Vygotsky: The Social Connection Vygotsky’s concept of the zone of proximal development is based on the idea that development is defined both by what a child can do independently and by what the child can do when assisted by an adult or more competent peer. According to Vygotsky‚ for the curriculum to be developmentally appropriate‚ the teacher must plan activities that encompass not only what children are capable of doing on their own but what they can learn with the help of others. For example
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Metal Through the course of Beloved‚ metal has a powerful role in describing the slave experience: the slaves are chained‚ beaten‚ and repeatedly dehumanized by different forms of metal. Morrison utilizes metal in the novel as a dehumanizing factor‚ symbol of tenacity‚ and a vessel of memory to illustrate emotional and physical repression of the characters. Paul D refers to his heart as a “tin tobacco box‚” where he shuts away his memories and emotions generated from past brutalities. Through the
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The lessons we take from obstacles we encounter can be fundamental to later success. An obstacle can be a setback and anything that challenges you. I have faced many of challenges‚ but all of them have made me stronger. For example‚ when I was in 7th grade I broke my ankle at the beginning of football season. Another example is when I was in 8th grade I found out I had ADD‚ which makes it really hard to stay focused. Also this past summer I gained 30 pounds‚ which was really hard when football season
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4017B pin connections The 4017 available from Rapid Online decade counter has ten outputs which go HIGH in sequence when a source of pulses is connected to the CLOCK input and when suitable logic levels are applied to the RESET and ENABLE inputs. 2. What is a decade counter? The counting action of the 4017 can be understood from the graph below: Just one of the individual outputs is HIGH at a time. This is quite different from the behaviour of a BCD counter like the 4510 in which it is the combination
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13 Reasons Why is a novel by Jay Asher‚ that will stay with me because it has genuinely changed my outlook on life. I was fascinated by the character Hannah Baker and her poetic way of describing the terrible events that changed her life. Hannah sends 13 cassette tapes to people she blames for her suicide‚ before killing herself by taking a handful of pills. The book is set around Clay Jensen‚ the ninth person to receive the tapes out of twelve. I was fascinated at how all of these people in
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“Somewhere in America there’s a child holding a copy of The Catcher in the Rye and there is a child holding a gun. But only one of these things has been banned by their state government‚ and its not the one that can rip through flesh. It’s the one that says “F*** you” in more pages than one” (Somewhere in America 1). This poem perfectly explains the ‚ Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America‚ ad named “Choose One” about the way the government has dealt with children’s safety. These desperate
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Based on scientific facts the color of a person skin forms according to genes and their environment. Therefore‚ a skin color can not symbolize danger of safety‚ because it is not something that can be controlled. However in the story " Sweetness" by Toni Morrison being the speaker says that being black is something terrible. The speaker mother of Lula Ann’s treated Lula as a treat. She hid her‚ punish her‚ and addressed her only daughter by her color. She blamed their hardships on the fact that her
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lives and her murder still free. One year after Susie’s death her sister and father begin to suspect of the neighbor and look for evidences to incriminate him. Susie fights to get justice and to see her family moving on after their lost. Personal response This is one of the most remarkable books I’ve read. Apart from the shocking beginning of the book‚ Susie telling her brutal murder‚ the rest is really emotional. The book makes an unacceptable tragedy‚ a family grief and the impossibility
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Toni Morrison‚ one of the most important and talented African Americans contemporary writer‚ she wrote a book call “The Bluest Eye” to express her feeling about the social treatment of the American Americans. The Bluest Eye is telling a story about a little girl‚ Pecola‚ who dreams every day to become beautiful. Her family and the surroundings‚ however‚ do not believe in her or makes fun of her. It seems like the whole society wont give her a chance to become beautiful. One of the most touching
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Earth Song! Michael Jackson! ! The biggest problem in todays world is that we are blinded to see the damage that is being done to our planet earth and how it has affected the lives of many especially the lives of innocent children. Throughout this song we can see no future ahead of us without the society changing and for them to show humanity. In the song ‘Earth Song’ written and performed by the King of Pop Michael Jackson exposes the cruelness of society and how we are the reason for not living
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