May 17: I think that once people reach a certain age (i.e. 65 or 70) they should have to be retested or examined to make sure that they are still capable of driving safely. They should also have these tests frequently and regularly to make sure that they maintain their driving ability. The causes of poor driving in the elderly include stiff joints, declining eyesight and memory, and side effects from medication.
May 23: I still think that by a certain age, people should be regularly tested and/or examined to make sure they are still fit to drive safely. If they seem to pose danger on the roads, their license should be taken away, because if they are dangerous enough they pose a threat to not only themselves, but others as well. No one should have to worry about the being in danger on the road, and I think that reckless, unable, or unfit drivers pose too much of a threat in keeping peace on the roads.
Friday, May 17, 2013
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Aging Project: Proposal
My topic is on the subject of elderly people and their driving. I will focus on when it's time for elderly people to give up their license and how they should go about finding out when to do so. I chose this topic because I just thought it would be interesting to find out some solutions to an elder's driving and what specific problems cause them to not drive as well.
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Caring for Aging Parents--Annotated Bibliography
Beck, Martha. "Caring for Aging Parents - Martha Beck Advice - Oprah.com."Oprah.com. N.p., n.d. Web. 30 Apr. 2013.
This article is about helping you and your parents cope with their aging by means of nourishing a sick sense of humor and think about how much care is actually needed. This goes well with King Lear because I think that Goneril and Regan need to learn some of these strategies to help not only themselves, but their father as well.
This article is about helping you and your parents cope with their aging by means of nourishing a sick sense of humor and think about how much care is actually needed. This goes well with King Lear because I think that Goneril and Regan need to learn some of these strategies to help not only themselves, but their father as well.
How to Handle an Elderly Parent's Bad Behavior--Annotated Bibliography
Sollitto, Marlo. "How to Handle an Elderly Parent's Bad Behavior." AgingCare. N.p., n.d. Web. 30 Apr. 2013.
This article is about, as the title says, how to handle an elderly parent's bad behavior. It goes into detail about behavior such as yelling, swearing, not showering, paranoia, and hoarding. This fits with King Lear because he's basically turning into an adult child, a brat. He's becoming very cranky and yelling and going into long speeches and curses towards his daughters.
This article is about, as the title says, how to handle an elderly parent's bad behavior. It goes into detail about behavior such as yelling, swearing, not showering, paranoia, and hoarding. This fits with King Lear because he's basically turning into an adult child, a brat. He's becoming very cranky and yelling and going into long speeches and curses towards his daughters.
Sibling Strife--Annotated Bibliography
Hulin, Belinda. "Sibling Strife: How to Resolve the 3 Senior Care Issues Siblings Fight About Most." N.p., 4 May 2011. Web. 25 Apr. 2013.
This article is about how one woman lost a lot because she was completely occupied while she took care of her mom. Her siblings didn't really help her at all, which sort of shows that different relationships with the parents will lead to different roles in caring for them. This fits well with King Lear because Cordelia probably would have taken care of him if she wasn't banished, and Goneral and Regan are sort of turning on the king and don't really want to take care of him.
Is a Family Member Ripping Off Your Aging Parent?--Annotated Bibliography
Rosenblatt, Carolyn. "Is A Family Member Ripping Off Your Aging Parent?" Forbes. Forbes Magazine, 22 Apr. 2013. Web. 25 Apr. 2013.
This article is about some of the warning signs that may point to a family member abusing and elder's finances. This relates to King Lear because his daughters are sort of turning against him and now he wants their forgiveness, and will probably give them riches and maybe more land in order to persuade them to forgive him.
This article is about some of the warning signs that may point to a family member abusing and elder's finances. This relates to King Lear because his daughters are sort of turning against him and now he wants their forgiveness, and will probably give them riches and maybe more land in order to persuade them to forgive him.
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Room/Allegory of the Cave Intertextuality
Donoghue, Emma. Room: A Novel. New York: Little, Brown and, 2010.
Print.
"ROOM, by Emma Donoghue." ROOM, by Emma Donoghue. Http://www.hachettebookgroup.com/ 2012. Web. 29 Jan. 2013.
Plato. Allegory of the Cave.
"ROOM, by Emma Donoghue." ROOM, by Emma Donoghue. Http://www.hachettebookgroup.com/ 2012. Web. 29 Jan. 2013.
Plato. Allegory of the Cave.
"And if he were made to look directly at the light of the fire, it would hurt his eyes and he would turn back and take refuge in the things which he could see, which he would think really far clearer than the things being shown him."
-Socrates, Allegory of the Cave
The Allegory of the Cave is a hypothetical story told by Socrates that is used to explain appearence vs. reality. It tells of a cave where prisoners are kept, they are bound so that they can't move and can only face forward while their captors project images on the wall in front of the prisoners. One of the prisoners is set free and, since he's only seen the projections on the cave wall, is confused on what is real and what isn't. Once he figures out that the world outside the cave is real and the projections aren't, he goes back to the cave but the prisoners reject him, stuck in their own false reality.
The reasons this is like Room is because Jack is sort of like the prisoner who escaped. Room was the like the cave, and Jack was being held prisoner in it; it was all he knew to be reality. When he finds out that there is a world outside Room, he's stunned, he can't wrap his mind around it properly, just as the prisoner was blinded by the sun when he left the cave for the first time. Ma could be considered one of the formholders (the ones projecting shadows on the wall) since she sort of led him to believe that Room was the only real place there is. She's a prisoner in the sense that she can't escape from Room, but she already knows there's a world outside of it, so she's not really considered to be a cave prisoner.
The Allegory of the Cave is a hypothetical story told by Socrates that is used to explain appearence vs. reality. It tells of a cave where prisoners are kept, they are bound so that they can't move and can only face forward while their captors project images on the wall in front of the prisoners. One of the prisoners is set free and, since he's only seen the projections on the cave wall, is confused on what is real and what isn't. Once he figures out that the world outside the cave is real and the projections aren't, he goes back to the cave but the prisoners reject him, stuck in their own false reality.
The reasons this is like Room is because Jack is sort of like the prisoner who escaped. Room was the like the cave, and Jack was being held prisoner in it; it was all he knew to be reality. When he finds out that there is a world outside Room, he's stunned, he can't wrap his mind around it properly, just as the prisoner was blinded by the sun when he left the cave for the first time. Ma could be considered one of the formholders (the ones projecting shadows on the wall) since she sort of led him to believe that Room was the only real place there is. She's a prisoner in the sense that she can't escape from Room, but she already knows there's a world outside of it, so she's not really considered to be a cave prisoner.
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