...people think nothing of it, but honestly, it makes a person question so much about him or herself. My parents decided to tell me the news when I was quite young and I respected them for that, however, I had many questions any adopted child would have. My most memorable moment from my childhood would be the time I cried at night. I was alone in my parents room and for some reason I became lost in thought . Since I was an only child, I was used to being alone. Some questions I started thinking included, “Who are my parents?” and “Why did they not want me?” Those questions were heartbreaking to a little girl, such as myself, to think of. I never thought of adoption as unusual or not common, but deep inside, I knew my situation was not like every other person. School was where I primarily had to inform my peers about my adoption. It was quite repetitive, especially since I was the only one, out of a grade of approximately eighty students, who was not blood related to their parents. Even elementary school projects bothered me, where I had to do an ordinary family tree or something similar to that. Putting...
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...Wisconsin, with a population a little over 25,000 and a tenth of a percent of that being Korean I am sure that no one else in the city is a Korean adoptee. Even though I don't notice it every day being adopted affects my life more than I think. At a young age people would always ask me about my family, where I was from, and other similar questions. When I was younger I was teased a lot about how I look different from everyone else. This got to me as a child and as a result I think that I have become quieter because I felt like I didn’t belong. As a person who doesn’t talk all that much it is nice when I can talk about something that I have a lot of knowledge in. By doing this I also help educate and get rid the misunderstandings around adoption. As I grew older the jokes and teasing stopped affecting me. I realized that being teases has no meaning behind it, but even being the only Korean adoptee can be lonely. Despite being the only adopted Korean in Neenah I still have connection to other adoptees around the country due to Camp Choson. Camp Choson is a camp made for Korean adoptees that takes place for one week every year. I have gone to camp for 10 years, and the only time that I didn’t attend was in third grade. During my years at camp I was able to meet new people that share a similar background.. Over the course of those ten years we spent about fifty days together, but in the time we were together I became closer to them than most people that I know. The people are Camp...
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...Jephtha Lumene Course: SLS Title: what have you adopted? What have I adopt, it only been a few months since I enter college, what have I adopt it not much but I would say that I adopt just a few things. The first thing I adopt was the time because my classes star in the afternoon I don’t use to go to school in the afternoon or at night. When I was in high school you wake up early to go to school and you stay at the school for almost the hold day and even after school if you have after school activities, now you in college were everything if different, you don’t have to stay at school for the hold day, your classes it at a certain time and you have time between classes to whatever you want. It takes mea insufficient days to get use to the time because I remember one day I wake up I was concerned thinking that I miss my class for the reason that I think it was like high school. For example when I was in high I wake up early around six in the mooning get myself ready and leave my house at 7:30 to go to school come back home at four sometimes come home later than that because I was in band, when we have an event coming up we have to stay after school to reverse, now I have to adopt to this new time. Added to that in college you make your own schedule, you choose what day or days you want to go to school I have to get use to that to since I don’t go to school every day. I only go to school three days a week, it good but the first two weeks was slightly a challenge for me I always...
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...A majority of adoptions are rather depressing and heart-wrenching tales that are full of smoke screens and dreary details that can really affect the adoptee. When my mother told me that I was adopted, I knew, but I was still shocked to a degree. My family is a group of Southern Methodist, ultra-conservative, military, white individuals, who look the complete opposite of me. Not only am I just not a different shade of color, but also I am of a completely different race. My adoption from South Korea at the age of three was a blessing, but being comfortable about who I was, was the greatest challenge. In all family photos, I was the one that stood out, and it was not because of a goofy smile or a silly sweater. It was because I was simply a dark-haired, tan, South Korean against a white canvas. Starting school and trying to explain to people that my uber-athletic, short, white brother, Colsen, was in fact my brother, could have been part of the show “Punked” due to people’s reactions. Their mouths dropped, and always began with an awkward pause, and then the generic question, “Well you are adopted then right?” The question used to be the hardest one to answer because it was asked so many times and always ended with pity. The question itself depressed me because it made me feel as if I did not belong, and made me...
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...audience fade and start to sing, as I tell my story. Although I had a childhood that was filled with love and laughter, I was not naïve to my circumstances. I was born on the indigent Caribbean Island of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, to a seventeen year old girl, who like many others that age, did not understand the concept of being a parent. With an absentee father and a mother who was not around much, my grandmother assumed the role of mother and father for me. She worked tirelessly to make sure that both my cousins and I had our basic necessities. Her selflessness was proven when she decided to give me up for adoption, in hopes that I would have a better life than the one she could provide....
