Her mother became a polygamist in China and therefore disgraced herself. She never knew her mother well except from the few times she saw her and the stories her grandma told of her. In this An-mei learns about sacrifice from her mother. This story is like the parable because her mother transforms herself into something totally different. The Red Candle is about a Chinese girl named Lindo whose parents chose a husband for her when she was only two years old.
One point that Chua makes is that Eastern parenting is the correct method of parenting because they do not take the psyche or self esteem of the child into consideration during critique. Suicide Note by Janice Mirikitani is the farewell of a college student who committed suicide due to feeling inadequate. Eastern parenting techniques are psychologically damaging to their children and the parents are taking the risk of pushing them over the edge with the extreme pressure and expectations. Chua says in Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior that “Western parents are concerned about their children’s psyches. Chinese parents aren’t.
There are numerous reasons why and they are because though she committed a terrible sin doesn’t mean she’s a bad person, Hester could have giving up on pearl but she pleaded to keep her, and pearl is Hester’s only prize possession Hester Prynne committed a crime and sin that is very extreme in the puritan society. She is an adulterer and had a baby out of wedlock but this doesn’t mean Hester is a bad person. Years after Pearls birth Hester became more active in the society she brings food to the doors of poor people, she nurses the sick, and she is a source of aid in times of trouble. Hester also starts interpreting the scarlet A as her being “able” rather than “adulterer”. According to chapter 13 Hester became more speculative thinking about what it means to become a woman of her society.
She once saved her money for two months to purchase Vaseline for her dry hands. When it came time to buy the item; it had gone up two cents, and she could not buy it. Another health issue was her kids always had runny noses which got worse because she couldn’t afford medicine or even tissues. Finally, if having worms isn’t bad enough, she has no money for the worm medicine.
Every day more people die in America than are born. Any increases in population since 1972 have been due to immigration.2 The sociological perils we face are not those of population explosion, but population reduction. The Population Research Institute agrees, and concluded, “Our long-term problem is not too many children, but too few children.”3 The legalization of abortion resulted in a drastic reduction of the number of children in this country. By 1980 there were 6.5 million fewer school-age children in America than just a decade earlier. This required the closing of nine-thousand elementary schools.4 Legalized abortion has resulted in over 46 million fewer taxpayers in America to support the elderly.
Some people say abortion is the easiest way to solve the problem. But they don’t really know how the mothers are affected by abortion. The effects of abortion are on both physical and psychological health. After abortion, some women get Traumatic Stress Disorder, Dissociation and emotional paralysis, Guilt and Regret, Brooding and Antisocial Behavior, Anxiety Disorder, Sexual Dysfunction, Drug and Alcohol Abuse, Depression, Suicide. The worst case is that the woman cannot give birth or even death at all.
There has been approximately 2 billion a year being paid for emergency treatment for groups that are mostly made up of illegal immigrants. The biggest share of this would be women who show up in emergency rooms to deliver their babies. Emergency rooms are required to screen and stabilize patients no matter of citizen or insurance status. There are some that believe these services encourage the women to cross the border for care. Advocates for immigrants feel that the funding is not enough.
Do Children Living below the Poverty Level have adequate Health Insurance? Abstract This paper goes over children living in poverty and whether they have access to adequate health insurance. The paper compiles statistics on uninsured children; researches the Medicaid laws that congress has passed and covers the effects that lack of health insurance has on children. Over 40 million people are living below the poverty line, and many children are living without any health coverage. The unemployment level in our country has nearly doubled since 2007, and children can be some of the hardest hit it our economy.
Kay did her daughter a favor out of the kindness and loving in her heart. Mercy killing can be the right thing to do if someone’s life just is not worth living much longer. Be it a best friend or a mother if mercy killing is done with good intentions then they should not be arrested for murder. In reality, people commit suicide every day. What is one more person; if someone wants to die that bad who are you to tell them they can’t?
When Barbara found out she was pregnant another time, she felt an abortion would be the best decision because she had little money to support her and her son already, and her mom said that she would not help her daughter with to have another baby. Barbara went through with the abortion, and even though she was set on the idea we could see that she was going through both physical and emotional pain both during and after the procedure. The story of Imaculee was also another insightful story. In this novel we learn that Imaculee was a young girl when the genocide in Rwanda broke out. The Hutu people were killing the Tutsis just because they were Tutsi.