...Middle Childhood Growing up, I had to learn to be more mature than what my age depicted. I was adept at taking care of not only myself but my three younger brothers; being assigned this role around the "middle childhood" age was challenging, causing me to acquire the development for new capabilities. My social development was not necessarily flourishing at this point in time, due to cumulative disruption in my home-life. This led up through my adolescence and even has a tendency to continually disrupt my thoughts through adulthood. Psychologically speaking, I wasn't necessarily a stable child; not having what I would define as "natural" sleeping patterns, I was always overly-emotional and testy with everyone that I met. --Throw in a dab of coyness, and that pretty much sums up my middle childhood period! My thought process and my demeanor seem to strive off of this period of my life, good and bad....
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...some television. I curl up on the couch, turn on the tv and begin to watch one of my favourite tv shows, "The Golden Girls."The show revolves around the lives of four elderly women living in Miami during the 1980s. As I am watching, I for the first time notice the four "elderly" women depicted in the show all defy the general concepts of ageing as well as ageing stereotypes. The female characters all are very healthy, fashionable, energetic, social, employed and have active love lives. This portrayal is a great contrast from the depiction of the grumpy, unhealthy, introverted and frail perceptions modern media and society associates with the elderly. This makes me wonder,...
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...the effect that gender roles have on students, teachers and classrooms. Gender Roles in Teaching Try to think back to childhood, and ask the question how many male teachers did I have? The response to this is predominately low according to the National Education Association, who state that males only make up twenty-five percent of teachers today. It’s important for children to have teachers who are positive role models. Children benefit from having access to both male and female mentors throughout their early childhood education and school years. (Martin 2005). Currently, men make up only twenty-five percent of the elementary teaching workforce and the number of men teaching in early childhood services is even smaller. The NEA also states that at the secondary level, forty-five percent of teachers are male. It is apparent that these sectors of education need more male teachers to address this imbalance and give children the opportunity to learn from quality teachers of both genders. Children at all levels – early childhood, elementary and secondary, need positive role models so that they can become successful adults. Some of the factors that disinterest males from entering the teaching profession are: stereotyping, low pay, and low status. The general perception that men who desire to teach early childhood education or in elementary schools have something wrong with them is largely responsible for the stereotyping concern. Males are often regarded...
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...them select what traits they thought the infant had using a scale one through seven. I selected my subjects in two different ways; the first way was to just ask a few friends that I had over one night to fill out the poll. After asking my friends to take the survey I still had a few polls that needed to be filled out so I used my second way which was to ask random people on the streets of Eastown to take the survey. When I handed out the surveys to friends and random people on the streets I made sure that I asked the equal amount of women and men and made sure to switch up what sex had “Robert” and “Rachel”. Once I had all 12 sheets filled out I calculated the averages of the responses for the boy and girl and came up with the following information. I found many differences between the ratings of the surveys that I gave out. The people who had “Robert” selected more masculine traits for him such as firm, hardy, and strong. For the people who had “Rachel” gave her more feminine traits such as soft, delicate, and beautiful. For the traits that could be either masculine or feminine, like quiet or loud, easy or difficult, happy or sad, just really depended on the judgment of the people who took the survey. Since it was the same picture for both the male and the female the neutral traits were generally the same for both sexes. I feel that the judgment of the person’s stereotype depended on how that person was raised. These results are the results that I thought would happen...
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...November 2013 Race is Not a Factor in Inadequacy Race in America today can be directly based off stereotypes. A person’s race is as irrelevant as the car they drive. Yet theses irrelevant things tell us something. It gives us a view on how better he or she is compared to one another. The way it is in our society and generation; a superior car equals a superior person. This is obviously not a biological reason, yet this is a way we divide ourselves as individuals. This is very comparable to the "micro-level" of racism mentioned in the writings of Michael Omi and Howard Winant, which separates two people by a noticeable factor (Omi 12). Race has nothing to do with my or anyone else abilities or intelligence. In our society we build descriptions of an entire group of individuals that demonstrate a certain qualities of that separates one group from others. Our society defines these groups as stereotypes. When we glance at a group of people that stand out from social norms, we place them into another class. The motive is to not load ourselves with this excess of information. It is difficult to bear in mind everyone's individuality. This is why we have stereotypes. However, there are times when put a mark of superiority or inferiority onto another stereotype. We critic these stereotypes, and we do not distinguish the individuals in their group. That is how we view our stereotypes. Racism is more or less the exact same thing. When we see an African American, our view of them is a...
