...“I’ll have the same,” I said, handing my menu to the waiter. "I don't eat meat now," I told the table. "What?" Tim’s voice was high. Excited. "Since when?" I shrugged. "I've been thinking about it for awhile and decided it was time." It was a clever way to avoid the answer: Right now, in fact, because I want to be someone you admire, someone you have more in common with than Christine or anybody else. Someone you’d never want to leave. Tim raised his wine glass and spoke to everyone but only looked at me. "To us healthy, beautiful people." I smiled and felt the skin around my mouth being pulled up. For the first time in months, this actually felt true. 3. When I craved meat, I thought of Christine, of Tim, of all the vegetarians and vegans in the world with their elastic flesh and fragile limbs yet radiant skin and long, healthy hair. I was willing to ignore the temptations. Kill them off with ideas. I could be one of them—not just the meat eater who dated the vegetarian. It was still hard to avoid the things I craved like an addict though. Chili. Buffalo chicken dip. Lamb lollipops. Those burgers from The Abby. It was even harder introducing my new self to those who knew me as someone else. I traveled back home to New York with Tim one weekend in the summer and we were sitting around a campfire watching my father cook hot dogs over the flames. He asked me if I wanted the dog burnt...
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...Journal Today the guards came to the ghetto and we have never felt so scared. “ The Nazis will find us soon . There are not to many people left in the ghetto . This makes it easier for them to round up the ones who are holding out like us . If they find us , we may lose our lives. We have no choice.” ( p102) We have no choice but to go to the camps. Me and my brothers must stay together on the train. As we begin to gather our belongings my heart sinks to the floor. I feel as if I can not bear to leave this place that has been a home to us in thick and thin. We take our last looks “ every detail, every corner. This will have to live in my memory until we return.” ( p 103 ) . As we arrive at the railroad station , I feel trapped. All the...
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...character. In turn this emphasizes how Daisy wishes to been seen in a good light. The selfie further describes this interpretation by applying the fairness of which Daisy acts and others view of it. By her overexaggerated lady-like attitude we can further assume she wishes to be shed in a prime lite, the picture would reflect this lite. 2b.) Quote Explanation: I find this quote to be the greatest example of negativity stamped on Daisy. This marks its significance as it’s a complete mirror of the way Daisy wants to be received. Due to being quoted from the narrator these views are likely unfiltered, thus being a great example of how she is seen by others. From the plot we can also draw that Daisy keeps little emotional tie to others. Marrying into money is an example and ties to Daisy’s carelessness that Nick tags her with....
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...Dunnavant adunnava@cloverpark.k12.wa.us Assignment One – WORLD RELIGIONS The influence of major religions and semi-religious philosophies on societies will provide a reoccurring theme throughout the course. It is important for you to be familiar with each religion as we proceed. Please follow the directions below: 1. Visit the following sources: • BBC Religion & Ethics Website http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/ • Infoplease.com http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0113529.html 2. Complete each of the following charts (use the link in the handouts section of my teacher web to print the charts): • Western Eurasian Religions Chart • Eastern Eurasian Religions Chart • Classical Eastern Semi-Religious Philosophies Chart An example of the detail expected of you can be found on the Classical Eastern Semi- Religious Philosophies Chart under Taoism. To help you...
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...regulation. Often a team of therapists/professionals will work with clients to ensure that all of these modalities are covered. For example, one therapist will work with a client in individual counseling while another will facilitate the skills group. As a result, DBT interventions require that therapist be able to collaborate and work together with other helping professionals. Furthermore, it is necessary for clinicians to have practice skills to implement DBT effectively, such as the ability to validate client emotions, discuss or point out conflicting thoughts or beliefs, model or coach mindfulness techniques and emotional regulation, effective interpersonal skills, and distress tolerance. An additional key point that I feel is important for clinicians to keep in mind is the use of standardized or comprehensive DBT approaches that utilize the four key areas of mindfulness, emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness. By utilizing this comprehensive approach clinicians will be more effective in helping clients...
