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Experiences play a vital role in molding ones expectations, desires and dreams about the future.
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Experiences play a vital role in molding ones expectations, desires and dreams about the future. Where one lives, the people around an individual comprising the family members, neighbors, colleagues, and teachers actually influence the direction ones life take through sharing of experience, looking back at ones life one cannot help but wonder how much the people around one and the shared experience have made what one is today.
Growing up with as the only kid in a family with a variety of handicaps is not easy. I was born with a disability on my feet this in turn affected my growth and my mobility. All through my life Abraham who was older than me helped to move around especially mother who had been very supportive his eyes, and the source of my motivation to me, She was always jovial, whenever other family members were not at home some neighbors stepped in to help look after me. Mum managed to take me to school where I pursued my education with determination.
After my education I managed to get a job at a call center dealing with the environment where I worked for 12 year but I got tired of working at the desk and answering peoples queries and decided that I will go back to school and better my grades in order to get a better job with better pay I did a course in design and graphics and after years of hard work and not forgetting that by now I was already married to Josh who is my husband of 12 years the balancing act of taking care of the house and attending classes was not easy. After finishing my education I managed to get a job at the Nationwide Insurance where I worked for some time but again calamity struck as on my way to work one day slipped of my wheel chair and fell hurting my shoulders I was given some days off but I extended the sick off by a day and I got fired for changing the date on my sick off card. I filed for workers compensation as I had got injured on the way to work.
I love dogs and when I got fired I decided to dedicate all my time to looking after them especially Casey a dog I adopted 12 years ago she is my life. I got another puppy called Daisy whom I got in Indiana after Josh told me of basset hound that he once had while he was a young boy. I took care of her and decided she would start breeding when she turned 1 and half years and when she did she gave birth to a beautiful litter that I ended keeping one and named her Peppy.
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After working at the desk for 12 years the issue motivated me to work hard and join the university my graduation was the best moment of my life. Looking back and remembering the challenges I faced gives me the spirit to overcome any obstacles that come my way. I have learnt that the people and things around someone can influence how someone turns out to be and most of all the family members support can determine if a family member rises from the ground and start again.
HOW CHILDREN EXPERIENCE LEARNING
HOW CHILDREN EXPERIENCE LEARNING
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How Children Experience Learning
Children have different ways of learning. However, the essential thing is that children get their initial information and learning from their parents, and later as they begin to walk and talk, they get more education from schools. Therefore, it is always difficult for children to learn, even though most people see it as an easy way to learn. For instance, during the exercise of writing or drawing using a hand that is not generally used for writing, I realized how hard it is for children to learn since I felt it very difficult. This comes despite the different theories which have been proposed. For example, Noam Chomsky’s language acquisition theory states that children are born with the innate ability to understand language. This means that children are already endowed with the knowledge and do not have to learn everything from blank. Therefore if this is the case, the question comes in what about other aspects of the child? This paper, thus, explores learning in children and explains the different processes involved in learning.
How was it like writing in your non-dominant hand?
First of all, it felt entirely off, and there was an enormous temptation that I should shift and write in my dominant hand. However, I did not change hands; I continued writing in my non-dominant hand until I finished. It was complicated at first since my mind was not used to that handwriting. Therefore, there must have had been a lot of change in the brain whereby the whole body was involved in the writing, not just the hand.
Was it easy, fun, frustrating?
Writing using my non-dominant hand was frustrating. When a person is not used to doing something, it becomes frustrating; however, a person can keep on trying until they perfectly do what they are expected to do with ease. Therefore, writing using the non-dominant hand was frustrating because the activity had to force my brain and my writing and the other party involved in writing, like the muscles, to adapt to the new change.
1.3 How does this change your opinion of children at this age and their writing/drawing abilities?
For the young children who keep on trying to write and fail, I understand them in a better manner since I have done the exercise. It is clearly understood how it is difficult to write and learn how to write for a person like the children who have never written or drawn before. Therefore the experience of my left-hand writing made me change my view and opinion towards the young ones. This is because understanding how difficult it is, instead of criticizing the young ones I might interact with or even those at home, I will encourage them even if they draw something that is not perfect since the learning process is complicated.
The head and neck in wiring are essential, and therefore the writing experience explains why the young develop these muscles at first, then they set the other muscles. So, for example, when a child is writing, they tend to lean forward and focus their eyes on what they are writing, making their neck muscles more developed.
