BBC Films Essays

Tips on being a successful single mother.. A way to be happy as a single mother.. Motherhood is rewarding but life everything else in life, a tough ride. For single mothers, who must play the role of mother and father both, this is a challenging task that sometimes can be tough. Single motherhood calls for a great balance to be struck – between parenting, earning a livelihood and finding little time to spend on yourself. Everything that must be done starts with your own hands – cooking, washing,

Have you ever been hopeful for something that exceeds what you already have? You would do anything to make that one thing in your life better. Some people are like that and do whatever they can do to make it happen and some people simply just hope for it to happen there whole life. You will never understand why other people hope for what they are hopeful for. It’s like, always wanting more than you have and you have to do something big about it to make the littlest thing happen. Esperanza and her

One method that would avoid the influx of children coming into care would be to work with the families instead of completely removing the child from their homes, and, from their families. This is one of the arguments for why many believe the child welfare system is failing. There is a common generalization that social workers are people who take kids away from their homes arbitrarily. Arguably, in some cases, this could be so. Removing children from their homes, at any age, have psychological, emotional

The Catcher in the Rye The entirety of the novel The Catcher in the Rye is told from the point of view of a sixteen year old boy named Holden Caufield, where he nostalgically recalled what happened one winter. The novel begins with him leaving his prep school Pencey and going on an eventful and insightful journey before returning home to tell his parents that he flunked out of school yet again. Throughout his journey, he comes across several internal and external conflicts, including his mother

Ethan is a 3-year-old baby boy, who spend most of his day at the Sea of Joy Daycare center, in the far North Side of the city. Roughly, there are twenty-five infants and toddlers in this daycare center. The Sea of Joy is a well-organized and safe daycare center. It has a great facility with multiple playgrounds and well-informed staffs. As I observed each child has unique behavior, some were easy going, shy, playful, and difficult. In this essay I will be going to discuss about my observation of

It is almost impossible to keep a secret in the world of today. There are countless social media sites and other technological advancements have made keeping something from others virtually impossible. Although, in the 19th century, it was extremely likely that one could take a secret, even of the utmost importance, to the grave. In Oscar Wilde's “Lady Windermere's Fan” the main source of conflict stems from the relationship between Lord Windermere and Mrs. Erlynne. They are the holders of a

Differences between people have been around since the begin of mankind, they have started great disasters such as every war ever started, deaths, and sometimes disappears. In the nonfiction passage Confetti Girl, by Diana Lopez, and the nonfiction text from Tortilla Sun, by Jennifer Cervantes, both the narrator's point of views differ from those of their parents, therefore creating conflict between each other. In Confetti Girl, the narrator is the little girl that feels her father is ignoring her

The video Worst ever pitch, Worst ever product on BBC’s Dragons Den I found to be confusing. From the beginning of the video the inventor did not make a clear presentation of the problem his invention was going to help alleviate. Prior to pitching his idea he did not take any steps to meet with or do the research needed to ensure his product would be accepted by the local area that would be purchasing his product. In fact he stated that the woman who runs the traffic signals did not like his idea

Title: A study on the impact of DTH (Direct to Home) on the local cable operator’s business network  INTRODUCTION : Introduction of Set top boxes was considered as the second biggest game changer in the Indian television market as there was a shift in power and monopoly from Local Cable Operators (LCO’s) to Multi-System Cable Operators (MSO’s). Simultaneously, emerging as a competition to the cable players there was strengthening of Direct to Home (DTH) players in the TV distribution industry

Malala Malala Yousafzai a young teenager was on the brink of death thanks to her advocating.Women's rights are something not given to all girls in her country, Pakistan.For that sole reason she was shot, for speaking up for her rights.Therefore, by using juxtaposition to compare the Pakistan people to the American lifestyle, imagery to intensify the endeavor of women and young girls, and pathos to invigorate the world to help attain educational rights for these girls . In the small city of swat

only thing I could do was to report properly on the courage and the suffering and the dignity of the little girl and hope that it would mobilise the people to help the ones that had been rescued and had been saved,” said Frank Fournier according to a BBC article published September 30th, 2005. What we can take from Fournier’s quote is that the intentions of Fournier’s work was never like that of a “vulture”. We can see the respect the Fournier had for Omayra being so courageous and dignified until the

