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- 1821: Hemophilia 2
- ... whole shape being shaded in. Family members who have no signs of the disease at all have their whole space blank. Another tool which scientists use, is called a Punnett Square. This shows the possible child births of a couple. The males chromosomes (X and Y) are located at the top of the diagram. The females chromosomes (X and X) are located along the left hand side of the diagram. Here is an example: This diagrams demonstrates the birth of a Xh Y child between a hemophiliac male and a normal female. The males defective x X XhX XY chromosome will be passed to a daughter no matter what, so she will in the end be X XhX XY a carrier. If a male child is to be born though, he will not be a hemophiliac, because he has inherited either one of his mother's X chromosomes, and neither of her X chromosomes were infected. Hemophilia is not ...
- 1822: Act Of Courage (jim Abbott)
- ... him. He stays positive and sees it as a challenge to overcome instead of a wall to thwart him as long as he lives. His great character is seen constantly when he encourages a young child with disabilities. He is known for saying, You can do whatever you want to do. There is no limit. He is an individual who is able to find the strength and courage to develop his ... could play any position and hold his own before he approached the kids playing ball (Hinkins). Despite all of his hard work, the first days at the field were rough. Jim took plenty of verbal abuse. The children teased him by saying his right arm looked like a foot, and they called him Stub and Crab. The teasing occasionally sent Jim home crying (Gutman 7). But his parents sent him right ...
- 1823: Aboriginal Beliefs
- ... blew so hard, that the pole snapped. As it crashed to the ground it formed deep depressions in the earth, but then reformed again into one pole. When people were born, their parents gave each child a totemic name, according to which colour group they were born into. A totem could be any object, such as a bird or plant, or even some particular landmark through which a person is linked ... cutting is shown throughout a number of the Aboriginal rituals and ceremonies, which is a re-enactment of the Arunda creation story of separation, or cutting, from the land. For example, in birth ceremonies, the child is separated from the umbilical cord. Likewise, in initiation ceremonies, boys are circumcised as well as subincised, and the first ceremonies of initiation, with the use of bullroarers , are intended to make them independent (and ... according to a Dreamtime story or stones), and because of tradition of thousands of couples marrying over time. For marriage purposes, every tribe was divided into four main groups, sometimes called marriage moieties. When each child was born, he or she was given a totemic name according to which group he or she was in- thus, eliminating incest, as no person could marry another person from the same group. The ...
- 1824: Calamitatum Of The Individual
- ... individuality was a natural part of him, a part that was as inseparable as his faith. From the beginning of Abelard's Story of my Calamities he portrays himself as an individual. The as oldest child in his family his life was intended for a military career, but as he tells us, he abandoned Mars for Minerva, denouncing the popular and glorious profession of arms for that of learning. In writing ... They had a premarital sexual affair of unparalleled proportion. The whole affair was entirely against the rules of society at the time, and was the culmination of the progressive pattern of freedoms, turned into the abuse of opportunity. Soon after Abelard's individuality and superiority caught up to him. Heloise became pregnant, and Abelard could not successfully sidestep the ethics of society again. To appease her uncle, Abelard offered him "satisfaction ...
- 1825: Lewis Carroll
- ... form close relationships among them. While speaking with younger children, Carrolls stammering had magically disappeared. He "simply became one of them-whether or not they accepted him-and most did" (Pudney 20). As a child, Carroll had a fondness of inventing games and language puzzles (14). Lewis Carroll "divided himself into two names, Lewis Carroll and Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson" (DLB v.18 45). The pen name Lewis Carroll is ... par in order to be accepted for publication. He excelled much more in photography and had been described as "the best photographer of children in the nineteenth century" (Pudney 54). His most influential focus of child photography was Alice Liddell. Carroll was taking photographs of the Christ Church Cathedral from the deanery of the college when he encountered Alice Liddell and her two sisters, the daughters of the Dean, Henry George ... the cake, which makes her big. Alice, meant to be a girl of about eleven or so, is on the cusp of adolescence. But what does she want to be? If she shrinks to a child-like size to get through the doorway into what seems to be the garden of childhood, then she is too small to reach the key to open that door. She is trapped in a ...
