Everyone has habits - pattern of behavior that they repeat, sometimes without even being aware that they are repeating them. While most habits are harmless, they can be annoying to either the person preforming them or those closest to them. In this essay, Amy Sutherland attempts to break her husband of his bad habits by employing the same methods used to train animals. While writing a book about exotic animal trainers, Sutherland picked up many techniques to aid in her own training. “What Shamu Taught Me About a Happy Marriage” is a humorous piece that illustrates the fact that humans are just as susceptible to training as animals are. Sutherland starts off the essay with a narrative about her husband’s lost keys. While she uses to chase her husband around helping him in the search, she now ignores his racket and continues washing the dishes. While she loves her husband, there are little quirks about him that she wishes she could change. She describes him as “well read [and] adventurous…but also tends to be forgetful, and is often tardy and …show more content…
An example she gives is teaching a crane to stop landing on the trainer by retraining it to land on mats on the ground. Since it is impossible for a bird to land on both the trainer and the mat, the old annoying habit soon becomes replaced this the new more desirable behavior. Sutherland used this same technique on her husband with great success. One of Scott’s habits that drove the author crazy was that he would hover around her while she was cooking. To counteract this behavior she would get him to chop vegetables at the other end of the counter or set a bowl of chips and salsa across the room. Scott was so busy with these new behaviors that he could no longer crowd her while she
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Overall, this article helped me reflect on the novel’s theme and gain understanding of the author’s
About Dr. John Gottman’s Article “What Makes Marriage Work” 1. Why do you think Gottman wrote an article on marriage? In my opinion, Gottman considers a marriage being the basis, on which our society is built. However, there are not many people understand what is the basis of the marriage.
She was reading angry at her brother because he destroys the family making the parent suffer emotional and mental. She explains how the brother addiction turns her house outside down with this attitude. However, the brother addiction makes the parents to never give up on him even though his negative behavior toward them. Parents love him unconditional because it was their son. Even though he was not on the best path, they still support him and be on his side because they believe that he can change.
Some classmates felt that his last shred of hope to keep him alive was his hatred for the party while others agreed that his love for Julia would help him from conforming back to the ideals of the party. When discussing what another classmates have found in class it has helped me to understand other points I might have overlooked in the novels we have read. I have improved from these activities by writing down other points and
Yet Petersen is credited with such poorly written phrases, like “one of the most obscure and known characters” And. “This fact opens after when she blamed himself.” (Petersen, “Analysis”). Her essay is written erratically and thus is very difficult to read. Not only is her essay written poorly, but it does not even accomplish answering the question it was originally written to answer.
Dwellings and Identity in The Professor’s House In the 1920s, when Willa Cather wrote The Professor’s House, America was reassembling the fragmented society that remained after World War I and Modernist ideas were forming a new identity for the nation and its people. The Age of Modernism ushered in a new period that promised to break ties with the societal beliefs that previously brought disillusionment and discontentment, and while some forged ahead opportunely into a new era of materialism and national dominance, other nostalgically considered ancient civilizations as inspirational remedies for societal ills. In the preface to Not Under Forty, a collection of essays, Cather wrote "The world broke in two in 1922 or thereabouts, and the persons
Throughout her essay Brady used sarcasm and outlandish claims to incite a strong emotional reaction from her readers. I too was shocked by her requirements for a wife and the fact that women in that time period were expected to follow these requirements. Brady has done an excellent job of appealing to the readers using pathos while explaining how absurd the expectations of wives
Introduction Learning enables you as an individual, to gain more knowledge about something which you have never learned about. Learning also has to do with past experiences which are influenced by behavioural changes (Weiten, 2016). There are different types of ways to learn; through, classical conditioning, operant conditioning and observational learning which will be discussed and analysed in the essay. Behaviourism Behaviourism is considered one of the main subjects in psychology and the two main people who founded behaviourism were, Burrhus Frederic Skinner, also known as B.F Skinner and Ivan Pavlov who were famous for the work they did on classical and operant conditioning (Moderato & Presti, 2006). According to Moderato and Presti
It was two o’clock when Nick and I stepped off the train. I had invited him along to meet my mistress, Myrtle Wilson, whose husband was simpleminded enough to believe that she was simply going to see her Sister here in New York. I planned to take all of us to the apartment I rent for my excursions involving my affairs, where we could spend a good time together and have some whiskey, and I could get away from my wife Daisy. Sure she had money, and class, and looks, but Myrtle had a certain air about her that set her apart, elicited some exuberant excitement that Daisy just wasn’t giving me.
Kingston’s mother exposes the story of her aunt to her as somewhat of a warning. Kingston’s mother explains to her how crucial it is to understand that what she does as a woman in their society is looked upon closely
INTRODUCTION Have you ever thought on how people explain about behaviour? How do we know when learning process has occurred? Learning is permanent change that happened in the way of your behaviour acts, arises from experience one’s had gone through. This kind of learning and experience are beneficial for us to adapt with new environment or surrounding (Surbhi, 2018). The most simple form of learning is conditioning which is divided into two categories which are operant conditioning and classical conditioning.
Marriage is an important institution in a society and although there have been changes in the trend of marriage pattern, it is still very clear that marriage still matters. Marriage exists and its main aim is to bring two people together to form a union, where a man and a woman leave their families and join together to become one where they often start their own family. Sociologists are mostly interested in the relationship between marriage and family as they form the key structures in a society. The key interest on the correlation between marriage and family is because marriages are historically regarded as the institutions that create a family while families are on the other hand the very basic unit upon which our societies are founded on.
After I comstruct this cautionary tale of struggle, achievement, success, betrayal, undying love, and murder, in conclusion, you may decide that I, Claudia Winters, and my husband, Jack Winters, are two sociopaths who should have never coupled to begin with. Honestly, I wouldn't fault you for thinking that, and I will understand; however, if after hearing the entire story, you determine the events unfold justifiably in specific ways, for specific reasons, I will dedicate this composition to you and hope that you will be as fortunate as Jack and me. So with those thoughts in mind, presumptuously I ask, are you ready to begin? In the fall of 1981, the beginning of my sophomore year at the University of Maryland College Park was shaping up to
The narrator’s description of Mrs. Malley, attitudes toward Mr. Malley, and jealousy of her husband hint at why the narrator is not self-assured of herself and her job: the writer. The narrator probably has no confidence in her profession because she does not have time or spend time to write because she has to take care of her family and no one approves her work. In 1962, when Munroe wrote story, women did not have a right to write novels, act, and work outside of house. All women had to be housewives and had no other choices.