ktmeng/mec huggingface dataset:
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Jackie was very mischievous growing up. As a member of a street gang, Jackie would often be out shoplifting or vandalizing property. When Jackie got older he enlisted in the Army in which he served in for two years 1942-1944 all those years he was second-lieutenant. Through those years he never saw combat. Although in Boot Camp 1949 Robinson was arrested for not going to the back in a segregated bus, the reason why is, because he was in Fort Hood, Texas.
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Robinson left behind a lifetime of history, and he was making that history right up to the moment he passed at a young age of 53. Jackie Robinson dedicated his life to Civil Rights. He inspired millions when he broke the chains of integrated baseball. Throughout Jackie’s life he had to go through many obstacles, mainly segregation, and he set the example that color or race didn’t matter and that you can be what you want no matter what color. He broke the color barrier when he became the first black to play Major League Baseball in the 20th century. He joined the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947 and was named Rookie of the year that year, National league MVP in 1949 and a world series champ in 1955.
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Effects of Authoritative Male and Female Cartoon Characters on Children Casey Smial Mount St Mary’s University Abstract A study was conducted to determine the extent to which gender roles are prevalent in children’s cartoons. This current study examines the relationship between male and female positions of authority in children’s cartoons. A group of 24 college aged students (4 male, 20 female) in Research Methods and Statistics at Mount St. Mary’s University participated in the study. The researcher analyzed several different children’s cartoons to determine the extent of gender roles.
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They then assume the gender roles displayed on television are typical in the real world. Teresa L. Thompson and Eugenia Zerbinos conducted a study in 1997 to better understand what children were picking up and internalizing when watching television. They interviewed children ranging in age four to nine from three different locations. After having children watch cartoons the researchers concluded that 78% of children stated there were more boys in cartoons than girls. 12% found there were more girls and 10% thought there was no difference in the number of male and female characters. They were also asked questions concerning what typical behavior the characters are supposed to be displaying. For boys, there were 60 behaviors that depicted silly or amusing.
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There were 46 violent, 32 active, one stereotypical male behavior, and 12 tasks related and only one female behavior. This research brings us to the conclusion that children do realize gender differences in cartoons. In Jennifer Aubrey and Kristen Harrison’s (2004) study they discuss how “heavy television viewers interact with other potential sources of information, ideas and consciousness, including, interactions with parents and other adult figures and peers. Television may be more influential than parents and peers because it offers more commonly and widely shared messages than other sources of information”. In this study the researchers examined the number of minor male and female characters. They found that male minor characters also outweigh female characters.
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They also found that males were more likely to engage in activities involving communication, and female characters were typically frailer and thinner. Arma and Gökçearslan discuss findings in “The effect of cartoon movies on children’s gender development.” She states “It is seen that one of the two genders is reflected as being dominant while the other is insignificant in the TV programs. Especially, male characters are more dominant than female characters.” She also concludes that male characters are “attached more importance in cartoon movies” and female characters “reflected either as sexual objects or as being unemployed”. The purpose of the current study is to identify the extent of gender roles in cartoon characters.
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The hypothesis includes that in all cartoon’s male character tend to be seen in more positions of authority than female character. This creates real life stereotypes in the children watching the cartoons. Method Participants 24 college students, four males, and 20 females in Research Methods and Statistics at Mount St. Mary’s University, a small liberal arts college located in Emmitsburg Maryland. Materials The research used a computer to watch a cartoon from 2008 to present. They recorded the findings with
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Rescuing others includes, displaying heroic acts being brave, or pulling someone out of danger. For submission the operational definition is being seen agreeing with others. The operational definition for passivity is not arguing with others, going with the flow. The operational definition for being rescued is viewed as helpless, weak or independent. For comic roles the character can be see laughing, making other’s laugh or cause you to laugh. Positions of authority included teachers’ police or parents. People who seem to have say over others. The operational definition for emotional is characterized by crying or mood changes, being concerned with physical appearance, being vain, or looking in the mirror constantly.
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Procedure The students were asked to pick and watch an age-appropriate children’s cartoon that aired from 2008 to present. The cartoon the researcher chose was Phineas and Ferb (2007-2015). While watching, students were asked to count the number of times male and female characters displayed gender roles. These gender roles include, positions of domestic roles, aggression, rescuing others, submission, passivity, being rescued, comic roles, potions of authority and emotion. While watching the cartoon the researcher used the operational definitions to tally up the number of times each gender, male or female, displayed each role. One of these roles was chosen by the researcher and further examined. Authority was chosen for future examination for gender roles in cartoon characters.
