ktmeng/mec huggingface dataset:
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This results in Sula’s highly inappropriate and unnecessary act of clumsy caretaking within her relationship with Nel. Yet, it is understandable because Sula has never been taught normal and conventional means for problem solving. The denial of motherly love from Hannah especially hurts Sula when she overhears her mother say, “I love Sula. I just don’t like her”. This rejection of love causes Sula and Nel to accidentally kill a town boy, Chicken Little, leaving her with two formative events in her life.
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Her lack of responsibility and no motherly love left her with “The first experience taught her there was no other that you could count on; the second that there was no self to count on either”. Sula has a lack of maternal love which makes her feel disconnected from her family on a personal level. Hannah and Sula’s lack of a close, personal relationship is due to the distance Hannah had from her mother Eva, leaving Sula distanced the most from her family and feeling like she has to prove yet change herself in order to fit in.
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Though the Peace family and the Wright family differ in terms of class and status, the similarities of Helene and Nel Wright’s relationship to the Peace family make it clear that there is a lack of communication and maternal support. Where as Eva Peace goes against society’s norms and amputates her leg for her family, Helene can be characterized as someone who tries everything in her power to live up to the expectations imposed on her by her upbringing and environment. Helene being born by a prostitute and raised by her grandmother, she feels the need to flee from her hometown and marry an outsider of her community.
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Once settled in the Bottom, Helene tries to live up to the expectations her grandmother inflicted on her. Helene was “[a] women who won all social battles with presence and a conviction of the legitimacy of her authority. […] She lost one battle – the pronunciation of her name. The people of the Bottom refused to say Helene. They called her Helen Wright and left it at that” . The metaphor of the town not being able or wanting to pronounce her name correctly shows that they did not want to adjust to her standards because she insults the Bottom by bringing in her new, proper, manners.
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Not only does Helene take on many different responsibilities, she also manipulates her family, to feel as distant from her family and background as possible: “[She] enjoyed manipulating her daughter and her husband. She would sigh sometimes just before falling asleep, thinking that she had indeed come far enough away from the Sundown House” . By doing this, Helene can escape feelings of disgrace and live an ethical life. Helene leads a moral and respectable life because it is motivated by her own fear of rejection by society.
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Her life may even be more of a refusal of her former life than an assertion of her new one. Helene’s relationship with her mother influences her behaviors and identity and has forced her to power her daughter’s life more than it has her own. Helene has tried to make her aware of her plain looks by saying that she was happy “that the child had not inherited the great beauty that was hers: […] that she had taken the broad flat nose of Wiley (although Helene expected to improve it somewhat) and his generous lips” .
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Helene does not accept the way her daughter was born and how she looks so she attempts to “ ‘[p]ull [her] nose’ ”  with a clothespin, creating a gap in their mother daughter relationship and forcing Nel to become more self-conscious of herself. The miscommunication between Eva and Hannah Peace is also seen in Helene and Nel Wright. On the train ride down to the funeral, Nel becomes conscious that her mother wants to live a well thought-of life, yet it is easily put down by variables such as racism.
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As the rest of the train ride is told in Nel’s perspective, readers get to see the effect of the experience on Nel and how she perceives her mother. This shows how a mother truly does have effect on her daughter, but also how influenced African-Americans are by the racial factors in society. By Helene attempting to live above the standards in the Bottom, she is discriminated against by whites and her own community. Her discriminatory life affects the communication between her and Nel, showing that by Helene and her mother having a lack of communication affects the relationship between Nel and Helene and how much they share with one another. The trip affected Nel in that she changed. By the conductor humiliating her, she felt an emotional distance between her mother and grandmother. She begins her new way of life by stating, “I’m me. I’m not their daughter. I’m not Nel. I’m me”. She has come to realize and see how her mother has failed in life by manipulating her family, not adapting well to society, and not having a decent relationship with her own mother, therefore affecting her relationship with her own daughter Nel.
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Functionalism is a macro theory, as is Marxism, which means that it looks at society as a whole, rather than individual sectors of society (Cree, 2000). Functionalism is also a consensus theory, which means that Functionalists see society as being in harmony, and that everybody has an equal place in society (Kidd et al, 2003). Cree (2000) tells us that ‘consensus approaches start with the assumption that there is one preferred, ideal family: the nuclear family’ (p32).
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Marxism, in contrast, is a conflict theory, and realise the services that the ‘family provide for the state’ (p33), and in particular, the capitalist society (Cree, 2000). Throughout the years our norms and values of everyday life have significantly changed; women are becoming more educated, which has resulted in them achieving higher status in their chosen careers, which means that they are no longer content to stay at home and do the household chores (Haralambos, 1990).
