An Analysis Of Riley Wisniakowski In The Mirror Of Erised

In analyzing Riley Andersen through the psychosocial theory of development, it is important to understand what is going on in her life throughout the events of the film. The psychosocial theory “addresses growth across the life span, identifying and differentiating central issues from infancy to elderhood” (Newman & Newman, 2014, p. 62). In the beginning of the film, Riley is 11 years old and is in the Middle Childhood life stage (6-12 years old). The developmental tasks during this stage include friendship, concrete operations, skill learning, self-evaluation, and team play (Newman & Newman, 2014). As seen in the film, Riley is a social child with many friends while living in Minnesota. She is a successful member of a hockey team, and is able to relate to others in a positive manner. It appears that Riley has successfully accomplished the developmental tasks associated with Middle Childhood. When Riley moves to San Francisco, she is forced to restart these developmental tasks with a brand-new group of peers. Although she tries to connect with other students in her new classroom, she struggles with making friends and can only think of getting back to her old friends in Minnesota. She also

The universe is created for society to cherish all God’s creations; it could be anything to admiring nature to loving all animals. The expectations for the world are difficult to maintain, so unfortunately, society often leads to major destruction. There is unnecessary homicides, animal cruelty, toxic waste in the rivers and many more heart-wrenching actions that deteriorates the world. As a society, we have to turn a negative into a positive, but firstly, we have to change ourselves before we help others. Michael Jackson’s “Man in the Mirror”, exposes all of the humanity issues and suggests that we should fix the world by recognizing our flaws first. The theme of the song is about self-improvement and imagery, tone and repetition are the poetic devices that are used in the song.

With his mother working long hours to provide, Wes was typically unsupervised leaving him in the hands of his brother Tony who was “fiercely protective” (Moore, 26). Tony had his own issues with life; he was a well-known neighborhood gangster and drug dealer. Despite his brother’s issues Wes attempted to follow his own path. Football became Wes’s outlet, unfortunately he became so consumed in football his grades fell and his troubles began. Wes slipped through the cracks of public education and found himself with a juvenile record and the urge for acceptance.

"Man in the Mirror" was written by Glen Ballard and Siedah Garrett and co-produced by Michael Jackson, and released from the album Bad on August 31,1987 and released as a single January 16,1988 (YouTube). Siedah Garrett had an idea about a man looking in a mirror in her head for quite some time and took her ideas to her writing partner Glen Ballard. Once Garrett shared her lyric ideas, Ballard added some soulful vocals to help make the song become more powerful, which helped make the lyrics even stronger. The straightforward lyrics about making a change to yourself first caught Michael Jackson’s attention for his album Bad he was working on. “His chemistry with Garrett was so strong that he invited her to duet with him on another Bad single” (Yahoo! Music). The uplifting lyrics of making a change to yourself first, with the combination of Michael Jackson’s voice took off on the charts in no time. “Even though it wasn't a song he wrote himself, it was a message that was strongly identified with him and reflective of his own philosophies, as demonstrated through his actions and expressed in some of his own lyrics” (YouTube). “Man in the Mirror” became a world-wide hit in the late 80’s helping to inspire people to make a change within themselves and to help others.

After I readied Chapter one of Takaki’s book ‘A different Mirror’, he let me have a lot of different reviews about American history. In this book, the author Ronald Takaki focus study race and ethnicity inclusively and comparatively, and he writes " we will focus on several of them that illustrate and illuminate the landscape of our society's diversity." I am from China and I am an Asian American just like Takaki. People always thoughts American’s people is white or black. I remember when I was in The US Army, A group people talked about who they are and where are they from. One white man said I am an American, he looked at me said you are Chinese and he looked at other person said you are Mexican. Why he think he is an American, and another rice is not an American. Most of the American textbook does not have a lot of information about multicultural, but

The whole reason I’m writing this essay is because Demaryius Thomas is an inspiration to me. He inspires me to work hard and do my best. If you watch his games he puts all of his effort into the game. Whether he is winning or losing. But i know he loves winning. One time before the first game of a new season he said “We know it’s a new year. Everybody 0-0. The main thing is you win or you go home”. Demaryius inspires me to play football because he is just really good at it and I love watching him play.

It all began on a Saturday during his sixth grade year for Anselem Umeh. He was watching his older brother play football and quickly was inspired by the game and amazed by the crowd reaction and engagement. “I want to do that too,” was his first thought after watching it, and that’s exactly what he did. The following year he joined a Pop Warner football team where he quickly discovered his love for the game on top of the fact that he excelled in the sport. He would soon find out that that Saturday watching his older brother play would be the beginning of an impressive football career to come.

