Helena

Essay #4

As we stand at the principle of our history, I think everyone is asking the same question (what kind of world do we want to create? What do we care about? And for who?). People are linked to the great chain; and why not start at the beginning of the greatest foundation where all the good learns begging” at the Elementary school”? Our good ancestors have the wisdom to accept that they probably won’t solve the world’s greatest challenges in their lifetime (racism, climate change inequality, greed, disease) if they sacrifice personal rewards for long-term investment and progress. It will be worth the investment in our little kids at the elementary school. Because they are the future of society. Yes, I think learning about how to become a good Ancestor should be part of my local elementary school. At this age, the kids are open to learning. Being a good ancestor is building on the hope, and decisions that qualify for lives that will come after us therefore I think it’s good to teach elementary kids how to be a good ancestor but in a delicate way and according to their age.

Addressing the elementary school class students on how to become good ancestors is teaching them the beginning to understand early learning concepts. oftentimes by using a hands-on approach to engage students and keep them curious and focused. These educators help students to understand problem-solving and how to develop critical thinking skills. environmental issues, animal welfare, self-respect, racism, and the importance of community the school contributes to grow and deliver to the universal good ancestors. Young people must learn about equity and social justice so they can thrive in our increasingly global, multilingual, and multicultural society. When students become aware of the structural origins of inequality, they better understand the foundations of future world society. They are also better equipped to comprehend, interpret and integrate into their worldviews. The lessons they learn in their classrooms and experience in their lives will help them to become a good ancestor. It’s I seem like a lot for them to understand but also this is the time that created a foundation to become a future good ancestor. We should take advantage of everything that our ancestors created for us, and we should teach that to our kids. The school system can implement a curriculum for first, second, and third grade. Simply by creating a plantation and recycling classes that the kids can go around the school or in a community institution to plant trees teach them the importance of a clean ocean and teach them how to recycle at home or school. Teaching kids’ critical things will help them to make good decisions, understand the consequences of their actions and solve problems. These incredibly important skills are used in everything from putting together puzzles to mapping out the dust. It’s the process of using focus and self-control to solve problems and set and follow through on goals. Diana Adjadj–

April 23, 2001(the future is in our children’s hands. The beliefs and habits we help them with are the beliefs and habits that will reflect on the world). 

When we bring young people into our conversations and deliberations — whether in our families or public discourse such as a school system, they can remind us of our role as ancestors. They have the moral authority to speak on behalf of future generations, as well as the credibility to lead their elders. When you teach kids at a young age the importance of choices that people make can have a lasting impact on not only everyone around them but can also be far-reaching over time. The world our students are growing up in is always involved. They are so used to instant gratification, but not always being required to take responsibility for their actions and a complete lack of consequences. Growing up with these mindsets can create a lack of empathy; this lack of empathy leads to so many addictions fabrication on them and follows them into adulthood creating even more challenges for them and the people around them; implementing how to be a good ancestor in their early stage of education it will prepare and give them the ability to act on the future capacity of the good for the generational thinkers. Having the forty, fifty, and sixth graders classes the curriculum the open conversations about racism, inequality how to confront injustice, and find ways to forgive and be forgiven. The parent and school system can provide more time to teach kids the essentials of life. Teaching them that it’s better to make someone or your colleague feel welcome and accept their differences, than bully or make their life miserable by doing psychological damage (name calling, physical abuse, threats, making jokes). Many kids are taking their lives because of this issue.