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Results The hypothesis that in all cartoon’s male character tend to be seen in more positions of authority than female character was supported. The twenty-four participants were asked to record their data. After analyzing the data of authority figures in the cartoon, it was found that males are presented in positions of authority almost twice as much as females are. As seen in Figure two males, (M=3.125, SD=2.01) and females (M=1.60, SD=1.74). (p< 0.05). Males are seen in more positions of authority. Discussion The goal of this study was to show the extent to which gender roles are prevalent in children’s cartoons.
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As shown in previous studies gender roles between male and female cartoon characters are prevalent not only with main characters but with minor characters as well. Children also seem to be able to earlier pick up and understand the gender roles. At the beginning of this study we hypothesized that in all cartoon’s male characters tend to be seen in more positions of authority than female characters. After collecting data, the researcher found the hypothesis was supported. It is recommended that there be roughly 30 participants in each study. The current study only had 24 participants. The results may have been more reliable had the study had more participants. Something to note for future research would be to look at the age of the characters in the cartoons being examined and the relationship of their age to their behavior.
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Music has a major influence in the socialization of kids and we can consider them adolescents (a growing child to be teenager). Nowadays, there are many popular music are published in public and it is considered as entertainment and it provides distraction from problems and it gives alternative way to relieve stress and boredom. Some researches have proven that adolescents who are suffering from loneliness will listen to their favourite songs to control their emotional status. As we know, music which provides a background for romance will serve as the basis for establishing relationships in diverse settings.
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Females are more likely than male to use music to show their mood in particularly when they are lonely or ‘down’. On the other hand, male are prone to listen to ‘stimulant’ music to gain strong spirit and create a more positive image of themselves. To learn more about the importance of music in kids (adolescents), aged 14 to 16 years, they are listening to music a mean of 40 hours per week. Some adolescents also listen to music while doing their tasks or activities. The reason of this are that they feel relaxed and peaceful and they can concentrate more on their tasks without feeling depressed with a lot of burden on their shoulder to finish their work.
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To support the evidence above, the prevalence of music in adolescents might be higher than that of television viewing. The reason for this is the popular music is available everywhere, from car’s radio to supermarket or shopping mall. Moreover, the children from 8 to 10 years old listen to music in an average of one hour each day. With the help of advance technology like iPad and iPods, they are able too to assess and listen to music easily. According to this, the finding has proven that popular music has affected on children’s social life includes schoolwork, interaction between people, behaviour as well as attitude and also the mood of daily life. Some lyrics of some genres are very related to the effect of children and adolescent. Over the years, lyrics have become more clearly in their references to drugs, sex, and violence.
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Without our concern, nowadays, many lyrics of some songs have sexual content especially heavy metal and rock. As the songs can obtain everywhere, many parents are unaware of this matters that can affect their children’ attitude and also behaviour. But, some parties denied this matter as they consider as entertainment for children, that no attention should be paid to the words. To them, if any attention is given, understanding tends to be limited and related to the experiences lived by the listener. This is very dangerous because most of children and adolescent like their songs because of the lyrics as it can reflect their feelings. Some findings says that some listeners will not understand the lyrics in details but they can recognize enough to obtain some ideas of the message they bring. There are some music can be correlated with bad behaviour such as drug and alcohol use.
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One study has been carried out suggested that probably the best influence of risk in adolescents is their self-report of negative feelings when they are listening to any type of music. Heavy metal and some rock music have some dangerous messages to the listener to be involved in commit suicide. The children or adolescent who are listening to these types of music have some discipline problems with school authorities and teachers. As compared to who are not fanatic to heavy metal or rock music, they do not have any problems in their school. This shows that some music have some negative influences to the listeners. In addition, heavy metal listeners will have a great tendency to engage in reckless behaviour. Apart from that, we can also meet these people with strange appearance which is in ‘black’ or also known as gothic. Hence, many people have bad stigma and vision on them because of their appearance and attitude in their life.
