many ways to become a good parent‚ and many ways to become a not so good one. In the book‚ “To Kill A Mockingbird”‚ there are many opinions on what the children of the time should do such as help out on family farms or learn to read. Atticus is a good parental figure because he teaches Scout and Jem good life lessons‚ shows his kids to treat everyone equally‚ and treats them with unconditional love. Atticus Finch is someone to
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Children with Gay/Lesbian Parents: Will they live the same lifestyle as their parents? What I Already Know/What I Want to Know As of this year‚ about seven states have legalized gay marriage. California‚ New York and New Hampshire are just a few of the states that recognize and allow gay marriage. It has taken years for homosexual to get the privilege to be legally bound to someone they love. Just like the old playground song‚ "First comes love then comes marriage then comes the
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