Growing up Puritan

2021 ◽  
pp. 12-33
Author(s):  
D. G. Hart
Keyword(s):  
Family Background ◽  
Benjamin Franklin ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
Maternal Grandfather ◽  
The Family ◽  
Alternative Work

Chapter 1 chronicles the family background of Benjamin Franklin, whose English Protestant father, Josiah, emigrated from Northampton in England to Boston, Massachusetts, in 1683. The chapter describes Franklin’s childhood, including the Boston background of his maternal grandfather, Peter Folger, also an English emigré, and the influence of his uncle, Benjamin Franklin the elder. The chapter indicates the family’s religious affiliations, including their close associations with pastors Samuel Willard and Ebenezer Pemberton. Family friends included the parents of Charles Chauncey, whose adult convictions differed from those of Benjamin. The chapter explains how Josiah originally intended his youngest son to take up a career in the ministry, but came to understand that he lacked some of the requisite convictions. It relates how the search for alternative work in various trades led to an onerous apprenticeship in printing under his brother James. Ben learned about both the trade and himself—by his late teens, he realized that he needed other outlets for his independence of mind.

The Family Man

2019 ◽  
pp. 27-40
Author(s):  
Rachel Hammersley
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Early Life ◽  
Trinity College ◽  
Family Background ◽  
Limited Range ◽  
Early Years ◽  
The Family ◽  
Family Connections ◽  
The Relationship

After setting out the limited range of sources available that provide information on Harrington’s life, Chapter 1 explores his family connections and early years. Detail is provided on his immediate family background and the close interaction between him and his siblings as reflected in testamentary evidence. Attention is also paid to the origins of the relationship between the Harrington family and the Stuarts, especially Charles I’s sister Princess Elizabeth, later Queen of Bohemia. The chapter traces Harrington’s early life from his birth in Northamptonshire in 1611 through to the outbreak of the Civil War in 1642. It examines, in particular, his education at Trinity College Oxford and the Middle Temple, and his European tour.

Leavening, 1786–1819

Bosom Friends ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 19-41
Author(s):  
Thomas J. Balcerski
Keyword(s):  
Early Education ◽  
Family Background ◽  
Political Careers ◽  
Marriage And Family ◽  
James Buchanan ◽  
Love Stories ◽  
Male Friendship ◽  
The Family

Chapter 1 examines the family background, early education, friendships, and legal and political careers of James Buchanan and William Rufus King. King entered politics as a Jeffersonian Democratic-Republican, while Buchanan started out as a Federalist. This chapter considers both men’s efforts at romantic courtship: King’s foray into romance during his time as secretary to the Russian legation with Czarina Alexandra Feodorovna, and Buchanan’s failed engagement to Ann Coleman of Lancaster. In both cases, the chapter argues that these love stories established the necessary preconditions for their bachelorhood and for a future in which intimate male friendship superseded the more traditional responsibilities of marriage and family. Their earliest experiences had leavened them into the later forms of northern “dough-face” (a Northerner who supported the Southern agenda for political gain) and southern moderate (a Southerner who placed national concerns over sectional interests).

scholarly journals John Franklin Enders, 10 February 1897 - 8 September 1985

1987 ◽  
Vol 33 ◽  
pp. 211-233 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Old Age ◽  
Family Background ◽  
Mark Twain ◽  
Insurance Company ◽  
Mutual Respect ◽  
Maternal Grandfather ◽  
The Family ◽  
Paternal Grandfather ◽  
National Bank ◽  
The Individual

John Franklin Enders came from a family background marked by strong characters and remarkable achievements. His maternal grandfather was a close associate and financial adviser of Mark Twain, and his paternal grandfather walked from town to town selling insurance, later becoming President of the Aetna Insurance Company. His parents were active and of strong character and lived to a ripe old age. His father was President of the principal bank of Hartford and at his death he left a fortune of $19 million. The family is said to have been one with close ties and mutual respect and to have appreciated the needs of the individual. John had one brother, also President of the Hartford National Bank, and two sisters— all charming and accomplished people.

Chapter 1

2020 ◽  
pp. 9-20
Author(s):  
Mark Glancy
Keyword(s):  
Lunatic Asylum ◽  
Maternal Grandfather ◽  
The Family ◽  
The City

Chapter 1 covers the years 1904 to 1915, from Archie Leach’s birth through his childhood to age 11. It offers information on the city of his birth, Bristol, and it considers his extended family’s background. It is revealed that his mother’s side of the family, the Kingdons, were particularly troubled and impoverished: his maternal grandfather died in the workhouse, his aunt was committed to a workhouse and subsequently the Bristol Lunatic Asylum, and one of his uncles spent his adolescence in a borstal-like facility. It also considers his mother’s aspirational nature and his parents’ unhappy marriage, which culminated in his mother’s disappearance just after his 11th birthday.

