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Friday, December 17, 2010

Periods 1 & 2, Post 14: The Effect of Previous Experience on Current Behavior

This week in The Bluest Eye, we've read how Pauline's and Cholly's respective experiences, as children and adolescents, have helped to shape their adult personalities; the hardships they've endured have disillusioned and disheartened them, so that Pecola and Sammy bear the brunt of their bitterness and resentment.

This week, I'd like you to consider how, and why, past experiences have such a profound influence on your current beliefs and behavior. Describe one childhood experience that has shaped how you feel, what you think, or how you act. Explain why the event has had such a significant impact on you. How has this experience changed you?

Your response will count as a homework assignment for the third marking period.

10 comments:

  1. stephanie N) Well it's all based on our subconcious and what we all encounter and go through. Based on my childhood I got betrayed before and it's a stab in the back. It makes it harder for me to trust people in other relationships because of the past. Therefore it has a big impact on our life now.

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  2. People learn from past experiences so that they would be better off in the future. I remember when I was about three and my mom let me hold her purse that had all of her information in it, and I lost it when I was going to look for my dad. So now my mom doesn't let me anywhere near her purse today and now im somewhat more careful with personal objects.
    Jasmin :)

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  3. people from my childhood have help me today to become a the person that iam today.A childhood experince that has shaped how i act today would be went i wass little girl my dad always treated me like a princess which makes me spolled today.

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  4. Tanesha Allison said ...

    Its what we observed around our surrounding when we were younger make us who we are now , well some. But, my childhood experience I was treated great by being spoiled only by my father though, so he make sures that I always get what I want now .

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  5. Past experiences have a huge deal on who you become in the future because it affects the way you act,speak and deal with certain sistuation.For example teens reach a certain they begin mature and turn in the Men and Woman of today, they can cope with situtation differently than when they were 7. My aunt died from cancer and i really wasnt sympathetic to any one when it came to deaths until it happend to me and i learn to be more helpful towards people who had lost someone.

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  6. Past experiences have such a profound influence on your current beliefs and behavior because it depends on your conscious. For example: if you get rape more likely you are not going to trust anyone or yourself. You'll end up being no one and not believe in yourself. But everyone has to learn from their mistakes, that life no one is perfect.

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  7. Megan Rampersad,

    I think that past experiences are something that you always learn from and sometimes you look back on them because you can remember whether it was a mistake or something that you gained for and ti can help you in the future. I know that i made mistakes before and i look back on them and now i know how i could prevent them from happening again. As a child my parents always gave me everything that i wanted and the same with my two other siblings they told me that they gave us everything they never had. So i know when i get older that i should give my kids everything so that they could have a good childhood like i did and im still having. :)

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  8. Well i could say that i had a good childhood but at the same time terrible. At a young age i expierenced alot of bad things. I think that the past memories affect you in th way you are. My past change me alot, behind every smile there's something hiding. My point of view towards things are not the same as others. I want to give my future little family more love that i never had. Past expierences do change a person feelings, point of view and their behaviors
    Johann Apreza

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  9. Past Experiences have had a really big impact on my life because they made me who i am today . One time , When i was in 3rd grade , i had my first fight . It was three girls against me . They thought they could walk all over me and they did . I was so nice to them while they were so mean to me . One day i got so tired of it and we all ended up fighting . From that day , im very careful who i treat nicely and im very picky with the way people talk to me . I dont accept any type of disrespect .I will be the first person to snap and catch a major additude . It changed me because it showed me that you will not always respected or liked by everyone .

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  10. Our past experiences reflect who we are and what belief, because see thing different as grow up you start noticing things you usally dont see as kid and change your thoughts. One experiences effect my life was when i was kid I was crazy little guy jumping over and one day i fell and hit my head i think suffer memory lost I cant rememeber what happen between time I fell and when got up, I stop doing those thing or more forgot think doing those thing. So chanrge active person to gloom peerson.

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