ktmeng/mec huggingface dataset:
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Although the development of children and young people are looking at as separate areas It Is Important to understand that development is holistic and cannot be focused on solely as separate areas as each are co-dependent and if one area is not developed a child or young person may not be able to complete certain tasks or skills. The sequence and rate of each aspect of placement for children and young people follow a typical pattern with the minority of children and young people not developing at the same rate as others.
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Babies who and will normally require more time to reach a developmental milestone as a baby born around the fortieth week. Babies are born with reflexes which they perform uncontrollably due to survival instincts. A child at birth will be born with both the sucking and swallowing reflex to ensure they can feed in order for their survival. A baby at this age will also be born with the rooting reflex in order to look for the nipple or the teat by using their cheeks or mouth as a guide. This reflex is also linked to the need for survival.
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Babies will react by grasping something that touches the palm of their hand and if startled will push their arms outwards and clenching their fists. This reflex is normally seen if a baby is startled by a loud noise or a bright light. When held upright so their feet are touching the floor a baby at this age will take stepping movements as a reflex movement rather than conscious stepping. Within their first month babies development changes dramatically. They have usually developed into a pattern with most of their time sleeping but starting to spend more mime awake.
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They will cry to communicate their needs with their parents starting to understand the different types of cry indicating the different needs. A baby will starting to recognize the parents or careers voices and may calm when they hear this and will be noticeably trying to focus on the face of the person who is holding them and are able to focus at a range of 20 – CACM. As a baby progresses to about 3 months old the child would have grown in both height and weight. Babies may have learnt the difference between night and day and may be able to sleep through the night.
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It is important to note that not all babies develop at the same rate and so not all babies may be sleeping through the night. Parents and careers are more able to understand the differences between their babies cry and hence babies begin to cry less. Due to babies beginning to understand the difference between night day babies will begin to sleep less and start to seam more alert. A baby may be able to lift and turn their heads and notice objects around them such as mobiles. Babies will start to show they recognize their careers and will smile more as a sign of this.
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At the age of 6 months babies have learnt and are development multiple skills often turning their heads to see what is happening around them. They will start showing their enjoyment during play by smiling and squealing with delight. Coordination skills are developing shown by babies grabbing an object and moving this from hand to hand. Babies will show they are starting to understand what careers and parents are trying to communicate to them and will try to communicate back in response. Babies will start to show their independence by grabbing spoons and trying to feed themselves although these skills are still developing.
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At this time the teething process begins and is often painful for babies. The physical developments is progressing with their strength often being able to sit up on their own in a high chair and are able to roll over by themselves from their backs onto their fronts. The routine they started to develop is more settled and babies will often develop their own patterns where they are happy to nap with other times of the day where they are wanting to play and be awake communicating this by lifting their arms to be picked up and held or by grabbing objects they can reach to explore them.
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Babies will explore their surrounding often putting objects into their mouths and touching them with their fingers. Babies will start to become more mobile at the age of 9 months, trying to to sit independently spending a lot of time sitting up and playing. The development of language is now noticeable as babies babbling has become tuneful and longer stings of sounds are used together. They are starting to understand basic words their parents or careers use such as dinner, drink and up and start to show excitement when they hear these words said.
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As the first year milestone is reached babies have developed a lot and may now be mobile and starting to show signs of walking, with some may be using their hands to hold on to objects and using this to balance and walking along the object. At this stage babies will require a good standard of supervision as babies will be crawling quickly and their vision will be as developed as adults. They will have good use of their hands now showing signs of organizing and moving objects enjoying putting items into and taking them out of boxes and containers.
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Curiosities about what happens to objects are seen for example a baby dropping and object to see the result. Play becomes a strong feature in their day to day life enjoying doing something over and over again such as taking a hat off or pulling of their socks. At this age babies will have an understanding about what they do and do not like with foods and will be able to sit up and feed themselves using their fingers. Food that babies enjoy will be eaten while foods they are not enjoying may be thrown on the floor or away from them.
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The babbling of the baby is longer and is more in tune with responding to communications from others and around 13 months the development of words start to appear. From 18 months the baby is beginning to be referred to as a toddler, which is usually used to describe a baby who is walking. They show enjoyment is being able to move about by walking and show the enjoyment of freedom. They are becoming fascinated by other children and are keen to play with adults. They notice what children of different ages are doing as well as peers.
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Individuality begins to show and toddlers will protest if they cannot get what they want. Language is still developing and many toddlers will be able to use several words and understand words and phrases that adults say. Toddlers start to show distress when left with unfamiliar adults and often need someone familiar if not with their primary care ever. As they progress they show their individuality and enjoy walking and picking up objects to play. They know what they want to touch and do and what they enjoy to do.
