ktmeng/mec huggingface dataset:
Topic: family

Adult violence against children remains a norm in our society. (Hooks 73) Chapter 14-Liberating Marriage and Partnership “Feminism is for Everybody” Thesis: Sexist unions are those situations where men own, control, and treat women as property and women become trapped in a marriage that is little more than sexual slavery; this unfair standard found in monogamous marriage impelled women to become autonomous in marriage. I. Sexist unions where men own, control, treat women as property are abhorrent.
Topic: family

(hooks 79) II. Sometimes women become treated as sexual slaves in a marriage. A. Feminists advocating an end to sexual slavery also called attention to the prevalence of marital rape. (hooks 79) 1. Feminists championed the rights of women to express sexual desire, initiate sexual interaction, and to be sexual fulfilled. (Hooks 79) 2. Many women in patriarchal relationships were not able to have satisfying sex. (hooks 80) III. The unfair standard in monogamous marriage impelled women to desire autonomy in marriage.
Topic: family

The double standard in relationship to a form of marriage that condemned females who were neither virgins nor faithful lovers, but condoned males had promiscuous and random sexual relationships. B. Feminism focuses on calling attention to sexual pleasure gave women the voice to critique and challenge male sexual behavior. 1. Women can protect themselves from sexually transmitted diseases when they are able to choose their own partners. 2. All recent studies demonstrate that gender equity creates successful marriages. The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution – “Feminist in our time”
Topic: family

Shulamith Firestone’s essay “The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution” contains ideas that are both supporting and contradictory of bell hooks’ book, “Feminism is for Everyone. ” (In particular, this refers to a comparison to Chapter 13 and 14 of hooks’ tome). Centrally, Firestone’s work expresses that gender inequality exists within the framework of nature and a great deal of work must be undertaken to reverse the effects of this ‘natural order. ’ I. Both Firestone and hooks discuss oppression within the family unit.
Topic: family

Marriage remains a variant on sexual slavery. 1. Women were the slave class… (Firestone 246) 2. Feminists demanded an end to sexual slavery… (hooks 79) B. The female body was property belonging to the male in which she was betrothed. C. Child-rearing is a woman’s duty. 1. Note the freeing of women from the tyranny of their reproductive biology. (Firestone 247). a. Reproduction of the species cost women dearly. (Firestone 246) b. Individual feminist who critiqued biological determinism… often embraced it when it came to the issue of mothering. (hooks 83).
Topic: family

Most people in our society prescribe to the belief that women are better at raising children than men. (hooks 83) a. Feminist interventions called attention to the value and importance of male parenting both in regards to the well-being of the child as well as becoming a symbol of gender equity. (hooks 82) b. Diffusion of childbearing and the responsibilities of childrearing play a role to society as a whole and include men as well as women. (Firestone 247) II. Firestone and hooks devise different demands for women. A. hooks prefers women partake equally in marriage and childrearing responsibilities.
Topic: family

The speaker of the poem is grieving his father who he lost to battle and experiences struggles in coping with it all. McDonald’s details about the sled mentioned in the poem reflect the closeness that was once there between the speaker and his father, in addition to the level of importance the speaker’s father had in his life. The use of diction by McDonald also emphasizes the speaker’s mourning, often accompanied by nostalgia, by implicating the repetition of the words “I remember” throughout the poem.
Topic: family

This constant remembrance expresses the speaker’s difficulty coming to terms with his father’s death. In contrast with McDonald’s poem, Homer’s work, The Odyssey, exhibits a tone filled more with animosity and heartache rather than the previous, more somber and mournful feel. The main character, thus far, is named Telemakhos. The character’s father has been gone for many years without returning or sending any messages, causing the boy and his mother to wonder whether he has died, or if he is gone because he does not wish to return.
Topic: family

Friend, let me put it in the plainest way. My mother says I am his son; I know notsurely.Who has known his own engendering? I wish at least I had some happy man as afather,growing old in his own house – unknown death and silence are the fate of him that, sinceyou ask, they call my father. (Homer 8) Telemakhos is saying that although his mother and everyone say Odysseus is his father, he does not feel that way because he lacks any memory of him. He wishes he could have his father in his life, and is bothered by the fact he hasn’t the slightest bit of knowledge in regards to the whereabouts of his father.
Topic: family

Telemakhos and the speaker in the poem by McDonald share similar experiences. They both are dealing with the absence of their fathers who both partook in the military. However, the speaker in the poem actually knows for a fact his father has died, which may be why he copes with the lack of a father better than Telemakhos, solely because he does not need to question whether or not his father isn’t in his life due to sheer carelessness. Because Telemakhos hasn’t the faintest idea of his father’s whereabouts, he is in search for closure, not only for himself, but for his mother and property being destroyed by the savage suitors. Their circumstances are what control the tone in their dialog, allowing the reader to feel the same things the speakers are feeling.
Topic: family

