...grief and loss, it became evident that many look at it in the context of loss to death. The loss of a person through death is momentous to us as the most recognised source of grief but it is not the only source. “Loss as majestic as death or as mundane as taxes, is the sure thing in every life, the experience that is as common as April rain in almost everyday in some form or other, in our lives.” (Kennedy, E. & Charles, S.,C. 2001.pg372). After conducting my research, I realise that people grieve to secondary losses as well as primary losses. Grief can result from any loss: end of a relationship, leaving home to go to university or a family member with some sort of illness. In addition, one may experience grief as the result of the loss of something as well as someone. Taking all this into account, I decided to focus on Colin Murray Parkes. Parkes (1988) brought together psychological and social aspects of grief which is termed psychosocial transitions. Throughout this essay I will examine Parke's model and explain how this particular model can be applied to my own personal life. I will also demonstrate how this model can be applied to the social care field. My loss was losing my grandmother to Alzheimer's disease. It is not that she has physically died, but her identity and true self was gone. She was warm, loving and one of the most caring people I have ever met. I stayed with my grandmother every night since I was seven years of age. I slept with her every night and I had...
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...There are some events on people’s lives that make an impact in them and change their perspective of the world. It can be something full of happiness like a graduation or a wedding, but it can also be something tragic and overwhelming such as the death of a family member. The Moths is a story written by Helena Maria Viramontes. In this story, the narrator is a little girl who has suffered a lot in her life. She suffers an unidentified disease on her hands and her grandmother provides her with comfort and helps her feel better. The story ends with the death of her grandmother. The author develops the personality of the protagonist through the story. At first, she doesn’t feel any relationship with her family members except with her grandmother, but by the end of the story there is a feeling that the girl has changed....
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...descriptions page. http://www.phoenix.edu/admissions/prior_learning_assessment/experiential-essays/essay-topics.html 2. Some essays have specific experience requirements. I have checked the essay description and I meet all of the experience requirements listed. 3. I have written and included a 1,500 to 2,100 word autobiography; autobiography is only required with first Experiential Learning Essay, subsequent essays do not require additional autobiographies. 4. I have written an experiential essay: 3,000 to 4,500 words for 3 credit essay 5. My essay is written in first person (1st) without references. 6. I have written to all four (4) areas of Kolb’s model of learning. 7. I have addressed all of the required subtopics in each of the four areas of Kolb’s model of learning. 8. I have included supporting documentation that validates my personal/professional experience with the essay course description/topic. 9. My essay is based on personal, life learning experiences, not based on research, history, or another individual’s learning experiences. Experiential Learning Essay Template Kolb’s Model Below is a description of Kolb’s Model. All experiential essays must be written following Kolb’s Model. Below you will find the four sections of Kolb’s Model, a brief description of the section, and a sample of how that...
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...Justin Ong Professor Y. Cooper-Grigg English 102 29 May 2013 Death Is a Catalyst For Characters to Change This paper is based on Flannery O’Connor’s “A Good Man Is Hard to Find”, a short story. The theme for this research paper will be an analysis of the key characters in the story that are affected and changed by an encounter with death, with a near-death occurrence. The reason for this theme is to bring some significant insights into the literary work in a profound way. The grandmother and the Misfit are chosen to establish the theme in the paper. In “A Good Man Is Hard to Find”, death is a catalyst for characters to change; some characters are changed positively by their experience with death, while other characters are changed negatively. The Misfit shows why he became evil because his expectation of goodness in the society was put to death by the reality of injustice. In a polite tone, the Misfit explains to the grandmother, “I found out the crime don’t matter. You can do one thing or you can do another, kill a man or take a tire off his car“ (O’Connor 194). This opinion comes from the Misfit serving his lengthy time in jail where he experienced harsh prejudices. The Misfit continues to explain to the grandmother calmly, then came a “piercing scream” from the wood background where the Misfit ordered the grandmother’s family to be killed. Suddenly, Misfit’s tone turned nasty, “Does it seem right to you, lady, that one is punished a heap and another ain’t punished at...
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...When you lose someone you love it can be very painful. When most people first think of a period of loss they automatically think of death. Losing someone can mean death, the end of a relationship, the failure of a friendship, or even the loss of a pet. When you are unsure if someone will come back in your life, it can be hard and frustrating. Have you had someone walk out of your life and leave you unsure if they were coming back? Has someone ever left this earth for good and went home to the Lord, leaving you to sit and wonder how and when you will see them again? A period of loss was something different for me. It changed me emotionally, mentally, and spiritually. Ever since I was eight years old my grandfather had been sick he had been in and out of the hospital. Once he lived at home in a hospital bed. He couldn’t go to the bathroom by his self and he couldn’t feed his self. So of course my grandmother had to do everything for him. The last time he went to the hospital, the nurses had asked my grandmother would she like to put him in a nursing home. When my grandfather was in and out of the hospital he said to me “Pumpkin Grandfather will be leaving soon to go home with the Lord.”...