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...essay, “Superman and Me,” talks about the stereotypes of Indians and his efforts on combating those stereotypes. Throughout his essay, Alexie uses parallelism, repetition, and metaphors to emphasize important ideas, stress how hard he tried to save his life and other Indians’ lives, and make the readers feel emotion. In paragraphs seven and eight, Alexie uses parallelism and repetition to emphasize important ideas and stress how hard he tried to save his and other lives. His accounts of repetition are mostly shown throughout paragraph seven. In this paragraph, he constantly starts sentences with the words “I read.” He also writes about these instances of reading in separate sentences, instead...
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...University of Phoenix Material Leslie Maxwell kennasnana@email.phoenix.edu May 13, 2012 Appendix B Part I Define the following terms: Term Definition Stereotypes Stereotypes are oversimplified beliefs in a particular group of people. Stereotypes are usually based on race, ethnicity, or gender. Someone that is judged by their membership in a group instead of on their own individual differences. Prejudice An opinion of belief learned from environmental factors such as friends, relatives, and mass media. Though there are many theories about prejudices and how they are created and approached, most believe that prejudices are taught from a very young age. Labeling theory The labeling theory is the belief that the view of deviance according to which being labeled as a "deviant" leads a person to engage in deviant behavior. The labeling theory explains why people’s behavior clashes with social norms. A person that is labeled may incorporate the label into his/her self-concept. Part II Select three of the identity categories below and name or describe at least 3 related stereotypes for each: • Race • Ethnicity • Religion • Gender • Sexual orientation • Age • Disability Category Stereotype 1 Stereotype 2 Stereotype 3 Race All African Americans are good at sports. All Americans are lazy and obese. All Mexicans are illegal aliens. Ethnicity All Arabs or Muslims are terrorists. All Jews are greedy. All Irish...
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...Times’ online article written by Jacqueline Woodson, “The Pain of the Watermelon”, Woodson publicly hanged a so-called friend, Daniel Handler. Woodson starts the article by describing her childhood experience with watermelons, in addition to learning about what the watermelon meant to the history of African-American slavery. The climax of Woodson’s frustration is expressed when she describes an incident between her and Handler during the National Book Award. Immediately after giving her acceptance speech, Handler said “‘Jackie’s allergic to watermelon . . . Just let that sink in your mind’” (2). This was a critical moment to Woodson because her mission as a writer was to “change the face of literature and erase stereotypes. Forever” (2). In Handler’s defense, Woodson only mentions to her readers one conversation between her and Handler where she describes a dinner, “last summer, at his home in Cape Cod, he served watermelon soup and I let him know I was allergic to the fruit” (2). However, throughout the article, she gives a deeper insight as she describes her allergy as a “deep revulsion that came from the psychological...
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...their view of other people around them. Because of this writers feel that they need to convey the importance of finding one’s own identity then taking the time to learn and respect other people’s identity. Then also how dangerous it can be if we let stereotyping cloud our judgements on ourselves and those around us. Some example of texts where writers that explore this theme are, the poem “Bred in South Auckland” by Glen Colquhoun, the poem “Search for my Tongue” by Sujata Bhatt, the short story ‘’On the Sidewalk Bleeding” by Evan Hunter and the short story “After you my Dear Alphonse” by Shirley Jackson. These four texts can be separated into two groups. The first group is the way that stereotyping can affect people’s view on their own search for identity in both positive and negative ways. This would be the poems, “Bred in South Auckland “and “Search for my Tongue”. The Second group is the way that stereotyping can affect people’s view on others identity which would be the short stories, “On the Sidewalk Bleeding” and “After you my Dear Alphonse”. The idea of stereotyping affecting the search for identity in ourselves is seen in the poem “Bred in South Auckland”. This is an open and proud poem about a young man who lives in South Auckland and is a mixture of the...
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...Anna Quindlen had children so she could watch lightning bugs with them, or so she wants you to think. By uses lightning bugs as a symbol of childhood innocence; she wants “to stand at a window with a child and show him the lightning bugs and have him say, ‘ Mommy, it’s magic.’” This symbol is her example of how we reduce the complexities that exist everyday into oversimplified symbols or stereotypes. In order to further her point, she also uses an anecdote of “a survey in a women’s magazine” which questions why the reader has kids, but there are only five options. The complex decision of bearing children simplified to only five choices. Using a rhetorical question, she introduces her deeper purpose officially. This reduces any hostility...