“My Father’s Song” and “The Odyssey” have a major theme in common which can be seen on two different levels. The common theme of the two poems is the “Father, Son” theme. The author, Simon Ortiz, from whose point of view we read “My Father’s Song”, can be compared as either Telemachus or Odysseus in “The Odyssey”. In either case, the relationship is that something is being passed down. Ortiz can be seen as two people, as a son, and as a father. Obviously, when he is a son, he is compared to Telemachus, and when he is a father, he is compared to Odysseus. Ortiz, along with Telemachus, miss their father.
Topic: family

For Ortiz, his father is dead, and for Telemachus, his father is lost at sea. They both miss the emotional bond and psychological support that their father would provide for them. For Ortiz, it is his father’s songs, and for Telemachus, it is his father’s guidance and influence. Both of them, as sons, want something passed down to them. When Ortiz is compared with Odysseus they are both seen as fathers. Both wanting to pass something down to their children. Ortiz wants to pass along the song his father sang him to his own son, but for some reason the child does not want to hear it, or maybe Ortiz does not even have a son to pass it down to.
Topic: family

Odysseus has guidance and wisdom he would like to pass on to his son, except he has not seen him in twenty years because he is being safeguarded on an island. In all cases, both as fathers and sons, tradition is being lost. The two poems “My Father’s Song” and “The Odyssey” have another similarity in “My Father’s Song”, Ortiz wrote a song that his father told him about Ortiz’s Father and Grand-Father. This Song is supposed to be passed on from generation to generation.
Topic: family

“The Odyssey” is very similar because it was made up in about 700 A. D. nd then the only way it continued to be alive was by bards singing the different books. It was also a story that was passed on from generation to generation. In “My Fathers Song” the tradition of the song being passed down has been delayed because Ortiz either does not have a son, or his son does not want anything to do with the traditions. “The Odyssey” however is still being passed on today after so many years. In both poems the tradition of Father and Son relationships and the tradition of passing on rituals from generation to generation are major factors.
Topic: family

In conclusion, the two poems “My Father’s Song” and “The Odyssey” revolve around a central theme of tradition. Tradition plays a large part in “My Father’s Song” because tradition is how Ortiz was able to first learn the song that had been passed down. Also, since it is a tradition to pass on the song, Ortiz must now pass the song onto his son. “The Odyssey” also has many traditions. If it did not, there is no way the epic poem would have still been around up until now. Both poems speak of an extremely important part of our society, tradition. Without it, we would not be able to connect our present place with our history.
Topic: family

“Fatherhood ought to be emphasized as much as motherhood. The idea that women are solely responsible for deciding whether or not to have babies leads on to the idea that they are also responsible for bringing the children up. ” To what extent do you agree or disagree? I believe that child-rearing should be the responsibility of both parents and that, whilst the roles within that partnership may be different, they are nevertheless equal in importance. In some societies, it has been made easier over the years for single parents to raise children on their own.
Topic: family

There is, however, another possible way of defining that part of the quotation. That would say it is not just the father’s responsibility to provide the basics for his children, while his wife involves herself in the everyday activity of bringing them up. Rather, he should share those daily duties, spend as much time as his job allows with his children, play with them, read to them, help directly with their education, participate very fully in their lives and encourage them to share his.
Topic: family

Einstein states that “the energy of a light ray spreading out from a point source is not continuously distributed over an increasing space but consists of a finite number of energy quanta” (Einstein 1905) [1]) this went against the accepted Maxwellian theories of light and radiation, due to this many scientists did not accept this theory, one of these scientists included Niels Bohr, who stated in his Nobel address in 1922 (17 years after Einstein first proposed the idea, and 1 year after he received the Nobel prize for his work on photoelectricity) that the idea was “quite irreconcilable with so-called interference phenomena [and] not able to throw light on the nature of radiation” (Helge Kragh 2012 [2]).
Topic: family

His work on energy quanta was largely influenced by Max Planck’s earlier work on Black Body Radiation, which, as far as my understanding reaches, theoretically explored the ideas of a “perfectly black” (Annalen der Physik 1860[3]) body which would absorb all incident radiation, this paper led Planck to derive his famous formula E=hf, which shows the relationship between energy and frequency, and uses Planck’s own constant (6. 63×10^-34).
Topic: family

The effects that energy quanta and the photoelectric effect has had on society is quite hard to measure or see, because there aren’t that many direct links to things we use every day, or things we depend upon, these two theories are more of a backbone to many modern concepts we take for granted. The photoelectric effect is used in solar cells and a photomultiplier (which is used to detect photons). I am sure there are other applications too but trying to find them (even with the whole internet at my disposal) is a rather hard thing to do.
Topic: family

