...Academic Journal #1 Stacey Cayetano June 24, 2012 ENGL1035 Composing Process 1. What is the purpose of the subheading winter gardens, what is so significant about talking about God in a story named Making Babies? The purpose of the section of the story talking about God is to show the innocence of a child, how a child imagination can run wild and bring up questions that leave the parents wondering or trying to formulate how to answer in a way that doesn’t hurt their feelings or make them believe that what they think is correct. It also shows the difficulties of being parents how you as a human being doesn’t have the answers for everything but you should know how to answers your children doubts and curiosity. This part of the story also shows how religion has an influence on a child life and no matter how much you try to hide it the questions of supernatural being will always arise. 2. What is the significance of an entire community being involved with the birth and development of a child and why? From reading the story it is stated that the entire community is not involved in the birth and development of a child. It is just the parents and grandparents of the child that are involved with the birth. The community needs to help and being involved for the days that the mother and child are in isolation. With the help from the community, the child will have a variety of people that will help him or her during their development and help with the discipline...
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...continued by the current men within a female’s life. Often the girls do not know that they are being subjected to this role out of innocence and ignorance of knowing nothing else. As girls grow into women who grow into mothers who grow into grandmothers their purpose in life is laid out to them by men within a predetermined role made up of the oppressed domestic housewife. This role often constitutes the women to be a submissive creature to the male figures in her life. This assembly line of sorts makes it easy for these women to never question why this is all that can be given to them. Why do they accept this domestic submissive role? Do they realize that this role is holding them back or have they just learned to accept the role? Within this essay I will be looking at this mass production of submissive roles produced by men, specifically I will be analyzing the coming of age novel The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros. Within this novel the main character Esperanza Cordero moves from the country side of Mexico to an urban city in America in search of the American dream. She makes this move with her family when she is a young girl and as she...
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...accented English to collide with the sawedtwenty years. off consonants. I tell him that will be fi ne, that I’m familiar with 3 Barrientos was born in Guatethe conversational setup, and yes, I’ve studied a bit mala and raised of Spanish in the past. He asks for my name and I in El Paso, Texas. Her first novel, Frontera Street, was supply it, rolling the double r in Barrientos like a pro. published in 2002, and her second, That’s when I hear the silent snag, the momentary Family Resemblance, was pubhesitation I’ve come to expect at this part of the exlished in 2003. Her column “Unchange. Should I go into it again? Should I explain, conventional Wisdom” runs every the way I have to half a dozen others, that I am Guaweek in the Inquirer. This essay originally appeared in the collectemalan by birth but pura gringa by circumstance? tion Border-Line Personalities: A Do I add the humble little laugh I usually attach New Generation of Latinas Dish to the end of my sentence to let him know that of on Sex, Sass & Cultural Shifting. course I see the irony in the situation? We selected this reading because This will be the sixth...
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...Chapter Overview 12.1 The Beginnings of Development What Is Development? Prenatal Development The Newborn CONCEPT LEARNING CHECK 12.1 Before and Preoperational Stage Concrete Operational Stage Formal Operational Stage Challenges to Piaget’s Stage Theory Social Development The Power of Touch Attachment Theory Disruption of Attachment Family Relationships Peers After Birth 12.2 Infancy and Childhood Physical Development Cognitive Development Piaget’s Stage Theory Sensorimotor Stage CONCEPT LEARNING CHECK 12.2 Stages of Cognitive Development 12 Learning Objectives Development Throughout the Life Span 12.1 12.2 12.3 12.4 12.5 Describe the development of the field and explain the prenatal and newborn stages of human development. Discuss physical development in infants and newborns. Examine Piaget’s stage theory in relation to early cognitive development. Illustrate the importance of attachment in psychosocial development. Discuss the impact of sexual development in adolescence and changes in moral reasoning in adolescents and young adults. Examine the life stages within Erikson’s theory of psychosocial development. Illustrate the physical, cognitive, and social aspects of aging. Describe the multiple influences of nature and nurture in human development. 12.3 Adolescence and Young Adulthood Physical Development Cognitive Development Social Development Cognitive Development Social Development Continuity or Change Relationships Ages and...
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