It seems like every week I am walking into a new restaurant. Whether it be because a good friend came in to town or I am just too lazy to cook, it is as if a menu is never too far from my hands. I have not the least bit of shame either. I know the negative connotation that is related to constantly eating at restaurants and I fear it not. For over time, I have become accustomed to the very art that is the restaurant experience, and in this custom I have developed a blindness to the negativity and…

For the purpose of this assignment, I propose a mother who was living alone in a small secluded cabin in the woods. She had a 6 month old baby girl named Daphne, and two friendly, intelligent Maine Coon cats. She breastfed the baby, and had introduced solid food by 4 months, so there was no nutritional deprivation. She had a small garden and a couple fruit trees, but also foraged for fruits, and ate rabbits that the cats were very good at catching. She sings to Daphne and otherwise interacts with…

Leadership- I believe that a good leader has other strong types of leaders around them. If a leader is to be successful they must first keep good hardworking, and trustworthy people around them. With that being said I see myself a mixture of Tao and Covey forms of leadership. These styles are very complementary of each other, both favoring community based leadership. The two parts of Tao leadership I think I want to embody better are appearing foolish and warrior, healer and Tao. For Covey the two…

Tonight, on Lifetime’s original show, “Mothers Who Gave Birth,” we’ll follow Eleanor Rigby throughout her journey of pregnancy and childbirth. She is a single mother of two boys, Derrick, age six, and Lee, age four. Last fall she was surprised with the news of a third pregnancy, but was extra delighted when she learned it would be a girl, which she has named Marlena. During this episode we’ll focus on her pregnancy, her experiences during labor and delivery, and how she is recovering now at home…

to the discussion of Feminist Masculinity and the questions of motherhood and its prices. In Cinderella Ate my Daughter, Peggy Orenstein lays out the many way we have taught our girl to be princesses and argues whether or not the princess culture is good for young girls. Orenstein talks about how toy companies are gendering not only their toys, but also their advertisements making everything glitter pink or baby blue. She even talks about how babies weren’t colored coded until the early twentieth century…

How does your identity define you? The definition of identity is “who or what a person is”. A writer named Andrew Lam reveals what personal identity means in “Who Will Light Incense When Mother 's Gone. In this non-fiction story, Lam moves to America, and he begins to emphasize who he is as an individual, rather than becoming a duplicate of his family. Since Lam moved to America, he does not recall his old ways of living, therefore he is on a quest for his identity presented by rejection, change…

Who am I to begin with? I tend to ask myself what truly defines me or what I stand for, and in so doing, I find myself contemplating on most definitions people regard me too. Like they do say: “Obi, you are kind…”, “You’re caring, compassionate…” no “Obie, you fill an empty soul with so much happiness”, and so many more people say. At times, I begin to ponder why people say such wittily words, little did I know that my name “Obioma” adds up to my personality. “Obioma”, when translated…

The Man Who Has Always Been There For Me A date with the man who has always been there for me signified the opening of a new chapter in my life Years after a painful and bitter divorce had left a gaping wound in me that I was desperate to fill, even though I was awarded physical and legal custody of our two small children. Life was difficult for a single mother in a job market was beginning to decline, my family was scattered and I had little to no help from their fathers’ family. My family blamed…

According to the Oxford Dictionary, “Mothers are women who inhabit or perform the role of bearing some relation to their children” (1). Although various circumstances can arise, a mother may or may not be the biological parent of the youngsters. Adult females can be considered mothers because of having given birth, by nurturing their children, supplying their ovum for fertilization, or some combination thereof. For example, Suleyma Umana, a single female at the age of eighteen migrated from her native…

It is a good thing for a mother to develop a strong relationship with their son or daughter. There is however a line that shouldn’t be crossed where having a very strong relationship with your son/mother is normal and healthy becomes a more bizarre closeness between the two. This can become a very strange, awkward situation for the child not understanding the boundaries. Cases have been reported of a mother and a child’s relationship even becomes sexual in nature, further confusing the child and…