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- 721: Michel De Montaigne On The Edu
- ... Children" The purpose of Montaigne's "Education of Children" is to lay down the philosophical groundwork for a new and innovative way of teaching children. The purpose of this new system is to foster the child's intellectual growth as opposed to filling the child's head with facts that he regurgitates, but does not understand. In Montaigne's words, the education should put a child "through its paces, making it taste things, choose them, and discern them by itself" (110). As well as encouraging intellectual growth, Montaigne also intends to promote wisdom, character and physical development as a way ...
- 722: Institutions That Facilitate Economic Segregation
- ... prepare a student for a lower class existence. These inequalities in the educational system severely limit opportunities for some students, while opening up windows for advancement for others. Even with a high I.Q., a child born in South Central LA would have to overcome great obstacles to get on a path to college. On the other hand, the superior educational environment at a rich school would tend to promote and ... economically isolating the lower social class. It also geographically isolates them, creating urban ghettos and other lower class neighborhoods where workers have to resort to the poorer jobs. In this process of class reproduction, a child born into a family in one of these lower-class communities has little chance of aspiring beyond the low-paying jobs in his immediate environment. In contrast, one born into a higher-class family is ... likely to end up in the primary sector of the labor force. Perhaps one of the most fundamental social institutions, the family, can play a key role in either limiting or offering opportunities to a child. Families both have a direct influence on an individual in terms of cultural capital, and an indirect influence in their relationship to other institutions. Cultural capital is knowledge necessary for success in the middle ...
- 723: Ibsens Roles
- ... a mother who s a chronic liar" Having said this, it is evident that Torvald shuns the liability that comes with parenting, and imposes it all on Nora. The mother is solely responsible if her child turns out to be a nuisance to society later on in life. Ibsen tells his readers that if a woman fails to recognize her own needs, she will remain stagnant in a doll-child existence. Nora s constant need to please her husband has hindered her development as an independent being. Her marriage "is that of a charming child to a parent, and not one of equals. Nora remains an innocent child, who always assumes that Torvald, her father figure, is infallible. This self-abnegation is actually harming her because believing every truth ...
- 724: Autism
- Autism The term "autism was first used more than 50 years ago by psychiatrist named Dr. Leo Kanner. He was working at Johns Hopkins University’s, Child Psychiatric Clinic with a group of children who were most often classified as emotionally disturbed or mentally retarded. Dr. Kanner noticed a pattern of symptoms about these children. It noted that most were not mentally ... the cause of autism have been proven false. Autism is not a mental illness. Children with autism are not uncooperative kids with a behavior problem. Autism is not caused by bad parents who gave their child too little attention. The researchers who have implied this have never showed enough reliable clinical evidence to prove their statements The term autism refers to an empty, withdrawn appearance. A lot of autistic individuals though ... rock and/or bang their head against the crib. In the first few years of life, some autistic toddlers develop much earlier than others, such as talking, crawling, and walking, much earlier than the average child, whereas other autistic children develop at a much later stage in life. Approximately one-third of autistic children develop normally until somewhere among 1 1/2 to 3 years of age; then autistic symptoms ...
- 725: Beloved: Sethe's Motivation For Killing Her Baby
- ... to kill her baby girl rather than allowing her to be exposed to the physically, emotionally, and spiritually oppressive horrors of a life spent in slavery. Sethe's action is indisputable: She has killed her child, that terrible. Sethe's motivation is not so clearly defined. By killing her "Beloved" child, has Sethe acted out of true love or selfish pride? The fact that Sethe's act is irrational can easily be decided upon. Does Sethe kill her baby girl because she wants to save the ... to be dragged back into the evil of slavery. From the beginning, it is clear that Sethe believes that her actions were justified. This is stupid she is basing this on the murder of a child. By not even approaching the subject of her daughter's death, it is also made clear that Sethe has detached herself from the act. Even when Paul D. learns of what Sethe has done ...
- 726: Cloning
- ... the parents had a bad gene or hereditary disease this could be removed from the embryo and replaced with another "clean" gene. This process is called embryo screening it is used to determine if the child has received the defective gene. Several embryos could be cloned, then the DNA from one of the embryos would then be removed and standard genetic testing would be used to detect whether or not that embryo contained the genetic disease. If this cloned embryo containd a disease then one of the other embryos could be used for implantation in a parent, this guarantees that the child would be free of genetic disease (Marshall 1025). For those who disagree with cloning I am sure if there child could be saved from a genetic disease they would reconsider cloning. Imagine if one of your friends or family members was in need of a liver or kidney. Most likely you would donate your ...
