...Estarreja, Portugal when they were toddlers, but they moved to America when they were in their teenage years. To interview David about his first immigration was hard because of the fact that he was so young when he moved to Angola from Portugal. His family moved to Naimbe (called Moçâmedes or Angra de Negro when he lived there) because his father’s work relocating and more opportunities. Though his family did not want to move, they were very lucky that their father even had a job in general. His work did pay for them to move and even helped them buy a house in Angola. Naimbe was a Portuguese Province, so the move was not that difficult and not much was needed to adjust. Most of the people still spoke portuguese, celebrated most of the same holidays, and most importantly had the same type...
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...Creswell (2002) defines the interview as a method of qualitative research that seeks to describe central themes and meanings of various human phenomena and experience. A web dictionary defines the word “generative” as having the ability to originate, produce, or procreate. This implies that a generative family is a family which is able to multiply by producing new offspring. A family is a system or unit which is defined as a group of individuals who are bound by strong emotional ties, a sense of belonging, and a passion for being involved in one another’s lives (Wright, Watson & Bell, 1996). The family visited was a nuclear family. The term nuclear family was developed in the western world to distinguish the family group consisting of a father and mother, and their children, from what is known as an extended family (Wright & Leahey, 2005). Nuclear families can be any size, as long as the family can support itself and there are only the parents and children. The purpose of the interview presented in this paper was to discover and describe the experience of pregnancy by a married woman who is in her late twenties. The paper presents the findings observed in the interview and ends with a series of conclusions and personal reflections on the interview method. The confidentiality of the pregnant lady’s name and that of any member of her family will be respected throughout the paper. This essay is an example of a student's work Disclaimer This essay has been submitted to us...
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...Counseling 104/Informational Interview/Olson 1 Informational Interviews - 100 points each Purpose: To learn about careers you are considering from individuals who are currently working in the professions of your interest. Assignment: To interview for information two different people working in careers you like. Next, write a hybrid-essay and thank you letter for each interview. Directions for preparing, interviewing and writing your hybrid essay and thank you letter are listed in A - F. Read pages 75-77 in Magical Quest for an overview about informational interviews. The due dates for each interview are listed in your Course Assignments document. NOTE: Interviews with immediate family members, bosses at work, or other non-serious options will not be accepted. The career of the person you select should be a strong possibility and with an income of at least 40K per year. Also the interview needs to be completed in person (not through the internet). A. Complete these steps for your assignment: 1. Interview someone in a career you might like. Choose a career you are really interested in, not someone who will just be easy to find and that you’re not so interested in. You will complete a total of two interviews with two different people. 2. Conduct the interview at the place of employment. 3. For each interview prepare a hybrid essay and thank you letter using the directions listed for the hybrid essay under C. 4. Send your thank you letter to your interviewee...
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... For this writing assignment, you will prepare and conduct interviews with two people about their definition of happiness, how they gained this view, and whether they feel happiness is achievable. Choose two people who vary in age and experience. Only one of the subjects can be someone you know well. This is an opportunity to learn about acquaintances and strangers as well. These should be face-to-face interviews. Introduce this assignment by introducing each subject one at a time. Who are they? What is the nature of your relationship? Next, ask a variety of questions to get them to consider not just their definition of happiness, but its origins and development. You can use these sample questions to get you started, but should add more questions or change the interview as it develops: Has your definition of happiness changed over time? What experiences have influenced your definition? Do you expect the definition to change again? Follow the Unit 4 template for this assignment in DocSharing. It includes submitting a transcript of your interviews, including your questions, so take notes or record the discussion. Finally, you should draw conclusions about the process and the answers that were given. Compare and contrast the results of the interviews. Discuss what was similar or different in the replies, whether the subjects were honest, or if the concept of happiness was difficult to define. The essay should be at least 750 words and should employ terms from the...
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...immediately joined in and gave his own insight. The interesting thing was that Marques had an MBA in Marketing which is something I aspire to do. He told me things to work at to get better and had all the answers to every single one of my questions. Although I had only met Marques once before my interview, he made it feel as if I had been around him fifty times. So, I chose none other than Marques Whitmire to interview. I called upon Marques for an interview and he agreed. Although Marques was a very busy man, he fit me into his schedule. He was in Atlanta on a business trip for the Honda Battle of the Bands and he arranged an interview for October 17th at two p.m. at Starbucks. I wanted to give a good impression so I was at Starbucks fifteen minutes before two shortly before Marques arrived. Marques walked in as if he had just left a business meeting. He was wearing a black suit, white shirt, black dress shoes, purple tie, and a pair of Calvin Klein spectacles that gave him a look that was hard to top. When I saw him, that’s what I imagined myself to be in a couple years. We both greeted each other. We got up and ordered caramel frappes and immediately got this interview started. “When did your love for writing begin,” I asked him. Marques begin to tell me that his love for writing didn’t just start. Marques stated sarcastically, “I think I was born to write. I learned to write before I learned to walk.” After saying this, I couldn’t do anything but laugh, which...