 

Providing children with a connection to things that are greater than themselves help to foster a sense of hope and optimism that they can draw from when life is difficult. The kids nowadays know less about their great-grandparents than we did about ours, instated phones, Netflix, and games. School can teach the importance of a family. A connection between kids who know their family history can get a stronger sense of self-esteem and control over their lives, it’s a fascinating finding. Families whose children know their family history are likely families that always have healthy communication styles and family rituals. And one way you can do this ritual is over dinner meals in particular or Vacations and holidays. I am a mother of 3 who immigrated to the United States over 20 years ago; when my kids were young, I used to send them vacationing back to my hometown (Cape Verde Island) so they can see where I come from and spend time with families back there so they can learn the culture, the food, and my background. See that I did not grow up with a lot of the material things, but I got the best of a like which is learned respect, dignity, and self-control, from my ancestry; in the sense for those that grew up in a different world with many things and opportunity don’t get lost and lose themselves amid good and bad influences. Another ritual that I used to do every day was the dinner time meals. That moment was very special because it was the time for the kids to express themselves and learn.

Citations:

• Diana Adjadj–

April 23, 202

Nittler, Nadra Kareem. “How Racism Affects Children of Color in Public Schools.” ThoughtCo, 28 Feb. 2021, www.thoughtco.com/how-racism-affects-public-school-minorities-4025361. 

Shoran Huang for The Wall Street Journal. “Family Dinners Are Key to Children’s Health. so Why Don’t We Eat Together More?” The Wall Street Journal, 8 Oct. 2022, www.wsj.com/articles/family-dinners-are-key-to-childrens-health-so-why-dont-we-eat-together-more-11665174361. 

 

Deep-timing humility

 In “The Good Ancestor” Roman Krznarich expresses his belief in the importance of time. Krznarich goes back in time to elaborate how time influenced life, using seasons and sundials as a way to keep track of the day, an innocent and a mandatory habit. Throughout evolution time became more than a way to keep track. Different tools were created to count time. The clock was created, and it was designed in a circle. The circle being visualized in all parts of life, the sun, the seasons, the moon. The circle is significant in life, it represents the future and how the idea of life continuing in a cyclical pattern is continuous and not shortened unlike a linear line. “The ancient idea of time as a circle has been replaced by the notion of linear time, the arrow of time that runs in a straight line from the past, through the present, and into the future… because a line, unlike a circle, can be shortened.” This is important to understand when learning the evolution of time and circle. As years of evolution continued, the idea of time was no longer important for crop season or stock, it now had a price tag. The invention of time clocks was used for bosses to keep track of workers and their pay periods. “Soon workers were clocking in, filling out timesheets, and being punished for lateness. With time sliced into smaller and smaller periods, business owners could measure the speed of their workers down to the second and ratchet up the pace of the production line.” Keeping track of workers through digital clocks seemed to have sparked the ruin of time. The clock is a monument, so much so that the artist is replicating its importance as art. “The Clock of the Long Now… a project of the Long Now Foundations, its purpose is to create a new mythology of time that challenges the pathologically short attention span of the modern world… the clock is designed to stay accurate for ten millennia.” This clock will be used to represent humanity’s sense of time. In this chapter of “The Good Ancestor,” the author Roman Krznarich emphasizes his belief that time is priceless and with society and the idea of time has altered.

We as a community benefit from time but also tend to not see its disadvantages. The future depends on our choices that may affect time and generations down the line. Technologies that have corrupted and altered our course of life simply means it has altered time as well. Making sure that we have an understanding on why deep-time humility is an understood concept throughout society and our communities is crucial to survival. Time is more than a round clock, or the clock-in button, but it is spiritual, it is inevitable, and it has purpose.

 

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is a document of principles approved by the UN General Assembly on December 10, 1948. After the experience of the second world war as a common standard of achievement for all people and nations. Everyone, no matter who they are, or where they are born is entitled to the same basic rights and freedom without distinction of any kind of race, color, sex, language, religion, political or another opinion as national or social, origin, property, birth or another status. It is however a challenge and unfortunate for the world to experience the same universal declaration of human rights. UDHR is based on 30 rights and most translated into 538 different languages some of the rights are that all human beings are born free and have equality, dignity, and the right to freedom from discrimination. These rights have been violated every single day, especially in poor countries to children, women, refugees, incarcerated people, and more. Various categories of human rights have been recognized including fundamental rights, the right to life, non-discrimination, and the idea that everyone is born equal; rights in the legal system; rights in society; political, economic, and social rights; and cultural rights.