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...(2014). Cross-linguistic comparison of speech errors produced by English-and French-speaking preschool-age children with developmental phonological disorders. International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology: 16(2), 98-108. Burtoff Civan, Michele, Vilsaint, Fequiere, Morisset-Metellus, Gepsie. The Haitians: their history and culture. The Refugee Service Center, Center for Applied Linguistics: Washington, DC. Buxton, Cory A., Lee, Okhee, Mahotiere, Margarette. (2008). The role of language in academic and social transition of Haitian children and their parents to urban U.S. schools. Bilingual Research Journal: 31, 47-74 Cronin, Kristine. (2013). Volunteer in Haiti. The ASHA Leader: 18(4). Etienne, Corinne. (2005). The lexical particularities of French in the Haitian press: readers’ perceptions and appropriation. French Language Studies: 15, 257-277. Gage, Anastasia & Guirlene Calixte, Marie. (2006). Effects of the physical accessibility of maternal health services on their use in rural Haiti. Populations Studies: 60(3), 271-288. Melius, Heidi Marie, Wilen, Diane K., Savian, Irvika. Potential impact of Haitian-Creole...
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...what it is primarily focused onto – practical problem solving or theoretical descriptive analysis. Due to largely fragmented literature, sometimes interweaving concepts and a variety of attitudes, practitioners find it difficult to easily apply this field, meantime theorists call for more comprehensive understanding of OL. This article focuses on contemporary trends in OL research. It argues and unveils that current OL investigation has made a shift towards holistic and integrative approach in which individual has more powers to make a decision. Article illustrates such contemporary shift of mind by (a) summarizing most important literature in the field (b) providing examples of latest research in OL area. For a smoother analysis, author builds and applies working framework of dichotomies between concepts (dialectical approach). Keywords: organizational learning, contemporary trends, holism. JEL Classification: D800, D830 1. Introduction During the last 50-60 years Organizational Learning (OL) has undoubtedly established itself as a discipline – a number of concepts have been constructed and applied theoretically, numerous schools with distinct models have emerged. However, a question may be posed – to what extent OL may be viewed a fruitful discipline in the eyes of the very organizations? Here one should jump into assessment, in other words, normative approach. One should admit that in current society normative and descriptive approaches coexist – and to extent, complement each...
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...in order to get rid of the food, bingeing is a psychological disorder that manifests itself by loss of control in which emotion and thinking patterns cause a person to take on dangerous eating habits, such as overeating. Usually, these habits are a way of coping with depression, stress or anxiety. Food, being the commodity of which the sufferer has lost complete control, becomes more of an enemy than a lifeless object. Binge eating is new to the long list of traditional eating disorders and is said to affect millions of people around the world. Persons suffering with this disorder are not immediately recognized, because they are quite masterful at hiding their actions. For the purpose of this essay, specific clinical issues such as Dialectical Behavior Therapy and treatment programs for binge eating disorder will be analyzed. What causes binge eating disorder? Although we do not know the exact cause of binge eating disorder, researchers have found that it is a combination of biological, psychological and social and cultural factors. 1. Biological causes of binge eating disorder Binge eating is caused by genetic irregularities in the hypothalamus, (a small piece of tissue in the brain) which controls body weight and appetite. When not working properly it transmits incorrect messages about hunger and fullness. Studies also show that food addiction may also be inherited and that low-levels of serotonin in the brain (a neurotransmitter which helps to communicate messages...
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...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 in many ways everyday. For example, when you interpret the people you meet and how you...
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...debate, innovate and advance the field of study.1 CCT is important within the scope of consumer behaviour because it places a focus on meaning and identity creation; it delves deeper in the mentality that surrounds consumers in the marketplace, and an understanding of this mentality is useful to all that engage the market (buyers, sellers, producers, etc...). “CCT explores how consumers actively rework and transform symbolic meanings encodes in ads, brands, retail settings, or material goods to manifest their particular personal and social circumstances and lifestyle goals.”2 In understanding CCT, we understand the market in a broad sense, for example, acknowledging that marketing symbols are significant to consumer culture, and the way 1 Eric J. Arnould & Craig J. Thompson. “Consumer Culture Theory (CCT): Twenty years of research” Journal of Consumer Research 31: 868-82. 2 Ibid, 871. 1 that free choice is exercised alongside consumer culture. CCT focuses on meaning: what do brands mean to consumers, and what role consumption plays in the life of these consumers. Is there more to...
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...Communication Theory Nine: Two Robert T. Craig Communication Theory as a Field May 1999 Pages 119-161 This essay reconstructs communication theory as a dialogical-dialectical field according to two principles: the constitutive model of communication as a metamodel and theory as metadiscursive practice. The essay argues that all communication theories are mutually relevant when addressed to a practical lifeworld in which “communication” is already a richly meaningful term. Each tradition of communication theory derives from and appeals rhetorically to certain commonplace beliefs about communication while challenging other beliefs. The complementarities and tensions among traditions generate a theoretical metadiscourse that intersects with and potentially informs the ongoing practical metadiscourse in society. In a tentative scheme of the field, rhetorical, semiotic, phenomenological, cybernetic, sociopsychological, sociocultural, and critical traditions of communication theory are distinguished by characteristic ways of defining communication and problems of communication, metadiscursive vocabularies, and metadiscursive commonplaces that they appeal to and challenge. Topoi for argumentation across traditions are suggested and implications for theoretical work and disciplinary practice in the field are considered. Communication theory is enormously rich in the range of ideas that fall within its nominal scope, and new theoretical work on communication ...
