The cartoons that have shaped me to the reader I am today
When it comes how someone’s literacy past affects them to who they are today, most of them will say they either read books or write stories as children. I was not that child; I was the opposite of that. Reading and writing really did not interested me at the time as I found it plain and dull, but it was not until that my mindset shifted to how I read and write now. It was when I was just watching TV and started to pay more attention to the cartoons I was watching that led to my new interest in reading and writing as a child. Throughout my childhood to now, my interest in reading and writing grew along the way how I perceive not only written language but also body language and imagery
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What first caught my attention was the cartoon, Tom and Jerry. Tom and Jerry was the beginning of the development of my way of reading body language from the cartoon itself as I started to notice some repetitive reaction for each episode. One reaction I saw when watching was if Tom would either gets hurt from getting hit by Jerry or gets scared from Butch the bulldog, the initial reaction was Tom screaming very loud as a response. At first, I thought it was just for the comedy and it was funny to watch how comedic Tom reacts to whatever he was facing. After seeing a few more episode, I start seeing the same reaction from Tom each time I watch different episodes. I start thinking if something similar happened to anyone else, would they react similar? At that exact moment with the thought in mind, my mother screams from the kitchen. As I rush to check what happened, I found out my mother had burnt her finger while cooking lunch. In my head, I was thinking, “Wow, the cartoon and my mom had the same scream when hurt.” I was so dumbfounded about it that I started watching more Tom and Jerry to find more reactions that could relate to what I see outside. This was my first taste of developing how I start identifying body language after watching it from …show more content…
Back then I had started get into writing with such things as about cartoon stories, however I still had no interested in reading and I never would think reading would be interesting anyways. Since I was already in school, I could not just ignore reading since it was part of my grade and learning. I was stumped on how I can do better remembering what I was reading. As I sat at night in front of the TV, watching Jimmy Neutron, I almost felt like giving up on how I could remember reading from books. As I continued to watch the episode of Jimmy Neutron, I noticed something from that episode that somewhat stand out from the rest. It was when the main character Jimmy goes into “brain blast” sequence, which allows him to formula a plan through the image clues given throughout the episode to help Jimmy fix whatever problem he was in at that moment. I thought, “There was no way I am able to do something like that exactly.” As I looked in slight disappointment but soon change to an inspiration look of new hope. The way of how I’m going to remember what I’m reading was about thinking about changing certain key words or scenes and turn them into images of that word in my head and later remember that image as I replay each image through my head. I tested out my method on a reading assignment that night
My literacy journey commenced at a young age. My story begins with the typical bed time stories and slowly progresses into complex novels. Some points in my literacy journey have made me admire the written word but other times literacy frustrated me. These ups and downs within my story have made me the person I am today. My parents noticed that my reading was not up to par with other children in kindergarten and I was diagnosed with mild dyslexia at the age of five. My parents provided me a reading mentor named Mrs. Mandeville who has shaped my literacy journey in many ways. Events in my childhood have shaped my literacy in various ways.
Deborah Brandt (1998) wrote “Sponsors of Literacy”, a journal where she explained her findings of the research she has done on how different people across the nation learned to read and write, born between 1900, and 1980 (p. 167). She interviewed many people that had varying forms of their literacy skills, whether it was from being poor, being rich, or just being in the wrong spot at the wrong time.
