Asian‚ and 4.9% preferred not to answer. For their participation‚ a chance to enter a random gift card drawing was offered. The participants were 18 to 37 years old (M = 20.59‚ SD= 3.162). Materials and Procedure Measures. Locus of Control Scale (Rotter‚ 1966). The Locus of Control is a 13 item questionnaire that measures a person’s perception of control which is internal or external control of reinforcement. Individuals with a high internal locus of control believes that their own actions determine
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problem and her progressive thinking son‚ Julian‚ on their newly integrated bus ride to the gym. The story strives off of the tension built between white and black people commercing together on a newly integrated bus system. “Everything That Rises Must Converge” takes place over a very small amount of time during the civil rights movement and spans just the small trip of an incomplete bus ride. Here‚ Julians personality and motives will be analyzed‚ Julians mother will be examined‚ and the symbolism
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Response Paper- Silence Bruises The Heart In The Speed of Light‚ by Elizabeth Rosner‚ Jacob Perel went through the very traumatic experience of the Holocaust. Because Jacob Perel did not share his holocaust experience with Paula and Julian‚ he impacted Paula‚ Julian‚ and himself in a negative way. Paula‚ Jacob’s daughter‚ always coasts through life with an effortless smile across her face…or so it seems. Paula has a beautiful‚ angelic voice that could stop you in your tracks. “Paula had filled
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Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy Julian West‚ the main character of Looking Backward‚ was born into a rich family in the late nineteenth century. The gap between the rich and poor was very huge and seemed impossible to fix. Like the other people of his high class‚ Julian thought that he was greater than the poor people‚ and he saw their constant strikes with anger and contempt. He was engaged to Edith Bartlett‚ who was a beautiful and graceful Boston lady. They planned to get married when the
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up learning different beliefs from their parents‚ who usually still hold on to old fashioned beliefs and ideas. “Everything That Rises Must Converge”‚ by Flannery O’ Connor‚ is considered a humorous but enthralling tale of a college graduate named Julian who lives with his prejudiced mother. The story takes place a couple years after segregation ended in the South‚ and African Americans and Caucasians can share public transit. Throughout the story‚ O’Connor impresses the reader with her consequent
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illegitimate son‚ Julian McGrath (Dylan and Cole Sprouse). Sonny awakes to find Julian abandoned at his and Kevin’s apartment‚ with a written explanation that Julian’s mother is now declining to care further for Julian. It is later revealed at the Social Services Office that the boy’s mother died of cancer. Kevin‚ at the airport ready to go to China‚ gets a call from Sonny‚ informing him of the letter and the boy. Sonny decides to handle the situation himself‚ and‚ in the process‚ decides Julian will solve
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day approximately nine thirty to be exact‚ my heart felt like it wanted to stop. It was pounding as fast as a racing car engine. I was at work when I received a phone call from my fiancé Allan letting me know that something had happened to my son Julian. So‚ thoughts were piling in my head trying to find out whether it was good or bad. All I could hear was that he was trying to open the door and went through it. Now I am thinking about how bad the situation was. Did he cut his face‚ arms or legs
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the play Knyum. The main characters in both stories‚ Julian and Guy‚ respectively‚ each have their own personal struggles for identity in which they attempt to pursue and achieve in. Guy is a Cambodian-American expresses his struggle to show his true identity of combining both American‚ Western culture and his Cambodian heritage. Julian is currently living with his mother impoverished‚ and believes that he should
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creates a struggling relationship between two main characters‚ Julian and his mother. Through this relationship the author shows us how Julian and his mother use racist tendencies in quite different ways to fulfill their interests and to contribute to the theme of racism in the story. In the story‚ Julian’s mother is described as a woman from the "Old South" where racial tendencies are acceptable and justified. Her son Julian‚ who grew into the "New South" expectations is portrayed
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Julian Barnes destroys this expectation by placing the chapters in random order. If the first chapter focuses on the biblical events‚ then the second chapter‚ The Visitors‚ shows late twentieth century and describes a terroristic attack on a cruise liner
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