...Journal Writing What is Journal Writing? Journal writing is a series of written passages that document the personal events, thoughts, feelings, memories, and perceptions in one’s journey throughout life. Through journal writing you can sort through problems and come to a deeper understanding of yourself or the issues that a person may be dealing with. The word journal comes from the French word journee, which means from sunrise to sunset. It is important to remember that this technique is used to strengthen the bond of honesty between your mind and soul. By being able to read your journal, the writer is able to perceive experiences more clearly and feel less stressed, having both mental and physical health benefits Journal writing should be used in conjunction with other techniques and not solely in order to effectively cope with a stressor. Used by many different professionals such as: psychologists, life coaches, and health educators as a tool for self- exploration, soul searching and the enhancement of personal development. History: * Originally started as a record of orientation on long trips to find a safe return. * History is based on the journal writings of many different travelers and explorers. These include Columbus, Admiral Perry, astronauts etc. * Journals were used as a way to calculate the passage of time and distance. * Originally mostly men did journal writing because women were not educated to read and write, however when...
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...the victims, those who help them also face a great risk of getting caught and then arrested or killed. The concept of exile brings about many new problems for people to deal with. When in hiding, an individual may suffer so much turmoil that it can affect them psychologically or even take a toll on them physically. This tragedy will often bring about many mixed emotions from someone, where some days will be easier than others. The isolation alone that results from being in hiding can have a major affect on a person. The Diary Of a Young Girl is a great body of work when referring to exile because Anne Frank wrote an entry every single day on the struggles of her daily life being in hiding. This book is a great representation of the worries that thousands were faced with when Hitler was in power. It is ironic that although Anne’s family was going through a tragedy themselves, they still felt fortunate enough to be thankful that after all, they did not end up like many of their peers. On page seventy-six, Anne writes “No one is able to keep out of it, the whole globe is waging war and although it is going better for the Allies, the end is not yet in sight. And as for us, we are fortunate. Yes, we are luckier than millions of people. It is quiet and safe here, and we are, so to speak, living on capital. We are even so selfish as to talk about ‘after the war,’ brighten up at the thought...
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...faced was producing fraudulent financial statements. Mr. Normand had to decide whether to trust his Chief Financial Officer, Scott Sullivan, and add a journal entry that would misrepresent the capital WorldCom owned. By misrepresenting the capital, WorldCom would be overstating their profit and lying to their shareholders. Mr. Normand had to decide whether he was going to do what was being asked of him or do what was right and not commit the fraud. Mr. Normand testified that in the meeting held between him, other individuals in the corporate reporting department, David Myers, and Scott Sullivan, Mr. Sullivan continuously stated that he did not believe what he was asking them to do was wrong and if it were illegal he would take the blame for it. At that point, Mr. Normand should have recognized that what Mr. Sullivan was asking for was questionable. The purpose of financial statements is to provide internal users and external users with relevant and reliable information. The lack of reliable information that was provided during the time period that they were altering journal entries, gave users unreliable information that prevented them from making informed decisions. Explaining Alternative Courses of Action and Related Trade-Offs In the case of Mr. Normand, I believe that he acted improperly. He seemed uncertain about the legality of what he did but he suspected that it was wrong. Mr. Normand would have been acting immorally if he had been compensated for agreeing to...
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...the path to the door with just a sliver of light coming from underneath the door? Being completely engulfed by darkness can have a negative effect on some individuals after a period of time. As a result of this darkness, the feeling of helplessness begins to be released from one’s body in the shape of a noose as it slowly smothers its prey. Charlotte Perkins Gilman, author of “The Yellow Wallpaper,” is known for her feminist approach in her writings. In the story, husband and physician, John, questions the nameless narrator’s mental state, for he takes her to an isolated house and has prescribed his wife to several months of “the rest cure”. Being kept away from society with only her thoughts and the room she lays in day after day, the narrator slowly begins to question herself and tries to discover her identity within the wallpaper. Gilman uses setting, symbolism, and irony in “The Yellow Wallpaper” to illustrate that the lack of autonomy can negatively affect a person’s mental instability. Because the story takes place in a feminist era, Gilman shows how the husband has complete dominance within the setting of the story. In the beginning, the narrator, whose name is never stated, is brought to a house on the countryside by her husband, John, who happens to be her physician as well. The narrator expresses in her journal, “[The house] is quite alone, standing well back from the road, quite about three miles from the village” (Gilman 479). She continues to describe the house...
