Free Essays on Father Was Abusive

  1. Mediocre Fathers

    the focus in all surrounding father figures. Although, the sentiment regarding the paternal figure differs in each poem, the key in each is the acts of love from fathers toward the speakers and to a degree the sentiment that the speakers feel in return toward their fathers. In two of...

  2. Jack's Life After He was Rescued From the Island in Lord of the Flies

    Jack’s Life After the Rescue From the Island Upon hearing Ralph tell the naval officer that he was the “boss” on the island, Jack stepped forward to contradict Ralph, and to assert his power as chief. But he suddenly stopped in his tracks, because if he claimed leadership, he would have to take...

  3. Huck Finn "Sivilization"

    away from his very abusive drunken father? He states in the beginning of the novel, "The Widow Douglas she took me for her son, and allowed she would sivilize me; but it was rough living in the house all the time, considering how dismal regular and decent the widow was in all her ways; so...

  4. My Top Three Movies

    Crow. It was released in 1994 and was written by James O’Barr, the creator of the comic book series, and it was directed by Alex Proyas. The movie is about a character named Eric Draven, played by Brandon Lee, who was killed and thrown out a five story building. His fiancé ,Shelly Webster, was brutality...

  5. This Boys Life

    in the film “This Boy's Life”, which also include other characters. Featuring; the main character, Tobias Wolff; Mother, Caroline; The neurotic and abusive husband, Dwight; and unlikely friend, Arthur. From the start of the film it is apparent Tobias is not in a psychologically healthy environment. Caroline...

  6. essay mlk

    comes from a no-account family. Everyone expects him to live up to the poor reputation, well-established by his delinquent brothers and his abusive, alcoholic father, who regularly beats him. He desperately tries to avoid being typecast, but the entire community seems to work against his desire. “Chris...

  7. Essay for the Body by Stephen King (Chris Character)

    Chris is he’s living the way he does, with an abusive dad and no mom. He grows up to be the opposite of what Erickson or anyone else would expect. Erickson would expect Chris to be a criminal like his brother because of his family situation as a kid, his abusive dad and brother and no mom, but he succeeds...

  8. Bates Motel

    Motel, is a television series prequel to Hithcock’s 1960 film, Psycho. Hitchcock’s film was about Norman Bates, a fictional character created by Robert Bloch, who wrote the novel Psycho. The creation of Norman Bates was also loosely inspired by notorious murderer Ed Gein. There are a few key differences...

  9. CRITICAL LITERACY

    Due Date :1 NOVEMBER 2013 Assignment Topic :ESSAY Academic Staff Member : MADAM RUBA’AYAH BINTI ABDUL RAHIM Student’s Comments (e.g. if extension was granted) I declare that the work contained in this statement is my own, except where acknowledgement of sources is made. Signed : ________________________...

  10. Predisposing factors

    are abused because their parents were abused, when they were younger so they feel it is right for them to do so to their offspring. Some parents are abusive because the parent/parents have anger issues and in turn take them out on their children. When children are abused they have no one to turn to or protect...

  11. Walk the Line

    The movie I chose was “Walk the Line”. The biography chronicles the early lives of Johnny and June Carter Cash and the struggles they dealt with in their personal lives and careers. Johnny (or J.R. as he was originally named) was one of Ray and Carrie Cash’s seven children and grew up on a poor cotton...

  12. Case Report

    Report Assessment John, a 6-year old, was referred to the Care Connections Ministry and the Counseling Ministry for an interdisciplinary team evaluation due to Family development and behavioral concerns. John's mother, Jessica, accompanied him to the assessment and was interviewed by the social worker. Jessica...

  13. The Modern Society and Battering

    Like Tynesha Stewart, Clara Riddles, and LaToya Pendergrass who where all victims that were taken out this world. According to Essence Magazine “Each was featured in news reports as a victim of domestic violence, killed reportedly by men who were supposed to love them.” (Wilson) These three young women...

  14. Women Hollering

    “Women Hollering Creek “illustrates Sandra Cisneros feminist perspective by creating a situation in which a young woman Cleófilas is in an abusive marriage and finds the inner strength to escape. Cleófilas thought her life would have to be like that, like a telenovela, only now the episodes got sadder...

  15. Bipolar Disorder

    Rayne Atkinson Mrs. Calkins WRT 150 9/30/2015 My father was a smart man. He got good grades in school, scored high on tests like the ACT and SAT, and had a very charismatic personality that was magnetic to everyone he met. But around his early twenties, I remember that charisma slowly diminishing...

