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an abundance of resources and was sapping the life out of the lower class. This world spoken of was not fiction, but reality for those in the era of the French Revolution, and in this case, Jean Valjean. Although he lived this harsh life described and was in imprisoned for 19 years, it is indisputable that Jean Valjean is a man of grace; in the sense that he forgave Fantine for all the wrong and mistakes she has done, his adoptive…

A concussion is a brain injury caused by a blow to the head or a violent shaking of the head and body. The human brain experiences critical development in our formative (early) years. This is also a time where parents place their children in sports like soccer and football. Based on research I am against having children play sports where concussions are likely to occur. Children's brain of the ages 5-7 is growing and developing, they become more curious about the world around them, become more…

Developing Brain During Adolescence This paper will discuss the developing brain during adolescence. Surprisingly, an adolescent’s brain has ongoing development activity until their 20’s. Throughout this development, the brain, in fact, goes through physical change. The brain consists of several divisions and they each have their own function that all undergo this development process. This structural change occurs naturally but there are potential external influences and experiences that…

Piaget based his theory around cognitive development and states that the needs of the whole child must satisfied. He focuses on studies of mental processes which include how people perceive, think, learn and remember. He focused on the constructive perspective, in which, he sees learning as a construction (Dahl, 1996, P.2). Piaget saw children as little scientists and he stated that an active child requires knowledge through self-evaluation and they use what they have previously learnt to form…

Play therapy gives children the opportunity to explore, and establish play that is interesting and exciting to them. Play therapy helps to build the communication and learning process in children. Play therapy is used strategically to help children face their problems. This therapy is different from the usual play, the therapists use play to help a child address and find a solution to their problems. The theories that guide this studies research on play therapy, are Piaget’s theory of cognitive…

Case Study Carson Jones is a student that I have been observing and working with this semester. He is a great kid, but has learning and social disabilities, with his main disability being his stuttering problem. My observations have included IEP meetings, parent meetings, and casual talks. I have even employed Carson and included him on several jobs where he was taught to interact with customers and write invoices. I introduced him to several trade schools and apprenticeship programs, and…

Paper # C The early Physical Development in a child’s body is very critical; many factors play in physical and mental health. A child’s physical and mental development is affected from early experiences and relationship with parent, relative teachers and peers, which can shape the architecture of the developing brain and body. Mental health provides an essential foundation of stability that supports the functioning of a child’s development. Young children can be affected by many social,…

In this article I will be applying Piaget’s Theory of Cognitive Development to mathematic instruction. Piaget’s introduce the learning process through different stages of cognitive development such as Sensorimotor Stage, Preoperational Stage, Concrete Operations Stage, and the Formal Operations Stage. The Sensorimotor Stage is the stage an infant’s mental and cognitive attributes develop from birth until the appearance of language. In this stage the child will become able to find objects even…

School makes me very stress and sometimes I want to give up, but I use some tips and trick to motivate myself. How I do it, is that I think about what I want and why I want it. Thus, it always leads to the phrase in my mind, “I have to get it! I have to just do it!”, or I just look at Shia Labeouf’s video called: Just Do It. The video consist of him yelling at the viewer telling him or her to not give up. Another way I motivate myself is jogging and exercise because I then become my own coach…

Balance is another gross motor skill that greatly improves between ages three and five. William R. Giacalone and G. Lawrence Rarick measured the balance of children aged three to five, and studied the factors that influence balance. Children were asked to balance on beams of different widths, heights, and angles, and their performance was examined. All five year olds had perfect balance scores on a beam that was six inches wide and one foot off the ground (Giacalone and Rarick, 2920). Most four…