ktmeng/mec huggingface dataset:
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It has been said that a foetus is not a human being; it is merely part of the woman. Whereas, medical science has proved that the foetus is biologically separate from its mother. From the moment the embryo is formed a new individual comes into existence, genetically different from its parents. The development of vitro fertilisation has proven that an embryo can exist outside a female body. All these scientific advances confirm that the unborn is a separate human being. The terms ’embryoï¿½, ‘foetusï¿½, ‘babyï¿½, ‘childï¿½ and ‘adultï¿½ are just different words for a human being at different stages of life. Given the right necessities, a foetus has the potential to grow into an adult.
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I believe that many of the reasons for having abortions are totally unacceptable. For example, there have been reports that some pregnancies were terminated because parents decided that their child was the ‘wrongï¿½ sex. I think that too many women do not look hard enough to find the possible solutions of the problems that arise with pregnancies. Parents must take more responsibility as the situation has only arisen because of the parentsï¿½ negligence whilst having sex. In my opinion, if a woman does not feel she is ready to bring up a child, the best option is to put the child up for adoption, as there are thousands of people who are desperate to foster or adopt children. I also believe that it is right to terminate the life of one or more foetuses involved in a multiple pregnancy to preserve the life of other foetuses. Finally, I think that although doctors should consult other doctors, they should not be prosecuted for carrying out an abortion in extreme circumstances. For example, in 1938, Dr Alexander Bourne performed an abortion on a 14-year-old girl after a gang of soldiers raped her. Dr Bourne informed the police and was prosecuted.
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In an address to doctors visiting Rome for Holy Year celebrations, the Pope told them they had an unshakable mission to defend life from its natural start to its natural end. The Roman Catholic Church teaches that life begins at the moment of conception and ends at the moment of natural death. The Church defends the rights of Roman Catholic doctors, even those working in public institutions, to claim conscientious objection to abortion or euthanasia and not be party to them.
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Linked to abortion is euthanasia, which also involves the taking of life and is illegal in this country. It is still taking away a life, no matter the reason, and is therefore neglecting God’s teachings. Voluntary euthanasia is where the patient and no one else makes the decision to die. It is different from suicide as the person is generally incapable of killing him or herself and will therefore ask someone else to help them die. Under our laws today, however if someone commits euthanasia by helping someone to die they can be sentenced to prison.
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A Woman’s Role Have you ever thought about how a woman’s role in the household would be like 50 years ago? Consequently, the role of women in the 1950s was suppressive and constrictive in many ways. Compared to the role of a woman today, the role of women in 1950 had different expectations, roles, and opportunity. Society had placed a high significance and many expectations on the performance at home as well as in public. Women were supposed to fulfill certain roles, such as a caring mother, a hard-working homemaker, and a submissive wife.
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The perfect mother was supposed to stay home every day and nurture her children so that society would accept them. A hard-working homemaker had dinner on the table precisely at the moment her husband arrived home from work” (“A Women’s Role”). To be a good wife then, they were expected to be pure and innocent and keep the home and raise the children; however, in order to gain attention from men they desired, they would have to step outside traditional boundaries and be aggressive and seductive.
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This was feast that consisted of towers of pancakes, piles of eggs, and platefuls of bacon and patties, all topped with a pound of syrup” (“A Woman’s Role in the 1950s”). Such over exaggerated behavior was typical of women at this time. They wanted to appeal to men and society; as a result, they felt like they to be a perfect and hard working mother. They only felt secure when they were praised for their house keeping. A hard-working homemaker not only kept the house spotless but she cooked dinner, did laundry and ran errands. Have dinner ready. Prepare yourself. Always be sure to touch up your makeup, put a ribbon in your hair and be clean looking” (“A Woman’s Role in the 1950s”). Women were expected to clear away the clutter and run a dust cloth over the tables. Women would do anything to please their men because their life depended on them so much. The man were to have total control of their wives. In today’s world, a woman has different expectations. Women were expected to have dinner prepared for her family; however, they don’t have to be refreshed for dinner.
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For instance, women can question their husband if he is late coming home. In the 1950s, the woman’s life revolved around the house, including when she went out to meet her friends. These days, a woman’s life doesn’t revolve around her home. Most women clean house about once or twice a week. The first thing a woman does when their man comes home from work is greet them with their problems and complaints. “The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her so that he shall have no need of spoil. She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life” (“How to be a Good Wife”).
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The husband shouldn’t have to worry about the need being met in their home, whether physical or material. “Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband. The wife hath not power of his own body, but the wife” (A Woman’s Role in the 1950s”). This statement contends that women and men should have equal opportunity. They shouldn’t have to do more than the other. When two people become one flesh, their priorities shall change. They now should be concerned about pleasing their spouse; however, women should have their own rights too.