  16. A Tousand Splendid Suns

    “A THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS” Mariam was a harami. She was an unwanted child and a burden to her mother. She first heard the word when she was five. She was restless, because it was a Thursday, the day when Jalil, her father, would come visit her. To pass the time until he came, Mariam climbed onto...

  17. Johhny Cash

    The movie I chose was “Walk the Line”. The biography chronicles the early lives of Johnny and June Carter Cash and the struggles they dealt with in their personal lives and careers. Johnny (or J.R. as he was originally named) was one of Ray and Carrie Cash’s seven children and grew up on a poor cotton...

  18. Woman Hollering Creek

    “Woman Hollering Creek” The short story “Woman Hollering Creek” is written by Sandra Cisneros who is a Chicago native born to a Mexican father and Mexican American mother. Cisneros uses extreme detail and vivid storylines that jump from scene to scene to keep the reader enticed with her imaginative...

  19. Emotional and Physical Breakdowns of Battered and Abused Women

    October 2009 What was the Tragedy and Triumph in Alice Walker’s The Color Purple? Sexually abused by her father, physically abused by her husband, and emotionally abused by both, results in Celie’s behavioral and social issues. In Alice Walker’s The Color Purple, Celie was verbally and sexually...

  20. Family Violence: Physical and Sexual Assaults

    Constantine, which was to serve as a precedent for the next fourteen centuries.” Beating one’s wife was a social, moral and legal right. Socially, if you did not beat your wife, you were subject to public ridicule. Morally, the Bible says that women are to obey their husbands, which was taken to mean if...

  21. Woman Hollering Creek

    Woman Hollering Creek Sandra Cisneros was born in Chicago in 1954, to a Mexican father and a Chicano mother. She was the only daughter in a family including six brothers. (http://www.english.illinois.edu/MAPS/poets/a_f/cisneros/bio.htm) Her stories show influence of her Mexican heritage, and portray...

  22. The Decision - Short Story

    Decision In the short story “Eveline” by James Joyce, Eveline is a young lady that has a troubled life. Much of her misery comes from her abusive father who is also very controlling. Even when she has the opportunity to leave with her boyfriend, Frank, to begin a new life she does not take it....

  23. The Fear and the Guilt of Moving Forward

    notion of staying with her abusive father. She does this by making a mental list of about two times in her life where her father was actually nice to her and aboutall the nice things that Frank has done for her. Eveline had even come up with the notion that if she leaved her father might miss her. Her indecisiveness...

  24. Oedipus

    psychoneurotic humans and how they are destined to fail from the young stages in life due to the people and environments they are surrounded by. It was clear to Freud that the main reason these people suffer from mental illness is because of improper parenting; however, he started to study the minds...

  25. Abuse

    recall how dry my mouth felt and how fast my heart was beating. As soon as he answered his phone, I explained to him how I had reached my breaking point and I was not going to stick around any longer. His response included a lot of swearing, and that I was not going to leave the relationship alive. “Someone...

  26. Review of Iceman

    story of Richard Kuklinski, a mafia contract killer who was responsible for well over 200 murders. He is perhaps the most sadistic mass murderer in American history. He was so detached from his emotions that he was labeled the iceman, because he was as cold as ice so cold he could watch a man being eaten...

  27. Ted Bundy's Background

    paper will focus on three well-known, convicted murders, their backgrounds, and the constructionist/essentialist approach to their behavior. Ted Bundy was attractive, smart, and had a future in politics. He is also one of the most infamous serial killers in U.S. history. Ted Bundy screamed his innocence...

  28. Pauls Life

    lot of issue’s that affected his life and how he lived it. These issues caused much heartache and misery to him, and as you know death. His abusive father, uncaring teachers, and classmates caused most of his life’s troubles. Most of all he has a learning disability that causes his behavior...

  29. Karla and Paul Bernardo

    Credit, Ontario, Canada), is a Canadian serial killer who attracted worldwide media attention when she was convicted of manslaughter in the rape-murders of two teenaged girls; her husband, Paul Bernardo, was convicted of their murders and admitted having raped numerous women. Homolka and Bernardo also were...