In poor countries Universal Human rights are violated every day, Poverty destroys economic and social. Social rights such as health, adequate housing, food, safe water, and education. For those living in poverty, many human rights are out of reach, among many other deprivations. They often lack access to education, health services, safe drinking water, and basic sanitation. This causes specific human rights violations for example because if you are poor you are forced to live or work in an environment that is unsafe and unhealthy. Children can escape poverty because the state does not provide access to education, another violation of human rights. Some countries’ most basic human rights are denied for women the freedom of speech, education, or the right to vote; and any attempts to oppose these regimes often result in future imprisonment and sometimes death. Human trafficking is currently one of the largest issues on a global scale of human rights violations millions of men, women, and children are forced into labor and sexual exploitation. People with disabilities are often mistreated by organizations, society, and family members by being denied medications, safe housing acceptance, care, etc. “to deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity” -Nelson Mandela 

Another way of human rights violations can be civil and political example torture and arbitrary arrest.  Sometimes law enforcement violates human rights by breaking the laws. For example, people that are incarcerated prisoners cannot pursue the rights to vote the rights to a fair trial and presumption of innocence, freedom of participation in public affairs and elections, it prohibits arbitrary deprivation of life, tortures cruel or degrading treatment or punishment slavery and forced labor, discrimination. They do not have a reasonable expectation of privacy in their cells. A prisoner’s cell may be searched without a warrant; A prisoner does not have the rights afforded to individuals under employment laws. Prison rape not only threatens the lives of those who fall prey to their aggressors, but it is potentially devastating to the human spirit. Shame, depression, and a shattering loss of self-esteem accompany the perpetual terror the victim thereafter must endure.” (U.S. Supreme Court Justice Harry A. Blackmun) 1. Article 21 (1) of the UDHR: Nationally, an estimated 5.3 million Americans are denied the right to vote because of laws that prohibit voting by people with felony convictions. Of these, 4 million are out of prison and living and working in the community. Two states permanently ban voting by anyone with a felony record of any sort. And often people go to jail unfairly.

Although the Declaration of universal human rights is one of the most important reference points for cross-cultural discussion of human freedom and dignity of the world to all human beings, it is a failure to so many people, especially the less privileged one. Based on the UDHR framers in which every man, woman, and child lives free from hunger and is protected from oppression, violence, discrimination it should therefore be a unifying rather than a divisive force within and among all cultures. We will only be able to wholly honor the towering vision of the Universal Declaration of human rights when it’s universal.

Sources cited:

 

 

Universal Declaration of Human Rights | United Nations

[PDF] Human Trafficking: An International

N Blom – academia.edu

https://wwww.ohchr.org

Huq, Samin. “What Is the Most Violated Human Right in America?” US Institute of Diplomacy and Human Rights, 9 Aug. 2021, https://usidhr.org/what-is-the-most-violated-human-right-in-america/. 

 

Divorce is the legal process of separation between two legally married partners. This process is typically long, dragged out and often difficult for all parties involved. The parties in question, besides the divorcees, would usually be the children. In the mist of separation children are usually caught in the crossfire. Whether it be determining custody or ownership of properties, children are left with the result of separated parents and two bedrooms. Although the idea of double holidays and birthday celebrations sound fun, a child of divorced parents seems to feel the heartache of the separation the most. Divorce can impact the mind of an adolescent much more severely than one might imagine. The process of separation between two parents can cause a child to feel some sort of emotional distress. Another form of distress that might come from divorce could be financial; this burden may arise from the cut of incomes. And the troubling strain of divorce can affect a parent and child’s relationship. The act of divorce can have an abundance of consequences on the children involved.

The lasting effects of the separation of parents can be harmful on the children’s development. One consequence a divorce might have on a child is future emotional distress.