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...World Adoption Month – When my husband adopted my daughter from a previous marriage, it was a celebrated day. But before he adopted her, I sat him down, as his lawyer-wife, and explained to him what this all meant. Not that the sweet, little blonde girl, who was already calling him “Papa” could do so legitimately. I meant what it all meant - legally. First of all, adoption has the effect of cutting off any legal ties between the birth parent and the child. In other words, if my daughter’s biological father happens to end up a million dollars and dies without a will, my daughter doesn’t get to share in the inheritance. Likewise, if my husband dies ten years from now without a will (that would NEVER happen, by the way), my daughter would...
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...This assignment I have been asked to write about a significant event in my life. I am choosing to share the story of my son’s adoption. This is one of the most trying yet rewarding experiences I have endured. My husband and I were both very content with our two children and felt that our family was complete. Both of us began to feel a strong pull of adoption at the same time. We were in the car listening to a radio program about adoption when we both looked at each other the same moment and asked “Have you ever thought about adoption? “ And thus began our joyous journey. Our first step was just to figure out where to begin, we knew of no one that had adopted and everything was very new to us. This step was scary for us because choosing the right agency would depend upon if we adopt in the United States or...
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...Starting with my parents MaryAnn and Edwin Pacion. Both of my parents were foster/adoptive parents. They adopted 20 special needs kids including me and my sister. There are 25 in total because of previous marriages. At around the age of 7 my mom told me a story on how she met my dad at a place called Studebakers. He asked her to dance and after the music stopped my dad told her he was going to marry her, she thought he was nuts. He didn’t know about all the kids she had and in her view most guys ran when kids were involved so it was her decision not to tell, just to enjoy herself when going out. In the next week he gave her a gold necklace with a teddy bear on it to let her know he was serious and wasn’t going anywhere. Now my mom had to be...
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...state of the art communication systems and its employee turnover problem. The method of narrative inquiry employed to investigate how Information Systems Professionals make decisions for voluntary turnover, and the factors which are taken into consideration was used. According to Bruner (1990), “the narrative approach to conducting research involves the documenting and analyzing of individuals stories about or personal accounts of a specific domain of discourse that are contextually rich and temporally bounded, relates to personal account of experiences that are vividly remembered and structured in a sequence with a beginning and an end.” The structure is provided through the adoption of McCraken’s (1988) long interview techniques and by employing the resume as a guide to emphasize the sequence of the story. “This approach is based on the premise that the narrative can be a powerful way to locate and understand their beliefs, concerns, values, experiences, and learning. This method implies qualitative research, which assists researchers in their attempt to understand people and their social and cultural context.” Research employing the narrative approach, (Vendelo, 1998) has suggested that the sequence of the story elements (Bruner, 1990) contribute to the appropriateness of the method. Moreover, Swap. Leonard, shields, and Abrams (2001) “suggests that relating stories of personal experience would be more memorable, be given more weight and be more likely to guide behavior...
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...call his name. In this poem, identity is not seen as something that is solid and concrete but as something that is situated and constructed by others, a glimpse of poststructuralist view on identity. Recently, language learning has been seen as participation and negotiation of self (see Higgins, forthcoming; Kinginger, 2004; Lam, 2000; Morita, 2004; Ohara, 2001; Pavlenko & Lantolf, 2000; and Solé, 2007 among others). The trend is resonated in the growing interest in language learner identity and the studies in narratives. In this paper, a case of heritage language learner will be investigated upon the theoretical frame of poststructuralism. Narrative inquiry will be used to analyze how she negotiates her learner identity. The purpose of this paper is two-fold: First, by looking at the struggle a language learner makes to acquire her heritage language, I reclaim the centrality of identity in defining heritage language learners. Second, to widen the horizons of narrative studies to the cyber space as it provides an ample source of easily accessible data and it has become one of the commonplace media of daily communication. Heritage Language Learners and Identity To refer to the Heritage Language Learners (HLLs), various terms have been implemented such as ‘native speakers,’ ‘quasi native speakers,’ ‘bilingual speakers,’ or, from the dissatisfaction with the prior terms, ‘home background speakers,’ and ‘heritage language speakers’ (Valés, 2005: p. 412). There has not yet been...