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Outside the framework of the specifically motherhood and fatherhood characteristics where they perform absolutely different functions; men and women have vast areas to conquer, building life shoulder to shoulder as human beings, equal in humanity. Then, the roles of women in the 1950s are drastically different compared to a woman’s role in today’s world. There were many things women had to do to please their spouse during the 1950s. Arrange his pillow and offer to take off his shoes. Speak in a low, soft, soothing voice.
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Listen to him: you may have dozens of things to tell him, but the moment of his arrival is not the time. Let him talk first. Make the evening his. Never complain if he doesn’t take you out to dinner or other pleasant entertainments. (“How to be a Good Wife”). Woman had to accept their spouse at face value, admire the manly things about him and recognize his superior strength and ability. They can’t try to change him, excel him in anything which requires masculine ability, and don’t show indifference, contempt, or ridicule towards his masculine abilities, achievements or ideas.
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Women also had to be a domestic goddess, work for inner happiness and seek to understand its rules, and revere their husband and honor his right to rule her and their children. The outside world was not able to crowd her for the time to do her homemaking tasks well. (“How to be a Good Wife”). Undoubtedly, women were not to have a lot of preconceived ideas of what she wants out of life. She could not stand in the way of his decisions or his law, regardless of what she thought. Although the pressure of being a prefect wife and mother are now gone, pressure remains to get a good education and become a successful citizen.
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However, women have gone to the extreme to attempt becoming equal to their spouse. In reality, the goal should be freedom of choice without anyone being prejudice. A woman, like any man, should have the right to choose whether she wants a career or be a stay at home mom. Neither stereotype is healthy nor right; nevertheless, woman who think they have accomplished the goal are delusional. “But I would have you without carefulness. He that is unmarried careth for the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please the Lord: but he that is married careth for the things that are of the world, how he may please his wife” (A Woman’s Role”).
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God created men and women to build their life together and to complete one another for a lifetime. They are to wade through all the fields of struggle in life side by side with men, supporting each other, helping, and completing one another. Men and women are protectors of one another. Lastly, women in the 1950’s didn’t have much opportunity of anything. The only role they were able to play was motherhood and a homemaker. The brave women that chose to learn further were not taught mathematics and science (fields they were later going to succeed in) but home economics and cooking.
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Men feared intelligent women because of their tendency to think for themselves and disagree with their spouse. As soon as a woman learns something, she becomes a threat, seemingly to his adulthood and manliness. (“How to be a Good Wife”). Motherhood is the most important feminine role that a woman fulfills. Motherhood itself is not purely a feminine role; nevertheless, alit is a human role in a woman’s life. Thus, the role of a woman as a human being remains her most essential role in life. However, a woman’s humanity is the most important aspect in their personality because it’s the aspect that symbolized them to achieve in this world.
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The human aspect of her personality will indeed be integrated with the feminine aspect of her conduct as a female, whether with her husband or within her own specific sensations of femininity. It is an aspect that refined the instinct and humanized it in deeds as well as in feelings. The marital relationship is no longer a relationship in which the female provides the male with her biological drives. It will rather be a human relationship where each partner, male or female, makes use of his own distinguishing characteristics in order to give the other what satisfies both his emotional and physical needs. (“A Woman’s Role”).
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Woman in today’s world have many opportunities that women didn’t have in the 1950s. Men never trusted their wives with money because they were not educated enough, yet inconsistently, it was untraditional for a woman to receive as good of an education. The fact that a woman was even attending college was paranormal. Most women were married after high school and fell into their traditional roles right away. For women to be respected now, a woman has to be a career woman balancing both children and a job. In fact, stay at home moms now receive the same degrading look as educated working women did in the 50’s. It was seen as only right and proper that the wife should keep the home running smoothly, making it a quit haven of peace and joy for her husband, the breadwinner. ” (A Woman’s Role in the 1950s”). Her role in the marriage was simply not considered to be on the same level as his. Absolutely, the troubles of running a home were never to be openly compared with a man’s daily travails. He earns money, she didn’t; therefore, his work was important. We don’t want to believe any woman, even half a century ago, was willing to submit herself to a life of servitude in order to be considered successful at her most important role in life.
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In the 1950s, it’s true that in those days a woman’s province was understood to be the home” (“How to be a Good Wife”). To her fell the housework and the childrearing, household tasks considered her incontrovertible purpose in life, her highest calling—not something willingly undertaken. “It has become fashionable to portray outdated societal behaviors and attitudes—ones we now consider desperately wrongheaded—to be worse than they really were as a way of making a point about how much we’ve improved. ” (“How to be a Good Wife. ) When we despair over the human condition and feel the need for a little pat on the back, a few startling comparisons between us modern progressive individuals and those terrible Neanderthals of yesteryear give us that. After reading the roles of the women in the 1950s, I want to see it as a condensation of the worst of this particular delight through era, a precipitate that displayed only the most servile aspects of what women was led to believe was their right and proper function. Call it an exaggeration, if you will. (How to be a Good Wife).
