..."Cry" redirects here. For other uses, see Cry (disambiguation). "Weeping" redirects here. For the weeping habit of trees, see Weeping tree. This article is about the human shedding of tears. For other uses, see Crying (disambiguation). A toddler crying. French people bid troops of the French Army goodbye as they leave metropolitan France at Marseille harbour, 1941.Crying (also referred to as sobbing, weeping, bawling, or wailing) is shedding tears as a response to an emotional state in humans. One need only shed a single tear to be crying. The act of crying has been defined as "a complex secretomotor phenomenon characterized by the shedding of tears from the lacrimal apparatus, without any irritation of the ocular structures".[1] A related medical term is lacrimation, which also refers to non-emotional shedding of tears. A neuronal connection between the lacrimal gland (tear duct) and the areas of the human brain involved with emotion has been established. Some scientists believe that only humans produce tears in response to emotional states [2] while others disagree.[3] Charles Darwin wrote in The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals that the keepers of Indian elephants in the London Zoo told him that their charges shed tears in sorrow. Tears produced during emotional crying have a chemical composition which differs from other types of tears. They contain significantly greater quantities of the hormones prolactin, adrenocorticotropic hormone, Leu-enkephalin[4]...
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...1. Define the Concept of Basic Trust: What is basic trust? To me basic trust would be the trust you put around the world. When you come to talk about building basic trust when it comes to a young age, well you have to depend on your parents to do the right things for you to build basic trust. As people sit trying to find the meaning behind basic trust, they are usually are stuck with awe. It can mean multiple things. Understanding basic trust might be difficult at times, especially when people really do not look back to see what exactly they started there basic trust with. Basic trust will only deepen over the years. It never will reach a limit; because they’re always will be a higher person above us. We are introduced to Erik Erikson, who was born on 1902 and passed away on 1994. Through Erikson’s 92 years of life he was quiet the scholar. He would write essays that were collected by his wife Joan and later published in chapters in a book entitled, Childhood and Society (1950). One of his most famous concepts from the essay was “The Eight Stages of Man”. Which illustrate eight ascending steps on a moving staircase that starts at infancy and goes up to older adulthood. Where the author Jon Snodgrass interacts with their readers is that, Snodgrass gives his own formula to understand “The Eight Stages of Man”. Snodgrass’s formula was LSDT = A & S + PT + CP, which stands for “Life Span Development Theory”, A&S stands for “Age and Stages”, PT is “Psychological Task”, and...
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...Children’s Story. Knowing how to address a variety of situations in the early childhood setting and effectively partnering with parents to do so are important skills for all teachers and caregivers. For this assignment, you will choose one of the following scenarios: 1. Shane has a difficult time separating from his mother each morning. At drop off, he clings to her and screams uncontrollably. After she leaves, Shane continues to scream and cry until you are able to soothe him. 2. Lisa often gets frustrated when trying to play with other children. She takes toys from their hands and even hits children with the toys. Next, address each of the following points according to the teaching approach/setting that best reflects your style in your desired classroom setting (e.g. Montessori, Reggio Emilia, Waldorf, traditional preschool, etc.): 1. Outline a specific plan for addressing the discipline or guidance scenario. 2. Explain how your plan would support the teaching approach/setting. 3. Describe how you will create an effective partnership with parents to address the discipline or guidancescenario. 4. Describe one or two possible obstacles you might encounter when implementing your plan. 5. Discuss how you will address these obstacles. The paper should be three to four pages in addition to the title page and the reference page. Use at least two scholarly sources in addition to your text. Your paper should also be formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing...
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...Gender Differences in Perception of Masculinity in Men’s Crying I. INTRODUCTION Masculinity means being inexpressive and unemotional. Men are not expected to cry, to be sad or to be vulnerable (Forisha, 1978). According to the traditional stereotype being masculine means being assertive, being interested in things, rather than people, being analytical and manipulative, and being able to “get things done” (Forisha, 1978) Femininity and masculinity or one's gender identity refers to the degree to which persons see themselves as masculine given what it means to be a man or woman in society. (Burke, Stets and Pirog-Good 1988; Spence 1985) A person with a more masculine identity should act more masculine, that is, engage in behaviors whose meanings are more masculine such as behaving in a more dominant, competitive, and autonomous manner (Ashmore, Del Boca, and Wohlers 1986). Men are more likely than women to feel ashamed of crying. There are variations in degree, but this indicates that social norms restricting male crying may be pretty much universal. Male crying being generally discouraged from an early age, while female crying is accepted or even rewarded (Fox, 2004). Men cry less frequently and intensely than women, and this sex difference is especially marked for crying in response to anger. (Santiago-Menez & Campbelle, February, 2013) The history of men crying, men have always cried. Yet the acceptability of male crying has varied across...