- 727: The Industrial Revolution
- ... production, along with capitalism and the integration of the factory system, rather than the cottage industry, initially led to a regressive state. After the Reform Act of 1832, lifestyles improved. The use of woman and child labour under atrocious conditions, and the implementation of the Reform Act of 1832, ultimately led to the improvement of working conditions. In the eighteenth century a series of inventions transformed the manufacture of cotton in ... must remain a worker for the rest of his life." Conditions, under which women and children found themselves working during the Industrial Revolution prior to the implementation of the Reform Act of 1832, were atrocious. Child miners were used regularly. In many of the coal mines children were needed more than adults. Some of the tunnels were only 18 inches high, so children could crawl along them more easily than adults ... The children of the poor were forced by economic conditions to work. Many children worked 16-hour days under deplorable conditions, along with their parents. A man in 1818 described the life of a factory child as, Like a slave, locked up in factories eight storeys high, with no rest till the great machine stops, miserable food, mostly water gruel, oat-cake, a little salt, some- times a little milk ...
- 728: Excessive Alcohol Consumption--its Effects And Social Accept
- ... and teenagers are the main group of drunk drivers, are being thrown at today s society left and right in an effort to blame the other guy. With all the talk about alcohol use and abuse these days, people are lost between fact and fiction. All of this tossed in with the truth leads to confusion where most of society is torn between tradition and personal beliefs. Alcohol is a destructive ... to the immune system. The most severe defect resulting from prenatal alcohol consumption, however, is Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS), characterized by many behavioral problems (Wolfgan 7). Several types of violence, including homicides, suicides, and spousal abuse, suggest a strong relationship with alcohol. In more than sixty percent of homicides, violators were drinking at the time of the offense, and thirty-six percent of suicide victims had a positive blood alcohol concentration ... licensed drivers, they account for 74% of all impaired charges (64). Health problems are not the only negative side effects; addiction can also result from chronic drinking. There is, however, a difference between dependence and abuse. The most recent edition of The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders defines alcohol dependence as a cluster of symptoms that includes continued drinking despite significant alcohol-related problems, while alcohol abuse is ...
- 729: Analysis of Pearl in Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter"
- ... Puritan society, Pearl's language shows a high level of intelligence. Later, Hester receives word that the magistrates want to take Pearl away from her. Hester takes Pearl to the governor's house where the child meets her father, Arthur Dimmesdale. After Dimmesdale persuades the governors to allow Hester to keep Pearl, he gives the child a kiss on the forehead. This kiss hints that Dimmesdale is Pearl's father. When Hester and Pearl return from Governor Winthrop's death bed, they join Dimmesdale standing on the town's scaffold. Pearl ... Pearl's birth resulted from the sin of adultery, the meaning of the "A." Since she came from a broken rule, Pearl does not feel that she has to follow rules. Hawthorne expresses that "The child could not be made amendable to rules" (Hawthorne 91). Next, Pearl exhibits the same characteristics as the scarlet letter. For example, the letter contains scarlet fabric. Hester makes red clothes for Pearl to wear, ...
- 730: “Pearl: The Scarlet Letter Endowed with Life”
- ... affair between Hester Prynne and Arthur Dimmesdale. The whole town recognizes the fact that Hester had committed adultery because her husband had not been seen for over two years, and Hester had just bore a child who was only a few months old. When Hester walks to the scaffold, ready to pay for her crime, she realizes that the infant symbolizes her sin of adultery. She opposes the temptation to use the child to cover up the scarlet letter; “wisely judging that one token of her shame would but poorly serve to hide another.”(Pg. 95) As the day progresses, the infant is “writhed in convulsions of pain ... little frame.”(Pg.111) In this, Pearl represents the agony and torture that Hester experiences during the day of her public confession and humiliation. As Pearl grows up, she develops a personality of an “elf-child” or “demon offspring”. Pearl has a mixture of moods; she could be laughing uncontrollably one minute and then screaming the next. She has a brutal temper and can contain the “bitterest hatred that can ...
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