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Besides, music video also has its own influence toward children and also adolescent. Video is a unique kind of presenting the music which can attract children to listen the music with interesting entertainments. Nowadays, many parents use the music video to entertain their children by using their smartphones. With this way, parents can also teach the children to listen and speak based on the video. Therefore, the children can learn and gain a lot of knowledge to be applied in their life. However, some parents do not take a serious action on controlling the use of gadget among their children. As we know, children have inquiry spirit and are eager to learn something new in their life. In Malaysia, there is a video from another country which viral around the country that there is a kid watching a video that has sexual content.
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Analysis of the content in music videos is crucial because sometimes that kind of videos are not suitable to be watched. Exposure to violence, sexual messages, use of substances of abuse in music video may produce significant changes in behaviour and attitude in young viewer. Evidence in 1999 Kalof reported that the student who are involved with sexual images showed more acceptance of adversarial relation than those were no exposed. It is similar with listen to only music as the music video can also expose the children to alcohol use. Western music video is the worst video as it can influent the children or adolescent to be involved with pub, wild party and disco. Indirectly, they will be exposed to the drug consumption due to peer pressure.
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From the evidences that have been discussed below, we know that there are many side effect of listening to music. So as a human being, we have to choose music which contain good impact in our daily life. Parents also must take a precautionary step to show the video music to the children and also control uses of the gadget so that they are not exposed with negative attitudes and behaviours. Due to influence of music is very related to the children and adolescent, paediatrician is very important as they know all about the children. Parents can refer to the paediatrician to know their children’s growth whether in the right path or not. A paediatrician can also give some advice the public about the children specific in music influence.
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Therefore music companies must not just focus on profit only but they have to think the next generation because, to see the future, we have to see the new generation right now. Last but not least, the government also have a major role to control the music in the country. The government have to construct a new rules for music especially to the children in order to ensure the next generation is not exposed to the negative effect of music. Plus, the government must also do alternative way to take a good care children nowadays. As a saying goes, where there’s a will, there’s a way. Just think, we all have a responsibility to protect endangered species, both for their sake and for the sake of our own future generation.
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I don’t remember where I first heard this, but I know that as a child, I have been told this saying, many times. I said it once, when a classmate made fun of me for being short. I said, “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me” simply because it was something I learned as a child. However, it wasn’t entirely true. Those words did cause me pain, and it was at that moment that I began to feel self-conscious of my height.
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I truly felt that names did hurt me, often more than “stick and stones.” Perhaps “stick and stones” physically hurt more, especially in the moment. But as one of many children who has been called names, made fun of, or gossiped about, there is a different kind of pain – a different kind of feeling – that arises from being verbally bullied. It is humiliating. It can push past physical pain and cut deeper into a child’s mental health, affecting him/her long after the incident.
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Whenever I was verbally taunted, it lowered my self esteem, and when people my own age who I thought were my friends said mean things to me, I even began to believe them. Since this saying was so popular when I was younger, I felt ashamed that I did feel sad when someone said negative things about me. I felt like I was not mentally strong, especially compared to my fellow classmates. This saying confused me and made me think that there was something wrong with me. It almost seemed wrong to be sad or feel pain whenever I was called names.
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I refuse to say this phrase to others, especially children, because it might make them feel like there is nothing wrong about putting others down. If kids hear that “names will never hurt me”, they might think that it is okay to call another child names. Children might think that they are being funny or simply joking, and they might not understand how much it can affect another child. They need to understand that it is not right to verbally taunt someone else. It could start with something small like “You look funny” or “I don’t like you.” As the child gets older, this could escalate. “You look funny” could quickly turn into “You’re ugly, fat, and not good enough” and in a more extreme case, “I don’t like you” may turn into “The world would be a better place without you.”
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Who’s to say that “names will never hurt me?” I would not recommend adults saying this to children. In a world where technology and social media are so prevalent, children must be taught how impactful words can be, whether that be positively or negatively. Social media makes it so accessible and easy for someone to put down others. I have seen firsthand just how common cyberbullying is, and the way this has affected many students is devastating. Words have such a powerful effect. One simple word can build someone up, in the same way that it can completely tear someone down. It just takes one word, one phrase, one name.
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If I could make any change to the phrase, I would turn the phrase into this: “Sticks and stones break my bones, and words pierce my heart, mind, and soul.” People need to be more aware of the power words hold. As mentioned before, all it takes to bring someone down is one word. And humans tend to focus on the negatives. For example, no matter how many compliments a person receives, one negative comment will change his/her entire day. The person feels stuck in this negative mindset, focused only on that one mean comment.