Youth Culture Features in the Light of Preferred Role Models and Life Styles

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 163-174
Author(s):  
Amel Alić ◽  
Haris Cerić ◽  
Sedin Habibović
Keyword(s):  
Role Models ◽  
Family Background ◽  
Intercultural Sensitivity ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
Life Styles ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
General Data ◽  
The University

Abstract The aim of this research was to determine to what extent different variables describe the style and way of life present within the student population in Bosnia and Herzegovina. In this sense, in addition to general data on examinees, gender differences were identified, the assessment of parental dimensions of control and emotion, overall family circumstances, level of empathy, intercultural sensitivity, role models, preferences of lifestyles, everyday habits and resistance and (or) tendencies to depressive, anxiety states and stress. The survey included a sample of 457 examinees, students of undergraduate studies at the University of Zenica and the University of Sarajevo, with a total of 9 faculties and 10 departments covering technical, natural, social sciences and humanities. The obtained data give a broad picture of the everyday life of youth and confirm some previously theoretically and empirically justified theses about the connection of the family background of students, everyday habits, with the level of empathy, intercultural sensitivity and preferences of the role models and lifestyles of the examinees.

scholarly journals “Maybe English first and then Balinese and Bahasa Indonesia”: A case of language shift, attrition, and preference

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-99
Author(s):  
Siana Linda Bonafix ◽  
Christine Manara
Keyword(s):  
Family Background ◽  
Language Shift ◽  
Socioeconomic Factor ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Linguistic Identity ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
Frequency Of Contact ◽  
The Family ◽  
Identity Based ◽  
Depth Interviews

This small-scale qualitative study aims to explore the participants’ view of languages acquired, learned, and used in their family in an Indonesian context. The two participants were Indonesians who came from multilingual and mixed-cultural family background. The study explores three research questions: 1) What are the languages acquired (by the participants’ family members), co-existed, and/or shift in the family of the two speakers? 2) What factors affect the dynamicity of these languages? 3) How do the participants perceive their self-identity? The qualitative data were collected using semi-structured and in-depth interviews. The interviews were audio-taped and transcribed to be analyzed using thematic analysis. The study detects local language shift to Indonesian from one generation to the next in the participants’ family. The data also shows several factors for valorizing particular languages than the others. These factors include socioeconomic factor, education, frequency of contact, areas of upbringing (rural or urban) and attitude towards the language. The study also reveals that both participants identify their self-identity based on the place where they were born and grew up instead of their linguistic identity.

scholarly journals Communication Complexity And Linearly Ordered Sets

2015 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 93-117
Author(s):  
Mieczysław Kula ◽  
Małgorzata Serwecińska
Keyword(s):  
Upper Bound ◽  
Open Problem ◽  
Numerical Experiments ◽  
Communication Complexity ◽  
Ordered Sets ◽  
Finite Sets ◽  
The Family ◽  
Linear Lattices

AbstractThe paper is devoted to the communication complexity of lattice operations in linearly ordered finite sets. All well known techniques ([4, Chapter 1]) to determine the communication complexity of the infimum function in linear lattices disappoint, because a gap between the lower and upper bound is equal to O(log2n), where n is the cardinality of the lattice. Therefore our aim will be to investigate the communication complexity of the function more carefully. We consider a family of so called interval protocols and we construct the interval protocols for the infimum. We prove that the constructed protocols are optimal in the family of interval protocols. It is still open problem to compute the communication complexity of constructed protocols but the numerical experiments show that their complexity is less than the complexity of known protocols for the infimum function.

scholarly journals Growing Up Burney

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lorna Clark
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Original Compositions ◽  
Literary Form ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
Frances Burney ◽  
Family Identity ◽  
Reading And Writing ◽  
Writing Practices ◽  
The Family

The pressure of family identity and politics affected more than one generation of Burneys. Beyond Frances Burney, and her intense relationship with her father Charles Burney, were other family members who also felt the pressure to “write & read & be literary.” These tendencies can be seen most clearly in the works of juvenilia preserved in the family archive. A commonplace book bound in vellum has been discovered that preserves more than one hundred poems, mostly original compositions written by family and friends. The activity of commonplacing reflects a community in which reading and writing are valued. Collected by the youngest sister of Frances Burney, they seem to have been copied after she married. The juvenile writings of her nieces and nephews preponderate, whose talents were encouraged, as they give versified expression to their deepest feelings and fears. Literary influences of the Romantic poets can be traced, as the young authors define themselves in relation to these materials. Reflecting a kind of self-fashioning, the commonplace book helps these young writers explore their sense of family identity through literary form. This compilation represents a collective expression of authorship which can inform us about reading and writing practices of women and their families in the eighteenth century.

Teen-age Pregnancy: The Family Background

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1972 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 167-167
Author(s):  
Eugene P. Shatkin
Keyword(s):  
Family Background ◽  
Primary Physician ◽  
The Family

I read the statement of the Committee on Youth concerning teen-age pregnancy and the problem of abortion and I am concerned that they have overlooked or elected to omit comment on more basic problems preceding the pregnancy crisis of the unmarried teen-ager. Teen-agers of both sexes need advocates and adequate counseling for resolving this crisis. More importantly, I feel, they need an aware primary physician who recognizes the pregnancy as only that part of a larger problem that shows.

Growing Up from the Counterculture in Family Ties and The Wonder Years

2018 ◽  
pp. 61-92
Author(s):  
Kristen Hoerl
Keyword(s):  
Baby Boomer ◽  
Women's Liberation ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
Television Programs ◽  
Family Ties ◽  
Baby Boomer Generation ◽  
Individual Agency ◽  
Women’S Liberation ◽  
The Family

This chapter argues that the television programs Family Ties and The Wonder Years advanced the neoconservative politics of the eighties even as they appeared to evince halting nostalgia for sixties-era dissent. The caricature of the hippie-turned-yuppie in eighties era television teaches viewers that radical beliefs, countercultural lifestyles, and women’s liberation were forms of youthful indiscretion that the baby boomer generation learned to outgrow. These programs recentered the family as the site of individual agency and moral activism, giving televisual form to the ideas undergirding neoliberalism and postfeminism.

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