...Guin’s text: “Why are Americans afraid of dragons?”. The theme is about the phenomenon fantasy, and the importance of being allowed to use ones imagination as a child, as well as an adult. Throughout the text, she uses poor argumentation as to why reading fantasy is important. But still her argumentations makes sense, are trustworthy and entertaining. The reason why I categorize it as poor but entertaining and trustworthy is that she doesn’t use a variety of argumentation types. She uses pathos throughout the whole text with some experiences of her own to back up some of her points. Her overall claim in her text is that reading fantasy feeds the imagination, and therefore one doesn’t crave poor TV series and porn as examples, as an adult. Also that proper feeding of one’s imagination in an early age through fantasy books has a positive impact in one’s adult life. But why aren’t there more adults reading fantasy then? That question gives birth to Le Guin’s question and title of her text “Why Are Americans Afraid Of Dragons?”. Le Guin’s text appeal to the adult readers, as to why they should read fantasy or fiction for that matter, and that immersing in a good fantasy or novel shouldn’t be something taboo in the American society. She states that many Americans are not only antifantasy, but antifictional altogether. She also claims that men in modern society aren’t allowed to read fantasy or fictions unless it’s a bestselling novel, or something business related. Who can blame...
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...Effi's Creative Frustration Trickery. Taboos. Punishments. All are common and frequent in the unfortunate history of female characters and protagonists. Eve bites the forbidden apple and forces mankind out of the Garden of Eden. Hester Prynne commits adultery and, marked forever by the brazen scarlet letter on her bosom, is shunned by her community. It then comes to no surprise that Effi Briest, the ambitious wife of a successful baron, is ostracized after her youthful affair in the novel Effi Briest by Theodor Fontane. While justifications for the former women's actions are convoluted and debatable, Effi Briest's reason for her infidelity is clear and straight forward: the suppression of imagination. Upper-middle class women of Imperial Germany were constantly constrained by social expectations and cultural standards. Creativity was not encouraged or fostered. Without an outlet, Effi of course jumps at the chance to interrupt the monotonous, boring hours of her lonely marriage with the dangerous dreams of a higher romance. On the surface, it may be difficult to understand why Effi risks her 'perfect' marriage for an affair with Major Crampas. The novel begins with admiration for the distinguished Baron von Innstetten, whom Effi quickly marries, and continues to shower with high praise. Innstetten is “very dashing” (9) and the “Bismark thinks highly of him, and the Kaiser too,” (9). Her beau is not only good looking, but extremely respected and raising on the social ladder....
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...advertisements from reaching the younger children, from three to nine years old, they’re not even teens yet! The three to nine year olds, the one the restriction should be placed on, seem to be the most popular market for the fast food restaurants around the world. About 90 percent of children between the ages of three to nine years old visit a McDonalds at least once a month (Taylor). That’s a big chunk of the country’s population visiting a given restaurant at least once a month, leaving no question as to why they do it. Another reason they segment this young aged part of the market is because at that young of an age, what they see on the ads is what they grow up with. The restaurants then try to link long term loyalty to their brand by feeding their brand name and advertising tricks as young as possible to lodge it in their heads. This not only causes short term gains resulting in those children being part of that 90 percent, but also long term gains because now they continue growing with that loyalty to the brand, resulting in a bigger pool of customers for the future. All that being said, the companies know that the children are not the ones getting in the car and driving to spend their money in their restaurants. Their market research makes them very aware of the influence they have on their parents and other adults. According to James McNeal, children have several “Requesting styles and appeals.” (McNeal). The most common is probably the pleading nag, always followed...
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...that he paints her face over and over again. Even though her character takes on various female forms as he paints them, the fact remains that the same features can be seen throughout his works of art. As he paints the Queen and the Saint, his obsession leads him to produce the same qualities within the facial structure. The woman was given many different forms, but her beauty on his canvasses always remained the same. Christina Rossetti says it best when she writes, “The same one meaning, neither more or less.” Her appearance, her face in particular, never changes and never appears older even if her figure changes, “One selfsame figure sits or walks or leans.” He is obsessed with her beauty and her face. The image of the artist “feeding upon her face by day and night,” also shows how obsessive and how much of a perfectionist he is. I view his obsession for this perfect face to be something that is possibly missing in his life, and her image on the canvas is providing him with whatever it appears to be. Again, his appetite for her face, fills him up every time he looks at her. He is so obsessed with the way she looks that when he isn’t drawing her face and trying to perfect her appearance, he gazes at her during the day and he dreams about her every night. He dreams about this perfect woman and draws her in this image of perfection....