Emotional distress is the emotional response to a traumatic experience; depression and anxiety can arise from emotional distress. A child’s behavior may not start to alter until after separation; adjusting to a change can cause a delay in reaction. Negative behaviors that might occur could be physical towards oneself or other children. The hardship of expressing the emotion from a child so young can cause them to resort to violence to express it. Setting up meetings at school to reassure and assess issues such as these can positively benefit the child (Kuehn, 2022). However unresolved emotions typically explain why children of divorce present behaviors relating to the divorce later in life. Some behaviors might be lack of commitment, isolation, or quick to give up.

Emotional distress can cause future personal issues in children of divorce. Getting adequate help can resolve the unsettingling emotions.

Financial distress following a divorce can have an impact on children. Following the divorce mother and children experience a decline in income (Teachman,1994). Mothers typically gain the majority of custody of children in custody battles, resulting in the mother providing more resources for the child. Even when fathers are legally binded to provide financial support, they are less likely to experience a decline in income; and are less likely to share their earnings equally. Financial stress can cause a burden on a family. Watching a mother support children on a limited budget can cause emotional stress on a child. These stresses can lead to future repercussions; whether it presents issues with money, or resentment towards parents. Financial distress can cause a multitude of issues in the development of children of divorce.

Another possible effect from divorce can be the impact on children and parent’s relationship. Strain in relationships due to divorce can be more common than not. The process of separating can cause a split in the bonds of parents to children. Most likely due to the idea of having to separate a once shared life between multiple people; children can feel some sort of resentment towards a parent or parents for altering their home. This can be resolved whether with some sort of therapy or lifestyle implementation to help the child understand, and lose that feeling of resentment. Sometimes the emotion will go away with age and time. However if these feelings go unresolved it may continue through life, eventually causing damage to the relationship(s). This then will cause future issues with the child now an adult. The result can develop into toxic behaviors and attitudes or lifestyle choices; these choices can cause harm to self or others around. A parent might want to prioritize spending time and reassuring their child to help them process this often complicated scenario.

A child with two married parents can feel as though their world is coming to an end once announced separation between parents. A home is becoming houses and time can not be split completely equal. Adjusting to a new life of no longer having married parents is a lot harder said than done. Children are typically caught in the crossfire of divorce. Often feeling torn between parents or lifestyles or who is to blame, uncertain emotions can arise causing future issues in the child. Following divorce, change can come more quickly than one was expecting. And the end result of relationships can be tense. The impact of divorce might include emotional distress, financial distress and strain in a relationship with a parent or parents. Making sure to take these emotions head on and from the beginning of the divorce process and allow children to have a smooth transition to their new life dynamic. Remembering to put the child’s feelings and future before one’s self in the process of divorce can be crucial to a child’s development.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Hughes, C., & Fredenburg, B. (2023, March 3). The impact of divorce on adult children: Hello divorce. The Impact of Divorce on Adult Children | Hello Divorce. Retrieved March 5, 2023, from https://resources.hellodivorce.com/the-impact-of-divorce-on-adult-children

 

Kuehn, L. (2022, September 5). What to do when your child hits at school: Cornerstones for parents. Cornerstones for Parents | A Christian parenting resource. Retrieved March 5, 2023, from https://www.cornerstonesforparents.com/what-to-do-when-your-child-hits-at-school

 

Landsford, J. (2009, March 1). Parental divorce and children’s adjustment . Sage Journal. Retrieved March 6, 2023, from https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1111/j.1745-6924.2009.01114.x

McGhee, C. (2023, January 19). 8 things adult children of divorce desperately want you to know. Divorce and Children. Retrieved March 5, 2023, from https://divorceandchildren.com/tips-for-parents-of-adult-children-of-divorce/

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If I were given $100 million and asked to allocate it for the welfare of humankind, I would promote empowerment of people in achieving poverty reduction, by creating more opportunities for people on welfare. Open technical schools create jobs with decent pay, so people have a better living condition. Investing in the lives of the future generation. Creating organizations and institutions that work and advocate for climate change.  

