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Lois Griffin, the woman of the household, is a gambling addict and have abused drugs before in her life. She serves as a terrible role model for mothers, especially teen moms. In the television series Season 1 Episode 6 “The Son Also Draws”, it is shown that Lois Griffin enters an Indian casino after the family takes a wrong turn from their road trip to New York. When she enters the casino, Lois Griffin can not stay away from the slot machine and starts to spend all of the family’s money. She even lost her family’s car due to her gambling addiction causing them to be stranded without a vehicle. Additionally, in Season 4 Episode 10 “Model Misbehavior”, Lois Griffin disobeys her father orders of restricting her from entering a yacht race and …show more content…
At the end of the episode, Lois Griffin realizes her mistakes and decides to quit modelling and withdraw from using drugs. This is a horrible role model for mothers of all ages, especially new mothers who have recently given birth to a child. First time mothers do not know how to fulfill their role and could pick up some of the bad traits that Lois Griffin is exhibiting in the television series. Barbara D. Janusz mentions in her article that there are “cases where [mothers] betrayed their loved ones, lied to them or perhaps stole money” (30). Janusz explains that mothers are likely to put their gambling addiction ahead of anything else in their lives. Although mothers are trained to put their family’s needs before themselves, gambling addicts prefer to prioritize their selfish addiction. Sometimes the mother would lie to their family and even steal money to satisfy their wants. Gambling addiction is a dangerous problem because it can drastically affect a family and likely to break apart their bond. It is conceivable that a household will have conflicts over money because the gambler needs to feed their selfish …show more content…
He does not have any awareness of responsibility and can not take care of himself. In Season 11 Episode 13 of Family Guy the episode titled “Chris Cross”, Chris steals money from his mother to buy a new pair of sneakers after being teased by his classmates for having a no name brand. However, Meg Griffin catches him doing this and demands that Chris become her servant and forces him to do anything that she desires. After being unable to cope with the demands, Chris leaves the house and in the meanwhile Meg tries her best to cover up the fact that Chris ran away. This episode of Family Guy clearly displayed the mentality of Chris Griffin. He is a spoiled child who will resort to stealing money from his parents to achieve his physical wants for pleasure or popularity. It also proves that he has no desire or will to work for what he wants and has no value for virtue. Chris took the easy route by stealing money and does not bear any responsibility for his actions. This provides an appalling exemplar for the audience who are teenagers. The show misleads the viewers from doing what is right and instructs them to steal money from their parents when certain circumstances do not go the way they planned. Additionally, in Season 9 Episode 8 “New Kidney in Town” presents a scenario in which Chris plagiarizes his sister, Meg Griffin, in his English essay about hope when the president, Barrack Obama,
He wasn't antisocial—he always had friends, and everybody liked him—but he could go off and entertain himself for hours” (Krakauer 107). Carine described her brother in a way that made him seem like he was good company to others, but he also had a side to him where he had no problem being alone and doing his own thing. This aspect of his personality was always apparent as a child, as Carine described. “Chris was [also] a high achiever in almost everything that caught his fancy” (Krakauer 109). Walt, his father, also knew that Chris did whatever he pleased, no matter the consequences.
The McCandless family all loved and cared about Chris deeply. The McCandless family was constantly distressed over Chris and the choices he made I life, as they knew they could not change his mind on any decision no matter how much they resented said decision. As shown in the book, “And then he left on his trip. . . We had our hearts in our mouths the whole time he was gone, but there was no way to stop him.” Page 118 Chapter 12. These quotes showed the constant worry they had over Chris fully knowing they could not change him. Chris’s feeling about his family weren’t as strong in return. Chris was more distant from his parents, Chris eventually grew a distaste for his parents when he discovered that his father never told him about his previous marriage. “He seemed mad at us more often, but he wouldn’t tell us what was on his mind and spent more time by himself.” Page 121 Chapter 12. Thoreau’s quote is similar to Chris’s viewpoint as Thoreau’s quote talks about lack of truth, which is why Chris is upset with Walt, lack of truth from his previous
“Don’t judge a book by it’s cover, it’s what’s inside counts” This quote reminds people about how they should not judge other people from the outside but look deep into their true personalities. Looking from the appearance and how Chris lives, everyone would assume that Chris is a crazy, foolish person and does everything without thinking. If people try to know more about Chris, they would have different perspective. Chris is intelligent, determined, independent and follows what he believes. He went into the wilderness to escape from the society that tries to suppress him and look for the meaning of life.