Some of the applications of the theory of energy quanta are; in Geiger counters where the ability of photons to ionise gas molecules is used to detect radiation (and since the theory of energy quanta is such a large part of quantum physics I think I will throw in a few things that quantum physics does for us), quantum mechanics is vital in the understanding of Chemistry (as all Chemistry can be explained using physics), chemistry is all about understanding the energetic properties of bonding, and this is explained through quantum mechanics, the use of transistors, lasers and diodes all rely on quantum effects (that covers just about all of electronics) and greater understanding of quantum effects leads to innovation in electronics, providing faster and more powerful computing (that’s the main use really).
Topic: family

Due to the fact that Carol Ann Duffy to a certain extent is a feminine writer, it is easy to make the proclamation that she fundamentally undermines male status in ‘The World’s Wife’. Duffy uses the collection to give women who have not been heard previously a voice, and by using this sense of ‘L’ecriture feminine’ Duffy does wholeheartedly have to conform against the phallocentric world many women have found themselves living in now and in the past.
Topic: family

Furthermore, with the use of “his selfish pale face peering at the moon” Duffy could be using this dramatic image not only to show the power of women with the use of the feminine symbol ‘moon’ but also the fact that Duffy use’s the verb ‘peering’ to describe Tiresias’s actions presents him in an envious light towards women, additionally by using ‘selfish’ Duffy shows no sympathy for men as she shows they have shown no sympathy for women.
Topic: family

Due to the death of Jesus, “the Nazarene”, in the poem Duffy wasn’t able to use humour to ridicule the idea of masculinity; instead she uses the physical symbolism of hands in the poem in order to present the futileness of the male sex. With description such as “Their pale, mothy touch made me flinch” Duffy is able to present Pilate to be lacking in masculinity which is also illustrated with “Camp hands that clapped for grapes”.
Topic: family

These descriptions are effective because they lay in sharp contrast to the descriptions used to describe Jesus’ hands such as “each tough palm was skewered”, not only does this represent the biblical image of Jesus’ crucifixion on the cross, but also the use of “tough” shows that Jesus was a real man who wasn’t afraid to work hard. This could be Duffy’s way of ridiculing the male breed as she uses the death of Jesus in order to show how the best man was killed off by a useless member of the male species.
Topic: family

Queen Kong’ is another poem in the collection whereby Duffy shows no sympathy for men. In the poem, Duffy presents the form of love whereby a person’s object of desire has no choice in the matter which is shown with the emphatic simile “I picked him, like a chocolate from the top layer of a box” and Duffy also in the poem satirizes the way in which powerful men use women as objects, and she does this with the role-reversal in the poem as Queen Kong is shown to be wearing her man as an ornament, which is illustrated with “I wear him now about my neck”. Queen Kong’ is the only poem in the collection based upon the original film however Duffy takes the story and reverses it in her bid to show that a female gorilla would have gone about things differently.
Topic: family

There is a sharp contrast between King Kong and Queen Kong in that Queen Kong has a vast amount of articulacy and thought whereas Queen Kong has none, this is shown with the fact the Queen Kong has a human way of grieving such as “to binge for a fortnight” which could be Duffy’s way of highlighting the effect men have upon women, in that they lead them into terrible spouts of depression and men are hence ridiculed for this as the reader receives hardly any recognition of how the male persona is feeling throughout the poem, which shows men do not deserve sympathy.
Topic: family

In similarity to ‘Mrs Tiresias’, Duffy has thread through ideas about the menstrual cycle in ‘Queen Kong’. The use of the menstrual cycle in ‘Queen Kong’ with “I bled when a fat, red moon rolled on the jungle roof” is used to reinforce the extent of her passion for the man, and the following line “and after that, I decided to get him back” illustrates how a period changes a woman’s behaviour, which is an idea similarly presented in ‘Mrs Tiresias’ with the fact that “Then he got his period” stands as a one-lined stanza.
Topic: family

This bodily function which is constricted entirely to women allows Duffy reinforce the idea of feminity, and hence exclude any sense of masculinity having a higher status. Tiresias’s experience as a woman is presented in the poem as external only, which allows Duffy to show that men will never be able to think or feel like a woman. This idea is shown in the poem with “telling the women out there… e knew how we felt” which shows how his appearance may be feminine but his understanding is still male. The fact Tiresias is presented by Duffy at the beginning of the poem as a typical man with “out the back gate with his stick, the dog;” and to be doing typically male things such as “whistling” is representative of the fact that men are in retrospect all the same, and therefore Duffy is showing no sympathy for the individual male.
Topic: family