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...ukessays.com http://www.ukessays.com/essays/nursing/case-study-of-a-functional-health-pattern-assessment-nursing-essay.php Case Study Of A Functional Health Pattern Assessment Nursing Essay The following Functional Health Pattern assessment is based on a 65 year old Scottish woman who lives independently with her husband in their home at Happy Valley. The purpose of the interview was explained in addition to an outline of the types of questions which would be asked during the interview. A copy of the interview questions were provided prior to the interview (Appendix 1) so the questions would be familiar, and to minimise any embarrassment. The importance of maintaining her privacy and the necessity of choosing a pseudonym was discussed which she perceived as great fun. She chose ‘Patricia’ as she thought it was rather a ‘posh’ sounding name and one which she had always liked. At the beginning of the interview the confidentiality aspects were reiterated to which Patricia indicated verbal permission for her information to be disclosed as applicable and appropriate with due regard to her ethical and legal rights (ANMC 2008, p.4). Patricia was advised any questions which she did not feel happy answering could be skipped in order for her to feel comfortable within the interview environment. That said however, Patricia stated she was happy to discuss anything and was keen to progress the interview. Health perception/health management pattern An outline of the client’s perceived...
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...American writer David Sedaris is a distinguished person. He has nine “essay collections,” most of which are very commercially successful. It all started with “SantaLand Diaries,” an essay that was the spark to his flaring fame. He is the second of six children and was brought up in North Carolina but has been living in Europe for a long time with his boyfriend Hugh Hamrick. His works receive critical acclaim and adoration from readers and were nominated to and won several awards as well (Wikipedia, “David Sedaris”). Sedaris’ writings are personal essays, which should provide great insight into his personality due to their autobiographical nature. An important feature of him that manifests clearly in his writings and interviews is hiding his weaknesses, which is a part of his perfectionist tendencies. Sedaris always tries to make things funnier than they really are. It is as if he is wearing a mask, a funny one, so that whatever bothers him wouldn’t leak through his façade and reveal his vulnerability to the world. An example of this was obvious in his interview for Dutch TV. He mentioned that his “youngest sister committed suicide” and the devastating effect this had on his family. However, he added that he included funny details in a story he wrote about this incident and his relationship with his deceased sibling. (Brands, “David...
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...Meaning of Latino Union When students leave home to attend college, it is a tough transition; family is one of the most important things in everyone’s lives. There are many opportunities for students to become involved with organizations that incorporate the transition to college alongside having that family feeling. At the University of California, Riverside, one of the many family oriented organizations is Latino Union. They are an organization made up of mostly, but not limited to, Latinos. Latino Union help within the community and build relationships with each other to form the family type bond to make the transition into college smooth. I first heard of Latino Union from of my resident advisor, because she was in the organization....
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...Memory is the ability in which the mind can store and remember information in the brain. This essay will be discussing and reporting research in which memory errors have occurred. The types of memory errors being discussed in the essay will include the effect of schema on false memories, misinformation and false memories in general. It will also be discussing how memories can be planted into a person’s mind of something that actually never happened. Papers that will be used to demonstrate the use of false memories will come from; Loftus and Pickrell (1995), Strange, Sutherland and Garry (2007), and Zargonza and Mitchell (1996). The first study to support false memories comes from Loftus and Pickrell (1995), whose aim was to discover if false...
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...deserves a quote in cultural studies. Cultural war has, as its main dimension, the social class structure and how it appears to take shape in public opinion through the media. Media space seems to be the stage for world-scale reconstruction of class structure. This essay will present Meaghan Morris biograph, trace hers arguments related to cultural war and the importance of media, and the construction of class, as one aspect of...
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...ED 292 TEP Presentation TEP Essay Audience * 2 People / Interview team * PhDs / Ed Ds * You don’t know them (maybe) * Determining your future * Experienced Educators For your essay, this knowledge means that * your essay should sound educated, professional * your essay should be concise, to the point * you should know your content * 7 Dispositions * 6 Conceptual Framework commitments * Why you’d be a good teacher * life experiences that demonstrate CF and Ds * P-12 connection, * Your essay should have 3 or fewer grammatical errors Purpose * to prove we know what we want for our future – to be educators * to seek entry into TEP * to fully integrate CF & Ds into lived experience For your essay, this means * You are writing a persuasive essay * 1st Person is required (you can’t talk about yourself as if you are someone else) Thesis * Will emerge from the organization options below Organization * Content * 7 Dispositions * 6 Commitments of the Conceptual Framework * Personal Experience (activities including work, school, church, scouts, sports, family) * Possible Organizations * 5 paragraph theme (3 points) * 3 Content Categories * 3 Dispositions * 3 Conceptual Framework Commitments * 3 Combo (Disp/CF/Pers. Exper.) * 3 Experiences (Best Option) * 1 Experience w/3 Aspects (Best...