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They start to show frustration when they cannot do things for themselves and enjoy being able to complete tasks independently. The frustration occurs when their level of skill does not match what they desire to do. Toddlers show their emotions regularly often in outburst of frustration and anger presenting as a temper tantrum but also by laughing and squeals of delight when happy. They are starting to enjoy Ewing near other children although not necessarily playing with them. Games that are enjoyed are played over and over again and they are starting to enjoy pretend play.
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As they develop their language is progressing with the child being able to put cannot do some things which they want to do and get frustrated at this. They have a strong sense of determination and often go to great lengths to get what they want climbing on things and moving large objects to get them. At around 2 and a half years children are starting to play with other children although some time will be spent simply playing alongside another child. Pretend play is becoming more enjoyable and they are starting to enjoy larger play items such as tricycles, slides and climbing frames.
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They are still enjoying adult company enjoying helping adults or simply snuggling up to adults for company. Separation from their primary care givers is still a distressing time unless the toddler knows who they are going to be left with. This is often the age that care givers will try and start toileting training and some children will be able to be out of nappies within a few days. Children will start to tell adults or others how they are feelings rather than showing their feelings and temper mantras will start to decrease.
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The understanding of other people’s needs will start to develop and at the age of 3 years most children will play with their peers and sharing objects becomes less difficult and more enjoyable. Separation from care givers starts to become less distressing as there is an understanding that the care giver will return to them and are more able to talk to those who are looking after them. At the age of 4 children will show large steps in their development. The language skills will have developed to the point of fluent speech and are easily understandable to adults who do not know them.
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Their behavior will be cooperative but will be largely dependent on getting plenty of praise and recognition from adults around them. The child will enjoy being with other children and may start to develop friendships and will plan their play to have set ideas of what they want to do. They are starting to show independence skills such as dressing and feeding themselves and enjoy the responsibility given to them. From the age of 5 changes in physical development are less rapid rather they are developing confidence and coordination.
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Most children at this age are beginning school and will be a difficult transition for most children especially if there no interest in learning to read and write. The different types of play start to show and children often enjoy games with set rules often choosing games to involve them. A child show good co-ordination in big and small movements and so shows a gain in confidence. Children continue to physically grow in height but the main development at this age is the way they think and reason with things. Through the ages of 7 to 9 the children find reading and writing easier although there will be variations between children.
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Friendships are becoming more important and will start to develop a set of close friends and children will start to compare themselves to others around them. From the age of 9 many children show the first signs of impending puberty. Girls will begin to grow rapidly in height from the age of 10 with some girls beginning menstruation. At this age children start to request more independence such as walking to school with friends and boundaries and rules in the home start become questioned. The relationships with other young people become increasingly important.
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Boys start to come into puberty later than girls usually around the age of 13. The physically changes for both boys and girls can cause embarrassment and anxiety. Self-confidence can be affected as young people start to notice their own development and compare themselves to their peers. This important than being with family and feel left out or anxious if they are not doing things with their friendship group and may experience bullying aspects if they are not with peers and rather with family. This pressure through peers is strong and can result in loss of self-esteem and a lack of individuality and self-worth.
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Young people are starting to be more aware of their own identity and notice they have differing likes and dislikes to those around them. Although many young people are becoming more grown up in their ideas and individual identity the transition to adulthood is not complete with childlike comments occurring or comparison to other instead of being secure in their own choices. The development stages are set out and many children and young people will hit these development milestones and the stated age, it is important to know that not all children will develop at the same rate.
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Laura decides to reopen the orphanage for the disabled children. Once, Laura and Carlos start noticing that Simon is behaving strangely because he is communicating with his new imaginative friends. The day Laura’s new orphans arrive in the orphanage, Simon disappears and after a useless police search, Laura and Carlos ask a parapsychologist called Aurora (Geraldine Chaplin) for help. Who finds unhappy spirits of children in the house.
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The orphanage is a kind of movie which is suspensive enough to keep you staring at the TV without blinking. In spite of being known as a horror movie, the distressing scenes make the orphanage a sad heartbreaking movie. Teenagers will get a sense of suspense and curiosity and they will be excited and kind of upset by watching this horror and sad movie. The central idea of the film is that if you believe in yourself and your strengths you can achieve your goals whatever they are, as Laura does.