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Child advocates direct an assortment of procedures to help families and children encountering misuse. These suggestions tend to center around societal endeavors and also more individual endeavors. One basic system supported is the utilization of open administration declarations that urge people to report any presumed child abuse. As of now, numerous obligatory journalists (those required by law to report abuse, for example, educators, specialists, and social administration office representatives) and individuals from groups feel that child abuse ought not to be accounted for unless there is generous confirmation that mishandles is to be sure happening.
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This participation ought to be apparent between ladies’ safe houses, child insurance offices, programs for in danger children, therapeutic organizations, and law requirement officers. These offices commonly don’t share data, and in the event that they did, more cases of child mishandle would go to the consideration of different specialists and could be examined and overseen. Thus, child assurance offices and projects ought to get additional financing. At the point when spending plans are cut, social administrations are regularly the main things to go or to get less money related help.
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Child advocates demand that with more assets, child insurance organizations could contract more laborers, handle more cases, lead more examinations, and catch up with more children and families. Proceeding with, more instructive endeavors must be started about issues, for example, discipline and train styles and techniques; having more noticeable regard for children, and also educating the group about what child abuse is, and how to remember it. What’s more, Americans must change the social introduction about child behavior and child raising. Couples who wish to remain child-free should be permitted to do as such without hating. What’s more, it must be recognized that bringing up children is extremely difficult, isn’t generally exceptionally superb, and that guardians who look for help ought to be praised and not scrutinized. These sorts of endeavors can help more children to be brought up in peaceful, sincerely fulfilling families, and in this way turn out to be better grown-ups.
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Toni Morrison, author of Sula is an American novelist, essayist, and editor that writes books that unravel bigger issues. During this book, she shows the betrayal between families and friends. Toni Morrison’s novel Sula uses the developing duality of sex and death to demonstrate that in patriarchal societies women find it hard to come together and will easily betray each other. First, it is important to understand the different paths women took to fight for their own rights. In society, women have always been seen as inferior to men.
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Through the duality of sex and death, betrayal among women can be tracked. Betrayal in this sense is when one person is disloyal to another. In the book, sexual intercourse has led to many relationships dying such as Sula betraying Nel. Starting off sex has lead to the death of Nel and Sula friendship. Towards the beginning of the book, Nel and Sula became fast friends right after they first met despite their different upbringings and personalities. Nel considers herself more controlled and calm, while Sula the spontaneous and irrational one. The two girls consider themselves to be two sides of one person because they experienced different milestones together. For example, as Nel and Sula reached the riverbank, “Sula lifted her head and joined.
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Nel in the grass”, “Sula threw hers in too”, “carefully they replaced the soil and covered the entire grave with uprooted grass”. This situation demonstrates that Nel was in the lead and Sula was following her. This reveals that two young girls figuratively lose their innocence by “making a small neat hole that grew deeper and wider.” This reveals that they were no longer innocent young girls but together they were now entering womanhood together. Toni Morrison’s uses this the duality of sex in this example to connect to the horrible death that happened to Chicken Little as soon as the girls lose their innocence. As the girls enter womanhood together, Nel got married to Jude and Sula left the Bottom to pursue her education. After many years of being getting an education, Sula has returned back to the Bottom and she went to visit Nel.
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During this visit, Nel walked in on Sula and Jude “down on all fours naked” with nothing touching “except their lips right down there on the floor”. Sula had sexual intercourse with her own best friend’s husband. Morally is it right not to sleep with someone else husband but Sula was only thinking about pleasuring herself at the moment and not the value of friendship her a Sula have. Only focusing on one’s else can cause a person to be disloyal to people that are close to them. Jude is a man that isn’t judged as much as the betrayal between Sula and Nel because men have more power so actions they take doesn’t really affect them. Betrayal leads to the death of friendship because of sexual intercourse.
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Betrayal didn’t only kill friendships but it caused family relationships to also die. When talking to her friends about children Hannah says to them “Sure you do. You love her, I like love, Sula. I just don’t like her. That’s the difference”, Sula hearing those words from her own mother made her “fly up the stairs.” Hannah completely betrays Sula in this instance. A mother is supposed to be a role model for their children but instead, Hannah just talks about her own flesh and blood. At a young age, hearing such a thing from your own mother can make a person feel devastated and grow up with stored anger because of the rejection when they when they were younger. Talking behind Sula back and saying hurtful demonstrates the betrayal between mother and daughter.
