He grew up playing golf just on the weekends, because the priority in his life was still school. This was not only his parent’s decision, but also his own, his goal was to finish college and then turn golf pro and show the world how good he palyed.
Harvey Firestone was born in Ohio on December 20th, 1838. Even though his parents were just farmers, they encouraged him to get a high school diploma and even go off to college. He completed college courses in Cleveland specializing in business. He then went off to work as a bookkeeper. One of his first jobs was working at the Columbiana Buggy Company with his uncle.
He was one of the brightest students in his class. Later on in his life he started to do maintenance. Although he spent most of his time working on farming equipment, he still was the repair man. Later on in his life, he moved to Chicago in the 1870’s to continue on in his career. Years later, he attended Harvard University for business.
Why college is important to me My parents were hard working individuals who loved each other and provided our basic needs food, clothing, shelter and most of all discipline. My mother is matriarch of the family, but my father was a hard working, well respected individual with an eighth grade education. My father was a stump digger and hauler and became a self taught heavy equipment operator. After witnessing him endure multiple injuries and near death incidents I knew this was not the career path for me. This is what started my life pursuit of getting an education.
For example, when Nora’s friend from school was married her husband was in complete control of his business. However, when he passed away the whole thing collapsed. He didn’t see her as ever needing to live without him and that is the impotence that was intended to be portrayed. At the beginning of the story, Nora seemed to like the lifestyle. As the play continued, she realized her need for independence, which is why I believe she took the lending into her own hands.
Although, she was in a rush to get her married. She thinks of it as a business deal: her daughter gets a husband and she gets someone to help out on the farm. Lucynelle, the young daughter symbolized innocence. She was very simple and lacked understanding of life and her surroundings. Tom Shiftlet is a handyman looking for work.
Her husband left early on in Emily’s life and her mother was forced to leave her with friends or send her to day care. “…and I did not know then what I know now- the fatigue of the long day, and the lacerations of group life in the kinds of nurseries that are only parking places for children” (Olsen 707). Emily got nowhere near the amount of attention she needed. Maggie, on the other hand, was always with her mother. Maggie’s mother was also older and better suited to be a mother because she was older and more experienced however, Maggie’s father also left the family.
They may not do it on purpose but whether they realize it or not, it can destroy their family. Fathers should not make their job too much of a priority because it upsets and affects the female parent, a father’s presence helps children’s development, and it can be bad for the fathers health. The biggest problem mothers have with overworked fathers is the lack of attention showed to the child by the father. “We have a one year old who misses his daddy as much as I do.” (healthboards.com). This was written by a female parent on healthboards website.
It actually can be called a nine to five job. In my abstract I talk about being a single parent is like a two sided coin. Well it is because you have to be the mother and the father. That is a heard job to do because there are things mother need to teach their child the father can’t and then it is also the other way around the father cannot teach what a mother need to teach the child. Being a single parent means that one parent has to do all the work by themselves without any help from the other parent.
While many single mothers worry too much or regret decisions during their children childhood they are satisfied with the result and the out come of there children by the actions their children make after they grown out of their childhood In “I stand here ironing” a mother depicts her first child to have a bad early childhood by making the wrong decision not by choice but simply what got handed to them in a urban world. “She was a miracle to me but when she was eight months old I had to leave her daytimes with the woman downstairs to whom she was no miracle at all, for I worked or looked for work and for Emily’s father who “could no longer endure sharing want with us.”” Narrator did not want leave her child with the downstairs neighbor, but to provide the little she could to her child she made scarifies due to been a one parent family. She did all she could even with the father figure leaving to irrelevant discussion on his part. When she sees the development of her child thru the years she gets warmth never felt. “Now suddenly she was Somebody, and as imprisoned in her difference as she had in anonymity.” In the narrators point of view her child was an outcast, a nobody, but when she got the call from her daughter it seem the sun finally started to shine in her daughter path, she was free.