While clearly pertaining to the fantasy genre, Grimm brothers’ tales have many realistic themes (family, marriage, fortune, heredity, power) veiled by an accessible language, an unambiguous style and an atmosphere of childish naïveté. However, the world evoked in the book does not belong to the children: innocence is sanitized (e.g. Hans in Luck), while manipulation and inveiglement are praised (e.g.The Raven). This collection is not a moral guide as it gives practical lessons about life. The unsuspecting reader does not enter a magical childlike land, but he progressively masters the art of manipulation.
Huang & Prochner, in 2004 has linked parental style to children's development of self-regulated learning and exertion of control over their own learning in the Chinese culture. Studies revealed that authoritative parenting style was significantly and positively related to students' self-regulated learning, whereas authoritarian parenting style was significantly and negatively related to students' self-regulated learning But the research also indicates that permissive parental style may have a slight negative impact on students self-regulated learning. (Huang & Prochner 2004) Further research examining first and second graders in Beijing, China found that authoritarian parenting was associated with children's low effortful control and high dispositional anger/frustration (Zhou, 2004). However, this study did not find evidence to support a relationship between authoritative parenting and children's dispositional anger/frustration. in another study, it was found also a link between self perception (academic competence, morality and self-reliance) of Korean
A perfect example of Koo using technology to connect with readers is shown in his poem Cell. There are few poets, that I know of, who involve technology so realistically in their writings as Koo. Cell is appropriately named, seeing as it is partially, (from what I interpreted) about an argument over text messaging on a cellphone. Some might argue that the poem is ugly and too common, because of the plain words used to tell the story, and the use of everyday objects in it. I on the other hand, find the poem to be very relatable and more heartfelt, because he does not try to use fancy or evasive language and he does not try to make the situation or story into something it is not; he tells it how it is.
One top of this, the world behaves strange events seems to foreshadow the eerie arrival of out of this world visitor – the angel. The supernatural setting does not greatly affect people in the story, which I find the beginning less affective and nothing special. However the angel draws awe and confusion. As a reader I gain a sense of curiosity, yet the angel is also very ordinary, excluding the fact that he has angelic wings. The image in the story itself captures the balance of epiphany and cruelty.
Success leads to a sense of capability, while failure results in feelings of inferiority.| Adolescence|12 to 18 years|Identity vs. Role Confusion |Teenagers need to progress a sense of self and personal individuality. Achievement of this leads to a capability to stay true to yourself, and failure leads to role confusion and a weak sense of self.| Young Adulthood|19 to 40 years|Intimacy vs. Isolation|Young adults need to form cherished, loving relationships with other people. If you succeed in this you form strong relationships and failure results in loneliness and isolation.| Middle Adulthood|40 to 65 years|Generatively vs. Stagnation |Adults need to produce and cherish things that will outlive them, usually by having children or creating a progressive modification that benefits other people. Completion of this leads to the feelings of effectiveness and accomplishment, while failure results in shallow involvement in the world.| Maturity |60 to death |Ego
Text Analysis- Snow Falling on Cedars Draft “There are things in this universe that we cannot control, and there then there are things we can... Let fate, coincidence and accident conspire; human beings must act on reason.” Nel Gudmundson (Page 367) Free will and fate/chance play an integral role in the novel ‘Snow Falling on Cedars’. Every major character in the novel is faced with the struggle between choice and chance. The story explores our human desire to exercise control over our lives, which is explored by contrasting the trial of Kabuo Miyamoto with a series of human coincidences, mistakes and prejudices that highlight the lack of control we actually have. The novel is based on and revolves around Kabuo Miyamoto’s trial over the death of Carl Heine. Kabuo was placed in situations where he had to decide whether to take action upon a situation or to sit back passively and let fate unfold.
Homework - Page 45 a) The term consensus refers to a group of people coming to a general agreement. b) Parsons believes that the nuclear family performs ‘two essential functions’ for its members and for society as a whole. One if these functions are to socialise children, teaching them the norms and values of society and their cultural values and discipline. This can also be referred to as primary socialisation. Parsons also argued that the nuclear family play the emotional role in that they provide love, warmth, security and support acting as a stress reliever for its members.
Making Fun of an Audience In Mark Twain’s “Advice to Youth” satire is integrated into the text to make fun of an audience, even though he gives “…Didactic, instructive,” or “Good advice” (291). He criticizes the standard relationship form between children and their parents, specifically attacking the lack of humor between children and parents. When parents take things way too seriously when something “bad” happens which is not the best approach to solve minor problems that arise. Twain is skilled in many different art forms of language. He advises the reader to learn the same skill sets early on in life so that they can take advantage of the opportunities in front of them.
They learn about the mistakes other people have made and intelligently base decisiojns on their knowledge of stories and experiences they have heard about. Adolescents with good (and realistic) role models are often intelligent, well behaved, and get farther in life than those with no role model or goals. It makes more sense to raise a child on good morals and values than to let the child fend for themselves or feed on negativity. As growing people, we learn about other peoples accomplishments and strive for our own accomplishments. Our goals and wishes are something to be worked toward, and our morals/stories give us examples as to how to persevere.
It is shown in the way Holden remembers those people of his childhood compared to those he knows in the adult society, such as Sally Hayes. Most strongly, a contrast between the adult world and the innocence of childhood is shown through the symbol of the catcher in the rye, which emphasizes Holden’s dream to keep children safe from the phoniness of the rest of the world. The contrast between the innocence of childhood and the phoniness of adults is made clear because of the way Holden describes children – who he thinks of most fondly – compared to the way he describes others he meets. Holden believes adults of the world to be phonies and full of faults and he does not manage to maintain a meaningful relationship with any of them; yet in