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    Jean Piaget has introduced theories on child development from 1896-1980. He is the the most cited and most influential on cognitive development. Piaget is the foundation of current child developmental in psychology. His inspiration came from observing children’s as he even used his own. His development of the cognitive deployment focused on mental process, remembering, believing and reasoning. To help explain his theory, Piaget’s came up with Stage-bound cognitive development. “Stage-bound is

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    Storytelling has always been an ancient art form, taking people back to past cultures. Some believe stories were first printed on rock, carved into clay tablets, stone, bark and other materials. With the beginnings of writing they moved on to parchment and paper and now are digitally produce. “When we experience a story, we allow ourselves to be invaded by the teller” (Gottschall XV). If the author is good at his job, we are completely taken over by the story and our mind is working hard to absorb

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    and by diminishing wrestling roles in the WWE world that show any distinction of homosexuality. The women wrestlers are mostly used as illustrations of the men’s heterosexuality, thus dismissing any impression of homosexuality. Divas: Sex and Male fantasy. Before the 1990’s women were not characterized much in the WWE but to escort a man to the wrestling ring, usually as a girlfriend or wife. As Katz says, “the conventions of pornography have made their way more and more into the main stream” (Jhally

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    society. According to Health Weekly Digest it is asserted that young women voluntarily expose themselves to thin media and the media just gets blamed for spreading the message that women must be thin. Casey believes that the media is a world of fantasy that has no direct relation to life, and all who view it need to keep that in mind. He goes on to compare the media to art. Henderson-King & Henderson-King also allude to this by examining other factors that moderate the effects of media images on

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    this debate has actually allowed for the video game industry to come fully into the main stream. As the din over violence quieted the fans of the game society began to focus on issues more akin to their own style. So then began the debate of game play vs. the video game narrative. The question arose; can a game also be a story? While the semantics would suggest that, no, a game cannot be a story, we do realize that a game can contain a story. However,

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    This represents the idea of the American Dream, where qualities of hard work and ambition are shown. The novel The Great Gatsby by Scott Fitzgerald embodies many themes; however the most significant one relates to the corruption of the American dream. The American Dream is defined as someone starting low on the economic or social level, and working hard towards prosperity and or wealth and fame. By having money, a car, a big house, nice clothes and a happy family symbolizes the American dream. This

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    the aid of the mind of an unbiased man or woman, who strives to perform an objective to become tremendously effective. The Great Gatsby is a novel that indicates what happened to the American Dream in the 1920's, which was the day and age when the fantasies ended up noticeably adulterated for a few reasons. the American dream causes debasement in addition to has brought about decimation. Myrtle, Gatsby, and Daisy have all been corrupted by this dream. The desire

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    all over TV nowadays. In the popular show CSI: we see detectives using futuristic looking gadgets and other highly unrealistic “investigative” methods to try to find the bad guy. I knew that shows like this are far from reality, but I wanted to see for myself just how much of a fantasy they really are. To accomplish this mission, I had to go see a trial for myself. I chose to see a criminal trial proceeding because these cases tend to be more engaging, they will help me differentiate between fact and

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    Part 1, Section 1, (Theories) Question 2. In his essay, “Theory, Theoretical Practice and Theoretical Formation: Ideology and Ideological Struggle,” Althusser asks, “How does the objective reality and social function of ideology present itself? Althusser asserts that people participate in “economic production whose mechanisms and effects are determined by the structure of the relations of production; people participate in political activity whose mechanisms and effects are governed by the structure

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    Superheroes; to most people, superheroes are for a young boy’s first obsession or for an awkward teenager’s companion on lonely days. However, with the recent releases of blockbuster movies from Marvel and DC, the audience of the superhero genre is growing. (Complex) Both companies are now battling to be the best and their effects show in the characters and story arcs they produce. (Hyperbole) Some of the most prominent characters in Marvel, such as Captain America, Thor, Hulk, and Iron

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