Essays on Toys

English

Imagine cruising downtown in a brand new Bugatti car in full speed. It was my dream, which I hoped to achieve. The possibility of driving a Bugatti was not an issue. I had an enormous challenge to conquer ahead of me. I adopted all forms of phobias since my childhood. The phobia of driving in a car was more pronounced and demanding. Every time we stepped out for a ride I will vehemently propose other means of transport. My family members were aware of my fears, but did nothing to help. Instead, my older brother found it amusing whenever Continue reading...

Autism is a mental disorder that influences the ability of various parts of brain functioning in normal ways. It is diverse in range, varying from patient to patient. Individuals who suffer from mild autism have less mental disrupt, they are independent, can develop social links, can acquire superior jobs and may possess some ability to face challenges. While, others who suffer severe autism have extreme impairment, they depend on others to fulfill their basic needs and require assistance in standby. Due to this extensive range in disorder, detection and therapy plans are still being investigated and modified. Advance monitoring Continue reading...

COMMUNICATION EVALUATION

The following is a commercial for kinder surprise, also known as kinder egg. It is a confection manufactured by the Italian brand Ferrero. The product is intended prominently for children, it has a form of chocolate egg containing a small toy. Kinder is a German word which means children. Each kinder surprise consists of a chocolate shell, a plastic capsule, and an external foil wrap. The following is a seasonal, promotional advertisement in which a special Smurfs toys are being presented as a surprise to its buyers, which are mainly children. Kinder surprise has always been a favorite among Continue reading...

1. What information do they NOT have that they would probably need?
First, the two needed the information about the capital of starting a business. This is because without capital, they cannot be able to realize their investment goal of launching a new toy. Additionally, they needed to establish whether there were people who were willing to invest in their idea so that they can know whether the business proposal is viable or not. Thirdly, although they were starting a company and launching a toy, they did not have a company name as they had not inquired with the Continue reading...

‘Instructor’s name’

‘Subject’
Literary analysis of A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen
As Meyer says, A Doll’s House is a play about, “the need of every individual to find out the kind of person he or she really is and to strive to become that person”. The play revolves around the life of the protagonist Nora, who breaks away from the shackles imposed on her by the gender roles devised by the patriarchal society, and sets out to discover her true potential as an individual. The play fits the genre of a social tragedy, whereby the protagonist falls prey Continue reading...

- Educational Purposes
Rubik’s cube has a magnificent shape that makes it possible to view its six sides in a simple rotation. It is very simple to use, just like a dice. The cube has different colors that make it interesting to use by students. In the field of Education, this cube serves various objectives. On e of such objectives was to establish the risk factors of school leaving. It was also meant to enhance reflection, ease class discussions and find solutions. Lastly, it was meant catch the students’ attention and help them share ideas (Rose, 2010).

Rubik’s Cube in Primary Schools

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- Educational Purposes
Rubik’s cube has a magnificent shape that makes it possible to view its six sides in a simple rotation. It is very simple to use, just like a dice. The cube has different colors that make it interesting to use by students. In the field of Education, this cube serves various objectives. On e of such objectives was to establish the risk factors of school leaving. It was also meant to enhance reflection, ease class discussions and find solutions. Lastly, it was meant catch the students’ attention and help them share ideas (Rose, 2010).

Rubik’s Cube in Primary Schools

The Continue reading...

Children at different ages make decisions based on their level of reasoning as influenced by their level of mental development and culture. For instance, children in their early childhood reason differently from those in their middle childhood according to Berk (2014). Many theories have been developed to explain how children are bound to reason at different levels of development. One such theory is the Kohlberg’s moral development theory. According to Kohlberg, there are three levels of moral development each subdivided into two stages.
The Kohlberg’s theory will be used to discuss the decision that Jane in this Continue reading...

Once upon a time, a young girl called Florence Parr received a gift of a house from her parents for her fourth birthday. The dollhouse had been passed on through generations of children, and finally on to her. Her family had miracle kids who actually take care of their toys enough to pass them on when they are as good as new. This particular dollhouse had windows made of real glass, furniture and tins, none of which got lost throughout its journey through different children. She was smitten by the present and even assigned a family the house. The Continue reading...

Cognitive development is the growth and materialization of the ability of a child to be actively involved in thinking and reason independently. It also involves the emergence of the child’s ability to comprehend the events in the surrounding environment (John, 2008). It focuses on the ability to process information, learn a new language, problem solving ability, the process of mental development and the perception the child has towards the world. The study of the process of cognitive thinking has a myriad of applications in the engineering of education systems. Appreciating how a child’s brain works helps curriculum Continue reading...

What is the BIG idea?

