Question

Directions: Write a short review for each topic below. All of these topics are concerned with relationships and interrelationships. We are all connected....with each other and with all of creation/Mother Earth, and with God. The fracturing of these bonds is the basis of loneliness. The length of the review is listed for each topic. Please discuss these topies with your group, friends, family and include your and their insights. Your grade for this assignment will rely heavily on your personal reflection! 1. Defend or refute the following: today, more than ever, there is a need for an "extended family" Include the following points in your presentation (the traditional family vs current family structures. Also identify some forces today that are changing family structure. Please include your own observations about "families" Discuss the word "nostalgia" from a historical perspective (ie, how was the term derived and what were some of the conditions that gave rise to this observation?). Please discuss this with persons who have experienced.. leaving their "home"..and include their insights and 2. ion of the "healing power their stories 3. Defend or refute this statement: Bullying is an updated example of the Cain and Abel story the "Sainitis urge" unchecked.. (2 pages plus references). Cite the vertical and horizontal views as expressed by Tuvelisks. Cite and describe a rea-life" exrnce of bullying

Answer 1

Family is consisting of a mother, father, children, grandparents, cousins, and all other maternal and paternal chains. If great grandparents are alive they are also a member of the family and head of the family being the eldest person alive.

All these above relations make a family, now the concept of family has changed, father, mother, and children are taken as a family, in the composition written by children for the family no one mentions their grandparents or elders, it is either three or four people that are making a family. The concept of family has changed to nucleus family.

Previously the family was supposed to be up to three generations and married offspring and grandchildren,

A nucleus family is a form of a traditional family where two married couple are extending their support to their offsprings or adopted children

As the time changes the concept of the family started changing, the extended and joint family system started breaking the laws were made to give freedom to the children after a certain age, and responsibilities of parents are over. this privilege that is given in the name of freedom is one of the reason, people have broken ties and less emotional attachment with their parents, because they are aware that after a certain legal age he is not responsible for his parents, the bonding is very weak, as parents also knew after the legal age the child will leave them alone and get separated, the feeling of separation is born with the birth of the child, Parents love and affection is nature’s gift, they do their duty of raising the child and making them a good person, if the parent is thief, he would never like his son or daughter to take the same path.

In the case of extended family there are elders present in the family, they teach their culture, language, and morals, they are like basic teachers, the burden on the parents become less, and children grow up together, have family bonding, love and emotions everyone come together in crisis, and help each other, still in Asian culture, the extended family and joint family system is present, it is taken as the responsibility f the children to look after their aging parents, children do not leave their homes traditionally, unless there is some family dispute or lack of space.

As far as possible extend family is much better than the nucleus family, the elders are our teachers, they take the responsibility of teaching morals and way of life as their fundamental right, it gives space to parents and liberty and have less burden, the children grow up together, have emotional bonding, love and affection for each other, the negative point of extended family is when the division of property takes place, or views differs then it gives tension and the family may break also, that produces hatred, and negative family between the once love,y family, it is a sad part when extended families breaks.

The positive point with nucleus family is that they are independent, they can choose the life of their own, they are free to follow whatever they like, but the problem is the culture, the children do have an emotional attachment, but respect, and culture an extended family offered is missing in nucleus family.

2 Nostalgia is derived from the Greek word that means, it is a feeling related with emotions, e feel warm or fuzzy emotions when we think about our past, whether it is good or bad, it is often bittersweet as we cannot bring back the happy memories, and cannot ask for forgiveness for our wrong deed, it is whatever we are remembering is lost forever.

A person who had a loving family and good neighbors and a good friend circle, or completely reversed of it, a moment come when the person has to leave his house and go away from that home with bittersweet memories, carry with him the photographs of the parents and friends, that are the treasure at present., after the lapse of certain number of years when he sits with the photo album remembering his parents, family members, friends, and neighbors the feeling and emotions that develop are the nostalgic feelings that he alone can understand and experience it can be good that can bring sweet memories or bitter like the abused he had faced would bring sadness, but he can have nostalgic feeling but no remedy as the past has already gone.

Healing power of motherland is the story about a family by Maria Hummel, the story is inspired by the authors'father and his German childhood, and the between her grandparents that were nicely hidden, those letters had the feelings and emotions of love for each other and Germans tragedy, there is story about   Kappus family.

Frank was a surgeon who lost his beloved wife during childbirth, after that married a young lady, to look after his children that,  Liesl was all alone to fend for the children's need and protect them from air strikes, one of the children developed mental illness, it was very difficult for her as she was all alone and either she has to get treatment for the child or lose him, this novel presents the conditions of the people during the war.

3 Cain and Abel were the two sons of Adam and Eve,the story is written in the Genesis, Cain was a farmer and Abel, a herdsman, both had offered God with whatever they could offer Cain offered God with the portion of his crop one day as a sacrifice and Abel offered with  the fattest portion of his flocks. Cain came to know that God accepted Abel offer, and that enraged him, in his anger he killed his brother Eve gave birth to third son Seth, through generation the humankind became more evil. Due to the sin on the earth, God thought of punishing mankind and destroy it completely, But Noah had come to the rescuer, he saves mankind, the bullying is like Cain could not digest Abel acceptance by God, took the revenge and killed him, as he felt insulted,

I know one boy who was hardly 15 years of age, he was bad in his mathematics, by the time he reached eighth grade, he found the subject out of his reach as he could not understand it, he failed in that subject, and his friend bullied him on that he took it very badly, he wrote a small note that he cannot bear the bullying by his classmate and hanged himself, By bullying no one wins it hurts the emotions gives a very bad result. But a boy of strong will power can convert bullying into his success by challenging others.