...In her short story “Everyday Use,” Alice Walker depicts opposing ideas about one's heritage. Through the eyes of two daughters, Dee and Maggie, who have chosen to live their lives in a very contrasting manner. Walker utilizes symbolism to highlight the dispute between two different points of view of, or approaches to, the African-American culture, showing that culture and heritage are parts of daily life. Through the use of symbolism, there are three of which I will refer to, one being the quilts, the tangible objects of the family heirloom, the yard, which she emphasis on and its physical characteristics, and then there’s the name changing, when Dee changed her name to a traditional African name, Wangero. The quilts were the most compelling symbol in the story. They signified pieces of living history, documents in fabric that chronicle the lives of the many generations and the struggles, such as war and poverty, which they faced. The quilts served as a testament to the family’s history of pride and trials. With the drawbacks that poverty and lack of education placed on her life, Mama sees her personal history as one of her few treasures. Her house embraces the handicrafts of her extended family. Instead of acquiring a financial inheritance from her ancestors, Mama has been given the quilts. For her, these objects have a sentimental value that Dee, despite claiming her desire to care for and preserve the quilts, is unable to fathom. Mama’s yard represents a private space free...
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...Critical Thinking and Ethics: Critical thinking and ethics are such an important topic in today's business world. With an idea that is always developing it is important to understand what these mean, and how these work. Let us look at critical thinking first. Critical thinking's definition is: being able to apply knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation in everyday problems (Athanassiou). Knowledge is to recall what is previously learned, comprehension shows awareness of material, the application uses data to answer questions, analysis breaks down material, synthesis recombines information from the analysis, and evaluation displays one's judgment of the value of information received (Athanassiou). This process should apply to many everyday situations. When you are dealing with children, it can be a very busy situation. It is best to know each child you deal with; everyone has different emotions. You can use the knowledge and understand how to treat a child in a manner that helps the child behave in the best manner possible for you. By doing this, you would ask; how do I get my child to behave in a good manner? At this point, you recall that they acted well after using energy at the park, so you proceed to the park. Next you would give simple instructions to see how well they can listen; if they can follow simple instructions its a success. Next, you would understand that if your child arrives at the park this would allow them to burn their...
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...technology will help companies like Family Dollar conduct their everyday business and make logical decisions when it comes to expanding around the country. How will Family Dollar utilize their existing system to help the business effective and efficient? The development of Family Dollar is its people, the systems they use, and the sustainable business they run. The purpose of writing this paper is to lay out a diagram that will let Family Dollar explore some strategies that are optional to help them nurture the cost added services for the next 5 to 10 years. The most imperative crucial point of the paper will include the Executive Summary and the systematic approach of Family Dollar and their business strategy. This will come from tools such as the general force analysis and detailed SWOT analysis. The general force analysis will determine the external environments and the Porter’s five forces will determine the external industry environment. The SWOT analysis will see the sights of their strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats of Family Dollar. The paper will also draw attention to Family Dollar’s strategy and how will bring into line the vision and mission of the company Executive Summary For more than 60 years, Family Dollar has helped and provided their customers with a lot of worth as well as expediency. Their wholesalers are able to keep their cost down which helps them have the savings that benefit the customers. Family is very devoted to all communities they...
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...reflects an aesthetic understanding by the makers of what the quilt represents for them in their everyday experience. (Barkley-Brown, 1990). The shape of a quilt results from the meaning that the individual quilters give to the pieces that compose it. This art form is known as gumbo ya ya in Creole which means everybody talking at once. (Barkley-Brown, 1990). Alice Walker’s usage of quilts in her short story Everyday Use reflects the importance and significance of a quilt in African-American history. A quilt embodies heritage and personal stories and events; a quilt is similar to a person’s own journey in that each scrap stitched into a quilt represents “a person’s world view [which] is made up of events, circumstances and influences that shape how [she] see[s] and respond[s] to the world.” (Eshbaugh, 2008, August 21). Narrated by the mother of the two main characters, the symbolism of the hand-stitched quilts in Everyday Use represents the conflicts between two sisters who each experience the world and their heritage differently. The story begins with Dee, the eldest daughter, first homecoming since leaving for college. Walker describes Dee as a woman who no one ever told “no.” Dee is well-educated, wears bright colors that accentuates her full-figured body and exudes confidence. However, Dee will never be satisfied in life, and she is ashamed of her family and upbringing. As the story progresses, Dee’s reason for returning home becomes clearly apparent...