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This also means that more of the primary socialization of children is being left to outside organisations, such as nurseries. Murdock sees primary socialization of children as one of the basic functions of the family, which, throughout history has been the ‘essential responsibility’ (p53) of the family, and the family unit has always proved to be ‘an effective and readily available agency of socialisation’ (Townroe, 1999, p53). Talcott Parsons, a Functionalist, sees the socialisation of children and the stabilization of adult personalities as the two main functions of the family (Bilton, 1996).
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Women are beginning to feel that they don’t get the recognition they ought to have when they stay at home being a housewife, and a system of meritocracy now means that they can fulfill their potential and live their dreams (Haralambos, 1990). The welfare state also gives people more freedom and the chance of escape from the nuclear family if that is what the person wants; the introduction of benefit means that women no longer need to stay with their husband in order to look after their children (Bilton, 1996).
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The New Right Theorists think that people should try harder to achieve Murdock’s ideal of the nuclear family; they associate welfare with the rise in divorce rates, the rise in teenage pregnancy, as well as the rise in lone parent families (Ballard, 1997). This is because all of these families would be unable to survive without financial help from the government, and again this means that they are not fulfilling the economic function of the family (Stephens, 1998).
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The common link of weaknesses between the Functionalist view and that of the New Right Theorists is that they are both outdated, and relate back to the Golden Age of the Family (Stephens, 1998). Even in the Victorian era, families faced the same problems as we do today, adultery for example, but they were much less publicized, and the reason for this was that it was much more socially unacceptable than it is today (Stephens, 1998).
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Another thing that has contributed towards the deterioration of the nuclear family is that women are able to choose now when they have children; contraception is freely available, sterilization is an option, abortion has been legalized and for those who want to start a family later in life there is IVF treatment (Bilton, 1996). These changes have had an enormous effect on the family and are some of the main reasons why Murdock’s ideal is becoming so much harder to achieve. Women are realizing that society doesn’t need to be patriarchal, and that they deserve an equal say in the way society is run.
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Radical Feminists consider that because society is so malestream that it results in the oppression of women in society, and they call this Patriarchy (Bilton et al, 1996). At the other end of the scale, post feminists believe that women are now freer than ever in society, and that feminism is no longer necessary, they believe that patriarchy has been reduced on such a large scale (Kidd et al, 2003). This has had an enormous effect on the family and is another one of the reasons why Murdock’s ideal is becoming so much harder to achieve.
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Talcott Parsons, a Functionalist, argues that industrialization was the cause of the breakdown of the extended family, where there was a functional fit into society, as well as into the nuclear family (Kidd et al, 2003). Before industrialization the home and workplace were not separate entities, and were a mode of economic production; when industrialization occurred, the home and place of work became separate (Kidd et al, 2003). Wilmott and Young do not agree with Parsons, instead they see a ‘pre-industrial nuclear family’ (p34) being replaced with an ‘early industrial extended family’ (Kidd et al, 2003, p34).
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There are several theories that both support and criticize Murdock’s views. Marxists and Functionalists both agree that the family ‘is central to the operation of society’ (Cree, 2000, p35). The Marxists see this as a weakness of the family, and view the family as ‘an instrument of class oppression’ (Cree, 2000, p37). Functionalists say that the family is essential in order to keep society harmonious (Cree, 2000), whereas Marxists see that the nuclear family works in the interests of the capitalist society (Knuttila, 1996 in Cree, 2000).
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The Functionalists strongly believe that everybody achieves their full potential, and because people have different innate abilities and talents, people’s positions in society are also going to be different, which inevitably leads to social stratification (Haralambos et al, 1991). In contrast, the Marxists refuse to believe that this is true in a capitalist society. They believe that if a person has a better starting point, for example they are born into a wealthy family they will do better and achieve more (Haralambos, 2000).
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Karl Marx says that the bourgeoisie will always remain at the top, and although the proletariat will always strive to become the bourgeoisie, it is just not possible. He says that status is ascribed, not achieved (Moore et al, 2001). The Interpretive approach have what they define as a ‘dramaturgical” (p129) approach to society; everyone has a role to play in society that has been ready made, and we each have different scripts to follow (Kidd et al, 2003). Berger and Kellner (1964) have suggested that the roles we learn and adopt in the family are ‘ongoing constructions’ (Kidd et al, 2003, p129).
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Parsons (in Cree, 2000) tells us that within the family the men take on instrumental roles, and the women take on expressive roles, and that the ‘central division of labour is central to the success of the nuclear family’ (p33). Marxist perspectives do not see this view as accurate and feel that women are merely prostituting themselves for their husband’s wages, and they are providing a ‘safety valve’ (p472) of emotional support for the ‘frustration that her husband suffers at work’ (p472), which keeps the husband from being angry at the working environment and ensures a good workforce (Haralambos, 1990).
