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Throughout Jean Rouch’s filmic career he experiments with cinema, pushing the boundaries of ethnographic film, showcasing a range of styles. Chronicle of a Summer embarks on the simple journey of asking strangers if they are happy in order to explore how camera’s change behavior. This film epitomizes Rouch’s exploration of cinematic truth, however, I am left questioning if it is the camera or Rouch who provokes his subjects into performance. Rouch’s exploratory career can be tracked through…

Jean Valjean started off in prison because he stole a loaf of bread. After serving 19 years of prison , Jean Valjean was put on papers for the rest of his life. His papers prohibited him from getting a job. After meeting a Bishop Myriel, Jean was saved. Although he stole from the Bishop, he still forgave him. Jean has did a lot of things but for good reasons. He stole the loaf of bread because his family was starving. Jean rescues Cosette from the Thenardiers after Fantine dies, but…

A child’s abilities associated with memory, reasoning, problem solving and thinking are all a part of their cognitive development. Jean Paget, created an idea that children go through four steps of cognitive development. Up until a child reaches the age of two they are learning through their senses, reflexes and the way the manipulate materials. (Mooney, 2013 p.81) It is said that young children are just trying to find understanding in the world around them. Toddlers like to have a routine,…

Both Jean Paul-Sartre and Friedrich Nietzsche are considered as existentialists whose philosophies share some important characteristics. Although Sartre illustrates how to make a truly moral decision, and Nietzsche presents how to become a true individual, they both make an attempt to replace traditional morality with their belief of authenticity. “You’re free, choose, that is, invent” said Sartre, showing his idea on how he thinks we should make decisions. In this essay, I will compare the…

Jean Piaget was a Switzerland born constructivist psychologist who argued that children are constantly creating and participating in understanding the world that they live in (Fiore, 2011). Piaget proposed, then, in order to understand a child’s behavior it is important to understand how children process the information presented in their environment. Moreover, Piaget contends that children have cognitive structures that children use to “organize and adapt” to the world (Fiore, 2011). Thus,…

Jean Piaget was born in Switzerland on August 9, 1896. He was the oldest of his brothers. Piaget showed his interest and inclinations from a young age of biology. After graduation from high school, he studied natural sciences, and he received his doctorate. After that, Piaget focused on the mental and cognitive development of the child, so he find a theory of mental development and cognitive. Piaget confirmed that there is a correlation between the new phase and the previous stage in the child's…

The most popular writer with regards in postmodernity, is Jean-Francois Lyotard, he primarily define the term postmodernity as a contemporary condition that we live and champions the forms of resistance and critics. Lyotard believed that, in a postmodernity period, there is a question regarding the sense of the ownership. Who controls the flow of an idea from one person to another and who has access to their ideas. With that, the person became a consumer of knowledge that can transform into a…

Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre was an author, playwright, teacher, political activist and brilliant twentieth century philosopher. His ideas first became wide spread in the 1960’s, when he became one of the first philosophers to official adopt the official title of existentialism. His philosophy still carries merit today and humanity as a whole can benefit from his wisdom on human existence. To understand Sartre we must first know a little about his biography. Sartre was born June 21, 1905 in…

“Cognitive is the act or process of knowing” (Dolgin, 2010, p. 38) and cognitive development occurs when we develop our thinking and reasoning skills. Jean Piaget wanted to learn more about “how children reached conclusions” and, in the process, created his four stages of cognitive development: sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, and formal operational. The students I observed, aged eleven and twelve, fall into the end of the concrete operational stage and the beginning of the…

Jean-Michel Basquiat During the 1980’s, the art movement “Neo-Expressionism” was taking the United States by storm and artists like Jean-Michel Basquiat’s big break was just beginning. If you’re not too familiar with him or isn’t really educated on him, you may know or heard Jean-Michel Basquiat from listening to your favorite artist’s songs, because of his unique hairdo that inspired The Weeknd, or for his phenomenal art that convey deep messages. Jean-Michel Basquiat, a high school dropout,…