Participation Trophies: Reward Children For Hard Work
The trophy industry has reported that within the past forty years their sales have increased by five-hundred precent. The industry’s annual profits average around two billion dollars has recently allowed them to compete with the weight-loss industry. One of the reasons for the sudden peak in this particular industry is the additional sales of participation trophies (a trophy given to everyone who participates in a particular sporting event where they did not qualify for first, second or third place). Over…...
Child DevelopmentChildhood DevelopmentHard Work
The Operation That Changed Lives
As a young kid, Henry Gustav Molaison also famously known as H.M, was riding his bike and got hit by a car. This traumatic event caused petit mal and grand mal seizures daily. Petit mal seizures can cause uncontrollable, rapid eye movement, and mal seizures can cause drop attacks, which make a person fall to the ground. Because of these seizures, H.M wasn’t able to have a normal childhood or any life at all. At age 27, he met Dr.…...
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The connection between childhood and nature by poetry
In Light in August, Wuthering Heights, and the poetry of William Blake, society disrupts the link between childhood and nature. Like the motherless boy in Blake's 'The Chimney Sweeper' who is manipulated through the promises of religion, or the group of children paraded through England's streets in 'Holy Thursday,' a child's natural link to motherly love and nurture is cut, and instead, the child is molded to fit society's image. Like in Blake's 'London,' society is more masculine, structured, and…...
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