...today. She developed the stages of play through children she observed in a preschool setting. In this study she developed six types of play: Unoccupied, Solitary, Onlooker, Parallel, Associative, and Cooperative. This theory shows us how play is developed in children today. So what is play? Play is basically letting the children have fun, but also involving learning which they call pretend play. The importance of play is important for a child’s development and learning skills. Play is supposed to be enjoyable and spontaneous which is why it is recommended in schools at the age of pre-school. Play helps your child develop social skills, motor skills and cognitive thinking. While...
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...extreme pleasure of attending a play put on by my own university and performed by some of my own classmates. The play itself is not very well-known as it was performed twice before it came to Duquesne University, but that did not stop me from enjoying it all the same. F.J. Hartland’s play, Rust, has stuck out in mind because of the well-written humor, casting choices, and stage design. To begin with, the play is a combination of drama and comedy, which is made quite apparent through the setting of throughout the performance: 1980’s Pittsburgh during the deindustrialization of the area’s prominent steel industry. It was at this time that many of the workers of Pittsburgh were without a job and could not provide for their families. The play revolves around such a family of Slovak descent and the effects the so-called “Rust Belt” had on their lives....
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...The Addams Family Play Review Last Saturday, I finally got a chance to see a musical comedy play called “The Addams Family" at the Sunnyvale Theatre. The play director/choreographer by Marcie Shapiro, music director by Kevin Surace, vocal director by Steve Shapiro, and producers are Steve Shapiro, Ramesh Krishnan, Rita Wubker-Cole, and Barbara Moline. Talking about the play, it is centered on the Addams family and there is something refreshing about them. They tend to ignore what others think, and that is what help them to remain true and genuine. The family have seven members in total which are Gomez (the father), Morticia (the mother), Wednesday (the older daughter), Pugsley (the youngest son), Grandma, Fester (Gomez’s brother), and Lurch...
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...the play I knew it would be entertaining and funny because there has not been a bad play at the high school. Before it started I knew nothing about it because I had never heard or seen Leaving Iowa. All the actors in the play were good but I especially enjoyed Grandpa. Grandpa made me laugh a lot and when they were on the road trip and he was yelling I was laughing extra hard. He stood out to me because he was not your ordinary Grandpa. I think that all the performers worked very well together. You could tell that they weren’t just acting but they were actually friends outside of the play. In the play the “car” stayed the whole time. I thought this was interesting because I was expecting it to move but it did not. But overall the blocking was very nice. When I went to see the play I was in the very last row and all actors were heard very clearly. There accents were so funny and really added to the...
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...Should kids be able to play dangerous sports? Many people argue that kids shouldn’t be able to play dangerous sports because it can cause a kid to brake a bone or get a concussion. The other side argues that they should be able to play it because parents should be able to make the choice not the government. There are also people who don’t mind dangerous sports but wont let their kids play them. I think that they should be allowed to play them to a extent meaning they can play something that is too crazy but should be able to play things like tackle football. Many people will put their kid into something like flag football to bypass tackle football because they think it is dangerous. But according to Stanford health they both get the...
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...White Chameleon The complete review's Review: White Chameleon is an autobiographical play, focussed on Christopher Hampton's youth between 1952 and 1956, most of which he spent in Alexandria, Egypt. There is a narrator to the play, Christopher, looking back on the events of that time, as it were, and a young boy -- Chris -- at the centre of the play. (Hampton also emphatically states in his stage directions: "CHRISTOPHER and his FATHER must be played by the same actor", making for an odd double-perspective of father and son.) It was a tumultuous time, between the Egyptian Revolution and the Suez Crisis. Christopher's Father (as the character is called in the play) was a Cable & Wireless engineer, and loved his life in Alexandria. The comfortable idyll is shattered in the years covered in the play: not brutally extinguished, but just bothersomely made impossible, the true ugliness first not taken too seriously (because it is avoidable, among other reasons) and ultimately simply left behind. Young Chris doesn't understand much about the goings-on. Shuttled back and forth to the supposed safety of England, he's an outsider regardless of where he is -- a wog, always trying to fit in, to whom England is more foreign and unwelcoming than Egypt. He is, of course, like the white chameleon of the title: trying to change his appearance to blend in. A major figure in the Egyptian household is Ibrahim, the company servant with a weakness for alcohol and two...