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On August 10, 1969 the headline “Actress Is Among 5 Slain at Home in Beverly Hills” appeared on the front page of the New York Times (Roberts). This was the beginning of a investigation of police error which prolonged the arrest of Charles Manson. There were several people who claimed they had heard gunshots and screaming in the early morning hours of August 9. Mrs. Kott, who lived at 10070 Cielo Drive, heard three or four gunshots at what she guessed was to be about twelve thirty to one o’clock a.
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Everyone had gone to bed when Tim awoke to a man’s voice screaming “Oh, God, no, please don’t! Oh God, no, don’t, don’t, don’t…” (Bugliosi & Gentry 4). At this time, about twelve forty a.m., he awoke his supervisor, told him about the scream, and requested that he go see if anyone needed help. He drove around the area but saw nothing unusual. Robert Bullington of the Bel Air Patrol was in his parked car when he heard three gunshots spaced a few seconds apart. He immediately called in to headquarters (the call logged in at 4:11 a.m.).
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Mr. Kott also noticed the wire when he went out to get his paper at about seven thirty that morning (Bugliosi ; Gentry 4-5). Winifred Chapman, the housekeeper for 10050 Cielo Drive, arrived at the house and also noticed the wire hanging at the gate. She first thought the power was out but then she pushed the button to open the front gate and it did. She began to walk up the driveway when she noticed that there was an unfamiliar automobile in the driveway. She figured, though, that it was only a visitor and continued toward the house. When she entered, she picked up the phone and the line was dead. Thinking she should inform someone, she entered the living room where she noticed two blue trunks which were not there when she left the previous night.
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A closer look saw that there was blood on the trunks. There was blood scattered about in the living room. She could see out the back door and on the ground there were pools of blood and a body on the lawn. She ran out of the house in a panic and on her way out she passed the unfamiliar automobile in the driveway and this time, looking inside, saw yet another body (Bugliosi ; Gentry 5). She ran from the estate screaming “Murder Death Bodies Blood” (Begg ; Fido 134). Knowing she needed to get help she ran immediately to 10070 Cielo Drive and began banging on the door but Mr. and Mrs. Kott did not answer. She then went to 10090 Cielo Drive and began banging on their door. Mr. and Mrs. Asin came to the door and let her in. She was in complete hysterics and the Asin’s didn’t know what to do. Jim Asin, 15, called the police and noted the time, eight thirty-three a.m.
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Jim and his father Ray went to the crime scene and stood at the gate. they noticed a white Rambler in the driveway and also noticed that there were wires cut. They then returned and made a second call to the police and, shortly after, a third call (Bugliosi ; Gentry 6). Police error begins with phone calls. The first being the one that was made to the LAPD in connection with the gunshots heard early on the morning of August 9. The police didn’t follow up on anything concerning that call. As for the calls made by Jim Asin, in the official report it says that at “0914 hours, West Los Angeles Units 8L5 and 8L62 were given a radio call ‘Code 2 possible homicide,10050 Cielo Drive'” (Bugliosi & Gentry 6).
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“The confusion extends to the arrival times of the units. Officer DeRosa would later testify he arrived about 9:05 a.m., which was before he supposedly received the Code 2. Officer Whisenhunt, who came next, set the time of his arrival at between 9:15 and 9:25, while officer Burbrige, who arrived after both men, testified he was there at 8:40 (Bugliosi & Gentry 6). Officer DeRosa, who was driving 8L5, had arrived first and began interviewing Mrs. Chapman but she was too hysterical and only mentioned names- Polanski, Altobelli, and Frykowski. Ray Asin cleared things up for DeRosa. He said the house was owned by Rudi Altobelli who was in Europe. Altobelli had hired a caretaker, a young William Garretson, to watch the house. He lived in the guest house just behind the residence. Altobelli rented the house itself out to Roman Polanski and his wife Sharo
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IT was the festival of spring. From the wintry shades of narrow lanes and alleys emerged a gaily clad humanity. Some walked, some rode on horses, others sat, being carried in bamboo and bullock carts. One little boy ran between his father’s legs, brimming over with life and laughter. 1. The Lost Child A child goes to a fair with his parents. He is happy and excited and wants the sweets and toys displayed there. But his parents don’t buy them for him.
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Why then does he refuse when someone else offers them to him? / Moments “Come, child, come,” called his parents, as he lagged behind, fascinated by the toys in the shops that lined the way. He hurried towards his parents, his feet obedient to their call, his eyes still lingering on the receding toys. As he came to where they had stopped to wait for him, he could not suppress the desire of his heart, even though he well knew the old, cold stare of refusal in their eyes.
