28 Jul 2009
There are three major theories about human behavior and physical environment: stimulation theory, control theory, and behavior setting theory. Traditional sensory stimulation theory is based upon the statement that learning becomes successful when all senses are stimulated. This theory confirms that when multi-senses are stimulated, greater learning takes place. According to Elizabeth D. Hutchison stimulating theories alarm us to consider the quality and intensions of sensory stimulation theory in the environment where a human lives and works.
Control theory is based upon the issue of how much we try to control our physical environment, and what attempts do we make to gain this control. In control theory there are four main concepts: personal space, territoriality, crowding, and privacy. Personal space and territoriality are the main mechanisms we use to gain control over our physical environment. (“Dimensions of Human Behavior”). We use them to define the bounds of interpersonal relationships, which can verify, depending on age, gender, or culture. On the one hand, the person tries to control his physical environment, but on the other hand the environment can suppress the person.
The Allepian Waslah constitutes an essential part of the cultural life of Arab, Jewish, and Christian communities. In this respect, the Allepian Waslah is a unique phenomenon in the culture because it manages to unite different cultural and religious communities. At the same time, the Allepian Waslah is an important element which contributes to the preservation of cultural identity of Arab and Jewish communities in different parts of the world. Remarkably, the Allepian Waslah’s components have been used in the Syrian and Jewish synagogues, Arab Christian churches, Arab Muslims, Jewish and Christian weddings. In such a way, the Allepian Waslah became deep routed in the culture of different communities. At the same time, this component of Muslim, Jewish and Christian culture proved to be able to migrate along with the population from the place of its origin to areas populated with Arab and Jewish communities, where the Allepian Waslah allowed them to distinguish them from local, dominating cultural groups. In this respect, it is possible to refer to the Lebanese and Syrian communities in New York, which manage to maintain their cultural identity and the Allepian Waslah serves as a toll of the preservation of their cultural identity and, what is more, it helps Syrian and Lebanese American to maintain contacts with their motherland and its culture. In such a way, the importance of Allepian Waslah for Arab and Jewish as well as Christina cultures can hardly be underestimated, but it is particularly significant for ethnic minorities, such as Lebanese and Syrian communities, in large cities, such as New York, where different cultures coexist and interact.
The American history is the result of its people and presidents’ actions. It goes without saying that there are no just positive or negative presidents but every American president did his best to develop the United States. It may seem that such two presidents as Reagan and Bush do not have much in common but their influence on the course of the history can not be neglected.
Education is always purposeful. However, in order to achieve the desired ends, it is necessary to clearly understand the mission, basic goals, purposes, objectives and ways by means of which they can be met. In such a way, it will be possible to work out an effective strategy which can make education successful.
The verb “defer” means to postpone something, to put off or delay some action or proceeding and implies a deliberate putting off to a later time (Merriam-Webster Dictionary).
Education is, in its fundamentals, the preparation of the individual child for freedom and self-sufficiency. One should first understand how to survive and manage on one’s own and then how to get a living. Awareness of, and adjustment to, the ways of others should take a late and subsidiary role in this preparation.
