“Manhood” by John Wain focuses on the slightly negative sides of pacing, even though the father may not be doing what he does to put pressure on his son. “The Happiest Days of Your Life” written by Penelope Lively, is telling us how childhood actually can be. “Growing up” is represented in both stories, as a period in your life where other people affect you and adjust you into being who you are, and in that way making every single person unique. I chose to analyse and compare these two texts, because they deal with the theme “growing up” in quite similar ways. E.g.
Here and there he will make small references for the kid even though his belief is cloudy. The kid had a lost childhood; if the dad were gone what would he then have a reason to stay alive then for? The father could also have found a presence of God in his son, “If he is not the word of God then God never spoke.” (5) Its obvious he knows about God and was possibly previously a believer, but he has gone literally gone through hell in this toxic wasteland, so he could have lost that connection to Him. Why would God be doing this to us, maybe there isn’t one? It’s hard to know what he actually thinks but through him we see the previous faith being installed in the son.
Euripides Essay In his proverb, Euripides implies that whoever won’t want to learn at a young age, he or she won’t want to learn earlier on in life and won’t have a bright future. Also that they would love to go back to learn but it will be too late! Euripides supports his implication because everyone that reads his proverb knows that it’s true. This proverb hit me and gave me so many thoughts. Euripides proverb means so much but in less words.
It is apparent that being a single parent is tough, but the success of your parenting skills relies solely on the understanding of situations you encounter and your ability to handle them. The authority embedded in Atticus’ actions contributes to the overall positive atmosphere in which the children are raised. Evidently, Atticus places his trust and support within his children on the basis that he knows they, Jem and Scout, are capable of making admirable choices. To exemplify, Atticus states, “I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what.
His sister sometimes annoys him but most of the time they get along. He claims in some cases his parents might be right about some things and decisions but he doesn’t like people telling him what to do, he likes to think on his own and when he gets stuck he will ask his parents. Usually when he gets into a disagreement with his parents, they talk to him and with reasoning they make him agree. I asked him if he was in trouble who would he go to besides his immediate family, he said it depends on what kind of trouble? If it was a big trouble I would go to my aunts and uncles, if it was something I did wrong and I got in trouble with my parents I would talk to my friends or cousins.
Many people argue that times change and people of a previous generation do not know what to do with problems of their generation. This is true but society doesn’t change after just a generation or two, it gradually changes and the previous generation will always have had similar problems that we as in this generation experience. If your belief is so extreme that you would not conform no matter what, what is the harm of getting some advice? It will still and always be up to you how you solve that predicament. We all have our strengths and weaknesses, our pros and cons, what we know and what we don’t know.
It has been about 60 years since this book was originally published with the lesson that anything is possible if you truly believe in yourself, yet many of us are hampered by how difficult it is to pursue our dreams and we are handicapped with self-doubt and negative thoughts that are either “that is so difficult” or “I don’t think I can do it” as part of our daily vocabulary. While many positive mental attitude speakers and writers such as Thomas D. Whillhite have espoused the positive attitude of “Think success and it will happen….Think failure and it will happen,” there is a scientific term - “self-efficacy” – that was introduced by Albert Bandura MY SELF-EFFICACY PHILOSOPHY in 1986 (Snowman & McCown, 2013, p. 187.). Almost four decades later, the scientific potency is still evident. Not to be confused with self-esteem, self-efficacy is not about self-worth.
In this case, I agree with her partially. Being rational is undoubtedly an essential human virtue. But can this be applied universally? I believe that there are situations when no one is able to act rationally and this might not always be a negative attribute. This issue makes me think of my father, who often tells me that in one of his most important business decisions, he relied on his ‘gut feeling’ instead of his rational self and still made one of his best decisions ever.
As one author puts it, “Fathers…take us by the hand, lead us into the outside world, and shape the way in which we confront it.”(Thomas) On the other hand, many people believe the very opposite. Researchers have said, “We do not believe that the researched data supports the conclusion that fathers are essential to child well-being.”(Silverstein and Auerbach) The two articles that I have had the chance to study, research this topic and give very different viewpoints. One, based on their own experiences, and those of close friends. The other does extensive research, and thus, forms an opposing conclusion as to why fathers are not essential. The first editorial that I reviewed was titled, “Fathers Are Essential.” The life experiences inspire the editorial written by David Thomas.
January 22 2013 Human Nature: Good vs. Evil For centuries, man has been plagued with the burden of trying to decipher if humans are born good, or if we are just inherently evil. After many trials and tribulations, most people have come to their own conclusions regarding this statement. Although there have been some good arguments made about the opposing view, the truth is that that humans are born evil; however, parental guidance which creates nonviolent homes along with laws that force individuals to choose good restrain our potential for evil, but if it weren’t for the latter, we would take as we wanted, and if it wasn’t for laws enforcing us to be good, the world would be in chaos, because it is our natural instinct to do as we please, and to take what we want, and not only this, but many different cultures have adopted rituals to rid children of their evils, because they feel that human nature is evil, and that they have to give the child a “clean slate”. Because we are only human, we tend to make mistakes more often than not, and because we make those mistakes, it is hardly impossible to argue that humans are good.