Growing up means more than simply aging, becoming taller, bigger, etc., it also involves a certain amount of intellectual and emotional maturing. This means that in order to grow up, people must dispel childish notions and beliefs, and come to have a deeper understanding of life. Money, or more properly economics, and how people deal with it, understand it, and relate to it is often a measure of how mature a person has become. Financial success can be an effective way to calculate how well a person has matured, however, if taken too far it can also lead to a loss of human emotions and feelings. Two short stories which deal with the subject of maturity and money are The Lesson by Toni Cade Bambara, and Tobias Wolff's The Rich Brother. Both of these stories have money at their center, and both seek to send a message, however, both stories use money in contrasting ways. The Lesson demonstrates how money, or at least economic equality, is something that a person should strive for, while The Rich Brother is an example of how money can have a dehumanizing effect on those who love it too much. Toni Cade Bambara's The Lesson is a tale which attempts to deliver the message that economic inequality equals social and intellectual inequality. It is the story of a group of poor children who visit an expensive toy store. It is the hope of their adult mentor, Ms. Moore, that the children will learn a lesson about economic inequality from visiting this extravagant shop. In the end one child does learn the lesson...
Moore sought to teach that day, that "equal chance to pursue happiness means an equal crack at the dough." (Bambara) On the other hand is Tobias Wolff's The Rich Brother which is a tale of two brothers; Pete who is wealthy, and Donald, who is not. While traveling, the brothers pick up a passenger who swindles the destitute brother out of the $100 the wealthy brother had just given him. But while Donald did not understand the value of money and put too little value on it, Pete had the opposite problem and put too much value on it. Ultimately this story demonstrates how family, not money should be the most important thing in a person's life.
Aging Process: Gains and Losses The adult senior population in the United States is growing at an unprecedented rate. In fact, the general population in the country is aging and both public and private elderly care providers need to make adjustments in order to be able to serve this growing population. Furthermore, many government and private industries are affected by this growing population, due to their prevalence in virtually all markets,
This means that society as a whole needs to consider both aspects of the problem. It would be wrong to simply consider problems associated with an aging population in the context of a young population that experiences little to no change. The number of young people is smaller today than it has been in the past and the government needs to invest fewer finances in providing for this community.
Older Americans Act (OAA) was first passed in 1965, alongside Medicare and Medicaid. Whereas Medicare and Medicaid offered extended insurance benefits through the federal government, the OAA established "the foundation for a system of services and supports that enables millions of older adults in this country to continue to live independently as they age," ("The Older Americans Act: Aging Well Since 1965," (The Older Americans Act: Aging Well Since 1965,"
Healing, growing, dying in chapter "A broader view healing" Margaret Coberly argues dying a healing process -discovery. We find a similar claim coming Mwalimu lmara essay "Dying Last Stage Growth" asserts: "dying stage life experienced profound growth event total life's experience. According to Mwalimu Imara's essay "Dying as the Last Stage of Growth," rather than rejecting death as abnormal (for death comes to us all) or fearing death, death should be
This creates a platform for them to help each other with daily needs or simply to offer companionship and other forms of assistance. It is also found that, in the case of unmarried or childless older people, nieces and nephews can play an important role in care and companionship needs. Hence, the various family relationships the elderly are able to establish over time because they live longer allow them
The central nervous system is impaired generally producing retardation as well as accelerating the accretion of neurotic plaques and neurofibrillary tangles characteristic of Alzheimer's disease. Chromosome 21 mutations have been implicated in Alzheimer's disease but the specific gene related to Down Syndrome is yet undetermined. E. Developmental Psychological Aspects of Aging The study of developmental psychology is focused on the changes of individuals over passage of time as well as the
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