Word: jakes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Kohlberg's scale. Amy is placed on a lower level than Jake because she "seemed to reveal a feeling of powerlessness in the world, an inability to think systematically about the concepts of morality...
...Jake, the 11-year-old boy, had little trouble deciding that the husband should steal the drug. His reasoning that "a human life is worth more than money" would, Gilligan says, place him at a high stage of development on a traditional scale, one that shows a principled concern for fairness and deductive logical thinking...
...school, she gazes adoringly at senior named Jake (Michael Schoeiffling), but only gets attention from a fellow freshman known as the "Geek" (Anthony Michael Hall). The day progresses steadily downhill as Samantha returns home to find her grandparents have moved into her room for her sister's wedding. Finally, her family insists that she take a visiting exchange student to a school dance. Probably not the best birthday on record...
...amount to nothing more than bad taste. Examples include a young woman with a back brace who is constantly tripping or drenching her face in water fountains, and the Asian exchange student whose name--Long Duck Dong--alone should demonstrate the racist stereotyping of his character. Equally cardboard is Jake's beautiful but shallow girlfriend, who tells Jake: "I fantasize that I'm your wife and we're like the richest, most popular adults in town...
...plot follows the expected twists and turns, with only limited credibility. Why, for example, does Jake take such a sudden, and almost obsessive, interest in the freshman Samantha' It's certainly not the way most sixteen year olds are likely to tell...