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His mother, melted by the free spirit of the day was tender and, giving him her finger to hold, said, “Look, child, what is before you! ” It was a flowering mustard-field, pale like melting gold as it swept across miles and miles of even land. A group of dragon-flies were bustling about on their gaudy purple wings, intercepting the flight of a lone black bee or butterfly in search of sweetness from the flowers.
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But it would go fluttering, flapping, up into the air, when he had almost caught it in his hands. Then his mother gave a cautionary call: “Come, child, come, come on to the footpath. ” He ran towards his parents gaily and walked abreast of them for a while, being, however, soon left behind, attracted by the little insects and worms along the footpath that were teeming out from their hiding places to enjoy the sunshine. “Come, child, come! ” his parents called from the shade of a grove where they had seated themselves on the edge of a well.
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He ran towards them. A shower of young flowers fell upon the child as he entered the grove, and, forgetting his parents, he began to gather the raining petals in his hands. But lo! he heard the cooing of doves and ran towards his parents, shouting, “The dove! The dove! ” The raining petals dropped from his forgotten hands. “Come, child, come! ” they called to the child, who had now gone running in wild capers round the banyan tree, and gathering him up they took the narrow, winding footpath which led to the
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With the population of adults 65 and over steadily climbing, medical professionals and the healthcare system are struggling to keep up. One major issue concerning the healthcare system is that it is not set up properly provide care for these older adults. The physicians today, who regularly see patients, focus mainly has been; diagnose—usually in a 15-20 minute office visit, treat, and cure. Many of these senior citizens have multiple chronic illnesses or diseases, which require time to manage and treat.
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If the amount of students trained remains stable for the next 20 years, there would be less than a third of the projected geriatricians needed. There are some elderly adults who are still active and productive in society. They can still care for themselves without constant aid. On the other hand, there is a large amount of older adults who must depend solely on others. These people have usually lost some bodily function, whether it is a steadily fading vision or hearing, inability to control bladder or arthritis preventing regular movement.
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Without the ability to walk, feed themselves, and in many cases move at all, they are left at the mercy of family and friends. In an ideal world all responsibility to our senior citizens would fall with the family and close family friends. Children would care for parents in their last years both emotionally and financially. The facts are that in today’s society many people were more focused on their career than family, and never had any children. What are these elderly adults to do? Most are cared for by home health nurses or are in nursing homes.
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This constant care is costly and not everyone who requires these services can afford them. I believe that the federal and individual state governments should step in and provide some assistance to those in need. The federal government has created organization to aide those in need. Social Security-social insurance program that is funded through dedicated payroll taxes called Federal Insurance Contributions Act (FICA). (Wikipedia, 2011) Supplemental Security Income-a United States government program that provides stipends to low-income people who are either aged (65 or older), blind, or disabled. wikipedia) There are many older adults who find that they are incapable of caring for themselves, and do not want to rely on others to care for them or be a burden on their families. With some people being kept alive only be medical practices the debate over the
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This tells the physician not the take heroic measures and allow them to die if they stop breathing. Another option (not legal in the United States) is euthanasia which refers to the practice of ending a life in a manner which relieves pain and suffering. Active voluntary euthanasia is legal in Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands with rules and regulations. I believe that euthanasia will eventually become a legal practice within years to come. The amount of elderly citizens living longer and suffering from incurable, debilitating diseases has grown.
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The fact is not everyone wants to live to be 99 unless the ability to actually live a happy productive life is still possible. For myself, I have no plans on having children which could leave me without someone to provide care. I also have a bit of a vanity issue, just this morning I found my first gray hair (well visible gray hair), the thought of a head full of gray hair, or even worse hair loss makes me dizzy. I believe that my decision would be euthanasia; it may be legal by then. My decision may very well change in the years ahead.
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The large, dark, alienated room filled me with wonder and awe. How did I get to this strange place? My wary eyes scanned the unusual room: antique chairs, stained glass windows, and bookcases everywhere. I heard loud noises and people shouting outside the room. I ran quickly and took cover under a table. I was like a shy kitten, afraid of the big, terrifying world. What would Sir Leicester say to all of this?
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The room was dark and Lady Rutherford could not see anything. She felt her way around, hoping to avoid any tables and chairs. She felt a cupboard, its wood damp and uneven. The floor beneath her creaked eerily and the sound clawed at her ears like a rabid animal. Her eyes yearned for light, something that was becoming a distant memory. Finally, she felt around the cupboard and found a wall. She followed it intensely until her hands stroked a soft fabric, which she immediately assumed to be curtains. Her sense of touch was so occupied that Lady Rutherford did not even notice the putrid smell from the room. As the curtains opened, her eyes fed gratefully on the light from the window.
