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Healthy communication means communicating one another’s feelings when things need to change. “The wedding ceremony formally instructs each spouse to love and to cherish his mate; clearly an instruction that requires high communication, not only of information but also of feelings (Senn).”

They slipped through enemy lines and they turned their homes as a haven for the soldiers, and they stored weapons and food for the women I their cellars for the men. Women would burn their crops and destroy their homes to prevent the enemies from using them. They were acting as “daughters of liberty.” Also in the zones of battle, women crossed gender boundaries to disguise themselves as men to enlist themselves as soldiers. Later on in the postwar years’ members of America’s political and social elite engaged in a discussion about women’s role in the new republican society. Opinion makers a new role for women within their family. The republic said they must rely on mothers and wives to teach patriotism and republican principles in both their sons and

Men being the primary gender in combat today, have always had to deal with being away from their home and families for long periods of time. Women on the other hand, have not, and have always normally been the ones to stay home with the children while their husbands

In the essay, “In the Combat Zone,” Leslie Marmon Silko writes for the purpose of explaining the hardships that women go through in their everyday lives, that men do not necessarily have to worry about. Through personal stories about her growing up with her father who taught her how to use guns and hunt, to actual encounters with dangerous men who could’ve potentially harmed her had she not been experienced, Silko provides real life examples of the dangers women face in their everyday lives. Women are at risk whenever they leave the safety of their home, and even may be at risk in their home as well. Being raised to depend on others for protection leaves women vulnerable to attacks that leave them defenseless. This is different than men who are raised in a way that gives them power and essentially puts them above women and eliminates this fear. We see this theme on page 734 when Silko writes, “Men who have been in combat know the feeling of being a predator’s target, but it is difficult to men to admit admit that we women live our entire lives in a combat zone.”

In the beginning, the United States’ Government was against involving women in their military forces. Before the war, it was commonly believed that a working man was the main provider in a household. Therefore, any woman who took a job that was

When mentioning family, the nation’s economic crisis has deeply affected the lives of millions of Americans. Families and their children experience poverty when they are unable to achieve a minimum, decent standard of living that allows them to participate fully in mainstream society. Economic hardship and other types of deprivation can have profound effects on children's development and their prospects for the future. Low family income can hinder children's cognitive development and their ability to learn. It can contribute to behavioral, social, and emotional problems. And it can cause and worsen poor child health as

First I am going to talk about an article “The American Family: Where We Are Today by Stephanie Coontz she said, “Modern life can be stressful -- in the family as anywhere else in our fast-paced society. And yet, with all the challenges and concerns about relationships, marriage and raising children, people in the United States today

Women would evacuate from their homes, (Reyoldson 8-9) because they were scared. They did not want to get bombed. They would also run from where the soldiers were fighting. They would run because they did not want their children to get killed by the soldiers getting shot by the men in the army. That is why the women would evacuate from where they were fighting.

Women in Combat Becca Rhoades Mifflin County High School   Women in Combat Even though many people stereotype women being in combat, it isn’t fair that you are stopping someone from doing what they love to do. Women can do things the same way as men and it will open more job opportunities for women. Women should have the same rights as anyone else. Would a man want to stand there and be victimized because he is a male?

There are situations that are stressful for anyone, especially for women who are or have served in the Armed Forces. While women have only recently been trained for combat on the level men have, previously they often took part while dealing in stressful and dangerous combat support missions. More women during Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom are receiving hostile fire; returning fire, as

Many men were needed to fight in the war. This meant that mothers and wives were left home with little communication. The women left behind had to take over the responsibilities that men had previously held. Without men home, women were more vulnerable against troops.

Men fighting with the women would not be the only ones affected by women in the US military engaging in combat. According to Clinton W.: “ The women would be affected; they would be emotionally affected because they would be exposed to combat situations such as shooting, killing, etc.” This means that if women were to be put in combat situations, they would be exposed to emotionally scarring things that they are not used to seeing because they have not been in combat as much.

The site of death or action of killing will eventually get to any man or women and will put immense psychological stress on them. Releasing this stress is something every direct combat soldier needs to release from time to time. Stabbing the enemy's chest was one soldier's way of surviving the rigors of war, while another's was reflecting at the end of the day and thinking of he was going to get back to his family. The stresses of war overcoming the emotional state of women is a very common possibility in todays world. Because of this, it endangers a women's ability to do her job which could get herself or members of her unit killed in a second. This weakness is to much of a risk for a combat unit to have on the battlefield. The emotions that we have under a normal day conditions have a great affect on our health and affects the ability to how we interact with others. When we put these emotions under extreme stress and add violence and all of the other emotions that could arise while on the battlefield, death and fatigue and especially the emotions of most women would deteriorate at a much higher rate than that of men's. Another issue women face when wanting to be integrated into currently all male specialty jobs is peer acceptance. Psychologists explain that when a person is ostracized from a group of peers or

Most people argue that the family is in ‘crisis’. They point to the rapidly increasing divorce rate, cohabitation, illegitimacy and number of single parent families.

Rather than giving up and ending the marriage, many couples could save the marriage by trying to work through the problems that arise. Many people do not realize how much hard work has to be put into a marriage for it to be successful. When planning a wedding, some couples spend a lot of time preparing the vows that will be exchanged during the ceremony, but sadly the partners fail to live by the vows day after day. Scores of married couples drift apart because their hectic lives do not allow them to spend enough quality time together, which is important for a healthy marriage. Communication is also an essential factor in working through problems in a marriage.