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...Critically reflective essay Emma Purnell: 0522771 “Our planning (or worrying about) what’s happening next gives us little opportunity or inclination to examine what has just passed” Wallace (2005) Writing from a student teacher perspective I thought it was very apt to start with the quote above. I believe I, like many student teacher colleagues, spend so much time worrying about what I have to do next, that sometimes I need to have a gentle prod or reminder that I need to be critically reflective of my actions in order to improve my future teaching performance. Sometimes if a session goes wrong I would rather not dwell on it and re-examine why it went wrong as it hurts my pride. However, this would be the easy option and how many times in future situations could I close my eyes and pretend bad experiences hadn’t happened? So regardless of how painful the experience it is vital that we critically reflect on everything we do as teachers, after all we reflect automatically on events in our personal life that we do or don’t want to happen again yet we find it harder to do it in our professional lives. The idea of the need for reflection goes back to the time of Socrates who claimed that the unexamined life was not worth living. More recently however, the idea of reflection in learning was radical in the times of traditional educational institutions. John Dewey as early as the 1930’s wrote and advocated the need for reflection in learning. Dewey, the father of experiential...
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...Ernst Jünger was a highly decorated German World War I veteran who wrote Storm of Steel, the first of his many journals and books that described his experiences during the war. Ernst was born on March 29, 1895 to a middle class family in Heidelberg, Germany. When “The Great War” broke out in the summer of 1914, Ernst volunteered to fight for Germany. He trained in Hanover, Germany, where he had grown up. There he learned about all the different German equipment and technology used in battle. He was taught how to take apart, clean, and reload his gun, how to live in the trenches, and other crucial survival skills. In training, he was also taught about the German military ranks and discipline. Much of these skills were familiar to Ernst because of his time spent in the French Foreign Legion. Ernst and his companions were excited to finally see the face of war. They were thrilled to be able to participate in the action, but they were naïve to the real horrors of fighting. The very first page of his diary begins with: “We had come from lecture halls, school desks, and factory workbenches, and over the brief weeks of training, we had bonded together into one large and enthusiastic group. Grown up in an age of security, we shared a year in for danger, for the experience of the extraordinary. We were enraptured by war. We had set out in a rain of flowers, in a drunken atmosphere of blood and roses. Surely the war had to supply us with what we wanted; the great, the overwhelming, the...
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...Release 2003] THE ALLEGIATION The allegation came just after an earnings restatement and insider-trading charge triggered the investigation, sending HealthSouth stock tumbling to a record low. [Romano 2003] Many attempts at whistle blowing were suppressed, when employees expressed concerns due to falsification of documents. One accountant in particular, was quickly silenced and moved to a dead end job outside of Accounting. Scrushy had no tolerance for disappointing Wall Street; thus he and his team, came up with ways to defraud, scheme, and make untrue statements of facts. Scrushy was the first corporate executive to face a federal indictment filed under the criminal provision of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. The SOX Act was put in place to increase the accountability of corporate executives. It impacts...
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... LEG 500(LAW AND ETHICS) January 25, 2011 (1) Explain where an employee can reasonably expect to have privacy in the workplace Given the upsurge in the use of electronic surveillance by many employers, it has become almost impossible for employees to have the kind of privacy they want. From the first step into the building that houses their entity or organization to the last step out, employees are being monitored. These people, because they are being monitored, are under constant fear and stress. In as much as employers have genuine reasons for monitoring, employees should have certain degree of privacy, for quality performance Is not achieved under strenuous conditions. In spite of the foregone, there are a few places an employee should enjoy privacy. The first place is in the quiet and peace of the heart. Employees should confide in themselves whatever confidential information. Sometimes, disclosures made to co-workers can lead to your dismissal from a given job. You don’t have to confide in people to make it out there. I strongly believe that trusting people accounts for most of life’s problems. No matter how sophisticated technology is, it never tells my next move. The...
