Gaby Rodriguez: Teen Mom? “Throughout life, we are put into boxes to categorize how people see and know us. This is how stereotypes originate, because people would rather read labels on the box instead of taking a look and seeing what’s inside.” (Rodriguez 154). In her memoir, The Pregnancy Project, writer Gaby Rodriguez gives details about how she was able to fake her own pregnancy while also hiding the truth from her siblings, boyfriend’s parents, and her entire community.
Gaby Rodriguez spent her senior year with a fake pregnant belly on her body. She was told her entire life that she was going to end up just like the rest of her family: pregnant as a teen in high school. Defying all stereotypes, and working hard to disprove them, she used her year-long senior project to change everyone’s minds. The Pregnancy Project by Gaby Rodriguez is a realistic, eye-opening story that all teenagers should read. One of the things that makes it such a good book is the rawness you feel the whole time.
An estimated 150,000 people fled to the United States from Cambodia during the Khmer Rouge genocide, according to pbs.org. Loung Ung, her brother Meng, and her sister-in-law, Eang, were among those people. In the memoir Lucky Child by Loung Ung, Loung is a young girl who had just moved to America. She survived a major war in Cambodia against the Khmer Rouge, but lost her mother, father, and 2 siblings. She soon fled to the United States but unfortunately had to leave her sister, Chou, behind.
Throughout the true story “One Child” by Torey L. Hayden, I have learned much about the behaviors of the students and been able to relate some of my own experiences to the book. I read the 1980 copy of the story. Torey Hayden teaches a self-contained special education classroom of 9 children, with one full time aide, Anton, and a student helper, Whitney. Anton, prior to this job has never worked with children before, let alone children with emotional and behavioral disorders. Over time they become a great team, despite the numerous challenges with the students.
Marian Faux is an author deeply engaged in writing about the basic personal matters of modern times. Her previous book, Childless by Choice, discussed the advantages and disadvantages of bearing children, and the effects that the legalization of abortion had on premature mothers. Yet, she channelled her visions of abortion into another book, Roe v Wade: The Untold Story of the Landmark Supreme Court Decision That Made Abortion Legal, where she not only, in depth, told the complete process of the Supreme Court case “Roe v Wade”, but also analyzed the worldwide aftermath of the decision, and the changes it brought in society. Prior to this effort, Faux attempted to summarize the subject of abortion into one book, in which, she claimed that “Abortion
What’s in a name? Julian McCormick started the introduction to his 1899 book, The Child’s Name: A Collection of Nearly Five Hundred Uncommon and Beautiful Names for Children; with an Introduction on the Tasteful Use of Christian Names, with this very question. McCormick believed that the question of what to name a child is “the first important question in the child’s public life” and, therefore, “the duty of naming a child should not be considered of lesser importance.” He believed having a bad name can cause a child embarrassment and be a hindrance if it is difficult to pronounce or spell, issues which will persist throughout that child’s life. McCormick feared parents were setting their children up for failure and humiliation if they gave them names such as Pizarro McGiniss or Bartholomew Sweeney; although these names belonged to “great men and great saints, [they] are not remarkable for felicity or beauty, and are rather an affliction than an honor to their bearers.”
A third implication mentioned by Ludden is that names contain "multiple words." In most cases this is true, it's natural in many cultures for people to be given a first, middle, last name as well as names of endearment (nicknames). This makes remembering an individual all the more difficult. Also, getting to know only one part of an individual's full name can be seen as rude or a lack of respect. In addition, providing one name offers no clear association to someone's full identity because one must take into consideration that a majority of the population can share similar names Therefore, it's safer to remember one's full name even though this is a task for most people to
1. How does the name of a person affect a person’s physical appearance, actions, and beliefs? In the story, Ceran chose to not change his name unlike everybody else in his team. In the end, his name causes him to not achieve his goal of finding how it all began.
Jameson disagrees that a name possesses a unique identity, as stated in The Cultural Turn, “only a limited number of combinations are possible; the unique ones have been thought of already”(7). Jameson is referring to styles, but the lack of distinctiveness extends to names which
In America, children were given names that didn’t mean anything, names that made them belong. It is like Bulawayo said, “There is no journey without a price, and this is the price of the long journey we
Although strongly defining in a sentimental sense, the name William Reiss connected me to my family yet didn’t represent my personality. No parents actually give their child a name
Importance of Names After reading “What’s in a Name?” by Henry Louis Gates Jr. in the textbook, Patterns for College Writing, gave myself a whole new perspective on not only my name but everyone else's too. For our name is our personal identity and we should carry it with pride. In addition to this, we should respect other’s names as well, especially in this day of age.
Amazing Horses How long do you think horses have been around. In fact Horses has been around fifty million years. they have been the one of the most useful animals in the world. They have been around for a long time. Horses have considered on of the most fastest animals in the world.
Developmental psychology is a scientific approach that describes growth, change and coherence throughout life. Developmental psychology looks at how one's thoughts, feelings and behavior change throughout his or her life. An important part of the theories within this discipline focus on development in childhood; because it is the time that elapses throughout the life of the individual when the most change occurs. Developmental psychologists examine broad theoretical domains such as biological, social, emotional, and cognitive processes. Prenatal development refers to the process of development of a baby from a single cell after pregnancy to embryo and then to a fetüs.
The arrival of a new baby, especially the first always marks a new beginning for a mother. It comes with a lot of challenges more so if the mother is less knowledgeable about baby care. Take such as cleaning the baby for the first time, or feeding, it is not easy. The baby is still fragile and slippery and needs a special care. But if the mother is not ready for all these, or maybe, does not have any knowledge on what to do, the baby’s life might be endangered since the baby needs a special care which only the mother can give.
