Alexander’s Contributions Having a bad day can seem daunting, perhaps causing feelings like nothing can go right regardless of what you do. This seems to be the case in “Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day.” No matter what Alexander does, the day just doesn’t get better. From breakfast all the way to bed time, Alexander is miserable. Many things that Alexander experiences are avoidable through a better outlook on life and proper parenting. In this story, Alexander suffers from a phenomenon known as negativity bias. As Dunn and associates put it, “young children tend to preferentially discuss and remember negative events from their daily lives” (Kiley et al.). The negativity bias shatters hope of optimism and prevents …show more content…
He doesn’t listen to his parents, which is evident when they go to pick up his dad from work. Alexander does everything that he is not supposed to do at his dad’s work. He plays with the copying machine, knocks over the books on his dad’s desk, and calls Australia on the business phone. It seems that every time Alexander gets into trouble from his parents, it is because he is doing something that he shouldn’t be. If he connects the behavior with the consequence, perhaps he won’t be in trouble so often. The root of this problem stems from his upbringing. His parents let him get away with his behavior for his entire life and it will only get worse. Perhaps if his parents raised him by using enforceable statements to guide him, he would listen better than he does. Dr. Foster Cline and Jim Fay say, “every time we tell a stubborn person what to do, they don’t comply, and we find ourselves at a loss for what to do, they learn that our words are meaningless” (Cline and Fay). Alexander’s dad simply said not to knock over books or play with the copying machine. His dad could have instead provided an enforceable consequence by saying something like, “I allow kids to play when they get home if they are respectful in my work place.” That simple statement would establish the standard and provide a consequence that is enforceable. Alexander is also likely given numerous chances to behave correctly. According to Cline and Fay, “kids will always …show more content…
The constant protective aura is surrounding kids until they leave their parents nest. When they go into the real world, they simply don’t know how to handle making calculated risks. Many parents also lack the knowledge to teach their children how to properly handle emotions and regulate behaviors. This lack of ability to control emotions is detrimental to the overall social health of young adults. When I read this book with my kids, I like to talk about some of the negative things that were happening and relate them to things happening in my kids’ lives. The ability to be able to handle adversity and control emotions as appropriate for a given social situation is paramount to the success of the next generations as they go off to replace us in the workforce and in society. It is true that having a bad day can be discouraging. Alexander just needs to learn how to be resilient and his parents need to provide more persistent consequences for breaking the
Award-winning author Mandy Hale once stated, “Without negativity, life would be amazing.” However, this statement does not always prove to be true. Today’s modern community generates a judgement that negative experiences will ruin your life, but studies show that negativity can actually result in positive change. For example, negativity can positively change teenagers actions, introduce teenager’s to more supportive environments, and help fix broken relationships.
Have you heard of a man named Alexander the Great, the famous historical figure? There are many amazing stories about him explaining the courageous things he had accomplished. However, if you learn more about him and his accomplishments you will soon realized the real person Alexander was. Alexander the Great, ruler of his empire was in fact not great as his title states. The definition of great is a person who shows concern for others, has leadership and shows intelligence. Alexander didn’t show any of these characteristics therefore he doesn’t deserve the title of “great”.
Alexander the Great:An Analysis Thesis:Alexander the Great is a villain because Alexander the Great murdered and tortured people for no reason,he also took over cities against their own will. Alexander the Great is a villain because Alexander the Great murdered and tortured many people. This man came to civilizations and Alexander the Great took them under his rule,if one did not follow one were tortured. He also killed people just as a warning that Alexander the Great actually wasn't dead. According to Alexander the not so great Paragraph 3 page 2 “Persians also condemn him for the widespread destruction Alexander the Great is thought to have encouraged to cultural and religious sites throughout the empire.”
