Essays on Family Page 231

Using the Reader-Response approach, I analyze John Betjeman’s poem “A Subaltern’s Love Song” (1945). The mention of a tennis tournament captures my interest due to my competitive nature. It appears that the individuals mentioned in the poem were familiar with each other and potentially in a romantic relationship, as they played against one another. I…

Chang-Rae Lee’s novel, “On Such A Full Sea”, explores social trends in a dystopian future America. Utilizing a first-person plural narrator, Lee documents the journey of the teenaged protagonist: Fan. Lee uses this fantasy world as a medium for the expression of concerns about the state of affairs in the modern world. As a result,…

The internet has become more popular in this generation. Now being able to keep in touch with people and chat online has led to online dating. The idea of meeting online can be exciting, but can also have many setbacks. Online dating should have its restrictions in order to keep people safe. These days’ people…

All these are manifested in my being a homo faber. Work is a way for me to express and liberate myself, and to humanize the world. 4. Consciousness is intentional. Human knowing is a dialectical unity of the subject’s openness to reality and the self-givenness of reality in an endless series of profiles against a…

Thank you Dr. Nadine Burke Harris for addressing a truth that is too often denied. Your courage to speak out on this issue is extraordinary. Most people do not realize how early childhood trauma affects people into adulthood. For instance, the leading cause of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, is not military combat, but rather growing…

The most beneficial and convenient invention most individuals can own are handheld mobile devices (smart phones) with internet access. Ordering products from our favorite store’s app. and/or website, then having that product delivered to our front door is as easy as a click of a button. Coral Ouellette, a writer who specializes in digital marketing…

In 1980, Congress passed the Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act (AACWA) in response to the increasing number of children in the foster care system. This legislation required states to make “reasonable efforts” to avoid removing children from their homes and to reunite families when removal was necessary. Additionally, the AACWA provided financial incentives for…

An apple does not fall without a reason, invention is not created without a need and a crime is not committed without a motive. There is a reason for everything. Child killers are a very interesting topic when discussing why and how these children could ever harm anyone or anything. In these few pages I…

Commonly, defining the word ―love‖ for people is simply as if they were the ones who invented it. No matter how complex the set of emotions, behaviors and beliefs love is, it still became a talk that was regularly mentioned by many people because of their different beliefs. It is acknowledgeable for everyone to have…

What is it?             “Dental caries comprise the single most common chronic disease affecting children in the United States today,” (Lewis et al., 2000). While education and preventative visits to a dentist have certainly reduced the number of incidences, the issue remains a prominent one.             Professionally applied topical fluoride agents, for practical purposes, utilize…