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The society has organized a particular trip to Seri Kasih Orphanage Home on May 31st the first twenty-four hours of school vacations at Kampung Delima. Batu 8. Pasir Putih. There were a sum of 75 pupils involved of whom 40 of are male pupils of signifier four and five while 35 female pupils consisting chiefly of signifier 3 and 4 pupils.
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Madihah. our senior scientific discipline instructor. Puan Marini. our Bahasa Melayu instructor and eventually Mr Kim Lian Hing. our Physical Education instructor. We started our 45 proceedingss journey with two particular hired coachs sponsored by Dato’ Hj Karim. the president of PIBG of SMK Kampung Laut. We reached the orphanhood place about 9. 15 a. m. We were greeted by the matron. Puan Seri Hajjah Maimunah and her deputations.
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We could see that there were a strong integrity among the 95 orphans and they were truly superb on their manners and etiquettes. We merely loved the ways they behaved and lived within their circles. Sir Rosdi reciprocated with a short but really meaningful address and so presented the check of RM1000 donated by the pupils of SMK Kampung Laut. The forenoon activities started with a gotong royong undertaking viz cleaning-up of surau and the chief hall. The pupils were made up of 15 groups of 5 pupils each while some senior orphans were besides imparting their custodies. Then the outdoor programme followed with telematches held for the female pupils while the male had a friendly volleyball lucifers.
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Our following programme started at around 2. 30 p. m with one hr tuition Sessionss where our signifier 4 and 5 pupils volitionally broke up into little groups helping the signifier 3 orphans chiefly on Mathematicss and English topics. Then our ain signifier 3 pupils were together with signifier 1 and 2 orphans discoursing on some school plants and assignments. It was so a short but really helpful Sessionss. Most of the orphans were really industrious and dedicated pupils. Some of them topped the categories and had winging colorss consequences. Our last programme was photograpy and souvenirs Sessionss. We brought beautiful keepsakes and presented to each and every orphans.
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They were beaming with joy and many had agreed to handle our senior pupils as adopted brothers and sisters. Besides we besides presented big shackles which consisted of cocoas. biscuits. nuts and fresh fruits. The matron. Puan Seri Hajjah Maimunah presented her shutting address and invited all of us to come back following twelvemonth for another great programmes. We left Seri Kasih Orphanage Home at approximately 4 p. m. Many of us had cherished the good memories and sword lilies that we had performed our societal duty with the occupants of Seri Kasih Orphanage Home. We would surely love to come back following twelvemonth with many great programmes in manus.
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The cause of the misfortune and humiliation Stephen feels is traced back to the failure and betrayal of his father, Simon Dedalus, which is the symbolic failure of Ireland and its leaders to unite as a people and causes Stephen to leave it behind. From the beginning of the novel, “family” plays a central part in his growth, symbolizing many different things throughout his life. The first section of the novel sets the stage for the rest of his life. Stephen feels he should be the center of his family’s universe, or the “baby tuckoo”.
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“Apologise, pull out his eyes, pull out his eyes, apologise (Joyce 4).” Later the reader finds that this symbolizes how his family will not accept his spontaneous outbursts, especially involving the arts. Its also important to note that even at this early part of his life, Stephen prefers his mother over his father, which shows later on in the novel. ” . . . he had a hairy face . . . his mother had a nicer smell than his father. (Joyce 3)” In the first Chapter, at Clongowes, Stephen feels isolated.
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Uncomfortable in his new surroundings, he turns to thoughts of his family, who symbolize security. “He longed to be at home and lay his head on his mother’s lap. But he could not: and so he longed for the play and study and prayers to be over and to be in bed (Joyce 9).” Stephen needs this escape, and thoughts of his family fills this requirement. He thinks of the time when he had to say goodbye to his family, because he feels like he’s “caught in the whirl of a scrimmage . . . fearful of the flashing eyes and muddy boots . . .” at Clongowes. Like his father, his mother also influences Stephen’s development. She symbolizes Stephen’s loyalty, in specific to Ireland, which is shown in Chapter 1. This is where we receive the first hints about Stephen’s thoughts of exile from his Mother Ireland. While he is at boarding school, Stephen feared exile from his mother, which relates to his experience with Ireland.