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...study of everyday social life. Everyday life and sociology are undoubtedly two distinct terms and situations, but nonetheless, they hold a dialectical relationship. While sociology studies human interaction, everyday life consists of everyday human interaction. Everyday life is permeated by human beings interacting with one another, institutions, ideas, and emotions. Sociology studies the interactions with all of these and shows how mere interaction resulted in things like "ideas" and "institutions". Everyday that you wake up and come into contact with what you do and the people you speak to is sociological. You wake up and interact with objects. Some of these objects you see yourself in such as your clothes, your music, your journal, etc. We would call this the sociology of identification. If you live with your parents and siblings, you wake up and interact with them, by saying good morning and having breakfast with them. Thus, you recognize and participate in the family institution. When you go to school, or church, or your job, you know what's expected of you and you know how to act in the way that is labeled "normal" or "right". Thus, you interact with a set of norms by conforming to them or breaking them(deviancy). The fact that we have an "everyday life" in which there are patterns and streams of ways of living is what sets a very foundation for sociological analysis, and for being a witness in what we do, in order to understand ourselves better. You use sociology...
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...Situational Analysis & Positioning for By Nature Handmade Soaps Client: Darlene Del Mundo Brand: By Nature Handmade Soaps Date: January 23, 2012 The contents of this publication are intended exclusively for the personal information of the client to the exclusion of every other interpretation. Copyright © Thrive Tactics, 2013 This work is licensed under the Creative Commons AttributionNonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Philippines License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ph/ Situational Analysis & Positioning for By Nature Handmade Soaps by Thrive Tactics Situational Analysis & Positioning for By Nature Handmade Soaps by Thrive Tactics 4 The Global Cultural Wave: Eco-awareness Eco-friendly goods are going mainstream in the Philippine market nowadays because of the growing concerns over global environmental problems. The effects of actual, first-hand experiences such as Ondoy & Habagat, among other recent calamities caused by environmental negligence, has compelled Filipinos to embrace environmental consciousness. This is a mindset born out of the realization that human life and the preservation of the environment/the planet are very closely interconnected realities. One cannot flourish without the other. Therefore, there is a strongly emerging mindset of integrating environment-friendly measures into everyday life. As consumers, people are beginning to integrate environmental impact into buying decisions –...
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...Running Head: EAT CAKE, AN ANALYSIS Eat Cake A Book Analysis Erica Grossman University of Florida Abstract This paper analyses the novel Eat Cake by Jeanne Ray and how the characters in the novel use a variety of occupations to deal with complex life issues as well as every-day challenges. The relationship between health and the use of occupations is explored and examples from the novel are used throughout to support the link between health and wellbeing, and occupation. This paper also explores the different sociocultural views of “occupation” and how these relate to the characters in the novel. Eat Cake: A Book Analysis In the novel Eat Cake, Jeanne Ray cleverly and humorously captures the day-to-day issues of one family’s life during a couple of trying months. Ray develops and describes each character in such a way that one can identify with each character and his or her struggles. The story is centered on Ruth Hopson whose roles are those of wife, mother, and daughter. We also meet her recently unemployed husband Sam, teenage daughter Camille, her mother Hollis, her estranged father Guy Nash, and Guy’s occupational therapist, Florence Allen. Ray describes how each character utilizes everyday occupations to help each deal with the stresses and challenges that life brings their way. Ever since childhood, Ruth has found the baking of cakes to be an extremely soothing and stress relieving...
