...“A Class Divided” In this documentary, Jane Elliot, a third-grade teacher at the time, conducted a two-day experiment that involved teaching about discrimination and prejudice; she wanted to demonstrate to her students that you can’t judge people based on their physical features. Elliot’s students also experienced what it was like to walk in the shoes of many minorities such as African-Americans and Native Americans. Elliot reached a stunning conclusion after the experiment, the children’s academic performance improved. Later, Elliot conducted this experiment with adults and reached similar conclusions than that of her earlier experiments. One theme in this documentary focuses on discrimination and prejudice as ideas that are put into peoples’...
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...Response for Jane Elliot: An example of confirmation bias within this clip is when Jane Elliot is talking about that white people only make laws that benefit themselves. When people are making these laws, they are only seeking information that gives confirmation about their beliefs or what they want to see for the country. They don’t look at how this law could impact everyone in the country, they only look at that it will benefit them in some way. Discussing people as blue eyed or brown eyed is a form of false dichotomy. This opposes the fact that there are brown eyes, blue eyes, hazel eyes, gray and a bunch more possibilities. The lessons she taught her elementary school students on racism and stereotyping was impactful. I remember when I...
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...Jim Elliot was born on October 8, 1927 in Portland, Oregon in the United States. Jim’s father - Fred Elliot - was a minister, and his mother - Clara Elliot - a chiropractor. Elliot’s parents had a strong belief in Christianity, and they raised their four kids, including Jim Elliot, according to their beliefs. For example, they would bring them to the church, and consistently read the bible. Jim Elliot accepted Jesus at the age of six, and told his mother, “Now, mama, the Lord Jesus can come whenever He wants. He could take our whole family because I’m saved now, and Jane is too young to know Him yet” (Fickas 1). Jim’s parents encouraged their children to live in Christ, and their children did. Jim Elliot was never scared to speak to his friends about Jesus. Jim Elliot studied architectural drawing at...
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...Persuasion by Jane Austen Web-Books.Com Persuasion Chapter 1 .................................................................................................................. 3 Chapter 2 .................................................................................................................. 8 Chapter 3 ................................................................................................................ 12 Chapter 4 ................................................................................................................ 17 Chapter 5 ................................................................................................................ 21 Chapter 6 ................................................................................................................ 27 Chapter 7 ................................................................................................................ 34 Chapter 8 ................................................................................................................ 40 Chapter 9 ................................................................................................................ 46 Chapter 10 ............................................................................................................. 51 Chapter 11 ............................................................................................................. 58 Chapter 12 ............................................
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...Moving into the world requires one to rise above their circumstances and embrace the support of others Entering into a new world can be daunting and quite intimidating for an individual. Barriers and obstacles often prevent the smooth transition whilst moving into the world. However, with self-determination and the support of others it can potentially lead to a positive outcome. Stephan Daldrys film Billy Elliot (2000) explores these notions and highlights the importance of rising above circumstances and embracing the support of others by enduring such experiences in order to succeed in the transition of moving into the world. The film reveals how individual determination and strength is often required to transition from one world to another, also exploring the idea of how transitioning into another world can be daunting and unexpected for the individual whom is making the change and that everyone's world is different and needs to be accepted. Firstly the film explores the notion of how individual determination and strength is often required to transition from one world to another, this idea is reflected throughout the 'private lessons and rising tensions' scene. In this particular scene billy and his ballet teacher Mrs Wilkinson are both equally committed, consistent and also remain perseverant regardless of the circumstances in which they find themselves. We see that Billy embraces the support of others and in turn, is on the road to potential success. As billy enters...