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He feels great anxiety because of his separation from home. When one of his peers asks Stephen about kissing his mother, these fears are once again aroused. “He still tried to think what was the right answer. Was it right to kiss his mother or wrong to kiss his mother (Joyce 11)?” One of the most important events in Stephen’s life occurs when he goes back home for Christmas dinner with his family in Bray. This symbolizes his entrance into adulthood. For the first time, he says grace before the meal. Stephen envisions this adult world as exciting, joyful, and full of hope. Unfortunately for Stephen, however, this dinner with his family would also symbolize the loss of his innocence. During the dinner, his family engages in a fierce debate. At this point, Stephen loses his view of what adult life entails. The evident flaws of his adult family members make Stephen realize for the first time that the passage into adulthood means the death of parts of himself, specifically his innocence.
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After this incident, Stephen will never look at life and the world around him the same. Stephen’s shame in his father begins quickly in the book as early in his childhood Stephen must change schools. He learns he will not be returning to Clongowes Wood College because of his father’s mounting debts. This brings Stephen much pain and humiliation as he realizes his father is a financial failure and becomes bitter and embarrassed by their “change of fortune”. This bitterness is built up as Stephen feels a sense of betrayal by his father as he pokes fun at Stephen’s pandying which “he and Father Dolan had a great laugh over”, even though this gave Stephen a high respect among his peers. In Stephen’s young adolescence this disappointment he feels is characterized by the oscillating mood swings , caused by his father. He receives no direction from his father, who he is ashamed of and does not wish to be seen with. “he had tried to cover that shameful sign of his father’s drinking bout of the night before . . . just one humiliation had succeeded another.” This uneasiness at home caused a restlessness in Stephen as he was given little direction in life and begins to wonder about the question of manhood: what defines a man? With this painful humiliation came the disappointment in the move to a “cheerless and foggy” section of Dublin.
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This became too much for Stephen to handle at such a young age and he needed an escape. “His Blood was in revolt.” Stephen’s father gives him no help in his time of anguish. Stephen begins to be confused with his view of sex. When he thinks about a girl who is watching his play, Stephen feels confused about his desires. Seeing the word Foetus on a desktop compounds his confusion. Once again, his family, this time his father, symbolizes the lack of support that Stephen needs to face the challenges of his adolescence. Stephen’s father doesn’t acknowledge the trouble that is happening with Stephen, and he only gives shallow advice and talks about old times.
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This increases Stephen’s feeling of isolation. Stephen’s inability to form a bond with his father causes him to sin, in the form of a prostitute. Although he longs to escape the filth and poverty of Dublin and pursue truth, beauty, and love, his quest takes a detour in a short-lived moment of physical gratification in the welcoming and seductive arms of a Dublin prostitute. He uses the prostitute as a substitute for the comfort he cannot find in his family. This act of lust continues in a downward spiral in Chapter 3 as Stephen’s despair causes him to lose hope in repentance as he began “to sin mortally not once but many times and he knew that, while he stood on the edge of eternal damnation.” This stage of depression continues as Stephen realizes he has become contaminated in every kind of sin, as he thinks over the sentence of Saint James, which says, “that he who offends against one commandment becomes guilty of all had to him first a swollen phrase until he had begun to grope in the darkness of his own state.” Stephen indirectly blames these actions upon his father as he, out of fear and humiliation, is afraid of becoming a man like his father, a failure in his own eyes. Another way that Stephen’s family comes into his life is through Daedalus, Stephen’s mythical namesake.
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During the retreat, the final sermon asks questions that make Stephen analyze his life. “Why did you sin?” “Why did you not repent your evil ways?” Stephen begins thinking about what life would be like without God, or more specifically what Hell would be like. At this point Stephen exists in an imaginative Hell of his conjuring. Daedulus also experienced something similar. He disobeyed orders from King Minos and therefore was placed into a maze that he designed. Just as Daedulus was imprisoned by a Minotaur, Stephen feels imprisoned by this hell that exists within his soul. In Chapter 4, the theme of betrayal by father figures once again surfaces. Stephen talks to the director about pursuing the path of religious life. The director makes fun of the long-robed Capuchins while talking to Stephen. Stephen is shocked by this inappropriate comment.
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Not only does the director insult the Capuchins, but he also pokes fun at the dress and manner of some of the other orders of the priesthood. Just as Stephen’s father ridiculed Stephen’s pandying at Clongowes, the director or “father” has shattered Stephen’s idea of what a priest should be and how he should act. This sets the stage for Stephen’s thoughts of choosing a new style of life for himself. This chapter also shows how Stephen’s parents symbolize his struggle to choose the life he wants to lead. When Stephen goes home, he finds that his father’s debts have forced his family to once again move. Despite the fact that his siblings are signing and seemingly full of joy, Stephen sees that they are truly “weary of life”, weary of the life created by their father.
