...humanity.” Richard Louv, writer of Last Child in the Woods conveys a sarcastic tone and imagery to address the idea of “why do so many people no longer consider the physical world worth watching?” He also ponders, “Why do so many Americans say they want their children to watch less TV, yet continue to expand the opportunities for them to watch it?” Louv visualizes explaining the nineteenth century to a younger generation and how they will not understand what they hear. Louv assumes, “’You did what?’ they’ll ask. ‘Yes,’ we’ll say, ‘it’s true. We actually looked out the car window.’” He is sarcastic because he is in disbelief at how oblivious adolescence is becoming. Louv finds it humorous that children are becoming so dependent on technology and are becoming so detached from nature. He mocks our future generation and their foolhardiness that is arising within them. Richard Louv reminisces his days in the back seat of a driving car, and vividly explains his experience through imagery. He remembers when he “started with a kind of reverence at the horizon, as thunderheads and dancing rain moved with” him. He also personifies the “dancing rain” to portray his full image. Louv understands technology is going to expand and become more broad; however he can understand the intellectual details of nature that he remembers and realizes that technology is distracting people from visualizing “the variety or architecture, here and there; the woods and fields and water beyond the steamy...
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...In this essay, I will be exploring the role of social experiences in child development. It is important to consider and define what social experience is when taking it into account in the terms of social development. For the purpose of exploring the ideas in Book 1, Chapter 2; social experiences is physical and mental interaction between other children and adults either directly or through observation by watching social interaction and feeling socially involved. So, with that in mind, for a child’s environment to not contain some sort of social experience, they would have to be socially isolated by either being alone or by ignoring their surroundings. Throughout this essay I will be assessing the role of social experience in each theory and evaluating the extent it has played in a child’s development. ‘Behavourism’ is a conditioning theory, which involves consequences for behaviour. Depending on the desired behaviour, the child is either rewarded or punished for how they behave according to the particular behaviour. The ‘Constructivism’ theory is a school of though that children build their own learning depending and through their own experiences and activities. In the ‘constructivism’ theory, children follow a set of stages in development. The ‘Social Learning Theory’ teaches that children learn by example, by observing others they understand and learn how to behave. The last theory I will be exploring is ‘Social Constructivism’ theory believes that children build their development...
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...”The Flowers” When you grow from child to adult, you realize that life is not as easy as you might have thought. What is underneath all the perfect flowers? How does growing from child to adult affect you? “The Flowers” is a short story by Alice Walker, in which you read about a little girl whose name is Myop. As she’s out picking flowers, she discovers something which will change her childhood and her view on life. By analyzing and interpreting this short story this essay will put focus on Myop’s development and her view on life after her discovery. “The Flowers” is a story of childhood innocent. Myop is a 10 years old girl. She only sees the beauty of life. She likes the nature, and flowers. The story is described as a beautiful summer day. The story takes place in the woods behind Myop’s house. Myop’s mood develops from a good to a bad mood. I can see that in the beginning “she felt light and good in the warm sun”. When you feel light and good warm sun, its symbols of something good. First Myop is picking flowers in the wood, she is happy. When she later gets further in to the woods “she finds it not as pleasant as her usual haunts”. But then she steps into a man’s face. She realizes that he is dead. She picks up a pink rose and put her bundle of flowers down. But after she had experienced with the innocent man, she had a bad mood and all the fun was over. The text ends with “the summer was over”, and it’s like Myop is growing up and could not have fun anymore....
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...why play is important to the holistic development of the young child. Explain how and why children’s play changes over the first six years of life. Include examples to support your explanation. To begin this essay, I have asked myself ‘what is play?’ The Oxford English Dictionary cites many definitions for the word ‘play’. One can watch a play, play truant, play up, play football, play cards or play an instrument. Child development theorists have published a great many works on play and its impact on child development. Hutt et al (1989) (as quoted in Wood & Attfield (2005)) argued that play is “a jumbo category that encompasses a multiplicity of activities, some of which are conducive to learning, but many of which are not.” Wood & Attfield (2005) wrote that “play involves a wide range of behaviours, have multiple meanings for both children and adults and can be regarded as serious or trivial. It can be highly motivated or just plain messing about”. Moyles (2005) believed play to be “… a process which, in itself, will subsume a range of behaviours, motivations, opportunities, practices, skills and understandings …” For the purposes of this essay, I am focussing on the enjoyable activities which children undertake freely and spontaneously, alone or with their peers which brings pleasure, fulfilment and development. I will endeavour to explain how play is important to the holistic development of the young child and also how and why play changes during the first six years...
