Section 3: Identity Formation
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1. Psychoanalyst Erik Erikson maintained that the journey of life consists of stages. |
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2. According to Erikson, the main task fo the adolescent stage is the search for . |
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3. Adolescent identity is achieved when different selves are brought together into a unified and consistent sense of . |
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4. One key aspect of adolescent identity development is what Erikson called an identity . |
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5. James Marcia believes that there are four categories of adolescent identity . |
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7. To avoid an identity crisis, adolescents in the identity category make a commitment that shuts out other possibilities. |
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8. Adolescents in the category of identity seem to be constantly searching for meaning in life. |
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9. Adolescents in the identity category have coped with crises and have explored options. |
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10. Erikson, like , believed that women’s identities were intimately connected with their roles as |
A Modest Proposal
Reader’s Response to “A Modest Proposal” Assignment
Complete a writer’s response by identifying the authors intended purpose through use of style, tone, and irony.
Be sure to include some of the following:
- your response to the Proposal
- other solutions which Swift dismisses
- Swift’s use of irony: what he says literally (surface meaning) is quite different from what he really believes (deep or underlying meaning) and the reader is (you are) expected to see this.
- Comment on some of the details which you may have found interesting. You can take these in any order. You may include the following (as Swift sees them):
- religious differences;
- attitudes to marriage;
- men’s attitudes (to their wives and children, and to their livestock);
- the effects of poverty on family life.
- You may comment on some individual phrases which are not quite what they seem, or where Swift is making fun of some target.
- You should definitely comment on the word “modest” in the title: in Swift’s day a “modest” proposal would be one which is simple, easy to achieve and unlikely to meet with objections. Is his proposal “modest” in this sense?
Psychology Computer Lab 1 Pt II
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Psychology Computer Lab 1
Adolescence
Section 1: Physical Development
Psychology
1.____biological changes______ occur during adolescente
2.___adolescent growth spurt___ time of rapid growth during which most adolescents grow 8 to 12 inches in height
3.___adolescence____________ begins with the onset of puberty
4.___puberty________________ the specific developmental changes that lead to the ability to reproduce
5._primary sex characretistics__ characteristics that are directly involved in reproduction
6._secondary sex characteristics_ characteristics that distinguish males and females but are not directly involved in reproduction
7.____hormones_____________ present in children of both sexes from birth
8.___testosterone____________ hormone that increases in males during puberty
9.___estrogen_______________ hormone that increases in females during puberty
10.__menarche______________ first menstruation
Assignment 4
Write a first person narrative (similar to Part 1 of “A Voyage to Lilliput”).
Imagine that you awaken from a deep sleep. You have collapsed in exhaustion, having swum ashore after a shipwreck. To your surprise, you are surrounded by…
Smurfs and they were all over the place. As I am opening my eyes things are turning more clear but I do not know if it is just a dream or I am really living what I am seeing. These little blue persons with big noses and particular white shorts and a same white hat are observing me as if I was some weird creature from a different planet. I am trying to stand up and as I am doing it a surprise hits me. Yes, now I am 5 inches tall, just as they are and thankfully I am still wearing the same shirt I was this morning and the same jeans and pair of shoes, which by the way I totally love. To my relief my skin is still pale as it used to and not blue as they supposed it should be. I am starting to observe the whole place and I notice that they were all men and for me that was strange. How do they reproduce themselves? Are them creatures that are supposed to exist just once and for a short period of time? As I am walking down a kind of road that apparently led to the town, I saw a blond hair moving from side to side, wearing a white hat and a dress of the same color. The first and only girl I saw there. She was blue, blond, with big eyelashes and a flower on her hat. She waved at me, and it was the first time actually someone came closer to me. We started walking together and reached a big door standing between the flowers and bushes. The door opens up and my eyes could not believe what they were seeing, they lived inside mushrooms! A whole new civilization before my eyes, there were children, grandpas, artists, dinosaur like ones, astronauts, scientifics, etc. The mushrooms were big and red, with wooden windows at the bottom and a few at the top, so I suppose they are two stories houses. At the top of every red white spotted mushroom it was a big chimney. The whole town looked happy, colorful, and so perfect. The little smurfs, the baby ones, started to come closer to me. I was so scared, I do not know if I am welcomed or not or even if we speak the same language. The first one pulled my hair, like if he hasn’t seen anything like it before, and the second he did it, the whole little smurfs dived at me and started almost like studying every inch of myself. I could not help it, I had to scream. I closed my eyes and prayed to God they do not eat me. I began to feel liberated so I opened my eyes. The oldest smurf in the town was helping me out, and in a weird dialect or language, made clear to me that they were just playing with me. He invited me to go inside his house, which I agreed totally. I was so tired and all I wanted was some food and some rest I hoped I could get there.