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Stephen’s mother, whose name is Mary, symbolizes the Virgin Mary, but more importantly, the religious life that Stephen no longer desires. Stephen’s father, because of the state of his house and his financial disorder, symbolizes a life of disorder and confusion. During this chapter, Stephen chooses the life of his father, but soon he will reject the symbolic lives of both his mother and his father, and instead choose a new and better life. The final chapter of the novel is by far the most important in Stephen’s development. Stephen examines the influences which have shaped his life up to his point: family, country, and religion. In this chapter, Stephen commits himself to the goal of achieving freedom. This symbolizes best Stephen’s want to escape his family, which all things in his life revolves around. Throughout his life, Stephen has wanted to throw away all ties to his past, especially his family.
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But by the end of the novel, Stephen changes his view for the better. Stephen shows this need to leave the past behind when he is confronted by his mother’s belief in the “Easter duty”, which is confession and communion. At this point Stephen no longer believes in the sacredness of the Church rituals. Because he feels betrayed by religion and his family, he wants to leave them all behind, and declare his own artistic and spiritual independence. “I will not serve that in which I no longer believe whether it call itself my home, my fatherland, or my church.” The last part of this chapter is the most important in Stephen’s development as a person and an adult. As he writes his diary entries, he prepares to leave Ireland. For once, Stephen begins to have hope for the future.
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His last entry in his diary reveals a change in heart that has been developing throughout the novel. In the beginning and through most of his life, Stephen has viewed family and country as obstacles to growth. Now he sees them more as things that he cannot be totally connected to, but things that he needs nonetheless. He promises to “learn . . . what the heart is and what it feels,” just as his mother wished in her prayers. He realizes that he will always be connected to his country. He vows to “forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race.” He even goes as far as to ask his “old father” for help in whatever his future may hold. In the beginning of his life, Stephen saw no hope for the future. By analyzing his relations with his country and religion, but more importantly his family, in the end he finally grew to see hope in the world once again. Just as he grows to accept his mother country Ireland, Stephen finally looks past his father’s faults and accepts him too.
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Compare and contrast the mother-daughter relationship in ‘A Taste Of Honey’ by Shelagh Delaney and ‘A Mother’s Fondness’ by Marion Rachel Stewart. No relationship is quite as primal as the one between a mother and her daughter. Mother-daughter relationships in general are characterised by a unique bond; formed and developed from conception. As a young child your mother is an angel. You cover your face with her lipstick and model her high heels wanting to be just like her.
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Suddenly you feel your mother becomes ignorant of your feelings, abrasive and protective of you. For the next 5 years or so you’re prime form of communication will be through the word ” Moooooommmmmmm!” Then, during your twenties/thirties ‘Mommy’ becomes a daughter’s best friend again. However, this is not always the case and though many mother-daughter relationships are the similar, they all differ in some way.
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After reading each text, it was evident that the mothers are very different; therefore approaching motherhood dissimilarly. Helen likes to enjoy life, doing things her own way, even at the expense of her daughter’s happiness. She comes across in the play as a careless woman; never able to locate her hat or shoes, and doesn’t think. Her daughter rightly says “You never think. That’s your trouble” (Pg43). At one point in the play, Jo explained that she was not sulking but thinking. Helen replied, “Well, don’t think. It doesn’t do you any good” (Pg44). This strong opinion explains her mismanagement of her own life and relationship with her daughter. In “A Mother’s Fondness” however, the Mother is more than willing and able to think logically about how to locate and ensure her daughters safety. Her level of thought upon the matter is so intense that she begins to experience physical, emotional and mental signs of anxiety, due to worry of Cathie’s whereabouts.
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“…I felt hungry but could not eat, tired but could not sleep, tormented by my imagination. ” She also “…started to cry…” and described: “It was hard to speak as the cries of pain echoed through my head.” Another difference is the fact that each mother and daughter hurt each other in different ways. It is the mother’s unconditional love for her daughter in ‘A Mother’s Fondness’ that eventually jeopardises their relationship. As shown in the previous paragraph, Cathie’s mother cares considerably for her; it is this care and love that silences her anger in a desperate bid not to hurt Cathie- a bid that failed miserably.
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“…I wanted to be angry, I wanted to show how worried I had been…It seemed as though she hated me and wanted to hurt me…” This quote from ‘The Mother’ demonstrates the fact that the mother is hurting, not knowing exactly how her daughter feels due to her decision to remain silent likewise. “There had been so much fuss and now she was acting as if nothing happened…I didn’t see any point in talking…I kept very quiet and pretended I wasn’t bothered.” (‘The Daughter’)
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The fact that Cathie also fails to express her inner feelings leaves them interpreting each other’s actions poorly. Consequently, both mother and daughter are left hurting each other through their silence. Unlike Cathie and her mother, Jo and Helen hurt each other through their inability to remain quiet. It is paradoxical that it has become an abnormal normality for Helen to hurl wounding verbal abuse at her daughter without thought. During a heated argument Helen told her daughter that she was an un-wanted baby. “I should have got rid of you before you were born.”(Pg 62) As mentioned before and admitted by Helen herself, she doesn’t like to think. This is just one example of how Helen disregards her daughter. more Helen rudeness. How this affects Jo. More Jo rudeness showing she also has no respect.