In this video, Ann Washburn talks about how body language is a key to access our subconscious. Body language is something that demonstrates and determines who we are as a person because we send messages to others and to ourselves with our body language. For example, if a person stands with crossed arms while putting his weight on one leg, it sends out a message that the person is weak. On the other hand, if the same person stands with his hands on the side keeping the weight on both the legs, it sends a message of being confident to his subconscious and signals others that he is a strong person. Another example in the video is about our reaction to the compliments given by others to us. If a person says thank you after hearing the compliment
Whether it’s what you write or what you read, it always brings forward emotions. Sherman Alexie felt desperate and determined to keep on reading after he learned to because he knew the importance of reading and he let those emotions drive him to continue. Amy Tan felt embarrassed by her mother 's literacy but later came to love it and think of it as their own private language. While Malcolm X 's life, mind, and emotions were altered by everything he read. Literacy will always have an influence on people 's
My literacy journey began long before I had actually learned how to read or write. While recently going through baby pictures with my mother, we came across a photo of my father and I book shopping on the Logos boat, a boat that would come to my island every year that was filled with books for our purchasing. Upon looking at this picture, my mother was quite nostalgic and explained how they began my journey to literacy through experiences like this. My earliest memory of experiencing literature was as a small child. My parents would read bedtime stories to me each night before I went to bed. I vividly remember us sitting on the bed together with this big book of “365 bedtime stories for 365 days” and we read one story each day until we had
During adolescence, I began reading and writing through a fundamental learning program called, "Hooked on Phonics." This program consisted of long hours spent reading short novels and writing elementary phrases which were commonly taught in the second and third grade. With the motto, "Improve your child's reading and writing skills in just four weeks!" I was bound to become the next Mark Twain. The method of this course specialized in the improvements of word acquisition rates as well as reading speed; however, it lacked in the area of teaching comprehension. At a young age, I was instilled with the dire need to be highly educated and although I was unable to experience a fun and adventurous childhood like many other children, I am grateful for being raised with a greater knowledge and wisdom than that ingrained in many.
My first experience to literacy came as a young adult. I have always been reluctant with my education, because of the family problems I experienced growing up. The harsh treatment our family received growing up made it very difficult to study in school, my body was physically in class but my mind was not. The trials and tribulations I went through growing up as a kid continued throughout my teenage years. Dropping out of high school I believe brought upon literacy difficulty. At the age of twenty-three, I finally had enough of feeling undereducated. Living in my mother’s basement with no job and an 8th grade education, the walls started to close in on me as my frustration became greater by the minute.
My relationship with literacy began when I started elementary school and that was the first starting point of my positive relationship with literacy. I really started to grow as a reader and writer throughout my middle school and high school years. Throughout my years of going to school I had many positive experiences that shaped my view of literacy today. My literacy skills have also enhanced throughout my educational years.
Richmond, V & McCroskey, J 2011. Nonverbal Behavior in Interpersonal Relations. 7th ed. Allyn & Bacon.
There are many different types of events that shape who we are as writers and how we view literacy. Reading and writing is viewed as a chore among a number of people because of bad experiences they had when they were first starting to read and write. In my experience reading and writing has always been something to rejoice, not renounce, and that is because I have had positive memories about them.
Television programs that are targeted towards children, such as cartoons, can affect children in both positive and negative ways. I examined a variety of cartoons on both commercial and public television to observe the content of children's programming and determine the effects, both positive and negative, that programs have on children. The cartoons contain a wide variety of subject matters that can influence children in many different ways. I found that the majority of cartoons choose to use violence and inappropriate subject matter to entertain children. These images and stories can have a tremendous negative impact on children because the violence is rewarded without consequences, is glorified, and idealized. Children look up to the characters that have a negative impact by distorting their views on conflict resolution. There are, however, cartoons that contain little or no violence and often try to incorporate educational lessons that concern values and morals that are important for children to learn, thus having a positive impact.
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Someone is seriously going to get hurt or worse. Turn on a television set and pick a channel at random; the odds are better than fifty-fifty that the program will expose children to violent material. Naturally kids are attracted to things that captures their attention. What was a major contribution to a fun childhood? Cartoons! Cartoons are very fun to watch and learn from. However, there is something that all cartoons have in common and that is hilarious violence.
There’s an ancient chinese proverb that states “A child’s life is like a piece of paper on which everyone who passes by leaves an impression” (Great-Quotes.com.) People blindly believe that children are easily influenced by violent cartoons on television. From generation to generation parents are always warned not to allow their kids to watch too much violent cartoons. What kids watch- and not just how much- matters when it comes to television viewing (Rochman.) But just how true is that? Research on the negative influences of cartoons on children is inconclusive and complex.
...tention to how people react to one another’s comments, guessing the relationship between the people and guessing how each feels about what is being said. This can inform individuals to better understand the use of body language when conversing with other people. It is also important to take into account individual differences. Different cultures use different non-verbal gestures. Frequently, when observing these gestures alone the observer can get the wrong impression, for instance, the listener can subconsciously cross their arms. This does not mean that they are bored or annoyed with the speaker; it can be a gesture that they are comfortable with. Viewing gestures as a whole will prevent these misunderstandings. Non-verbal gestures are not only physical, for example; the tone of voice addressing a child will be different from the way it is addressed to an adult.