Ponytail

According to the textbook superstitious behavior is defined as being a behavior learned simply because it happened to be followed by a reinforcer, even though this behavior was not the cause of the reinforcer (Franzoi,2014). Superstitious behavior is related to accidental reinforcement. When people are accidentally reinforced upon engaging in a specific behavior they may began associating the desirable outcome with the specific behavior they performed. As a result, they believe continuing to…

My hair was just hair, until I cut it off. My first haircut took place when I was five years old. My hairdresser came to my house, measured my ponytail, and my mom made the initial cut. That was it, my first haircut, twelve whole inches. Like I said, I was five then, and I only had an idea of what would actually be done to all hair that had just been taken and mailed away. Being seventeen now, I recognize the magnitude how of this simple luxury continues to have meaning to someone I have never…

Sitting up on one of the sofas in the room, a reassuring hand was pressed against my spine. "Another nightmare?" was the only thing I could hear. It sounded familiar. My mind was reeling, attempting to find a piece of reality to grasp and steady itself. My thoughts tumbled, unable to keep their feet below them. It took me a moment before my head stoppe spinning and finally found the line between dream and reality. I mustered all my strength to respond to the unnamed voice from just seconds ago…

fifty yards in between). It was dark by this hour but he wasn’t walking alone, Arthur had been sitting in the rocking chair on the front porch of the ranch house to make sure his son got home safely. As she tied her onyx black hair into a ponytail with a sky blue satin ribbon she stared at herself in the mirror. Though it had been eleven years since her mother…

Themes of Abuse in The Perks of Being a Wallflower In both the novel and the movie, the theme of abuse in The Perks of Being a Wallflower is very prevalent in the story. Both mediums follow Charlie who is entering his freshman year of high school. Charlie attends a football game alone and finds Patrick, a señor in his shop class, who invites him to sit with him. The two of them are joined by Sam, Patrick’s stepsister and Charlie is immediately drawn to her. When Charlie gets home that night, he…

marker was labeled as female when I was born, or even before when my parents went to a pregnancy check up to have my sex revealed, everyone obtained a generalized idea of what I would be like. This consisted of a precious little girl with sass, ponytails and pretty pink dresses, who would later grow up, marry a man, and have children of her own because that is how society says the life of a girl should be portrayed—and that is how I was presented. My closet flooded with a never-ending pattern…

be the strange customs and dress referred to? Investigate. During the Gold Rush, the Chinese miners used different mining methods to the Europeans and so they preferred to wear different clothing. Predominantly the Chinese men wore their hair in ponytails. Customs that occurred in their mining was constructing round shafts rather than rectangular ones, as the Chinese were very superstitious and believed that evil spirits hid in corners, however, they would not want to turn their backs on such…

that they foolishly declared an obvious fake to be the real thing. La Bella Principessa is a profile portrait of a young woman in late 15th-century dress with her copper hair flattened down at the sides and worked behind into an elaborately bound ponytail. Her skin is pink, her gaze cool – or bored. Martin Kemp, one of the world’s most renowned Leonardo authorities and emeritus professor of the History of Art at Oxford, hailed it as a rediscovered marvel in his 2010 book La Bella Principessa:…

Thus, kawaii has grown to embody its own culture. Kinsella describes a culture as “the sphere to which people turn to fulfill spiritual, emotional intellectual and sexual needs and desires which are not met within the fabric of their lives at work, at school, at home” (251). With the further evolution of kawaii into a national identity, compared with the development of girl culture participating in kawaii as a lifestyle, it is of course a culture all on its own. This is most evident by the…

R/s Fantasia described another incident when her mother was speeding on the highway speeding 100 mph, Valencia stated that she was getting away from them “whoever them were.” R/s yesterday at the therapy session, Fantasia pulled her hair into ponytail when her mother left out of the room and when Valencia returned Valencia asked Fantasia “is that you, or did you turn into the devil.” R/s from pervious conversations with Valencia, she reported that she doesn’t take meds and never been a mental…