How Characters Are Alienated From the Community in Sula by Toni Morrison
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How Characters Are Alienated From the Community in Sula by Toni Morrison
Alienation refers to when individuals are cast out and live differently without regarding the ways of the community. Community is an important aspect of people’s lives as it shapes their behaviors and actions. In Toni Morrison’s novel Sula, some characters are alienated because of their beliefs. Some of them go to the extent of having different personal beliefs and way of life making them completed alienated from the community. This essay discusses the ways in which characters, including Jadine, Shadrack and Sula in Toni Morrison’s novel Sula are alienated and how they cope with the loneliness.
To start with, the novel depicts alienation in Jadine and son. Son decides to leave behind his society’s way of life and decides to leave according to his own culture. Despite being alienated from the community’s way of life, Son still encounters loneliness. He feels alienated from the modern society. Additionally, Jadine, whose ethnicity is black, also gets alienated from the community and the way of life of white people. Jadine chooses to ignore the black culture way of life because white culture is viewed as more dominant (Ahmad, Muhammad and Sajid Abbas, 322). She starts behaving like her white counterparts. She has different beliefs from what society expects of a black girl. She dresess and speaks like a white girl and also has the ideas of a white person. This is an indication that she is not fond of her African culture. She hates the African culture, which explains why she is insecure. To cover her insecurities, she acquires European education while living in Paris. However, education does not give her any comfort as black women keep intimidating her and even spitting at her. As a result, Jadine ends up feeling guilty and fearful. All these insecurities arise because of Jadine alienation from community and the African culture.
Another character that is alienated in Toni Morrison’s Sula is Shadrack. Shadrack’s alienation is triggered by racial discrimination and ruthless war. His entire life, Shadrack has experienced abundant violence, war, abandonment, and tease. He is tortured and afflicted by war, and he tries his best to get rid of the war. The text says Shadrack was “blasted and permanently astonished by the event of 1917” (Morrison, 23). It is the first time Shadrack is going through the war. Morison makes it clear that Shadrack has transformed significantly after coming back from war. Previously, Shadrack was an innocent, naïve, and romantic young person that had no chance to become acquitted with violence and evil. Shadrack becomes a desolate and alienated soul that is trampled upon by the war. Following the impingement of mainstream white culture and torture from the war, Shadrack cannot help but remember that dreadful events that take place on the battlefield. Anything that is connected to the war triggers miserable memories for him. Shadrack’s trauma is an indication of how alienation affected him throughout his life.
The third way Toni Morrison shows alienation is through the character of Sula. Sula is a woman of strong will who is brave enough to do whatever she likes. Sula has no regard for the ways that the black community has labeled as acceptable. She is defiant to the beliefs of her own community. Sula is not involved in a stable relationship with people of color from her own community as she subscribes to the saying, “It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you” (Yan, 13). This quote shows that she does not like to date her kind but rather prefers to associate herself with white men. Sula’s association with white men causes disagreement within the community. Additionally, Sula is alienated when her girlhood friendship with Nel dies down during adulthood. Although the two girls had a strong relationship as children, the bond disintegrated as they continued to mature. It is evident that the patriarchal structure of class, race, and marriage were a threat to female bonding. The author uses the ultimate failure of Sula and Nel’s relationship to remind women of color about how destructive the power of patriarchy can become. The biggest factor in Nel’s and Sula’s estrangement is Jude and Nel’s marriage. The marriage had everything to do with the structure of class and race. Additionally, Sula is a real example of the problems of intra-racial discrimination because she is deemed an outcast by her black community. She is a victim of endless marginalization because she refuses to abide to the restrictions put in place by her black community.
In closing, alienation in Toni Morrison’s novel is exhibited in the characters of Jadine, Sula, and Shadrack. Jadine chooses to ignore the black culture way of life because white culture is viewed as more dominant. Before the war, Shadrack was naïve and innocent but he becomes a desolate and alienated soul that is trampled upon by the war. Sula is also defiant of the beliefs of her black community and leaves an alienated life.
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Ahmad, Shabeer, Muhammad Ilyas Mahmood, and Sajid Abbas. “A Study of Alienation in Toni Morrison’s Sula: Passive Patriarchy, Marriage and Female Friendship.” Research Journal of Social Sciences and Economics Review 1.4 (2020): 322-328.
Morrison, Toni. Sula. Random House, 2014.
Yan, Rui. “Analysis on Character’s Behavioral Alienation in Sula.” Open Access Library Journal 9.2 (2022): 1-13.