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Growing Up Without a Mother, 2007.
A creative essay describing the author's experience of childhood without the presence of a mother.
1,877 words (approx. 7.5 pages), 0 sources, £ 43.95
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In this paper the author describes her life, particularly childhood and early adulthood, without a mother. The author's mother died when she was an infant, and this essay explores the impact of a motherless life. In particular the author emphasizes her feelings of being different and how perhaps life could have been had her mother been alive. The author also describes her feeling of anger toward her mother for dying. The author concludes with her own experiences of being a mother and the impact the loss of her mother had on her adult life.
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" I reached an age when my body started to change, and I had no woman to talk to about it. I was frightened at first and very confused about what menstruation meant, although I was pretty sure it had something to do with being female. I didn't know how to handle periods. If I had had a mother, she could have explained things to me. I tried once to approach my father, but he was embarrassed and said maybe I could get a book from the library that would explain things better than he could. Because he was so embarrassed, it made me embarrassed to ask the librarian for a book. It was nice of him to make the suggestion, of course, but it didn't make up for lack of a mother. "
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"Mother to Mother", 2004.
An examination of the book, "Mother to Mother", by Sindiwe Magona.
1,057 words (approx. 4.2 pages), 4 sources, MLA, £ 26.95
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This paper provides a critical analysis of the book, "Mother to Mother", by Sindiwe Magona. The book, "Mother to Mother", is a touching and elegant story of race relations and misunderstanding in South Africa. The paper explains how the author bases her book on a true incident, but looks at it from the eyes of a mother who loves her son but recognizes his inadequacies. It states that the book is a devastating look at apartheid, violence, and anger in a society long split between black and white.
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"This emotional book looks at both sides of a young white woman's murder in a black township in South Africa. The book begins with the haunting line "My son killed your daughter" (Magona 1), and that line grabs the reader from the beginning, and makes them want to learn more about the two families and their responsibilities to themselves, and the their community. The book covers only two days chronologically, but the author skillfully uses flashbacks to look back on her life and the life of her son, to illustrate the hatred and violence at work in South African society that created such a "monster" as her son and the other killers. The mother is not unaware that her child has turned into something she cannot control, but she is also aware that the lifestyle of poor blacks in a dominant white society has been the spark that created the fire under the murderers. Coming from a life without hope, how can they see anything else for themselves?"
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Russell Baker's "Growing Up", 2005.
This paper relates the story of journalist Russell Baker's memoir "Growing Up".
1,420 words (approx. 5.7 pages), 0 sources, £ 33.95
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This paper explains that Russell Baker's memoir "Growing Up" begins with his mother's deteriorating health in old age and then flashes back to the times when he was growing up with a widowed, strong-willed mother and a little sister, all struggling to survive during the Great Depression. The author points out that Baker details the strong familial love he grew up with as everyone in the country scrambled to make ends meet and how his family first lived in a rural area in Virginia, then Bellville, New Jersey and later in Baltimore, Maryland. The paper reveals that not until his mother remarried was he able to return to the happiness that large rooms and green vistas seemed to grant him.
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"Luckily, Baker's uncle moved all of them out to Belleville, New Jersey, and out of the urban grit that so characterized Newark. Belleville was a town of "big grassy lawns and streets canopied with trees" (90). Here, his mother focused her considerable energies on giving her son the best education possibly, making him ahead in school and giving him straight A's. It was also here that he met a group of friends, learned roller-skating and took banjo lessons. But, sadly, his time in Belleville came to an end when his mother moved them all to Baltimore to fund his uncle's lumber company, the lumber company that quickly went out of business."
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The Role of the Mother in Fairy Tales, 2008.
An analysis of the roles of mothers and step-mothers in fairy tales and how these relationships are a reflection of society at the time.
3,375 words (approx. 13.5 pages), 13 sources, MLA, £ 68.95
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This paper discusses the demonstration of social and moral changes through time that can be seen in fairy tales. It focuses on the role of the mother as a guiding force and a source of competition and angst, for children, as it is expressed in more literary fairy tales. The paper analyzes the reflection of the fairy tale into the inner mind of the child which always ends happily to play out resentment toward the dominant rule enforcer of their lives, the mother, without fear.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Chapter 1: (Step) Mothers and Daughters
Chapter 2: Old School, Modern Need
Chapter 3: Grimm Brothers' Mothers and Daughters
Conclusion
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"There is no doubt that fairy tales are a clear message of social and cultural coding, and as many argue they should evolve with time, to better reflect the culture in which they are used as teaching tool. (Bettelheim 24) yet, it should also be argued that fairy tales, in their literary history still serve a purpose, no matter how watered down they are. The role of the mother as the allowable antagonist to the children is essential to the child's ability to have feelings of anger and resentment in a form that does less harm, to them than open confrontation. Much of childhood is extremely emotional internalized perception, and acknowledging that these feelings are normal and even healthy, with regard to the child becoming independent, is essential to normal psychological development. Literary fairy tales then serve the purpose of giving us a glimpse into the issues of the past but also hold many truths that are still relevant today, as can be attested by a frequent adaptation of their storylines to modern contexts. The struggle between the mother and the child is universal and will likely remain so, as the relationship one has with one's mother as a child and an adult, for most people is the most significant of all, without fairy tales the regeneration of social guidelines would be much more difficult, hence the liberation of the fairy tale in modern literature and popular media."
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Three Types of Mothers, 2006.
Lists, classifies, and discusses three different types of mothers and their parenting style.
675 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 3 sources, £ 18.95
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Most people can describe their mothers and list the wonderful things they did for them as a child. Other people tell horror stories about their mothers. Parenting does not come with an instruction book so mothers learn by reading, watching, or trial and error. In this classification of mothers, three different types of mothers are discussed: Super Moms, soccer Mothers, and single mothers.
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Restructuring the Inner Mother, 2004.
A look at the influence of drama-therapy treatment on female adolescents at risk who have adopted parental-maternal roles.
26,358 words (approx. 105.4 pages), 36 sources, MLA, £ 178.95
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This paper examines the influence of drama-therapy treatment on the change of roles among female adolescents who have adopted parental-maternal roles as a result of their being daughters to mothers whose functioning was significantly deficient. The role theory by R. Landy represents a theoretical basis of the research work. It begins with a personal introduction that describes a journey for discovering the different faces of the mother figure as they were internalized, and then it surveys the relevant theories. Among others, it examines the different roles of the mother, presents theories from the field of object relations, describes the archetype of the mother and its meanings according to Jung, and combines them with the drama-therapy treatment theory, especially the role theory. The last chapter is dedicated to presenting conclusions and reservations. The paper combines detailed descriptions of group treatment and uses a research population that includes girls who are disadvantaged and at risk and who were sent to treatment at the young girls? unit of social services.
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Introduction
Personal Journey
Internal Journey ? Discoveries and Metamorphoses of the Internal Mother
Theoretical Literature
Introduction
The Essential Roles of the Mother and their Influence on Normal Development: Winnicott
The Mother as an Object (Positive and Negative Aspects of the Mother Figure)
Different Essential Functions of the Mother (Different Theoreticians)
The Mother as a Generating Factor According to Bollas
The ?Mother Archetype? and Her Dual Characteristics (K. Jung)
Different Types of Mother Complexes in Girls (K. Jung)
The Role Theory in Drama Therapy
The Individual as Receiver of Role
The Individual as Taker of Role
The Individual as Player of Role
The Role System
The Role Theory and its Application in Drama Therapy
Application ? Treatment Theory
Individual Treatment ? Background
?The Parental Girl? And Sub-Roles ? Individual Treatment
Working With a Therapeutic Group ? Resuscitation of the Mother?s Different Aspects on the Therapeutic Stage
Split Processes
Discussion and Conclusions
Conclusions
Reservations
My Personal Learning
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"The central role of the mother or her replacement during the first two periods is to be holding environment. Wincott meant the holding around the routine of treatment of the baby that includes adjustment to the psychological changes related to the baby. From the psychological point of view the holding mains supporting the ego of the baby before the integration of the ego is created in him. The held baby feels that he has a protecting security net and this way he has the feeling of being and going, feelings that represent the basis of a strong self. The main role in holding is to protect from and reduce the intrusion from outside (including that of the mother). Since these disturb the baby?s tranquility and he experiences them as trauma, the baby has to react, which removes him from the feeling of being in which he is found."
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"Mother and Poet", 2002.
Analysis of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's poem "Mother and Poet" and how the roles of mother and poet intersect.
650 words (approx. 2.6 pages), 1 source, £ 18.95
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This essay discusses how Elizabeth Barrett Browning's "Mother and Poet" blurs the binarism of the domestic custodian and the public crusader. The very title itself blurs the boundaries between the two roles, because both of them intersect along certain lines. Each role needs the other to be effective. Isolated, each role becomes rooted in failure and tragedy.
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Mother-Son Relationships, 2002.