The Special Broadcasting Service (SBS) was established on 1st January 1978 under the principle of providing multilingual and multicultural radio and television services to Australians whose first language was not English. (Australia Government, 2015) It is a government owned, national broadcasting service that was founded at a time of changing Australia immigration policies. After World War II ended in 1945, the Australian government recognised the need for a bigger population and it implemented

Stereotypes are widely accepted pieces of judgment about a person or group but can be very biased, even though they aren’t always accurate especially when it's about being given a gender a role in today’s society. While there are some differences between Fences and other stories read are quite obvious, the similarities between the plays Fences and Trifles are the harsh gender roles given to women and they deserve to be spoken deeper about. Although gender roles today are better than it was ten or

Poverty in the Rural South of America People in poverty aspire to live similar to a middle-class citizen or a person who lives a life with no stress. In the memoir, Change Me into Zeus’s Daughter Barbara Moss illustrates the difficult conditions of a common family living in poverty in rural Alabama. Moss suffers from an abusive father who is addicted to alcohol, a mother who tolerates the abusive relationship of her husband, and lack of the minimum essentials to maintain living. The lack of minimum

Amy Tan’s “Two Kinds,” written in 1989, captures the relationship of a mother and daughter from China that has just relocated to America. So, in the beginning of the short story Tan expresses the mother’s beliefs of America by saying “my mother believed you could be anything you wanted in America” (Tan, Two Kinds, www.rtsd.org). then going into examples such as “You could open a restaurant. You could work for the government and get good retirement and of course, you can be a prodigy, too” (Tan, Two

Social Context – Introduction: The genre of the television show I have chosen to analyse and evaluation is a ‘Game Show’ entitled ‘Family Feud’. This show was originally produced in America with the first episode screening on 12th July 1976. It was shown by the American Broadcasting Company, C.B.S and NBC. An Australian version of this show was first aired in 1977 with various remakes up until 2014 when Channel Ten revived the show with Grant Denyer as the host, and a viewing time of 6.00 pm. from

In Rita Dove’s “Daystar”, there are several phrases and words that lead the reader of the poem to a profound understanding of the struggles that the main character of this poem experiences. According to the context of the poem, the main character appears to be a mother and wife in distress. Throughout the poem, she is presented as having a dreary, lethargic, and disconnected outlook of her current situation. The main question that must be asked is what the narrator tried to convey by stating that

Aggression is a spoken or physical behavior that causes intentional harm to a person. There are many different theories that argue what the cause of aggression is but this can be divided into two major types: people who think that aggression is inborn and those that view it as a learning behavior. The Social cognitive theory states that we learn behaviors through observation and modeling and this could be implied that we learn aggressive behaviors through observing and imitating others. The Social

For example, “the MTV aesthetic during its golden age of 1981 to 1992 [...] influenced not only music but network and cable TV, radio, advertising, film, art, fashion [...] even politics” (Marks, Craig, and Rob Tannenbaum 1). MTV encouraged teenagers, and society around them. It was a smashing hit that influenced how we have TV today. “Billboard” mentions, “1984 ‘Top Video Countdown’ debuts” (1). This

Recently, Mariah Carey had an outburst on Facebook when a sound engineer accidentally uploaded the wrong version of her song, “The Art of Letting Go.” Carrey took it upon herself to rant on Facebook about the mistake of the employee, why she didn’t catch it, and ultimately decided to leave the old version up in order to compare the two songs. In the rant she even admitted that, “"There's no doubt in my mind that this sounds like a self-absorbed diva on a 'woe-is-me' tangent,” (Eggenberger, 2013)