Rishaal Kamta
Psychology of Self Development
Professor Emilio Marmora
October 7, 2014
In Professor Emilio Marmora’s research paper Eclectic Transcending : “ An
Urban Anthropological View, ” he elaborates on how young males and females have a
lack of self motivation and have no belief in themselves, especially when it comes to
education or where they belong in the social class. He explains how “ghetto” kids usually
fall into the stereotypical lifestyle dealing with drugs, violence, alcohol, and other
delinquent actions. They don’t do well in school because they don’t see the importance
nor have an appeal towards academic success. Instead of following powerful leaders like
Martin Luther King Jr., they follow hip-hop artist who give them false hope in life and
the wrong path to follow. What happens in children’s homes also affect the life they grow
into, lack of parental appearance and dysfunctional families have a negative effect on
them, since they grow into that life they will think it’s normal. They need a role model
and someone to look up to that is successful, without that they have no path to build for
themselves.
I strongly agree with the information that Professor Marmora is giving in his
research paper. Children in today’s society do not have the confidence to be able to be
successful. There is something that holds them back whether it is the color of their skin or
a lack of motivation. Many young African Americans fall into the stereotype that is given
to them. If they are from the “ghetto”, they live a harsh lifestyle that has a dysfunctional
family and is thrown into the drug and violence lifestyle. At the end of the day, it is all up
to the child to decide whether they want to live the life they have. They can always
change the style and environment they live in, they just need the motivation and guidance
to get there.
The article The Big Bang explains how scientist believe that the universe was
made by a big explosion called the big bang. It’s a theory that the big bang created a huge
fireball which later formed into gases, then into the solar system that we have today. In
the article Life the author gets into more scientific detail on how the earth was formed and
how the particles on earth like rocks could be measures to years and years ago. Presently
we can measure the lifetime of a particle or the transformation that happened given the
remains of an organism or object. The article also mainly focuses on Carbon and how it is
the center of life. Everything is made up of carbon and combined with other elements that
make a chain of chemicals that exist in the world. The author of the article History or
