Personnel Moral Dilemma Teresa Maynard CJA/324 June 24 2012 University of Phoenix J.T.Mendoza Personnel Moral Dilemma This personal dilemma started about two years goes when my grandson TeiJay started showing signs of some very extreme behavior after my son committed suicide on September 30, 2010. This just happened to be TeiJay seventh birthday. I have taken care of TeiJay since birth and he has lived with me ever since. His mother which is my daughter has never really taken on the responsibility to care for him and has been in and out of his life never having the mother baby bond with her child. He has been more of a son to me than a grandson.
The Messenger By Markus Zusak Ed Kennedy is 19 and very much aware of how little he has going for him. His little brother's a star at university. Ed himself is a reader, but has no hopes of going any further in school. He's lied about his age in order to get a job as a cab driver. His dad has died an alcoholic.
What if God is not invisible at all, but solid, breathing, and human? In his post-apocalyptic novel, The Road, Pulitzer Prize winner Cormac McCarthy introduces the idea of a “personal God” in the form of a father and son bound together by the will to survive. Unnamed by the author, both the father and his boy are surrounded by enigmas; it is never revealed what exactly destroyed the world in fire and ash, or how the pair managed to survive for years before the novel begins. Hunted by cannibalistic “blood cults” and lacking of any regular sources of food, water, and shelter, the father and son strike out for the coast in the hopes of some better form of existence. It is in the desolation, the absolute and utter hopelessness of this novel that the idea of a personal God arises.
And that control is not possible without unhappiness. And that is why they were not allowed control in their lives. At the time Aldous Huxley would have started writing this book, the world would have still been recovering from World War One. I can only imagine that a large portion of society at the time would have wished for a world where everybody is happy and care free. So Aldous Huxley creates a place where society is always happy and care free.
His dad could sell anything, it was an innate trait he had, but Tommy Boy didn’t seem to have the skills. After the death of Tommy Boy`s dad, the family business is in need of some major sales. In desperation, Tommy Boy is sent on the road to make the annual sales trip. Tommy Boy and his road companion Richard Hayden learn a lot of hard lessons before they learn how to successfully convince a client. Here, are five things we can learn from this untraditional sales team.
The movie is based around a young rapper called Jimmy B-Rabbit Smith, who is stuck a rut and is struggling to make a success of his life. He has been brought up with racial abuse and is surrounded my violence and drugs everyday of his life. He lives with his mum and her boyfriend in a trailer park due to his dead end job. His family doubt this potential and don’t offer him a great deal of support to achieve his dreams. Life does start to look brighter when he meets an old friend called Wink who has contacts who can get Jimmy deal to record a demo of his music that can possibly lead to a rap career.
In his autobiographical story, This Boy's Life, Tobias Wolff discusses the journey that both he and his mother went through searching for financial stability and a peaceful life. On this journey Tobias is left with no positive male influence, which not only causes him to develop several behavioral problems, but makes the past have a long-term impact on his life. As hard as it may be, Tobias is forced to grow up at a young age, and alone, which is something he must face. Through his journey of adolescence, Tobias seems to show signs of emotional and behavioral disorders, which were caused by not having any rules or regulations to follow. To try to avoid the harsh realities of his past, Tobias develops many different distinct personalities at various points.
In the novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, it exhibits the adventures, troubles, and maturing of and eleven year old boy named Huck Finn. Huck Finn comes from the lowest part in white society. His father is a lush, and is never seen doing anything for him. Huck is homeless, but lives with Widow Douglas, who is trying to change him. This doesn’t go very well because he goes back to his ways of being independent.
Notice that Sarty has no real sense of his father's outrage. He sees his father's anger, but he cannot understand it or from where it comes. Sarty was not alive during or before the war, so his only frame of reference is his ten years in this sharecropping family. Sarty lives with his father, his mother, an aunt, two sisters, and a brother. Sarty is the only member of the family to truly act on his own conscience, and ultimately this separates him from the rest of the family.
In the story “Stones”, by Timothy Findley, a relationship between David Max and his son Ben is estranged by the effect of war. David Max is an ordinary man who owns a flower shop with his wife, and three children. David joins the army to protect his children, so in the future they would not have to join. When David returns from the war he is destroyed; his guilt ate away at him from the inside and out and he never returns to the father he once was. David becomes unrecognizable to his friends and family.