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I run down the boardwalk, not worrying about getting splinters in my tender feet. Every ten or fifteen feet I stop, sometimes to smell the salty sea air, but mostly to wait for my parents who plod along behind carrying chairs, coolers, and other beach paraphernalia. I yell back to them to hurry, and they reply that I can run ahead and find a good spot. I yelp with glee and run as fast as my little legs will carry me.
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I step forward again testing the sand, still white hot. I pull my courage from the corners of my being and make a run for it. This isn’t so bad if I run really fast. The wind blows in my face, bringing with it that smell, almost a taste of the ocean. It seems to be a combination of fish, salt, people, and water all mixed into one. I continue to run until I reach the water’s edge where the waves crash upon the beach, making the white sand brown and hard.
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Something troubling pulls at the edge of my mind, but I ignore it. A wave rolls up to the beach, crashing around me, wetting me hot body. I dig my body into the moistened ground, covering my legs and arms with the cool, wet sand. I hear my mom calling to me to come up to the umbrella. I turn back to look at her, as I do so the little thing at the edge of my mind suddenly dawns on me. I made it out to the water, now I must make my way back.
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Young Abigail is a Nigerian miss jumping short subdivisions concentrating on her yesteryear every bit good as her present life. She is Abigail the girl but there is the dominant Abigail, the female parent who died giving birth to her. The decease of Abigail ‘s female parent plays a immense function in the full novel. Abigail is portrayed as an affliction kid, without a female parent, endeavoring to detect her hereafter. She is an African miss, typifying the corrosion of national and confined cultural peculiarity into the terminal monumental Continental individuality of Africa.
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Abigail tries to body and continue herself in her female parent ‘s figure and legacy. The male parent is chronic rummy who foregoes his paternal duties and duty. He has his girl who invariably reminds him of his late married woman. Abigail ‘s is characterized by wretchedness and calamities. Her childhood is hapless and she spends most of it mourning her late female parent in commemorating self-induced rites.
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“ And this. Even this, ” ( p.18 ) . The novelette starts. In less important custodies, this may non be a hopeful starting motor, but Abani tips us out of the fog fleetly. “ This memory like all the others was a prevarication. ” ( p.18 ) . Abigail, a vernal miss in Nigeria, is nostalgically remembering her female parent ‘s memorial service. Abigail act of bereavement is to some extent disturbing. It is symbolised by among other Acts of the Apostless, the violent death of birds and subsequently dressing them in lacing from her female parent ‘s espousal frock.
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In add-on, another often apparent symbolic device is the usage of two jumping strands, “ Now ” and “ Then, ” throughout the narrative. The latter is associated with Abigail ‘s reminiscence of life in Nigeria with her down male parent and his pick to direct her to London with a unusual household member named Peter. Approaching to their going, Abigail ‘s male parent performs suicide, despite the fact that he had intuited the torments in expectancy of his girl.
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The terminal of the first chapter leaves us with the feeling that Abigail takes after her female parent. Their utmost resemblance makes the writer propel us through the head of her male parent as he watched her mourn her female parent ‘s decease similar to watching his dead married woman grieve. She is likened to a younger version of her female parent sorrowing her decease in progress. Her male parent “ turned and looked at her and she saw the exposure and recognized it. She resembled her female parent that when he saw her all of a sudden, she knew he wanted her to be Abigail. ” ( Abani, p.20 )
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Although Abigail is now a grown-up, she misses her childhood, one that she ne’er got to bask. The writer takes us through her head which juggles us from the present to her past and childhood. That ‘s when the writer alternates the two rubrics, Now and Then. Abigail has had an experience with work forces that she remembers with so much sorrow. All the in her life had ne’er been interested in cognizing her true personality neither appreciate her beauty, non to advert how she was careful with her hair to do certain that she looked presentable. She was light-skinned – An built-in characteristic from her great-grandmother. The writer likens her to a foreign state, particularly when it comes to the work forces in her life as they ne’er stayed.