  30. The Scare

    Screams of a young girl were echoing from a dark alley. The alley was otherwise quiet and frightening. Footsteps of a stranger were fading out and getting softer. She opened her eyes and saw nothing. Pitch black was all she knew. She was thrown into a tiny confined area where she had barely any air to...

  31. Single Women with Personal and Family Issues

    to make the decision to stay at home or leave with her boyfriend. Some examples in Joyce’s short story show this, Eveline living under her father's abusive control. The fear she had of uncertainty of a life with her boyfriend Frank, and her being unable to escape the paralyzed existence of the "duties"...

  32. Tennesssee Williams a Street Car Named Desire

    american writer was born on March 26,1911 in Columbus, Mississippi. Through William's early childhood he experienced sexual abuse from his father, both physical and mental illness, and detrimental habits that he carried through the rest of his life. He once admitted that his family was extremely dysfunctional...

  33. Definitions of Child Abuse

    be touched sexually or forced to have sex. Quote from sexually abused child '” thought for a long time that what was happening was OK because Dad said it was a game that all fathers played with their sons, a secret game that only the men knew about.” 2.1Physical Abuse Physical abuse is acts of...

  34. Men Are from Mars

    rather than common law prohibition (Harvard Law Review, 2006 pp2469). In all states, close blood-relatives that fall under the incest statutes include father, mother, grandfather, grandmother, brother, sister, aunt, uncle, niece, nephew. However, individual statues differ widely. Some states include first...

  35. Literary Analysis Essay

    I’ve learned many sad stories about father-dominated families. After reading Junot Diaz’s short story “Drown”, I got to know that in some Hispanic families, father also dominate the entire family. The author shows us that this kind of family cause many problems: Father can abuse the wife and children as...

  36. Young Adulthood

    home, my parents divorced when I was thirteen. And because of this I think that my whole view on relationships is a little jaded. I got married for the first time when I was nineteen, and then 4 years latter I was divorced. They say that you marry someone like your father and that is exactly what I did;...

  37. huck fin essay

    group of personalities who function as representatives of a fictional world are as vital to a novel's story as its many themes. For Twain, the challenge was to embody fictional characters with realistic traits and personalities; that is, his characters had to be as believable and as recognizable as the people...

  38. Eveline

    The early 1900s was a hard time to live for women. Many believed that they were just maids for their fathers and husbands and nannies for their children. James Joyce’s short story “Eveline” depicts a young girl named Eveline who is ready to leave her home in Ireland to start a better one in Argentina...

  39. serial killer

    motives that lead to their victim’s death. Theodore Robert Cowell A.K.A Ted Bundy was born in Burlington, Vermont on November 24, 1946. Growing up he lived with his grandparents and never knew who his father was till he was older and started investigating. As an adolescent he chose to be alone because he...

  40. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

    the Mark Twain's historical fiction, 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn', Huck fakes his murder to escape the drunken beating of his abusive father. His sanctuary was the mighty Mississippi, which he used to escape the torture he has lived with for years. Huck's adventure takes a strange turn when...

  41. Woman Hollering Creek 11

    her culture was a major factor in this story. The story centers on Cleofilas and the fairy tale life she thought she was going to have. In the beginning Cleofilas thought she would be leaving behind her six brothers who in her eyes didn’t think much of her except as a maid. Her Father is different though...

  42. In My Social World

    begins when I was a small child. My father was an alcoholic and was verbally and physically abusive. I am the youngest of three children and growing up, I felt tremendous resentment toward my father for many reasons. I always felt that he treated me differently from my other siblings. It was like no matter...

  43. Hamlet Is a Tragic Hero

    tragic flaw that leads to his or her demise. In William Shakespeare’s Hamlet the main character hamlet is a man whose father has died and he discovers from his fathers’ ghost that his fathers’ brother killed him. Hamlet displays all the characteristics of a tragic hero. Hamlet's tragic flaw is his inconsistency...

  44. Year of Wonders

    But it was through these lows that made her change. Anna had a bad childhood with an abusive father which “made of him a sour and menacing creature.” Anna and her mother would constantly be subjected to beatings and violent outburst from her father and this still psychological affects her. It was not until...

  45. Exploration of a Professional Journal Article in Psychology

    Abstract Millings (2010) draws connection between twelve master themes; control, masculinity, rejection, pride and praise, the bad father, the façade, the reactive father, mother’s role, positive effects specifically, negative effects or behavior, the bad grandfather, and explanation and consequences...

