“Everyone has darkness inside them, however hidden.” I actually didn't fly through this book like I had hoped I would. In fact, I fell into a mini reading slump while I was reading this. I had to really push myself to read and boy I'm glad I did.…
Reading the book, The New Jim Crow: Mass incarceration in the age of colorblindness brought attention to several different injustices that minorities face daily. It shuns light on how the African American community has been stereotyped and systematically program to dismantle the African American male figure within the family dynamics. According to Michelle Alexander Obama stated that too many fathers are AWOL, MIA and neglecting their responsibilities, which had cause the family to be weaker (Alexander, 2010,p ). However with the system continuously oppressing the African American male this is yet another way to belittle and emasculate this population.…
Book Report The Son of Neptune by Rick Riordan The book is 512 pages. Fiction Adventure, Legends and Myths, Fables, Folk Tales and Myths, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Fantasy and Young Adult. I give this book four stars, because the greek mythology interests me alot.…
If I do not focus on me before I even graduate, I will be burned-out. So I have taken a look at my life and created the self-plan. I learned more about me in this chapter than anything else I have done in a…
Mildred D. Taylor’s Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, is a novel set in October of 1933 during the era of the Great Depression. The story focuses around the Logan family and their experiences as one of the many black families living in Mississippi, which was considered as one of the Confederate states in that time. It was told in Cassie Logan’s point-of-view, who was 9 years old and the only daughter of the family. The Logan Family first finds out about a burning of an African American man by a group of white people.…
The career counselor prompted me to be mindful that I come from a family of high achiever’s. She reminded me of the values my family instilled in me as a child, to be my best. The lesson was harsh but necessary. I was now at the “Internalization” stage. This stage is characterized by inner security of working out conflicts between my old self and new identity I had established.…
Since a young age, I have never enjoyed books with a happy go lucky feel or a fairy tale ending. One of my favorite books as a child was Charlotte’s Web, because there wasn’t a predictable resolution where everyone was content. It built a realistic feel as opposed to a story like Frindle, where everything seems to work out well between the characters and everyone is satisfied. Going into middle school, I found myself drawn to mystery novels because of the unknown factor, nothing is expected about a mystery. During the first week of my freshman year of high school, Ms. Arnett brought our class to the school library at the end of what seemed like an excruciatingly long class period.…
"Tuesday 's with Morrie" and Developmental Theories The movie "Tuesday 's with Morrie" opens one 's eye to the reality of the developmental psychology theories by Erikson, Marcia, and Kubler-Ross. In the movie you fallow the perspectives of Mitch and Morrie the two main characters. These characters experience multiple stages of each of these theories. Erikson 's theory and its later stages, which start at young adulthood, were very prominent in the movie "Tuesday 's with Morrie".…
Six of Crows is far from a bad book. It is somewhat satisfactory, however I was expecting myself to be blown away. The first two books of The Grisha trilogy are something I highly regard. So unsurprisingly, I am ecstatic with Six of Crows’ prose.…
Growth mindset No one is born smart; you have to exercise your brain in order to become smarter. The difference between fixed and growth mindset is that people with a fixed mindset believe you either are or aren’t good at something based on your inherent nature because it is just who you are. However, people with the growth mindset challenge themselves, take charge of their learning and review mistakes until they understand them.…
Humans grow physically and psychologically. Both genders begin as a cell than, zygote and eventually make it to adulthood. When going through the stages of development, humans develop motor skills as well as cognitive skills. As they grow, they mature and due to the social environment of today’s time, children tend to grow up much faster, becoming more mature. Females mature faster than males due to gender roles and social standards going through puberty earlier than males.…
Developmental Reflection Paper #1 – Early Years Before I spoke to others for this assignment, I was unsure how much new information I would gain about myself from my early years. My mom was very open about talking about her experiences and what my sister and I were like as infants. Also, I was very curious about babies because I babysat very frequently so I would ask her (even if I already heard the story before…).…
This current semester I had the opportunity to do a project that allowed me to visit one of my friend’s family to observe her three girls. I observed her three daughters to see how each one of them is developing. I was fortunate enough to have three different ages that are at different stages of life. One just started school, the other one is not in school yet and the youngest was born less than a year ago. It really opened my eyes to how two year differences can really impact the stage the children were at.…
Even though the phases of human development are biological defined, it also would be defined as culturally way. human development process be analyze in different aspect. if we stand in bio angel: which include three stages in the growth cycle: first is prenatal stage, which also includes the three periods, or trimesters, of pregnancy and ends with birth. The second stage is postnatal stage, " which includes the neonatal period, infancy, the juvenile period, puberty and adolescence. " (Clark )…
Self reflection is the mental process that acquires knowledge and understanding through thoughts and experience which helps encourage self awareness. This essay focuses on assessing my objectives and how I have developed my skills from the beginning of this semester until now. At the start of semester A, I wasn’t confident in preparing for the skills sessions and workshops. I wasn 't always able to find the correct answers to the workshop questions set which made it relatively difficult for me to participate in lectures despite finding myself at the library every other day. I began by listening to knowledge based lectures online and making notes alongside the recommended reading given by my lecturers or the module guide.…