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...Business Communication Business Communication and its effectiveness as a success factor to its firms Introduction Communication is defined as the process of transferring information and meaning between senders and receivers, using one or more written, oral, visual or electronic channels. Simply put, communication is the exchange of information between people. It is important to get feedback from your audience and vice versa for the process of communication to take place effectively. The feedback can be either positive or negative. Business communication is any communication used in an organisation with an intention to promote a product, improve service or with the intention to make a sale. This type of communication also occurs within the organisation between the management and employees. It has purpose and a lot of attention is given to detail. Business communication has undergone a lot of transformation as a result of the growth of information technology that has changed the whole concept of communication. In the past, businesses had a model of communication that left very little room for interaction and conversation with the receiver of the message. Currently the model that works and is now used by most organisations is one that gives room to both conversation and interaction with the receivers. Communication is very vital in any organization. Like blood in our bodies, it is the channel that gives life to the organisation and without it, organisations would not be...
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...shaped and defined over time. It evolves. It deepens. It is expressed in an ever-changing corporate culture, in transformational strategies, and in new and compelling offerings for customers. Those are the words that start the chronological history on the IBM website [1]. I couldn’t agree anymore with that statement. I am often very fascinated by the evolvement of technology stories I get to hear quiet often from my fellow senior coworkers. One of the stories I enjoy is about the large IBM370 computer my workplace once owned in 1970’s. From my understanding it occupied a whole room and it required several people to operate. That was less than a half century ago. Today the smart phone’s memory is much higher than that computer. For my time what I could relate to, is the floppy disk which of course is obsolete today. I am sure my kids will be fascinated by the floppy disk someday just like I get fascinated by circular slide rule that predated the calculator era. In place of floppy disks or another external memory, in the cyber world today, cloud computing is taking place of all those external memories. IBM website defines Cloud computing as, the delivery of on-demand computing resources everything from applications to data centers over the Internet on a pay-for-use basis [1]. Background History International Business Machine (IBM) history dates back in 1986. It originated as the Tabulating Machine Company that specialized in the development of punch-card-data-processing ...
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...and ours. The first is that they do all they can, when they recruit young faculty, to make way for excellence. We do everything to block its entry. We start discouraging talent early, but a few bright youngsters manage to come up despite our best efforts. They are the ones who face the greatest resistance from our institutions at the time of selection for vacancies. The norms and standards that University of Chicago institutions apply for selecting young faculty focus on individualised assessment of potential. Senior people and administrators who make decisions make sure that the aspirants are assessed on the basis of what they have published, the quality of research they have done, and how passionate they seem about the pursuit of knowledge and teaching. MECHANICAL CRITERIA In our case, the initial criteria applied are purely mechanical. Any hint of trans-disciplinary interest means that the candidate loses the chance to be interviewed. And those who somehow escape this fate are ultimately sized up at the time of interview in terms of the lobbies they might belong to. Someone rare enough to be independent of personal as well as intellectual lobbies is the first to be eliminated. In the semi-final act of short listing, those lacking support from the dominant lobbies get weeded out. Then, in the ultimate moment, hard bargaining takes place and the institution’s future gets sealed. If there is someone with an unusual...