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...Erin Trapp Essay One 2 October 2014 Adapting Mechanisms in “Hansel and Gretel” Jacob and Wilhelm’s “Hansel and Gretel” is a fantasy about two children, Hansel and Gretel, which are left in the woods to die after their parents leave them. Hansel and Gretel are wandering throughout the woods to find their way back, until they come upon an old little house. This is not an ordinary house, but a house made of bread, a roof made of cake and windows made of sugar. Inside lived an old woman, whom of which pretended to be nice, but little did Hansel and Gretel know she is a wicked witch. This fantasy shows the argument from which Hansel and Gretel are left to die in the woods as a coping strategy. Hansel and Gretel’s parents are very poor. Their father is a woodcutter, and rarely can find food to support his family as this great famine has come to the land. He and his wife lay in bed and his wife says to him, “Early tomorrow morning we will take the two children out into the thickest part of the woods…then leave them by themselves and go off to our work…and we will be rid of them” (53). The stepmother gives the father no peace until he accepts this offer, about to let their children perish in the woods. Hansel, who overhears the conversation between his stepmother and father, goes outside to collect as many pebbles that he could fit in his jacket. When morning comes, the stepmother wakes the children and tells them to get ready to go into the woods to collect wood. Hansel and...
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...Consequences of Technology The article “Last Child in the Woods” claims that over time, people are becoming less appreciative towards nature due to technology. The author, Richard Louv, supports his argument by establishing his credibility, making people think with a rhetorical question, providing nostalgia of the past, and using imagery. Louv attempts to show the audience that, technology is ruining the natural nature. To begin the article, Louv establishes his credibility by providing research and data to support his argument. He adds to his claim that this generation has a decline in the appreciation of nature and supplements it with research. In Louv’s essay, he provides examples of how nature can be ruined by nature. He supplies data from “researchers at the State University of New York” and explains how they are “experimenting with a genetic technology through which they can choose the colors that appear on butterfly wings” (1-4). Louv shows...
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...Once More to The Lake In the essay Once More to The Lake there by E.B. White is talking about the present and the past. The author talks about how his father used to take him to the lake, so as a father, he wants to do the same thing for his child. He keeps going back and forth between his childhood, and then being like his father to his son. Which makes the essay happen in a non-chronological order. One of the themes in the essay is the relationship of the past and the future. He talks about how the same things occur in both the past and when he goes again with his son. “I guess I remembered clearest of all the early mornings, when the lake was cool and motionless, remembered how the bedroom smelled of the lumber it was made of and of...
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...Day on the Beach English 1301 Description Essay #1 Arriving at the beach my Dad bulldozed through the ever floundering sand as we swayed from side to side from his efforts. Our old car puffed with agony before he finally unearthed a parking spot neighboring the pier. Bolting out of our roadster I hammered the door shut and charged toward the pier. The soft light brown to tanish oven baked sand engulfed my feet as it muscled its way between each toe and quickly heated them. In my struggle to reach the pier I managed to stop beneath it to cool my crisp feet. I strolled along the ocean’s edge as the chilled water revived my warm feet as I felt the sand jittering in the shallow water. Rough concrete pillars each blanketed at base with slimy green and black mold were cool to the touch. Encompassing these pillars were large heavy dark rocks carpeted with gooey moss and a few with sharp pointy edges. Coupled with these pillars and rocks were small skittish sand crabs. With there hard shell, light brown color, eyes floating above their head, and legs spread apart they were very fast. Moving onward, I scrambled up the faded pier with old cracked dry wood that squeaked along the way until I reach the peak. My feet were once again warmed by the scorching wood of the pier. I tip-toed toward an orange heavy duty igloo water cooler yelling with my mouth wide open, OUCH, HOT, HOT, OU, until I cooled them down with the ice cold water. I stood near the cooler feeling the...
