Genie‚ the second case of wild child was found in a room tied to a potty chair. Genie was kept in a room locked away because her father thought she was retarded at birth until the age of 13‚ when she was rescued by a social worker. She was locked away from normal civilization and any type of socialization‚ and she was beaten for making noises. Genie was an infant trapped in a 13 year old body‚ because she could only make infant like sounds and no words or sentences. Genie’s brain waves were adnormal
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This essay is about socialisation‚ and what extent does the experience of feral children provide evidence of its importance as learning process. It will also discuss the types of socialisation‚ unsocialisation and the “differential” the main agents of socialisation and process of re-socialisation According to Giddens (1997) defines socialisation as a process through which the helpless infant gradually becomes self-aware‚ knowledgeable person‚ skilled in the way the culture into which he or she is
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Sources used as related texts for belonging - mina mirzakhani 1) Name of Source – Wild Child (2008 film) Name of Composer – Nick Moore Brief Synopsis - In a wild prank with her friends‚ Poppy Moore ruins all her father’s girlfriend’s belongings. When her father angrily arrives‚ he tells her that he is sending her to boarding school in England. How it relates to Belonging – Poppy doesn’t belong in her normal affluent teenage life in California and gets sent to a posh all girls school in England
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Feral Cats have become a large problem in Oregon‚ as well as surfacing across the nation. Feral Cats should be Trapped‚ Neutered‚ and Released instead of being Trapped and Killed. The Cats should only be euthanized in the case of irreparable diseases. These cats deserve animal liberation in the sense that they feel pain just as we as humans do‚ and we as humans possess the moral duty to prevent that pain. With a non-egalitarian view of Biocentric Individualism view on things we can determine
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Benny Kimball BI-430-01 December 12‚ 2013 Sus Scrofa (Feral Hog) Species Profile The Profile: Sus scrofa‚ commonly known as feral hogs‚ have been present in North America region since the arrival of the earliest settlers in the sixteenth century (Ditchkoff and West 2007). Colonist’s originally released feral hogs because of the high adaptability of this species to their surrounding habitat and ability to survive thus being a ready food supply for settlers. Due to their high adaptability to
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“Secrets of a Wild Child” Genie was a child who was kept virtually a prisoner. She was held by her parents in a suburb of Arcadia‚ Los Angeles‚ California. At thirteen years old‚ on November 4‚ 1970‚ she was discovered and was taken into custody by officials. Genie is not her real name; it has been changed to hide her identity. She was kept in such isolation by her parents she never even learned to talk‚ walk and eat correctly. She was still even wearing diapers when a social worker discovered
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place gives me the assumption the Genie was not able to actually become familiar with her surroundings. I believe that Genie needed to just be loved and cared for as a child as I said before. This affected Genie negatively because she went from being in a household with two parents to going back to a foster home with tons of children around her. 3. The person that I think should give consent is a judge. I believe that doctors or researcher’s should have to write up what they plan on taking out of
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The Secret of the Wild Child is a documentary about a feral child referred to as Genie. Social workers found her tied to a potty chair in a bare room alone. They soon found out Genie was actually 13 years old‚ but she appeared much younger and was cognitively on the same level as a toddler. Psychologists and Doctors were faced with the controversial topic of nature vs nurture. Is Genie condition from her environment or was she born this way? And what is the best way for them to help her?
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could barely walk. Her father’s reason for keeping Genie isolated was that he believed that she was retarded from birth. Her mother takes no responsibility‚ claiming she too was abused by her controlling husband. Both of her parents were charged with child abuse; but her father killed himself shortly after and her mother was able to beat the charges. Genie was taken to The Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles where she would meet several specialist assigned to her case. Shirley‚ an isolation specialist
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The Wild Child In basic psychology classes‚ students will cover the main principles of language and communication development. To help validate the concept of what is known as the Critical Period Hypothesis‚ the disturbing case of Genie Wiley is used as an example. The critical exposure period describes that children from ages between four months and five years old have the best ability to understand phonemes and morphemes‚ as well as incorporating these into their own proper speech; however‚ from
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