 

• The society (ancestor) mindset derived from medieval thinking which is about thinking in multiple generations rather than one lifetime. When you think about others it changes the perspective of your actions. In the centuries to the medieval times when architects laid plans and began constructions, they were more used to thinking about time cyclically instated of linearly, and because they were inspired to celebrate and pursue causes far greater than themselves there were capable of building cathedrals that cloud take much more than a century to complete and last a lifetime and for that it is not a waste of resource.

 

• The Success of the Cathedral projects; a primary purpose of a Cathedral is to be a place of Christian worship, and the inspiration idea that brought people together, but also and sometimes the oldest building standing in the area significant to the heritage, culture and community. 

 

I strongly agree with the feedback about my Essay, and I do think they have a positive criticism. It is good and will motivate myself to become a better writer.  Essentially me being an ESL student the error and mistakes are a lot because the process of writing English is not easy. I have a background in three languages besides English. Your brain automatically tends to think in these languages before you write in english. When you have positive feedback you are allowing yourself to take positive constructive steps to improve your own writing and develop as a better writer. The reason I am saying positive is because it can be negative as well and can be heartefull for some people. But from my feedback experience I kind of see that there was a place in the Essay that I could develop more and give more details for the readers.

Essay – 1 My Ancestors( My Grandmother

 

My Grandmother’s name was Suzana Medina.

She was born in one of the biggest Cape Verde Islands called Santiago in a small village called Tarrafal. She was the youngest of four sisters, probably 5 ’11 tall, very skinny, very Chookasian skin complex, long soft hair that she used to two or four and make long braids that laydown over her breast, she always wore a long black shirts and white button-down shirt.

 

My Grandmother married her high school sweetheart when she was 18 years old, and due to the hunger pandemic back in that year they emigrated to the country of Sao Tome and Principe where they had five children. Two boys-Didi and Daniel- and three girls-Maria, Hermelinda and Nuna-. Life in Cape Verde Islands was very difficult back in the days due to the hunger of 47. Cape Verdean Islands is located on the West Coast of Africa in the central Atlantic Ocean colonized by Portuguese in the 15th century, causing significant hardship and prompting heavy emigration. My grandmother always tells history about life in Sao Tome and Principe. It used to rain a lot and agriculture was good with lots of vegetables and fruit. They lived there for many years before they returned back to Cape Verde Island. When she regained her career as a Dula. I often would see her carrying a big black daff bag traveling from one island to another, but I never understood why she is never home most of the time. Until one day I asked her, “Grandmother why you always carried that bag, and you are never home”. She looked down in my face and smiled and she said, “Let me show you what I do when I’m not here, in  her bag its was Cazares ,gloves ,fetoscopy books, and begging to explain the function of all equipment and  that she helps a pregnant woman deliver a baby to this world and that  she love it because  it’s an amazing experience and that when she travels it is for training. I was so surprised but that explained why she was always on the go. My Grandmother had a big impact in the community where we lived. She was a therapist, psychologist, a marriage counselor due to her ability and the Knowlogy she had although she never pursued a college degree for it. But the community goes to her for all these issues if they have marriage problems, if they need to make big decisions because she always has the best advice and nice words of Conforte the best solution. The best memories I have of her are food and how disciplined she was. Every time I do something wrong, I run to her house, and she always has a different approach on parenting; she never believed that spanking your child was the best way to discipline; but always believes that the way to educate a child is by showing them the consequence of their action, responsibility and loving them. That had a lot of impact on me on how I raise my children. That violence only leaves trauma and unforgivable unhealthy memories. Grandmother was a cook. Her food was so good. My favorite recipe is the fish pudding. The process to make it takes so long but it was worth it wait and I was always excited to eat. When she made the fish pudding I always go to the kitchen and  sat down on this long rustic old bench and watched her boil lots of potatoes and a big piece of well-seasoned fresh catch tuna; in a silver round grinder with the wood handle she shredder everything and add more seasons and bread crumbs and more stuffs, she will mixed well until get the consistency and goes to the oven for good 45 to 50 minutes. I always love animals and she got me a chicken and baby goat which I named after myself. Every day I used to pick up fresh eggs that the chicken laid for breakfast and the goat I took care of it until we moved to a different city. She was knowing as a caring, loving, charismatic, compassionated human being and everybody loved her. I will always cherish the time we had, and trying to be as kind as she were to others. My Grandmother passed when she was 63 of ovarian cancer. I love her and miss all the time we spent together.