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...Management, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Australia Geoffrey N. Soutar Graduate School of Management, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Australia Keywords Students, Decision making, Learning, Country of origin Introduction Why do students choose to study overseas? Demand for education, particularly higher education, has traditionally been driven by expectations of its ability to raise the economic and social status of the graduate. For people in less developed countries, limited access to education in their own countries led to a significant rise in the number of international students studying overseas. Between 1960 and 1970, the average growth in international student flows was around 9 per cent, and continued at about 6 per cent from 1970 to 1980 (Hughes, 1988). While there is some evidence of a slowing in the overall flow of international students during the 1980s and 1990s (Kemp, 1995), a global industry has been created. The global pattern of international student flows may be explained by a combination of ``push and pull'' factors that encourage students to study overseas. ``Push'' factors operate within the source country and initiate a student's decision to undertake international study. ``Pull'' factors operate within a host country to make that country relatively attractive to international students. Some of these factors are inherent in the source country, some in the host country and others in the students themselves. Abstract Examines...
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...my mouth. And she put tape over my eyes," Debbie said. "While she was putting tape on me, Matthew told me if I screamed or acted stupid, he'd shoot me. So I just stayed quiet”...” Debbie said her captors drove her around the streets of Phoenix for hours. Exhausted and confused, she was finally taken to an apartment 25 miles from her home. She said one of her captors put a gun to her head”…” Debbie said she was then drugged by her captors and other men were brought into the room, where she was gang raped.” (Teen Girls’ Stories of Sex Trafficking in U.S.). Many Americans hear stories all the time of abduction and sexual slavery all around the world. They feel like something should be done about this injustice but since the acts are happening outside the country they feel disconnected. Unfortunately, most Americans are not as far from this problem as they would like to believe. Sex trafficking happens at an alarming rate in America. Between the years 1996-2000, America had the highest number of victims trafficked illegally into the country (Cullen-Dupont 44). With this high level of trafficking going on, why are many Americans unaware of this issue? They most likely believe that only foreign victims are trafficked into slavery, but the Texas Attorney General states that an epidemic exists of domestic women being forced into sexual slavery as well (Bellows 489). Debbie was an American born citizen and she was kidnapped at the age of fifteen off her own driveway. A casual friend...
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...writing about memories that most people would only want to forget? I will show, Weisel has talked about, and as others have written, that the victims of the holocaust wrote about their experiences not only to preserve the history of the event, but so that those who were not involved and those who did survive can understand what really happened. They wanted the people of the world to realize how viciously they were treated. On top of wanting us to understand, they also want to understand why this happened. Why did the Lord let this happen? Why did the people of the world stand by and let such a thing happen to so many people? Today in the 90's we cannot think of letting so many people suffer, as those seven million people did in the mid-40s. Perhaps the most recognized writer of the holocaust is Elie Wiesel. He was taken from his home and put into the concentration camps when he was still a young boy. Wiesel once said, "I write in order to understand as much as to be understood." He was liberated in 1945 and, once he was liberated "he imposed a ten-year vow of silence upon himself before trying to describe what had happened to him and over six million other Jews." In a lecture on the dimensions of the holocaust Wiesel said, ""The Holocaust as Literary Inspiration" is a contradiction in terms. As in everything else, Auschwitz negates all systems, destroys all doctrines. They cannot but impoverish the experience which lies beyond our reach." "How can one write about a situation...
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...describe the intentional and wrongful invasion of another's real property. An action for trespass can be maintained by the owner or anyone else who has a lawful right to occupy the real property, such as the owner of an apartment building, a tenant, or a member of the tenant's family. The action can be maintained against anyone who interferes with the right of ownership or possession, whether the invasion is by a person or by something that a person has set in motion. For example, a hunter who enters fields where hunting is forbidden is a trespasser, and so is a company that throws rocks onto neighboring land when it is blasting. Every unlawful entry onto another's property is trespass, even if no harm is done to the property. A person who has a right to come onto the land may become a trespasser by committing wrongful acts after entry. For example, a mail carrier has a privilege to walk up the sidewalk at a private home but is not entitled to go through the front door. A person who enters property with permission but stays after he has been told to leave also commits a trespass. Moreover, an intruder cannot defend himself in a trespass action by showing that the plaintiff did not have a completely valid legal right to the property. The reason for all of these rules is that the action of...
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