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The betrayal between families didn’t just stop there. Hannah also betrayed her own mother Eva by asking “ Mamma, did you ever love us?” This question shows disrespect towards the sacrifice a mother makes towards making sure her children have everything they need to survive. In this context, the sacrifices Eva made to make sure all four of her children didn’t die without any help from the children dad, BoyBoy. Both these situations happened while Hannah no longer had her husband in her life and without the help of BoyBoy, Eva had to take care of the children on her own. The betrayal among women in the context happens when men are absent. Another mother and daughter betrayal was between Nel and Helene. While Helene and Nel were on their way to visit her mother, Helene had a incident with the train conductor. Nel “wanted to make certain that no man ever looked at her that way”.  This reveals that Nel didn’t want to be anything like her mother.
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It is a set norm in society that children should look up to their parents but this situation shows the opposite. This demonstrates betrayal because Nel is embarrassed by the actions of her mother and wants to be nothing like her. Not having that role model makes it harder for younger children to do what’s right or wrong when they get older because there was never really anyone to teach them. Betrayal has lead to the death of man relationships throughout Sula. In most of these broken relationships that ended up dying, men played a factor towards them. Men made it tough women to be close together. Women fail to realize that men having most of the power causes them to disregard each other rather than them working together to make society equal.
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Creativity is a trait that everyone is born with and cannot be taught. It begins to thrive after birth under appropriate environment and produce a lot of works and activities. Creative arts are the works and activities produced by children’s creativity. Creative arts are children’s imaginative behaviors or activities what are produced by creativity. In curriculums that are designed for children’s initiative play, creative arts can be found what involve children’s movements, emotions, languages and cognition. For instance, children use their imagination to draw a picture, dance with rhythm, compose a story, or pretend to play.
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They met a bad guy and some difficulties, but finally they got the fruits successfully, and went home to share with the whole family. This activity is a creative art, because she used her imagination to make up it. During the process, my daughter used many actions to indicate how to pick fruits or climb trees, used both English and Chinese to narrate the story. She also set up some problems to be solved in the story, which reflects the development of social emotions. After the whole story finish, she was fulfilled, and I think she found a sense of accomplishment which can promote her self-esteem.
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I used to think creative arts were limited to artistic behavior, which is only reflected in children’s final works, such as a painting or a handicraft. But now I understand that creative arts emphasize the process of children’s exploration, not focus on their final works by using materials. In the process of creative arts, children can find a learning method and way of thinking that suits each individual and contribute to children’s many domains’ development. Not all the same age children develop at the same stage, each child has different interests and hobbies, they also have different capacity of learning. In an emergent curriculum, children can initiative play and freely explore with appropriate materials what are set up or designed by teachers’ carefully observation.
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An emergent curriculum gives children choices. They learn things based on their own interests without anyone’s push. It can help children to keep calm and smooth emotion to accept new knowledge, and it provides enough time to children to ponder, understand or manipulate the things they have explored. Children deeply concentrate on playing and learning, they can find the way they are interested in or good at learning. Teachers find opportunities to involve in scaffolding children to deepen and extend their knowledge. All the teachers’ support and scaffolding are according to each child’s development. So, an emergent curriculum is very respectful to the individuals and can help children develop in variety ways.
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After reading the article “The Emergence of Emergent Curriculum”, I think children bring to the emergent curriculum should be their imagination, curiosity, questions, and anything they are interested in. Teachers should bring their eyes to observe children, to bring their brain to design activities to meet children’s interests, to bring their pens to record what happened in the class to think about more appropriate activities and questions for children. The purpose of teacher observation of children in curriculum development is to find what are the children’s interests, how about their skills and needs. Then
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The children’s interest is dramatic play of pretending mummies and playing a mom to care of the baby. Because the two children wrap scarves around their body, and one child says, “I am the mommy”. The connection between action and the word pronunciation show that they are imitating mummies. Then the children both want to play a mom to give the baby a bath. It demonstrates the children are associating the pronunciation of “mommy” to their daily events what a mom helps a baby to take bath.
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I will add some cloths, towels, toothbrushes, shampoo bottles to inspire their interests of washing a baby. I will also prepare a picture baby body parts to help them recognize human body part, encourage them to think why it is important to keep our body clean. If they surround scarves on themselves again, or wrap the scarf around the baby doll, it is an opportunity to show them a kids’ book “Where Is My Mummy” that may help the children to distinguish the words “mommy” and “mummy”.