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...of dissonance is “lack of agreement” and, in music, dissonance means a “combination of musical notes that sound harsh together” (Hornby 424). Thus, this writer believes that it is viable to assert that within context of the article by Gary Stix, the ethical dissonance discussed in the article refers to the divergence or variety of views on whether it is alright or ethical for medical professionals to prescribe drugs claiming to have the ability to enhance mental or physical capacities. Of course, in psychology, we have Leon Festinger’s theory of cognitive dissonance that says, “If a person holds two cognitions that are psychologically inconsistent, he experiences dissonance: a negative state (not unlike hunger or thirst)” (Aronson 128). Elliot Aronson elaborated that Festinger’s theory of cognitive dissonance hold that the experience of dissonance is “unpleasant” and, thus, “the person will strive to reduce it----usually by struggling to find a way to change one or both cognitions to make them more consistent with one another” (128). According to Aronson, Festinger integrated the dynamic marriage between the cognitive and the motivational (128). Thus, given the Aronson review, it is just as viable to define ethical dissonance as the unpleasant experience of having two divergent ethical perspectives on the use of drugs that enhance or that claim to enhance physical and mental capacities. Following Aronson’s interpretation on Festinger’s theory of cognitive dissonance, the...
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...instance, at the beginning of the film is a distant father who is set against Billy learning how to dance. However by the end of the film this changes as his dad begins to fulfill his duty as father and raises enough money for Billy to audition for the royal ballet. Meanwhile Tony influences Billy by showing him the dangers of following in his family’s footsteps by going to work in the mines, and by pushing him to dance as a means of self expression when they get in to conflict. Comment on many critics’ description of Billy Elliot as a “feel-good movie” To label Billy Elliot as “feel-good” movie is to ignore the political, social, cultural and historical context of the film, thereby missing a significant portion of the film. Billy Elliot is a British film as the accents, the scenery, and the dialogue all attest to, and is therefore influenced by British culture and humor, which is much darker and more sarcastic than American culture. What makes Billy Elliot seem like a “feel good” movie is the fact that it follows the Horatio Alger Myth, which is a classic American story arch where a character goes from “rags to riches” thanks to the help of a benevolent patron. However, the fact that...
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...Mary and Max It is 1976, an 8-year-old Mary Daisy Dinkle (Bethany Whitmore) is a lonely little girl living in Mount Waverley, Melbourne, Australia. Her relatively poor family cannot afford to buy her toys or nice clothing, and she is teased by children at her school due to an unfortunate birthmark on her forehead. Her father is distant and her alcoholic, kleptomaniac mother provides no support. The closest thing she has to a friend is the man for whom Mary collects mail, Len Hislop, a World War II veteran who lost his legs as a prisoner of war and has developed agoraphobia. One day, she decides to write a letter to someone living in New York City: by pure chance she chooses Max Jerry Horowitz (Philip Seymour Hoffman) from a telephone directory. Max turns out to be a morbidly obese 44-year-old whose various mental problems (including anxiety attacks and overeating) have left him unable to form close bonds with other people. Max decides to write back to Mary, and the two become friends. Over time, Mary's increasingly sensitive questions about the adult world give Max progressively worse anxiety attacks, and he is ultimately institutionalized. During his time there, Max is diagnosed with depression and Asperger syndrome. Now aware of why he has difficulty relating to other people, Max finds a new lease on life and resumes his correspondence with Mary. The two remain friends for the next two decades, keeping one another updated on various events in their lives. Mary (Toni Colette)...
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...Jigsaw Groups and the Desegregated Classroom: In Pursuit of Common Goals The Jigsaw Groups and the Desegregated Classroom study has changed the viewpoints of teachers nationwide but hasn’t necessarily produced as many positive results as initially expected by social scientists over 25 years ago (Aronson & Bridgeman, 2011, p. 425). This largely has to do with the fact that our nation has continued to diversify itself and has presented itself with that many more prejudices since that time. Many argue that one of the major reasons for the ultimate failure was due to the over emphasis on competitiveness at the expense of interdependence in the classroom setting (Aronson & Bridgeman, 2011, p. 425). In turn, the typical student in a classroom today rarely strives to cooperate with others in pursuit of common goals. This article explains Aronson and Bridgeman describe a program designed for elementary school students forced to spend part of their time in the classroom mastering material in an interdependent structure. The findings showed that this structured interdependence increased the overall self-esteem, the morale and the interpersonal attractions as well as the empathy of students across ethnic and racial divisions (Aronson & Bridgeman, 2011, p. 434). Their program also improved the academic performance of minority students without altering the performance of the ethnic minority (Aronson & Bridgeman, 2011, p. 434). Initially I found the article to be frustrating...
