Shape

I chose Shape magazine to analyze this semester. This magazine is a women’s magazine that gives tips and advice on how to live healthier, get in shape, and have a happy life. Shape is by the Meredith Corporation. This company makes many different magazines such as Parents, Family fun, Fit Pregnancy, Weddings, Better Homes and Gardens, and Allrecipes. These magazines are lifestyle magazines. I chose Shape magazine because I am interested in fitness and bettering myself. I examined all the…

The Devil in the Shape of a Woman by Carol F. Karlsen is about the similarities, reasons, and differences of the victims of the Witchcraft trials in colonial New England. The characteristics of society in New England during the 1600s led to many accusations of witchcraft. The Puritans who had settled the area were not found of people who were different or had different ideas compared to them. This led to many of the people who the Puritans felt were off or strange to be accused of witchcraft.…

Although one might argue that family instrumentley shapes societies because family, and people, make up such a thing, in fact society is what molds a family. Through social assignment of roles, behaviors, and beliefs, the very institution of family is delegated by the society's standards at that current time. While speaking on family, it is important to note that family means many different things to different types of people, ethnicities, minorities, and social classes. In class we speak often…

In the play The Shape of a Girl by Joan Macleod, Braidie, a sixteen-year-old girl is talking to her absent brother about growing up with her small group of friends who have committed acts of violence and bullying in the past. In The Shape of a Girl, Braidie jumps back in her past several times from the age of eight to a few weeks ago at sixteen. In the play, they discuss very real and very important issues to young people in our society. It exposes the lives and inner workings of female social…

There are several trends that shape delinquency, from the slides and text the larger ideas are: Gangs, Economy/Jobs, Teen population, Media, Juvenile Justice policy, and availability of drugs and firearms. Gangs are often the culprit in many places for delinquency because gangs are involved in various illegal activities. Children are soon brought in and raised up to belong to the gang where they become apart of something bigger than them. Gangs often times involve their youth followers in drug…

The Article reviewed is James Harold On the Ancient Idea that Music Shapes Character arguing the importance of music in human development and if music has effects on our moral and ethical character. James provides well-supported evidence on how ancient Chinese and Greek philosophers distinguished what “good” and “bad” music is by how it affects our emotions, attitudes, values, morals and shapes our character. James argues Chinese and Greek Philosophers ideas on why and why not music is an…

Andrew Chavez Psychology Mrs. DeLamarter 1-5-2016 Shape Words Extended Paper If you mislabel a shape with the wrong shape’s name, will it take people longer to identify the shape? There are studies conducted to interpret questions like these the studies are conducted by psychologist. Specifically what is studied is a person pattern recognition and it's a theory and the theory I will be analyzing is the (Feature Analysis) theory. Pattern recognition is cognitive process which matches…

Brown-Saracino (2015) argues in “How Places Shape Identity” that the current conception of how place shapes identities, i.e. through region, location, and institution, does not aptly describe how identities vary in places that are similarly situated. Instead, she asserts that there are three loosely grouped sets of place elements that affect how identity is shaped by place: numbers and acceptance, place narratives, and encounters with socioscape. Brown-Saracino (2015) refers to numbers and…

In my visual, I included a variety of text, images, symbols and photos which are presented in a way that represents the factors and items that shape my identity in a globalized world. At the top of my representation, I have three maps and flags contrasted together and organized in a specific order. On the far left side, there is a map/ flag of Iraq, and the mosque of Samarra, which is an Iraqi national symbol. I am originally Iraqi, but I have only been there once when I was three years old.…

Prayer”, but most of all I remember learning The Golden Rule. “So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets” (Matthew 7:12, English Standard Version). I believe that this rule has truly helped shape me as a person and I do not think that you have to be religious to find meaning in this statement, which is why I believe it stuck with me. As I began to develop into a teenager I began questioning my faith in God. I did not want to be…