...MY CHILDHOOD As a child,i was a huge day dreamer. i spent lots of hours just dreaming about a better life.a life filled with so much love. you see, i love to read. I started reading at a very young age. I read my first romantic novel while still in primary school and that was how i became hooked.I became a huge fan of Mills and Boons and every romantic write up. So, when i wasnt reading my novels, u 'd often catch me just day dreaming about ruggedly handsome guys and flowers and chocolates and exotic gifts. No wonder, that when i became a teenager, i had very high expectations about love and romance that were a little impossible to be fulfilled. Needless to say that those dreams were never fulfilled as a teenager but then that didnt stop me from dreaming anyway. I remembeer the first time i actually had a real crush on a guy. I was fifteen then. It was the holidays and schools were on break. There was this guy who was a neighbour and had been for a couple of years. The details of how it all began are a little blurry now but all i remember is that i suddenly had this huge crush on him and whenever i saw him, i felt butterflies in my tummy. He was very much older than me and was in a higher institution. The crush lasted for the whole holiday season and then like all crushhes, it just died down. After that came another guy, although this time, i was seventeen and out of secondary school. As at that time, i considered myself more matured.(now that i think aboutit, i wasnt...
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...“Does my Head Look Big in This” and “Funny in Farsi,” gives reader a glimpse into the real world of first and second generation Islamic Immigrants. DMHLBIT describes a Muslim Australian teens’ journey from childhood to adulthood. The plot begins when Eleventh grader, Randa, begins wearing the hijab full-time and follows the backlash from her family, school and crush. FIF is coming of age memoir that follows Fizoozeh Dumas in her journey from second grade immigrant into her interracial marriage. The memoir is written as short stories; these give reader a glimpse into the everyday struggles and joys of being a first generation immigrant. FIF and DMHLBIT debate inter growth to physical Growth while both show casing strong female character that...
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...to save his son. Because of this journey, Marlin also goes through many changes in attitude. Marlin’s first real loss of “innocence” occurred in the opening scene. It begins with Marlin and Coral admiring their new home and their abundance of eggs. Marlin is friendly, loving, and appears to be carefree; the exact opposite of his personality throughout the rest of the movie. Unfortunately, a barracuda attacks, knocking Marlin unconscious and killing Coral and all but one of the eggs. Marlin ends up naming the egg, Nemo, a name that his wife liked. Therefore, a main character’s loss of “innocence” is through a devastation of fantasy as it encounters a cruel reality. The opening scene showed the origins of Marlin’s worrisome and fearful personality. Before his loss, Marlin seemed carefree and cheerful, however due to the harshness of reality, he transforms into a stranger. Because of the barracuda attack, Marlin realizes the numerous amounts of potential disasters. However, his last surviving child is what pulls him together and we can see that Marlin especially treasures Nemo because it is also a representation of his wife. Furthermore, the camera zoomed in on the cracking of the last egg. When Marlin notices that the egg is damaged, he vows to protect Nemo and wraps his fins around the egg, foreshadowing his overprotective personality. Few years later, it is Nemo’s first day of school and Marlin starts the day with lectures about the dangers of the real world. Clearly, this...
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...when she was jilted at the altar decades ago; and the whole place is crawling with bugs. It's like Beauty and the Beast, only without the singing tableware. The only good thing about the mansion is Estella, Miss Havisham's adopted daughter. Estella is cold and snobby, but man is she pretty. Pip keeps getting invited back to play with her, and he develops quite the little crush on her. This crush turns into a big crush, and that big crush turns into full-blown, all-consuming L-O-V-E, even though there's no way that orphan Pip can ever have a chance with Estella, the adopted child of the richest lady in town. When Pip is old enough to be put to work—you know, early teens or so—he starts an apprenticeship at his brother-in-law's smithy, thanks to Miss Havisham's financial support. You'd think he'd be thrilled (fire, swinging heavy things around), but he hates it: all he wants is to become a gentleman and marry Estella. Then, surprise! He comes into fortune by means of a mysterious and undisclosed benefactor, says goodbye to his family, and heads to London to become a gentleman. And it's pretty sweet at first. Mr. Jaggers, Pip's caretaker, is one of the biggest and...