Due to the fact that the reader feels no sympathy for Tiresias because he has lost all sense of masculinity, and even though this is a shocking situation, the fact that Duffy presents Tiresias to be taking advantage of this female appearance to become a celebrity, Duffy is able to present men in a negative way in that nothing will stop them hunting for power and status, even turning into a woman. This is shown in the poem with “on the arms of powerful men” and the use of “On” instead of ‘in’ shows how he is using them for his own benefit.
Topic: family

In similarity to ‘Pilate’s Wife’, ‘Mrs Tiresias’ uses hand imagery in order to present powerful ideas on masculinity and feminity in the poem. With the use of the ambiguous statement “his hands, her hands, the clash of their sparking rings” which on the one hand could be showing the rivalry between the new and old lovers, the use of ‘clash’ here could be Duffy’s way of representing the battle of the sexes in the poem, and as the hands are described to be typically female, Duffy is able to show a man can never rival the status of a woman.
Topic: family

The sexual tone created in the poem with “fruit of my lips” allows Duffy to show how the real woman in this poem is far more natural, as this description of a woman is far more typical than a “cling peach”. This is suggestible upon the fact that men are totally unneeded in this life, and therefore Duffy shows no sympathy when describing Tiresias’s experience as a woman. In the poem ‘Pilate’s wife’ Jesus is seen as a representative of manhood rather than divinity, and this is particularly expressed in the poem with “He looked at me.
Topic: family

I mean he looked at me”, which illustrates a sense of importance for Pilate’s wife because he looked at her like an individual. Duffy here is able to illustrate how the collection shows no sympathy for men as although Pilate’s Wife is longing for “someone else” and usually adultery causes quite a large deal of emotional suffering for the victim, it is shown in the poem that the only person Pilate has to blame is himself.
Topic: family

Additionally, this quotation presents Pilate to be acting laid back and trying carefully not to get wet, whereas Duffy shoes in the poem that the result of his actions are far dirtier, especially with “They seized the prophet and dragged him out” which allows Duffy to illustrate that men live their lives in many ways without a conscience and therefore do not deserve sympathy as they do not give it out themselves. Duffy presents Pilate’s wife as a bored Roman woman stuck in a foreign country with little to occupy her.
Topic: family

This is shown in the poem with “my maid and I crept out” which illustrates a sense of the two women trying to amuse themselves. This relates strongly to the idea of men whose wives stray are part to blame as men often become so preoccupied with other matters that their wives happiness is pushed into the background, and therefore when their wife hurts them, they deserve no sympathy this is also expressed with the emphatic pun “Pontius”, which illustrates Pilate’s wife sense of disgust towards her husband.
Topic: family

Although it could be suggested that ‘Queen Kong’ is sympathetic towards men, especially with descriptions such as “held his wriggling, shouting life till he calmed” however the emotions expressed on the female persona’s half are ones of which the reader can empathise with, even though there is very little reality about the poem. The fact that the male character reduces Queen Kong to numerous emotions, Duffy is able to illustrate how men do not deserve sympathy because of the amount of pain they cause for women.
Topic: family

This idea is portrayed in the poem with the fact that Queen Kong goes hunting for her man “pressing” her “Passionate eye to a thousand windows” this shows the extent to what women are drove to by men. Furthermore, with the use of “He liked me to gently blow on him” Duffy is able to present ideas on the subversion of women for men, tending to their every need. This shows how Duffy could feel that men do not deserve sympathy in her collection as they lead perfectly satisfactory lives.
Topic: family

To conclude the point whether ‘The World’s Wife’ shows no sympathy for men , it is undeniable that many poems in the collection portray men in negative lights; often through both their personality and looks. Duffy wrote ‘the World’s Wife’ in order to give women who have been metaphorically silent in both history and stories a voice; and by doing so she had to undermine the status of the male characters in order to elevate women.
Topic: family

My adoption gave me a family to belong to and be loved by. Love is the first part in any family. I can be defined in more ways than one. Family love is the strongest type because it is unconditional. This unconditional love means that no matter what happens my family will still love me. They have shown this love for twenty years now. And after all the things I have done wrong, or done badly, my family still shows this unconditional love to me and to each other.
Topic: family

This respect that my parents gave me, in turn gave me their trust. And I gave them the respect and trust that was given to me. Without sacrifice, a family cannot be. The sacrifices that family members make for each other show the willingness to be an unselfish part of a family. Sacrifices also display the love, respect and trust in a family. I know that even though some of the time it may not seem that my parents would sacrifice anything for me, I realize that they would do anything for and everything for me and that I would do the same for them. At times it’s the smallest sacrifices that make the biggest difference in a family. Families do not have to be biological. Here in Altoona, I have a chosen family of friends who I consider to be just as close as a family. Among my chosen family, one can find love, respect and trust, and sacrifice for one another. As a chosen family we still work the same way that a given family does, by having a sense of belonging and a sense of love toward each other.
Topic: family

