Essays Tagged: "giving birth"

Domestic violence

tranger, rather her husband or boyfriend. In this country, domestic violence is almost as common as giving birth. There is, however, hope for these women; help is available.Domestic violence occurs wa ...

(2 pages) 316 4 4.5 Oct/1996

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Women's Studies

Congenial and obstructive on david copperfield - charles dickens

where he and his new friends Tommy Traddles and James Steerforth are beaten. His mother died after giving birth to a child that was fatherd by Mr. Murdstone. After this incident David is sent to work ...

(8 pages) 64 0 3.8 Apr/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Charles Dickens

Multiple Births

event. Multiple births can arise in many different combinations of ways but theprobability of giving birth to more than one child remains fairly constant when comparedto the entire human race ...   The use of drugs that treat female sterility, or fertility drugs, may increase thechances of giving birth to multiple children. These drugs cause the ovaries to release anegg once a month b ...

(4 pages) 67 0 4.3 Jan/1997

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology > Human Biology

"The Incorruptible Leader": Maximilien Robespierre, an interesting man in France's history.

xtremely cheerful, and the family, in addition was underprivileged. Therefore, when his mother died giving birth when Robespierre was ten, his father left Maximilien and his brother and two sisters, w ...

(6 pages) 84 2 4.2 Apr/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History

Why abortion should be legal

ee choice to have an abortion because it's her body. The majority of legal abortions are safer then giving birth.Abortion has not always been safe. Before abortions were legal, between the late 1800's ... price could be as high as 2000 dollars. However, the woman saves much more having the abortion then giving birth and having to support a child.If a woman is forced to give birth to a child she does no ...

(2 pages) 67 1 4.0 May/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues

The Effects of War on Ernest Hemingway.

and are reflected in his works.Grace Hall Hemingway pleased her husband, Dr. Clarence Hemingway, by giving birth to their first son and second child of six, Ernest Miller, on July 21, 1899 in Oak Park ...

(5 pages) 79 0 4.0 May/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors > Ernest Hemingway

Theodore Roosevelt: Icon Of the 20th Century.

880 and in 1881 was elected to the state legislature. Then in 1884 tragedy struck and his wife died giving birth to their only child, a baby girl, even more unfortunate was the fact that eleven hours ...

(5 pages) 158 0 4.5 Jun/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History > North American Presidents

"THe Matrix" .

being, that some point in the early 21st century, all of mankind was united and were excited after giving birth to "artificial intelligence". This then produced an entire race of machines. War agains ...

(3 pages) 241 3 4.3 Jun/2003

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis

Theodore Roosevelt.

of the Republican Party. In 1884, He married for the first time to Alice Lee Roosevelt. Alice died giving birth to a daughter who TR named after his wife, Alice. TR lost both his mother and his wife ...

(3 pages) 58 0 0.0 Nov/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History > North American Presidents

"Out of the Dust" By Karen Hesse.

her hands. She is filled with guilt and blame but it truly was an accident later on her mother died giving birth to her stillborn son Franklin. When the two were buried, it was turning point for Billi ...

(2 pages) 40 1 3.9 Nov/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Did females once dominate the world? Were they considered to be above men at one time? Comparison to "The Epic of Gilgamesh."

ion.In early society, females dominated over males because they were able to continue human life by giving birth. Procreation was considered the "essential" experience in early society. People thought ... female body when she is about to give birth. They compared the sun rising in the east with a female giving birth to a child. Society centered around females. They received such respect, that ancient l ...

(4 pages) 38 0 5.0 Dec/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Child Rearing in sixteenth century English Upper Classes. How did adult views of children shape adult practices toward their children?

s in how children were reared.In the 1500s and early 1600s, aristocratic mothers often hired, after giving birth, a wet nurse, a woman whose job it was to breast-feed the infant. Women craved separati ...

(2 pages) 49 0 3.3 Jan/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History

Postpartum Mood Disorder

d disorders. Postpartum mood disorder is a mental health disorder striking within the first year of giving birth. All women of childbearing age should be aware that a postpartum mood disorder can stri ... ffect one to two new mothers in a thousand. Symptoms can occur very soon or a couple of weeks after giving birth. Postpartum psychosis usually starts with similar symptoms of postpartum depression but ...

(3 pages) 66 0 4.0 Feb/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases

Lively Uncanny Character You'll love; Somewhere Between Conformity and Feminism A Female Comedian Sets the Stage for the Many, of Both, that Follow

On January 20, 1953, Lucille Ball was on the front page of the newspaper after giving birth to a beautiful baby girl. Ironically, President Dwight D. Eisenhower was inaugurated th ...

(21 pages) 84 0 4.2 Feb/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies

The philosopher Rousseau and a biography of him along with some of his beliefs

as born in Geneva on June 28, 1712. (He died at Ermenonville on July 2, 1778). His mother died upon giving birth to him, while his father wasn't much help to him, as he was a violently tempered man an ...

(5 pages) 31 0 2.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays

"Mary Shelley's Frankenstein has been adapted to a film about the dangers inherent in the quest for personal glory at the expense of all else". Discuss

ardless who it affects or how. We see Victors over ambition from the death of his mother as she was giving birth; Victor quotes "No one need ever die. I will stop this... I promise", where as Walton's ... young scientist he knew and understood how the body was to function, and when his mother died from giving birth it filled him with a sense of hatred, maybe even towards god himself, he vowed that no ...

(5 pages) 51 0 5.0 Apr/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors

Book review on "The Priestess of Avalon" by Marion Zimmer Bradley and Diana Paxton. 480 pages

isle of Avalon, and Prince Coelius of Camulodunum in Britannia, circa 300 A.D. When her mother dies giving birth to Eilan, her father raises her in the Roman manner. Then war threatens Camulodunum, Pr ... 0 pages. The characters rarely come fully alive. Much of the action happens in reviewing narrative, giving the book a cool, distant feel. Toward the final third of Priestess of Avalon, the conflicts b ...

(4 pages) 28 0 4.5 Apr/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Infanticide is morally wrong.

history, infanticide has been practised and accepted in most cultures, and not without good reason. Giving birth is one of the most natural things a mother can experience, and infanticide is a natural ...

(2 pages) 26 0 3.7 Apr/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy

Perspective on war

oon I also will go there to help him out; kill those nazi pigdogs. My mother died 10 years ago when giving birth to my little brother, my little brother was blown to bits in a nazi bombing raid recent ...

(2 pages) 31 0 3.0 Apr/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

Baseball America's National Pastime

une 19, 1846 the first true baseball game was played at Elysian Fields in Hoboken, New Jersey, thus giving birth to what some call the greatest sport ever played on earth. Americans have Alexander Car ...

(3 pages) 78 0 3.4 May/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers