Essays on Family

Gen Alpha refers to the offspring of this generation (Carter, 2016). They are the offspring of millennials. When opposed to previous years, new technology is altering the way children mature today. This paper explores how new technology has affected today's generation, how their lives vary from ours, and the form...

Young people make up the majority of those living in poverty. According to the United States Department of Labor, one out of every four children lives in poverty. More than 17% of school-age children are poor, and they seem to carry their poverty issues to schools and classrooms. Students who...

Etta James, an American Grammy Award-winning musician, was born Jamesetta Hawkins in 1938 in Los Angeles, California to 14-year-old Dorothy Hawkins and an unnamed white father. She was adopted by adoptive parents until she was 12 years old when her foster mother, Mama Lu, died and her biological mother took...

The Divide between Assimilated American Children and Indian Migrants Jhumpa Lahiri's first book, The Namesake, focuses on the divide between assimilated American children and Indian migrants. The author examines the Ganguli tribe, starting with Ashoke's near encounter with death as he survives a train accident in his native India (Lahiri 50). This...

The poem's title expresses the melancholy mood of a son who is grieving the death of his father despite the fact that it has not yet occurred. The first few lines represent a vocabulary that is similar to a conversational style. As the reader listens to Hudgins characterize his father...

Katy Butler's article, "What Broke My Father's Heart," delves into the unintended consequences of modern medical advancement. Butler describes the agony that modern medication – in this case, pacesetters – caused her family, particularly her mother, in graphic detail. Though the medication, surgery, and pacemaker extended his father's life, they...

Using the comparative technique, the story from the book The Tapestry of Culture, which contrasts Kwakiutl and American wedding customs, highlights many distinctions and parallels between the two cultural communities. This essay would concentrate on the three key similarities described in the text between the two types of wedding customs. The...

The Lion King and the Heroic Journey The Lion King is the most famous cartoon show that has resonated with most children in the twenty-first century. While the Lion King draws inspiration from the animal world, the overall focus of the story is based on heroism. The Plot and Themes As the ruling...

Children's immunization has been integrated into modern medicine, allowing different generations to grow up without the risk of being exposed to epidemic diseases like measles and polio. Simultaneously, anti-vaccine movements have emerged, claiming that immunization is harmful to children. These movements have focused their arguments on the negative consequences of...

My Introduction to Literacy My family is packed with language and literature lovers, from my parents to my brothers. One may be forgiven for thinking that I was interested in improving my reading skills from a young age. As many individuals who have had a variety of life experiences, most views,...

Dogs are significant creatures in human society; they are domesticated for personal or commercial reasons, such as racing. Their importance in society is mostly reciprocal, and both sides of the divide have fostered this relationship since ancient times when they were domesticated, and it is said that a dog eventually...

Bayly, Susan. "Hindu kingship and the origin of community: religion, state, and society in Kerala, 1750–1850." Modern Asian Studies 18.02 (1984): 177-213. The Malayali Hindu culture is discussed in the journal article, which includes marriage rites as well as the family and home system. The author observes that the caste system...