The example was when Wes’s mom found out that Wes’s girlfriend was pregnant, and her reaction was simply looking up and the two of them, and then resuming to cutting the cake she was cutting. “Mary closed her eyes and took a deep breath. She put down the cake knife and locked her fingers behind her head…After a moment, she brought her arms back to her sides, exhaled, and looked around the table. “So who wants cake?”” (Moore 100). If that was the reaction that every parent had towards pregnancy, we would have a tremendous amount of teens becoming pregnant all of the time with no control. The fact that this was her reaction to something so major just shows how Wes’s drug dealing was upsetting to her yet she would probably just take a deep breath and resume what she was doing. Statistics prove that once someone has been to jail, that they can never mentally be the same again (Lindquist). This could also be a major cause as to why Wes became so defiant and did not listen to his mother or
As seen in the stories, Christopher was undermined by deception from his parents throughout his childhood. Chris’s father, Walt, dated his mother, Billie, while he was currently in a ‘committed’ relationship with another woman. Walt had children with both of his partners despite the fact that they were completely conscious of each other for quite some time. Tired of his infidelity, Walt’s wife finally gained enough courage and divorced him. Consequently, Walt decided to marry Billie, the woman he had an affair with. In addition, this also indicates that Chris is legally considered a ‘Bastard child’. This term is used for children that are born to an unmarried couple. As time passed, Christopher discovered all his father’s faults. He became besotted and considered his entire life to have been a complete lie. Above all, he felt extreme guilt since he believed that Walt abandoned his other family because of him. In addition, Walt and Billie continue to deceive others even to this day. Billie reveals, “We were dedicat...
Chris was, for the most part, the voice of wisdom in this play whose words of honesty and its importance should have been heeded. He states, "'That kind of thing always pays off, and now it's paying off'" (620). In the end, he does take his own words to heart that "there's a universe of people outside and you're responsible to it" (653). He begins to blame on himself for his father's suicide, and Kate tells him, "'Don't dear. Don't take it on yourself'" (653).
Chris problems worsen once he's distressed with the sudden loss of his parents to an automobile accident. Once the tragic Chris suffers from multiple problems that have an effect on his existence. He claims to own problems with emotional outburst; he acts out frequently, issues forming relationships with other individuals, and has nightmares. He additionally states that he becomes upset and troublesome to regulate. He explains he's experiencing feelings of being alone, abandonment and rejection. He reverts to infringing his frustration on others, he's withdrawn, get into fights, his grades has suffe...
Superman has had many alterations by American artists throughout the years. In the year 1938, Joe Shuster and Jerry Siegel sold the well known American Icon Superman to DC Comics. They created this character as high school teens in 1933. In a short period of time Superman was being seen from newspaper strips to television programs, films and video games. Siegel grew up loving science fiction to the point of writing stories and submitting them to publishers only to be denied; this did not make him give up. Shuster also had a passion for science fiction stories and when he met Siegel in 1931 they instantly connected as they both had a very strong taste for the genre. One might portray Superman differently than the other but Shuster and Siegel originally created him to wear a blue costume, red cape, and a red and yellow “S” shield on his chest. Some changes made by artists include modifying of his costume by adding gloves and sometimes short sleeves and differences of his face and body structure.