However, the biggest monster Alexander discovers in India is the news of his upcoming death. Alexander’s paranoia becomes evident when he reveals he doesn’t trust his men and refuses to tell anyone more than his “most trusted friends” (Orchard 11). This shows that Alexander is also a paranoid person in addition to being materialistic, narcissistic, a control-freak, and reckless. After being told that he “shall be sole king and lord of the whole world,” Alexander’s statement that he “achieved less glory than [he] would have wished” (Orchard 11) might come off as surprising to one who thought the goal of his journey was to own the world. However, his admitting to that being less glory than he would have wished proves that he cared less about ruling the whole world but would rather live longer to learn and discover more of the wonders of the unknown.
Alexander The Great was a very influential person in history. The reason that he is so recognized is because of how much he achieved at a young age. When he was a child, his father, Philip II of Macedon employed Aristotle, the famous philosopher to teach Alexander strategy, math and art as well as chess. By the time he was 20 he was extremely educated and really good at chess. When his Father was assassinated in 336 B.C.E, Alexander took his place in the army and started his conquest of much of the early world. Alexander was great because of his leadership, Integrity and courage.
The conquest of Alexander the great has significant importance in contest of expanding the empire so massively and also introducing the Greek culture, and religion beyond the border. The military campaigns that was lead my Alexander the great had not only found the new cities and expanded the existed one to the place where it was unknown to the Greek world. But the conquest had also given the chance of expedition of discovery and spread of Greek culture beyond the border. His important legacy was clearly not a political unity, but instead it was the spread of Greek ideas and tradition across wide area, which later refer as Hellenization. As he was winning the battle and marching forward, he also founded new cities and military
... Alex received little control from his parents. In several instances the parenting methods used by his parents gave him too much of his own discretion. In one instance his mother allowed him to stay in from school and it is implied that this is a regular occurrence. This example acts doubly negative in that he has no responsibility to maintain a set schedule of structure but also that school itself can act as a form of control against delinquency because it gives an individual stakes in conformity.
The author’s thesis argues that Alexander became who he was based on the society he grew up in. Green describes Alexander’s surroundings as “loud, clamorous professional soldiers, who rode or drank or fought or fornicated” (pg. 40). These were the male examples that he had in his life and his father was no different. He was also surrounded by the planning and strategy of war, treachery and conspiracies. His mother Olympia’s which is so popularly known for poisoning young Alexander’s mind against Philip, the author believes is nothing more but a psychological myth. Alexander and Olympia’s did not turn against Philip till 338 BC, when Alexander...
Alexander the Great is hailed, by most historians, as “The Great Conqueror” of the world in the days of ancient Mesopotamia. “Alexander III of Macedon, better known as Alexander the Great, single-handedly changed the nature of the ancient world in little more than a decade. Alexander was born in Pella, the ancient capital of Macedonia in July 356 BCE. His parents were Philip II of Macedon and his wife Olympias. Philip was assassinated in 336 BCE and Alexander inherited a powerful yet volatile kingdom. He quickly dealt with his enemies at home and reasserted Macedonian power within Greece. He then set out to conquer the massive Persian Empire” (Web, BBC History). It is important to note, which will maybe explain his brutal actions, that Alexander was only twenty years old when he became the king of Macedonia. “When he was 13, Philip hired the Greek philosopher Aristotle to be Alexander’s personal tutor. During the next three years Aristotle gave Alexander training in rhetoric and literature and stimulated his interest in science, medicine, and philosophy, all of which became of importance in Alexander’s later life” (Web, Project of History of Macedonia). “In, 340, when Philip assembled a large Macedonian army and invaded Thrace, he left his 16 years old son with the power to rule Macedonia in his absence as regent, but as the Macedonian army advanced deep into Thrace, the Thracian tribe of Maedi bordering north-eastern Macedonia rebelled and posed a danger to the country. Alexander assembled an army, led it against the rebels, and with swift action defeated the Maedi, captured their stronghold, and renamed it after himself to Alexandropolis. Two years later in 338 BC, Philip gave his son a commanding post among the senior gener...
