Essays Tagged: "Relationships"

sex education in traditional societies

eople. It covers topics such as reproduction, sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), contraceptives, relationships, behavior patterns, cultural issues, and gender issues. Sex education can be taught in ... Many of the programs only discuss the sexually anatomy and reproduction, saying nothing of love or relationships.With 21 states mandating sex education and 23 encouraging it, one would think that tee ...

(7 pages) 421 4 3.6 Apr/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sex & Sexuality

The direct and indirect impact of rhetoric (on The Color Purple)

t sense, is communication, and how people relate to each other. The movie The Color Purple is about relationships. Therefore rhetoric plays a very important role in this movie. Throughout The Color Pu ... n almost every aspect of her life. The effects of rhetoric in Celie's life are apparent through her relationships with Mr. Johnson, Shug Avery, and Sofia.The relationship that Celie has with Mr. Johns ...

(3 pages) 115 0 3.8 Jan/1996

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

An Analysis of the Final Scenes of Alfred Hictcock's NOTORIOUS

motifs and objects, shot styles andshifting points of view, and light and dark to help explain the relationshipsbetween Alicia, Devlin, Sebastian and Mrs. Sebastian, and an overalltheme of being trap ...

(5 pages) 67 0 3.3 Nov/1996

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies

Reviving Olphelia by Mary Pipher

well as Mary, their psychologist. They key messages we attempted to show the class were: the stress relationships between parents and adolescent girls is are under as a result of a misogynistic cultur ... t pain, confusion and estrangement. These feelings manifest themselves in eating disorders, abusive relationships and behavior, and even suicide. It is rare for girls to emerge from adolescence with t ...

(2 pages) 58 0 4.2 Mar/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Black Boy by Richard Wright. Focuses on women which affected Wright throughout his autobiography.

ut his childhood. Throughout his experiences, many different women affect Richard. He describes his relationships with his mother, Granny, and aunts. Each woman in his life influenced Richard's outloo ...

(3 pages) 109 1 4.0 Mar/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Comparison of animals and characters in Zora Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God. How do animals help us understand the novel?

ortant is the concept of animals in the novel? The animals help us understand fully Janie?s various relationships and situations she deals with.We know that Janie is still very naive when she is force ... ortant is the concept of animals in the novel? The animals help us understand fully Janie?s various relationships and situations she deals with.We know that Janie is still very naive when she is force ...

(8 pages) 104 0 3.6 Mar/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

They Can't be the Same

o with the conversation. Women traditionally are more careful about what they say and seek to build relationships by the way they communicate. These two forms of communication, direct (traditional mal ... and communicated like one would expect a woman communicate. They were concerned mainly about their relationships with men and tried not to make them mad. However, they needed a break from their lives ...

(7 pages) 128 1 4.6 Nov/1996

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies

Relationships of Sciences

Relationships of Science to People> Science is a topic that relates to everyone in someway. In ma ...

(4 pages) 67 0 3.9 Mar/2002

Subjects: Science Essays

Independent Adoption vs. Agency-Assisted Adoption. Description of both types of adoption, gives pros and cons for each type, better informs people about state regulations regarding adoption.

nd parent between persons who are not so related by nature. At the same time it terminates all such relationships between the child and its natural parents, if such relationship has not been previousl ... sh a parent-child relationship between the petitioner and the adopted child, and to sever all legal relationships between the child and his or her natural parents" (Leavy, 1954, p. 11).Adoption is a c ...

(10 pages) 221 0 4.5 Mar/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community

Relations between women in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Relations between women in the 18th and 19th centuries.Thesis: Relationships between women in the nineteenth century America created a web of love and support for ... ed beforeB. Abundance of evidence suggests very strong emotional ties between women.C. All types of relationships are suggested fromsisterly love to passionD. In this world men are hardly notedII. Def ... lely female ritual, friends andrelatives were present through the entire process.VII. ConclusionThe relationships between women during this era was core to their lives and survival. Without the love, ...

