Jigsaw

B.F. Skinner, an American psychologist, first became well known in the world of psychology in the late 1930s, when he created the new phase “operate conditioning”. Operate conditioning, positive and negative reinforcement would soon be what he become famous for in the late 1940s. According to McLeod (2015), Skinner’s idea for operate conditioning came from studies done by Thorndike were he made his theory the “Law of Effect. Reinforcement is the main difference between Skinner’s and Thorndike’s…

Half-human, half-animal, these monsters are black and hairy, with huge heads, glaring red eyes, and blood red tongues hanging from their mouths. They have monkey arms, long curved nails, beast feet, and goat ears. The Kallikantzaroi are tiny creatures that live in the depths of the Earth. Working all year round, they chop at a huge tree trunk that is the Earth's foundation. Right before finishing their job, Christmas Day comes and they surface on Earth for twelve days. During their visit they…

know or what they have just learned. As a teacher, we should create a life-like environment when we are teaching students a language. This environment should allow students to talk, practice often. For this, information gap activities, role-plays and jigsaw activities are the best practices for foreign language learners to speak with each other for a reason and this creates an authentic environment to speak. So, these activities can save time for both students and teachers in learning process.…

According to Develay (1996) The effective pedagogy bases itself on four principles: 1. It must be constructivist in a sense that knowledge and expertise is build by the learner from the simple to the complexe. 2. It must be interactive to create a context stimulating the interactions between the students, the students and the teacher, the student and the learning subject. 3. It has to act on the motivation of the students for learning and on their feeling of competence, in particular by…

Figuring out where you want to go and what you want to do with your life is a jigsaw puzzle. There are times when it’s just a big messy pile of seemingly unrelated pieces. Moments where it’s frustrating and difficult to find the pieces you need. Then slowly the edges are formed, the corners get placed and the picture starts to make sense. At four years old, I stared across the worn wooden floor of my grandma’s kitchen. In front of me was the person I had always believed was superwoman. Except…

Ever since I was two years old, people would shoot confused looks at me whenever I went grocery shopping with my mom. When I go to Chinese restaurants, instead of being asked what I would like to eat, I am greeted by a waiter’s stare as he or she tries to decipher my past by simply looking at the differences between my eyes and my dad’s. These types of situations where people question my life due to the physical differences between my parents and myself have occurred for as long as I can…

Unfortunately, prejudice and discrimination have both been around for thousands of years. Prejudice is defined as having an opinion that is not actually based on reason, instead it usually stems from preconceived notions or influences. Oftentimes, prejudice can lead to discrimination, which defined as behaviors directed against another group of people based solely on their sex, race, or religious beliefs. Both prejudice and discrimination are notions that can be influenced by many contributions.…

world didn’t seem so confusing and random anymore. Later, as I dove into the world of math, I noticed that numbers and patterns seemed to "click" together when concepts and ideas revealed how they are related to one another. Like putting together a jigsaw puzzle, I find I really enjoy the feeling of satisfaction when I finally comprehend how things conform with one another. I strongly believe that studying math and science enriches and satisfies my mind with knowledge. I find that I value the…

The Great Depression of the 1930s is a timeframe that was exceedingly impacted by social memory, in that the economic wellbeing you had, your sex, occupation, and so forth implied that you encountered the Depression uniquely in contrast to the following individual, your record was affected by your social gatherings/status. It is by and large recognized that the Great Depression was a time of gigantic languishing over most. Henceforth the name given to the period. In any case, for a few, the…

INTRODUCTION “Novel and shorter works of literary fiction are narratives: in other words, they all in some sense present readers with a ‘telling’ rather than an ‘enacting’, and this distinguishes them in an important sense from the drama[,]” and “generally restricted to works with characters, action and a plot” (Hawthorn, 2010, pp. 6 & 237). In this paper, The Cave by Jose Saramago, a recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, and the third book of the global phenomenon from the Potter series,…