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...communication. Therefore, the importance of effective communication in nursing cannot be overstated as miscommunication causes misunderstandings, misdiagnosis and even a lack of trust in the professional. In agreement with this, Walker et al state that interpersonal aspects of care are central to patient’s perceptions of quality of care. (2007:149). In this reflective essay, I will discuss the issues of prejudice and discrimination and how communication can convey both negative and positive attitudes. From my first clinical placement, I have learned how attitudes could have a profound effect on the level of care a client or patient receives. “Positive responses to cultural diversity include acceptance and knowledge, not bias or prejudice. A culture is a system of behaviours people learn from the people they live and grow up with. Each culture may have different lifestyles, religions, customs and behaviours”, (Alvare et al, 2005:129). Gibbs Reflective Cycle (1998) is the framework for my reflection. In accordance with the code of professional conduct (NMC, 2004), confidentiality will be maintained throughout this essay, no trust or staff/patient names shall be used. On my Out of Hospital Placement, I was “spoked out” from my main clinic to observe a Health Visitor involved...
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...Are Fathers Necessary for Children’s Well-Being? Abraham Bartoah [Institutional Affiliation(s)] Taking Sides: Clashing Views in Gender Abstract The content of this essay is to observe my opinion on fathers and how they impact growth of a child. This essay will note from the text researches conducted on others view on the topic. Also it will explain in detail my thought and opposition I have after reading the text. Are Fathers Necessary for Children’s Well-Being? Since Adam and Eve the idea of there being a mother and father to raise a child has existed. But most certainly since then the world and ways of life have changed drastically. In today society many can argue the importance of having father around to raise a child. It can also be argued that father or no father a child can grow up to just as healthy and able as a child raised with both parents. From personal experience the need of a father in a child growth is not crucial. Being a boy doesn’t mean that only a male can teach you to be a man. There are many aspects to child growth that anyone can provide whether it’s a mother and father, just a father or just a mother. I feel that child growth is more based on the personality and attitudes that that child is surrounded by. According to professor Natasha J. Cabrera and the EHS studies they suggest that a father who has a highs school degree or higher have their children performing better in development. this in my opinion isn’t accurate. The test conducted where only conducted...
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...Staggemeier Kristy Tenbus ENGL 1020 September 17, 2011 Compare and Contrast Essay The professional golfers association contains many talented players throughout the world; two of the most known players are Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson. Growing up as a child I always was watching the golf channel with my father and the players he always told me to look out for on the top of the leaderboard were Tiger and Phil. Truth be told my father was right almost every tournament I saw at least one of those two players in the top ten. They both have green jackets from the masters and can both claim the title of the U.S open champion at one point. Although both PGA players Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson are outstanding golfers with similarities and differences I believe that over all Phil Mickelson is a better player than Tiger Woods. Tiger Woods turned pro in the year of 1996 and has shocked the world ever since either with the breaking news of his devastating actions or about how he birdied the 18th hole to go into another 18 hole playoff with Rocco Mediate in the U.S open. Over the past few years Tiger has slipped and has made mistakes which resulted in him losing respect of his fans and of his golfing equals. Tiger the man isn’t really someone you really want to look up to but Tiger the golfer shows many ways to be respectful and how to treat people on the golf course. I myself have taken the way Tiger Woods plays into perspective with my own game. He taught me to play with patience...
