I have been mistaken as my mom for as long as I can remember, because I am told I look exactly like her, and I do. We have the same hair, same round face, and same complexion, we could be mistaken as twins, but the one thing I do not have in common with my mom is my personality. My grandmother likes to say ‘you are your mother on the outside, and your father on the inside.’ I smile when she says this because I idolize my father. Now looking back, I realize how much of him he has invested in me; he has formed me into who I am and who I will become in the future, and I am proud of that. My younger brother has been telling me that I am not ‘normal’ for a
Copying her just how my younger sister would copy me. The ideal daughter is obedient, and follows the wisdom of their elders. That is what my role as a daughter should have been like, but this is far from true. After the stage of wanting to be everything like my mom, I started to see things differently. Due to facing lots of adult problems at an early age I had become a very independent child
Between the two responses, I don’t really see a difference in their answers. I believe it quite comparable to most people. Listening to my mom’s response finally got me thinking about what my expectations are and wondering if they will change. I honestly hope to become the woman she is, and I’d have the same goals in life for my family as she does. Fortunately my boss is also her boss and I’m basically at the point where she began as
c) How would your answer to part (a) change, if at all, if Charles were not an active participant in his employer’s retirement plan? d) How would your answer to part (a) change if Charles were married and filed a joint return with his spouse, who has no earned income, assuming their combined AGI is $85,000? What would be their maximum IRA contribution deduction? 8) Joe and Jean have five grandchildren, ages 19, 16, 15, 12, and 10. The have established Coverdell Education Savings Accounts (CESA) for each of the grandchildren and would like
Not only is she my mother she is my best friend. Of course that sounds cliché because who hasn’t heard someone say that about their mother? But in reality she is the person I want to talk to when something has went wrong whether it’s something tiny to something big she is always there to
Mama finally stands up to Dee and realizes the beauty in Maggie. Mama is a simple woman. She has worked hard her entire life and has done the best to support her family. Although Mama may not agree with Dee, it seems as if she is caught up in Dee’s opinions and behavior. Almost as if she wants to be enough for Dee because she knows she never has been.
Then there is Dee, the older sister, which is out spoken and thinks she is the best looking girl in the world. As for Maggie, she is ok with the way they live, however Dee does not understand why they still live the way they do. The older sister thinks she can take and do as she wishes, as Maggie lets everything go without a fight. If they could just get along, they could change a whole lot in each other’s lives and be allot more understanding of each other. If every person in this world would stop judging, and start listening to each other, there may not be as many wars and deaths.
These two articles work together to show how balancing family, marriage, and work is very difficult whether it be unrealistic expectations of co-parenting or mismanaging anger. In Hope Edelman’s “The Myth of Co-Parenting: How It Was Supposed to Be. How it Was” she expresses vividly how she feels about her misinterpretation of married life. Before she was married to John, she had a “vague assumption” (Edelman 284) that co-parenting was an attainable goal. Her idea of co-parenting was “If I’m going to contribute half of the income, then he’ll contribute half of the housework and child care” (Edelman 284).
After reading select parts of The Odyssey, I found that there is really no way to generalize the women in Homer’s Odyssey because they all have their own distinct traits that make each of them great, strong, and powerful women. A very powerful woman is Arete. She is as powerful as the king, Alcinous. Her daughter Nausicaa displays great intelligence in handling Odysseus despite being so young. These women I speak of above are great women in a good sort of way but there are also some very bad women that still have some amazing qualities.
Marital therapist, Dr. Carl A. Whitaker concurs that “From early childhood on, each of us carried models for marriage, femininity, masculinity, motherhood, fatherhood, and all the other family roles.” We unconsciously and consciously bring memories of our parents’ relationship into our own marriages. These unfulfilled expectations, caused by an internal struggle, can lead to a crippled marriage. Although individuals can overcome psychological patterns accrued during childhood, the hard work of changing those patterns becomes an oxymoron of age-old myth of marriage. Roiphe continues to explain that people assume that all problems will be solved and life will become easier once you marry. In making this statement, the author shows that true hard work of marriage ultimately begins when you say “I do”.