Michael Collins founded Big Idea Group with the purpose of turning ideas into reality. This is because the company would provide resources, experience, and access significant in the development of the idea. He established the firm to enhance an intermediary between inventors and buyers of ideas. These interactions enabled him to network with them and earned money from the activity. Collins believed that the process of taking ideas as a resource and transforming them into worthwhile products was beneficial in the child’s industry and other sectors. He had several questions concerning the success of his company. He wondered Continue reading...

Introduction

Innospark is a Lithuania based children’s education toys maker, they seek to develop along their two major strategic dimensions of new market development and new product development. Innospark’s target aims to achieve their target for new product development through launch of one new product in monthly basis. In the same time, they also want to keep their organization focused and flexible. They develop and offer creative educational toys and tools which stir the imagination and inspire to discover and explore & encourages for playing and learning at the same time. Innospark aims to create an environment where children Continue reading...

Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House tells the story of a young couple – Nora and Torvald – focusing on Nora’s increasing dissatisfaction with her husband and her life. This results in a searing, gritty contemporary drama that seeks to shake up the prevailing wisdom of the time with regards to societal expectations of women. Conversely, Juan Luis Borges’ short story “The Gospel According to Mark,” in which a young medical student starts reading the Bible to an illiterate family at a farm, deals primarily with issues of authority, culture and religion. Despite these seeming differences, both stories have Continue reading...

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Modernism and technology has transformed women from their limits of housekeeping to taking up leadership positions. A modern woman has the freedom to choose her path and work towards being what she desires to become. The last five decades has however seen women limiting their positions of power. With all the options available to them, most of them have realised that they cannot necessarily manage some positions and therefore resolving to take lower status. In this paper, we take a critical look of some investigative materials on why women are making such decisions that may be considered ridiculous. Continue reading...

Advertisements are usually a key reflection of our society and how different gender roles are viewed. In this paper, we shall analyze three advertisements in relation to how they display gender roles.
The Cascade floor cleaner advert shows a woman standing happily with a mop. The advertiser knew that when it comes to cleanliness, women are sensitive to it compared to men. The product will therefore sell, if a woman is used for its advertisement. Cleaning has been viewed to be a role associated with the female gender. There is also the issue of a modern woman that has Continue reading...

The topic ‘toys’ is one of the overlooked subjects in most people’s lives. Their significance, however, is of great concern to parents and guardians of children from their birth to adulthood. Psychologists are one of the personalities who best understand this topic. In their understanding, toys are not just toys in general. There are toys for boys and toys for girls. Some are unisex. Looking deeper into toys helps to determine which toys are appropriate for a certain gender and stages of growth. This in depth look at toys also helps in identifying the purpose of toys to Continue reading...

McDonald’s has come under sharp criticism lately due to our advertisements that are aimed at children. This public outcry highlights the ethical dilemma that is marketing to children and youth especially for products that are unhealthy. Seeing as McDonald’s is the world’s largest fast food chain with 34000 outlets worldwide (Simon), it is imperative that we ensure that all our advertisements are not only legal but also ethical. The negative publicity is hurting our company’s image and may lead to a decline in our profits which are currently at $ 27 billion annually (Simon).

Those in our marketing department believe that marketing to children is ethical because of the following reasons;

- There Continue reading...

Story 1) As the cat rode in the car, she was full of questions- where was she going? What was this new home going to be like? Would she get the same food? Would she make friends? She meowed and meowed asking these questions, but no one seemed to answer. Finally, the car came to a stop. This was the moment all those questions would be answered. As the door opened and her crate was lifted, the cat shivered with fear. What was waiting on the other side of that door?
Immediately, her crate door was bombarded by a Continue reading...

Social construction of gender refers to the ways in which the society influences us on the meaning of a woman or man. The society determines the life of each and every person in the society is subject to the impact of social construction due to the normal belief that the nature and levels of knowledge while at the same time knowledge is constructed by the individuals living in that society. The professions like being a doctor, manager or engineers, are socially constructed to be careers for men due to the dominance of the male in the society. The careers Continue reading...

CHAPTER ONE

I. INTRODUCTION
Diversity in the classroom is extremely important to the development of children, and continues to become more important in light of the changing demographics of the classroom today. Diversity and multicultural education provides children with the context that they need to function within an increasingly multicultural society today. It is also a way to deal with the changing demographics of the classroom; in America, classrooms now contain children from a variety of different cultural and ethnic backgrounds, and providing other children with the context needed to understand their differences and maneuver around any conflicts that are created Continue reading...