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...through a heroic journey in the novel; however, Ender’s demonstrates sacrifice; by relinquishing freedom and his childhood to the battle school, his approach on the concept of “love thy enemy”; his encounters with enemies throughout the book, and the final defeat of the enemy; wiping out the entire bugger race. Even though Ender kills the entire bugger race, and his actions contradicts Christ’ life teachings; Ender sacrifices his more comfortable life for the human race, defeats the battle, and shows an apparent parallel with Christ through his approach on loving thy enemy through a redemptive power As a devout Mormon, Orson Scott Card used religious teachings of The Church of Jesus Christ, as the basis for most of his scientific fictions. Novel creations being made by most writers are being inspired through personal experiences and relationships, and Card as an author is known for being a renowned science fiction writer; would be a great example of using this approach through his writing. When Card introduced Ender's Game, an incredible short science fiction story to the world in 1985, the written piece won both the Nobel prize and Hugo awards, and shares the story of a young boy who is unwittingly being dependent on, and later proves his capability through his accomplishment; saving humanity on earth from an alien race. Ender sacrifices and spends his childhood training in the battle school with other young geniuses. Ender is unaware of the dangers of his actions, and the...
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...intends to protect innocence in children. He fears that once a child loses their innocence they will become a “phony” like everyone else (Salinger 84). Holden tries to protect Jane Gallagher an old crush, Phoebe Caulfield his virtuous little sister, and all children who still have their innocence. Jane Gallagher is a not so beautiful girl that also happens to be Holden Caulfield's former crush. Jane Gallagher is...
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...Introduction Human development is a lifelong process that begins at the union of an ovum and a sperm and does not end until an individual is declared dead. This paper is a biographical account of Andrei Edoja Dmitri. He was born April 21, 1945 in Scarborough, Ontario. With the help of developmental psychological concepts and theories, the paper narrates his life journey from conception, prenatal development, infancy, childhood, and adolescence through adulthood including his basic physical and psychological development and growth respectively. The biography also narrates what growing up was for Andrei, his family, the different life changing events he encountered in his life, the achievements he celebrated and his moments of doubts and pain. Andrei is the first-born child of two immigrant parents, Omoye and Nicolai, from Nigeria and Russian respectively, who had come to Canada some years before his birth as students. He has a younger sister called Ivana. Infancy and Early Childhood Four years into their common-law relationship, Andrei was conceived by Omoye, an immigrant undergraduate English student from Nigeria after an awesome spring getaway break in Mexico with her Russian partner, Nicolai. Nicolai was an undergraduate computer science student at the same University with Omoye. The process of prenatal development occurs in three stages. Two weeks after conception is known as the germinal stage. During this period the single-celled zygote that contained the genetic instructions...
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...Early teenage relationships often involve exploring physical intimacy and sexual feelings. You might not feel ready for this, but you have an important role in guiding and supporting your child through this important developmental stage. * About teenage relationships * When teenage relationships start * First crushes * Early teenage relationships * Talking about teenage relationships with your child * Sex and teenage relationships * Same-sex attraction and early sexual experimentation * Dealing with break-ups in teenage relationships * Extra help with teenage relationships * Teenage relationships for children with special needs About teenage relationships Romantic relationships are a major developmental milestone. They come with all the other changes going on during adolescence – physical, social and emotional. And they’re linked to your child’s growing interest in body image and looks, independence and privacy. Romantic relationships can bring lots of emotional ups and downs for your child – and sometimes for the whole family. The idea that your child might have these kinds of feelings can sometimes be a bit confronting for you. But these feelings are leading your child towards a deeper capacity to care, share and develop intimate relationships. When teenage relationships start There isn’t a ‘right age’ to start having relationships – every child is different, and every family will feel differently about this issue. But here are some...