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..."Everyday Use” - Literary Analysis Alice walker writes about the importance of inheriting family heritage and how it passes on to generations. This story is based on conflicts of two generations; on the bonds of a mother and daughter and their legacy which is symbolized as two hand stitched quilts. The narrator, Mama introduces us to her two daughters who have conflicting minds. Mama is disappointed on the behavior and the tension that takes place when Dee forces her to make a difficult decision about who gets the quilts. The story unfolds when Mama’s eldest daughter Dee, returns home for the first time after finishing college and starts claiming for possessions. The younger Maggie has never left home and is shown to be of quiet character, who was severely burned in a house fire when she was a child due to which her sympathetic and generous nature is over shadowed by her ugly scarred face. Dee, being stylish and blessed with good looks is the centre of agitation between the family and invokes jealously. Her feet appear "as if God himself had shaped them with a certain style." (385). Around Dee, the younger sister is a coward and since the fire she walks with "chin on her chest, eyes on the ground." (384) . The narrator is protective around her daughters hoping that Maggie becomes self confident and stands up for her right. The narrator fantasizes about reuniting with Dee on a television talk show and day dreams about Dee expressing gratitude to Mama acknowledging what all...
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...level of individuals and their interactions. The micro sociological approach places emphasis on face-to-face social interaction, or what people do when they are in the presence of one another. Roles are sets of expectations, rights, and duties that are associated with a given status. The dramaturgical analysis provided by Erving Goffman analyzes everyday life in terms of the stage. Socialization prepares people for learning to perform on the stage of everyday life. Core of this approach is the analysis of the impressions we attempt to make on others by using sign-vehicles like setting, appearance, and manner, teamwork, and face-saving behavior. Human actions are dependent on time, place, and audience and the favorable presentation of self by an individual via the use of impression management. An example for this is even if a couple is not in terms; they still act intimate and conceal their anger in the presence of others in order to save face. In a structural functionalist perspective, the family system regulates sexual activity, provides socialization processes, and transmits culture and the members of the family act their roles as father, mother and child. In dramaturgical analysis humans are like actors on a stage in which there are roles (scripts) and statuses (parts of the play) to carry out. Defining the social situation states that the perception of reality by humans is largely influenced by the subjective meaning they give to an experience. It focuses on the definition...
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...Schizophrenia Stephanie Renee Huston PSY 326 Research Methods Instructor: Keisha Keith 11/23/2015 Schizophrenia Introduction Schizophrenia is a serious brain disorder that gives a misleading or false account of the way a person thinks, behave, communicate their feelings, realize or understand, and relates to others. Schizophrenia has been considered as one of many chronic and disabling conditions for people that suffers with a major mental illness. People with schizophrenia often have problems fulfilling a task in the general population, at work, at school, and in relationships leaving an individual not wanting to communicate with other people and frightened. Schizophrenia suffers will live with it the rest of their life, it cannot be cured but treatments are available and controllable with proper and advance treatments. Contrary to popular belief, schizophrenia is not a split or multiple personality. Schizophrenia is a psychosis, a type of mental illness in which a person cannot tell what is real from what is imagined. In writing this paper on Schizophrenia I will show how popular belief, has an antithesis of what is really Schizophrenia? Is it really a split...
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...Hannah Huie Kate Evans Composition II 05 February 2015 Analysis of Characters in “Everyday Use” Alice Walker’s short story, “Everyday Use,” illustrates the importance of family and heritage. Many times in the story, Ms. Walker brings up heritage and the importance of recognizing of what it means to belong to something or someone. Her characters each go through change. Mama seems to switch her favoritism from Dee to Maggie and realizes that Dee is not the perfect child she had come to idolize her as being. Dee comes back home to realize that she no longer able to get her way as she used too and that her place in the household has changed. Lastly, Maggie is recognized as having the gift of knowing her heritage and having the ability to add to it by being able to quilt. As we read through the story we see that Ms. Walker paints a wonderful picture of difference between Dee and the family she left behind. Mama is the voice behind this short story. She narrates and you only see the story through her point of view. As she waits for her daughter Dee to arrive she has a fantasy about her life being on a TV show. She dreams of being a beautiful women, whose hair glistens in the spotlight of the stage, whose witty tongue has the famous TV personality Johnny Carson trying to keep up. As the reader continues they would be able to see that Mama’s true view of herself is not as flattering, she doesn’t mince the truth, and doesn’t have any false illusions about her looks...