FAMILY HARMONY By K. Vishnukumar Introduction: Family is a beautiful discovery of human evaluation and a prize given by the ancient people to the mankind. Living together is some thing special when the real sprits exist in the family. The Tamil proverb “ A good family is like un university” has a special meaning. The family university has been teaching number of subjects like friendship, relationship, fellowship, hospitality, Reception, Love, Confidence building, care & Share, Emotional adjustments etc. The parents and elders of the family and society are the teachers of this university.
Topic: family

After two years, his wife was reported that she was pregnant. During those days, he thought, “What is the meaning of husband and wife relationship? ” Whether we really lioving together or merely existing together? The story concluded that if any once merely existing together means, their relationship is like a man and women, and living together means, their relationship is husband and wife. Existing together means to fill full the need of the physic and living together is for mind. Living together as husband and wife relationship is the first step towards the family harmony.
Topic: family

Who is the most lovable person? : During the training session, once asked, “Who is the most lovable person in human life? ” Most of them listed as Mother, Father, Teacher, Children, and at last wife. From their reply wife was considered as last lovable person. Mankind is living for happiness. No one wants to live with full of worries and difficulties. Happiness is a state of mind. This has to the attained when the Body, Brain, and Mind will be in a Triangular state. In any relationship, no one can attain happiness except husband and wife.
Topic: family

The needs of the brain and mind may be fulfilled by the mother, father, and others relations. But the husband and wife relationship can only meet all three needs of brain, Body and Mind. The union of all these three factors of human being attains the state as happiness. So most lovable relationship in human life is husband and wife. What is the beauty? Many times we checked our beauty by seeing our face in the mirror. But have you understand the meaning of beauty? Beauty is not merely the external appearance. It is the natural state of mind and the real character and behavior of the individual.
Topic: family

In any one relationship, the external beauty influences only 90 seconds, the existence of relationship rest with their noble behaviors and beautifulness of mind. So we need not worry about the external appearance and try to improve your internal thoughts and behaviors. What is Family? The word family has different meaning. One of the acronyms of family is formed like the following. Father And Mother I Love You. As per this acronym, Family means, “father and mother always express their love with each other. It may also mean that, child say “I Love my parents”.
Topic: family

Generally where the love lives, there the family Harmony will exist. Love live by giving and forgiving. So please give what you have and forgive other mistakes. It is the way for family Harmony. Achieving Harmony: Once a man buys an adjacent land and removed the boundaries. If both lands are plat and same level, it is easy to start foaming without much difficulty. Suppose one is up and other down, the upper will suffer due to lack of water and lower will spoil due to more water. Similarly the marriage removes boundary of a boy and girl and they live together as husband and wife.
Topic: family

Now if any one think or try to prove, I am superior, it will affect the harmony of the family like the lands. Hence it is best to under stand each other and feel both are equal in the married life. Emotional balance Account: From the marriage the husband and wife are going to start an account called emotional balance account. It is a joint account. Both of them can operate this account. It is same as the saving bank account. There are credit and debit facilities available. But the rules and regulations have some difference.
Topic: family

Husband and wife both may credit love, friendship, Hospitality, Adjustment, Sacrifice, more help and mutual understanding in this account. These are the investments. Presenting various surprise gifts, mementos are F. D in this account. In every investment and F. D, the credit will multiply and balance will be very high. In any time, anyone may debit any small amount by way of using hard words, Criticism, acquiescing, quarrelling, act out of way of ones confidents, following bad habits will reduced the bank balance in an multiple effect. Some times it may reach zero also.
Topic: family

Debit is not a healthy practice for this account. As a husband and wife every one must open un emotional balance account and always try to credit by investment and FD’s and never try to debit any small amount. This is a way for family Harmony. Basics of family harmony There are number of factors which influences the family harmony. Understanding some basic factors will make our self to get clarity and lead a meaning full life of togetherness. Some of the factors are briefly explained below. Care and share: Life means charring, sharing and understanding” -Sushametha sen, Miss universe.
Topic: family

Life requires caring of each other. Both are required to care others needs, wants and wishes. Caring is nice experiences that make everyone feel happy. Care about the personal growth, binding relations, personal belongings, views and problems will make each other to tend to get emotional attachment. This is the basic requirement for living together. Sharing will enhance deepness of relationship. Sharing your problems, feelings, viewpoints, ambitions, love and affections are the road map for getting understanding. One proverb explain; “How much you have is not important, How much you love is most important.
Topic: family

Hence care and share between husband and wife is the basics of family harmony. OPENNESS: The husband and wife will lead a meaningful life only by openness. Once we hide anything, the hidden will block the meaningful relation. Need not be open for any thing and everything, but to be open at maximum possible, Gandhiji became “Mahatma” through the openness. Openness creates confidence and it is the foundation for healthy relation. Hence openness is a required character of family harmony. Sacrifice: For a healthy, ever lasting and enjoyable relationship, sacrifice the insulated Ego, smaller individual interests own leisure’s and pleasures .
Topic: family