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...EMPLOYMENT LAW ESSAY – LAW 363 Question: - “Bullying at work – a safety matter or an employment issue?” I. Introduction In the past, bullying has been reduced to an issue that occurs in the school yard amongst children. It had little scope in terms of being appreciated as a form of harm inflicted outside of these realms. However, the presence of this harmful treatment in the workplace cannot, and lately has not, been denied. This essay will discuss the variety of changes which have been seen over the last year in relation to workplace bullying legislation, as well as the changes which are still to come. This essay will draw upon the information provided in the original report made by the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Education and Employment (“the Committee”) in October 2012 titled Workplace Bullying – We just want it to stop, (“the Report”), which gave way for the changes that will occur from 1 January 2014 as a consequence of the recent passing of the Fair Work Amendment Bill 2013 (“the Bill”). In reflecting upon these resources, this essay will show how bullying at work should be seen to be both a safety matter and an employment issue, and further this point by demonstrating that distinguishing it as one or the other is not necessary, nor is it desirable. II. The Confusion Around Bullying a. Prevalence One of the hardest tasks in the past when it came to legislative regulation of bullying was the inability to accurately measure the prevalence. Estimating...
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...Besides this code, the strategy is rather well established especially regarding the relationships between the company and its suppliers from the economically developing countries. But the question is; are Ikea’s international procurements processes efficient? Can they be improved? This essay will focus on Ikea’s global sourcing’s tradeoffs and will highlight the way they can be enhanced. The first part of this essay will describe the regular sourcing process of IKEA including the strategy, the second part will emphasize how the sourcing should be done to be successful and the last part will provide recommendations about the processes according to the analysis. For a company, global sourcing is basically choosing different suppliers all around the world in order to use worldwide efficiencies and reduce costs. Global sourcing offers various advantages such as low cost materials and skilled labour, diminution of lead times, and also economical advantages like low taxes or low trade tariffs. These benefits will directly be related to the production costs and the final products. That is why global souring is an important factor in the procurement process, which should not be neglected. Through the last twenty years IKEA’s sourcing strategy has seen many changes. One of the first improvements was a reduction in the number of suppliers. In fact, in 1990, IKEA counted 2500 suppliers; the brand has...
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...In this essay I’m going to look at some of the important elements in the short-story Wood Grouse on a High Promontory Overlooking Canada. The ones I am going to look at are: The setting of the short-story, a characterization of the two characters in the story, the theme(s), and the ending of the story. The story takes place on a high promontory, the two brothers Gary and Bud are fishing in the lake, but the fish don’t seem to bite. The promontory overlooks Canada on one side and the United States of America on the other. The scenery is peaceful and almost perfect, though in a realistic way. Bud is the younger of the two, being only 15 years old and seemingly an average active teenager. He seems carefree and happy. We are told that he likes baseball and that he likes throwing stones and that while doing so he imagines himself a hunter. Gary on the other hand is quite a bit older, I’d guess about 20-25, as he’s just returned from the war in Vietnam. Gary appreciates the peace around him and notices the beauty in the small things, unlike Bud who is more interested in throwing stones for fun. It’s not because Bud is evil, but simply because Gary has been changed by what he’s experienced in Vietnam. He carries a heavy burden around because of the war, but he doesn’t want to talk about it and when Bud asks him. He simply says to him that he wouldn’t want to know. It also seems like it’s hard for him to admit that he killed people in Vietnam when Bud asks, though I think...
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..."My Little Bit of Country" by Susan Cheever What would you prefer; The relaxing life of the suburbs or the wild diversity of the urban life? Some would prefer one while the other would feel inexplicably horrible in choosing the other. “My Little Bit of Country” is an essay by Susan Cheever, this essay starts from when she was a little girl and ends in 2012 which is when she wrote the essay. In the beginning little Susan Cheever was living in New York and was pretty happy with her life there, but that wasn’t enough for the family, they wanted the American Dream with the white picket fence and a place in the “real” country, as Susan Cheever puts it. This did not please her and she really disliked the suburbs, that when she got older she would go to New York as much as possible. In the end she moves to New York again and is happy and forever satisfied with the urban life. The story is basically written with contrasts, contrasts and more contrasts. The most obvious one is the suburb life vs. the urban life; country vs. city. She very much dislikes the country life, it being a step down from the city: “Why would I want to scrape around the rough, dangerous ice of a country lake when I could glide around the smooth ice at the Wollman Ring and pause for a hot chocolate when my toes and fingers get too cold?” here she compares the natural procedure of the lake turning to ice with a manmade ice rink specifically made to be the most safe way to skate. Some would say that the country would have something special about it...
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