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My confusion grew vastly and I couldn’t believe I had returned to this house after so many years. Why? Why was I here? Fate seemed to taunt me. One affair had changed everything…but I was starting to forget, to forgive myself for what I had done, and whom I had betrayed. Now Lady Turner was dead. In a sick sense that had brought comfort to me. Jealously was always my weakness, and how jealous I was of Lady Turner.
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As she continued to reminisce over her insanity, the awful smell crept gradually around the room like a morning fog. Lady Rutherford noticed the smell and winced, she looked around and tried to locate where the smell was coming from. It was foul, like rotting fish, and Lady Rutherford found the source. The old, wooden cupboard stood proudly against a wall in the room. It dominated everything else, as a king ruling over his kingdom. Fear stalked Lady Rutherford as she tried to decide whether to open it. Her shaking hand touched the cold, metal handle and she cautiously opened one of the doors.
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Schools will need to consider and include in their policies: ·Children’s physical safety and security on the premises and on off-site visits, ·Children’s safety when in the home environment, ·e-safety and security when using the internet, ·Staff awareness and training, ·Monitoring and record keeping, ·Partnership and involvement with other agencies. What is meant by partnership working? All children in schools are closely monitored, including attendance, and where extra concerns arise these are passed on to the appropriate agencies.
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Safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children depends on effective joint working between agencies and professionals that have different roles and expertise. It is important that they communicate and work in partnership to ensure the safety and protection of children. Different organisations involved in safeguarding are: Social services will be concerned with the immediate care of a child and in ensuring that they are safe from harm. To do this, they must work in partnership with parents and other agencies. The NSPCC (National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children) was founded in 1884.
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It is a charity which works to protect children from harm. It is the only charity which has a statutory power to take action where there are cases of child abuse. The charity run a wide range of services for both children and adults, including national helplines and local projects. Health visitors and GPs may be involved in order to examine children to determine whether any injuries which may have been sustained are accidental. They will also, always, be alert during the course of their practice to any injuries which they may suspect are signs of abuse and inform other agencies as appropriate.
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The police and probation service – The police work in partnership with agencies in order to ensure that children are free from harm. All police forces have a Child Abuse Investigation Unit (CAIU) which have been set up in order to gather information and to determine whether the police should begin a criminal investigation. They ensure the training needs of officers and staff are met through the National Policing Improvement Agency programme for Child Abuse Investigation and Safeguarding Children and other relevant national and local training initiatives.
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In Margaret Atwoods novel, “The Handmaids Tale”, the birth rate in the United States had dropped so low that extremists decided to take matters into their own hands by killing off the government, taking over themselves, and reducing the womens role in society to that of a silent birthing machine. One handmaid describes what happened and how it came about as she, too, is forced to comply with the new order. Before the new order, known as the Sons of Jacob, took over, women had a lot to be afraid of.
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Make him slide his ID under the door. Dont stop on the road to help a motorist pretending to be in trouble. Keep the locks on and keep going. If anyone whistles, dont turn to look. Dont go into a laundromat, by yourself, at night … Women were not protected then.”(p. 24) Nobody believed it could happen to them. When the Sons of Jacob took over and began to take away their freedom, they accepted it. They were afraid and the Sons gave them some security. Because they accepted the first few laws, it was hard to refuse to not go along with the ones that followed.
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When the women were finally stripped of their identities, they felt as though they had deserved it because they had done nothing to try and save any of their other rights. “We looked at one anothers faces and saw dismay, and a certain shame, as if wed been caught doing something we shouldnt. Its outrageous one woman said, but without belief. What was it about this that made us feel we deserved it?”(p. 166) The Sons used this insecurity to round up the women and place them in institutions where they would be “safe”. Once they had them within their clutches, they were able to use them for their own purposes. The key to the whole program was using other women to train and control them. It is hard to go against your own kind, and the Sons knew that if they used men, it wouldnt work.