Last Book I Read
The last book I read was Macbeth. This book I read it in class last period, since then, I have not read anything else.
The play opens with Macbeth and Banquo, two of the Scottish King Duncan’s generals returning from battle when they encounter three witches in the woods. The witches tell Macbeth of how he will become the Thane of Cawdor and then the King of Scotland. For Banquo, they prophesize that he will beget the line of Scottish Kings, though he will never become king himself. The two are sufficiently skeptical and continue their journey home.
However, when the two come closer to the encampment, they are presented with a messenger from King Duncan who announces that Macbeth has been made the Thane of Cawdor, immediately putting the prophecy into perspective, making Macbeth wonder how he might become king. He invites Duncan to dine at his castle that evening and goes ahead to tell his wife of the day’s events.
Unlike Macbeth, Lady Macbeth is very sure of her husband’s future, desiring the throne and telling him that they must murder Duncan to ensure his ascension. Immediately upon returning to his castle, Lady Macbeth is able to convince her husband to take initiative and murder Duncan that very night.
The two plan to get Duncan’s chamberlains drunk enough that they will not remember the evening and blame them for the murder. When the body of Duncan is discovered in the morning, Macbeth quickly kills the “culprits” and assumes the kingship. All the while, Duncan’s sons flee the country, afraid for their own lives.
Immediately, Macbeth’s misgivings and trust in the prophecies force his hand in the murder of Banquo and his son Fleance as well, afraid that his heirs will seize the throne. Successfully killing Banquo, the murderers fail to kill Fleance.
The night of his murder, Banquo’s ghost appears to Macbeth and sends him into hysteria, scaring his guests and angering his wife. His very presence as the king of Scotland has angered the other nobles and further incites Macbeth’s misgivings and paranoia.
To ease his fears, he visits the witches again and they offer to him more prophecies. He must beware of Macduff, a chief opponent to Macbeth taking the throne. He cannot be harmed by any man born of woman and he is safe until Birnam Wood comes to Dunsinane Castle. He returns home and finds that Macduff has fled to England to join Malcom. In fear, Macbeth seizes Macduff’s castle and orders the murder of his wife and children, inciting Macduff to further rage. With Malcom, the two raise an army and ride to Scotland to take on Macbeth with the support of the Scottish nobles who fear Macbeth’s tyranny and murderous ways.
While Macbeth awaits his opponents, Lady Macbeth is in the process of going mad, unable to wash the blood from her hands. The news of her suicide reaches Macbeth directly before the arrival of the English forces and sends him into an even deeper despair. He awaits confidently as the prophecy foretold his invulnerability. However, Macduff’s forces arrive under the cover of boughs cut from Birnam wood. When Macbeth is finally confronted by Macduff after his forces have been overwhelmed, Macduff announces that he was “ripped from his mother’s womb” not born and ultimately defeats and beheads Macbeth, handing the crown back to Malcolm, the rightful heir.