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...Emma’s Imaginative foil, Flaubert dismantles the idea that Charles ignorant contentment is something to aspire to, and if one is to have fantasies, it is better to imagine the best life, not the most achievable. Early on in the novel it becomes clear that Charles has few aspirations in life. As a child, it is his mother’s influence that pushes him towards education, and as depicted in the first few pages of the novel, it is made evident that he is the type of person who exists in permanent mediocrity. In these introductory paragraphs...
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...Vampires are mythological or folkloric beings who subsist by feeding on the life essence (generally in the form of blood) of living creatures, regardless of whether they are undead or a living person.[1][2][3][4][5][6] Although vampiric entities have been recorded in many cultures, and in spite of speculation by literary historian Brian Frost that the "belief in vampires and bloodsucking demons is as old as man himself", and may go back to "prehistoric times",[7] the term vampire was not popularized until the early 18th century, after an influx of vampire superstition into Western Europe from areas where vampire legends were frequent, such as the Balkans and Eastern Europe,[8] although local variants were also known by different names, such as vrykolakas in Greece and strigoi in Romania. This increased level of vampire superstition in Europe led to mass hysteria and in some cases resulted in corpses actually being staked and people being accused of vampirism. While even folkloric vampires of the Balkans and Eastern Europe had a wide range of appearance ranging from nearly human to bloated rotting corpses, it was the success of John Polidori's 1819 novella The Vampyre that established the archetype of charismatic and sophisticated vampire; it is arguably the most influential vampire work of the early 19th century,[9] inspiring such works as Varney the Vampire and eventually Dracula.[10] However, it is Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula that is remembered as the quintessential vampire...
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...REPORT OUTLINE: MELANIE KLEIN – OBJECT RELATIONS THEORY: BIOGRAPHY: 1. Melanie Reizes Klein was born March 30, 1882 in Vienna, Austria 2. Youngest of four children born to Dr. Moris Reizes and his second wife Libussa Deutsch Reizes. 3. She believed that her birth was unplanned- a belief that led to feelings of being rejected by her parents. She felt especially distant to her father who favored his oldest daughter, Emilie, 4. During her childhood, she observed her parents working at jobs they did not enjoy. 5. Klein’s early relationships were either unhealthy or ended in tragedy. 6. She felt neglected by her elderly father whom she saw as cold and distant, although she loved and idolized her mother, she felt suffocated by her. 7. Her older sister Sidonie died, she felt devastated and in later years, she confessed that she never got over grieving for Sidonie. 8. After death, she became deeply attached to her brother Emmanuel-teaching her arithmetic 9. She idolized her brother, and this infatuation may have contributed to her later difficulties in relating to men. 10. At age 18, her father died, after 2years, her brother died. 11. When still mourning for her brother’s death, he married Arthur Klein, an engineer –close friend of Emmanuel. 12. She believed that her marriage at 21 prevented her from becoming a physician, and for the rest of her life, she regretted that she had not reached that goal. 13. UNFORTUNATELY...
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...REPORT OUTLINE: MELANIE KLEIN – OBJECT RELATIONS THEORY: BIOGRAPHY: 1. Melanie Reizes Klein was born March 30, 1882 in Vienna, Austria 2. Youngest of four children born to Dr. Moris Reizes and his second wife Libussa Deutsch Reizes. 3. She believed that her birth was unplanned- a belief that led to feelings of being rejected by her parents. She felt especially distant to her father who favored his oldest daughter, Emilie, 4. During her childhood, she observed her parents working at jobs they did not enjoy. 5. Klein’s early relationships were either unhealthy or ended in tragedy. 6. She felt neglected by her elderly father whom she saw as cold and distant, although she loved and idolized her mother, she felt suffocated by her. 7. Her older sister Sidonie died, she felt devastated and in later years, she confessed that she never got over grieving for Sidonie. 8. After death, she became deeply attached to her brother Emmanuel-teaching her arithmetic 9. She idolized her brother, and this infatuation may have contributed to her later difficulties in relating to men. 10. At age 18, her father died, after 2years, her brother died. 11. When still mourning for her brother’s death, he married Arthur Klein, an engineer –close friend of Emmanuel. 12. She believed that her marriage at 21 prevented her from becoming a physician, and for the rest of her life, she regretted that she had not reached that goal. 13. UNFORTUNATELY...