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...Kitty Genovese was attacked and stabbed by a man later identified as Winston Moseley. Despite Genovese’s cries for help, none of the people in the nearby apartment building who heard her cries called police to report the incident. The attack first began at 3:20 AM, but it was not until 3:50 AM that someone first contacted police. In 1968, John Darley and Bibb Latane became intrigued by the incident and decided to conduct an experiment which was given the name the Bystander Apathy Experiment. Their main goal was to figure out why people, in cases like Genovese’s, did not come for help. These two psychologists asked volunteers to participate in a discussion which was claimed to be extremely personal. Each individual was separated in different rooms and had to communicate with each other through an intercom. During this “extremely personal” conversation, one of the members would fake an epileptic seizure through the intercom. When the volunteer believed that he/she was the only other person in the discussion, 85% left the room and began to seek help for the individual with a fake seizure. Next, the two psychologists decided to see what would happen if three or four people were in this discussion, instead of just one; and just as they suspected, only 31% went to look for help once the seizure began. So what exactly is the bystander effect? Psychologists predict there are two major factors that contribute to the bystander effect. First, the presence of other people creates a diffusion...
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...musical contributions to American Popular Music. Growing up Johnny Cash, whose name was actually J.R. Cash, spent much of his time working out on the family farm. He did not live an easy life so one way to escape all the hardship was music. Cash grew up hearing his mother’s folk and hymn ballads along with the working music coming from the people out in the fields. Cash began to write his own music at age twelve. His mother, seeing his love and gift for music, scraped up all the spare money they had for J.R. to take music lessons. However, after three...
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...Cry the Beloved Country, by Alan Paton, is the story of the two fictional characters, Stephen Kumalo and James Jarvis, who lose their sons in South Africa in 1948. In his story, Alan Paton used the George Hegel's Dialect of thesis, antithesis, synthesis, in order to expose social injustices in a microcosm of South Africa that correlate to the macrocosm of the issues faced by the entire country and what must be done to fix these injustices. Paton subdivided his story into three books. The first of these books, depicts the Journey of Stephen Kumalo, to try and restore his family, is a cry against injustice. The second book focused mainly on James Jarvis’s plight to understand his deceased son, depicts the yearning for justice. While the final book displays the restoration and repair of the injustices derived from the yearning for justice. The society of the small urban town called Ndotsheni, from which both Stephan and Author come, is based largely on the native African tribal system. This town also suffers from a drought that drives away the young men to work in the mines of Johannesburg. Johannesburg directly contradicts Ndotsheni with no tribal system and the brake down of the moral fibers of its people. Yet in Johannesburg there is also hope for the future and ideas that help lead to the restoration of Ndotsheni. During the time the story is set in Johannesburg the reader is introduced to two exceptionally different characters. The first is John Kumalo, the brother of Stephen...
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...nearly five years. The IUD fell out a few months after, hopeful, the doctors tried it once again, and once again, it fell out. Both those times I had to go into the surgical Pavilion. I was scared equally those two times because of the anesthesia. The last time they gave up on it. Once again, I was their lab rat. They tried the normal birth control pills on a normal dosage. It did not work. They raised the dosage to two times a day. It did not work. I feared them raising my dosage to three a day because birth control pills are very expensive when you do not have Medicare or Medicaid. Thankfully they didn’t. They left the dosage at two a day, but decided to include the Depo-Provera, a shot which is given every three months. To this day this hasn’t failed me at all. I go every three months for my shot, and take my pills every day. I finally stopped being their lab rat. My mom has told me the story of her making her way to the hospital just as she got out of work on the day of my last...
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...The different support rose its purpose from the mission of cry and if I were to run through some of the key faces that withdraw from are they are about enabling people to taking responsibilities its about confronting the situations it’s about the realizing ones own potential and the child’s and when we put these 3 things together in the context of under developed children in India, development support strategy tries to cut together and talks of enabling billion of a peoples movement and what do we mean when they say enabling the peoples movements for child rights in India, the people are children the people are accusing the between them are the communities the people are the situations, the mechanism institutions working around them which are working along with the when were talk about enrollment going back to the mission we talk about enabling them to take responsibilities core of what development support does is about helping people understand what is and why is the situation of the children what it is. why are children today not experiencing their rights not enjoying their rights why is that there is large scale manufacturing for instance in the state of Maharashtra which otherwise is very economically developed or why is it that in rural areas the access to health services is far far lesser than it is in urban areas in Indian and such like the dismal statistics of children situation speaks for itself and what development support does is look at the situations from...