My Vacations
That Friday I went from school to Chachi’s place for a party. The second I came in I was thinking “maaaan, this is going to be boring” ans certainly it was. I hate seing a bunch of people drunk doing nonsense things when I’m sober. It is more fun when I am drunk too. It was not late when I left, actually I was the second or third person who left the party. Traffic took part of my night, on my way back. Stressing phone calls and the same cd playing over and over again made me think for a second I should have stayed at the boring last-day-of-school-before-vacations-party nd thought what the hell, this vacations are going to be awesome, I finally have my own car and I will be able to do mostly what I want to. The weekend went on and sincerely I do not remember what I did, probably nothing exiting. Monday I woke up to welcome my vacations. It was 12pm and I was waking up, I took a bath and called my friends, we agreed to meet that day after lunch at my grandpa’s, something my mom makes me do and I can not miss if I want to go somewhere else that day. I got in the car and as usual my brother was not wearing the seat belt, I always remind hi to do it but he does not care so neither do I anymore. So, we got in the car. My grandpa’s house is at 5 minutes from mine, literaly. We were walf of our way there when a stupid gray car, who was driving right infront of me decided it was a good idea to make a stop out of nowhere, and of course as it was supposed, I ended up crashing behind her car. The first thing I heard was “Shit Michelle, look what you have done.” out of my brother of course. He, always so soft and suppotive.
My Regrets
Write about the actions you regret taking so far this year.
As everyone knows every action leads to a reaction, and sometimes what we regret is not the actions we take but the reactions these bring. So far this year, I can proudly say that I do not regret any action or reaction…or maybe I do but it does not really matter because I do not remember. I have made many desicions and changed some things in my life and so far everything is fine. In the past years I do regret somethings. Like, I have a dream, this dream is something I want since I was like 13 years old. I really really really want to go to London, but not on a one or two weeks trip. It would be awesome if I could go and live in the hose of someone in somewhere near there, share with people, learn about everything, and be around there for three months or something. When I was 15 years old my grandpa told me that he was going to send me there for three months at least or more. I was so happy but my mom said I wasn’t ready. Last week, three years late, we talked. She asked me if I still wanted to go for SIX months and live with a family and study something there a few months. I was so excited. Yesterday she came to me and said I was not going because she felt that parents there stop caring about their kids when they turn 18, and I am already 18. She said that if I was younger maybe it would be possible. So I thought, if had insisted more a few years ago may be she would have said yes, but now she thinks I’m not old enough for caring for myself in another country. In a few words mom’s overprotection at its maximum. She also told me that may be when I’m older I can do that, but I stop and think, there is no tomorrow for that…I’m growing up and I have to go to college and I have to work and med school is not that easy…is now or never. I guess it is going to be never.
Last Macbeth Post
Act I
1. List the character traits that influence Macbeth to become a criminal.
He is lead by the witches’ predictions, this shows how weak he is and how easily he can be influenced by others. Selfishness is also a trait that leads him to killing people as long as he is well as king.
2. List events that lead him to commit his crime.
The witches’ profesies and the influence of his wife who slowly convinces him it is a good idea to kill king Duncan.
3. After a period of indecision, Macbeth confirms his intent to carry out his and Lady Macbeth’s plan. Write 5 paragraphs describing his thoughts as he makes his decision. What are the reasons for his hesitation? How does he rationalize his choice? Use at least two examples from the play to support your ideas.
In one of his castle’s rooms, Macbeth contemplates the killing of Duncan, in a speech that begins “If it were done, when ’tis done; then ’twere well/It were done quickly.” He is deeply disturbed at the prospective sin of killing a king and a blood relative.
Lady Macbeth enters and mocks her husband’s fears. When he asks about what would happen if the plan fails, his wife derides this possibility with the rhetorical question, “We fail?” Her bloody ambition overwhelms Macbeth who tells her that she should only bring forth male children, having no “feminine” side to her nature.
Macbeth is now committed to stabbing Duncan to death in his sleep and making it appear that he has been murdered by the king’s own guards. He feels guilty and fear too, so he goes back to Lady Macbeth, who could kill Duncan because it reminded her of her father, and he tells her he already killed the king but he went back with the weapons.
At last lady Macbeth goes back and leaves the weapon as if the guards killed him but the guilt that surrounds them is very notable.
Act II
4. Several times Lady Macbeth tries to ease Macbeth’s tormented remorse with comforting remarks. Describe some of these remarks and explain how they help her and Macbeth.