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Abigail was a map maker of dreams and shades. She is said to be more shade than her female parent. She likes landscape and Markss and finds them interesting. Reading maps was her favourite thing. At one point, during her expatriate in London, she gets possessed with the memories of her female parent, Chinese poesy, old maps and her childhood rites, lies across an old crinkly map as if she was a cadaver in a offense scene, transforming her organic structure to the contours of states and rivers, each landmark taking on a deeper significance. She decides to tag her organic structure for good with fire. She ab initio loses her virginity to one of her cousins, Edwin, at 10 before her male parent sends her off to London with another cousin, Peter, in the name of matrimony at 15. Peter is seemingly believed to be a outstanding concern adult male in London and Abigail ‘s male parent believes that he is a well-mannered adult male, good plenty to take attention of his girl. Unknown to Abigail ‘s male parent, Peter is malevolent and dehumanising. Fakes her paperss and attempts to turn her into a cocotte, but when she declines, he ties her up in handlocks in a kennel, violates her sexually, urinates on her and beats her every bit good. Peter ‘s adulteration of Abigail portrays crud and hungriness. Drinking from the home base of rancid H2O and holding to flex over like a Canis familiaris is upseting.
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She appreciates the permanency of fire. Burning herself and transforming her tegument into a personal and corporate map of injury was a thing she wanted to make so much for the memory of her female parent. She wanted to experience closely connected to her female parent and do her memory concrete. She seeks out anecdotes about her female parent, burns her organic structure with thick level noodles that burned into her tegument by Anacardium occidentale sap. She besides used acerate leafs and made ugly whip Markss of coffin nail tips. The Burnss and cicatrixs are extensions of her desire to go the life shadow and shade of her female parent ‘s memory. They tie her to her female parent ‘s image and her fatherland ( p.36 ) .
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Abigail ‘s heartache procedure signifies the resentment and sorrow in her. The writer employs rites as a procedure with possible to mend when faced with injury and loss. She is in the terminal forced to take between life in expatriate in England after her lose and injury or returning to Nigeria. Nevertheless, everybody ends up dead, jailed or mutated. The full novel is dejecting and frustrating, full of desperation and hopelessness. Some people ‘s lives may turn out like Abigail ‘s but pulling lessons from the novel remains hard.
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A Christmas Carol By: Charles Dickens 1). This story takes place in London, England. The time is winter and it starts the day before Christmas, also known as Christmas Eve. The settings of the book include Scrooge’s Counting House, Scrooge’s Home, Bob Cratchit’s home, assorted places throughout Scrooges childhood like the schoolhouse and the Fizziwig’s place where Scrooge was an apprentice, this is where a Christmas party took place and he met the one love of his life.
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Then it skips to Scrooge’s love of his life when she is married and they speaks about Scrooge and how he is now in a world of his money. Also it shows the exchange, homeless people under a bridge, and a cemetery. 2.) The four main characters in the book are Ebenezer Scrooge, Tiny Tim, Bob Cratchit, and Ebenezer Scrooge’s nephew, Fred.
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First, lets examine Ebenezer Scrooge, since he is the main character of the story, All 3 ghosts visit him. Through him, the lesson of the story is to be learned. In the book, he is made out to be Anti-Christmas and he is constantly commented about by characters in the book, some feeling pity, others feeling hostility. “External heat and cold had little influence on Scrooge. No warmth could warm, no wintry weather chill him. No wind that blew was bitterer than he…Nobody ever stopped in the street to say, with gladsome looks, ‘My dear Scrooge, how are you? When will you come to see me?’.
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The effect is that we see Mickey’s and Sammy’s minds stuck in the past, as if they are still children. We think that life is not quite real to them, they don’t believe it, it’s just a game. This reveals that maybe, although Mickey is forced to act in an adult way, he still remembers his childhood, and is still a child inside, shocked to find that the game has become real. We, the audience, are shocked also, because this is when we realise that childhood is really over.
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This is an ironic comment considering that at the time, many people were losing their jobs and unemployment was at a record level Russell does not have much sympathy for the upper classes and uses every opportunity to demonstrate this. The moral of the play is very clear -it is wrong that the rich get richer at the expense of the poor. Edward eventually takes everything from Mickey. The song “Take a letter Miss Jones” tells the story of how the workforce was just considered as a resource. It’s insensitive, with a cheery tune which makes it sound fake and insincere. Russell is making fun of the upper class.
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The cheerful atmosphere of it adds to the heartless meaning. It includes repetition, so we know that people are being fired again and again. It’s very unsympathetic, showing how the rich, unaffected upper classes are condescending to the lower classes. It is significant that Mr Lyons, Edwards’s father sings “Take a letter Miss Jones” because it shows the audience what Edward will become. For some, the 80s was a time of unfairness and discrimination and is referred to throughout Blood Brothers. Class is more important after the Summer Song because the boys are 18 and looking for jobs. As adults, they are judged by class.