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To promote the children’s physical and cognitive development, I will prepare baby diapers, clothes, and socks for this dramatic play. It is not easy to change diapers or wear clothes for a doll. This activity will help children to promote their fine motor skills, at the same time, it will cultivate children’s persistence and attention. If they have difficulty to do it, I expect them to ask for help from each other that can promote their relationship and social interaction with peers. Or, seek help from teachers to develop their relationship and social interaction with familiar adults.
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Since the first family of Adam and Eve that God Himself discovered to be an essential element of a person’s adult, marriage is one of the basic stages of an adult person’s life. While many couples find marriage life enjoyable and comforting with little challenges, some find the marriage institution full of challenges. Young couples who marry before attaining the age of 21 are more likely to get more problems in a marriage such as possible health complications to the woman, overburdening family responsibilities and difficult to integrate family life and career progression.
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Given the challenges that come with their inexperience to carry out family responsibilities and lack the resilience to overcome challenges, they are vulnerable to divorce and separation. Despite the aforementioned shortfalls, marriage at a young age enables the parents to bear their desired number of children, raise them while still young and retire peacefully. The young couple has the physical energy to monitor and guide their children according to the prevailing societal norms and trends such as new careers in town and latest ways of life. This is because the parents have recently passed through the stages that their children are experiencing and are able to remain innovative. Young parents are also quick to discover the talents of their children and nurture them compared to elderly couples.
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However, research has proved that even elderly couples can achieve these with their family hence not a prelude to pre-mature marriages. It is clear that young couples face more challenges ranging from health, family responsibilities to career progression. The society should raise awareness on the implications age, experience, financial abilities and education on young people wishing to get married, otherwise they can way, learn each more, get life experience and mature before happily getting married. The government, faith-based, and community based organizations should organize youth conferences seminars and workshops to educate the youth the implications of earlier marriages.
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In most of the violence events, the perpetrators tend to be the so-called “delinquent juvenile”. They are weary of studying or even play truant, living in self-degeneration and self-abandon. One of the main causes resulting in this consequence is lack of confidence and self-respect. Most of them have suffered from discrimination and sarcastic ridicule for they could not obtain good grades. Under this circumstance, their self-esteem are combated hard and deeply, thus regarding themselves failures and see no hope and promise in their future.
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is to assist families in working through challenges and struggles so that they might build stronger foundations and heal. A good therapist works towards helping the unit to foster cohesion and open lines of communication. Many clients’ problems and how they are handled tend to be influenced by the way the family operates. Family counseling serves many different purposes such as: improving couple or family relationships, families struggling with addiction, living with disabilities, living with mental illness, trauma or loss, and child behavior problems.
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People often find it difficult and unpleasant to share the most intimate and personal details of their lives with strangers. Contemporary family therapists believe that relationships within the family are good for mental stability. Therapy should be used to improve relationships and build communication skills between family members. The system of a family is defined by culture, race, gender, ethnicity, values, religious beliefs, and morals. Each of these components plays a significant role in the shaping and development of family members in the household. One might question what consists of a family unit, or if the members have to be blood-related.
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A family unit can be made up of many elements such as parents, step-parents, siblings, step-children, foster children, grandparents, uncles, aunts, nannies, and whoever has a day-to-day interaction within the unit. Some people define the term family as being individuals to when you have the closest emotional connections, while others define it as individuals who share bloodlines. When starting therapy, the counselor should question the client as to what do they consider their family dynamic to be. Other concerns might include who holds the most important to you, and what long-term goals are you hoping to reach with the help of future sessions. It is essential to identify the roles of everyone providing emotional stability, financial support, maintains the household, and whoever has the strongest emotional bond with the client. During therapy, the counselor can help the family explore the strengths as well as the weaknesses of their relationships.
