The Coon

This essay will discuss the film ‘Precious’ using the Carl Rogers person-centered, humanistic theory to analyse the development of Precious’s personality. I will analyse the different concepts of the humanistic theory as well the main character’s relationships with her parents and others around her. The main focus of this essay is to distinguish whether Precious moves towards self actualization or not. Personality can be defined as the forces that make people themselves and the ego forces that…

Music played a major part in African American history because it expressed emotions and feelings from the white oppressor through words. Africans spoke tales or poems during slavery to symbolize the power of the common people over unjust rulers and using them to “portray the ability of slaves to outsmart and ridicule their masters” (pg. 61). During the Antebellum period between 1820-1861, African Americans in Philadelphia wrote music and performed it in the orchestra. One of the best female…

about behaviorism and I can see how it relates to parenting. Skinner believed that, “actions are controlled by rewards and punishments” (Coon & Mitterer, 2016, p. 26); the same goes along with authoritative parents who use, “management techniques which combine praise, recognition, approval, rules, reasoning and similar means of encouraging desirable behavior.” (Coon & Mitterer, 2016, p. 97). I think that this is a good way of getting a desired behavior. I think of elementary school with the…

A Journey to Maturity Billy is a young boy who wanted two hunting hounds but his family was too poor to afford them. Later, Billy saves up enough money and goes to town to buy two hounds from the store. The setting for this story is in a field in Idaho Far from the Ozark Mountains. Billy has three main characteristics that helped maure. Billy is generous because before he joined the coo hunting competition, he promised his youngest sister that if he won, he would give the trophy to her. After…

provides detailed images of the surface and below the surface of the brain (Coon & Mitterer, 2011) a PET scan shows which areas of the brain are using more energy, this is because the brain runs on glucose, it shows this by recognising positrons (sobatomic particles) which is admitted by weakly radioactive glucose (sugar) PET scans show that different brain areas are active when speaking, seeing, hearing or thinking takes place (Coon, Mitterer, 2011). CHANGE!! In order to perform this process,…

How Minstrelsy Effect American Society Minstrelsy was an American form of entertain that swept the nation for a considerable amount of time. It began developing in the 19th century however really progressed and changed with time. Each minstrel show was a variety of acts. Such as comic skits, dancing, music, and variety all being performed by white performers in blackface. Minstrel shows depicted black people in several different lights, usually negatively. Minstrelsy is the root of stereotypes…

levels in the brain, thus causing it to not be the most reliable approach in regards to human behaviour. (Freberg, 2006). Although this may be the case, CT scans are very effective at showing the effects of brain disorders such as strokes and tumours (Coon, 2006). As well as this, CT scans are also very effective at detecting disorders such as Schizophrenia, it was discovered by Johnstone and Colleages (As cited by Wayandt, 2006) who were the first people to use CT scanning on individuals with…

reinforced and justified the degradation of black personhood. One of the stock characters, known as the coon caricature, was particularly influential in influencing public opinion. By way as a source of crude comedic relief, the coon represented the free black who was happy go lucky, foolish, and lazy. This stemmed from the historically rich association between blacks and apes or monkeys. The coon possessed the physical simian line traits with its absurdly dark coloring, over exaggerated and…

“In many ways, fractals have given readers and writers a new set of lenses through which to consider poetry” (Birkens & Coon, pg.156). Various poetry are referenced throughout Birkens and Coon’s book, the first poem showing an allusion to a common mathematical fractal set: the Cantor Dust, in which there are sets of repeated line segments, each one in a smaller scale compared…

to Justin Forsett and Joe Flacco went unscathed to score from one yard out. On the next possession, Josh McCown orchestrated a scoring drive, although it wasn’t quite what fans wanted. The drive ended in a successful 43 yard field goal by Travis Coons. Unfortunately, the Ravens were unfazed and the Browns defense surrendered a deep 48 yard pass to K. Aiken. This set-up Baltimore…