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...the right response because he knows that she would not understand and he could easily lose her trust, “Kathleen asked if I had ever killed anyone…’You keep writing these war stories,’ she said, ‘so I guess you must’ve killed somebody, it was a difficult moment, but I did what seemed right, which was to say, ‘of course not,’ and then I take her into my lap and hold her for a while,” (pg.). O’Brien does not want his daughter to lose her innocence at a young age, nor does he want her to know about his loss of innocence until she is old enough to understand the horrors of the war and the value of life. Linda represents the transition from beauty to horror. She is the first true crush that O’Brien has as a kid, “when I write about her now, three decades later, it’s tempting to dismiss it as a crush, an infatuation of childhood, but I know for a fact that what we felt for each other was as deep and rich as love can ever get,” (216). Linda is someone who he used to love and hold close to his heart. O’Brien describes her as a beautiful and delicate person, “She had poise and great dignity. Her eyes, I remember, were deep brown like her hair, and she was slender and very quiet and fragile-looking,” (216). When they were both nine, he finally got to take her on a “real date” “Though I can’t remember the exact sequence, my mother had somehow arranged it with Linda’s parents, and on that damp spring night my dad did the driving while Linda and I sat in the back seat… for me, though, it was very...
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...Carol’s Journey is an interesting and enjoyable movie that gives a different perspective into war and other adult issues such as family problems, death, and love through the eyes of children. This movie takes place in Spain during the civil war, around the year 1938. Most of Carol’s time is spent outside, in the village they live near, or in her mother’s childhood home which is a large estate. The main characters in this movie are Carol, her mother Aurora, her father Robert, her grandpa Don Amalio, her friends Tomiche, Pebbles, and Cagurrio, her mother’s friend Maruja, and other members of her family. Carol’s mother dies early in the film, and her father is away at war for most of the movie as well. At first when Carol meets the three boys,...
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...other person. Susan Griffin explores this theory of a complex matrix of connections in her essay “Our Secret”. She employs a style of writing that uses several different threads of stories from her own experiences and the life of Heinrich Himmler, Chief of the Nazi SS, as well as references to seemingly unrelated topics such as missile production and cells to weave the fabric of her theory of universal interconnectedness. At first glance, each passage seems unrelated to the next, but after thorough reading a juxtaposition of the threads is evident. Through her entire essay, Griffin uses underlying themes that connect each thread and anecdote to one another. One of the main themes that is interwoven through her essay is child rearing and the effect that different styles of parenting have on the child later in life. One relationship between father and son she explores is Heinrich Himmler and his father Gebhard. Gebhard was a tyrannical father, not uncommon in Germany in the 1900s, who strove to instill a complete perfection into his son at a young age. “Crush the will. Establish dominance. Permit no disobedience. Suppress everything in the child.” These are the words Gebhard lived by. He raised his sons to suppress every emotion. They are taught a sense of shame. It is the summer of 1910. Heinrich begins his...
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...Lucy Character Lucy is a young girl whose wealthy parents send her to camp every summer. She is adventurous and free thinker, not caring what others think about her, unlike her friend Lois. She becomes unhappy with her life in Chicago because of problems with her parents. We never know why or how she disappears when the campers go on the canoe trip. The similarities Lucy and Mrs. Das share with each other is that they are both female who lives in US. As the story begins to grow more intense we find out that these two females aren’t honest. For example, Mrs. Das lied about her affair that happened eight years ago that she cheated on her husband with his friend. Mrs. Das became pregnant with a child and hide this secret from her husband. Setting Araby Setting and story are closely integrated in "Araby." The alleyway, the busy commercial street, the open door of Mangan’s house, the room in back where the priest died, the way to school—all are parts of the locations which shape the life and consciousness of the narrator. Before the narrator goes to Araby, it is his thoughts about this exotic, mysterious location that crystallize for him his adoration of Mangan’s sister, who is somehow locked into his "Eastern enchantment" (paragraph 12) of devotion and unfulfilled love. At the end the lights are out, the place is closing down for the night, and the narrator recognizes Araby as a symbol of his own lack of reality and unreachable hopes. Seemingly, all his aims are dashed by his...