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Family therapy often implements exercises and techniques from behavior therapy, cognitive therapy, interpersonal therapy, and other kinds of individual therapy. The types of treatments and techniques used are tailored to each client and their specific problems. The length of the client’s therapy depends on their financial and personal situations. Talking to a family counselor has so many therapeutic uses such as: healing pain from past experiences, learning how to handle emotions like anger, grief, or fear, building self-confidence,
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There are three types of stigmas that may influence a client’s aspirations: label avoidance, self-stigma, and public stigma. A family therapist with the proper skill set can help a family survive the effects of a mental illness such as schizophrenia, but the individual with the illness must maintain a personalized treatment plan. Depression is another mental illness that is often addressed during family counseling sessions. Psychotherapy can help people learn to control or remove disturbing symptoms for a more enjoyable life. Counseling can help families learn different ways to overcome harmful patterns of relating to one another. Family counseling can have an essential effect a person experiencing major life adjustments. Loss and grief, low self-esteem, and different forms of abuse are all situations that can benefit from the use of therapy. Changes in life can bring on unavoidable stress, which is sometimes hard to process. Family counseling can be useful where children are concerned. A child may be having behavior issues at school or dealing with
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Therapy allows the parents and children to start the dialogue for solutions. Counseling is used as a tool to assist therapists in addressing marital discord, divorce, separation, delinquency, and other relationship-related issues. In many homes, children are dealing with blended families. It is not always easy for an outsider to come in and find his or her place in a family routine. Some units have a hard time dealing with trauma or traumatic loss of a loved one. There is a wide range of traumatic experiences that might affect a family such as: natural disasters, moving to a new house, a physical injury, or the incarceration of a family member.
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Addiction, also like mental health, can be address with family therapy. It will also require additional rehabilitation or treatment. Often the family will seek therapy, even if the person who is suffering from the addiction has not sought treatment. There are several types of family therapy, but the most common are Bowenian (Murrary Bowen), Structural (Salvador Minuchin), Systemic (Gianfranco Cecchin-Milan Model), and Strategic (Jay Haley). Bowenian therapy works best for clients who are uncomfortable with having other family members in the room. It uses the concepts of differentiation and triangulation. The differentiation concept teaches clients how to become less emotionally reactive in their family relationships. The triangulation concept involves the client’s tendency to bring in a
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to divert conflict or anxiety. Letter writing is used to improve the family connection and reduce levels of emotional reaction. Structural therapy focuses on reorganizing the family unit according to the roles and distribution of power among the members. The parents or caretakers of the home must work together as a unit and set boundaries for their children. The therapist strengthens sibling and adult relationships by making sure that no one person has more power than another family member. This kind of therapy allows some family members to stand behind a one-way glass so that the therapist can observe patterns of behavior between other family members. Systemic therapy focuses on the meaning behind family members’ actions and behaviors.
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It is suitable for clients of all ages and can be used individually. The theory is that family interactions are occurring on an unconscious level. Although the therapist’s approach is seen as distant and neutral, he or she will address behaviors and rituals so that they might gain understanding and insight as to why problems are occurring. In this situation, family members feel like the unconscious “game” that they participate in has the power in the family. Strategic therapy is a brief and direct approach to therapy for people that want results in a quick amount of time. The family is given
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that is meant to change how the unit interacts with the person who is having issues or problems. Communication systems, coalitions, and hierarchies are addressed in the same manner as of other counseling approaches. The Strategic approach uses techniques such as prescribing the symptom to the family unit, and changing the family’s issues from an unconstructive one to a constructive one. The therapist takes authority from the dominant family member that controls family relations, and make it possible for the patterns of communication to change. Family counseling does not automatically fix family conflicts or make the unpleasant situation disappear. This paper pinpointed the importance of family counseling, and how effective it can be when the right therapist is chosen for assistance. The relationship with one’s self and others can become much happier once an initiative has been taken to correct unhealthy patterns. All circumstances will be considered by the therapist preparing treatment for the best course of action.
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Do you remember what your child was like in the terrible twos? Most of your day was spent as a battle of the wills with your toddler. Multiply that by 8 and add a driver’s and you have another unique set of issues. Teens are stretching their wings and occasionally take a plunge. They are separating and developing independence, a necessary and normal process. As a parent of a teen, you probably feel like you are in a tug-of war. Pulling your teen toward curfews, homework, family, going to church.
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The three areas that contribute to this foundation are the home, church and school. When all three legs of the educational stool are balanced the student receives a consistent message in the areas that have the greatest impact in a young life. Student who have God’s word infused into their academic experience develop a biblical worldview, where they see the world as interpreted through scripture knowing that God is sovereign and all things are created by Him. Westminster’s partnership with the home and school supports the family’s desire to expose students to Biblical truth. The consistent message of truth enables student to become stronger in their faith, learn truth in all subjects, and develop their God-given gifts.
