First Memory Question Paper

Childhood was not considered a special time for development but rather a hurdle on the way to adulthood. “The goal was to get children speaking, reading, reasoning, and contributing to their family’s economic well-being as quickly as possible.”(Mintz 50) Many kids as young as six were working outside of the home at the time. A cultural revolution began in the eighteenth century when many middle class parents began to relish in their children’s innocence and saw this a time to nurture mold their children. As this form of parenting became the norm many parents began to have less children by using birth control, thus giving the fewer children they had more of their attention. As time progressed kids spent more time going to school rather than to work. “Within the last 3 centuries “Societal views about methods of Child rearing, the nature of children’s play, the ideal duration of schooling, the participation of young people in work, and the demarcation points between childhood, adolescence, and adulthood have shifted significantly.”(Mintz

Our childhood plays a significant role in defining the kind of person that we become and the type of life that we live.

There is little evidence of what it was really like in the past so it is difficult for a lot of people to re-construct the life of a child, however from what I have researched, and in my own opinion I am going to summarise the historical changes in childhood experience and relate these changes to childhood development and rights.

This memory book is about a young Vietnamese, American teen name Trung that grew up in America for the past 13 years, hoping to find a better way to settle things down soon after he graduates from High School. He grew up in a house of 2 siblings, an older brother, and sister which is now living life to their full potential. Trung is a boy that is loved by many of those whom meet him. People mistaken him for being a cranky person, but truly he’s just going through ups and downs. He has good intentions, but just bad moods all the time. Although he was not the brightest kid growing up, he still has the ambition to make a positive change in his work ethic by working hard in school, and he hopes that some day he will eventually succeed in life and

Also, as I grew, my questions changed from more abstract childish nonsense (“Why are the trees

Although it was difficult to stray from the obvious aspects of this story, I found that once you remove all religious theories, it is quite tragic and perhaps one that many can relate with. Nathaniel Hawthorne tells a story about a man’s transition from youth and innocence to a life marred by mankind’s corrupt nature and darkness of the world. From the very beginning, Goodman Brown has a decision, to stay with his young wife, who expresses her fear of loneliness and a bad premonitions of that night, or to leave on a journey which he is not fully confident about. My thoughts are that he was heading to war and leaving behind his wife who represented all the good and purity of the world to him. He was reluctant to leave but felt it was his duty

This article explains the importance of getting the perfect amount of sleep at night. The idea that sleeping for less than five hours or more than nine hours proves to have a negative effect on the human body. Sleep deprivation has a closely related link to memory retention and can cause a person to have trouble with daily task. The author continues to explain that not only is the brain effected by too little or too much sleep, but the rest of the body is also effected. Conditions such as high blood pressure, diabetes, and even depression have links to not getting the perfect amount of sleep. The article concludes with listing tips to get the ideal amount of sleep at night, such as, going to sleep and waking up at the same time every day and limiting the amount of caffeine that is consumed throughout the day.

Initially, I was always too short and skinny to play anything other than soccer. One time, I decided to make a change by asking my parents to sign me up for recreational football. That was a terrible idea, needless to say. I barely made the younger age group by one pound, weighing in at a whopping seventy-nine pounds in sixth grade. Clobbered by kids almost two years younger than me (and twice my

I am an all around athlete meaning I play several sports which are volleyball, basketball, and track. I have been an athlete since I was six years-old. My parents were also athletes when they were young, my dad played volleyball and basketball, and my mom played volleyball and ran track as well.

Q1: What are some of your earliest memories? How was your childhood like your friends? How was it different?

Since the age of 4, I love to play almost every sport, but there are exceptions like swimming. I was really good at soccer and skating. I remember I used to go biking for almost an hour just for fun.

The sociological enquiry of childhood in the past began not very long ago with the recognition of childhood as a culturally determined concept (Crawford and Lewis, 2009). To elaborate this, in the widely famous translated work, ‘Centuries of childhood’, the sociologist Phillippe Aries (1962) reflected that our interpretations of ‘childhood’ in the past are influenced by the modern perceptions of childhood and children. He suggested that any objective assessment of childhood in the past is flawed, as the concept of ‘childhood’ did not exist then. As opposed to this sociological perception, biological studies regard childhood as a universal concept and a well-distinguished period in one’s life on the basis of active growth, smaller body size, and developing nervous system. It cannot be regarded as simply a sociological/cultural concept (Bogin, 1999; Halcrow and Tayles, 2011). However, barring ‘biological immaturity’, the culturally determined phase of childhood is not universal and varies

I have been playing sports for my entire life. I have been a soccer player, tennis player, and a swimmer. I played soccer for 1 year at a team that is no longer a team. I swam for eight years, but only three years competitively. I played tennis when I was four, for about two years, but then I broke my collar bone so I quit.

showed the progress of the idea of childhood that was lacking in the previous centuries.

Way back when, let me start on the days I remember in kindergarten. Everything has been so simple just learning simple stuff abc’s and adding and subtracting. As time went on everything started to change. Time went on grades changed here I am in fifth grade towards the top of my class a smart kid just making bad choices. Those choices changed the next year when I went into