Road Beyond Abuse Analysis

They live in various dilapidated hotels in Montreal’s red light district. As Karl Marx famously said “[People] make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past." Likewise, the foundation that affected Baby’s development was fractured prior to her birth. Baby was born in an unstable and derelict environment, paired with minimal parental support from a heroin addicted father, which hindered her childhood development.

I was enraged when Marcus just played off having abused his own family. It reminded me of when I was younger and in the same situation with only my older siblings to help and protect me and I was so afraid for all of us, and when we finally lived with my father we would sleep in his room and cry ourselves to sleep. Your book changed my thinking on how some people react to being abused, and helped me realize that I should grow up and stop complaining when it is still happening to plenty other kids out there in the world and they probably have it much worse than I did.

Although Mr. Grierson was very overbearing and caused most of his daughter’s internal issues, he was not present for a great portion of her life. Therefore, he could not have a say so in whether or not she freed herself from the imprisonment he forced her to live in. The central conflict was not driven by a gender issue because the person responsible of the problems leading to the conflict was pointed toward Emily herself. It is clear to see that Emily took her life in her own possession despairingly for the worst. She was able to have complete self-control and freely make any decision she wished to make, but she could not rescue herself from the dreadful consequences that awaited

Sociopaths, often described as having antisocial personality disorder, are not born with their traits but their experiences they go through make them the way they are. Perry Smith has many examples of how his upbringing has made him the way he is. Perry’s life was filled with violence and neglect. Perry had a seemingly happy life until his dad started to beat his mother and she turned to drunkenness and promiscuity. Finally perry’s parents split, which can also to lead to problems in children's lives, he travels with his mother and siblings to san Francisco where he constantly gets in trouble to which he blames it on having, “no rule or discipline, or anyone to show me right from wrong" (54).

I believe Myers was actually a good person; as he child, he was mentally and phsicallagically abused by his older step-sister and step-father. This led him to kill anyone related to their family. There was a growing fear of Michael Myers regardless of the person being alone or in a group. Although, people act less

This likely led to the formation of multiple personalities, with few of them having any memory of the abuse. This, to an extent, protected her from recalling the trauma ("Kim Noble: A Woman Divided"). There really is no definitive traumatic experience, though, that sets off the narrator’s DID in Fight Club, which makes the film inaccurate in portraying the suspected cause behind DID. The use of DID as a method of coping with anxiety, rather than a traumatic childhood, sets the film diagnosis apart from the real

Michael was unable to acquire the basic strength of competence because he was scolded by his father and not allowed to have a normal childhood. Assuming that Michael’s father had always been physically abusive to his children, the level of abuse probably increased around the latency stage for Michael when he would have first became a member of the Jackson 5 at six years old. The latency stage is critical for social relationships and interactions because this is the time when school begins and a child can be around peers of his/her own age. This is usually when self-esteem or self-confidence is developed through peer interaction, so failing this stage can result in a child having a difficult time making friends and building lasting relationships. For Michael, the punishment and ridicule that he received resulted in him feeling inferior and inadequate in his ability as a performer in his father’s

Throughout middle school I was bullied for not fitting the stereotype of being the so-called “skinny” girl. After years of hearing that I was ugly and fat instead others bulling me I was the one who began to lower my own self esteem. As time went on, I kept all my feelings bottled up never being able to fully open up to someone else, isolated from the world. Halfway through eighth I noticed that little pranks that shouldn’t have bothered me were the actions that bothered me the most.

Another stereotype for teen mothers is that they live in poverty. We hear many stereotypes about young mothers. Although some may be true or close to being true, I believe that television just shows the struggles and hardships, and never gives credit to the young mothers that work hard and pull through from those struggles.

We offer very few programs to integrate these individuals back into society, and they are often unable to becoming functional members again. I think this sets former prisoners up for failure, so that they will commit offenses again, and end up reincarcerated. Ways Children Are Emotionally Traumatized by the Incarceration of Their Mothers I must admit that I took some time for self-care after we watched this film.

- When abuse has been ongoing for a length of time , the victim can feel like she/he deserves the abuse, is in denial over the extent of the abuse, embarrassed about others finding out, fear being killed if they left and fear the impact on the children or losing the children. Many victims of domestic and family violence, believe nothing can be done for them- they see on the news how little action is done such as in the case of Benjamin Ard and the assault of two women. In this case Ard charged with domestic violence, but was released from jail on $1,000 cash bail. He went on to breach his bail and was then charged with domestic violence assault and violating the conditions of release from a prior charge; he was sentenced to only thirteen months

Just in my short time at the Davis Child Shelter, I have seen a group of teenagers become best friends with one another, developing “families” and defining roles, to fighting with everyone and hating each other, to creating cliques within the group, to being in “relationships” with each other. In child protective services, the family dynamics from removing children from the home and bring services into the home does change. I have seen parents divorce because one parent wanted to continue abusing drugs and the other one did not, and it was not until the one sobered up they realized there was no real love in their relationship, just mutual addiction and substance abuse. Also seen were the parent(s) improved, and got their children back, while others were not as able.

Growing up I was the only student of Indian descent in my grade level until the 8th grade. It was due to this I was viciously bullied and assaulted growing up. The bullying negatively mentally and emotionally affected me and it was due to this bullying I had fallen into a bad group of "friends" during my sophomore year. These "friends" kept the bullies at bay and I started to accept them. One day they had convinced and pressured me to shoplift, or face being hurt, two packs of cards, which I unwisely did because I did not want to return to being bullied and feared being hurt.

Brief Background: My great-grandma, Ruth Trumble, is 87 years old and suffers from minor alzheimer's disease. Her responses to the questions I asked her would sometimes vary and often led to a fair amount of confusion. With the assignment of this project I began to think about the fact that in just a few years time, these personal interviews won’t be possible. With that in mind, I took down my great-grandma's words with the goal of learning about how the war affected her while she is still capable of providing me with the information.

The D-Day Describe the scene as you approach Omaha beach for the D-day landing. I remember the day, you can call it the D-day but for me, it was 6 June 1944. At the end of that day, there were 425,000 people who died a horrible death. It all started when all the soldiers were standing in the crowded ship, there were 7,000 ships altogether and all of them were all drizzly and it was very hard to stand on the floor because it was slippery also the waves hitting the ships were making people drop to the floor and on their knees.