The Year of Magical Thinking

through activities proven to help improve literacy skills. The project is designed to address far more than just the ability to read and write. In addition to providing reading the project will include activities that support speaking, listening, thinking and learning in a creative ways. Literacy is one of the core subjects taught in United States schools. In today’s society, one would have a difficult time functioning without developed literacy skills, so emphasis is placed on it in the…

the lovely pretend game about Santa Claus, without necessarily thinking he is real. That sort of play is one of the great joys as well as benefits of childhood.” According to Jean Piaget, the famous Swiss developmental psychologist, the preoperational stage, second stage of cognitive development, last from approximately from two to seven years of age. Preoperational thought is more symbolic than sensorimotor though. In preschool years, children begin to represent their world with words,…

lines at the airport stretched to what looked like the ends of the Earth. People were milling about the security clearance and heading off to their flights. From the balcony area of the DIA, all I could think about was how easy it was for me, a six year old, to get lost among the crowd. I made sure to keep a very close watch on my parents so I didn’t get forgotten as we made our way through baggage and security. We tugged our carry-on bags through the narrow aisle until we found our assigned…

awake in less than two hours to meet my friends that I haven 't seen in over a year at Universal Studios. I can barely contain my excitement because I will be spending two days in Harry Potter World. I grew up in the generation when J.K. Rowling was writing fascinating novels about magic.…

radium. It was used in everything from household items to water. Manufacturer's we're adding “radium” to anything to make it sound better. Soon everyone realized that radium was not the magical substance they all thought it was. People went from buying everything with the word radium written on it, to thinking about all the horrific stories about the effects of the element. The mid twentieth century was home to the radioactive product boom. Lots of companies were trying to hop onto the…

teenagers who this has happened to. Due to the dramatic increase and decreases that have been happening these past few years, this subject clearly needs to be discussed in more detail. There are many causes and reasons why pregnancy at a young age is becoming more of a rising subject in the UK. One of the reasons why young adults are having children at a younger age is due to them thinking that they are in a stable relationship and want to start…

like Augusto in that he succumbs to obsession and is unable to prevent his own downfall. For many years, he is able to hide his skepticism, but time wears on him. Instead of being able to handle... he feels shame. Lazarus explains how Don Manuel revealed the truth to him, full of shame, “He looked away…his eyes filled with tears…in this way I came to understand his secret.” (Mist 35) In his later years, Don Manuel can’t keep up the façade and his depression takes a physical and emotional toll.…

October. A day that I can not bring back as I can not bring back memories I wish I could revisit. But that is life, and in life everything grows and everything dies. Carlos was having some good time in Chile, his native country. He moved back two years after I moved. By that time we use to talk from time to time, mostly to remember rather than to share new ideas or experiences. We rather remember the good golden days and not look at the rusting ceiling over our heads. Something I regret now, I…

me below the waist. That field of ours, and this my body, and my daddy’s head – make them all grow hair” after describing a girl, Apala, who attributed magical properties to the Soma because of its psychoactive affects. “There is now substantial evidence that the Eleusinian Mystery rites, performed annually near Athens for almost two thousand years, featured a mystical revelation brought on by drinking of an entheogenic brew” (Wasson et al. 1978). Archeologist John Marco Allegro, scholar of…

or different age groups. Can you notice a major different in attitude in the age groups? In the article (DR. Gail Gross states 2015) “school age children (ages 6-12), parental divorce can negatively impact education. This age group is still in magical thinking they may hold out the wish that their parents will get back together.” This is the time a child really needs both parents in their lives. But since divorce seems to happen they lack the attention they need to be successful in school. They…