The Holocaust is one of the most horrifying things to have happened in the 20th century. About 11 million people died because of discrimination, this is not something to joke about. But the movie Life is Beautiful took a comedic perspective of the Holocaust; and casted comedic actor Roberto Benigni for the part of Guido, the main character of the film. Guido is an Italian Jew whose whole family was taken to a concentration camp. His son, Joshua, is with Guido the entirety of the film and is under the protection of Guido. Once all the children, except for Joshua, are murdered in a gas chamber, Guido must make an even larger effort to protect Joshua from death. So, he makes up a game with many rules for hiding and protecting Joshua; and this game results in Joshua’s survival of the Holocaust. Despite how deadly a situation is, survival is dependent on every effort to make living obtainable.…
“My hand shifted on my father’s arm. I had one thought- not to lose him” (Wiesel 27). Young boys look up to their fathers for protection and guidance, such as Elie does in Night. These boys love their dads and would be extremely devastated to lose them. In the novel Night, by Elie Wiesel, Elie the main character is a young Jewish boy who is put into a concentration camp with his family. Elie and his father are the only ones in his family who survive and journey on to many other camps. Elie expresses his need and love for his father as the book goes on, leading up to his father’s death and his releasement from the camps. This love between father and son is also expressed in the movie Life is Beautiful (LIB), by Roberto Benigni. In (LIB) the main character Guido is transported to a concentration camp with his son and wife. In order to protect his son from the harsh reality of the camp, Guido explains to him that the concentration camp is simply a game devised to win a new tank. Guido continues to act as if he was playing the game, resulting in his execution by a guard one day for misbehaving. Both Wiesel and Benigni focus on the hardships that took tolls on families during the Holocaust. Wiesel and Benigni use detailed settings and characters to show that family will always be supportive even in the most dehumanizing and sullen places.…
First question that crosses the child's mind once they find out: “What else are my parents lying about?” and second, “Did I really have to go through some of the horrendous things that such lying caused?” For example, the Easter Bunny. Some children are afraid to go see that guy at the mall. My parents, for one, scarred me for life from their lying when it comes to the Easter Bunny. It started when my mom was cleaning my ears with a q-tip and looked at the tip of it to see it was orange.…
Children like to think they are grown up so they will tend to push the boundaries, they maybe talking to you about school or their friends and slip in a naughty word, when you ask ‘where did you hear that word from’ they will say ‘i heard it from ( say ) another adult’.…
This self-control is learned with age and experience, for children however the social experience is still so fresh to them. Brutal honesty is a strong point they hold and they choose to use it in the most awkward of moments, with the intent to hurt ones feelings. This is a form of bullying, and what makes it so interesting to study in human development is what…
Example: child with chocolate on face, doesn’t want to get in trouble for eating candy…
How painting can transform communities was a very interesting film that had a rather color approach in the way they would engage community members within their project. Haas and Hahn had a vision to improve the surroundings of these poor neighborhoods by sight in which they learned an entirely different perspective in the way neighborhoods respond. Environments have a distinct psychological impact on your subconscious mind; whereas your surroundings can greatly influence your mood and emotion. It has been proven by many psychologists that design can truly change human behavior and perspective of their lives and the world. I like the idea of this project but I think it should be done with an improvement of the infrastructure, education and values of the people who lives there. it is also important to integrate society from all different levels on this project, doing this with the objective of the creation of bonds in de the neighborhood. The text subsequently talks about social class and inequality amongst them as resources are scarcely distributed in the aspects of wealth, health, education, power, and in the case of this film is generally housing. Concepts on how societies are tied to unequal resource patterns will help us observe how art can transform…
Lying is something that people do in their daily lives, whether they choose to admit or not is their decision. It has become normal for children as well as adults to lie in their lives to avoid saying something they do not want to. Adults do it sometimes when they want to keep their children happy and avoid them from being sad if parents tell them the truth. Now children do lie quite more than adults for their own reasons. The real question is why do children lie? Children lie often because they think the truth hurts people’s feelings and they are afraid of telling the truth.…
An interesting thought though is that almost all children are raised with the belief that lying is wrong…
Most children are naturally trusting of adults and unfortunately not all adults can be trusted.…
At this age children start to question whether parents are infallible and may think perhaps these people in charge don’t know it all. This strong sense of “should do” and “should not do” sets some children up to tell tales.…
Honesty should be use to a certain extent. Sometimes lying is needed when you have to avoid giving away information to people that don’t need to know it. Some things are too much for children to understand so giving them a fake truth would also be acceptable. For instance when a tragedy happens normally children won’t understand whats going on, so parents would have to make an excuse. Rarely on adoption cases parents go on to lie to their children. I do believe you need to not hide your kids from the world.…
Do human beings need to be taught how to lie? The one trait that all human beings have in common is that we are all sinners. When you observe children in the act of just being children, you will soon realize that they inherently know that it is wrong to take something that is not theirs, hit another child, and tell a lie. You will soon come to this conclusion based on the reactions you will get from children when confronted on any of the above three actions. Not only will their body language speak volumes through their bowed heads and wavering postures, they will vocalize agreement of their wrongdoing and oftentimes even try to justify their actions depending on the age of the child. It is the parent’s responsibility to correct these things immediately. If they go uncorrected, children will start to form the basis for their identities around all of this wrong information. However, if there is no basis for ultimate authority to be used, then everything is always in a constant state of change and there is no true foundation. The reality of this is all around us today. I have used naturalistic observation in drawing my conclusions as just observing I have done nothing to alter any environment in which I was closely watching. Even though one of the drawbacks is lack of control, I did not have to wait for any conditions to be right, because this type of behavior is everywhere. Some people would say that children will just be children and this is how children act, but as they get older they will adapt to modern society standards. This still, ultimately, does not change the fact that we are all sinners, and no amount of works can erase this sin problem from us. There is an answer to all of this, but I will not go into that in this essay.…
Neverthaless we are human. We make complicated choices and decisions everyday that wear us down. We may come up with lies that seem necessary, but in the long run aren't necessary at all. As i said before were only human, but when we make it a habit a problem arises. Do not lie out of politeness, or to preserve your own…
Several factors come into play when a child lies or breaks the rules. There are also several consequences to be given. However, there is a certain way to give the consequence and a certain way for the child to learn their lesson. Also, one thing to consider is why the child lies. The consequences also have to be clear and focused on what the real problem was and why she did what she did. The child may be wrong and will have to learn their lesson but there is a way to do it too.…