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The women would feel oppressed and strike back as one group, or could too easily seduce the males to get their own way. “Something could be exchanged… We still had our bodies.”(p. 4) By using other women, known as the Aunts, they could tell the women that they understood and knew what it was like, and that all this was for their own good, to keep them safe and make their world a better place. There were many of these training facilities, but we learn the most about the red centers, where the women are trained to be handmaidens. In other words, mistresses, to bear children for wives who were no longer capable of child birth, but too important to get rid of. Older women, and some incapable of child birth were trained as Marthas. They were servants to the wives and raised the children, if they were lucky enough to have one. The poorer women were called Econowives and performed the duties of wife, handmaiden and Martha. The final category was the “unwomen”; those who had committed some crime such as abortion, or who were too old to be good for anything. These “unwomen” were sent to the edges of the colonies to clean up nuclear waste or work in the industries. Both of which would soon lead to death. The women were distinguished by the color of robes they wore, which reached to the ground, revealing nothing. This was another way of keeping them safe, so men would not be tempted. The handmaids wore red, the Marthas green, the wives blue, daughters white, the unwomen wore grey, and “the striped dresses, red and blue and green and cheap and skimpy, mark the women of the poorer men.”(p. 23) the econowives.
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“Sometimes there is a woman all in black, a widow. There used to be more of them, but they seem to be diminishing.”(p. 23) The Sons of Jacob did not want any fertile women to go to waste. The handmaids and Marthas were then given positions in the houses. Marthas were permanent, but a handmaid changed every three years, if they lasted that long. Becoming pregnant was always first and foremost in their minds. Their lives depended on it. The handmaid telling the story grew to despise her body because it determined who she was so completely. Yet, “No woman in her right mind, these days, would seek to prevent a birth, should she be so lucky as to conceive.”(p. 32) The children of the handmaids were to become the daughters and be married off to the soldiers and begin reproducing as soon as possible. Once more daughters were born and raised, it was planned that there would no longer be any need for the handmaids. The wives had only the duty of hostess, tending the garden, and knitting scarves for the men in the front lines.
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The wife to which the handmaid served, had in the past given, “speeches about the sanctity of the home, about how women should stay home. Serena Joy didnt do this herself, she made speeches instead, but she presented this failure of hers as a sacrifice she was making for the good of all.” Now, “She stays in her home, but it doesnt seem to agree with her – How furious she must be, now that shes been taken at her word.”(p. 43) Before the Sons of Jacob took over, there were many reasons why people were no longer having children at the normal rate. First, the pollution, diseases, nuclear problems and resulting mutants deterred people from having children because the future looked pretty bleak. Secondly, crime rate was very high, with most of them being sexual atrocities. Women and children were in danger, yet many people denied that such things could ever happen to them, and did nothing to stop it. Thirdly, everyone had become very materialistic. People spent their whole lives striving to be the best and have the most, giving no thought to others, and having no time or money for children. People were afraid to bring a child up in a world such as it was, and abortions and birth control devices were common. The blame, however, was placed on the women, since they could choose whether or not to bear children. Yet people still were desperate for children, and wanted them at any cost. “I turned around and she was disappearing down the aisle, in the arms of a woman Id never seen before… I thought it was an isolated incident, at the time…”(p. 59) Once the Sons took over, this became the norm. Children were taken from women who were deemed unfit, and given to people who would raise them “right”.
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All for the good of their country. “Better never means better for everyone, … It always means worse, for some.”(p. 198) People did not want to acknowledge how society was falling to pieces around them. “We lived, as usual, by ignoring. Ignoring isnt the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.”(p. 53) The Sons created a world where it would be safe for children, and women. It also eliminated sex. It was no longer for enjoyment, but a necessity for life. Before it had been out of control, “There were stories in the newspapers… but they were about other women, and the men who did such things were other men. None of them were the men we knew. The newspaper stories were like dreams to us, bad dreams dreamt by others.”(p. 53) People had the freedom to do whatever they wanted, and many took advantage of this, “We seemed to be able to choose, then. We were a society dying… of too much choice.”(p. 24) The Sons took away their freedom of choice and gave them something else, “There is more than one kind of freedom… Freedom to and freedom from. In the days of anarchy, it was freedom to. Now you are being given freedom from. Dont underrate it.”(p. 24) The Sons of Jacob were able to obtain control over society, because society was ready for a change. People were sick of living in fear and afraid for their future. The Sons changed this by dominating the women by giving them strict rules to follow and reducing their role in life to that of giving life. However, they also attempt to suppress the need to touch, which will be their undoing. Works Cited Atwood, Margaret. The Handmaids Tale. Toronto: McClelland-Bantam, Inc., 1985.
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The king was the closest thing to God on earth. Monarchs generally ruled hand in hand with the church. As the monarchy’s rein started to come to an end, the church’s tight grip on the citizens slowly started to loosen. With the implication of democracy, the church lost all real power to make laws and actually govern the people. The church still held power over peoples’ morals, but without the monarchy’s to enforce it the church’s found their power decreasing.