(3 pages) 92 0 3.7 Mar/1997

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

Intimacy

in it. There are many possible reasons why some people are attracted to each other and form relationships. Some of these reasons are personality, physical looks, intellectual stimulation, thin ... cy. If we hadn't, our living conditions would have become understandably tenuous.The development of relationships and intimacy has some very definitive steps. The first step is initiating which is mak ...

(4 pages) 104 0 4.0 Dec/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sex & Sexuality

This is a paper for a marriage and family class.. it is a term paper complete with a bibliograpy

CommunicationInRelationshipsMariaMarriage and FamilyTerm PaperThere are many different factors of communication in ... a few reasons. The first of which is that I have seen a lot of friends and family who have been in relationships that did not last and wanted to figure out why that was. The second reason was because ...

(6 pages) 537 2 3.5 Apr/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community

A commentary on one of Darl's Sections of William Faulkners "As I Lay Dying"

Bundren family; to let us see why it is so 'dysfunctional.' In this chapter we learn more about the relationships within the family, and more about Addie, about whom we previously have not learned muc ...

(3 pages) 88 0 3.0 Jan/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Failure in "Shiloh Leroy and Norma Jean"

we live in a world of continuous change, we must adapt if we want to keep up; this is also true in relationships. In order to keep a relationship going you must keep changing and compromising. Unfort ...

(3 pages) 89 0 3.5 Feb/1997

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Aha! Gestalt psychology and insigth learning. Wolfgang Kohler's studies

ning called insight learning.The term insight refers to solving a problem through understanding the relationships various parts of a problem.Wolfgang Kohler, a Gestalt psychologist who was born in 188 ... two sticks together and pulled in the banana. Kohler was impressed by Sultan's rapid "perception of relationships" and used the term insight to describe it. He noted that such insights are not learned ...

(2 pages) 104 0 3.8 Dec/1996

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Psychological Theories & Authors

Report on "The Odyssey", by Homer

In The Odyssey , Homer uses guest-host relationships as an ethical norm against which behavior is measured. When the ritual is preformed co ... r's true identity as being his father and their conquer over the suitors.However not all guest-host relationships are ones in which the guest and the host act properly. For instance, the relationship ...

(5 pages) 91 1 4.3 Feb/1995

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Classical Studies > Mythology

suicide

so high, is that the teenage years are aperiod of commotion. New social roles are being learned,new relationships are being developed, bodily changes areoccurring, and decisions about the future are b ... because they were unable to stop someoneclose to them from committing suicide. A fear of formingnew relationships after a person has completed suicide iscommon. People feel that by creating new relati ...

(4 pages) 299 0 3.8 Dec/1996

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Depression, Stress & Suicide

This paper is about the different point of views on slavery Frederick Douglass gives in his autobiography, because he experienced slavery first hand.

male slave owners with female slaves and the consequences of that, the education of slaves and the relationships between slaves and slave owners.Perhaps the one aspect of slavery Douglass may have be ... en the other young slaves. Another conflict is upon the master himself, having to deal with the two relationships he is now engaged in, master and father. How can it be possible for this man to not, e ...

(4 pages) 242 0 4.6 May/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

"A Lesson Before Dying" by Ernest Gaines

ritten about Mr. Wiggins.Mr. Wiggins improved as a person greatly in this book, and that helped his relationshipswith other people for the most part. At the start of the book, he more or less hated Je ... ws, and therefore was probably a very hard person toget along with.The way Mr. Wiggins regarded his relationships most likely would have been differentwere he white. Mr. Wiggins feels, and rightly so, ...

(4 pages) 144 0 3.8 Dec/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Life's Not Over Yet. Personal essay which includes "Four generations, by Joyce Maynard", "God is Not a Fish Inspector " by W.D. Valgardson, and "To Set Our House in Order"

Throughout this course we have focused primarily on families, their relationships, problems, lifestyles, and even death. I have read many pieces of writing, and between ... nal story To Set Our House in Order by Margaret Laurence was a story that showed different kinds of relationships between a grandparent and a family. Unlike The other stories, Grandma Maclaod tended t ...

(4 pages) 58 0 4.0 Jan/1997

Subjects: Literature Research Papers