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Psych Module 1

1. HUMAN DEVELOPMENT - scientific study of change and stability throughout human lifespan * Darwin's baby biographies (1877) - developmental nature of Doddy's sensory, cognitive and emotional behavior * Nature vs Nurture; also, emphasis on meeting children's developmental needs * Adolescence and aging - new fields of study added 2. LIFESPAN DEVELOPMENT - concept of development as a lifelong process which can be studied scientifically * grew out of research designed to follow children through adulthood * Stanford Studies of Gifted Children * study of lifespan development is interdisciplinary - psychology, psychiatry, sociology, anthropology, biology, genetics, family science, education, history, philosophy, medicine 3. GOALS of studying human development - describe, explain, predict, modify behavior 4. QUANTITATIVE change - height, weight, size of vocabulary 5. QUALITATIVE change - nonverbal to verbal communication 6. STABILITY - constancy, usually in consci...

Young Goodman Brown - Nathaniel Hawthorne

Fluttering ribbons - Sensual, flirtatious, Natural, Human, Earthly, material. Dream, Sleep - important in American literature, because America did not have the cultural history of other nations. In sleep, you can talk walk, kill -  dreams and sleep explain all, like the concept of God explains. Why live a life without sin, for a 100 yrs, if there is no pleasure in it? Go out and experience, learn Dark Romanticism - joys of sin. Biblical, moral in tone and grandeur of language. May pray without ever doing good May also do good without praying Stock characters - those who portray only one side of the argument - timesaving device. Anointing is an act of consecration. Personification used to achieve a sense of allegory. Allegory - when the unsaid must be said, without  too much consequence. (siezed agency)  nuomena &pheomena Perspective, context, lack of bias, unfair to judge. I understand that it makes us unable to judge ...

Stanzas to a Husband Recently United

In vain upon that hand reclined, (trusted you in vain)  I call each plighted worth my own, (plighted worth - oxymoron; must face consequences alone) Or rising to thy sovereign mind (rising to YOUR expectations, but I cannot have any because women do not have a sovereign mind) Say that it reigns for me alone. (her fault she trusted him, his mind supposedly reigns over her alone) Since, subject to its ardent sway, (ardent sway - oxymoron since devoutly passionate but unfaithful, unstable) How many hearts were left to weep, (how many wives and lovers have been left at home, weak and alone, so you may go love another; speaking of cheating husbands in general) To find the granted wish decay, (granted wish - wedding vow) And the triumphant passion sleep! (momentary beauty, affection, devotion, excitement - "love") Such were of love the transient flame, Which by the kindling senses led, (if any sensual pleasures kindle this "love") To every new attrac...

Guest Lecture (Barbara Lyons)

Atlantic slave trade Negro- factual Nigger - derogatory 14th Amendment - African American; not native  Americans - N. A. only got citizenship in the 60s sharecropping a form of slavery -  indentured servitude -  must return to it for survival debt -> crop failure -> credit + INTEREST -> pestilence Free men's bureau, Affirmative action -> just a leg up Rich do not want to give to the poor meaningfully you can never advance Jim Crow - N.A. Latino, Black cannot walk on the same sidewalk 13th Amendment - Black man gets right to vote BUT Poll tax Literacy test this is known as micro aggression or death from a million paper cuts Frugality, thrift John Crow -> System of laws 1940 -> Segregation, Great depression

I years had been from home

EMILY DICKINSON http://www.proseandhistory.com/i-years-had-been-from-home/ http://www.poetrysoup.com/famous/poem/1646/I_Years_had_been_from_Home http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/155 http://www.biography.com/people/emily-dickinson-9274190 Experience of death - wow I want to jump into the ocean Introspection No title - open to interpretation, audience left looking for themes Obscure entries or exits, readers intrigued <TRUTH IS BEAUTY IS TRUTH > like Keats <TIME - could not stop for death> <SELECT AND CHOOSE> writing back = working with an established center that we are bound to appropriation = when you analyze how another culture's artifacts work for them and see if they'll work for you                     = artistic survival strategies preservation vs conservation                       ^like a particular genre of music - look fo...