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...out to people in the farming industry, but it was also relatable to all fields. One thing in particular that set the official Ram commercial “Farmer” apart from the other commercials was they touched more on the emotional side of people’s feelings rather than something more physically known like a celebrity. People all over watched this particular commercial over and over; it quickly became the most talked about ad. Ram used a collection of photographs from different sources to make this commercial effective. They had Paul Harvey talking from an old radio broadcast as the voice to reach their viewers emotional side. Several times during the Ram’s “Farmer” commercial would make you stop and appreciate everything a farmer or rancher does everyday to make sure everything is taken care of. The official Ram 2013 Superbowl commercial “Farmer” was very different from most commercials because they used the character of a farmer, instead of a celebrity like Kia used. The reason this was so effective is because more people can relate to a farmer or see themselves in that setting rather than a celebrity. The Ram commercial starts off with a picture of a cow out in a snowy field. Paul Harvey starts with the story from one of his shows of everything that a farmer does in his every day and everything that is expected of him. There is no music in the background, just his voice. With no music playing, it makes the viewer feel more connected because all they here is his voice telling a story...
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...consideration that the patient is not the only one who had been affected by a stroke. This leads families and medical professionals alike by asking the question, how does a stroke impact the lives of the immediate family members of the stroke survivor? The aim of this study will be to determine the answer to this question by connecting how the changes in the quality of life for the survivor impact the lives of the immediate family. Developed Research Methodology As the main care giver of a spouse who has survived multiple strokes, it means that I am known by other immediate family members of stroke survivors as one of them and consequently I am aware of what they are experiencing. Acting as a participant observer is the most logical methodology to use for answering this question. The rationale behind this is that in the referred to situation I am known as a member of the group that is being studied rather than as a researcher, which is definition of a participant observer (Dorsten & Hotchkiss, 2014). The main technique of direct data collection that I intend to use is conducting interviews. Interviewing the immediate family members of a stroke survivor will allow me to determine how the changes that occurred as a direct result of the stroke have impacted their lives. Additionally this technique will be useful in determining if the impact on the lives of immediate family members has influenced them in a positive or negative manner or if they have experienced both of...
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...protect the rights of subjects will be discussed. Also, data collection tool that were used to support the reliability and validity of the study. Data analysis procedures will be discussed and ways they are appropriate for answering the research question or questions, for testing the study hypothesis or hypotheses, and key distinctions between qualitative and quantitative data will be provided to the reader. Finally, in conclusion a summary of the findings, strengths and weakness of the scientific merit, the major limitations of the scientific merit, and finding the support of the hypotheses of the study. How to Apply Results and Conclusion of the Research Process Results in research are apart of the methodology process in research. Methodology is the process where data has already been collected, and the results from the study are discussed. Some researchers rely on the methodology method because it provides accurate results for any project. When it comes to aging Americans, some researchers feel that a flow plan may be more effective when it comes to valid research. According to University of Phoenix RESEARCH TECHNIQUES FOR THE HEALTH SCIENCES (2009), "Researchers who plan to use survey methodology should review existing health surveys to learn about good designs for small and large budgets and to become familiar with secondary analysis of health survey data sets. A flow plan is used to outline the design and subsequent implementation of a survey. It begins with...
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...PSY 360 Week 5 Quiz PSY 360 Week 5 Quiz Click below link for Answers http://workbank247.com/q/psy-360-week-5-quiz-psy-360-week-5-quiz-all-correc/13278 http://workbank247.com/q/psy-360-week-5-quiz-psy-360-week-5-quiz-all-correc/13278 Question 1 Think of 10 animal names that begin with the letter R. This problem would probably be solved using a ______ technique. • A. means-end analysis • B. reasoning-by-analogy • C. gestalt restructuring • D. generate-and-test • E. productive-thinking Question 2 The problem-solving technique of ______ involves comparing the goal with the starting point, thinking of possible ways to overcome the distance between them, and choosing the best one. • A. generate-and-test • B. means-end analysis • C. reasoning by analogy • D. mental set • E. introspection Question 3 When one recalls the solution to an old problem and uses it to solve a new, similarly structured problem, one has reasoned by: • A. introspection • B. analysis • C. analogy • D. backtracking • E. working memory Question 4 When you adopt a certain framework or strategy for solving a series of problems, you may fail to see other, more efficient ways of solving some of the problems. This is referred to as: • A. functional fixedness • B. procrastination • C. a heuristic • D. mental set • E. reasoning by analogy Question 5 Study of chess masters indicate that masters: • A. consider more possible moves than novices...
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