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Feminists believe that it is women that are exploited by the family, but Marxists argue that both men and women are exploited by the nuclear family in order to become an effective economic unit of production (Bilton, 1996). Murdock sees the family as being symmetrical but Feminists challenge this by saying that women today do triple shifts and carry dual burden; they go out to work, they bring up the children as well as doing the domestic duties in the home (Chhachhi, 2006) Perhaps the biggest criticism of the family comes from RD Laing, who is a Critical Theorist.
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Laing says that there is a dark side to the family; he believes that the family is dysfunctional and only serves to make people unhappy. Laing tells us that the family group becomes a nexus where it is argumentative and exploitive, and the result of this is that the individuals can have identity crises, and at a more extreme level it can lead to schizophrenia (Laing, 1964). As the years have progressed it has become apparent that the nuclear family has slowly started to fade away. Laws regarding divorce, abortion and contraception has begun to change the attitudes of society and has encouraged a more permissive society (Davis, 2000).
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An alarming statistic tells us that ‘Britain boasts the highest rates of teenage pregnancy in Europe’ (Davis, 2000, p1), and as Baroness Young complains (as cited in Davis, 2000) that ‘marriage is hardly mentioned, it is all about sex and relationships’ (p1). A higher social acceptance of homosexual relationships means that more people are partaking in these sorts of relationships freely, and this has been enforced with the introduction of The Civil Partnership Bill that allows homosexual ‘marriages’, and gay couples are now allowed to adopt children and form their own ‘family’ (www. thicsforschools. org, 2006).
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Davis (2000) informs us that young people growing up in today’s society are surround by a huge variety of families, these include ‘heterosexual, gay, step, foster, looked after and single parent’ (p3). This shows us just how diverse families in the 21st century have become, but in the same article Davis (2000) also tells us that what is important in any relationship is ‘security and love’ (p3). When Murdock came up with his definition of the family in 1949, any other variation of family apart from the nuclear family was virtually unheard of.
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She says to Cassio she will nag Othello until he gives Cassio his job back. Later in the scene Iago starts to try and persuade Othello that Desdemona is having an affair, once Othello starts to think ‘maybe my wife is having an affair’ this will look bad for Desdemona since she will constantly be talking about Cassio and how good he is making Desdemona very naive in think that Othello won’t start to think she is unfaithful, but Desdemona wont start to think this because she was brought up without any relationships and doesn’t know that you don’t talk of another man constantly to you’re husband.
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The first gift from Othello to Desdemona was a handkerchief during this scene Desdemona drops the handkerchief and Othello tells her to leave it, which is dramatic irony in later scenes, Othello asks for the handkerchief and Desdemona doesn’t have it with her, and Cassio finds it with him. Iago’s wife Emilia finds the handkerchief on the floor and decides to copy it and give the copy to Iago, but Iago takes it away from her before she gets the chance. Iago plans to use the handkerchief as visual evidence to prove to Othello his wife is having an affair, whilst really Iago plans to plant the Handkerchief, This adds to dramatic irony since if Othello cared so much about the handkerchief he would have told her to pick it up instead of telling her to leave it there and Iago would have had never had any proof of Desdemona’s unfaithfulness.
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The whole scene is built up in a way that would make Othello believe that His wife is having an affair, although I think some parts are not believable, for example with the handkerchief and why Othello didn’t remember he told Desdemona to leave the handkerchief behind, but I also think that by this point he was so emotionally unstable the only thing he could remember was what Iago said to him and his wife. Also I do think it is a little strange that Othello didn’t take any reaction to Iago’s Insults and even if he was brought up in that society he still shouldn’t have been so unaffected but his insults. I do think he changed his mind to easily and that Shakespeare should have had done a bit more than just the handkerchief as proof to Othello.
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“The problem with The Worlds Wife is that, having found one good joke, duffy just tells it over and over again” How far do you agree with this assessment? Refer to at least two or three poems in your answer. Within The Worlds Wife Duffy explores the idea that men are inadequate. Although the book of poems does unveil feminist issues and coveys an inequality between men and women, it does also contain other issues such as social acceptance, self-confidence and love.
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Poems such as Anne Hathaway directly oppose the idea that Duffy is re-telling a ‘joke’ throughout the anthology. The poem creates a persona of Shakespeare widow and the best bed becomes the focus of the fourteen-line sonnet. In the opening two lines, Duffy uses a metaphor to express the magic of the bed in which Shakespeare made love to Hathaway “it is a spinning world of forests, castles, torchlight, cliff tops seas”.
