Developmental Stages In The Movie Parenthood

Inconsistency and selfishness from the “Catch-30” stage turns into rationality and order in the early thirties. This is the “Rooting and Extending” stage where one is known to mature. People lay out their future with settled

The film Pleasantville shows the changes in American society over the past 50 years by placing two teenagers into the Pleasantville show, which was from the 50’s. The movie depicts how there is no longer the “American Dream” and no longer a perfect way of life and the changes the world has made. The world that the teenagers come from is filled with sex, drugs, money, and is very different from the way the world was in which the Pleasantville Show took place in. Morals and values have changed in the people and in society that the teenagers came from and shows it would be impossible to return back to the kind of life style the world had in the 50’s.

The film, Confessions of a Sociopath, was made by the critically acclaimed director Joe Gibbons. Joe Gibbons is famous for his experimental films, and this film is perhaps his best project to date. The film is an hour long and takes the viewer through real life events that have occurred in Joe’s life. In the film, Gibbons acts as a fictional version of himself where he finds a room full of footage from his life with events that he can no longer recall. The film describes his earlier film experiments, his descent into constructive behavior and his bottoming out on drugs and alcohol. It is intriguing to see a side of a well-known film maker that no one would have thought existed. The film is also greatly intriguing because it is not made in the traditional professional way. The viewer is taken through a series of events that seem normal and completely unscripted. It is also clear that most of the events in the film were shot without the assistance of professional cameramen and directors save for Gibbons himself.

Throughout the span of this course, a big section of time was allotted for learning about adult development. For this reason, I have decided to interview my 40-year-old father, Rick Spence, to see if he follows the basic pattern of development. The interview is focused on four major categories of adult development, the categories are as follows: Physical Development, Relationships and Social Development, Educational History and Career Development, Cognitive Performance, and Views and Attitudes Towards Aging. By going through these categories I will attempt to determine whether my father is a developing at healthy rate, or if he is simply going crazy.

AP is a Dutch male in his late fifties. His wife, ASP, is a partially Native American and Caucasian female who is in her late forties. According to Erikson’s developmental stages, both AP and ASP are in middle adulthood and their crisis is generativity v. stagnation (Pastoral Psychology, Vol 53.). AP and his wife do not have children so creating a legacy through parenting cannot play itself out. They both, however, have nieces and nephews who they are exceptionally close to. Interviewing both and AP and ASP there was no evidence of stagnation or self-centeredness. Their relationships with their nieces and nephews demonstrate their impact on the next generation. ASP brought them up in the interview conversation

The movie “Kids” was released in the summer of 1995 by producer Cary Woods. “Kids” is a Drama/Indie film that was directed by an American film director, photographer, writer and film producer Larry Clark. The hour and thirty-five minute movie is situated on the genuine realities of life amidst countless teenagers and in what way they habitually come to collect experiences that they would in all probability not have encountered before the coming of adulthood. The actors in the movie were in all actuality regular teenagers from New York who were casted to play the characters portrayed in the cult classic. The cast of teenagers were depicted from the very start of the motion picture to be heavily engaged in utmost extreme acts of violence and

The movie "Alive" is a shocking true story of an Uruguayan Rugby Team that crashed their plane in the middle of the Andes mountains. The Uruguayan plane crash carrying 45 passengers to Chile unfortunately resulted only with the survival of 16 students. Through a traumatic shocking experience, the movie reenacts the event of the crash. This movie demonstrates various examples of the importance of psychological and physiological needs in our daily lives. It also outlines how the survivors had to accomplish particular essential needs in order to ensure their physiological and psychological health. The movie "Alive" is a fascinating story that demonstrates heroism and faith through a team mainly consisted of teenage

The movie, Babies, is a film that notes the lives of four different babies during the first year of their lives. The first baby, Ponijao, from an area near Opuwo, Namibia, lives with her mother and seven older siblings. The second baby, Bayar, from Bayanchandmani, Mongolia, lives with his parents and older brother. Mari, a baby from Tokyo, Japan, lives with her parents. The fourth baby, Hattie, lives with her parents in San Francisco, United States. The film discusses the aspects of culture and environment with the universal aspects of development as an infant. Through this, we see how occupations of the parents and babies compare in various parts of the world.

“In nineteen minutes, you can mow the front lawn, color your hair, watch a third of a hockey game. You can bake scones or get a tooth filled by a dentist.... Or, as Peter Houghton knows… in nineteen minutes, you can bring the whole world to a screeching halt”(Picoult 363). In Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult, Peter had been bullied his whole life, and he wanted revenge. Peter felt the only way to get revenge was to pull the trigger towards classmates and teachers.

When I search to find a new television series or movie I often search for series that have similarities. First, I always look for passion. I want to be swept off my feet as if I was in the show. Next, I enjoy watching a show that I can relate to from my own experiences. Finally, I love the drama. I want a series to have me so hooked that I cry for my characters. For instance, I cannot and probably will not ever be able to make it through The Notebook without falling in love, comparing my relationship, or breaking into tears at the end. These choices are what led me to watch the television series Parenthood.

Parenthood implies far beyond simply offering life to an existence unlived, it implies longing for things yet undreamed, and managing trust in a sad world. It means being there for my kids through various challenges, and not leaving my family when circumstances become difficult. It implies a Christ-like conciliatory love for their mom who gave them life, while accommodating my family, and guarding and shielding them from the abhorrent impacts of this world. It implies setting the case by perusing God's statement with my family, and going to chapel with them, not simply releasing them all alone. It implies untiring petition in debilitating conditions; and driving them through a wild of wrongdoing when whatever they can see is a pagan era before

In the generativity versus stagnation stage, the person’s primary concerns are their career and family. Middle-aged people tend to be engaged in inventive and important work, along with family matters. When an individual assumes bigger responsibilities, and they play the role of being “in charge.” This is the time that people feel the need to be productive and make contributions to the environment. They fear being inactive and meaningless. With my subject he falls completely in to this category. He is looked up to for advice and orders from the coworkers on his shift due to his longevity in the fire/EMS service. He has been considered for promotion when the next space opens up on his shift. My subject has a very strong relationship within not

Erikson’s theory of generativity is reminiscent of Vygotsky’s sociocultural theory, which, defined by Berk (2014), is “how culture—the values, beliefs, customs, and skills of a social group—is transmitted to the next generation” (p. 23). Generativity is pertinent to the middle-aged individual, whose evolutionary imperative predisposes them to extend their commitments and/or contributions beyond themselves for the betterment of future generations and society as a whole. Berk (2014) explains that, at a cultural level, middle-aged adults don the responsibility of passing down their values, beliefs, skills, expertise, knowledge, and experience to help protect and advance the next generation. One can witness this in the older generation

The film ‘Erin Brocovich’ , directed by Steven Soderbergh is a movie narrative based off of true life events. The biographical film, follows the life of a single mother, who is financially unstable by the name of Erin Brocovinch. Erin works as a law firm and her ultimate goal is to uncover and expose a company that is practicing dangerous and unethical behavior. The movie touches on many unethical issues and focuses on negative corporate social responsibility.

For the middle class, a known parental style that is often seen is concerted cultivation. Concerted cultivation can be defined as parents who have the means to afford and uphold a certain life style in order for their child is able experience and foster hidden and unhidden talents with in them through the outlet of participating in activities, sports, and organizations. The main reason why middle class parents engage in such form of parenting is to ensure that there child is given the opportunity to be as well rounded as possible. Parents who tend to their child in this fashion tend to put their child through a ringer of different organizations, sports, and clubs. The hope is that being apart of a vast amount of organization, sports, and