When Macbeth killed King Duncan and then came to her, she told him that they should wash their hands and that would clean both of them from their deed. The whole plan was perfectly realized and they just have to hide the evidence. This gives Macbeth confidence and she somehow believes for a moment that the guilt is gone.
5. Write 2 paragraphs describing the mood in Act II. Explain why this mood is appropriate and discuss why it will likely prevail in the rest of the play. Use at least two examples from Act II to support your ideas.
Act II is like of sorrow, thirst of vengeance, and surprise. First it was the murder of the King of Scotland by the Macbeths, and now they have their hands stained with blood, and it will stay like that the rest of the play. Then, when Macduff learn those news, he was suspicios of the sons of the king because they fled, and then Macduff feared the coronation of the new king, Macbeth.
After the murder, the Macbeths will always have to hide their thoughts and keep them from others, because now they are in real danger, because of treason. Everyone is starting to get suspicious from the rest of the people, no onw knows who really commited the crime, so that mood will stay for the rest of the play also.
Act III
6. Describe how Macbeth and Lady Macbeth feel about their activities in Acts I, II, and III. Briefly explain why you think both characters change in Act III.
Now they both feel culam and secure, confident that they have secured their posts in their and now nothing could happen with them. Their characters have changed because before they felt guilty and remorse, but now they grow up evil in themselves and now fell almost nothings. They also seem to be more far away from each other than before.
7. If the ghost of Banquo could speak, what do you think he would say to Macbeth? Would Banquo care enough about his former friend to give him advice, or would he berate Macbeth for murdering him? How do you think Macbeth would react to Banquo’s words? Write an imaginary conversation between Banquo’s ghost and Macbeth.
He will call him a murderer, and I think he would berate Macbeth because before dying he already suspected of Macbeth and did not tell him anything, did not helped him, so if Macbeth actually killed him, he would be more angry than anything else. Macbeth would react with a trauma and a lot of fear because of the apparatition of the ghost.”You murderer” said Banquo. “Oh no, it was a mistake, I did not meant to kill you, leave me alone please,” answered Macbeth. “No! I will follow for you forever, increasing your guilt until you die,” said Banquo. “Nooo! What I am going to do now,” answered Macbeth…
Act IV
8. Which of the following characters (Macbeth, Lady Macduff, son of Macduff or Macduff) arouses the most sympathy? Write which character you chose, the character’s situation in Act IV, and the reasons for your opinion. Use at least one example from the play to support your ideas.
Macduff is the one that arises the more sympathy to me. He fled to Englando to make an army to fight Macbeth and restore the peace to Scotland. He also proves his loyalty to Malcolm and demonstrates he only wants the good to win. When he says that he would kill Macbeth beacuse he killed his wife and kids, he shows a lot of courage and bravity.
9. Write a few paragraphs describing how Macbeth changes from the beginning of the play to Act IV. Is he more good than evil in Act IV? More evil than good? Provide at least two examples of Macbeth’s words or deeds to support your answer.
He has changed a lot from Act I. First he was the one trying to save the country by killing the traitor, but then, after having dark thoughts, everything changed and killed a lot of persons. First he felt guilty, but then he killed without even thinking about it, he is deffinetely more evil. He kills Lady Macduff, her sons, and his cousin Banquo just for power or treason.
Act V
10. Are the deathns in Act V of Lady Macbeth, Young Siward and Macbeth inevitable? For each of these three characters, write a paragraph describing the circumstances of his or her death, and explain whether you think the death was or was not inevitable and why?
Macbeth’s death was inevitable, it had to happen because that would be the closing of the play and of course, the witches’ predictions would be right at the end. He had to pay for all the things he did in the past and all the murderers he committed.
Lady Macbeth’s death could be both. She had to die because she was the one that convinced Macbeth to kill King Duncan first, but the play showed that she felt very guilty because she had sleeping problems, so maybe that death could be ommitted and she could reivindicate.
Young Siward death could be ommitted, because he was very brave and everything he did was for his country. So he could only have a brave fight and be hurted, and then get well again later, but he was killed by Macbeth to show also his courage and that he would do anything to defend his country.
