I will pay for the following article The Scope of Artistic Expressions. The work is to be 12 pages with three to five sources, with in-text citations and a reference page. While this trait can be good in the context of the life of an individual within the society, from the point of view of artistic expressions, conformity can be a major limiting factor to one’s creative talent. It is needless to say that creative artists such as painters, writers and designers must have the free reigns to their expressiveness so that they can meander into the realms of art worlds that are alien to ordinary souls. Thus, when artists become conformists, they practically relegate themselves to the status of mundane, lackluster entities, who cannot exploit the opportunities to develop their creativity to full bloom. However, there are some others who do not bow, and who strive to be different. It is those few people, who candidly express themselves and are known as the nonconformists that make the difference between the mundane and the outstanding. In the process of growing up in Hong Kong, one of the busiest and overcrowded cities in the world, I have seen people being busy, crowding the roads, railway stations and subways, always on the run, without having the time or inclination to pause and look at nature or those wonderful creations that God has endowed this beautiful world with. I also noticed that people followed a certain path in the way they dressed, talked and behaved and understood they are simply following the norms that society dictated. Their clothes defined a certain pattern, whether they are busy executives crossing the streets or driving cars. or children playing on school campuses or commuting on a school bus. The working class had one aspiration of doing their job and getting paid for it. Children aspired to study and earn high grades so they can go to America or England and earn good money to buy trendy cars, flashy clothing and live in big mansions. I understood that their pursuit derived from the conformist social notion of happiness being “understood as material well-being” (Susniene & Jurkauskas 2009:58).

 

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I will pay for the following article The Story of Stuff. The work is to be 1 page with three to five sources, with in-text citations and a reference page. Planned obsolescence is whereby factories make some goods using toxic materials and bring them to the market. Their aim is to dispose of the toxic materials easily as they gain profits. According to the video, only this type of obsolescence is excellent in throwing 99% of the industrial toxic materials (Leonard). Perceived obsolescence is whereby a company makes stuff looks new and attractive. They do this through advertising. They come up with certain advertising strategies making the products look more fashionable compared to the current ones.

Personally, I think the two types of obsolescence are true and real. There are certain products available in the markets that are not needed, in any way, due to their low quality and price. This may probe a question on how such products were acquired. Therefore, I believe that such products are as a result of planned obsolescence. Some popular products that look appealing to the eye due to constant advertisement are not always satisfactory or good during consumption (Leonard). This is a similar case to the mentioned golden arrow. It looks nice but can easily affect the life of a person or kill.

The solution to this is by having a real government that is responsible and concerned about the citizens’ lives. From here, we can move on by throwing all the disposals away to ensure that nothing is destroyed. Finally, we will put the system of production, extraction, consumption, and distribution together, in order to form a continuous or constant circulation system. From the system, we’ll get equity, sustainability, zero waste and closed-loop of production.

Work Cited

Leonard, Anne. Story of the stuff. California, 2007. Film.

 

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I will pay for the following article The sub‐prime crisis. The work is to be 14 pages with three to five sources, with in-text citations and a reference page. taking their toll on the modern economies however with prudent monetary policy and effective risk management practices, the future episodes of such nature may be avoided.

Getting consumer credit through various financial institutions especially banks requires consumers to maintain a certain degree of credit rating in order to qualify for those loans. Unlike large corporate companies, consumers or rather individuals pose a different challenge and dynamics to financial institutions to cater their needs for credit and formal funding requirements of these individuals. It is because of this reason that various banks and financial institutions have developed their internal rating methodologies which they assign to various consumers asking for credit. Banks than through their internal as well external credit scores or ratings decide to whom they should provide the credit. These criteria of credit rating often are designed to be tough since Banks in order to avoid defaults, tighten their criteria to extend the credit to these customers. However, due to increasing needs of those customers, whose credit history or their credit ratings do not fall under the criteria laid down by the banks, banks try to accommodate them also. Sub-prime lending is the part of that phenomenon.

“Sub-Prime lending typically has been characterized as lending at relatively costly interest rates and fees to credit impaired or otherwise high risk borrowers.”Error: Reference source not found. Subprime loans are among the newly popular mortgage products, such as interest-only loans, for people with strained budgets, including first-time buyers. Homeowners increasingly use them to refinance and consolidate household debts when their credit scores fall in the wake of bankruptcy, high medical bills, or other setbacks.Error: Reference source not found.