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The poem itself is not typical of the collection, expressing men in a much more respectful light. Therefore within this poem there is no evidence that Hatchway views Shakespeare as inadequate. The poem takes a tone of tenderness, and Duffy’s last lines are poignant. Anne Hathaway is full of rich imagery, the tale of women who remembers her husband in a wonderful loving way with no hint of sorrow. The poem The Kray Sisters However, gives feminism and the idea that en are inadequate an unusual twist. The tone is crude and subversive and uses phrases such as ‘the belles of the balls’ to reference the ambiguity of The Kray Sisters sexuality.
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Duffy uses double meaning throughout the poem “protection” and Hunger ford Bridge” to lay emphasise on the cleverness of the twins themselves. It also subverts common phrases ‘a boyfriends for Christmas not just for life” to convey the tong in cheek edginess of the sisters. The ultimate irony of the poem is that, although the Kray sisters claim to be heavily feminist, instead of embracing their gender, they conform to men and become their equals. Duffy describes them wearing ‘savile row suits’ suggesting masculinity yet what the Kray sisters stand for completely dismisses everything about men.
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Therefore I believe this particular poem within the collection is ambiguous, although it supports the ‘joke’ it is also heavily ironic, more over Duffy is not re-telling the joke in an obvious way. The poem ‘Little Red Cap’ however, supports the idea that, having found one jokes Duffy re-tells it throughout the anthology. Little red cap successfully introduces themes that are present throughout most of the collection, sexuality and male inadequacy are expressed within most of the poems, and little red cap is no exception.
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The poem presents men as weak and pathetic, much like ‘Thetis’, which shows men, can be overpowering and possessive. Throughout the poem, the woman is trying to escape the male figure, changing and conforming to many different animals in order to flee him, but all is in vein ‘I shrank myself to the size of a bird in the hand of a man. Sweet, sweet was the small song that I sang, till I felt the squeeze of his fist’ this portrays the male figure as possessive and dominating. These poems in particular prove to a certain extent that the assessment of the anthology is true.
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In this case I will be looking at the adult social care settings and the effects of personal experiences, past knowledge and current training and how they can influence principles of development. In order to achieve success in any given task or subject, it is important to understand what is required. If this relates too new course, what are the course criteria? If it’s a new career, what skills and qualifications are needed? And if one has both the skills and qualifications then will the Job in any way hinder your own personal attitudes or beliefs? 1.
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Health and Safety at Work Act 1974: The Act lays down general principles for the management of health and safety at work. Since UK began to comply with the Europe Union in 1972, a lot of the health and safety regulations too needed to comply in accordance to this union. This very act also incorporated other codes and practices such as the Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations (COUGHS 2002), the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 and the Personal Protective Equipment (PEP) at work Regulations 1992.
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There well-known practices In health care settings include Manual Handling Operations Regulations Act 1992 and National occupation al standards. These entire collective; define how the roles of adult social care Jobs are carried out. Each individual employee and company alike must endeavor to guarantee the well-being of their service users through the national guidelines set. Failure can result in legal action but also cause harm to the service user and or employee. 1. Reflecting on each activity is a critical part of developing ones knowledge and skills in a particular setting. Through reflection one can look at past experiences such as threaten or weaknesses to enhance their understanding in any given situation. Taking part in a Job interview is a good example, when we are asked question part of the initial preparation is reflecting on past experiences and how they can benefit a are we are consistently learning and unlearning skills to make ourselves better.
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Especially talking to customers in the manner in which we communicate and adapt, we could one moment be talking to a member of staff or manager and then go out and communicate with a service user. The service user may be a child or adult with mild to severe learning difficulties. How we adapt a mould to each individual is also through reflecting on the skills which we have learnt. Being human also means we are quite likely to make mistakes, but to ensure we don’t repeat the same mistake is again down to how we reflect.
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So reflection is a key component in developing our knowledge and skills even though a lot of us do this as second nature and without really having to think about it too much. 1. 3 Following on from reflection another thing which we learn to do quite quickly is that there is little to no room for allowing personal feelings get in the way of the Job at and. As individuals we all have diverse backgrounds, each one of us comes with their own set of moral and social do’s and don’t that have been engraved through our upbringing.
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Political and religious beliefs are usually the ones that can cause some conflicting issues. We hear it many times that a person has been dismissed from their role because they made some reference towards a particular person belief; this could be a sexual reference, a religious belief or could be as simple as the way someone looks. The counter argument could be that, ‘surely we all have the right o express our own feelings and beliefs because this after all is freedom of speech? The simple answer is no. We all have a right too belief system, but it should not affect others.
