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    Fairy Tales

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    I believe that reading fairy tales to children could be one of the most influential things in the upbringing of a child‚ although I know there is an opposing side to this matter. Through reading these fairy tales that have been passed down to our families from one generation to the next‚ I believe that these stories have helped to teach children how to explore their imagination‚ always tell the truth‚ and to know right from wrong. Over the past few decades there have been conflicts over the

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    The Cricket Boy

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    The Cricket Boy (A Chinese Tale) A long time ago‚ cricket fighting caught on in the imperial court‚ with the emperor leading the fad. A local magistrate in Huayin‚ who wanted to win the favor of the monarch‚ tried in every way to get him the best fighting crickets. He had a strategy for doing so: He managed to get a cricket that was very good at fighting. He then made his subordinates go to the heads of each village and force them to send in a constant supply of

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    Discourses in Childhood

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    discourses of childhood and suggest the ways that they can have an impact on children’s lives. The concept of discourse is the key to understanding a social constructionist approach to childhood. A discourse is an independent set of interrelated ideas held by a particular ideology or worldview. The social constructionist approach tries to describe the different ways in which knowledge of children and childhoods are constructed. Different discourses of childhood have different ideas of childhood which has

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    The whipping boy

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    The Whipping Boy The Whipping Boy is a short story‚ written by Richard Gibney in 2011‚ and used for the written English exams in the summer of 2013 in Denmark. The Whipping Boy is a story about three slaves‚ two men and a woman‚ who get told that they’re no longer slaves‚ and that they can do whatever they want to. The two men start off by killing the ground dogs‚ because the dogs are considered evil towards the slaves. Afterwards they whip their former owner‚ because they want him to feel‚ how

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    The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer is a group of stories where pilgrims tell tales during their journey to a holy shrine in Canterbury. There are 29 pilgrims but the first two pilgrims to tell tales are the knight and the miller. The miller practically mirrors the knight’s story. The miller’s tale uses elements similar to the knight’s tale but it corrupts those same elements by mimicking them. The miller’s tale and the knight’s tales are very different although they have some similarities.

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    written in 1892 by Sir Arthur Doyle‚ he was qualified as a doctor which gave him a medical perspective for all his stories. ‘The lamb to the slaughter’ was written in 1952 by Roald Dahl most famous for writing children’s stories although he did write adult material such as the book ‘The lamb to the slaughter featured in ‘The tales of the unexpected’. Detective stories mainly base themselves around solving murder cases; the reader is taken on a journey to find who is guilty and their motive which is normally

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    Middle Childhood

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    Middle childhood (usually ages 6-12) is a time that children are becoming more independent of family and begin looking toward their peers for social direction (Peer Relationships in Middle Childhood‚ n.d.). At this stage children are spending more time with their friends and wish to be liked and accepted by others (Psychology Campus‚ 2008). Children are now competing with each other to find their position in the social hierarchy (Kennedy-More‚ E. 2013). According to (Kennedy-More‚ E. 2013)‚ there

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    boy overboard

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    will be the means to turn around his government‚ his country‚ and life for his family. But Jamal is about to embark upon an adventure more ‘bold‚ wild‚ dangerous and crazy’ than he could ever imagine. In reality‚ it is far from an ‘adventure’. A young boy facing the unknown and dealing with incredible adversity does give the story an edge of excitement and suspense as a true adventure would. But for Jamal and his family who are thrust into a terrible situation‚ there is no such thing as real choice.

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    Fairy Tale

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    Lit Trans The Angel Contrasted to garden of eden Eden=man’s demise Angel= rise up to the divine Centered around nostalgia Romanticized to relish all good memories Bridge between dream and reality Biedermier The comet Biedermier Comet and man are symbols of cycle of life Everything is harmonious and creates gentle tone (biedermier) Soul is going with the comet so it is moving upward Andersen not fond of school teachers but believed that education was important and a person engaging

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    Childhood

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    The following questions can be written answers for your Certificate. Please complete the questions which your assessor has asked you to complete. Unit 006 Contribute to the Support of Child and Young Person Development Outcome 1: 2. Identify different observation methods and know why they are used. Additional Guidance: Different observation methods may include: Running records‚ Diary‚ Anecdotal‚ Time sampling‚ Event recording‚ Checklist‚ Narrative‚ Group‚ solo and 1-2-1 interaction‚ Observation

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