One can not achieve happiness without win the heart of his partner. The success and harmony of life depends upon the winning heart of the life partner. The easiest way to win the heart of others is sacrifice. Give what you have and forgive what the mistake others do. Instead of getting one can win the heart of others by giving by himself/herself. This is the basic character of family Harmony. UNDERSTANDING: It is required to understand the nature, moods, temperament, needs, Desires, behaviors, relations of the husband by the wife is the most essential character for a family.
Topic: family

Understanding is a foundation for a family building . If the foundation is not proper, ie improper understanding between the husband and wife will lead to crack in the happiness of family . The increasing role of T. V in our present life is a major obstacle for making or creating environment for understanding. Every day by half an hour with deep love and affection, the husband and wife is required to discuss and share about happenings. It is a best way for making understanding . It will pave way for family harmony. Problems and quarrel
Topic: family

Whenever you have any few problem and quarrel in your family? The answer is ’ yes’ then ok. If ‘No’, you have to worry about it . Be a human being, the difference in opinion and individual opinion is natural . So the problem and quarrel in life is natural. We have to accept it. These are happening in ever bodies’ life. So do not worry about it. But you have to worry if the problem and quarrel is very frequent and daily basis. Then you have to identify the root causes for the problem and quarrel and rectify it. Living with problem and quarrel bring hell to home.
Topic: family

One must forgive the shortcoming of other and make our life become happy. ANGER: Anger is one letter less than the word “DANGER”. When you become anger; you will be endangered. Do you know, the people normally express anger in order to protect themselves from their own mistakes and faults. Anger and its consequence is the basic reason for the disturbance of harmony in most of the families. Anger is the one of the reason for the heart problems. One need not want to control it but to manage it. Managing anger and express anger in positive ways is the only way for happy married ife. Managing anger will bring heaven to our home and enjoy the fruits of happiness in our life. CRITICISM: Can any body in the world say, “I am perfect? ” No; it is not possible. It means, every one have some faults or mistakes in their account. Criticism is a bad habit, which spoil relationship and happiness of the family. One mistake or fault must be corrected by proper guidance not by criticism. Guidance leads correction of behavior and criticism lead friction. In family the faults must be identified and express it positively without criticism.
Topic: family

This is a required quality of both of them in a family and behaves with maturity in dealing the things in life. It is a best way for the harmony in life. Appreciation: People normally express the faults of others. But never voluntarily appreciate others goodness. Every human being is want of appreciation. Appreciation is more worth than giving money or valuable gifts. For appreciation people does not require any expensive things, but requires a mind to mind the others goodness and feelings. Whenever any one do-good things appreciate without any delay. Appreciating others goodness is basic for family harmony.
Topic: family

Conclusion: Family harmony is a state mind and feeling existing in the members of the family. It is not a materialistic thing, but psychological thing. So make our mind as very positive and feed only positive thoughts in it . The mind catches goodness and happiness by it natural way. Prepare your mind to think positively and fill with goodness. The above-explained tips will help us to understand little bit about harmony in life. Lead a faithful life; the god will look after rest. Wish you all for everlasting and a wonderful harmony in your life at all time.
Topic: family

How are family and domestic affection explored in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein? Shelley’s portrayal of childhood and domestic affection are explored by the use of her characters in the novel. She does this by setting the scene of the story in a town called Geneva. Geneva was a residence taken up by free thinkers and writers, of which she was one of them. Shelley describes the Victor as Genevese by birth, and relates his family and personal history, describing his parents and his childhood.
Topic: family

When Victor reached the age of 17, his parents resolved that he should become a student at the University of Ingolstadt. Victor’s complete dedication to his studies soon makes him the most skillful of students; he pursues knowledge like a man infatuated. Victor’s fascination soon fixes upon the work of Cornelius Agrippa, an alchemist who attempted to discover the sorcerer’s stone and the elixir of life through pseudo-scientific practice, whose works he discovered while vacationing in an old inn.
Topic: family

Cornelius Agrippa was a man of great understanding, a man who every budding scientist would look up to, and admire. Victor does just that, and Cornelius takes a shine to the boy with a new found interest in his studies. Victor is so fascinated by his work, he takes it upon himself to talk to the man, and confer the troubles that he was coming across with his studies of the human body. In another sense, Cornelius became a father that Victor never had, someone who shared an interest in him, and someone who would inspire him to fulfill his potential.
Topic: family

