The Road To Independence By Joe Hagmann Analysis

Helicopter parents often send the unintentional message to their child saying that they are incompetent of doing things on their own - like the things they attempt to accomplish independently are wrong. Instead of letting their children experience a sense of autonomy by allowing them to accomplish things on their own, an overprotective parent would step in and take control; again promoting dependency. A lot of times, such dependency carries on into adulthood (Sade 1). Instead of being a mature, responsible adult and taking things into their own hands; they call on their parents whenever things get strenuous in their lives. Likewise, adults who still depend on their parents for everything do not mature mentally and sometimes do not have the skills needed to become successful on their own.

Some of the author’s points make a ton of sense and others not so much. Yes, babying your kid while they are young will only cause trouble later. However, degrading them

The nature of the American War for the Independence has different historians views, some of them say that the revolution brought many changes to society , and others historians take a opposite view, they say that this revolution does not brought major changes in American. For Howard Zinn the war for independence was not a social Revolution ,He Argue that the American revolution had little positive impact on the everyday lives of most Americans, Zinn stated that most of the leader of the revolution were member of the colonial elite who wished to preserve their wealth and power. On the other hand, For Gordon S. Wood Zinn the war for independence was a social Revolution. He argues that American Revolution was a transforming event that greatly

In his article “Violent Media Is Good For Kids,” comic book author Gerald Jones, claims that violent media such as comic books and cartoons can have a positive effect on our children because children use violent stories to meet their emotional and developmental needs. Jones argues against other people’s views that violent media will have a negative influence on children. Gerald Jones had many strengths in his article which helped support his argument and could possible make his argument effective. His strengths were mainly the use of emotional appeal like story telling and personal experiences to help convince his audience. While Jones’s essay started off strong, he only gave a few weaknesses like the lack of examples and how he only used one reference, his life, to justify his point of view which in the end did not help persuade the audience.

In Round-Trip to America: The Immigrants Return to Europe 1880-1930, Mark Wyman argues that many new immigrants that migrated to America from 1880-1930 never intended to make America a permanent residence and many of them returned home to their native countries. He claims that this phenomena is important to the history of American Immigration and is important to the histories of the home land in which the immigrants returned to. In his book, Wyman explores some key ideas such as the reason immigrants decided to voyage to a new land, across the ocean, to what was known as the “land of milk and honey” only to return to their small, and a lot of the time rural village. He also discusses American labor movement and what impact that had on

Children must be allowed to grow and mature at their own natural pace. The old saying ‘kids must be kids’ is based on this basic need. Dr. Sigel of the Educational Testing Service in Princeton, New Jersey says “Denying, or at least not recognizing, the child’s active outreaching curiosity has negative consequences.” (ProQuest, New York Times, pg. 2). When hothousing a child occurs parents run the risk of the children having what is known as achievement anxiety. This is when a child “come(s) to believe they are valued for what they memorize or produce or achieve”. (ProQuest, New York Times, pg. 2). It appears that there is more evidence that supports the belief that ‘mother knows best’. Meaning, children belong in the care of their mothers, at home, where they can be allowed to play, daydream, and explore their environments.

In this poem, America by Tony Hoagland, tells about the way people in America live. Also comparing America to a prison. And tells us the lifestyle we live in America. Which is more important for society to have money in your pocket is more important than anything else. One of the real society is consumerism. Furthermore, try to express that consumerism and big business are robbing Americans. Another thing is that you are a materialist qualify and now a day for what you have. Not by human quality and that affects society. It comments on the value system that puts money ahead of everything and yet does not bring happiness. The poem allows to see the unnecessary amount of consuming in America.

If a person takes too much of anything, it'll eventually harm them. Similarly, too much sadness can lead to depression or too much water can lead to health problems. Some television programs do unfortunately endorse violence and spread nothing but hate. Here is where the viewer must make a choice. They can either watch the cruelty and violence or they can choose to watch a different channel (or choose to turn off the TV). Barbara states that she'd prefer television to be more realistic. This too is the choice of the viewer as they can choose whether they'd like to see an archaeologist like Indiana Jones go through mayhem to collect an ancient artifact or a real archaeologist simply brushing the dirt off of an ancient artifact.

Violent Media is Good for Kids, by Gerald Jones; a persuasive article written by a comic book author that analyzes how exposing children to violent media has positive effects in shaping a person. This article was written as a counter-argument to the negative response media received after a horrific mass shooting that took place at a high school. Jones defends violent media by telling of his own personal experience with it, thus glorifying it in the process. Jones argues in his article that violent media is a helpful resource for children and it does not necessarily harm them. Jones’ argument was effective and very convincing. He defends his stance by continuously stating the positives that violent media has had not only on him, but his own son as well.

He talks about how he read comic books as a kid and now he is a successful writer who makes a living writing comic books and movies. I feel he's trying to say that if it worked for me why wouldn't it work for everyone else. He was very convincing with these examples but didn't have anything to backup his statement. The main reason that I found this essay wasn't convincing was because he didn't use any studies or statistical data. He does bring in Dr. Moore to try and make his argument more compelling. He doesn't really talk about a certain age group or a study that was preformed. The essay only had three examples of violent media helping kids and in each example there was only one kid that it helped. He is trying to argue that violent media is good for kids but doesn't use any huge study to back up his argument. He says at the end of his essay “I am going to argue that it's, violent media, helped hundreds of people for every one it's hurts”(para. 15). If he could of found a study proving that statement, it would of made his essay a lot more

While it gives the impression that Gerald Jones could be wrong in his arguments, there is an aspect of truth at least from his case studies he took in his research. In addition, while no one would support exposure of the young children to violence and violent scenes, not at least in a stable civilization like America, it is quite evident that violent media provides the children and the young people in the society with certain message in life. It becomes clear that the

As children grew up, they must become independents and their parents have to let them go in some way. The road to become independent is tough as when kid grew up to become an adult because they don't know what going to happen and how to handle certain situations. In the article “The Overprotected kid” by Hannah Rosin, the writer describe on how children must need a sensory taste of danger to overcome their fear, which is a way to achieve independence. Another idea, I found from the article is that children in their age need to learn from another.

When Thomas Jefferson penned the Declaration of Independence, he excluded two hugely important groups to the US’s success: African Americans and women. Throughout history, both groups have been degraded and abused and have had to fight for the equal liberty and freedom that was handed to white men in 1776. Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man follows a young black man as he tries to survive in the 1950’s of New York City after being expelled from a prestigious Southern university. Spike Lee’s Bamboozled shows the creation of a 21st century satirical minstrel show and the numerous racially motivated consequences that follow. Despite different representations and portrayals of female characters in these two works, women in both are overlooked and marginalized by African-American male characters who fail to see the parallels between their situations.

Autonomy is the greatest right that any one person has. Adults are mature and intelligent enough to choose what they believe to be the best decisions to help them flourish in life. Children, however, are not developed enough to make that decision for themselves. This is why children are dependent upon their parents until they are old enough to make those kinds of decisions for themselves. It is also why parents have a right to raise their child how they see fit since they should have the child’s best interest in mind and have the ability to make those decisions. In the essay “The Child’s Right to an Open Future,” Claudia Mills provides a rebuttal to Joel Feinberg’s essay on “The Child’s Right to an Open Future.” She believes “that it is

When there is a mass communication takes in, it is easily connecting to few ethical theories used while the discussion heats. Part of people from the argument uses deontological views that one show is better than the other or vise verse. It tends to seem as this particular groups use of theory as in obligation towards the favorite show as somewhat of defendant position and