A comparison of the mother-son relationships in "Hamlet" by William Shakespeare and "The Glass Menagerie" by Tennessee Williams.
1,221 words (approx. 4.9 pages), 6 sources, MLA, £ 29.95
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This paper examines the mother-son relationship in two plays: Hamlet and his mother, Gertrude, in "Hamlet" by Shakespeare, and Amanda and Tom in "The Glass Menagerie" by Tennessee Williams. It demonstrates how the two plays and the characters of the mothers are quite different and how, in "The Glass Menagerie", Tom is able to brush off his mother?s domination after too much struggle. On the other hand, Gertrude is unable to dominate Hamlet, even though she tries. It also shows how Tom?s relationship with his mother is that of an irritated son who cannot stand his mother?s meddling, whereas Hamlet?s relationship is based on revenge and hatred.
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"Hamlet is one of Shakespeare?s most popular tragedies written in around the 1600. The play is a melodrama of revenge, secrecy, madness and conspiracy. It revolves Hamlet, a prince of Denmark who?s life is filled with tragedy. Initially he loses his father and while on the verge of recovering from this loss, he sees his mother Gertrude, marrying his Uncle Claudius within two months of his father?s death. The shock of his mother?s behavior is unbearable for Hamlet as he goes into severe depression and termed by some as complete madness. He fails to continue his studies and because of his mental state, his mother does not allow him to leave Denmark till he is completely stable."
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"Mother Tongue", 2005.
This paper discusses Amy Tan's essay "Mother Tongue" about her experience as a Chinese descendant with a mother whose English skills could best be described as 'limited'.
1,095 words (approx. 4.4 pages), 2 sources, MLA, £ 27.95
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This paper explains that in Amy Tan's essay "Mother Tongue", Tan reflects on the linguistic tensions which plagued her childhood and adolescence and made her believe that her parents' broken English was having a negative impact on her performance in school. The author points out that her difficulties with English made her intensely aware of the different versions of the language she had seen, spoken and found acceptable. The paper states that Amy Tan's essay is definitely an effective and powerful statement not only on variations of English and her exposure to the same but also on class and cultural discrimination, which people encounter because of their inability to use proper standardized English.
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"While at school, she was taught standardized English, at work and with college audience, she used similar idiomatic English, the versions she used with her mother and husband were more intimate and personal to her. This personal version she describes as simple English because it lacked vast standard vocabulary but to Tan herself, this variation was anything but fragmented. "...to me, my mother's English is perfectly clear, perfectly natural. It's my mother tongue. Her language, as I hear it, is vivid, direct, full of observation and imagery.""
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Mother Figures in "The Sound and the Fury", 2006.
A comparison of Caroline Compson and Dilsey Gibson as mother figures in William Faulkner's "The Sound and the Fury".
839 words (approx. 3.4 pages), 1 source, MLA, £ 20.95
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This essay compares and contrasts Caroline Compson and Dilsey Gibson as mother figures within the novel "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner. This paper is written within the terms of their relative positive and negative influence on the Compson family, and the Compson children in particular. Throughout the novel Caroline Compson, the children's real mother, is lacking as either a mother figure or a positive influence of any kind, while Dilsey Gibson admirably fulfills both roles. Faulkner, though, implies hope for the Compsons, and, by association, post-Reconstruction South itself. The conclusion allows that in reflecting on the relative strengths and weaknesses of Caroline and Dilsey, it is clear that Dilsey Gibson, not Caroline Compson, finally exerts more influence over the Compson family.
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"Both Caroline Compson and her husband, Jason Compson III, are neglectfully detached from their children. It is Caroline's chronic self-absorption, however (at her children's expense) that, as Faulkner implies, is more hurtful and damaging to them. Caroline seems interested in two things only. The first is her own self, and her numerous personal needs, rather these are imaginary or real. The second is her family's declining social importance within Jefferson. Caroline is in fact so obsessed with the latter that when it becomes clear that the child originally named Maury, after Caroline's brother Maury Bascomb is severely mentally retarded, Caroline changes his name to Benjamin ("Benjy"), so as not to reflect badly on the older Maury, or her family name. Clearly, from that example alone, we recognize that Caroline's first affections and loyalties are not to her children."
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Surrogate Mothers, 2002.
A discussion of the issues involved in being and using surrogate mothers, including a look at the pertinent legal issues.
