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    Assignment I Human Growth & Development Monday-Thursday 10:30 a.m. – 12:45 p.m. Journal Journal of Personality Title What Is More Important for National Well-Being: Money or Autonomy? A Meta-Analysis of Well-Being‚ Burnout‚ and Anxiety Across 63 Societies Authors Ronald Fischer and Diana Boer Year‚ Volume‚ Pages 2011‚ Vol. 101‚ No. 1‚ 164–184 Why was the study conducted? The study was conducted to see if people would rather have money or basically have freedom‚ which also means

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    American English. Journal of sociolinguistics 3: 428-41. Eckert‚ P. (1980). Clothing and geography in a suburban high school. Researching American culture. C. P. Kottak. Ann Arbor‚ University of Michigan Press139-45: 45-48. Eckert‚ P. (1989). Jocks and burnouts: Social categories and identity in the high school. New York‚ Teachers College Press. Eckert‚ P. (1997). Age as a sociolinguistic variable. Handbook of Sociolinguistics. F. Coulmas. Oxford‚ Basil Blackwell: 151-67. Eckert‚ P. (2008). Variation

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    The first of the four Approaches I will discuss is Attention to Speech. Taglimonte (2006: p.8) suggests that it is “the style from which every other style must be calibrated”. William Labov devised a sociolinguistic interview designed to produce a range of types of speech. His main interest was to obtain and identify data that represented people’s casual speech‚ rather than speech that was altered due to the presence of an observer. Most of the interview was conversational and produced two types

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    The theory behind a community of practice was first introduced by Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger (1991). Firstly described within their novel Situated Learning: Legitimate Peripheral Participation (1992)‚ yet their theory was not noticeably defined until Penelope Eckert (2006) gave this theory the title community of practice. Eckert defines a community of practice as “a collection of people who engage in an ongoing basis in some common endeavor” (Eckert‚ 2006) which is exactly what we see within the

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    Breakfast Club Analysis Essay The Breakfast Club consists of five main characters. The Princess‚ The Jock‚ The Basketcase‚ The Burnout‚ and The Geek. These characters are affected by numerous factors‚ such as: parental influences‚ peer pressure‚ culture ideals‚ and psychodynamics. Bryan was interpreted to be the geeky one of the group. His parents pressured him to get superior grades and nothing less. Bryan’s parents were not only hard on him about school but they were very controlling and

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    questions to show thoughts about the teenager suicide cases not only in Bergenfield but also in many places elsewhere in the world. These questions are asked on page 10 and 11 of the book Mapping the Social Landscape‚ in which she asked‚” did the burnouts see themselves as a community under siege?” and “ what betrayed them in the long‚ cold night? Was the suicide pact an act of cowardice by four ‘losers‚’ or the final refuge of kids helplessly and hopelessly trapped?” 2. What are the research methods

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    Valedictory Speech – Abigail Wolnicki To say our class has all the classic TV tropes of any film set in a high school would be cliché‚ but it’s the truth. We have our freshmen‚ preps‚ nerds‚ jocks‚ Asian Nerds‚ cool Asians‚ girls who eat their feelings‚ girls who don’t eat anything‚ desperate wannabes and burnouts‚ but also the greatest people you’ll ever meet. All Mean Girls quotes aside‚ the people in this class are some of the greatest people I’ve ever met. I came to Toowoomba Christian College

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    Marketing Principles ‘Jock Dolly’ 1. Analysis of the tribe’s profile Profile – The jock has been a part of society for as long as civilized culture has existed. The term jock refers to the classic stereotype of a male athlete‚ which includes traits such as; • Attractive/muscly • Athletic • Unintelligent • Popular with girls The Jock Dolly however‚ is a new generation of males aged between 16-35 who have evolved from the classic jock. Jock Dolly’s are now more metro-sexual‚ worried

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    Men and women in our culture are constantly forced to act a certain way. Humanity takes joy in dictating how each gender should behave. In Jock Culture by Robert Lipstye and Strong Enough by Wendy Shanker‚ we learn countless pressures and insecurities both women and men face in today’s society. The tension placed on both men and women to meet a certain standard often lead to catastrophic outcomes. Unfortunately‚ both men and women constantly feel the pressure of fitting into society’s norms‚ and

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    October 2011 Jock stereotype Stereotypes are different thoughts that a variation of people hold about people who are different from them. A stereotype can be associated with a single word or slogan; such as nerd‚ or jock. Stereotypes can be expressed in either a negative or positive way. Most people apply stereotypes in a negative way to make them feel more superior over others. The category that most people would place me under would be the classification of an athlete or jock. The jock title that

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