Rules by which a Great Empire may be Reduced to a Small One

Implications of Title - going to challenge notions, ideas national self and individual self This seemingly "History of America" text fits into a Literature course because of how author approaches the subject presentation not necessarily manipulation power and obfuscation a celebration - the ability to say something in a nebulous manner - to break it up into many parts Franklin experimenting with the norm - breaking it down, playing with contradiction I will not build your empire for you - I will instead show you how to bring it down charter format carpet baggers (later becomes the basis of capitalism) - rejects - reckless, nothing to lose - recycled ministers, officials humor: - can be liberating, so usually kept out of administration ( imitation, Aristotle's theory but also parody, can't overdo it either) -  it is in this moment, then it is over - there is the choice of not taking it seriously- this is a literary piece not meant to mock charters bu...

Uncle Tom's Cabin

1. Look at how slavery is portrayed 2. Analyze the characters' reactions - personal emotions vs social reactions (wrt racial discrimination) 3. Observe gender roles Reflect on how author had to write a work of fiction for her voice to be heard Mr Shelby does not consult his wife before he sold off Uncle Tom and Henry Bloodhound Law, Fugitive Slavery Acy 1850 (became legal to hunt for escaped slaves and bring them back) 1850 - before Civil War Uncle Tom's Cabin a major contributor The man that was a thing- objectified, treated and considered as property and sold and bought Written with the perspective that slavery is sin with a projection as a command from God, as a moral duty to address this Kentucky between North and South(not fully industrialised) You are kind to them but have not stopped enslaving them Uncle Tom: Dignified, Pious, tamed, Christian Ideas, mental condition, seperation anxiety about slavery George Harris- devices a machine and plans Languag...

Walt Whitman

Glorifying Abraham Lincoln <nationalism- eliminated slavery, ended racism in his day, Ghettysburg address- of the people, for the people, by the people> Transcendentalist with twist- different categories for soul and self and all things (gender, sexuality irrelevant to him) You are not a speck in this universe, you are the cosmos - you are the universe in ecstatic motion Once you identify with the universe this way, everything else becomes menial Whitman speaks of spiders, snakes, lizards etc- things of nature not considered beautiful were his topics Leaves of grass- they appear uniform but each blade if measured will vary; metaphor for humanity, the singular race we belong to Universal self---individual self Colors (not racist) embody the multiplicity of mankind Songs of myself- American self God not with respect to religion but as a presence Nothing is useless, mean, stupid, petty- everything has a role and is significant WHITMAN stanza 1 about spider...

Literature of expanding nation 1865-1912 (Post civil war)

American self- people form an identity for themselves. Race of all races- melting pot- Whitman Transcendentalism – self reliance; individualism (content and accountable to self) Ideas of Romanticism blended with N.A. ideals (important reverence for nature) and put into practise in the Newland. Gilded age, Gold rush- America split into those trying to transcend and become one with the nature and those chasing after material wealth. Also refers to artificial shine, gloss etc. Shallow, materialistic Americans attempting to buy class. Sectionalism and nationalism- during civil war industry was growing; South still farmed so slavery existed; North progressed so slavery banished. Realism (how it actually is) V/S Idealism (what it should be) American transcendentalists failed in imitation of Indian philosophers but managed to articulate it. Food habits also changed- canned, packed food Reconstruction Era Automobiles Led to American dream of owning a house, car for self ...

Lilacs

by Kate Chopin Impressionism is an art form that plays with pressure and absences, or leaving out stuff Monet's Water Lilies is the most famous example - goes back to Transparent Eyeball (cataract on one eye so sees differently) http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/learn-about-art/guide-to-impressionism/guide-to-impressionism Impressionism follows the passage of light as in a partially lit or darkened room - utilizing periods of light and dark Chioroscuro Creole Mulatto Light is the absence of color texture is absorption or reflection of light Fluidity of gender Sexuality - to live is to be sexually alive - there is no denying one's sexuality, but in a convent it is completely ignored In this text, the color of lilacs is reflected through the sensuous description of the scent of the flower - depiction of texture Austerity is not the same as simplicity and elegance lay sisters - those assigned household duties. Often refugees Paris represents debauchery...