2,557 words (approx. 10.2 pages), 15 sources, MLA, £ 55.95
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This paper analyzes the topic of surrogate mothers, discussing the many considerations to be taken into account when deciding to be a surrogate mother or selecting a surrogate mother. The paper provides information about laws concerning surrogate mothers, from various countries. Also illustrated are the sensitive issues for the surrogate mother to deal with after birth of the baby.
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"Surrogate mothers have many battles to face giving their babies to the set of parents that want to receive them. ?Between 50 and 100 babies a year are born to surrogate mothers in Britain? (Henderson 2). Italy is against using surrogate mothers for childless couples (Australian 1). Should couples that have had children be allowed to use surrogate mothers? What are the problems of selecting a surrogate mother? What are the steps to having a baby from a surrogate mother? If the surrogate mother has more than one baby, what happens? Are the proposed parents mandated to take more than one baby? What about expenses? Surrogate mothers offer hope to couples that have not been able to have a baby with the natural childbirth and to couples who have married for the second time who desire to have a baby, but there are many decisions that should be made first."
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Mothers as Educators, 2005.
This paper takes a look at the role of the mother as educator of her child or children, including her history and function today.
2,250 words (approx. 9.0 pages), 5 sources, £ 63.95
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The paper examines the role of the mother as educator of her child or children. The paper contends that firstly, the expectations of mother as educator are glossed. Then the paper studies the historical role of sole and first educator that the mother has traditionally held. Next, the paper mentions the phenomenon of working mothers and the use of day care centers as surrogate mothers and teachers. Finally, the paper discusses instances of underprivileged children and home schooled children.
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"One of the most important works by the impressionist painter Mary Cassatt is "Family Group Reading," a beautiful and touching painting made in 1901. In the painting, a mother is depicted with her child on her lap, the two of them reading a book together. The aesthetic and monetary importance and value of this painting to the world of art is for another subject and another paper entirely. But the statement that this work makes on the subject of a mother's role as educator to her children is priceless. In Cassatt's time in turn-of-the-century France, most children of her class were raised and educated by nurses or nannies, not by their mothers."
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The Mother-Child Relationship, 2007.
This paper explores quality vs. quantity parenting as well as different parenting styles across cultures.
2,895 words (approx. 11.6 pages), 10 sources, MLA, £ 60.95
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The paper analyzes quality parenting vs. quantity parenting, providing a comparison between stay-at-home mothers and working mothers. The paper examines the shared activities and the amount of time spent with the child. The paper considers the mother-child relationship across different cultures residing in Southern California. The paper concludes that although more research is needed, the majority of the research supports the value of quality parenting over quantity parenting, regardless of whether the mother stays at home or works.
Outline:
Introduction
The Importance of Quality Parenting vs. Quantity Parenting
Comparison of Stay-at-home Mothers and Working Mothers
Cultural Parenting
Conclusion
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"In the past decade, different parenting styles across cultures and the quality parenting displayed by both stay-at-home mothers and working mothers has emerged as a significant concern among parents, educators, and policy-makers alike. This concern over the topic regarding the differences in quality parenting and quantity parenting has been spurred by the problems raised by the educational system and police departments. Delinquent acts committed by children have become a major issue in the United States; in Southern California the public has been overwhelmed with stories from the media, providing graphic evidence of a crime wave generated by our youth who, according to media reports, are victims of poor parenting styles."
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Mother and Daughter Literature, 2006.
This paper explores literature about the relationship between mothers and daughters, especially in Joyce Carol Oates' "Where Are You Going? Where Have You Been?" and Tillie Olsen's "I Stand Here Ironing".
1,855 words (approx. 7.4 pages), 5 sources, MLA, £ 42.95
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This paper explains that the way mothers pass down feminine values to their daughters often causes conflict, for both persons. The author points out that the mothers in the two stories, "I Stand Here Ironing" by Tillie Olsen and "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" by Joyce Carol Oates, live under differing circumstances with dissimilar relationships with their daughters; however, both mothers, inadvertently or not, have favored one child with more attention and nurturing than the other child. The paper concludes, from the literature, that enjoying the complete love of a mother and at the same time maintaining complete autonomy is a very delicate and intense challenge because most women continue to identify strongly with their mothers, even after they themselves become adults. The paper includes several quotations.
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"There are many books and novels published regarding the unusual dynamics between mothers and daughters. Amy Tan's novel, "The Joy Luck Club", addresses her issues with her mother's demanding and controlling ways and Tan's inability to ever live up to her mother's expectations, no matter how brilliantly she tries. There are currently young adult novels on the library shelves to help adolescent girls develop a healthier relationship with their mothers. It is interesting how many women have issues with their mothers."
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