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Catharsis Theory : 


Harmful Violence: Frustration, tension ect



Aggressive Cues Theory:

Video Games can cause aggression in children

Observational Learning Theory; 


Modeling of behavior, giving ideas

Reinforcement Theory :


If children are exposed to violence in media and in everyday life ( parental violence) they are more likely to be violent)

Cultivation Theory: 

Skewed reality

Essay Critique

   Of all of the common assumptions that we discussed in class, I think one of the most common is the idea that a children’s text should in some way teach the reader something.  We of course talked about the term didactic, and how a didactic book strongly pushes a lesson onto the reader, telling them that they should believe this or that.  Many times a reason for that lesson isn’t even given, as though the young person reading the book should just accept that lesson because they are told to, because the other knows better.  As I was reading Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss, the book I selected for the assignment, I was hoping that it wouldn’t be as didactic as most other children’s books, and that it would be as playful and exciting as I remember as a child.  On the last two pages of the book, however, the absent mother returns home, the cat has disappeared, the children are behaving nicely, sitting in chairs, and it is pretty obvious that even though they got into mischief they are still good children after all.  Nothing really has changed at the end of the book.  Although all sorts of things got played with, and the children broke the rules I am sure they know about (like, “Don’t fly kites in the house”), major boundaries were never crossed.             We talked about how the opposite of a didactic book might be an ambiguous book, or a book that encourages the reader to think about issues, to make decisions for themselves.  In that kind of book, the author usually wants to the reader to think for her or himself, to understand that some things are difficult, even for adults.  The author may present a problem and ask you what you think, or might just never come around to saying exactly what you are supposed to believe.  The last page of Cat in the Hat ends with the narrator saying, referring to the mother, “Should we tell her about it? / Now what SHOULD we do? / Well . . . / What would YOU do / If your mother asked you?” (61).  In some ways, this is probably a pretty ambiguous ending.  The author asks the reader that if your mother left, if someone wanted you to do what you weren’t supposed to, if you did it anyway, and if you didn’t get caught, then would you tell your mother or father what happened?  Most adults wouldn’t tell what happened themselves, but the question is there anyway, and it seems to be really asking children what they believe.            But it doesn’t seem really that ambiguous.  If the book were really ambiguous it would be breaking the Typical Case Prototype of children’s books, and in almost every other way the book keeps to those prototypes.  As Nodelman describes it, children’s books are typically bright, colorful, funny, entertaining, and maybe sometimes rhyming.  Children’s books portray children as the way adults typically think of them, as crazy kids who aren’t serious like adults, or innocent angels who would never really do any harm when they play.  Dr. Suess portrays typical kids, bored by the rain, wanting to do something wild.  Although Seuss’s style is strange, the children even look like the sort of standard white children that appear in most books, the girl in a dress and ribbon in her hair.  We saw in class how these children are a lot like the standard one’s in Cassie’s history textbook  And although strange things happen in the book – a talking cat, a couple of strange Things, a lot of things getting thrown around – it is the kind of play we come to expect in children’s lives, especially in the sorts of standard things shown on television and in movies.            In fact, the children never quite seem to trust the Cat, and they always just sort of watch him play.  The children never really do anything that crazy themselves.  The Fish, who sounds a lot like an adult, is always there to warn them, and in the end everything gets cleaned up.  Of course the book is fun and playful, and is obviously one of the most famous and liked picture books ever made, but it is still pretty straightforward.  Cat in the Hat reinforces and demonstrates almost all of the typical assumptions about childhood, and it fulfills all of the typical case prototypes of children’s books.  Examining it made me think about how the book might have changed in recent years, especially since children are rarely bored when they are at home any more (with all of the stuff they own to play with).  But more than that, it made me think about why we expect all children’s books to be like this, why it is always considered one of the best books for children.  Although I like typical children’s books, it makes me also interested in books that don’t do what we expect.  The book was written 1957, and in so many ways children’s books have become so incredibly different since then.  But in a lot of other ways, some good, some bad, they haven’t changed at all.     

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Although the essay is about a well known children's book, it makes valid points on the concept that it teaches children something in the way of asking them what their own opinion in the end. Although the essay doesn't seem to explain on it's point very well, the readers are left saying " I don't know what side he's taking." - Corsica Norton.

Vocabulary #2

Real heroes, who risk their lives to save others, do not demand adulation.
http://www.hoover.org/publications/defining-ideas/article/114326


The compassionate perspective sits easily with modern egalitarianism

They specifically disavow any status of superiority as a result of their heroic deeds.

Their reticence in relation to their own exploits is itself a tacit acknowledgment that they understand the greatness of their particular achievement; Otherwise, they could talk matter-of-factly about what they had done. But this taciturn self-consciousness is a long way from the towering ambition that gave rise to the tragic hero of the classical age—the ultimately unsatisfiable desire to rise above the human.