 

  

 

1- Contrast between the Cyclical  and the Linear notions of the time.Life was vastly diffent for are ancestors and  their lives were basic on the observation of the different types of cycles that exist in the nature;the Season of the year, life cycle of living beings for the position of the stars is more like a philosophical conception.The Linear time as the time progresses people and society progress towards the better reality of time past present future.

 

Yes I do consider the movement from the cyclical sense of the time to a linear sense of the time a progression.

 

The Linear sense of the time matches more my own sense of the time; because the perception of time relies on the motor system involving brain, regions, culture, costumes. The society I am living in time is precious; Past is over I have to make decisions for the present and perform in the future.

Essay – 1 My Ancestors (My Grandmother

 

My Grandmother’s name was Suzana Medina, she was 63 years old when she passed away.

She was born in one of the biggest Cape Verde Islands called Santiago in a small village called Tarrafal. She was the youngest of four sisters, probably 5 ’11 tall, very skinny, very cook Asian skin complex, long soft hair that she used to two or four and make long braids that laydown over her breast, she always wore a long black shirt and white button-down shirt.

 

My Grandmother married her high school sweetheart when she was 18 years old, and due to the hunger pandemic back in that year they emigrated to the country of Sao Tome and Principe where they had five children’s. Two boys-Didi and Daniel- and three girls-Maria, Hermelinda and Nuna-. Life in Cape Verde Islands was very difficult back in the days due to the hunger of 47. Cape Verdean Islands is located on the West Coast of Africa in the central Atlantic Ocean colonized by Portuguese in the 15th century, causing significant hardship and prompting heavy emigration. My grandmother always tells history about life in Sao Tome and Principe. It used to rain a lot and agriculture was good with lots of vegetables and fruit. They lived there for many years before they returned back to Cape Verde Island. When she regained her career as a Dula. I often would see her carrying a big black daff bag traveling from one island to another, but I never understood why she is never home most of the time. Until one day I asked her, “Grandmother why you always carried that bag, and you are never home”. She looked down in my face and smiled and she said, “Let me show you what I do when I’m not here in her bag it was, fetoscopy books etc. and begging to explain that she helps a pregnant woman deliver a baby, and that when she travels it is for training. I was so surprised but that explained why she was always on the go. The best memories I have from her are her food and how Parented. Every time I do something wrong, I run to her house, and she always has a different approach on parenting. She never believes that using a belt is the way to educate a child. But showing us the consequences and responsibility; and she used to make the best food. My favorite recipe is fish pudding. The process to make takes so long but always excited to eat it was so good. I always love animals and she got me a chicken and baby goat which I named after myself. Every day I used to pick up fresh eggs that the chicken laid for breakfast. I love her and miss all the time we spent together.

After human mind was studied on instant gratification. The scientist come up with the name according to the brain’s reaction The Marshmallow Brain which is part of what we are as a human being. The brain is quick to choose short-term desire gratification to satisfy ego, it’s like an addition. We want to be satisfied or make a quick decision of what we see in front of us, and we don’t think of long-term benefits or progress. Myself some time I make a short-term decision; instead of putting some money in to the savings I purges in some unnecessary purchases just so I can satisfy myself that’s my marshmallow brain; but on the other hand, my acorn brain in savings some percentage of my pay work check in to the 401K program for retirement.  The Acorn Brain which allows to project distant future and invest in the long-term goals and achievement, thinks of future goals a better and productive world, an acorn brain go beyond today or a present to get to the future; Thanks to the acorn brain today we have what we see today evolutionary of history.