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...of the rich leads to them being viewed as socially powerful and famous, capturing the attention of many people. Since the media constantly covers stories on the rich in many forms, there have been numerous perspectives and opinions on this certain cultural group. With the help of the media, the rich have succeeded in communicating the power and dominance they have in society due to their economic position. Based on my experience with the media, I have often seen news flashes and television shows of rich personalities and characters. This started right from my childhood days, when I watched cartoons and it had rich characters (such as Muffy from the show “Arthur”), up to the present time, when I’m logged on to Facebook and I see trending articles on rich celebrities (such as Kim Kardashian’s grand wedding). The rich are over represented in the media, and I feel it’s heavily due to the high amount of money they make, allowing them to indulge in various activities (for example, producing reality shows, buying sports teams, or even acquiring illegal drugs). From my experience, I have often heard widespread criticism on the meaningless activities that the rich get involved with, when they could have used their money to support policies or initiatives that benefit the poor. Instead, a lot of rich personalities land themselves in the limelight for wasting their money on acts that ruin their reputation and cause negative reactions from the public. These rich people use their position...
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...it to my Facebook page about a week ago. The post was accompanied by a picture of a middle-aged woman with an elderly gentleman in tow. Passengers on a commercial flight were witness to a case of elder abuse that left the elderly gentlemen in tears and the passengers enraged. There is no way to know if the story that was posted was true, but it certainly was heartbreaking and representative of an all too real problem that is on the rise in this country - elder abuse, a consequences of ageism. Defined Ageism is defined as prejudice or discrimination on the basis of a person's age and is the systematic stereotyping and discrimination against people simply because they are old (Adams, 2000). The main theme with ageism is that younger people cannot relate to the elderly and see the gap between the two groups as very wide. As people begin to age their bodies, personalities and memories begin to change and those changes lead to the young having a hard time identifying with the...
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...I am a stereotype. In fact, my background seems like the perfect audition reel for a Dr. Phil episode. I was born a black female to a teenage mother and an absentee father. In addition, my stepfather had a drinking problem that made him verbally abusive to me and physically abusive to my mother. I am a storybook recipe for disaster. I am a stereotype, but I am a woman who overcame. I am victorious. I am a black female. Throughout my years of education I was usually the only black female in my class, and sometimes the only person of color at all. I had to explain to my white friends why I didn’t have to wash my hair everyday, and how my hair magically grew from one day to the next. And more importantly, I was the one that was the voice for my entire race every February. It was a challenge I accepted, and that I in return am grateful for. It taught me how to voice my opinion to people of different backgrounds....
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...Childhood Obesity ENG 202 English Composition II Joan Martell Smith 7/3/2011 I. Introduction A. Thesis Statement Obesity can happen to anyone for many reasons and it can be reversed many different ways. There are several causes for obesity in America, including fast- food restaurants and their marketing, hereditary obesity, and people reacting to the stereotypes in the media that you must be beautiful to be accepted. A. Supporting Evidence More and more Americans are becoming obese every single day. “More than half of Americans are overweight, including 1 out of 5 children. Nearly one third are obeseâ€. (Wooten) Childhood obesity is a serious and common disease that is becoming more and more popular for children to be obese. B. Explanation Some parents or people do not understand why or how their children became obese. There are many explanations for this. One can simply be consuming too much food into one’s body. Today’s culture promotes eating habits that contribute to obesity. People may serve large portions of foods that are mostly readily available instead of choosing foods that are most nutritious. C. So What? While it is easy to discuss the facts about childhood obesity, we all Have to look at the backgrounds of people. Obesity is hereditary and this I say from experience, because my mother was obese and I have always had problems with my weight. I. Body paragraph...
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...of their skin. Today, the severity of the racism is not as brutal, but it still exists. Where do these stereotypes start? Television plays a significant part in giving stereotypes to different races. Children’s networks have references to racism, which plants the seed of negativity to another race which will grow throughout the lifetime of a human being. To name a few; Disney Channel, ABC, and movies allude to some type of racism in their television programs. Early 2000’s children are familiar with the Disney Channel comedy, The Suite Life of Zack and Cody. The setting is The Tipton Hotel in Boston, Massachusetts owned by one of the richest men in the world, Mr. Tipton. One of the first characters introduced is Estaban; a struggling...
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