Analysis Of ' From A Culture Point Of View '

The script shows ordinary people with everyday situations that many people would be able to relate to on one level or another. The experiences on display throughout the play can be understood by those who may live in small towns like the one in the script or those who reside in major urban areas.

Alteration in the meaning of play over period of time and how it has acted upon us?

“Play is a process that is freely chosen, personally directed and intrinsically motivated. Children and young people determine and control the content and intent of their play by following their instincts, ideas and interests in their own way and for their own reasons. The child chooses when and how to play and this is seen as a biological drive, essential to health and well-being.”

“Play is an essential part of every child's life and is vital for the enjoyment of

Play encourages young people to discuss and resolve for themselves any conflicts that arise in play environments such as youth or sports clubs.

This weekend I decided to go to a play that I have hear people talking about as I walked the streets. Many people were discussing the drama that goes behind this play and as much as I wanted to join the conversation, I had to find out for myself since no one will talk to me. I have much to say about this play so let’s get started shall we.

“Play is the highest expression of human development, for it alone is the expression of what is in a child’s soul.” Friedrich Froebel

Who defines what play is? Reed and Brown suggest that play is something that is felt (2000, as cited in Jarvis et al, 2009), whereas Piaget

Play is valuable in school, as it enables children to freely express themselves. This may occur during social interactions with their peers or as an individual. Play provides a valuable opportunity for a child to use their imagination as a tool for learning, by extracting and processing new information in regard to the world around them. This is supported by Lev Vygotsky a psychologist, who believed that “play led children’s development, as it could enable them to step outside their actual lives to explore, through imagination, a wider set of meanings and understanding”.(Study topic 13, page 165).

How do we define play within the context of education? This is an important question in the research on play. The word “play” is extremely complex with multiple contexts attached to it, yet it lacks a clear definition or role within the education system. If play is looked up in Wikipedia one will find over a dozen links to different contexts of the word. The Oxford English Dictionary (O.E.D.) provides five three-column pages of definitions and usages of play.

Over the past decade, play has been the focus of many researches due to its biological, sociological and developmental effects on a child. Play is understood as a basic human motivation and a phase for individual development and of cultural assimilation and construction which leads to a specific view on childhood. Play is sometimes opposed with serious work and learning activities which is not true because play is an important arena in a child’s life. Play is significant for a child’s growth, improvement of the child’s welfare and play is also the child’s legitimate right. Some people still get confused between the meaning of play and just having fun. Play, in similar words, is the universal language of childhood. It is through play that

Michael Patte, a professor of education at Bloomsburg University, talks about the change that happen to play. In the past, the play was an unstructured, open-ended activity, but today The play has become an adult-led and very structured, which has a significant effect on children’s physical, cognitive, social and emotional development, Michael gave some reasons for that shift include safety fears such as stranger danger, and crime, increasing time spent in school, and overemphasis on school achievement and structured activities such as sports. At the end he talk about the advantages of unstructured play, and how it is an important part of kids’ development.

Innate play should create an intrinsic relationship between the player and elements surrounding the play. Notions of play have evolved over time, and recently, play has emerged as a complex scientific involvement that inherits contemporary techniques such as mathematics and logistics. The play also closes the boundaries of sociology, biology, art, spirituality, geography, physics, and chemistry. To better understand how play functions, it is important to invite theories associated with a play, which helps adopt a ritualistic approach to understanding functions of play to the life of a human being. The incoming research will investigate possible theories that mentored Johan Huizinga in his text Homo Ludens. Also, the research will summarize Hector Rodriguez article, The Playful and the Serious which gives involuntary concepts of gaming. The research will prove that real play is one that is conducted voluntarily and not that from professional projections in arenas or theatres.

It is about possible, alternate worlds which consist of the concepts ‘supporting' and ‘as if' and which lift the player to the highest levels of functioning. This involves being imaginative, inventive, unique and innovative. Free flow play is about participants wallowing in ideas, feelings and relationships, and becoming aware of what we know. It actively uses first-hand experiences and It is sustained, and when in full flow, helps us to function in advance of what we can essentially do in our real lives. In free flow play, we use technical skill, mastery, and competence that we have formerly established.

Many experts credit its iconic character types, its groundbreaking performance style, its unfortunately enduring relatability, and it influenced many plays that followed it; with characters like Billy, the spent salesman; Biff, the high school athlete with a short temper and a feeling of not belonging into society; Happy, the younger brother who plays everything up; and Linda, the devoted wife who doesn’t blame her husband for the error of his ways. But this play brought up the very real issues of what goes on in our everyday