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...Title: That Woman Cried Written by KyuSe7en501 Note: Forgive me if I ain’t good in writing. T_T Twenty- fourth of January a woman appeared before my eyes. She was crying, really, really hard. I didn’t know what to do, I was at a total loss of words. Since then, I started wondering why women cry; are they just fond of crying, or, do they cry for something men don’t understand? As a man myself I want to know the answer. Not that I love to interfere with their sorrows but I just want to have my curiosity get answered. Do they cry for no reason? Some people say women are beyond emotional. They cry because their hearts are soft, they also waste tears because they are partly weak, in comparison with men. I thought those were enough for me to get my mouth closed. I thought those were the best answers for my questions. But then I realized I could discover it myself, and learn things up through women. Months have passed since the day I found that woman crying; I finally got to see her again in a restaurant. She wasn’t crying at all, nor was she sad. She was all smiling --- so beautifully. Her wide smile made my heart filled with wonderfulness; She also had her hair pony tailed which made her long slender neck appear publicly. Those assets were so nice to see that I wanted to talk to her and get to know her better. She was so beautiful like a goddess. Upon my amazement followed the complete sense of surprise. A man, with a child by his side, got an appearance toward the woman...
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...A game that sets a premise of a small tropical island, inhabited by the most conversational cannibals you well ever meet, and utilized by the local slaver cartel as a temporary prison. The protagonist is a man who escapes and must go back to rescue his friends and loved ones that are still trapped before they are whisked off to horrible fates in parts unknown. Literally a text book definition of cliché video game plots, so over used you can articulate the entirety of the games plot after playing for ten minutes. And yet for all its childlike simplicity this game manages to meet and exceed my criteria of immersion, emotional impact, value of choices, and...
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...My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor the novel takes place in Mississippi, 1933 with young 9 year old Cassie Logan and the rest of her family, Papa, Mama, Little Man, Big Ma, Stacey, and Christopher John. The family is colored and they struggle with racism, night riders, and lynchings but they preserve through all they hate that gets pushed towards them. They have a large amount of land that they are thankful to have and would never let the land go. Throughout the novel they show whoever's reading that you can give up and you have to have courage to do the scary things in life. Courage is the quality of mind or spirit that enables a person to face difficulty, danger, pain, etc., without fear; bravery....
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...jail for helping another person move on. People think assisted suicide should be an option available to a patient; however, others strongly believe that due to many reasons it must not be accepted by society. In fact, five states have tried to legalize assisted suicide, but they were shot down. Also, three countries have legalized assisted suicide. They are Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands. While it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object, but to escape some ill. People should be...
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...Pearl Sold to the Devils for Gold CHARACTERS * JOHN, right eye-blind boy, Paul’s almost little brother * PAUL, left leg-amputated boy, John’s almost big brother * BOSS, syndicate’s leader * SYNDICATE 1/ DOMINIQUE * SYNDICATE 2 * WAITRESS * BOY THIEF * POLICEMAN SCENE ONE Mid-morning, at the street SYNDICATE 1: I think were lucky today! SYNDICATE 2: Why? What’s the reason? SYNDICATE 1: See that kid….Standing near the store. SYNDICATE 2: Yeah! Yeah! I got you. [Syndicate 1 approaches the kid] SYNDICATE 1: Hey there kid! What’s your name? JOHN: I’m John. SYNDICATE 1: How old are you? JOHN: I’m six years old. SYNDICATE 1: Why are you alone? Where are your parents? JOHN: I lost them two years ago. SYNDICATE 1: What happened? JOHN: I can’t remember anything. SYNDICATE: Don’t you have any relatives or friends here? JOHN: I don’t have friends. SYNDICATE 1: Why? You know what, friends give each other gifts. JOHN: Like what? SYNDICATE 1: Like chocolates. Do you want some? JOHN: Uhuh… SYNDICATE 1: Does it taste good? I have more chocolates do you want some more? JOHN: You have more? Do you have lots of it in your pocket? SYNDICATE 1: Yes! But a friend of mine has lots of it in his house. JOHN: Really? She must be rich! How lucky, I wish I was like her…rich… eating all those chocolates. SYNDICATE 1: I’ll introduce you to her. Don’t be afraid, she’s friendly especially to kids who are lonely like you. JOHN: You think so...
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...Listening to Children Crying by Patty Wiper Listening to Children Crying When Your Child Begins to Cry In listening to parents over the years, I have learned a simple truth: parents want good lives for their children. We want our young ones to be happy, loved, respected and understood. We also want the chance to correct the mistakes our parents made with us. For most of us, these goals are far more difficult to achieve than we had imagined. We discover that loving and nourishing a child is complex work that challenges the hardiest grownup. Help is scarce as we juggle too much work, too little time, and the constant call of our children to “Come and play, Daddy!” and “Watch this, Mommy!” It’s no wonder, then, we become troubled when our children start to cry. To us, their crying often feels like parental failure. The scene is familiar: we are shuffling through the day in reasonably good spirits, balancing the children’s needs, our needs and that long mental list of things to be done. One of the children wants a cracker. When the box turns up empty he begins to cry. At this moment, our insides curdle. We become annoyed, worried, tired, exasperated. We try to stop him from crying. Our tactics might be to soothe him, to try to talk him into a cracker substitute, to point out his mistake in wanting crackers before dinner, or to scold him when he doesn’t stop crying over something so silly. We want the crying to stop so the hurt will go away. If we watch...
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