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...(Introduction you must introduce Billy Elliot (2002) directed by Stephen Daldry) Paragraph One: The context of Billy’s World * Depicts the obstacles of transgressing cultural and economic boundaries * Set against Britain’s bitter 1984 coal miner’s strike – frames of posters encouraging workers to keep to the strike are juxtaposed with lines of police officers holding up shields * Explores the effects of economic struggle on the community and individual * The recurring image of an armed police presence represents the social conformity that blocks Billy’s transition * Family’s economic struggle due to the strike – emotional scene of Jackie cutting up his wife’s piano for firewood at Christmas * Juxtaposition of Billy’s impoverished working class neighbourhood of crammed red brick townhouses with Debbie’s more affluent suburb with well-trimmed gardens and open spaces – the steep, cobblestoned backstreets reflect the confined uniformity of Billy’s existence * Billy’s aspiration of becoming a ballet dancer is contextualised within an environment of limited opportunities – the mis-en-scene of billy preparing breakfast shows a cramped kitchen with clothes hung on a makeshift clothesline. Yet Billy glides around to “Cosmic Dancer”, oblivious to the mess and disorder * Yorkshire slang and working class dialect is used in the film to add credibility to the story * Slow motion images of jostling torsos and beating shields during the miner’s confrontations with...
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...Dear Bob. Long time no see! Thank you so much for the letter, I was really happy when I received it! A lot of things have happened since you moved out of Durham. You know my father was all into boxing and he hoped that I will become at great boxer one day! But I didn’t want to box and I really didn’t have any talent for it! I had my thoughts in a completely different place. I loved music and of course I had that from my mother’s side! A little part of the boxing gym was used by a ballet class, and here I had my chance to learn ballet. So I was learning ballet secretly without my father knowing it! But pretty soon he found out! He wasn’t happy, but what could I do? This was my passion. My father was striking, and all the other miners were doing the same. They didn’t want to work anymore down in the black, and cold mines, they wanted more pay for the hard work they did! My brother Tony was doing some bad things when he saw my father sitting in the bus with the other striking miners! And I actually missed a very important audition for the Royal Ballet School because of Tony’s act! So my ballet teacher took all the way home to my house just to tell my father about the bad influence he got on me and my ballet, and she persuaded my father to go to the next audition in the Royal apartments. Two months later I got a letter back from them, where they told me that they wanted me on the Royal Ballet School. So I moved to London when I was only 11 years old! Fourteen years later...
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...In order to facilitate a cooperative learning activity on “Saltwater Marshes” the Jigsaw method will be used. There are ten steps to the Jigsaw method: 1. Divide class into diverse groups of five to six students 2. Choose a leader for each group 3. Divide the lesson into five to six segments 4. Give each group member their own segment to learn 5. Students are given time to read over their segment at least two times 6. Create provisional groups, that members from the Jigsaw groups with the same segment will come together to collaborate and practice what will be told to their jigsaw group 7. Have the segment groups return to their Jigsaw group 8. Have the students present their segment to their group and promote group questions and discussion of each other 9. Observe each group and regulate student behavior and participation, but the group leader should take this role 10. At the conclusion of the task give a quiz on the material covered in the groups, so students know it is a learning time not a socializing group time (Aronson, 2000.) Choosing students of different genders, academic ability, and race to form the jigsaw groups will create groups of five members for the “Saltwater Marsh” lesson. Next the student in each group who is the most responsible and mature will be chosen as the group leader. The “Saltwater Marsh” lesson will be divided up into the following segments: tidal changes, plant, 2 different animal segments and a vocabulary...
