My family and I went to a local fast-food restaurant for dinner. As we waited patiently in line‚ I noticed a young girl taking orders and diligently checking to make sure she had taken everything down correctly. The family in front of us seemed irritated as the young girl took her time to verify each detail of their large order. When our turn to order came up I provided a concise order in an effort to diffuse her emotional reaction to the gentleman that ordered just before me. She looked up at
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CHALLENGING CHILD OBSERVATION ASSIGNMENT For my observation assignment I chose Sam‚ a four-year-old boy who stays in my class for the aftercare program. I have worked with Sam previously in the camp last summer and became aware of his challenging behavior. For starters‚ he has a medical condition – he is prone to epilepsy (the cause is unknown). Sam is on medication and his doctors are constantly adjusting it and testing his condition. Sam’s parents asked teachers to be on the lookout for
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move. Lucy watched the food move from the teacher’s hand to the table and the her eyes watched the teacher drop the food on the table. Once the teacher started to feed her she would watch the teacher feed her but would often stop and look at another child ignoring the teacher. This could be described as selective attention. “Selective attention is the process of tuning in to certain things while tuning out others” (Levine and Munsch‚ 2016‚ p. 189). She would get distracted and only focus on one thing
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Ali Bush Mr. Harrison English 9 Pre-AP 17 March 2012 As stated by George Washington Carver‚ “How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young‚ compassionate with the aged‚ sympathetic with the striving‚ and tolerant of the weak and the strong -- because someday you will have been all of these.” In Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird‚ Atticus Finch is the father of Jem and Scout Finch‚ while fighting justice as a lawyer in Maycomb County. Atticus Finch is an affectionate‚ benevolent
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I chose the book Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl. Beautiful creatures is about a 15- year old girl who has magical powers and will either turn dark or light on her sixteenth birthday. The main character is Lena Duchannes‚ a caster. Ethan Wate‚ Lena’s boyfriend tries to turn Lena light. The setting takes place in a small southern town of Gatlin South Carolina. The overall tone or mood of the story is romantic and mysterious. The point of view from which the story is told is first
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Playing Sports Beneficial to Overall Health Ever since I started playing tennis‚ I noticed that I have been less aggravated and also a feeling of “calm” after each game. Whatever was bothering me that day becomes a faint memory. Have you been looking for a way to relieve stress‚ get some exercise‚ and make some new friends? Then try playing a sport. It does not matter if you are a child or an adult. Becoming involved in sports is an excellent way to stay fit and relieve stress. You can get out
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Parent Child Observation The setting is a home environment of a friend; the environment is clean‚ warm and sunny. It is not set up for children however‚ there are no toys‚ the child does not have other children to play with‚ and there are about eight other adults present for a get together. The situation seems like it could be possibly boring to a four year old child as there are not any toys‚ he can not run around in the house‚ and is expected to sit still for a while. In terms of safety everything
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Much like Gilgamesh’s quest for fame‚ of wanting his “name stamped on bricks” (70)‚ Odysseus also demonstrates a lust for power and fame. Odysseus relates to Gilgamesh in the sense they are both self-centered‚ proclaimed heroes. Gilgamesh seeks Humbaba to slay him simply for the fame of it while Odysseus reveals his identity to Polyshemus simply to boast of his accomplishment. This completely backfires on him when the Cyclops throws a slab of mountain at their boat‚ resulting in the near death of
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| Observations of Parent-Child Interactions and Temperament Psychology 223 January 23‚ 2013 | Temperament is defined as the features of your personality that are present at birth and have a genetic/biological basis. Your temperament‚ or basic disposition‚ interacts with environmental influences to create your personality (Salters-Pedneault‚ 2010). Temperament is a behavioral style that shows the how of behavior‚ rather than the what or why. Temperamental differences
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surface. This toy is known as the bouncy ball. Usually bouncy balls are made of natural rubber‚ ways have been discovered in which bouncy balls can be made from leather‚ plastics‚ and other types of polymers. In this experiment we created not just any regular bouncy ball‚ but one whose materials are not harmful to the environment. In other words‚ we created the perfect eco-friendly bouncy ball. The materials we used to create this eco-friendly ball were polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) and polyvinyl
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