 

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I will pay for the following article The vanishing act of Esme Lennox and the plight of Edwardian women. The work is to be 10 pages with three to five sources, with in-text citations and a reference page. The book “The vanishing act of Esme Lennox” by Maggie O’Farrell gives us an insight into the terrible plight of women during the early twentieth century Edwardian UK. A story that portrays the nature of social oppression on women of that period is a tale of prejudice, injustice, betrayal and redemption. Esme Lennox, the namesake and also the chief protagonist of this book, is a young woman in 1930s Edinburgh, who is incarcerated into a mental asylum by her parents, for the simple reason that Esme did not wish to conform to the society rules of her era. This book which is a sort of mystery story that unfolds at a much later era (when Esme meets her granddaughter Iris, after being released from the institution), explores the real meaning of sanity, and as it tries to measure the mental trauma and the sense of rejection that Esme and many of her contemporaries went through during these times. My article will explore this book by Maggie O’Farrell, to find answers to such questions as to why Esme was institutionalized for 60 years and never sent home. and why was it such a common practice during those Edwardian times to lock women up for very simple, and sometimes even for outrageous reasons.

 

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I will pay for the following article Theories of Attachment. The work is to be 2 pages with three to five sources, with in-text citations and a reference page. BONDING: THEORIES OF ATTACHMENT ID Number: of School Word Count: 650Date of Submission: September 14, 2011

BONDING: THEORIES OF ATTACHMENT

The components of a healthy mother-child bonding includes hugging, kissing, cooing, caressing and holding the infant more often, especially in the first few hours after birth. All these are designed to promote early contact between mother and child in which studies showed this in turn leads to increased likelihood of breast-feeding, longer periods of breast-feeding and talking or speaking to the child in a more sensitive manner (Parke & Clarke-Stewart, 2010, p. 114). The importance of healthy bonding is to ensure the very survival of a baby who is overly dependent on the mother, unlike other mammals or animals who can more or less fend for themselves right after birth. New longer-term research studies had likewise shown that bonding occurs not only if the mother cares for the child but also with the fathers (Belluck, 2011, p. 1) in which fatherhood is a crucial component in raising successfully the child and of nurturing a family.

One attachment theory developed by psychiatrist and psychoanalyst John Bowlby had emphasized the need of infants to have one consistent primary caregiver to whom they can attach normally during their social and emotional development, typically from 6 months to 2 years old. Usually, it is the mother that provides the need for an attachment figure but other people may in some cases be acceptable such as the father, the grandmother, the older sibling or close relatives.

Another prominent theory on bonding is the one developed by Klaus and Kennell which states that maternal bonding is important which in turn gave rise to the new practice of bringing a new baby to its mother instead of being brought to the nursery. The theory became controversial as they postulated that maternal deprivation can lead to maladjustments later on such as an eating disorder, personality defects, juvenile delinquency and substance abuse by a failure to bond.

I believe the attachment theory that is best aligned and integrated with my own views of attachment is the single caregiver theory. Infants stick to one caregiver during their first months of existence and any changes will result in the so-called separation anxiety as the infant grows a bit older and able to recognize faces and voices. It is therefore very vital to have only one person as the primary caregiver, maybe relieved by someone else but only for brief periods of time so as not to cause stress, anxiety, fear or other negative emotions on the baby who sees long periods of separation as a threat to its survival. The attachment theory by Bowlby is now generally accepted and is used to guide new therapies and also in formulating social and childcare policies today.

Bonding refers to the feelings of the mother towards her baby while attachment is the strong emotional bond that develops between them. The short-term benefits for the baby is its immediate survival (Rathus, 2010, p. 115) while the longer term effects of good attachment is an ability to later on develop other types of bonding in adult life, again as propounded by Bowlby. The theory of attachment is built on the concept of a close emotional relationship between two persons that in this case, pertains to a mother and her infant or child. The four characteristics of a good bonding-attachment are proximity, separation anxiety, pleasure upon reuniting and lastly, a general orientation of an infants behavior towards the primary caregiver being just around or in a nearby place (close proximity) for its own reassurance (Maccoby, 1980, p. 81).

Any caregiver must therefore pay close attention to these four factors or characteristics in caring for the infant. Additionally, Klaus and Kennell had also proposed their separate theory of skin-to-skin contact to develop stronger and closer bonds by experimenting with two groups of newly-born infants. At any rate, bonding develops later on to be used as schema in adulthood.

References

Belluck, P. (2011, September 12). “In study, fatherhood leads to drop in testosterone.” The New York Times. Retrieved from http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/13/health/research/13testosterone.html?src=ISMR_AP_LO_MST_FB

Maccoby, E. E. (1980). Social development: psychological growth and the parent-child relationship. CA, USA: Harcourt-Brace Jovanovich.

Parke, R. D. & Clarke-Stewart, A. (2010). Social development. MA, USA: John Wiley & Sons.

Rathus, S. A. (2010). CDEV. CA, USA: Cengage Learning-Wadsworth.

 

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