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In Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, the government and the church are interchangeable. The government is what used to be called the church, they have come together to become one unit of power. The power of a modern day government with all the knowledge and weapons combined with the fanaticism of a medieval based church create a dictatorship like none other. The novel deals with the treatment of children harshly for a society which views children as their last hope, their most valuable commodity.
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The society of Gilead takes the views of a traditional religious monarchy and enforces them with modern day power. In the novel The Handmaid’s Tale, there is a place called the “Red Center”, which is a training facility. When one thinks of a training facility they tend to invision a military base with young soldiers learning what they need to know to survive. Atwood’s “Red Center” is very similar to this type of facility; it has soldiers inside the facility and people are being taught how to survive. Women in the “Red Center” are being taught how to become submissive to the new order.
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The “Red Center” is the place they take women who they believe are prime child bearers, and the women are taught how to become Handmaids. A Handmaid is a woman who goes into a home, usually of a high ranking official, to get pregnant because in this age of pollution and death, may people are unable to procreate. The Handmaids are sent to live in the homes and take the name of the male in the household, where their goal is to become pregnant. If she does not within three terms in three separate houses she is no longer considered “helpful” to society and may be sent away to the colonies to live out the rest of her life cleaning up radioactive waste.
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In modern times when a couple is not able to have children and is not eligible for adoption, one possible choice is the use of a surrogate mother. A surrogate mother is when the husbands sperm is injected into another fertile female, who then gives birth to the baby and gives the it to the couple. This practice is not all that common but still can be found happening in various places around the world. The use of a surrogate mother often leaves emotional scars for the biological mother and can possibly end up in the courts if the she changes her mind, and wishes to keep the child.
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Children in Giliead are a valuable commodity. Custody of a child depends not on birth rights, but on power and status of an individual. In the early years of Gilead, a child could have easily been taken away from a family and given to a powerful commander or anyone of high status. As the years went by, the under class were simply not able to have any children, the right reserved for only the rich and powerful. Any woman who had the ability to have children were taken away from there homes and forced to become Handmaids for the elite.
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The public was told that it was all for the good of the society, and if anyone resisted, they were delt with quickly and harshly. This was no longer a democracy. Families were torn apart with no hope for reconcile. Custody depended on status only. In our society Custody is almost always given to the birth parents. Sometimes custody can be taken away from a couple if they have proven themselves unfit parents. Custody can be given to the state or it can be given to other family members if they apply for it. Each year, cases of children being taken out of the homes of their unfit parents and being given to there grandparents or other such relatives increases.
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As social conditions and the ability for parents to remain fit decrease, the rate of grandparents applying for custody of their grandchildren increases. The political structure of Gilead is based around the church. The laws are devised through religion and democracy is no longer valid. Society has reverted back to the medieval days when the church and the monarchy ruled hand in hand and where a minuscule upper class controlled a huge lower class. The values of Gilead have reverted back to a holy conservative view, where men have a higher status than women and where classes are very distinct. In modern day North America, the liberal views of the sixties and seventies are being shot down with mass aggression, as every major United States President candidate since 1988 has used traditional family values as there main platform in running for office.
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Politicians like Dan Quale are condemning the single parent household and speaking out against such single parent role models such as Television’s Murphy Brown. In Canada, three members of Preston Manning’s Reform party were kicked out of the caucus for speaking out against homosexual rights and supporting the more traditional view of strait only marriages. As more and more politicians use traditional values of the fifties as a platform to get elected into office, more and more liberals get fed up with the political system because they feel that there is no candidate that expresses their opinions.
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Because most politicians feel that most of the voting population is conservative, they try to increase their chances of getting elected by trying to appeal to the conservative majority. This causes a lack of options for voters if the candidates have basically the same stance on the issues. The common threads between Gilead and our own society are surprising similar if one looks closely enough. The possibility of things common in our every day society taken out of control by fanatics is not all that hard to comprehend. It is possible that the chain of events that lead a society to Gilead has already started to happen.
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This paper seeks to determine and understand the dividend yield of GE in relation to how the company is using the same to attain its corporate objectives. This will also determine if the dividend yield is what is expected from such as established company as GE and whether the company’s record of paying dividends attracts common stockholders with justification. The GE’s dividend yield for the past 12 months is 4.64% for the most recent 12 months available (MSN, 2008a) as computed using the formula that divides annual dividend per to share by the price per share of the GE’s stock.