The image of Michael Jackson depicts his youth and exudes a sense of positivity that shows how he was revered in artistic circles. Jackson was an idol for all youth, but he appealed primarily to women who were completely taken by his sexy good looks as well as his voice that brought out his attractiveness and sex appeal.
However, there is the issue that Michael Jackson was a Negro so he was immediately conditioned and portrayed as being inferior. The same could be said for his appeal since nobody could look at Michael Jackson in a neutral light. The Continue reading...

Introduction

The Marketing department is one of those departments of a company that work by presenting the products or services of the company in front of the general public and it is known as an important department from the standpoint of an organization. Market analysis, trend analysis, potential analysis and forecasting analysis are some of the elements of Marketing Mix used specifically to market the products of the company effectively and accordingly, as well. Tools like Segmentation and 4ps are some of the major ones that used specifically for the purpose of increasing the market share (Sheehan, 2010, pp. 43-46). Continue reading...

The Middle Ages were the period of European history dating from the fall of the Holy Roman Empire in 476A.D. up to 1453 and started when the Ottoman Turks of the Middle East captured Constantinople. The Catholic Church grew more powerful and influential during that time. Governed by bishops and archbishops under the papal authority from Rome, the church became more dominant in the medieval society. Nuns and monks lived together in a house called monastery, devoting their lives in the service of God. In this period of turmoil and instability, many people turn to God in order to Continue reading...

In A Doll House, Henrik Ibsen writes about a topic that seems so vital to him, this is the social life and duties of persons in society. This time round he chooses to use the institution of marriage and a home. Ibsen intended that the reader sees the position of a woman in this society as she seems caged in the whole institution of marriage. This is seen through the relationship that exists between Nora Helmer and her beloved husband Torvald Helmer and to some extent Nora’s father. In fact all the life that Norah lives, she conforms Continue reading...

Childhood in the west is a complex history. Childhood is defined as a condition expressed by powerlessness and dependence on the mature community’s directives and guidance. On the other hand, a child is an existing human being between the stages of birth and puberty. A child who is below the age of attaining the full physical development or one who is below the legal age of maturity in a particular society. In the early days, different scholars tried to explain childhood based on religion, beliefs and public scrutiny and interpretation. Some described a child as a bearer of Continue reading...

Sherry Turkle researched on the authenticity in the age of digital companions. Computers have become the nearest companions of children since their invention. Programs used like the Joseph Weizenbaum’s computer program Eliza has been shown to have strong emotional effect to the users. However, the use the program at some point was considered immoral since it did not understand the human story told and could not show human care. This is because empathy, love, care, etc. that are attributes of humans cannot be applied in human-robot interaction. It has been shown that children who grow up using computational Continue reading...

Disparities are related to religion, ability, culture and other variables. Disparities related to gender are the most spectacular. When a boy is born, celebrations are intense. For a baby girl, celebrations are conducted as a formality. This introduces gender-based practices. For instance, black clothes are bought for boys and pink clothes for the girls. Gender is communally constructed through our daily practices.
The parents play a great role in determining the primary socialization of a child. They teach their children about the concept male and female. This influences the perception of children towards gender roles. The differential socialization is Continue reading...

Learning and training a person or animal to behave a certain way can sometimes be tricky. Depending on the subject, mere instruction is not enough. At times the subject may require added motivation to learn or accept the training. In order to handle situation such as these, psychologists came up with what is known as operant conditioning, a system of rewards and punishments that allow the subject to be trained behaviorally.
Operant conditioning is a simple concept to understand. It is a learning technique, occurring through the practice of rewards and punishments for certain behaviors. Operant conditioning allows the Continue reading...

1. What are the components and time course of the development of gender identity?
Sex identity develops through a methodology of differentiation: associations of biological, social, and cognitive-learning elements that happen after some time. Differentiation implies that an essentially comparative structure develops specially, contingent on the impact of different components. Chromosomally female and male human babies are undifferentiated (have a comparable physical structure) until after the second month of pre-birth development. As development advances, different impacts build the contrast between the genders. Changes in sexual and sex development happen (or don't happen) at particular times or touchy periods, and Continue reading...

Cindy Jackson

What does your critical analysis of the website reveal to you about Cindy Jackson’s sense of her social self, her self-concept, her self-esteem and her self-presentation?
The concept of the self stems from many different places. It can come from social interaction, social expectations as well as cultural beliefs (Sirgy, 1982). Although many people believe that plastic surgery is for those who have low self-esteem, it does not seem to be the case for Jackson. In Cindy Jackson’s website, she focused mainly on how she looks and what she wished for herself (Jackson, nd.d). There is a Continue reading...