  46. Macho Frightened by Homosexuality

    seen in Junot Diaz’s collection of short stories, Drown. Drown illustrates the machismo values that are present in a Dominican family. From an abusive father to the prodigy of the family, machismo (make the machismo either all capital or all not, except at start of a sentence of course) is an ongoing...

  47. Living with Hiv

    THERE IS LIFE AFTER AN HIV DIAGNOSIS In 1990 I was diagnosed with HIV. It’s a day I will never forget. I was sitting in the waiting room of the doctor’s office. My name was called and the doctor took me into his private office. He informed me that I tested positive for the HIV viruses and that...

  48. The Women of Mango

    aggressive, abusive, perverted, or they are absent altogether. Sally’s father physically abuses her, “He never hits me hard. She said her mama rubs lard on all the places where it hurts. Then at school she’d day she fell” (92), and Esperanza is sexually assaulted on more than one occasion. “…just as I was about...

  49. Huckleberry Finn

    what Huck is doing with the gun on page 22, Huck immediately replies with, “Somebody tried to get in, so I was laying for him” (23) which kept him out of the wrath of his insane, drunken father. Dialogue proves that Huckleberry is very much of an emotionally driven, clever, and quick-witted individual...

  50. Dorothea Dix

    Dorothea Dix Dorothea Dix was born on April 4, 1802 in Maine. Her father was an itinerant Methodist preacher. Her family life is not what we can call a normal life. It was rather abusive because of her father and mother. Her mother had mental issues her father was a heavy drinker. Her family later...

  51. Closing the Gap

    Closing the Gap Throughout the 19th century, it was a time where America was becoming its own country. People were really starting to build their own worlds, some more than others. There was still a barrier though, due to money and status. This period was the start of something new; some of those walls...

  52. Das Negros

    very hard time living his life as his mother left when he was a kid, his father is an acute alcoholic and everyone always put him as target of bullying, including his teacher called Mr. Watkins. Solomon, a boy who suffers with dyslexia was standing in the middle of the graveyard. He didn’t know...

  53. Fiction Essay - "Eveline"

    housekeeper and caretaker of her aging, verbally abusive, alcoholic father. Only someone who's been brainwashed would take care of a man who finds it necessary to threaten her, "she sometimes felt herself in danger" (5). “Eveline” stays even though her father leads her to believe she's lacking in her care...

  54. Obstacles When Growing Up

    sad, and depressing moments. When I was a little girl my mother and father parted, my siblings were confused and wanted to have someone to blame. Since our father was no longer a part of the family the only person left to turn to was our mother. I felt that I was the only one who understood her mentally...

  55. Useless

    in South-East London. Stephen was asked if he saw the bus. A group of white youths then attacked Lawrence, who was stabbed twice. He attempted to escape, but bled to death after 130 yards. The attack appears to be racist, because the white youths yelled abusive comments before stabbing Stephen...

  56. DOUBT

    Garrison Dykes Ms. Arrington English 1101 November 12, 2015 Doubt Doubt was is a play written by John Patrick Shanley. In 2007, film production began on the Pulitzer Prize play Doubt. With John Patrick Shanley directing and Scott Rubin producing, the movie would soon hit for the...

  57. Woman Hollering Creek 9

    “she would strike back if a man were to strike her.” When the moment came that he slapped her once and then repeatedly. She didn’t do anything for she was in shock and did not know how to react to the situation. She never imagined he would do such a thing to her. She wants to talk to her neighbors about...

  58. Twain’s Satire

    Twain’s Satire The novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain is set back when slavery was legal and when Huckleberry Finn befriends a African American slave named Jim which Huck helps to free himself and Jim towards the North. Throughout there journey Twain uses themes which are about race...

  59. Turkey

    September 9, 2013 Sociology 410 Assignment#3 Chapter1 page 14- “I was scared of a lot of things” (Dully 14) Chapter 2 page 31 “So when started spanking me, I started laughing. It didn’t hurt. It wasn’t scary. It was funny.” “She’d have to find another way to keep me in line.” (Dully 31) ...

  60. Huck Finn Essay

    full of mischief and wonder. Huck’s Society labels him as “uncivilized” because of his abusive drunk of a father. “Pap got too handy with his hick’ry and I couldn’t stand it. I was all over with welts” (37). Huck’s father is the true uncivilized one here, an alcoholic and a racist. Yet, Society still considers...