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...Argumentative essay DEFINITION An argumentative essay tries to change the reader’s mind by convincing the reader to agree with the writer’s point of view. CHARACTERISTICS An argumentative essay attempts to be highly persuasive and logical. It usually assumes that the reader disagrees with the writer, but it should be noted that the reader is no less intelligent than the writer. Hence an argumentative essay should be written objectively, logically and respectfully. When planning an argumentative essay, be aware that the essay should contain the following characteristics: The argumentative essay introduces and explains the issue or case. The reader needs to know what the issue is going to be. The essay offers reasons, and supports these reasons. The essay should prove its point. The essay, at times, refutes (proves wrong) opposing arguments. Example Games and Violence Essay Computer games have seriously caught the attention of Mass Media and nowadays every channel considers its duty to remind people how much damage these games cause to children and adults. The increasing amount of games with violent scenes sock the society and makes it very aware of them.It is already common knowledge that violent games cause violence in people. This fact is not even doubted by the majority of people. Every other person says that the reason lies in games being too close to reality. The opinion that games make violent actions normal for the player and therefore make the player...
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...01/29/2015 Ziwei He 651158359 DGS Ziweihe2@illinois.edu CRN: 55439 Jacqlyn Merchant Should parents be concerned about their young children using iPads? In this extraordinary sophisticated world, technology and creative inventions benefit people a lot and provide more time to devote into other things. However, they still trigger some important problems such as the iPad. The issue that is the iPad bad for children arouses people’s concern and many people think iPad is a great technology that let people’s common life become more convenient and excellent, but it’s not good for children to grow up because children should pay more time and energy in studying and developing more useful skills. I believe that iPad could a great platform for children to broaden their horizon and develop more active minds. In the following, there are three obvious reasons to support my points. First and foremost, iPad could provide a place for children to create much art, interesting crafts and learn math. IPad apps provide the tools for children to draw calculate and create. That’s a small screen, which also contain lots of magic...
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...An essay that explores the theoretical underpinning of a resource that relates to language development and its place in learning. In this essay I will be discussing the good old fashioned stick and how it can be used to support a child’s language development. I will be discussing the diversity of play through the stick and how this is supported by the curriculum and how it is also supported by theory. According to The National Toy Hall Of Fame, the stick may be the world’s oldest toy. Animals play with sticks; our dogs play fetch with them. Children have an endless source of make believe and fun with sticks. A child’s imagination can turn sticks into magic wands, fishing poles, swords, light sabres, majorette batons and ores for an imaginary boat and so on. Children cultivate their creativity and develop their imaginations when they pretend with sticks. Children build and walk with sticks, bat balls with them; they explore the outdoors as they search for the best one. Sticks promote free play, the freedom to invent and discover; they are the original building blocks for creative play. Playing with sticks encourages outside play which incorporates fresh air and exercise. Sticks are not only the oldest toys around they are simply the best. A stick can come in all shapes and sizes. They are not carefully made or presented like a manufactured resource. They are natural and rustic looking and that makes them appealing to children and wanting to engage with it. Like the old saying...
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...Comparison and Contrast essay about gender. Most children grow up and develop their own personalities. In this essay, I will indicate the similarities and differences I have found within two toddlers and their characteristics. Taylor a 3-year-old girl and Savien a 2-year-old boy about to turn three. Savien and Taylor are wonderful kids that love to play all the time. Taylor is a quiet, shy, active, happy, organize, and an attentive type of child. She likes to observe people before she plays or talks to them. She likes to sit in the corner while watching TV and she doesn’t speak much. If you don’t ask her if she is hungry she won’t tell you because she is a very introverted child. Furthermore, she likes dolls, and she plays with them carefully. She also likes to play cars with Savien but she always put them back where they belong after she plays with them, unlike Savien. She is a very active child but likes to play quietly unlike Savien who plays loudly. Taylor is a happy child and a good friend of Savien. Savien is a very destructive, aggressive, active, nosy, happy, messy, and talkative child. He plays with his toys recklessly. Every time he plays with his toys they get damaged or lost. He doesn’t care about them but he likes to play with them. He is a very messy child that plays and leaves his toys everywhere. He likes to play in a more aggressive manner than Taylor, punching and fighting more so. He at times plays rough with Taylor and does not understand that he could...
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...The Creativity and Imagination Children and Young People Essay As the children are already well familiar of the traditional stories, therefore, three small Pigs were preferred. It is appealing equally for all the girls and boys as it allows a sturdy perspective for a variety of artistic works in drama, melodious group of people as well as a tiny succession of artistic work plays. All this is being done in order to achieve the basic development landmark for language development in the children of almost 5 years old. (Conti-Ramsden & Durkin, 2011). Every story has its own structure and theme as the story of Three Little Pigs has. One of the pigs met a man with many straws and constructs his home with those straws. The second pig saw a man with sticks and he made his home with those sticks. The third one saw a man with loaded bricks and that man construct his house with those bricks. Meanwhile, the wolf came to them and said the identical words three times, Little pig, little pig, let me come in. It is seen in the stories that there are repetitive words or phrases. Children love to read the stories having repetitive phrases. There must be part of entertainment in the story to make the children more attentive towards the story and its imagination in their minds (Bettelheim, 1975). The Three Little Pigs is read or told in the dramatic play using body gestures, puppets and very soft tune of voice to gain the children interest to listen the story. Our culture and society make...