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As a Muslim I have my own beliefs but Just because I cannot eat or drink certain things do not mean I have to enforce this out loud. It is important to realist that a belief system is Just that ‘a system’, a set of personal rules that define us as an individual. To ensure they do not obstruct the quality of work, it’s important to keep our ‘system’ personal, and of course reflect. I have colleagues that are of the Christian, Sikh and Hindu faiths, and it is through reflection of working with individuals of various faiths and beliefs in the past, means I understand what makes up their system.
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As a result the most effective method to ensure that our own attitudes and beliefs do not hinder our work is to learn if we haven’t done so already. Learn about one another’s beliefs system, communicate not hate and through this understanding we can learn to respect one another as individuals. 2. 1 One particular learning activity that has greatly improved my understanding and as a result increased my productivity at work was time management training. A few years back I worked for an independent property management firm, I quickly recognized whilst working in a busy environment that managing time was a weakness of mine.
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So the management thought it would be good practice for me to go too time management training seminar. The seminar identified the biggest time stealers’ which reduce productivity and established solutions to reduce or remove their negative impact, planning and proportioning work and practiced a range of recognized time management techniques such as effective delegation, assertively saying ‘no’ and negotiating alternative solutions. We also looked at the negative implication of stress and the importance of ‘breaking up the day and taking breaks.
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Through this seminar I took away many useful skills that allowed me to improve my effectively and safeguard each task I was given, whether it was a presentation to prospective property owners, negotiating new business or simply managing office tasks I was able to put daily plans of actions in place to ensure that I met all my deadlines. In my current role as a support worker I keep a daily diary of all the services, in terms of location, times, duration to ensure I can plan my Journey for the ay.
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I also take into consideration the particular time of day, if a service for example is at pm I understand that it could add another fifteen minutes to my Journey time so again I would need to accommodate this if need be. I usually do this by notifying the office or service user if I am running behind schedule due to unforeseen circumstances. 2. 2 Reflection in work activities in no different to reflection as a whole, as discussed earlier reflection is crucial to ensure that we go into each task prepared and helps minimize mistakes.
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Currently my Job role consists of me working within the hillside’s services in the health and social care settings. A lot of the time I am required to take on personal care for certain individuals, and there was no greater personal reflection that being a parent. Being a parent has taught me so many things which have I have taken into the health care settings, especially within Children’s services. I can reflect on feeding, dressing and communicating techniques that I would adopt on my own children which can help me within work.
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But through this experience I can also understand the parents point of view, why some parents an seem very particular, where some people may call this fussy I can empathic with them as a parent that they want nothing but the best for their children, Just as I would for my own children. This skill allows me to create a bond with both the parent and the child. I have also experienced bereavement when I lost someone close and dear to me, as a result I went through a depressive phase.
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I have also experienced severe financial difficulty through redundancy. All of which I have overcome and can now reflect on, pass my knowledge and experiences on to others who have suffered in a similar way in order to give them some degree of peace of odd and mind. 2. 3 Feedback in all walks of life is essential for future development. One may have a learning activity in place to improve a particular skill set but it’s only through feedback that we can determine the level of growth, and determine any changes to the learning environment.
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I use to find it difficult to stand up in front of people and give a presentation; through some constructive feedback I was able to plan my presentations in a more structured way. I learnt that the key lay in simply taking my time, to speak clearly and concisely and avoid the urge of rushing through a reservation which would usually mean making little to no sense. 3. 1 A personal development plan is used to record ones progress through either education or employment. It is often defined as an organized and supported method undertaken by an individual to reflect upon their own learning, performance and achievements.
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It is predominantly about assessing one’s own skills, setting goals for improvement, recording achievements and reflecting on experiences. 3. 2 A personal development plan or PDP as the name suggests is something first and foremost quite ‘personal’, what I mean by personal does not relate to the degree of o list down where we are at in this present time, in terms of skills and knowledge base and then looking at what is needed to improve within a particular work or educational setting. So using my current career choice as a support worker can be used as a classic example.
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When Joining Care I-J, I had no background knowledge (other than past experiences which I could reflect upon) and of course the initial training. But even this combined to work within such a field with limited knowledge, I felt, that I was very much at a disadvantage. I then sat down with my manager and e outlined areas in which I could improve my knowledge and skill set. I asked for further training in the children sector which included, moving and handling, diabetes awareness, PEG training to name a few.
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All of which we could categories as things for the present’ the next step was ‘going forward’. Both my manager and I decided that the only way forward to enhance my knowledge and skills was to enroll on an NV in Health and Social Care. I then was able to discuss my options with an NV coordinator, who would similarly discuss my past and current qualifications and experiences to put forward a plan of action. This would ultimately determine the level of NV required and any other additional support for key skills.
