Khyra Isheq A girl of seven who was allowed to die by a failed Social Services Khyra Isheq was beaten with a cane and was allowed to starve and eventually die a slow and painful death by her mother Angela Gordon and her step father Junaid Abuhamza. This happened to Khyra even though she was being monitored and visited by at least nine Social Workers, Teachers, Education Officers and even the Police. Many of the people who visited Khyra were simply fobbed off by her mother. Her step father who was found to be a Schizophrenic believed that Khyra was possessed by an evil spirit called a “Jinn” and that Khyra could only be saved by having the spirit starved and beaten out of her. Once Khyra had started to lose weight she was removed from mainstream school and was instead taught from home by her mother.
She believes these tests will make her daughter a prodigy. General knowledge is good for our child, help them to see things in different angles, but all knowledge’s are not important. In life there are times, we may ask unimportant questions, that doesn’t have any role to make our child a better person. Similarly, in the story of “Two kinds “, Nikan asked and tested by her mother several questions, but these questions and tests can’t make her a prodigy. According to PDF, document posted on scholar.
Jamie and Tom. When Anna lost both her sons she was distraught. She wasn’t sure what to do or how to act. With Anna being like this she turns to drugs ‘poppies’ to give her some pain relief and escape from the mourning. Anna quotes "I thought that she could teach me much about how to manage alone as a woman in the world."
A couple of years before the events described in the movie, she took an overdose had her stomach pumped. Strange, as it may seem but we know nothing about her family, relatives or friends. She voluntarily checks herself into the psychiatric hospital and at first seems to be the sanest patient in the institution. However soon after this she demands to be discharged. Susanna is diagnosed with borderline personality disorder that is characterized by emotional disturbance.
Was is a suicide or was it truly a murder? Born Norma Jean Mortensen in 1926, she took on the name Marilyn after becoming a model (She). Marilyn’s mother, Gladys Baker, was deemed unfit to take care of her (She). Her father disappeared before she was born. After being removed from her mother’s care Marilyn had twelve sets of foster parents and at least one stay on an orphanage (Marilyn).
At an early age Angelou was raped by a friend of her mother’s while visiting her mother in St. Louis. This violent act left the young girl traumatized. When her uncle’s heard about what happen they killed the man who raped her. She felt as though his death was her fault and she did not speak for five years. When Angelou was 12 years old an educated black woman from Stamps by the name of Bertha Flowers helped her to break this silence.
For instance, “you must believe that your client was sexually abused, even if she sometimes has doubts because no one invents abuse” (Steffens et al, p 12). Memories like these are processed everyday in the brain. People recollect and reconstruct memories based on certain event using sights, words, sounds and taste. However, distinguishing what a person experienced and events that might have been imagined, heard of, thought of or even dreamed about could possibly have gaps in the reproduction of the event because a person’s imagination is filled with distortions. This is why many researchers today are finding that the part of the brain that places memories determines whether a person’s memory is true or false.
She had a different approach to things because of her past. When she was raped, she was afraid all boys would want to have sex with her. Her first real friend, Louise, helped her by letting her act like a girl for once. Marguerite grew stronger, more experienced, and less naïve during the story. She still had a lot to learn, but she lived out her childhood to the fullest and embraced who she was, whereas at the beginning of the story she wanted to be pretty and white.
My stepmother threw me out of the house when I was 18 after I stayed out too late one night. I had a good friend in high school who unfortunately committed suicide. I was quite close to her, and felt a terrible loss after she had passed away. After my stepmother had thrown me out of the house, I went to live with the mother of my friend whom had committed suicide. April and I have had a tight bond with each other up until recently.
She was first admitted to the hospital after she slit her wrists with a knife; this is the time she had become despondent, irritable, and out of control at home. The night before our interview, she had slammed her hand against the wall in an outburst of anger and frustration stating “I can’t stand it anymore” (Oster and Montgomery 41). Depression is defined as mood changes and other behaviors that are categorized from a small-scale sadness to extreme feelings of sorrow and thoughts to commit suicide (Oster and Sarah 43). In teenagers it occurs frequently and around a period in their lives when their identity begins to change. This tends to occur at a time when both males and females are trying to be unique from their parents, have gender and sexuality issues, and are making decisions for their well being.