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...1 Activity Assignment: Unskilled and Unaware of It John Smith, Michael Anderson, Joshua Jones, Tamika Brumfeld, Ronnie Evans Barksdale College Abstract Self-esteem is an individual's estimate of one's own self worth, the extent of individual views of good, competence, and decent. Within this activity paper we will discuss why self esteem is important, and why there are discrepancies between the actual self and the ideal self. This paper will discuss the theory of cognitive dissonance in regards to the self-evaluation theory, self-affirmation theory and the realization trap while defining the self-discrepancy theory. The need for high individual self-esteem may lead to irrational logic and individual actions against their own best interest as will be theoretically supported throughout this paper. Concluding that our teams position, will support the theory that individual competence may be inaccurate at times to maintain individual self-esteem. Self-esteem is defined as an individual’s estimate of his or hers own self-worth and the extent of individual views of what is good competent and decent. This activity paper will discuss the importance of self-esteem and explore any discrepancies between the actual self and the ideal self. The theory of cognitive dissonance as it relates to the self-evaluation theory, self-affirmation theory and the realization trap will be covered while also defining the self-discrepancy theory. This paper will theoretically...
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...Period of unrest By Ronnie Palachuk In the movie Billy Elliot, directed by Stephen Daldry, choosing what direction to go in life is never easy, the struggles you face and sacrifices being made you can overcome and succeed over everything else. With the miners’ strike and Billy switching from what his father wants and what he wants, creates turmoil not only for himself but his family as well…in the end creates a world that gives him clarity and definition. The plot focuses on Billy, the younger son of a mining family in which the mother has recently died, and Billy’s macho father and older activist brother take part in the miners struggle. Billy does not identify with the masculine world-view of his father and brother, and instead of boxing he secretly joins the ballet class. The notion of belonging to a group that shares the same values is repeated throughout the film, which portrayed class, gender and sexual orientation issues. Billy’s gender role shift journey starts as he is first exposed of a ballet class while he participated in boxing class at the gym. A new world opens up for Billy, it marks a world of self-identity. When Bill’s father find out that he’s dancing and not boxing, his father makes it clear he’s not happy and wants Billy to quit ballet dancing. But Billy defied his father and started taking private lessons with Miss Wilkinson. Billy’s gender issues are being questioned but over comes the odds and the stereotype of what society thinks. Billy finds Michael...
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...Billy Elliot - Film Review Running time: 111 minutes Starring: Jamie Bell, Julie Walters, Gary Lewis, Jamie Draven, Stuart Wells, Jean Hollywood ✶✶✶✶✶✶✶✶ Rating 8 out of 10 Billy Elliot is a coming-of-age drama about a young son of a poor coal miner, who dreams of being a ballet dancer. Billy Elliot (Jamie Bell), main character, is an shy 11-year old boy who is living with his proud miner father (Gary Lewis) and older brother Tony (Jamie Draven) during the political and social unrest of the 1984 miner’s strike in Durham, North East England. It’s a hard time, - the men of the house is spending their days on the picket lines clashing with the police, while Billy is exploring new sides of himself and taking care of his increasingly senile grandmother (Jean Heywood). Though his dad, and brother nagging him into taking boxing classes, he manages to fall in love with the art of dancing. While his fancy footwork can’t being pointed fingers at, he simply can’t take a punch. One day at the gym, Billy notices a ballet class, which it taught by hard-bitten Mrs. Wilkinson (Julie Walters), and ends up joining the class after being dared by Mrs. Wilkinson’ young daughter. When Billy’s father learns about his son has being forsaken boxing gloves for ballet shoes, he is distraught, and bans him from taking classes. Despite his father banning him from taking classes, he can’t put his passion on hold. After accepting his son’ passion for dancing, he sets about raising money to send his...
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