Tom Brady is widely considered to be one of the best athletes of today’s day and age, and thought of by many as possibly the best quarterback in NFL history. Numerous factors have led to his overall success in football over the past 20 or so years, but nothing has been as important as his own implicit personality structures. Brady has dealt with a lot of negative feedback ever since he started playing football; people telling him he wasn’t good enough to play or that he wasn’t tough enough to be a quarterback in the NFL. His whole career has been a balancing act of proving people wrong by continuing to surpass what was thought to be humanly possible on the field. He has clearly surpassed expectations on and off the field, because of this success it is acceptable to ask the question of how his personality has helped lead to his success in the NFL. Furthermore, Brady is clearly a person high in conscientiousness and self-control, therefore another question that could be debated is how would he cope with not being able to play the game he loves.

Being able to get in the university was one thing, achieveing his goal to be part of the football team was much more. Therefore, he always made sure that he gave his one hundred and twenty percent during training in football even though he kept on getting trampled. His hard work paid off when he got the good news, he was accepted as one of the players for the Notre Dame football team. The team saw Rudy’s passion and tenacity that inspired them– their coach called this an extraordinary heart. However, it came to the point that he gave up and quitted in frustration because Coach Dan Devine, who was their new coach never let him address, even once. Though, with his heart to heart talk with Fortune, the man who helped him to get a job, he was enlightened. Fortune told him that he was also once a player but he quitted and regretted it every day. He said to Rudy, “In this life time you don’t have to prove nothing to nobody except yourself.” At the end, Rudy came back and was able to play during the fourth quarter. The Notre Dame football team won and, finally Rudy and his family could not get any happier.

Takaki’s book, A Different Mirror, offers the multicultural history of the United States. This book provides the reader with the American experience of Native Americans, African Americans, Mexican Americans, Irish Americans, Chinese Americans, Japanese Americans, and Jewish Americans. During this time, America demonstrated manifest destiny and the Master Narrative. They were led by the belief of “white purity,” which these ethnic groups threatened. America exhibited supremacy over all of these ethnic groups. Takaki’s work allows me to become aware of the history and the outcomes of manifest destiny and the Master Narrative.

Lucretius in “The Nature of Things” explains that there are only two entities that make up bodies in the universe: matter and void. Matter is ever-present and does not decay while the void is a nothingness that allows for motion and change. Marcus Aurelius in “Meditations” explains that matter and the soul are the components of the universe, with the soul in some sense filling the void. Lucretius’ “void” has a correlation to Aurelius’ “soul.” Both philosophers explain how the concept of the void is responsible and related to death, because it allows for disturbances to the balance within the being. Lucretius believes that the void is the cause of death, yet questions whether the soul travels with it. Aurelius questions how the soul can remain after death. Death is an abstract concept that Lucretius and Aurelius attempt to answer through matter and voids. Lucretius calls the void a nothingness, which is always empty, and matter a solid that is free of any void. Aurelius has an essence of somethingness to his void, the soul, and calls matter a static body. By adding the soul as a third component to reality, the Stoic Marcus Aurelius rejects the binary universe of Lucretius.

What Max Etscheid would see in the mirror of erised is a very awesome.The thing Max Etscheid would see is himself in a general's uniform while basking on a lounge chair in Corsica with trillions of dollars behind him.This clearly means that Max Etscheid wants to be a general and be very rich.He might also see a Char B-1 tank and a hundreds of French bombers fighters and fighter bombers in an aircraft hanger. In the far background is an aircraft carrier and 2 battleships a submarine 4 heavy cruisers and 8 destroyers.This would also include an army of trained French soldiers and about 50 tanks.The year would also be 1941 because he likes history.The last feature that is hard to notice is that he is older than he is know because he wants to be

John Szarkowski is an American photographer and curator, whose opinions on a photograph’s narrative and direction are highly valued. In his time he analyzed many works of art, and produced many different interpretations, one being the ideals of mirrors and windows.

In addition individuals with autism show deficits in understanding the emotional states of others which is seen in how they imitate and perceive facial expressions. Dapretto et al, (2006) studied MNS by investigating neural-activity during the imitation and observation of emotional facial expressions in high-functioning autistic children and found activity in the anterior component of the MNS was greater in controls then children with ASD. They found that typically developing children rely on right hemisphere mirror neuron mechanisms which is linked to the limbic system where meaning of the observed emotion is understood. Dapretto and colleagues suggested that since individuals with ASD displayed a dysfunction in their MNS they have to use alternate

This paper primarily explores Michael Jackson’s song, "man in the mirror." The song "man in the mirror" is inspirational about making a positive impact and personal redemption in the world. It was released in 1988. This catchy song tries to explain that changing the world is possible (Wallerstein 2). Many sociological concepts are displayed by Michael Jackson in the context of song’s lyrics. The band of the song tries to express their concerns with the actions and views of the world of the present day. Basically, the band reflects upon the world's realism as their question the mentality. This song is surrounded by the