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    Haoran Wang Professor King English 1A 8 April 2015 Prompt 1 The “hidden curriculum” that Jean Anyon investigates is that “school works try to make children remain their social class with their parents and thus perpetuates the maintenance of the status quo and the ongoing gap between rich and poor.” Basically‚ the “hidden curriculum” is set up for children to stay within their parents’ social class. Jean Anyon discovered that the working class children are being educated for mechanical and low wage-labor

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    social expectations‚ no competitions and no submission to the social hierarchy. Imagine yourself being free‚ peaceful‚ strong and powerful. Jean-Jacques Rousseau calls this state the natural state of man‚ the state that everyone should aspire to live in and that brings power to an individual. By exploring the natural state of man we are able to see how Jean-Jacques Rousseau developed a new understanding of the individual. According to Rousseau man should want to live in the natural state. Nithin

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    Jean-Baptiste Greuze was born in 1725. He was born into a middle-class family. Greuze then grew up to study painting in Lyon in the 1740’s beneath the popular portrait artist‚ Charles Grandon. He study with Grando for about ten years. In 1750 Greuze moved to Paris‚ he had gotten accepted the Royal Academy as a student. Then he was admitted as an Associate member of the Academy when he submitted a few of his painting. Which were A Father Reading the Bible to His Family‚ this painting shows an older

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    2003). Early psychologists studying human behavior addressed its vast nature of human behavior yet failed to consider the circumstance(s) that contributed to the behavior even though they acknowledged nature versus nurture. An example of this is Jean Piaget’s cognitive theory‚ which examined the behavior of children but failed to fully acknowledge the impact of the adult on this behavior. Instead he theorized that children learn on their own without the intervention of older children or adults

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    effects. The paintings are a colorful representation what seem to be high ranking soldiers in uniform. The first painting named Bashi-Bazouk of a soldier in a turning manner is on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art is by the artist‚ Jean-Leon Gerome of France. Gerome created an oil base painting on a 31 3/4 x 26-inch canvas in 1868 and completed it in 1869. The artist Gerome makes the viewer observe the composition at eye level in a triangular manner emphasizing the soldier from the

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    Claude McKay was born on September 15th 1890‚ in the West Indian island of Jamaica. He was the youngest of eleven children. At the age of ten‚ he wrote a rhyme of acrostic for an elementary-school gala. He then changed his style and mixed West Indian folk songs with church hymns. At the age of seventeen he met a gentlemen named Walter Jekyll‚ who encouraged him to write in his native dialect. Jekyll introduced him to a new world of literature. McKay soon left Jamaica and would never return to his

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    Memories of Scout The narrator Jean Louise Finch‚ nicknamed Scout‚ in Lee ’s novel To Kill a Mockingbird‚ is a complex‚ innocent character. She possesses a wide range of traits‚ which undergo a transformation‚ as she matures. My interest in Scout stems from three main qualities of her personality with which I can personally identify. She displays curiosity‚ courage‚ and a love of reading throughout the novel. Scout ’s curiosity is revealed through questions she asks her father to understand what

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    CHAPTER I PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND INTRODUCTION Wood is a hard‚ fibrous structural tissue found in the stems and roots of trees and other woody plants. It has been used for thousands of years for both fuel and as a construction material. In a living tree it performs a support function‚ enabling woody plants to grow large or to stand up by them. It also mediates the transfer of water and nutrients to the leaves and other growing tissues. Wood may also refer to other plant materials with comparable

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    Jean Piaget and cognitive development. Cognitive development is the study of a child ’s development in terms of factors such as information processing‚ language acquisition and conceptual resources. A part of both neuroscience and psychology‚ cognitive development is concerned with understanding how a child negotiates meaning when first faced with the world‚ and how that meaning changes as the child becomes more communicative on a verbal level with other individuals. Key questions in this field

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    line is told early in the book of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. One may not truly understand the importance of this one line until the book is complete. How can one person change and mold a group of girls alone? Is it brain washing? Or is it something much more dangerous? Miss Jean Brodie was an educator‚ someone that was in a profession to be trusted and help children gain knowledge and grow into individuals who could make a difference in the world. However‚ Miss Jean Brodie was a different

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