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    1. Infancy: Birth-18 Months Old Basic Trust vs. Mistrust – Hope During the first or second year of life‚ the major stress is on the mother and father’s development ability and care for a child‚ especially in terms of visual contact and touch.  The child will develop optimism‚ trust‚ confidence‚ and security if properly cared for and handled.  If a child does not experience trust‚ he or she may develop insecurity‚ worthlessness‚ and general mistrust to the world. 2. Toddler /

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    Look at Merton’s Modes of Adaptation. Give at least one example of how someone‚ perhaps someone in the criminal justice system‚ uses each mode. Robert K. Merton’s "Social Structure and Anomie" (1938). People adapt in many different ways. Just as part of a river that suddenly finds it‚ self blocked by an obstacle and may split and find a new way to the ocean. Merton outlines five ways in which people adapt to society’s goals and means and they are as follows: 1) Conformity - Adherence to the practices

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    CHILDREN’S LITERATURE .......................... 7 4.0 DOMESTICATION IN GRIMMS’ FAIRY TALES ...................................................................... 9 4.1 IDEOLOGICAL ADAPTATIONS .......................................................................................... 9 4.2 IMAGE ADAPTATIONS - TRANSLATION OF ILLUSTRATIONS ........................................ 11 4.3 RHYTHM ADJUSTMENT .........................................................................................

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    helplessness‚ curiosity‚ innocence‚ affectionate behavior and a need to be nurtured are also generally considered cute. Konrad Lorenz argued in 1949 that infantile features triggered nurturing responses in adults and that this was an evolutionary adaptation which helped ensure that adults cared for their children‚ ultimately securing the survival of the species. As evidence‚ Lorenz noted that humans

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    through renaissance humanism‚ values in regards to marriage and gender roles and the strong religious presence in the Italian village of Verona. These contextual factors are carried through to the modern adaptation to a certain extent‚ but are adjusted to accommodate modern audiences. The film adaptation is set in Verona Beach Miami: a city with both Hispanic and American influence. The music score borrows from Radiohead‚ The Cardigans and Dess’ree. Luhrman also transformed swords into

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    within the text itself. As for any distinguished writer or dramatist‚ the thematic reading of the given piece should reflect the social practices and moral standards of the era in which it was written (or takes place). This fact holds validity in any adaptation‚ any art form like film or music that transports a preexistent idea into a new context. With this in mind‚ it’s essential to examine Shakespearean literature in a historic light‚ and to identify each work as a representation of a given social environment

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    Evaluation and Adaptation of Coursebook for EFL Senior High School Students: External and Internal Coursebook Evaluation 1. Introduction Language teaching material plays an important role in EFL classroom. With the rapid development and competitiveness of materials publishers‚ ‘the wealth of published material for English Language Teaching (ELT) available on the market makes selecting the right coursebook a challenging task’(Cunningsworth‚ 1995‚ p5). However‚ there is no coursebook can be absolutely

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    Taylor Cook COMM 101- Fundamentals of Public Speaking Audience Adaptation Paper February 18‚ 2013 In the TED video that I watched‚ the subject was about “Body Language” and was twenty-one minutes and three seconds long‚ but the speaker stopped officially talking at twenty minutes and fifty-four seconds into the video. The speaker‚ Amy Cuddy‚ had very interesting points about how a person’s power pose‚ powerful/ prideful or curled into a ball and timid‚ can influence themselves on how they think

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    Cinematic Attempts and Successes of The Great Gatsby Most bookworms know that the movie adaptation is almost never as good as the book. With a classic such as F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby”‚ it can be hard to really do it justice on the big screen yet somehow a couple directors have done just that. Jack Clayton’s 1974 version of Gatsby and Baz Luhrmann’s 2013 version drawl together old and new aspects of the roaring 20’s to bring to life “The Great Gatsby” in their own unique ways. To focus

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    prepared to save herself at whatever cost‚ especially with a love story in the mix. The basic plot of The Hunger Games was not lost in translation from book to screen‚ only a few details managed to change. One of the biggest differences in the adaptation was the lack of Madge‚ the mayor’s daughter. Madge is not one of the main characters by far‚ but she is important in distinguishing the differences between the two classes in district 12. She is the one who gives Katniss the mocking jay pin‚

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