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On an average, according to UNICEF, 353,000 babies are born daily around the world, that makes it about 127,750,000 babies every year. Many of these children are given well lovely homes with parents who love them, but there are others who are abandoned and often sent to orphanages. Some in poorer countries are often left exposed to nature without the love of a parent, without feeling nurture, this being the same scenario in the novel Frankenstein. The story starts out with a curious young Victor…

Today, sex is a much talked about subject, and roughly half of high school students participate in the act. Today the value of ‘saving one’s self for marriage’ is dated and carried out by few, but in ‘The Chrysanthemums’ by John Steinbeck, this ideal is presented to an extreme. Steinbeck begins the story by painting a descriptive picture of the Salinas Valley and describes it as “a time of quiet and waiting”. The story then introduces us to two of the main characters, Elisa and her husband,…

In Meg Elisons, Book of the Unnamed Midwife, a deadly fever takes most of the women and children of the world's population, Karen was one of the few females to survive. In the male dominated world, change was required in order to have protection and survive. Karen had to change her life from a sophisticated nurse to a barbaric way of living, disguise herself, and move frequently to protect herself and survive. Karen was quickly introduced to the new barbaric lifestyle she would have after she…

and I feel it is appropriate at that time to share more details about sexuality. Nonetheless, people and families should be more comfortable with discussing sex because it is such a big part of our society and personal lives. “From the moment of birth to the day we die, we are all sexual beings” (King:…

The first menstruation, got “on the same day of the month as the other girls, […] all synchronized in their lunar rhythms” (Eugenides), is Cecilia’s body signal that she is biologically mature and able to bear pregnancy. She approaches womanhood and gets closer to the characteristics of a harlot, consequently further from a young and immaculate virgin. The blood is also inherently connected with defloration, in many cultures an indicator of becoming a sexually active woman, thus becoming a…

encouraging, as the number of elephant calves has halved. In 1994 the South African government haltered the killing of elephants and by 2008 the number of elephants in the Kruger National Park doubled. Immunocontraception is a non-hormonal form of birth control. The organization argues that this form of contraception is cost effective at R1200 per elephant. Other organizations argue that it is not the right approach and it is not feasible in large scale parks such a The Kruger National…

The short story, “St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves,” written by Karen Russell, describes the lives of wolf girls living at St. Lucy’s to learn how to function in human society. This program uses a handbook, called The Jesuit Handbook on Lycanthropic Culture Shock, and the nuns use it to guide their students. The narrator and main character, Claudette, develops partially to the Jesuit Handbook guidelines. She follows the handbook when she identifies with her pack, but veers away once…

POLICIES OF OTHER COUNTRIES : The Family Planning Association of Hong Kong was an organisation which brought forth sex education, family planning advice and birth control services to the citizens of Hong Kong. When the population started to increase, it launched a campaign. This campaign was called the “Two is Enough” campaign through which the birth rate was decreased with the help of educational ways.The total fertility rate too, is low.The authorities in Iran as well encourage families not…

sex education in schools because it involves underage students who need guidance and support in decision-making. (4) If a parent asks you to approach the topic of birth control with her teenage daughter or son, how will you address the topic or what methods will you use in your teaching plan? If a parent seeks help from me to touch on birth control topic with her teenage daughter or son, I will address the topic first by helping the teenager get comfortable about talking of the topic. Secondly,…

As I started to think about my topic for my personal essay, I thought of birds. I thought about how I would like to be a bird and how free they are, but then as I wrote that essay I realized that not the one thing I want people to know about me. Growing up I was the baby in my family for 9 years, until my younger sister and brother came along and my family went from three to five. And that made me the middle child. My parents were never on the same page. My mom was passive and my dad was very…