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As a result, I am currently doing my NV Level 2 in Health and Social Care, and I hope that upon completion I can revisit my PDP with my manager and assessor to discuss what extra initiatives are then needed to make yet further development. 3. 3 I have learnt that there are many sources of support available to aid my own learning and development. In my case, as I embark on my level 2 NV in Health and Social Care first and foremost I have my very own trainer who I can relate back to should I need guidance.
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If I require more direct training in relation to the Job I can access internal training by speaking with the management and Care I-J. Team meetings and discussion groups are another way of gaining additional guidance and support, but I find liaising with colleagues at work helps greatly. Colleagues that have been working for the company for a number of years can offer vital on site, hand on experience to help with learning and development. 3. 4 Benefits of PDP Review personal and academic development to assess future learning initiatives. Put into context the benefits of learning outcomes.
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Recognize and discuss strengths and weaknesses. Express personal goals and evaluate progress towards achievements. Identify different mediums available for learning and personal development. Improve general skills for study and career management. Helps to be better prepared for the here, the now to aid future development. Encourage a positive attitude to learning. The PDP does not only make effective plans of action for the learner but it also helps tutors, schools and employers to monitor progress, and helps increase the quality of support given through a more structured means.
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During the romantic period views on childhood dramatically changed from the previous. The enlightenment involved people having the belief that children should have no respects and as a result were ‘seen and no heard’. This dramatically changed to children being a source of learning, so children could teach adults ways of life. This essay will discuss the different aspects of childhood and look at Wordsworth and Coleridge’s views. From a romantics point of view children were seen as pure, simple and innocent human beings, which had great importance to the world’s teachings.
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Wordsworth gives the idea that a child is simple in the poem ‘We are seven’ (pg 59) when the opening line says “a simple child, drear brother Jim”. The poem idealises childhood, describing a little girl to be a “sweet maid”. The young girl lives out in the countryside, which at that time would be seen as a good thing, people who were raised in the countryside would be seen to have more moral than those brought up in towns.
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In stanza six the “sweet maid” explains where her brothers and sisters are; “two of us in the church yard lie”. She does not give a direct statement saying that her two siblings are actually dead suggesting that she either doesn’t want to accept their death or that she doesn’t actually understand they have gone forever. Another example showing this is how she says, “I sit and sing to them” suggesting she believes they are listening and can hear her. She is persistent there are seven siblings all together even though two are “in heaven” which would mean there are five.
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Wordsworth in two of his poems, “We are Seven” and “Anecdote for Fathers” presents a patronising attitude towards children, in a way that he continuously asking them things, questioning their thoughts, how they feel and what they believe; “My little boy which you like more? ” (pg 57. Anecdote for fathers) ” ‘Yet you are seven; I pray you tell ‘Sweet maid, how this may be? ” (pg 60. We are Seven) This suggests that Wordsworth disagrees with Rousseau idea and believes that adults cannot learn from children because they lack life’s experience resulting in naivety and simple outlooks on life.
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In contrast, at the end of Anecdote for Fathers, Wordsworth attempts to establish the theme of innocence, being a child and how this can have influence on man, as well as mans influence on the child. “Of what from thee I learn” (pg 58) These two poems do also present children to have a stubborn attitude in the way that as Wordsworth persistently prompts both children to alter their thoughts and feelings they stick to their initial beliefs. The main example is in Anecdote for Fathers where Wordsworth is trying to change the boys mind on where he would rather be living;
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“Our home by Kilve’d delightful shore, Or here at Liswyn farm? ” (pg 57) The young boy says, “At Kilve I’d rather be / Than here at Liswyn farm” (pg 57). However the boy has to think up a totally random and spontaneous reason for his choice to keep his father happy; “At Kilve there was no weather-cock, And that’s the reason why. ” The idea that adults can learn from children is also presented in Coleridge’s poem, The Foster Mothers Tale, when the foster mother says; “… and make me learn all you had learnt in the day.
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” The child discussed in the poem is described as “a pretty boy”, which shows that children are idealised as being beautiful. This boy is a prime example of Rousseau’s idea of the ‘noble savage’, being brought up with nature. His association with the natural world enables him to understand the names of birds easily and is familiar with all their calls, suggesting his intelligence. “But knew the names of birds, and mocked their notes” However, the foster mother criticises him, saying he is “unteachable”, because he rejected religion and wouldn’t learn his prayers, showing a very narrow minded view on what education is.
