M&Ms - Aidan believes that the more spaced out heart candies are a larger amount than his own tightly spaced row of heart candies. However, both rows each had seven hearts, meaning that they were equal even though one row was spread out more. When asked to fix the row so it is “equal”, the child proceeded to put the hearts back into how they initially were and thought that they were equal again since they were spaced the exact same, when they were actually equal the whole time. The child showed…
Among the theories of human development, the one I most agree with is Kohlberg’s six stages of moral reasoning. Kohlberg’s theory outlines the stages of moral reasoning in a simplistic manner that one can follow and understand the process of each stage of the infant to adulthood life cycle. The first level 1, age 4 to 10 years includes stage 1 – 'Punishment and Obedience Orientation'. The child obeys rules given by others to avoid punishment. As such, the child does not fully understand…
The tragedy of Romeo & Juliet (1595) is a play written by William Shakespeare, in which the eponymous protagonists’ families are involved in a long-running feud. This conflict between the two families, the Montagues and the Capulets along with destiny culminates in the inevitable deaths of these ‘star-cross’d lovers’ Therefore, Romeo and Juliet’s love shall always be overshadowed by hatred, thus meaning that the play revolves around the conflict of love and hate. This conflict is strongly…
Data Analysis: Nature of intelligence in one’s personality and Reality as a dynamic force of constant amendments in The Lost Pearl by Lara Zuberi Cognitive development is the construction of intellectual aptitude including identification, investigation, exposition, sensitivity and judgment, from childhood through adolescence to adulthood. Nature of intelligence mainly involves the intellectual practicalities, psychological sequences (thoughts), and eminences of intelligent entities. An…
In the 1920's Jean Piaget realized that children have a different way of thinking than adults do. After realizing this he decided to invest his time into trying to figure out why. He eventually came up with the 4 stages of child development that every single child goes through. The stages go from when an infant is born until it is around 11 years old. Every child is in the sensorimotor stage until they get to be around 2 years old. During this stage infants become area of their senses like touch…
Fine-motor skills such as tying shoes or fastening buttons, which requires the coordination of small movements, also improve greatly during the preschool years. Kids in the kindergarten class I’m in use play-dough to trace their name. There are a few kids that have a harder time writing so they have pencils with special things on the bottom to help them write. Puberty is the beginning of sexual maturity. Girls on average start their period around the ages of 12 and 13. This is important to know…
The utmost annoying thing in the world is the girl down the block, *Sally. She is so unkind to everyone, she is a bully. And I’ll gladly give you three reasons why. The first reason, Ever since we moved into the neighborhood *Sally has been nothing but a bully. That’s all she is, she makes *Rosie cry all the time. She invites all the girls on our block, except for *Rosie to her house for a pool party, When all the girls are playing and *Rosie comes over, *Sally says “Ok if *Rosie playing I’m…
Over the course of America’s 200 year history, human innovation has only increased. We went from log cabins to skyscrapers, horse-riding to gas-powered vehicles. Human ingenuity has not only made our lives easier, but also safer. Our greatest inventions lie in creating renewable energy and averting water-borne disasters through what we call the dam. Despite the obvious benefits of a dam, op-ed contributor Yvon Chouinard and magazine contributor Bruce Barcott feel differently; they want dams to…
the world, there are many things that humans do to harm the environment, but one we may not think of is dams. Dams cause a devastating amount of damage that people don’t recognize because they create “green energy”. Dams block the natural flow of rivers, in turn causing problems with vegetation dying, fish migration, and the buildup of toxins. These problems cause unnecessary harm the surrounding ecosystem and sometimes unrepairable damage to the earth, which appeal to the moral principles of…
One novel that has impacted my life greatly would have to be Hatchet by Gary Paulsen. This story is about a young miner who was in an airplane crash. The airplane landed in a lake in the forest. The boy had to learn how to survive on his own with nothing, but his hatchet. That special hatchet was a gift from his mother, which she gave him before his airplane departed. Throughout the summer, he learns how to survive in the part of the wilderness he had never seen before. Particularly, this book…