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The lyrics to the summer sequence are in four main groups; Innocence and youth, Time, Linda and Foreshadowing. The lyrics that fit into the innocence and youth category are: “Few bob in your pocket” At the start of the song, the children are fifteen. They all have money to spend. This could be construed as ironic, because Mickey comes from a poor background, so he literally would only have a “few bob”. Edward’s family is rich, so he might have a lot of spending money. The phrase “Young, free and innocent,” is repeated throughout, slowly becoming more ironic and sarcastic. “Haven’t got a care,” This adds to the image of innocence.
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It is foreshadowing later, when the boys’ heads, especially Mickey’s, will be full of worries and doubts. “Lambs in spring,” creates images of innocence. After spring, the lambs are slaughtered, so this can be interpreted as ominous. “But leave them alone, let them go and play,” says the Narrator, referring to the previous line. It feels almost as if he is playing with us, stringing out their future, prolonging the time until their deaths. This adds to the idea of him being fate. “The radio’s singing dreams,” This line is there to show that the children were living in a kind of alternate reality.
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“You can’t understand how living could be anything other than a dream,” This adds to the idea of innocence and naivety. We feel sorry for the characters at this point, because they are so weak and helpless. The lyrics that fit into the Time category are: “Paradise,” This refers to the Garden of Eden, and how it was eternal, until woman corrupted it. This could be construed as a reference to Linda tearing them apart. “Switches off the chippy light,” The children are moths, and have always had a light to follow, someone to tell them what to do.
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Now there is no light to go to, they must make there own choice. A light going out can also mean death – another reference to the inevitability of the twin’s deaths. “Midnight hour, at seventeen,” Where midnight is the pinnacle of the night, seventeen is the pinnacle of the boy’s lives. It is nearly the dawn of their death day. This quote also has echoes of a modern Faustian pact (Faust made a pact with the devil, which came at midnight to take his soul) the midnight hour is also linked to witches, and the story of Cinderella. The lyrics that refer to Linda are: “Girl in the middle,” She is torn between the two boys, in a tug of war that they do not realise is happening yet. “With your friends, with her,” This demonstrates that their friendship has been replaced with love for Linda. “Her” dehumanises Linda, so she becomes a device instead of a full character. It suggests that if it was not Linda, someone else would take her place, and the inevitable chain of events would carry on. It adds to the feeling of fate. The lyrics that are foreshadowing are: “You’re innocent, immortal,” This is ironic because we know that the twins will die.
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My communication style with my family today does not reflect how we use it when I was growing up. Today the way my family communicates is described as a conversation orientation. Conversation orientation can be described as a family who can freely speak their mind and talk about many different things. (DeVito, 2016). I was raised to be seen and not heard, therefore I feel this lead me to have a closed mind about many different things not to mention unable to verbally express myself effectively.
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Studies have drawn attention to the vital role mothers have in safeguarding the health and nutritional wellbeing of their children. However, little is known about mothers’ experiences and challenges in fulfilling this role in rapidly urbanizing cities. Hence this study aim to explore the experiences of child care and feeding amongst mothers with children under five years of age in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Thirty-six semi-structured in-depth interviews were carried out with mothers who had children under five years of age. All interviews were audio recorded, transcribed verbatim in Amharic and translated into English.
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In my setting at Packington children’s centre there are many ways how the right of the children to play and other rights linked to play are meet. First of all, my setting offers children a free play, when children are given opportunities to choose how they want to play and what they want to play. Our day is very structured, and children have opportunities to play, participate in planned activities, eat and rest. We not only provide time for children to play, but also different recourses and equipment to play, and environment.
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All children and their families are welcomed here. We aim to adapt our environment and curriculum to meet the needs of each child and take physical and learning disabilities into account. Children who have special educational needs are supported by their key person and special educational needs coordinator (SENCO). SENCO talks with families and gives advices, key people and appropriate outside specialists such as speech and language therapists. In this case everybody can share their knowledge and expertise, so child can benefit more. (Article 23)
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A student needs a supportive and positive environment for fruitful learning which includes quality instructions, guidance, motivation and practical knowledge. The involvement of the stakeholders in the education of children has now gone beyond the walls of the school building and educators to the parents and families. Many families are faced with overwhelming and unpredictable schedules and circumstances while juggling school, sports, family situations, family time, work schedules, and other responsibilities, allowing minimal time to provide support in any one given area (Swap, 1993).
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The social and self-imposed expectations about being a ‘good mother’ in rapidly changing context cause heavy stress on mothers. Despite that, the mothers exhibited resilience and an unwavering faith to be everything they could for their children. The theme ‘Mixed blessings’, portrays the state of confusion the women are in when trying to balance their dual roles of becoming a full-time-stay-at-home versus a working mother. The dilemma faced by the mothers in this study is consistent with earlier research which highlights motherhood as an important transition in a women’s life warranting women a higher status within the society as well as establishing their sense of fulfilment in life.