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As a child the boy is found “wrapped in mosses” by a friar who raises him and taught him to stick to his beliefs and not to change them for others. It is suggested that the boy is only able to learn from the friar, which shows a significance towards the idea that we learn better from the ones we love. From the four poems I have discussed in Lyrical Ballads, the idea of Jean Jacques Rousseau has a major influence on the presentation of childhood given by Wordsworth and Coleridge. Also there is the idea that a child’s innocence in easily taken away by an attempt to teach them to be more worldly and sophisticated.
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Preschool activities are a great way to keep young children entertained and help them to learn social skills and to mix well with other children ready for when they start school. It is very important for children’s development that they have time mixing and playing with other children and a great way for them to do this is for them to get involved with a sporting activity. There are a great range of preschool activities for children and you can be spoilt for choice when it comes to deciding what your child would enjoy best.
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The aforementioned statement may sound funny but it may ring true for some daughters. Others may take the opposite view as each woman has her own unique love story or experience to tell. Nevertheless, there are mothers who are involved in their daughters’ love affairs. These are mothers who seriously take time to monitor their daughters’ love life and romantic pursuits. Ever heard of the resounding cliche mothers know best? As they say, mothers seem to have the instinct to know.
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Two beautiful stories encapsulate this maternal desire. One is a classic book by Jane Austen entitled Pride and Prejudice and the other one is a 2007 film, Because I Said So. On Pride and Prejudice In Pride and Prejudice, readers are introduced to the Bennet family. Mr. and Mrs. Bennet have five daughters who are unmarried. The Bennet’s properties or estate is entailed to a male relative; for this, the daughters have no share of any inheritance. This troubles Mrs. Bennet much as she worries greatly for her daughters’ future. She ardently desires that her daughters find their true love and be wed.
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For her, marriage is the solution to her personal woes over her daughters’ status. For this, she is on the hunt for prospect husbands intended for her five lovely daughters. However, Mrs. Bennet is an ill-mannered lady who lacks the grace and etiquettes required in social functions. This can be explained by her family’s social status. She is regarded as foolish and she earns the annoyance of people around her especially the affluent ones. From the novel, wealthy bachelor men namely Mr. Bingley and Mr. Darcy are the clamor of single ladies in and around the Netherfield Park.
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Their coming became the buzz of the whole place and they held a ball as a celebration. The Bennets attended the ball and Mr. Bingley was immediately attracted to Jane, the eldest and prettiest among the Bennet sisters. The two danced throughout the occasion and hit it off. A romance between Mr. Bingley and Jane started to blossom. Mr. Darcy, however, was repelled by Elizabeth’s (the second eldest Bennet child) firm character. As the days passed, Mr. Darcy is soon pulled towards Elizabeth’s wit and intelligence. But then, Mr. Darcy is disgusted with Mrs. Bennet’s unlovable attitudes and convinced his friend, Mr.
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Bingley to severe his ties with Jane. Afterwards, the two men went back to London. Jane was heartbroken and Elizabeth, seeing her sister’s agony, became mad. To cut the long story short, the story ended happily with Jane marrying Mr. Bingley and Elizabeth, Mr. Darcy. The marriage of her two daughters delighted Mrs. Bennet much. Earlier in the story, the youngest daughter, Lydia, eloped with Mr. Wickham and the couple married causing exceeding happiness to her mother. Lydia is the favored child of her mother. Austen’s novel highlighted the need for young women to marry.
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Aside from love, marriage is depicted in the novel as a way of escape from poverty. This is reflected in Mrs. Bennet’s only goal in life. The Bennet maternal figure may fall short of good graces and personality but her incessant longing for her daughters to be married is perfectly normal. She may possess unacceptable mannerisms which turn people off yet she has a genuine and sincere heart that goes out for her daughters. She wanted them to be prosperous, well-taken cared of and in a joyful relationship. She is not the embodiment of a perfect mother but she supports her daughters in their respective romantic life.
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She is not portrayed in the novel as someone choosy or picky of men. Further, she graciously gives her approval for marriage. Her love for them has fueled her to willingly let go and release her daughters in marriage. On Because I Said So The 2007 film starred by Diane Keaton and Mandy Moore, among other actors, tells of a story of a frantic mother who wants to make sure that her youngest daughter will tie the knot. Daphne (played by Keaton) has three daughters whose youngest child, Milly (Moore) remains unmarried. Daphne considers Milly as the most unfortunate in love among her daughters.
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Daphne is a divorced single mother wrapped in loneliness. She fears that her Milly will become her clone in unsuccessful relationship. Determined to take Milly out of her same predicament, Daphne secretly posted an ad in search for a man for her daughter. She interviews the prospect guys in a restaurant and screens them. Milly ended up dating two guys – Johnny and Jason. In the end, she chooses Johnny who is much more like her. She also found out from Jason what her mom did. When is about to confront her mother, she discovers that her mother and Joe, Johnny’s father are into a serious relationship.
