Parallel Play

1) Chapter 2 in our text (Lefrancois, 2012) describes Guthrie’s theories for breaking habits. One bad habit that I struggled with was relentlessly twirling my hair when writing a paper. After reading the text I decided I could use Guthrie’s method of incompatible stimuli to break my habit. This method involves the stimulus being presented in a situation where the bad habit cannot happen (Lefrancois, 2012). To do this I would write my papers with my hair tied up in a ponytail. Doing this allowed…

Early childhood years are considered the “play” years and the most important years in development. By age 3 they being to play more with others and use more elaborate imaginative scenarios. At this age they start to depend less on others and become more independent. They have their own theories and ideas on the world around them and sometimes feel theirs is the only/correct one. Not only do their skills and strength grow at this age, but so do their bonds between their friends and family.…

King Lear where the owner of a 1000-acre farm named Larry agrees to hand it down to his daughters, Rose, Ginny, and Caroline, in joint ownership but ends up keeping Caroline out of the agreement while the other two turn against him. Although the parallels are apparent between both works, there are also blatant differences…

In her school’s production of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, Tess plays the nurse, but she finds it hard to identify with the role. The parental love and anxious worry, the Nurse feels towards Juliet is incomprehensible to Tess. She cannot figure out her motivations, because she is merely a paid employee, so where do these…

A Man of No Importance is a play dedicated to showing that while we are of no importance to society as a whole, we are important to those who are closest to us. One should never keep their true selves from the truth. The book written by Terrence McNally shows the audience a very real struggle of those that are a bit peculiar in today’s society as well as the past. They lyrics by Lynn Ahrens will captivate the listener. No matter which scene you sit in you can relate in some fashion to the…

Harvard University, proclaims an adolescent’s mind to be “a brain that’s all revved up not knowing where it needs to go”1. Here, Jensen articulates that children are very impressionable during their adolescent years. Therefore, influential figures play a crucial role in shaping the minds of children. In Muriel Spark’s novel The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Miss Brodie, a teacher, manipulates her student’s growing perceptions to remain as much in alignment with her own as possible. However, as Miss…

Arousal of Political Realism in Mahasweta Devi’s “MOTHER OF 1084” Abstract Political realism has generally related to the actual or correct picture of events and most classically in the region of literature, art, and film. In Mother of 1084Sujata, the central figure is a misfit in her own family. Though she is well aware of the corrupt degenerated values represented by her husband Dibyanath, she fails to disconnect herself with them and leads a compromising life. She loves her younger son, Brati…

This is similar to a stage where plays are subjected to interferences. However, these interruptions are often expertly handled by cast and crew members, and the entire performance is seemingly cohesive to the audience. Similarly, the individual perceptions, though isolated, are brought…

• In order to have a more fulfilling reading experience, it is important to have knowledge of the religious traditions, beliefs, or readings from different cultures that could affect literature, despite an individual reader’s personal beliefs • Since culture is greatly influenced by its dominant religious system, even if a writer does not necessarily adhere to the beliefs, the key values of that religious system will affect the literary work • Despite a reader’s religious affiliation, generally…

country of Korea on that day. Many people ask why this is a bad event for Korea. Well, on that day the unthinkable happened, Korea split into two countries. That country would soon be called North and South Korea. They had to build a wall in the 39th parallel so that the countries would fight and hurt any of their loyal citizens in the country.They called this wall the demilitarized zone or the DMZ. This was the first time in history that had to have a dedicated DMZ to separate a country from…