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...Authorship and Digital Media With the widespread adoption of personal computers, especially those connected to broadband Internet, the media landscape has changed drastically. All media-related industries, from newspaper to television to music and more, are experiencing this shift and are desperately attempting to react to the changing media landscape that has placed much of the control on the consumers rather than the producers of these media forms. Two digital media forms experiencing particularly interesting shifts of power are video games and digital music. Consumers of digital media forms such as video games and digital music files have complicated the traditional notion of authorship through their use of digital media technologies, which allows them to use digital media as an instrument of expression. Before delving into the intricacies surrounding this new form of authorship present in digital media it is first important to discuss the notion of authorship prior to the emergence of this digitally induced phenomenon. In non-digital mediums such as books, radio, and television, authorship exists as an individual endeavor, as authorship is only granted to the original author(s) of the media. As a consumer of this non-digital media the only point of contention as it relates to authorial expression is limited is the debate over authorial intent or narrative interpretation in these non-interactive cultural forms. Books, television, and radio are more or less consumed passively...
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...Pearson & Benameur, 2010; Habib, Ries, & Muhlhauser, 2010). Many of the trust-related discussions, however, are often based on the viewpoints of service developers/providers or technology focused (e.g., Hwang & Li, 2010). Cloud service providers (CSPs) saying “trust me” does not necessarily motivate people to respond with “I trust you.” Understanding of users’ thoughts on trust issues in the cloud computing environment is necessary in order to build and preserve trust between users and cloud service providers. PURPOSE OF RESEARCH The present study explores individual end-users’ perspectives of cloud computing, especially issues regarding their trust/distrust of cloud services. While current cloud computing service development focuses on adoption by enterprises and organizations, individual endusers who use cloud services in their everyday lives also constitute an important consumer group. Challenges of trust in cloud computing have gained social and scholarly attention accompanied with the rise of privacy and data security concerns. Studies that investigate individual endusers’ views of trust in cloud services, however, are rare. Using semi-structured interviews and a survey questionnaire, the present study aims to capture how ordinary individuals think about cloud...
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...achievement and how you were able to add value to your organization. — Johnson The goal in answering this kind of question is to analyze, rather than summarize, an achievement. This advice is particularly true if you're discussing an accomplishment that is listed elsewhere on the application. Your readers want to gain insight into your character, not read a factual summary of what occurred. Here are some guiding principles to use in constructing your answer: (1) Choose something that's meaningful to you. Some applicants feel obligated to choose the most objectively impressive accomplishments. You should write about something that has personal significance, even if you weren't formally recognized for it. What matters is that you write passionately and insightfully about your subject. Unless otherwise specified, you should feel free to draw on academic, personal, or professional successes. (2) Focus on details about the process. Show the reader through concrete details how you achieved what you did. If you want to discuss a grade you earned in a particularly challenging class, show us how you mastered the material. For example, describe creative strategies you used; don't rely on clichés like "I succeeded through hard work."http://www.free-essay-writing-topics.com/index.php?page=mba-application-accomplishment-questions...
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...Adoption and conversion could be considered the most fortunate outcome for Armenian children at this time. Some children were “voluntary” converts, in which they accepted Islam immediately during the 1915 persecutions. Other children turned to Islam because the families that adopted them encouraged or demanded them to convert. The large numbers of surviving children who converted to Islam following the genocide at the expectations of their new Arab families were wiping away their Armenian past. This situation shows that the Islamic majority intended to destroy the cultural presence of the Armenians. Personal narratives of children following the genocide prove that when introduced to a completely new way of life at a young age, they were likely to accept that way of life into their adult years. Both the experiences of adults and children at the time of the Armenian Genocide form a compelling picture of the massive injustices that were committed against the Christian Armenian minority by the Islamic...
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...himself or herself by not eating the foods their friends have at parties, outings, etc. She also works with the families on how to educate the schools (child's teachers) about the illness and how the school could embrace the child and create an atmosphere where the child feels more comfortable socially and the other students are not intimidated by child's wheelchair and/or presence of personal assistant or nurse. Ronit also, spent 7 years practicing in the foster home/adoption field. She worked with prospective adoptive parents during the time they meet the child they decide to adopt from the foster care system. She utilizes a brief systemic model of therapy. In her approach, the client is the expert and we work with the strengths and resources the client already possesses. In this approach (solution-focused therapy is one model of systemic therapy she uses), she and her client’s look at what has worked in the past and what was the client doing differently to achieve these exceptions when the "problem" was not present or controlling the client's life. A very similar model is the Narrative approach (client and therapist discuss an "ideal future" and look for the "unique outcomes" when the problem is not so present in the client's life. In this model, metaphors are used during the conversation. In solution-focused...
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