- 1826: Genetic Engineering. 2
- ... of the next one hundred years following Mendel's discovery. These early studies concluded that each organism has two sets of character determinants, or genes (Stableford 16). For instance, in regards to eye color, a child could receive one set of genes from his father that were encoded one blue, and the other brown. The same child could also receive two brown genes from his mother. The conclusion for this inheritance would be the child has a three in four chance of having brown eyes, and a one in three chance of having blue eyes (Stableford 16). Genes are transmitted through chromosomes which reside in the nucleus of every ...
- 1827: Carl Jung
- ... Switzerland. He was born on July 26, in the small village of Kesswil on Lake Constance. He was named after his grandfather, a professor of medicine at the University of Basel. He was the oldest child and only surviving son of a Swiss Reform pastor. Two brothers died in infancy before Jung was born. Jung's mother was a neurotic and often fought with his father. Father was usually lonely and very irritable. When the child could not take his mother's depressions and his parents' fights, he sought refuge in the attic, where he played with a wooden mannikin. Carl was exposed to death early in life, since his father ... There are two principles of psychic dynamics. What happens to all that energy? 1. Principle of Equivalence. Energy is not created nor destroyed. If it leaves something, it has to surface. For example, if a child devoted a lot of energy to reading comics, it might be redirected into a different persona, som ething like being Mr. Cool Dude! He then will loose interest in reading comics. Energy also has ...
- 1828: B. F. Skinner
- ... reading material their children. Skinner said that his parents never used physical punishment, except for the time they washed his mouth out with soap for bad language. (Ulrich, 1997) B. F. Skinner was very adventurous child. He lead a 300 mile canoe trip down the Susquehanna River when he was only 13 years old. He was a natural inventor and he loved build things. One of his inventions included a device ... to a stimulus. A few of John B. Watson's literary works include the following books and papers: Animal Education, Behavior, Psychology from the Standpoint of a Behaviorist, Behaviorism, and Psychological Care of Infant and Child. (Turner, 1997) Along with his own theories of behaviorism, Skinner developed the theory of operant conditioning. Operant conditioning is based on the idea that "we behave the way we do because this kind of behavior ... punishment or to use other people. Skinner argues that because of this, people are against control, because the people in control use their power it in a negative way. For instance, In the family, a child is controlled by the fear of punishment from his parents. In school, the students are placed in a threatening environment in which they can escape only by learning. Our government controls us through laws, ...
- 1829: Great Expectations 2
- ... of revenge against men. She does this by using her daughter Estella to torment Pip. Pip s first and only love is Estella. Estella is very mean and nasty to Pip. Although he receives verbal abuse from Estella, he continues to likes and will not stop liking her, he sees the good inside of her and will not stop until the good comes out. In contrast to her treatment of Pip as a child when she had called him a common laboratory boy with coarse hands and thick boots, she tries to explain to him that emotion is something that she is incapable of feeling. The fact of that ...
- 1830: The Works and Life of Charles Dickens
- ... the hardships of growing up in a poor family or having the life of a pauper in a big city. In these tales, though at times fictional, Dickens seems to portray his life as a child through his books. The time period about which Dickens' books were written is the mid nineteenth century. They were written as if through the eyes of a child no more than twelve years old. The response that the reader may have to this situation is that of a warm and understanding feeling. The joy and bliss of the main character is rarely showed ... a loving family. The reward for being truthful becomes very apparent in this work as shown when the narrator said "How Mr. Brownlow went on, from day to day, filling the mind of his adopted child with stores of knowledge, and becoming attached to him more and more
" (Dickens, Oliver Twist 479). This quotation shows the love and attachment that Mr. Brownlow, his adopted father, has toward Oliver. If Oliver ...
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