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...Science and astronomy may well give us good things. But why bother spending all this money exploring space and finding out there was water on Mars at some point in the last few thousand years, when these same great minds could be applied to finding better ways to power humanity's insatiable desire for energy, to feeding the starving millions around the globe, and generally making life down here better before looking up into the heavens. It seems the authoritative powers have their heads way, way up in the clouds. The needs of humanity should always come first. While there are people on Earth who need help, they should be helped, rather than seeing money spent on sending robots onto other planets. Humanity is the number one priority; keeping the human race alive is a necessity. Alternatively, space exploration is a desire. If we put our desires before our needs, then everyone loses out on a better standard of living. Sure, it's great that NASA can elevate technology to the next level time and time again, so why not make technology that directly benefits us? as there are millions round the world who are starving to death, when people spend more and more money on space technology they should realize they are the killers. I Thinking that the budget devoted to space exploration is wasted money, I believe that this kind of exploration is a wild dream that we cannot achieve and the huge amounts of money are gone in smoke rather than to spend these amounts to relieve poverty in poor...
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...Define growth and development.2. Discuss principles of growth anddevelopment.3. Describe need for monitoring growthand development.4. Discuss pattern of normal growth anddevelopment.5. Provide tips of promoting growth anddevelopment. The most dramatic events in growth and developmentoccur before birth. Increase in physical size andweight of the body (Height and Weight) Increase in Mental, Physical,Social and Emotional abilitiesof the child. It meansfunctional and physiologicalmaturation. Average level of development of a child which is decidedthrough the scientific study of physical, mental andnervous system of children. Prenatal:Conception to the Birth•Infancy:Birth to 12 months•Neonatal period:Birth to 28 daysEarly neonatal period: Birth to 7 daysLate neonatal period: 7 days to 28 days•Infancy Period:29 days to 12 months•Early Childhood:1 year to 6 years•Toddler Period:1-3 years•Preschool Period:3- 6 years•Middle childhood:6- 12 years•Late Childhood or Adolescent:12-18 years•Puberty Period:Male: 12-14 yearsFemale: 11-13 years There are definite and predictable patternof growth and development that arecontinuous, orderly and progressive.•CrawlCreep Walk•BabblesWordsSentences•ScribbleWriting 1. Directional Pattern: –Cephalocaudal Pattern ( Head to Tail) –Proximal to Distal (Midline to peripheral) –Mass to specific (Differentiation) 2. Sequential Pattern: Involves a predictablesequence of Growth and Development stagesthrough which a child normally proceeds. –For...
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...Television has bad effects on kids. First, wherever television becomes available for a number of hours a day, it dominates the leisure time of children. As the children have spent too much time on watching television, they will spent less time on exploring, playing and interacting with parents, friends and others. At age of children, time should be filled with activities that are beneficial for them such as reading books, interact with friends and family have been replace with spent watching television. Secondly, the television also will effect on the taste of the children. Means that, the children who often spent time on watching television will prefer more on adult programme. The negative consequences are they prefer the more violent type of adult programme, including the western, the adventure programme, and crime drama. Other than that, television also has its maximum psychological effect on children. A child with high violent behavior will probably make special use of the aggressive material he finds in a television programme. Many children tend to learn commit a crime by watching television. 1. LEARNING FROM TELEVISION- a good teacher can teach effectively by television. useful activities of education can be carried on by television.On the other hand, to the extent that teaching goes on by means of lecture and demonstration, then television has an unequalled ability to share the best teaching and the best demonstrations. It was found in Canada that children in a...