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To determine of if the said level of dividend yield is what is expected from GE, the same may be compared with the company’s net profit margin of 12. 02%. Since dividend yield is lower, it means the company is only distributing a portion of its earnings as dividend for the year and such is expected. A company should not normally provide dividends higher than what it currently earns otherwise the corporation may be unnecessarily returning capital to stockholders and which will indicate the company has no future plans for expansion.
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The GE’s record of paying dividends may be said to be an attractive feature of its common stock since as could be the found in the behavior of its stock price for the last ten years, there have been no unending declines to speak with even if the face of present economic problems in the United States. The 9/11 event in 2001 may have affected the company as stock price declined then but after a certain period stock price was able to recover.
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The fact the stock price of the company has rebounded manifests that the company is really stable and its policy of paying yearly dividends may have in fact contributed to the cause of its stability for many years. In fact the company has been paying dividends for over hundred years already (Mapofworld. com, 2008). When viewed in terms of 50-year period, the effect of dividend policy is more clearly evident as the company may be said to have exhibited continued slight increase in stock price for the period.
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The Chimera, according to a Greek mythology, is a monstrous fire-breathing creature that has parts of multiple animals: the body of a lion with a tail that ended in a snake’s head, two heads one of a goat and the other of a lion. Her father was the giant Typhon and her mother the half-serpent EcThidna. She had as brothers Cerberus (the hound of Hell), Sphinx, Hydra (the nine-headed water snake), and Orthrus (another multi-headed dog).
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Hesiod’s follows the Homers description: he makes the Chimera the issue of Echidna: “She was the mother of Chimaera who breathed raging fire, a creature fearful, great, swift-footed and strong, who had three heads, one of a grim-eyed lion; in her hinderpart, a dragon; and in her middle, a goat, breathing forth a fearful blast of blazing fire While there are different genealogies, in one version the Chimera mated with her brother Orthrus and mothered the Sphinx and the Nemean Lion.
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A scholiast to Homer adds that he finished her off by equipping his spear with a lump of lead that melted when exposed to the Chimera’s fiery breath and consequently killed her, an image drawn from metalworking. Hypothesis about origin Pliny the Elder cited Ctesias and quoted Photius identifying the Chimaera with an area of permanent gas vents which still can be found today by hikers on the Lycian Way in southwest Turkey.
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Called in Turkish Yanartas (flaming rock), it consists of some two dozen vents in the ground, grouped in two patches on the hillside above the Temple of Hephaestus about 3 km north of ancient Olympos, in Lycia. The vents emit burning methane thought to be of metamorphic origin, which in ancient times were landmarks by which sailors could navigate. It differs from the Greek version in that while there are three heads, none of them is that of a goat, only a main human head, a lion’s head facing forward and placed on the chest of the lion’s body, and a snake’s head placed at the end of the tail.
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The reader is privy to the motivation behind families who left all they had once known to travel to this new land, in search of a new life. For the 16. 5 million who traveled to this new land between 1850 and 1900, the motivation was varied. Laskin’s story provides the reader with inside information about weather fronts, and the disastrous chain of events which led to the killing blizzard, adding to the understanding of the extreme power of nature. Life was not easy for these homesteaders. The weather was unkind, with freezing extremes of weather in the winters and sun-baked, unforgiving dry summers.
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When the blizzard hit, no one was prepared. After weeks of freezing days and nights, an unseasonably warm day, a threatening precursor of the dramatic change which was to come, brought families out of their homes and into their fields. Husbands left for town to fortify the larders with food; children went to school, many for the first time in several weeks due to the bitter cold which had gripped the area. Sons who did not go to school that fateful day stayed with fathers to gather lost cows and other farm animals and to repair barns which had been damaged by other storms.
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The temperature fell dramatically on January 12th, with winds up to and often above 60 mph. Ice crystals fell; not billowy clouds of soft snow, but ice crystals which filled the nostrils and sealed eyelids closed. Farmers tried to get back to homes from nearby barns, but were unable to find their way. Many children were dismissed from schools, or led from their schools, on paths which led to their deaths. This was a killing children’s blizzard: a blizzard so named because of the more than a hundred children who died as they tried to find their way to homes, and to safety.
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The children died cruel deaths: deaths from exposure and hypothermia. They had not dressed for bitter cold; the weather which began the day was mild. Even had they been dressed in winter garb, the protection could not have saved them. Laskin provides a graphic account of the effects of cold and exposure. “Physics dictated that their warm body tissues and fluids would eventually reach equilibrium with the cold fluid of the ambient air. ” (182) Internal body temperatures of 98. 6 rose slightly from the exertion as they attempted to plow through deep snow, fighting the blinding forces of the ice crystals.