Child Development Stages: A Comprehensive Guide Based on Erikson and Piaget

Child Development Stages: A Comprehensive Guide

Understanding Child Development Through Erikson and Piaget

Erikson’s Stages of Psychosocial Development

1. Trust vs. Mistrust (0-18 months)

Example: Felipe’s mother is experiencing separation anxiety as he is about to start preschool. This anxiety can be traced back to the Trust vs. Mistrust stage, where the infant’s early experiences with caregivers shape their sense of trust in the world.

Key takeaway: The parents’ consistent and reliable care helps the

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Blas de Otero’s Poetry: An Existential and Social Journey

A World Like a Tree Broken Off

Topic: Pessimistic Vision of the World and the Theme of Death

Structure: Maintains a formal classicism.

Introduction (1-8): Presents the existential problem (the world, verses 1-4) and the pessimistic state of the poet. Introduces nature (verses 4-8) as part of that inanimate being against which man, who belongs there and can change his own destiny, struggles. Stylistic devices used by the poet include comparison (a world like a tree broken off / on the sea like an enormous

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Analysis of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Black Cat”

The following fragment is proposed for commentary: the outcome of the tale entitled “The Black Cat” by Edgar Allan Poe, published in 1843 in a Philadelphia newspaper.

Edgar Allan Poe and the American Literary Landscape

This American author is considered one of the first writers in the country, inaugurating what has been called the Golden Age of American literature, covering the period between 1830 and 1890.

The Boston author, in his role as a thinker and creator, makes a significant contribution to

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Narrative, Expository, and Argumentative Texts: A Guide

Narrative Texts

Description Types

Literary Description: Subjective, expressive, and aesthetic.

Technical Description: Objective, accurate, clear, and purposeful.

Narrative Structure

Closed Structure: Follows a preconceived plan with a beginning, middle, and end. Chronological order can be altered using techniques like in medias res (starting in the middle of the action) or starting at the end.

Open Structure: Unfolds without a pre-determined outline.

Characters

  • Creation: The reason for a character’s existence
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Narrative Techniques in the Modern Novel

Interior Monologue

Also called the “stream of consciousness,” this technique gained prominence after the publication of Ulysses (1922). It offers the highest degree of subjectivity, eliminating the narrator’s voice and presenting the character’s thoughts directly.

Édouard Dujardin, a 19th-century French writer, defined the interior monologue as: “The inner monologue, like every monologue, is a speech by the character in question. It is intended to introduce us directly into the inner life of that

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Journalistic Language and Information Genres

General Characteristics of Journalistic Language

Journalistic language is influenced by several factors: technological advancements, foreign languages (especially English), other discourses (e.g., political, literary, colloquial), and sometimes, deliberate ambiguity and casual language use.

Morphosyntactic Features

  • Tendency to place the subject at the end of the sentence.
  • Lengthy sentences due to verbal phrases, paraphrases, prepositional and conjunctive phrases, redundant expressions, subheadings,
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