Family Essays

The passage “Will your Marriage Last,” is about a study designed and conducted by Ted Huston on the “ability to forecast whether a husband and wife, two years after taking their vows, will stay together and whether they will be happy.” The study was called the PAIR Project (Processes of …

1. Excessively credulous belief in and reverence for supernatural beings. 2. A widely held but unjustified belief in supernatural causation leading to certain consequences of an action or event, or a practice… Superstition is a belief in supernatural causality: that one event leads to the cause of another without any …

The easiest way to train an individual is to begin at a very early period in order to shape the person. The family, most especially the parents are responsible for shaping a child’s personality. When a child grows up he or she can contribute to the welfare of the society, …

There is an old proverb back in my birth country:” It takes a village to raise a child”. For generations, many families have successfully raised their children thanks to the additional guidance and assistance of their extended families. In my opinion, whether it was the wisdom or the insight they …

The Kadazans are the largest single indigenous group in Sabah. Most of them are found in western part of the country. The Kadazan Weddings are a simple affair, they don’t need a grand ballroom to show how rich they are or how happy they are. Marriage customs amongst the Kadazans …

Poverty is being without things, having little money, not many material possessions and in need of essential goods. In short, being poor means that the people have nothing, and they have to struggle to even survive everyday. After physically and mentally tortured for a long period of time due to …

If you asked Lemon Brown if he had a treasure, he would respond, “Every man got a treasure! You don’t know that, you must be a fool!” This is one of the themes in “The Treasure of Lemon Brown” by Walter Dean Myers. I chose to write a response to …

It’s a fact of life that teenagers are likely to experiment with sex, drugs, alcohol, clothes and makeup on the fast track to adulthood. The question is what are you, as a parent going to do about it? While all parents will agree that something must be done, they’re not …

Someone once said, “Every child should have two things: a dog and parents willing to let them have one.” Dogs make your life full and complete since they are such a joy to have around. They are always by your side no matter what happens, and they are the only …

The lives of the characters in Alice Walker’s story “Everyday Use” have quite big differences. The three main characters are “Mama,” Maggie, and Dee. The events that occurred in each other’s lives developed growing up in a unique setting. Mama never made it out of the second grade so therefore …