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Amy Tan argues that her mother’s limited English affected different situations in her day to day life; she says that she came to a realization that she used different forms of English depending on whether the setting was a formal or informal one. By using her relationship with her mother, she shows how her mother’s knowledge of English impacted their situations and life in general. The primary objective of this paper is to analyze how Tan structures her essay to be able to express her ideas, personal opinions, and deliver her intended message to her target audience.
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Despite being a non-native English speaker, Amy took it upon herself to master the English Language to the extent of making a living through lecturing and writing. This shows that she is an exceptionally qualified English speaker and writer. She was able to defy all the discouragements she received from her teachers in school who urged her to pursue sciences and math instead. Even though she is very eloquent, she also includes what she refers to as ‘her mother’s broken English’ in her text; quoting her exact words to preserve the inherent nature of the essay.
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In writing her essay, Tan uses a very informal and reflective tone mostly by using the first-person narrative form. She vividly describes a lot of her personal experiences in detail to validate her arguments and show the effect her mother’s English had on each particular context. For instance, she explains the incident where she had to impersonate her mother to call the bank to demand her cheque since her mother had called several times but only got excuses. This explanation shows how the confrontation actually played out by creating an ideal image of the situation in the reader’s mind and also makes the essay more relatable. In her unique style of structuring the essay, she includes a lot of illustrations and comparisons to explicate her points.
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For instance, she juxtaposes Math and English. According to her, Math is more precise and has only one answer as compared to English which is more general and has so many possible answers; she even cited common examples she encountered on English tests. Apart from that, she also compares the English she previously used to write (structured and precise) to the one she adopted (the English she grew up with) and acknowledges that the one she currently uses allows her to express her thoughts, intent, and imagery more effectively to her readers. In addition to that, Tan also explains that any given language is a very powerful instrument which we should use to share our experiences and express ourselves. She insists that people should not be ashamed of their broken English; they should embrace it instead and find ways of using it effectively.
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Tan considers the English she uses to communicate with her mother and husband an element that brings them closer because only they can fully understand one another without any difficulty. She also uses satire to express the differences between the English she was taught in school and the one she uses to talk to her mother. Despite grasping what she was taught in school and even more, she is unable to use it at home because her mother will not be able to comprehend anything she said. Conclusion All in all, Tan has shown how mother-tongue affects how we master a new language by using herself and her personal experiences with anecdotal explanations.
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It is often improved or worsened by a person’s academic qualifications and their abilities to communicate thoughts and ideas. Therefore language learners need to put this into consideration in the process of learning a new language. Tan, in this case, has expressed her mastery in differentiating the types of English; how she combines both proper English and the one she grew up within her writing. She has successfully delivered her message in essay since her mother was her main target; she found it easy to understand.
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A mother requires the ability to act selflessly, placing their child first above all else. A mother is required to provide a safe environment and protection for their child. To make their child feel loved and cared for. Failure to provide any of these aspects is to fail as a parent regardless if it was done deliberately or not. Regardless if it was caused by actions from their past, present, or even if the mother has already passed away. A mother’s decision will always impact their child.
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Motherhood is a topic frequently explored in the horror genre. Specifically, it is a dysfunctional mother that is being presented. Horror films. From what we assume to be a provider for life is presented as a bearer of death. Horror films such as Scream, A Nightmare on Elm Street, and Hereditary hone in on the consequences of a dysfunctional mother’s actions and reveal the drastic changes it causes for her children.
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In Craven’s film Scream, it was Sidney’s deceased mother, Maureen, who caused Sidney to be subjected to a horrifying life or death situation. During Sidney’s first interaction with Ghostface, the killer, it was mentioned that they were related to Maureen’s death. Ghostface specifically pointed out how Sidney will “die, just like [her] mother . Showing that they were behind the murder of Maureen a year before the film takes place.
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While it was shown that Ghostface was, in fact, two people working together Billy Loomis, and Stu, only Billy had a reason. When demanded a motive, Billy, revealed that Sidney’s mother was having an affair with his father. That Maureen was “the reason [his] mom moved out and abandoned”. Maureen was an unfaithful woman whose actions led to her own death and endangerment of her child. She allowed her own selfish desires to destroy her family, failing as a mother. “Billy lost his mind when he lost his mother”. Maureen’s actions caused Billy to seek revenge. It was her fault and inability to put her family first that led to this disastrous and horrifying situation. Scream was not the only film where Craven presented maternal failure.