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...Ispahan Carpet Ispahan Carpet explores the writer’s emotions and feelings about the children sitting in the hut all day, weaving with ‘unsupported bird-bones’. This would be somewhere in the middle east, as carpets are very well done there and done by hand which makes it very much more authentic and valuable. People who make these carpets are usually in poverty as they slave away in their huts for at least 6-8 months making one decent sized carpet. The poem describes what goes on in the hut and how sympathetic one would get as the poem then broadens views of the world and how this has an impact on the writer. The poem creates a view of inside the hut, and how a Persian family sits on ‘rough timber gallows’ to weave the carpets. The word ‘gallows’ has a connection to something more darker, it is incorporated in another phrase ‘a gallows tree’ which is where people are executed the connection to this is that the people who weave the carpets will only ever stay indoors all the time and do nothing else but weave a it is their only source of income. The hut where the ‘dark eyed Persian family’ lives is not very filled with anything but ‘blackened pots and jars’. This also supports the idea of this family being in poverty more or less, as their hut is nothing but ‘cavernous hearth’ and a flickering fire to keep warm. The poem then goes into the lifestyle of children weaving the carpet. The poem describes these children against birds. ‘’Eight-year-old girls sit sparrowed on a plank...
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...Iris Berendes-Dean Schaefer English 10A, Pd. 3 15 October 2015 Fearing Maturity Incites Internal Struggles Throughout the generations, all adolescents have had to deal with the internal struggles while coming of age. J.D Salinger’s novel, The Catcher in the Rye, applies literary devices and language patterns to develop the main character, Holden Caulfield, and his internal struggles and conflicts of maturing into adulthood. Salinger effectively uses Holden’s lies, language of depression, and flashbacks to accurately portray how teenagers often fear growing up, and feel the need to hang onto their innocence. Lying is an effective way for teenagers to hide their emotions and pretend to be someone they’re not, essentially testing the waters of maturity without taking the responsibility. Holden flees Pencey Prep School after being kicked out for failing the majority of his classes, and finds himself on a train sitting next to the mother of one of his classmates, on his way to New York City. Taking a liking to the woman, Holden begins to spin a web of lies. He tells her his name is Rudolf Schmidt and casually adds, “I have to have this operation… It isn’t very serious. I have this tiny little brain tumor on the brain… right near the outside”(58). This single lie entertains Holden, as he would rather talk about something that he has never experienced instead of being truthful about himself. He avoids taking on the responsibility of being mature enough to tell the truth about...
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...expressions that I consciously control my expressions and emotions. I never quite realized this until I sat down to elaborate on this topic. Emotions are key attributes to customer satisfaction and that equals reimbursements and ultimately the success of an organization; in this case I'm referring to an acute hospital setting. As a child I was taught to believe that it was rude to laugh or speak loudly and disrespectful to make eye contact with elders. Crying was perceived as weak and insecure. Emotions such as pride in academia were revered. I developed a true sense of self-awareness and self-motivation in order to maintain that pride as well as to receive the praise from my family. However I lacked social skills which I attributed to my childhood beliefs. I entered the United States in 1994 and rapidly assimilated with American culture. The most difficult change was to establish eye contact with others, followed by accepting failure and being able to cry. Years of college and constant social exposure has allowed me to gain insight on my own personality as well as to expand on my social skills. The fundamental nature of effective communication is based on emotions. On a personal level I was fortunate to have been given opportunities for introspection, which I believe instilled within me immense emotional intelligence. As a working professional I am able to utilize those attributes to create a productive working environment as well as to alleviate the emotional and physical pain...
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