2.Growing up I watched a show called "Everybody Hates Chris" I really love this show because it had a significance meaning behind it all. This show presents both social class and social mobility.His social class is being poor. Social mobility is being showed when they modernized their lifestyle by moving out of the projects to live in an all white neighborhood. It was difficult for chris to adapt because he was colored and was treated unfairy. His brother and sister were able to get an education in their old neighborhood while he had to go to a school called Brooklyn beach which was a poor neighborhood on the other side of his town. He's mother felt that him going to a white school will provide him with a better education. He had big responsiblities
In Mary’s household, her two sons and daughter are dependent on her. Mary is head of the household and is currently going through a divorce. Mary is close to losing her house, car, and internet services. She hires babysitters for the days/nights that she has to work. Her children know that times are tough, and continuously encourage their mother. However, her son Quinn is dealing with the divorce and poor living in
Chris’s mother and Walt’s second wife, Billie really took McCandless’s departure to heart. On page 125, Krakauer has stated how Billie would never leave “the house without leaving a note for Chris posted on the door.” She was probably worried she would not be there when he would return, that is, if he were even alive. His sister, Carine, claims that although she knew Chris was not going to write to anyone, she was just as “worried when we didn’t hear from them” (Krakauer 123). Even Walt, the most temperamental of them all, stated that if had even the slightest idea, he would have “gotten a lock on his whereabouts” and brought his son home. Chris’s family members probably feel guilty; they believe as if they could have saved him from
The mother gave birth to six daughters. The daughters all got jobs at a seafood restaurant ran by a man from Boston. All of the sisters “made good money on tips” (MacLeod 268) but even though they made a respectable income the mother “was angry [her daughters] should even conceive of working in such a place” (MacLeod 267). The mother does not judge the restaurant on their food or the service but simply that he is an outsider. She didn’t accept their daughter’s gifts because they get their money from that restaurant. If the mother were to accept financial help from the daughters they would have a better lifestyle. The six daughters of the mother later became wives to six young men in big cities such as New York or Montreal. There they are wealthy and “drove expensive cars” (MacLeod271), yet the mother “never accepted the young men” (MacLeod 271) because “They were not of her sea” (MacLeod271). The daughters becoming so wealthy could have been a blessing for the family. They could have had help from the d...
Rosa Lee Cunningham is a 52-year old African American female. She is 5-foot-1-inch, 145 pounds. Rosa Lee is married however, is living separately from her husband. She has eight adult children, Bobby, Richard, Ronnie, Donna (Patty), Alvin, Eric, Donald (Ducky) and one child who name she did not disclose. She bore her eldest child at age fourteen and six different men fathered her children. At Rosa Lee’s recent hospital admission to Howard University Hospital emergency room blood test revealed she is still using heroin. Though Rosa Lee recently enrolled in a drug-treatment program it does not appear that she has any intention on ending her drug usage. When asked why she no longer uses heroin she stated she doesn’t always have the resources to support her addiction. Rosa Lee is unemployed and receiving very little in government assistance. She appears to
Angie Bachmann started out as a bored housewife that could not stand being by herself. She has three daughters that were constantly hanging out with friends, and not spending enough time with their mother. Her husband is a land surveyor, often left for work at eight and did not get home until six; he was also not as supportive as he should have been. This soon led to a craving for gambling since a new casino opened up close by. She thought tha...
Angie couldn’t control the impulse to gamble even though she knew that her gambling was hurting her loved ones. “Years later, after she had lost everything and had ruined her life and her husband’s, after she had thrown away hundreds of thousands of dollars and her lawyer had argued before the state’s highest court that Angie Bachmann gambled not by choice, but out of habit, and thus shouldn’t bear culpability for her losses,.....I honestly believe anyone in my shoes would have done the same things,” (pg 252, Duhigg) The relationships were strained and all she thought about was ‘Gambling’ whether she was up or down. It takes courage to stop an addiction especially if you have lost a big amount of money and broke the relationships by that time. But compulsive gamblers (addicted to gambling) go through a problem of being totally out of control. It disrupts their life but still they won’t prefer to stay off the bet. Same problem was with Angie, she was preoccupied with gambling and so spent a lot of money and wasted her time on it, despite serious consequences. “The rat park residents, however, resisted drinking the narcotic solution, no matter how sweet the researchers made it. While they occasionally imbibe(females more than males), they consistently showed a preference for straight water, And when the groups were compared, the caged isolated rats drank up to sixteen times more than the park residents.” (pg 167, Lauren