This potential was unleashed when Victor one dreary night in November shaped a monster, which he named Frankenstein. Victor did not act in a way a creator of life ought to act, when he see’s his ‘creation’ for the opening time. Victor was disgusted and terrified at what he had done, creating something so hideous, yet so impossible. So he himself was split between ecstasy of the creation of an extra being, and fear that this being could potentially eradicate him. With the birth of the monster, Victor realises the scale of his actions.
Topic: family

He has assumed the powers of construction, and his creation is entirely unnatural. Although he took great care to choose handsome features for his creature, the being is now nauseating to him. “Abhorred! That it was the wretch whom I had created” Victor now has the realization that creating the monster brought a vast amount of responsibility he hadn’t prepare himself for. Shelley some what shows the struggle and will power needed to raise one of your own, even if it was utterly abnormal and very precarious.
Topic: family

She raises the issue that you cannot choose what your baby looks like, and how you should never be sickened with your making, as it will have serious affects on the child itself in later life. The creature as you have seen him was brought up in a life where he was automatically dismissed at birth (if you may call it birth) and without the love and affection the new born needed, he was doomed to fight back against the disapproval. “All men hate the wretched; how, then, must I be hated, who am miserable beyond all living things!
Topic: family

Yet you, my creator, detest and spurn me, thy creature, to whom thou art bound by ties only dissoluble by the annihilation of one of us”. Here the creature is expressing his views on the situation that he entwined in, and how Victor’s response only exacerbated things. “Do your duty towards me, and I will do mine towards you and the rest of mankind” Shelley has put this in to show the comparison of the monsters upbringing, and that of Victors.
Topic: family

She implies that Victor is not doing the duties a creator, or parent should do for one’s offspring. The creature’s first experiences were of his designer, cowering away from him, shouting abuse as if he was a spawn of the devil, and cursing his very existence. The monster flees from Victors abode, and tries to get as far away from the public eye as possible. The monster’s early days are unclear to him as he tries to gain control over the knowledge of his body and senses, as according to Victor he is a “poor, helpless, miserable wretch”,
Topic: family

By 1941 Beveridge grew greatly concerned about state support for families, this led him to writing the influential Beveridge Report of 1942 to deal with increasing poverty and the shortcomings of the social security system. He found that the social security scheme was insufficient; he wanted to alleviate child poverty, as well as women’s poverty, due partly to the gender division of labour. Beveridge also wanted to equalize benefits for men and woman partly because the system had been set up in such a way as to support husbands, while assuming wives were dependents.
Topic: family

The Beveridge Report was thus aimed at eradicating the five great evils of the time: want, disease, ignorance, squalor and idleness, all seen to affect families. (Beveridge report, class notes) A series of legislative measures under the postwar Labour government began to translate this vision into concrete action. One of these was the 1945 Family Allowances Act. Aimed at all families, this act moved from a selective to a universalist notion of welfare provision and is often regarded as the blueprint for the modern welfare state3.
Topic: family

Britain’s share of world exports had declined significantly from 14% in 1914 to 9.85% in 1937. Additionally, by 19215 , 14% of the insured workforce was unemployed and the reserves of the fund had shrunk to 1 million pounds. Therefore by the 1920’s there was some recognition that this problem surpassed the normal operation of trade cycles, and companies began to rationalise and amalgamate. Furthermore, the general strike of 1926, the ‘Geddes axa’6 , and the crash of Wall Street, led to the worst unemployment figures in Britain’s history.
Topic: family

By 1931 insurances were costing the state ï¿½37 million per year, equaling a quarter of their social services expenditure. By 1934, the deficit between N.I. contributions and amounts paid out amounted to ï¿½75 million. Between 1921 and 1939 unemployment had risen to 1 million, subsequently never falling below the that mark. In 1929 registered unemployment was 10.4% , by 1932 it rose to 22.1%. The 1930s saw unemployment reaching 3.8 million and 6-7 million families “on the dole.” 35% in the coal mining industry, and a whopping 62% in the declining shipbuilding industry were unemployed. Unemployment rates were being exacerbated by the declining post-industrial industries of the north. Thus workers in particular fields were more vulnerable than others, and joined older workers, the unskilled, women and young workers as requiring support. By the 1930’s, government became concerned with stable long-term unemployment, which reached about 16.4% by mid 1932.
Topic: family

Poverty in Britain has a long history, but was not recognized until the social and economic events of the 18th and 19th centuries led to a dramatic rise in what was labeled by the state as the poverty line. Booth’s definition of poverty in 1882 served as the basis on which contemporary levels were measured: ” …The ‘poor’ are those whose means may be sufficient, but are barely sufficient, for decent independent life; the ‘very poor’ those whose means are insufficient for this according to the usual standard of life in this country.”
Topic: family