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...feeling happy at work. This is really a "job satisfaction essay" that asks you to think about what you are looking for in a career, and expects you to talk to people you know, and should get to know, about what makes a career choice a good fit. 3.2.1 Project – Job Satisfaction Research Report Project Requirements • Essay format: report on the information you learn in your interviews (described below) and add a reflection section at the end that puts that information into context. Explain what you learn from the interviews you conduct for this report that you find most valuable and interesting. Discuss what you think will make you happiest in your career (besides making money). • Works/Interviews Cited page required – MLA format. • Format - Report/Essay format, with headings. Approximately 4 pages, double-spaced. • Interview requirements: • Interview 3 people, either coworkers or peoplewho work on campus, about their jobs. Choose people who take their work seriously and who you respect. • Interview 2 family membersabout their jobs/careers. • Interview 1 person working in the fieldyou are interested in about their job • What to know or ask – Start by focusing on what their job title is. Where do they work and what do they do? Besides getting paid, what do they like most, and least, about their jobs or career? If they are working in your field, what advice could they offer you? These are informational interviews. You can choose from some of the questions below, or...
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...Fieldwork Project 1: Dinnertime You will submit, via this Bb assignment page, a brainstorm, a list of questions, and 400-word essay on your fieldwork and your results. READ CAREFULLY AND MAKE SURE TO FOLLOW INSTRUCTIONS. Doing the assignment is as much a test your ability to follow directions as it is of your fieldwork project! 1. Prepare with a Brainstorm: Ask yourself your family’s dinnertime habits, meal-sharing at home, and customs at your table, who eats when, what it means to have food and share it, what it means to gather at a table with family, who is your dinnertime family, and what expectations or ideals you have for dinnertime. Think carefully about your own dinnertime experiences BEFORE you ask your interview questions. Brainstorm by typing for 4 minutes--save this work, as you will need to turn it in with the rest of your assignment. 2. Interview a classmate (or friend): Now you have thought about how dinnertime and meal-sharing works in your family. So, next you will develop 5 interview questions. Your goal is to learn how someone else experiences dinnertime and meal-sharing with his/her family. I want you to attempt an anthropological view of dinnertime practices. You will need to choose a focus, but you could explore many different questions. Here are some ideas (you may choose from this list or come up with your own questions): How are your dinnertimes organized? Who attends? Who cooks? Who cleans? Do you all eat together? Does it matter? ...
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...not just words written in a company pamphlet of posted on a wall somewhere. The values and culture actually shows in their employees and customer service. The ten family core values that Zappos bases its culture on are: • Deliver WOW Through Service • Embrace and Drive Change • Create Fun and A Little Weirdness • Be Adventurous, Creative, and Open-Minded • Pursue Growth and Learning • Build Open and Honest Relationships With Communication • Build a Positive Team and Family Spirit • Do More With Less • Be Passionate and Determined • Be Humble At Zappos they believe that if you get the culture right everything like great customer service, building a great team, having passionate employees and customer will all happen on its own. At Zappos the culture all starts at the hiring process. The way that Zappos hires new employees contributes greatly to their culture. At Zappos a person has to go through two different sets of interviews. The first interview is done by the hiring manager and his or her team. What they look for in a person is relevant experience, technical ability, and fit within the team. The second interview is done by the Human Relation Department and they are only looking for a cultural fit Organizational Culture of that person. If a potential employee doesn’t pass both interviews they are not hired. If a person is hired they will go through a four week training process. Two weeks of classroom training and two weeks on how to answer customer calls...
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...Rachel Blankenship Professor Bohn English 1020, section 005 3 December 2012 Outline I. Introduction i. Adams, Mike. “Exclusive Interview with Billy Best.” ii. Personal Narrative II. Body A. Background Information iii. “Carcinogen.” Wikipedia. iv. “Cancer.” Wikipedia. B. Opposing Perspectives v. Schorr, Andrew. "Interview with Amie Blanco: Hereditary Colon Cancer." vi. Joe Chemo. Image. vii. Phillips, Gavin.“Interview with Dr. Burzynski.” C. Thesis + Support viii. Holistic vs. Medical treatment: medical treatment seems to be a better shot at surviving. ix. Kelly. “Adenoma/Glioblastoma multiforme/Anaplastic astrocytoma/Glioma Cured.” x. Cousins, Emily. “Life after Treatment Can Be Almost As Hard as the Chemo.” xi. Messoria, Josie. Personal interview. 15 November 2012. III. Conclusion xii. Personal. Abstract In this essay the author discusses cancer, what causes cancer, holistic vs. medical treatments. The first part of the essay the author presents a piece of an interview conducted with a young cancer patient who was going against the grain and refusing treatment. The essay then goes into a personal narrative on how the author feels about cancer then from there goes into a great descriptive paragraph about cancer and carcinogens. Her thesis is clearly surrounding the argument whether or not holistic or medical treatments...
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