Essays on Blumenfeld

Associations are diverse between tasks. For instance, an individual can be impaired on one task as well as on the other tasks. This aids in the supposition that it is necessary for cognitive processes to carry out the two tasks. The most important type of association is the double association. In this type, the individual may create an association in the area where they are impaired on one task but functions normally on the other. On the other hand, another individual conducts one task normally yet has impaired function on the other task. Generally, therapists and neuroscientists have recognized ...

ABSTRACT

Education is very important in every aspect. Some people say that the school is a second home for the students and it is very likely to be true. Students and teachers spend many hours together, while parents seem to make just a small contribution to what the teaching-learning process intends. The very mere principle of the symbiotic relationship between the teacher and students may be found in. This essay will try to explain the merging point that goes beyond the classroom, where students get what they learnt at school and apply it to real life situations. There are many ...

Ivan Pavlov was born in Ryazan, Russia, in the year of 1849, in the family of the Orthodox priest. In 1875, he graduated from the University in St. Petersburg with the Life Sciences degree. After graduation, Pavlov studied medicine and was admitted to the Institute which specialized in Veterinary. He was in Germany and Belarus. There he was making experiments in the laboratories, researching digestion. But after coming back to Russia he began to study glandular secretions. His experiment animal was the dog. Pavlov applies surgical techniques to those dogs that is why it was difficult to make the ...

Summary of the article

The article ‘How Homophobia Hurts Everyone’ has been authored by Warren J. Blumenfeld an individual who identifies himself as a gay and was consequently bullied when he came out of it. He makes a description of how one’s homosexuality can not only affect him personally but other people as well in his life. He commences by giving an account of his story of how he was regularly mocked and also teased at school. As a result, this led to a strained relationship with his younger sister thereby socially separating from each other. This is because she could not ...

The article “How Homophobia Hurts Everyone” by Warren J. Blumenfeld throws light on the fact that homophobia exists in this society and that each individual, irrespective of their sexual identity, is adversely affected by it. To explain this, the author cites his own childhood experience when he was harassed by his ‘normal’ peers for being ‘different’. Years of humiliation that continued right until his college days, inadvertently drew him apart from his younger sister, Susan. While the author was affected by the teasing, his attractive, smart, ‘normal’ sister, as he came to understand much later when the two spent ...

Laura Blumenfeld’s article, “The Apology: Letters from a Terrorist” is a detailed account of her interactions with the person who had shot at her father. Speaking to his family and writing to him she tries to understand the reasons for his action. The back and forth writing ends with Laura telling Omar and his family who she really is and omar writes her father a letter of apology. Laura’s article is not only a personal account but raises important questions over the issue of terrorism and how the notion of revenge plays into it. Terrorism is not ...

Procurement practices

Compared to other multinational automobiles, General Motors is striving to acquire vital auto-components from its suppliers at the lowest possible prices. Since the firm recovered from economic shocks, where the federal government bailed it out, it had to improve its procurement practices as a way of minimizing the operation costs. In 1990, GM deemed it wise to start a lean implementation workshop, Purchased Input Concept Optimization with Suppliers (PICOS) whose mandate was to purchase inputs. The workshop was to be used by suppliers and experts from the firm as a testing and collection center of inputs (Center for Environmental Innovation, 2011). GM ...

Sexism in Schools and Society

Introduction In schools, students perceive as natural the gender identity of being a girl or being a guy, based on their belonging to feminine or masculine gender. Alongside this perception of what is biologically, not socially normal (Hackman in Adams & Blumenfeld, 2010), the students also absorb the socially served definitions about femininity and masculinity and the social gender constructs that dress these concepts. As such, they are considering (some of them consciously, other unconsciously) that men are associated with attributes such as toughness and superiority, while women are viewed as weak and inferior. This places men and women in a binary ...