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The film ended with a wedding- Daphne and Joe’s. Daphne is a groovy mother who is keen on saving her daughter from the prison of loneliness for which she is captive. She proved it by doing the odd and unimaginable- posting a personal ad in a dating site. She used the power of technology and cyberspace in hopes of finding Milly’s knight in shining armor. Milly was aghast at first but later realized her mother’s strong love and concern for her. Without her mother’s effort, she would have not known Johnny who appeared to be her promising husband. In addition, her mother found her great love in the course of finding one for Milly.
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A Mother’s Heartfelt Wish Motherhood is a tough and noble calling. With it comes great responsibility stringed with much love and concern. A mother’s love is so powerful that it even seeks to secure the future of her children. It is an unselfish kind of love. A mother immediately thinks of what lies ahead for the unborn child in her womb. She thinks of the future and how she could give the best of the bests for her children- even at the expense of her life. A great future for her children is every mother’s heartfelt wish. It is the good future that she bears in mind when she gives her children-especially her daughters- in marriage.
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Some mothers even go beyond their calling and play the role of Cupid, patiently looking for possible husbands or wives for their children. Mothers would dare to move the heavens and earth in order to locate the perfect match for their children, crafting and revising strategies. Those who are successful in this pursuit demonstrate the power of mother’s great love. That, even in their respective romantic lives, their mother’s concern and intervention can turn into magic. After all, finding one’s great true love with the help of a mother is exciting and sweet.
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Population growth has long been a concern of the government, and India has a lengthy history of explicit population policy. In the 1950s, the government began, in a modest way, one of the earliest national, government-sponsored family planning efforts in the developing world. The annual population growth rate in the previous decade (1941 to 1951) had been below 1. 3 percent, and government planners optimistically believed that the population would continue to grow at roughly the same rate.
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The government began a massive program to lower the birth rate from forty-one per 1,000 to a target of twenty to twenty-five per 1,000 by the mid-1970s. The National Population Policy adopted in 1976 reflected the growing consensus among policy makers that family planning would enjoy only limited success unless it was part of an integrated program aimed at improving the general welfare of the population. The policy makers assumed that excessive family size was part and parcel of poverty and had to be dealt with as integral to a general development strategy.
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Education about the population problem became part of school curriculum under the Fifth Five-Year Plan (FY 1974-78). Cases of government-enforced sterilization made many question the propriety of state-sponsored birth control measures, however. During the 1980s, an increased number of family planning programs were implemented through the state governments with financial assistance from the central government. In rural areas, the programs were further extended through a network of primary health centers and subcenters.
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By 1991, India had more than 150,000 public health facilities through which family planning programs were offered. Four special family planning projects were implemented under the Seventh Five-Year Plan (FY 1985-89). One was the All-India Hospitals Post-partum Programme at district- and subdistrict-level hospitals. Another program involved the reorganization of primary health care facilities in urban slum areas, while another project reserved a specified number of hospital beds for tubal ligature operations.
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The final program called for the renovation or remodeling of intrauterine device (IUD) rooms in rural family welfare centers attached to primary health care facilities. Despite these developments in promoting family planning, the 1991 census results showed that India continued to have one of the most rapidly growing populations in the world. Between 1981 and 1991, the annual rate of population growth was estimated at about 2 percent. The crude birth rate in 1992 was thirty per 1,000, only a small change over the 1981 level of thirty-four per 1,000.
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The successful use of women’s clubs as a means of involving women in community-wide family planning activities impressed the state government to the degree that it set about organizing such clubs in every village in the state. The project also serves as a pilot to test ideas that the government wants to incorporate into its programs. Government medical staff members have been sent to Jamkhed for training, and the government has proposed that the project assume the task of selecting and training government health workers for an area of 2. million people. Another important family planning program is the Project for Community Action in Family Planning. Located in Karnataka, the project operates in 154 project villages and 255 control villages. All project villages are of sufficient size to have a health subcenter, although this advantage is offset by the fact that those villages are the most distant from the area’s primary health centers. As at Jamkhed, the project is much assisted by local voluntary groups, such as the women’s clubs.
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Women continue to marry young; in the mid-1990s, they average just over eighteen years of age at marriage. When women choose to be sterilized, financial inducements, although helpful, are not the principal incentives. On average, those accepting sterilization already have four living children, of whom two are sons. The strong preference for sons is a deeply held cultural ideal based on economic roots. Sons not only assist with farm labor as they are growing up (as do daughters) but they provide labor in times of illness and unemployment and serve as their parents’ only security in old age.