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...Family Counseling Approach: Narrative Lisa R. Murray Liberty University Online Abstract Narrative therapy is a therapeutic approach that is used alone or in conjunction with other methods of therapy. This particular method of therapy is used in family therapy to help clients focus on gaining access to preferred story lines in reference to their lives and identities the family dynamics that may affect them. The preferred story line will replace the place of the previous negative and self-defeating narratives about themselves. Helping clients within a family counseling to begin to become the author of their own story is important in many cases to overcoming multigenerational affects. Narrative therapy aids in this process. This comprehensive evaluation of narrative therapy within the structure of family therapy and the integration of faith will be constructed in the following pages. Keywords: self-defeating, Narrative therapy, multigenerational, therapeutic Introduction Narrative therapy is considered apart of the Social Construction Model. This particular type of therapy, the counselor or therapist is not a dominant entity or focal point of the process. Instead the therapist is seen as an influential individual to the client. The counselor will aid the client with the process of internalization and the creation of new stories or narratives within themselves that help them to draw new assumptions about themselves. This is done through the process of the client...
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...Conflict management refers to the long-term management of obstinate conflicts. It is the label for the variety of ways by which people handle injustices. Conflict management involves implementing strategies to limit the harmful characteristics of conflict and to increase the positive ones to a level equal to or higher than currently prevalent where the conflict is taking place. Furthermore, the aim of conflict management is to enhance learning and group outcomes. It is not concerned with eliminating all conflict or avoiding conflict because some conflict can be valuable and constructive to organizations. Conflict must be effectively managed for an organization to reach it goals. Before it is managed, conflict must be recognized and defined by the disputants. Conflict frames are eyes through which disputants can view the conflict with an aim to resolve it. They are orientations that lead disputants to view or focus on some facets of the conflict while ignoring others. These frames can be defined as viewpoints through which the problems arising from conflict can be viewed more realistically with the aim of resolution. The frames mentioned above are listed as: i. Unitarist and Unitarism ii. Pluralist and Pluralism iii. Marxist or Radical Unitarist and Unitarism This frame of reference reveres the organization as harmonious and in agreement. This accord approach thus leaves little or no room for conflict. This frame of reference views conflict...
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...My topic of choice for this assessment is Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). I chose four online sources to help me to research it, being Sane Australia (informational site), Psych Central (informational site), YouTube (social platform) and Facebook (social platform). Sane Australia (SA) was a basic but factual site (SA, n.d). It has one page specifically related to BDP, which is clearly laid out with a concise (but very informative) overview of BDP. This assisted me in reading, understanding and assimilating my pre-existing knowledge and accommodating the new knowledge acquired (Atherton J.S., 2013). There was a podcast which was a reading of the facts set out on the page, which helped me to 'over learn' (Chew, S. L., 2011) the facts I had just read. This site is a reliable and credible online source as:- It is a professional organisation that has won a number of awards for its educational publications (SA, 2012); The site is approved by Health Direct Australia (trustworthy source); It complies with Health on Net standards, presenting a link to its HONcode certificate to verify same; It confirms that all information published on the site has been “approved by appropriate qualified medical practitioners” (SA, 2014, para.1); The editor in-Chief of the website’s content is a qualified psychologist whose credentials are listed on the site; and SA also has 7,959 Facebook likes and has a good presence on social media. After actively searching (Swinburne Online, 2013)...
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...Metaphysics From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to:navigation, search This article is about the branch of philosophy. For the work of Aristotle, see Metaphysics (Aristotle). |Philosophy | |[pic] | |Branches[show] | |Aesthetics | |Epistemology | |Ethics | |Logic | |Metaphysics | |Social philosophy | |Political philosophy | |Eras[show] | |Ancient | |Medieval | |Modern | |Contemporary | |Traditions[show] | |Analytic | |Continental | |Eastern | |Islamic | |Marxist | |Platonic | |Scholastic | |Philosophers[show] | |Aestheticians | |Epistemologists...
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