Alexander was very loyal to his country and parents. When he was still a young teenager, his father gave him the task of ruling the small region of Pella. This allowed Alexander to prove to his father that he could be a competent ruler. When Alexander and his father, Philip, fought Macedonia, Philip was surrounded. Alexander bravely jumped in and saved his father from sure death. Alexander demonstrated loyalty to his mother by staying with her through her exile from Philip. This showed how much pulling and tugging went on to win Alexander’ favor that enviably killed Phillip by not knowing who to be loyal to. Upon their return three years later, Alexander’s mother requested to be allowed to rule with him, once Alexander became king. She knew that would be the only way she could regain power. When Alexander turned twenty, his father was brutally murdered by Alexander’s friend. This demonstrated once again how loyal Alexander was to his father, and how difficult a decision it was to pick sides between his father and mother.
Alexander was born in Pella, the capital of Macedon, on July 20, 356 B.C. He was the son of King Philip II and his fourth wife Olympias, an Epirote princess. Alexander was bred to be a warrior; his father was a great commander and king, and his mom’s second cousin, Pyrrhus of Epirus, was a celebrated general. So there were noteworthy examples of military genius on both sides of his family. As a child, Alexander’s mother would tell him stories of how he was a descendant to Achilles and Hercules. Achilles was his favorite hero growing up, as he read of his adventures in Homer’s Iliad. From an early age Alexander was practically raised by everyone but his parents. He was originally educated by a strict teacher named Leonidas. Alexander’s father wanted Alexander to become a great man, so he acquired the famous philosopher Aristotle to become his tutor. Aristotle trained him in rhetoric and literature, and stimulated his interest in medicine, science, and philosophy. Aristotle is credited for Alexander’s fasci...
I think the author believes that the biggest mistake that children make as they attempt to mature in the world around them is that they do so many actions without thinking about what could happen as a result of what they do. I know this by how Lily Owens acts during the story. A time that this happens during the story is when Lily decides to leave his father and learn more about her mother, who was accidentally killed by Lily when she was a toddler. Her reasoning for this is that she hates how she is treated by her father, T-Ray, and how horrid his punishments could be to her. For example, she gets scrapes on her knee caps from kneeling on top of bread grits as a constant punishment put on by T-Ray for doing things like going outside of the
Unlike Montresor from Edgar Allen Poe’s The Cask of Amontillado, one must never lose it, but learn to control their emotions, and pick themselves up after they have fallen. The most dreaded parts of a teenager’s life, the tower of papers that are called an exam, the depressing backpack full of homework, and the constant criticization from others. To succeed in life, one must make the most of the present, and what they have, as Oogway said to Po in Kung Fu Panda, “You are too concerned with what was and what will be. There is a saying, yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift! That is why it is called the
Equifinality proposes that multiple paths can lead to the same outcomes (Nassar, 2007). There were many strategies that Alexander could have chosen as the battle plan to defeat Darius and his massive troops. In this battle, communication created an effective and efficient strategy for the success that Alexander the Great’s army had against the Persians led by Darius. When you have a disadvantage to overcome, you must have communication as the top form of weaponry. Alexander was at a disadvantage in the size of his army by 4 to 1 (Nassar, 2007). However, he used the minimal number of resources to his advantage by making sure that he could execute the communicated plan more clearly and with precision. This was something that the larger army
Have you ever wondered why Alexander from Macedonia is called Alexander the Great. According to history, it is because he is the most glorious general in the history who conquered Persia, Greece, Egypt and Babylon in a very inexperienced age. He became the commander of Macedonian armies at age eighteen and the king of Macedonia at age twenty. After six years of preparation, he conquered the great Persian empire. Unfortunately, he died at age thirty-three. He would have conquered many lands if he hadn’t died at a such young age. He was a legend and an icon for great kings like Charlemagne, Julius Caesar, and Pompey. World’s most famous generals tried to compete with him but they couldn’t accomplish. After years, his tomb