You are the man ; extra credit

1.
What did the performance suggest might be the underlying dynamics that lead to domestic violence? What are some dynamics that might support/allow domestic violence, as shown in the performance?

2.
According to a World Health Organization study rates of domestic violence vary widely in different countries.

Is the personal story related in the performance something you can translate to a political approach? If so, please write a strategy - in a series of 3-10 steps - to change our culture so that domestic violence becomes extremely rare. If not, please explain why not, and discuss the value of the play apart from sparking social change.

3.
Address another aspect of the performance and/or discussion that you'd like to explore or analyze.

4. Was this experience of watching the performance and discussing it afterwards valuable enough to be repeated next year? Why or why not?


1. What i interpreted from the play that lead to domestic violence was Jealousy.

HW 58

I did not know that Mellisa had children but when she came to speak to us she seem like she had the ideal family. A girl and a boy , about two years apart. She mentioned the age difference was perfect because it kept them at the same level. When she started talking about her rules while parenting her children i thought to myself , "She has it completely under control". I fell inlove with the way she parent her kids. Monitoring the time on the internet and television was what i was most impressed by. This connected to an earlier unit in Andy's class about the amount of hours people spend dependent on technology and media. I also really liked the fact that she read to them every night. This is something that parents rarely do.
When she mentioned the amount of books she read before becoming a parent i was completely shocked. All this time i thought parenting was a natural insist. Now im not sure how much i agree to referring to books to raise your children but i was impressed by the fact that she educated yourself. I have never thought of parenting this way but it definitely opened my eyes. When i have children i was to be well informed of the right things to do. Like the articles we spoke about in class , when you think your being a good parents , the results in your kids could be the opposite affect.

From the day a baby is born it is important to surround it by positive energy. What i mean by this is that the type of person a baby becomes is influence by everything is it surrounded by. From the way their were raised to the friends they have to the education they receive. I think many people even after having kids dont see the importance in the whole process. When a female becomes a mother , they are a mother for life , not just for a short moment. When people , mostly teenagers, have kids knowing they cannot provide the best for the child , i think its a crime.

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I cannot wait to be a mother. My reason for having a kid is because i want to see witness the development of character. I have always been intrested in peoples behaviors and individual characterization of ones mental and emoitonal being. Of course parenting is not easy. There are so many diffrent ways to parent a child. Many can be considered bad and others can be considered good . i dont think anyone has ever been considered the perfect parent. My friends all have diffrent paferents. Some of my friends have parents that dont care about them having sex , doing drugs , failing school. Others who's parents dont let them stay out past 8. Parents really do have an effect on how thier kids turn out to be but some of the affects arent what they were trying to push. For example, A strict parents can think that they are helping the child set thier proerities straight by setting them for them but most kids that i know that have strict parents are worst then thoese who dont. Whenever they get thier bit of freedom they go crazy and do everything their parents doesnt ever let them do. This is like an oppisite affect. Which is now ironic to think that some kids who have parents that let them do everything , act the less reckless.

It is intresting to see that the diffrent types of of parenting styles develope diffrent types of kids. This is like what i was saying. The Authoritarian parent might think that they are teaching the kids right from wrong but instead they result in anti socail kids , kids who dont know how to act under pressure and kids with anxitiy. Its the oppisite affect.

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Questions:

1. Do you beilieve it is important to have a child grown up with both birth parents?
2. What percentage of a childs action are their parents responsiblie for ?
3. Does missing a parent create an emptiness in the child?
4. Are kids who grow up in full homes (meaning both parents and all sibblings are under the same house hold) emotionaily and mentaly healthier then kids who dont ?
5. Can a single parent raise a sucesccful child ?
6. What is the most important element in parenting ?

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Research Question: Is there an emotional and physiological difference between kids growing up with both parents and kids growing up in single homes ?

Partners :

Chole: I like your question : "What do you need in order to maintain close communication between family members?" This an important question because one of the most common conflicts within families is lack of communication. It would be intresting to see the comparrision between the parents point of view and the kids, most importantly teens because thoese are the ages of most conflict.

Sammie: I think you should get your own damn question ! thats my advice.

Revised Question: How does the relationship between a child and their parents effect's a child's development?

HW 54

my results was ISFP "Artist".

I strongly believe these test are the bases to understanding the different personalities that surround us. The Four categorizes , two different types , combining them to make 18 different types of personality , really cover all the types of people i have once interacted with . I sneaked out a copy of the test so i can try to put my family and friends into categories. I was right 11 times out of 13 tries .

HW 53

When we went over the survey results in class , the first thought that came to mind was "who are these people answering these questions?". this was because i didn't expect to see the results i did for a lot of the questions. i gave the students the benefit of the doubt by not amusing that they were lying in their answers but that there were a group of kids that didn't live in my surroundings. Of course this was because i wasn't aware that the survey was being taken by kids in my grade. when i found this out it automatically made sense to me that some of the kids were dishonest in answering these survey questions. Even though the survey was anonymous , im sure some people felt some type of way about being honest in their responses.

HW 52

One of the most important things to me in life is love. I think the purpose in life is to love and be loved. Life is simply not meaningful if a person doesnt have someone to love or if a person doesnt feel loved . weather its love from a partner , love from your child or love from family , or even love for a hobbie ; love is essintaly in being happy in life .