There was also Sam’s employer at the coffee shop who was just his employer and maybe not aware of what Sam was really facing in day to day life. I feel Sam would have benefited from an advocate and support from when Lucy’s mother decided that having a baby and being with Sam was not her life and she didn’t want a baby. Sam was left to raise Lucy with only a few meaningful people in his life. Most of these meaningful people had disabilities themselves. Things maybe could have been prevented if help was provided before Lucy was born.
Normally teenagers hang out with their friends and do not spend all their time with one girl/boy. In the beginning Lockie does not have much respect for his parents, his brother and little sister and, they do not really seem to care what he thinks. Lockie realises in the end that his family is actually really caring and when Lockie started to appreciate them it made the relationship's with his Mum, Dad and younger brother stronger. “Me Mum once said that us kids made her and the old man real happy. I always remember that.” (Page 54).
Normally teenagers hang out with their friends and do not spend all their time with one girl/boy. In the beginning Lockie does not have much respect for his parents, his brother and little sister and, they do not really seem to care what he thinks. Lockie realises in the end that his family is actually really caring and when Lockie started to appreciate them it made the relationship's with his Mum, Dad and younger brother stronger. “Me Mum once said that us kids made her and the old man real happy. I always remember that.” (Page 54).
He suffers from arthritis therefore has difficulties at times doing his regular activities and needs assistance for his everyday needs. Activity theory has more value than the social disengagement theory because in this scenario it clearly shows that the old man is still very engaged in social interaction with his children and grandchildren as he gets regular calls and visits therefore social disengagement theory is no use. Whereas the activity theory has more value because it shows that the man is not physically active as he suffers with arthritis and needs assistance however he is still socially as he interacts with others in the care home and with his family relatives. The activity theory is better than social disengagement theory because it can be applied to an individual as they age and it states that the effect on an individual depends on how active they are rather than stating that everyone will become less involved or withdraw themselves from social activity and interaction due to ill health, for example in this scenario the man has arthritis yet he is involved in social interaction with his family therefore this shows that the
This leave is disastrous for Baumer because he realizes that he can not communicate with the people on the home front because of his military experiences and their limited, or nonexistent, understanding of the war. When he first enters his house, for example, Baumer is overwhelmed at being home. His joy and relief are such that he cannot speak; he can only weep (Remarque, All Quiet VII. 140). When he and his mother greet each other, he realizes immediately that he has nothing to say to her: "We say very little and I am thankful that she asks nothing" (Remarque, All Quiet VII.
As any other teenager, she did not want to be close to her family. Her relationship with her father was the weakest though. In the text it states “Their father was away at home at work most of the time and when he came home he wanted supper and he read the newspaper at supper and after supper he went to bed” (899). In the story, it was never mentioned that Connie had a problem with her father. This is can be understandable because she liked how their relationship was.
Lee Ann Michelson, the director of premedical and health care advising at Harvard University says that children of many physicians are “…concerned they will be as absent in the lives of their children, as their parents were.” (pg. 273, 18) For the twin brothers Z. Paul Lorenc and Marek M. Lorenc, medicine is a big part of each of their lives, but for one it is almost too much for his family to handle. Z. Paul Lorenc is a respected plastic surgeon in Manhattan, but almost an illusion is the eyes of his family. Working from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m., he doesn’t give himself much time at all to see his wife and kids, but he says “that is what the pursuit of excellence in his specialty requires.” (pg. 273, 24) For his brother Marek, though, it is a different story.
Superficially, all seems well because his family lives a comfortable existence. Emotionally, however, his family has missed his emotional support for years. His wife, Helen, gave up “trying to compete with his work years ago.” All of his children grew up in a so-called normal family with a father and mother. At his funeral, though, they do not have enough memories about him to say a proper eulogy. Phil himself was “overweight” and unhealthy, obsessed with work and negligent with his personal life.
Paul is a good person I would have to say maybe a little lost and miss guided but a good person in general poetic person his deep but you have to know the intentions of his character. His father seemed like a good man trying to make a honest living for him and his family but I could see where he could be stern. His teachers seemed not to like Paul at all repulsed by Paul and his actions. Most of the people in the theatre didn’t seem to mind Paul at all until they were told by his dad not to let him into the theater. 6.
Now what have I got to show off to the other men? A smooth hand I used to keep clean for her? And a broken messed up one? I have nothing. I'm just like all the other men except for the fact my dad is the boss and I don't sleep in the bunkhouse but still… It's not the same.