Case of Kathrine and Michelle Biological Components Katherine is a 45-year old widow‚ who lives with her 16 -year old daughter Michelle. Katherine upbringing described as having a “tumultuous” relationship with her mother and having a cold‚ strict disciplinarian‚ grandmother as a caregiver‚ alludes to an unsecure attachment she had as a child which largely explains her behavior as a parent. As it relates to her relationship with Michelle and her parenting skills‚ her clinginess‚ over attach‚ strict
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The Stranger Situation study was used by Ainsworth and Bell (1970) to measuring attachment. The aim was to see how infant act under conditions of mild stress. Three participants were mothers‚ infant and stranger. A child is placed in 8 different situations and combining mothers and stranger connects with an infant. Mother and child put into a room alone and the child explore the toys. A stranger enters the room and
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Georg Simmels’‚ The Stranger‚ gives us an in depth view of who strangers are and how they affect the community they are apart of. It combines the seemingly contradictory qualities of nearness and farness and how they connect to the broader social communities. The behavior of a normal or "inside" group within a society is standard‚ thus causing every other behavior that is different to this norm to be negative. The stranger is valued for his or her objectivity‚ for being able to take a distanced
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Talking to Strangers Online In recent years‚ the Internet has proved itself to be a niche of ever-growing clientele‚ offering its users a multitude of venues of entertainment‚ education and other beneficial uses; but other venues of mischief it provides as well. It has been a matter of public discord and a concern of parents and educationalists that millions of teen patrons are now ’online.’ A lot of them use the internet regularly‚ interacting with all sorts of content and technologies‚ and yet
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Katherine Johnson Katherine Johnson is an African-American physicist and mathematician. She was born on august 26 ‚ 1918. Apparently‚ she is still alive and she is 98 years old.She was born in White Sulphur Spring ‚ West Virginia.She worked at NASA for 33 years.She was hired by NACA in 1953 to work as a human computer and retired from NASA in 1986.She started high school at the age of 10 and at the age of 18 ‚ she graduated summa cum laude with degrees in mathematics and French.She has been honored
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1) Summary of “I’m donating my kidney to a stranger” “I’m donating my kidney to a stranger” is an article written by Richard Wilson in 2008. The article is about a woman‚ Paula Wilson‚ who is considered to be Scotland’s first altruistic organ donor. Paula’s decision began when her mother suffered from kidney failure. Paula wanted to donate her kidney to her mother‚ to save her. Unfortunately Paula and her mother’s blood type wasn’t the same. Therefore Paula couldn’t donate her kidney to her mother
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Sisyphus" was the basis for future reference to what literary critics and the like would refer to as the "tragic hero". The tragic hero‚ as defined by Camus‚ is a character in a story‚ play‚ or novel that is forever doomed to an undesirable fate. In The Stranger‚ the story’s protagonist Monsieur Meursault would be defined as a "tragic hero". He is eventually doomed to a most horrible fate‚ he feels no hope for himself or his survival‚ and he accepts what he has to do with no question. As a result of the
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question. I believe that people aren’t truly evil‚ rather that their actions and behaviors are evil. You can be the holiest person on this planet‚ and still fall into sin. But‚ that does not make you a bad person. In chapter 4 of the first part of “The Stranger” page numbers 38 and 39‚ old Salamano lost his dog at the Parade Ground. He went to take his dog there‚ as always‚ and old Salamano stopped to watch “The King of Escape Artists.” and when he went to leave‚ the dog was gone. Meursault tried helping
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B: Living with Strangers Siri Hustvedt is famous for her essays and an interesting one is "Living with Strangers"‚ where Hustvedt enlightens us with her viewpoints on the two different types of living; suburban and urban. Siri Hustvedt shows exactly what a talented writer she is in this essay. Hustvedt manages to place the essay "Living with strangers" just in between a short story and an article‚ as it’s not purely fiction and yet not entirely literal either. All-though‚ she keeps her main focus
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An Abundance of Katherines speaks to a group of kids who just can’t seem to get it right. The main character‚ Colin Singleton‚ is exactly what I look for in a main character in a book. He’s a child prodigy with an IQ over 200‚ his entire life he has been expected to excel in all things academic. Most of his life he has been told to be good at things since he was about three‚ so he went to a special school and made no friends‚ except maybe his private tutor who could keep up with him intellectually
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