Booth, reflecting 18th century thinking, described the cause of poverty as a weakness of character. People who could help themselves were praised, those who could not were seen as failed and regarded with a degree of contempt. Society viewed poverty as a threat, thus when ‘liberals’ came into office, they did not address it but kept a “laissez- faire” attitude: “Laissez-faire, although never systematically applied in the field of social policy, was strongly entrenched as an attitude of mind”.
Topic: family

In the early 18th century, The Old Poor law was established as minimal support for the poor, by the end of the 18th century the system was under great pressure and was failing. Population growth meant more people had to be housed, supported and fed, prices of food also rose, while wages did not, this caused even working class people to experience poverty as they were unable to feed their families. The economy was also undergoing extreme booms and slumps, which they could not control, this meant many jobs were at risk. More competition in industry meant that other counties were supplying goods cheaper.
Topic: family

Such findings led to a questioning of the assumption that conjugal roles were changing among the middle class, let alone the working class. Far from being a present reality, joint conjugal roles and the ‘principle of stratified diffusion’ were unlikely to be realized in the near future. One reason for Willmott and Young’s optimism could be that their own ideas of joint roles did not mean equal roles. They described as ‘symmetrical’ families where 72 per cent of men studied helped their wife with something other than the washing up more than once a week. This ‘something’ could include taking their sons out on a Saturday afternoon.
Topic: family

These conclusions are known not only to sociologists. In 1993 the market research group Mintel conducted interviews with 1500 men and women about how domestic labour was shared out. Their conclusions were that 85 per cent of women living with a man said that they did all the laundry, ironing and cooked the main meal. As many as 20 per cent of the women stated that their partner shared only one domestic task, and less than one on ten thought that their partner shared the cooking equally. Only one men in 100 shared domestic tasks equally.
Topic: family

Obviously, these two different point of views point out their own views of whether nowadays families symmetrical or not. Young and Wilmott’s ‘The symmetrical family’ points out that the Industrial Revolution does a great effect on families life nowadays, so that families have become more equal and symmetrical with husbands and wives having an equal share of responsibilities in the home. This theory was called ‘optimistic view of an egalitarian’ by Ann Oakley, who holds the different view of symmetrical families theory. Other facts also proved that the theory of Young and Wilmott’s is a slight optimistic view.
Topic: family

Abstract Failure to thrive refers to children whose current weight or rate of weight gain is significantly lower than that of other children of similar age and gender. The difficulty lies in knowing what rate of growth is expected for any individual child, since many factors, including race and genetics, may influence growth. Failure to thrive is believed to affect up to 5 percent of the population but is most common in the first six months of a child’s life. It is commonly seen in babies born prematurely.
Topic: family

An estimated 10 percent of children seen in primary care settings have symptoms of failure to thrive. The condition can appear in all socioeconomic groups, although it is seen more frequently in those families experiencing poverty. It is important to remember that some children will normally fall below the standards on growth charts. If children are full of energy, interacting normally with their parents, and show no signs of illness, then they are probably not failing to thrive and are just smaller children.
Topic: family

It is usually associated with poor developmental and emotional functioning. (Krugman ; Dubowitz, 2003, pp. 879-884) Failure to thrive is typically differentiated into two groups, organic and non-organic. Organic failure to thrive occurs when there is an underlying medical cause; it is caused by medical complications of premature birth or other medical illnesses that interfere with feeding and normal bonding activities between parents and infants. Nonorganic (psychosocial) failure to thrive occurs in a child who is usually younger than 2 years old and has no known medical condition that auses poor growth. (Krugman ; Dubowitz, 2003, pp. 879-884) Failure to thrive is a general consequence of many possible causes. Every case, however, has one thing in common, that is the failure to gain weight as expected, which is usually accompanied by poor height growth as well. Most failure to thrive cases is diagnose in infancy or the toddler years, a crucial period of physical and mental development. After birth, a child’s brain grows as much in the first year as it will all through the rest of the child’s life.
Topic: family

Poor nutrition during this critical period can have permanent negative effects, not only on a child’s physical growth, but also on their cognitive development. Psychological, social, or economic problems within the family play a role in this issue more often. Emotional or maternal deprivation is often related to the nutritional deprivation. The mother or primary caregiver may neglect proper feeding of the infant because of preoccupation with the demands or care of others, her own emotional problems, substance abuse, lack of knowledge about proper feeding, or lack of understanding of the infant’s needs.
Topic: family

Infants born into families with psychological, social, or economic problems are more at risk of developing nonorganic failure to thrive. Maladaptive behaviors may develop around problems establishing regular, calm feeding routines, problems of attachment between the mother and the infant, and/or problems of separation. (Slater ; G, 2002, pp. 52) The most common symptoms of failure to thrive are lack of weight gain, irritability, easily fatigues, excessive sleepiness, lack of age-appropriate social response, lack of molding to the mother’s body, does not make vocal sounds and delayed motor development.