Beowulf Analysis

What is it about?: 

• Beowulf is an Old English poem about a Geat hero, Beowulf, who comes to the help of a Danish king Hrothgar who's kingdom is attacked by a hideous monster named Grendel. Beowulf comes from his land to Denmark and battles the monster ( Grendel), killing him with his bare hands, since man made weapons do not effect the monster. 
•  After a night of celebration,danger arises. 
• Grendel's mother, a monster even more hideous and powerful than her son, come to avenge her son's death.
•  Beowulf again battles her in the depths of a lake and kills Grendel's mother with her own sword.
•  He finds Grendel's corpse and cut off the head, bringing it back to Hrothgar as a trophy
•  Hrothgar showers Beowulf with gifts and praise and the young hero returns to the land of the Geats. 
• He becomes King of the Geats and rules for 50 years.
•  A slave steals a golden cup from the hoard of a dragon and the dragon becomes enraged. 
• He starts terrorizing the towns in blind anger. 
• Beowulf and his men come to fight the dragon. 
• Beowulf goes on alone but finds the dragon too powerful to slay alone.
•  His friend, Wiglaf comes to his aid and together they slay the dragon. Beowulf, however, is mortally wounded and dies not long after.
• He is burned then is buried in a cliff facing the sea with the dragon's treasure around him, preventing the supposed curse on the treasure from being spread to his people.

What historical significance does it represent?

• Beowulf is the oldest major work of literature in English. In fact, it's in such old English (technical name: "Old English") that it seems like a foreign language to us today, because our words have changed so much since it was written. 
• It's a glimpse of an ancient Anglo-Saxon (Germanic People) and Scandinavian culture.
• Because of the time period the story was told, it holds many different worldviews.
•  Within the story are found ideas common in the Christian faith, alongside the values of Germanic warriors of the Teutonic tradition.
• Information about the culture:
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teutonic_Knights  
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanic_peoples  
• http://www.experiencefestival.com/teutonic_tradition

• The Anglo-Saxon poetry allows readers to get a picture of the beliefs held by society of that time, and these beliefs are illustrated through the uses of the main characters Ex: Quote used below

Quotes: "And a young prince must be prudent like that,giving freely while his father lives so that afterwards in age when fighting starts steadfast companions will stand by him and hold the line. Behaviour that’s admired is the path to power among people everywhere.(20–25)"

•  This gives us a view on the code of rights used by the people of this time, and what you were excepted to do in society or war. 

Thoughts: The poem is dreadfully long, thank god for spark notes... I also found out that it was called an "Epic" which i would say greatly summarizes it's length, purpose and plus it's an " Epic" name lol but seriously it was used for story telling which would indeed capture the attentions of children and adults.

• The story connects with our studying of Norse Culture!

SparkNotes Editors. “SparkNote on Beowulf.” SparkNotes.com. SparkNotes LLC. 2003. Web. 11 Jan. 2013.

Vocabulary Journal Part 1

I Know it looks weird, but rather than have a weird copy paste segment, i took a capture and uploaded it

Myth Story

Erea was a very strange child, instead of playing and laughing about she would tend to be quiet and shy. Whilst most children would fight their parents on chores to be completed she would cooperate quietly. She was a very sympathetic and considerate child with a very spiritual nature.  While sitting on white sandy beach a young Prince named Reaghan came riding on a magnificent horse. He gingerly introduced himself, Erea had heard about him, he was a compassionate, intuitive and deep young man and according to many of her friends he was said to be very romantic. Erea was flattered that he was so taken with her, but she was not the type of person to just jump into commitment. Many a time later after the young man had had time to fall in love with her he asked for her hand; naturally Erea was stunned and after some time agreed. Eventually they were blessed with twins-- a girl named Brenna and a boy named Brennan, Usually this is tides for celebration throughout a kingdom but it would soon change to sorrow and despair.  On their first birthday the children were lost, and rather than take the blame for it the children’s nurse told everyone it was their mother’s fault they were missing.  Reaghan allowed his people to pass judgment upon his wife and she was set to punishment and was sent outside of the castles walls to serve in nearby villages as farmer’s hand, this lasted for 7 long years.  One day an elder man came with 2 beautiful children in tow, he stopped at the farm where Erea was serving her punishment and she offered him what little she could. The man smiled and refused and said “You need not work anymore, your children have returned!”  They returned to the castle where it was explained that the man found the children abandoned in a small field outside of the castle walls. The man had taken them in and raised them as his own; once word reached him about the punishment she was enduring he hastily brought the children home.  The king ashamed he had allowed this to happen to his children and the horrible punishment to be bestowed upon his wife begged for her forgiveness.  Erea did not punish him, nor deny him her pardon, she merely told him she loved him and that she did not bare any ill feelings. For her kind act she is not only known as the goddess for inspiration and sympathy, but also for forgiveness he story is meant to be a reminder to people that we will all suffer great losses throughout our lifetime. It is what we do when such pain and anguish is experienced that shapes the course of who and what we are as human beings. Our choice at such times is to either wallow in self-pity or to remain steadfast and strong, rising above the adversity. But perhaps even more important, Erea's story exemplifies of the healing power of forgiveness.

http://www.sheknows.com/baby-names/celtic-baby-names

Celtic Myth

http://www.silvermooncrow.com/Pwyll.html
http://www.silvermooncrow.com/Math.html


What are the most prevalent values of the Celtic/Irish People?

• Virginity ( purity) 
• Nature ( animals) 
• "Eye for an eye" (truth)

Most people find Celtic stories very strange and unlike any other myths  they've read. What is so different?  Why is this? 

• Most people if the betrayed or ruler wished punishment were forced to change to animals. Instead of death
• They have high standards about moral judgement, like you should know what ever deed you have done is right or wrong. And if you receive punishment you know why it was done.