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...Essay about Death by Scrabble An essay about the short story by Charlie Fish Link: http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/UBooks/DeatScra.shtml The story is made by Charlie Fish in 2006 and is called “Death by Scrabble”, it’s about a husband and wife who play Scrabble. The husband feels that all they ever do is play Scrabble. The husband tells the story, in a way so you can read what he is thinking in the text. The husband is 42 years old, and has a lot of problems with his wife. He feels bored all around the clock. He doesn’t’ really speak to other people than his wife, and that irritates him. Already in the start of the story, you can read that the husband hates his wife because he say, “It’s a hot day and I hat my wife”. I think he feels like that because all the ever do I sit around home, play Scrabble and drink tea. He feels bored and wants to do something else, just anything than sitting and playing Scrabble. He wants to come out and meet new people, and going on adventures, for example he says in the story “If she wasn’t around, I’d be doing something interesting right now. I’d be climbing Mount Kilimanjaro. I’d be starring in the latest Hollywood blockbusters.” That really shows how he is felling about playing, with his boring wife. Not only does he hate his wife, but also he wants to kill her, because everything she does is annoying him. He says in the text after they have played Scrabble, for a little while “If only I had D, then I could play MURDER. That...
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...Hamlet's Soliloquy - To be, or not to be Hamlet's "To be, or not to be" soliloquy is arguably the most famous soliloquy in the history of the theatre. Even today, 400 years after it was written, most people are vaguely familiar with the soliloquy even though they may not know the play. What gives these 34 lines such universal appeal and recognition? What about Hamlet's introspection has prompted scholars and theatregoers alike to ask questions about their own existence over the centuries? In this soliloquy, Shakespeare strikes a chord with a fundamental human concern: the validity and worthiness of life. Would it not be easier for us to simply enter a never-ending sleep when we find ourselves facing the daunting problems of life than to "suffer / the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune"? However, it is perhaps because we do not know what this endless sleep entails that humans usually opt against suicide. "For in that sleep of death what dreams may come / When we have shuffled off this mortal coil / Must give us pause." Shakespeare seems to understand this dilemma through his character Hamlet, and thus the phrase "To be, or not to be" has been immortalized; indeed, it has pervaded our culture to such a remarkable extent that it has been referenced countless times in movies, television, and the media. Popular movies such as Billy Madison quote the famous phrase, and www.tobeornottobe.com serves as an online archive of Shakespeare's works. Today, a Shakespeare stereotype...
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...To be honest I don't really know what to say. I'm just writing this essay to become a member of this website. But if I need to write an essay then so be it. People do different things for fun, and so do I. I may not be too different but the things I like aren't in the same taste as everyone else. For one thing, I enjoy video games a little too much. Believe it or not I can play video games literally all day long. I've been grounded for obsessive gameplay. But that's something I love to do for fun. And again, not everybody is the same, not everyone is not like me. Games I like to play are mostly action; fast paced action. But I also enjoy the good old adventure game or role playing game. With action games it's usually the typical ones like Call of Duty and Darksiders 2. But a good game I will never get tired of is The Legend of Zelda. Another thing I do for fun is read. This is usually a back up for my playing video games. When I say that I mean if I am grounded or nowhere near any video games, I enjoy my time with a good book. I'm a guy and most people find this feminine but I enjoy reading a good romantic novel every once in awhile, but I usually go for science fiction or fantasy fiction. But for me the book always has to have a little bit of drama in it or else I can't read it. Novel series that I read and really enjoyed would be The Vampire Diaries, Harry Potter, and Eragon. One thing that I prefer to do over everything else is to spend...
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...Name: Institution: Analytical Essay on Game-Playing Game studies involve the practical analysis and studying of a game, its subculture, players, as well as, its wider culture from variety of various academic viewpoints. Games are played as source of entertainment and hobby. However, the analysis of how it works to achieve this is important. Games are analyzed using concepts from anthropology, sociology, psychology and literature. This paper aims at providing a detailed cogent analysis of video games as a game preferred by many, especially kids. The essay will also answer some obvious questions such as how the game is played, how the players interact with the game, how the players interact with one another and the relationship of the game to real life. Virtually, all video games are defined by their various limitations. Like any other games, the most open video games have incentives and boundaries that help in directing the actions of the player. The boundaries are the essential rules defining the game. Rules aid in the provision of the objectives and structure dictating the basic form or nature of the game and ensuring the provision of policies regarding minor issues within the game’s framework. The other important element of the game is for each player to have a given degree of control within the limitation of the game dictated by the game’s formative reset. The rules must be agreed upon by all the people participating in the game. A balance of boundaries and freedom serves...
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