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...people. There is a lot of talk about the world and its crowded population. People are looking in the future and seeing an overpopulated world. In “TV as Birth Control.” Fred Pearce’s argument that television can influence behavior on individuals has some pros and some cons. With technology today it is very easy to attract the viewer and place a message in there mind. The author Makes good point when he talks about soap operas. Viewers make connections and bonds with characters they follow on a show. What one sees each time they watch there favorite soap opera, may start to effect and rub off on the viewers lifestyle. Pearce states “ TV offers on a world previously known to most women. Seeing is believing” (Pearce 216). Women see these fantasy lifestyles and it leaves a little bit of question and curiosity in there minds. If the viewers favorite character in there Tv show is against having children or being successful with only has one or two kids, there actions will effect the viewer. In this case it could cause a possible decline in fertility ,...
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...A Jeffrey Dahmer Story Tyler Jones Understanding Criminal Minds December 2, 2014 Jeffrey Dahmer Fantasies can be strengthened by great amount of sex drive that assists in unusual behaviors; sexual murders are based on fantasies. The purposes of the fantasies are to take control of the victims; the killer wants the control because he/she has sought it since childhood. It is known that very few serial killers have healthy relation with their parents. “Jeffrey Dahmer was born on May 21,1960, in Milwaukee; his parents were Lionel and Joyce Dahmer. Joyce had problems during her pregnancy and started taking drugs to treat her sickness” (Fischoff, 1996). After Jeffrey was born he had difficulties with his legs and needed help with his legs for four months. Despite this problem he seemed to grow up as a healthy beautiful child, but at one point his mother started to refuse to breast-feed him. Since she could not handle breast-feeding, this increased her consumption of antidepressant and psychotropic drugs. “After a few years the couple moved six times in their first years of marriage. In 1962, the family moved to Iowa. Lionel had been accepted to a doctoral program in chemistry; in this period Jeffrey got sick very often and required several injections to treat the infections” (Fischoff, 1996). “When he started preschool his interest for insects and animals was starting to take form, in fact, he helped his father in nursing a owl they found. When Jeffrey was...
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...The book New moon is a romantic fantasy novel written by Stephanie Meyer. Bella lives in rainy Forks, Washington with her dad, (Charlie.) She spent an amazing summer with her vampire boyfriend, Edward, and now it’s time to go back to school. She also just turned eighteen. This gives her the sore reminder that her human clock is ticking while Edward will always be young and handsome. To Bella’s major sorrow, Edward still refuses to turn her into a vampire. When something that could have been terrible happens to Bella, Edward moves and leaves her behind. However just as the new moon is the darkest phase of the lunar cycle, Bella is exploring the darkest part of her nature by taking on risky adventures. When Alice, (Edward’s sister) talks the rest of the Cullen’s into throwing a birthday party for Bella at their house, Bella becomes clumsy and not so carefully unwraps a birthday present and Bella gets a paper cut. Jasper is still struggling with this new diet (not feeding form human blood) he loses what little control he has and attacks Bella. Edward has to come to rescue to fight his brother Jasper off his girlfriend. The boys fight all around the house and leaves Bella there with her new wound that is gushing of blood. Edward’s dad, Carlisle is a doctor and is immune to the smell of human blood; he hurries to stitch up Bella gaping wound. While Bella says that the Jasper incident was a minor family quarrel, Edward is clearly upset and withdraws emotionally from Bella. On a...
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...persist into adulthood as a neurosis, a functional mental disorder.[1][2] Contents [hide] 1 Background 2 Freudian psychosexual development 2.1 Oral stage 2.2 Anal stage 2.3 Phallic stage 2.4 Latency stage 2.5 Genital stage 3 Criticisms 3.1 Scientific 3.2 Feminist 3.3 Anthropologic 4 Medical sexological model 5 See also 6 References Background[edit] The neurologist Sigmund Freud, c. 1921. Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) observed that during the predictable stages of early childhood development, the child's behavior is oriented towards certain parts of his or her body, e.g. the mouth during breast-feeding, the anus during toilet-training. He argued that adult neurosis (functional mental disorder) often is rooted in childhood sexuality, and consequently suggested that neurotic adult behaviors are manifestations of childhood sexual fantasy and desire. That is because human beings are born "polymorphous perverse", infants can derive sexual pleasure from any part of their bodies, and that socialization directs the instinctual libidinal drives into adult heterosexuality.[3] Given the predictable timeline of childhood behavior, he proposed "libido development" as a model of normal childhood sexual development, wherein the child progresses through five psychosexual stages – the oral; the anal; the phallic; the...
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