Toys and games are a major contribution in the development of children. Many popular varieties of toys and games provide children with an impetus during their free time. This is in tandem with the belief of Piaget and Vigotsky who attest that play can improve a child’s behavior as well as an aid in developing sophistication about relationships.
Haugen (2008) says that children play games as a form of leisure activity to enable them relax their mind. This provides them with an important learning experience that is important in their development. Toys and games enable social interaction when Continue reading...

Each bond is given a grade that indicates the credit quality of that bond; this grade is referred to be the rating of the bond. This rating comes from private independent rating agencies like Standard & Poor’s, Moody’s and Fitch; the agencies rate a bond based on the evaluation of the financial strength of the issuer (Crabtree & Maher, 2005). This means that the ability of the issuer to pay the principal amount of the bond as well as the interest in a timely manner is taken into consideration and then evaluation of the bond is done. The highest Continue reading...

Marketing for Kids: A New Perspective

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
With the help of new, kid- friendly technologies, are savvy marketers gaining a sort of advantage over parents? Are toy marketers like Ganz , food marketers like McDonald’s and kid-apparel retailers such as 77kids by American Eagle too desperate to target kids? Some of the kids like Isabella Sweet spend almost an hour a day on Webkinz website. The site posts ads that reward kids with virtual currency that they can use to create sophisticated rooms for digital version of their Webkinz pets.
The world of kids-marketing has become extremely complex and tech-friendly. Marketers have become innovative Continue reading...

Executive Summary

Mattel is one of the largest toy manufacturers in the world. It has business operations all across the world. Mattel sources most of its toys from Asian subcontractors. China is the main source of Mattel toys. In 2007, a retailer found lead paint in Mattel toys. This started a huge investigation on the part of US government and Mattel. Mattel recalled millions of toys from the market. The CEO of Mattel apologized to the customers. Mattel also employed huge changes in its safety and quality check policies. It also acted in a very transparent way in the investigation and Continue reading...

Introduction

Henrik Ibsen is a 19th Century Norwegian playwright. He has been referred to many as the “Father of Modern Drama”. This is mostly because his dramatic plays comprised of several religious, historical and political messages which have had some application or another for an extended period of time. There is an apparent trend by Ibsen to include prose writing into most of his plays while keeping to the main focus of his story. This is the same with Shakespeare. Ibsen incorporates psychological as well as social issues into his works by centering his plays on realistic contemporary problems, themes Continue reading...

True happiness can come from the most unexpected directions and not always arise from situations or events that you might expect, (such as having a lovely time on vacation or getting promoted in your job). Mine came out of what I thought was simply an act of charity on my part. I was surfing the internet and came across one of those animal rescue websites.
Then I saw Kali! She’s a long-haired German Shepherd dog, about a year old then, and had been found wandering the city streets with a chain around her neck that had worn away Continue reading...

- Globalization and burgeoning technology/innovation that shrink product-life-cycles, coupled with global competitor’s quality and price, brings goods to the USA adding to 80-90% mega-competition for most consumer goods sold in USA, compared to <25% in 1950’s. Equally, global companies compete severely and challenge US firms abroad.
- The U.S. and Eurozone economies play major roles in the world economy and are crucially important for each other’s prosperity. The two sides combined account for around 40% of world GDP, over 25% of world trade, 60% of world foreign direct investment flows, and 60%-70% of world banking Continue reading...

This paper is an analysis of the papers published by renowned authors discussing their approach and stance towards logic and rationality. This paper aims to compare the work of 4 renowned authors to come to a comprehensive understanding of the philosophy of logic and rationality and how it can be interpreted differently in different situations as according to the context and the play of words and other linguistic tools. The four renowned authors whose work will be up for comparison and evaluation in this research paper include the likes of Willard Van Orman Quine and his paper titled “Two Continue reading...

In the late 1800’s, Europe was experiencing rapid industrialization and women were beginning to work outside the home. This sociological development led to a public debate on the role and rights of women in society (Pinchbeck 11). At this time a woman was generally legally under the control of her husband or father due to societal norms which were based on antiquated ideas that women were physically and mentally inferior to men and needed to be “looked after” (Pinchbeck 12). However, this hierarchical view of gender roles in families and society were beginning to change around the time Continue reading...

Analysis of Philosophy and Falsification by Antony Flew

Antony Flew starts our three-path examination on the ramifications that adulteration has on religious philosophy by demonstrating that any philosophical explanation that is postured must remained up to the same test as any declaration: There must fundamentally be a relating nullification of that affirmation. Most philosophical explanations may not compare with a nullification; that is to say that there is no conceded case in which the announcement could not hold genuine. In denying that there could be an announcement that could nullify any philosophical articulation (i.e. "God made the world"; "God has an arrangement for us"), our announcement, essentially, Continue reading...