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...Exam Style Question: Section B As a director, outline your objectives for the female characters in your production of the play and give supported examples of how your ideas might be achieved in performance There are three females’ characters in Woyzeck, each character will be very realistic and they will represent different aspects of life back in the 1900s, all of these aspects are just as relevant in today’s society as well however. My objective for the characters is to cover these topics and have my actors comment on them through their performance, I will cover topics such as the mistreatment of woman, death and the need to escape. Marie is the key character out of the 3, she is present in the most scenes and seems to endure the most tragedy...
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...Every person at some point in their life is bound to experience loss and grief at some point. Grief is a deep, inevitable sorrow that most often follows the death of a loved one. Grief changes a person emotionally, cognitively and physically. The process of dealing with grief is broken up into five areas: denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. We use these five stages as tools to help us identify and deal with the pain of living life with the loss of a loved one. When we lose someone or something that we care for deeply, we are not sure how to go about dealing with it. We are unable to accept the loss at first, so we find ourselves stuck in the first stage of grief: denial. Denial is most often the first stage of dealing with...
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...especially when there is a great change in our lives such as getting married, birth of a child, school graduation, death of love ones and many others. According to the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, a ritual is defined as “a religious or solemn ceremony consisting of a series of actions performed according to a prescribed order”. Performing a funeral ceremony is a traditional and symbolic ritual of expressing our beliefs, thoughts and feelings about the death of love ones but the crucial purposes of this ritual has been overlooked to a great a extent in our society. Many people think funeral is waste of money but when carefully planned and does not put survivors into debt, the benefits outweigh the detriments. A funeral is intended to form unique reflection of one's life, which serves to confirm emotionally the reality of the loss, and bring closure to survivors. Funeral ritual do not just acknowledges an end of life but a life span as whole (both life that was lived and end of life). They offer the living (mourners) a possibility to assemble and remember the things that are relevant to them about the life of the person who died such as his or her accomplishments, friendship, guidance or love. Assembling for funeral ceremony is place for us to think about the moments we shared with the deceased and to share those memories with others. This is helpful to mourners the more we share such memories of the deceased this reconciles our grief. When my grandmother died, during her funeral...
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...improve her life. Which philosopher (Plato, Aristotle, Epictetus, or Kant) would you recommend she read, and why? Epictetus was a Stoic and a representative of the Stoicism ‘late’ period. Stoicism was a popular philosophy for more than 500 years, from when it was founded by Zeno of Cytium, until the death of the Roman senators and the emperor Marcus Aurelius. The principle of Stoicism is that there are “some things in this world that are up to us and some are not up to us”. Our opinions, impulses, aversions are up to us. Our bodies, our possessions, reputations are not up to us. Epictetus was an influential and popular Stoic philosopher. Epictetus explores into such things...
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...“My Grandfather’s Suitcase” One example of a story that functions as a type of myth in my family would be the one regarding my grandfather’s suitcase. My grandfather passed away when I was thirteen years old. Before his death, his personality was best described as gruff. Not being known as having the most caring or most trusting personality, it’s not that surprising that he kept my grandmother out of the loop regarding their finances. According to him, they did not have any savings or money in the bank other than the small amount he received weekly from his retirement. My grandmother often worried about what she would do if anything ever happened to him. To this he simply replied that he wasn’t going anywhere yet. Sadly, this was not the case. My grandfather passed away from a sudden heart attack while sitting in his recliner one Tuesday afternoon. My family grieved his loss, and also worried about how my grandmother would get by now. My uncle (my grandfather’s son) told us all that he did not believe that my grandfather had really left nothing behind. He told us how before his death, He and my grandfather had been sitting on the front porch of my grandfather’s house one day, discussing an issue of financial hardship for my uncle. My grandfather walked into his house, and came out with a large stack of hundred dollar bills for my uncle, to help him through his hardship. It was at this one and only time that my grandfather hinted about my grandmother being fine if she was...
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...travel, but the lessons they learn on their journeys are more compelling. One of the key characters in O’Conner’s short story is the grandmother. The grandmother is a character filled with judgment and selfishness. However, these flaws came to a halt moments before her death, highlighting her sudden spiritual redemption. Similarly, the narrator of Till We Have Faces, Oral, undergoes a profound journey of self-reflection. Oral, like the grandmother, was bitter, jealous, and possessive. However, late in her life, as Orual begins to address her past, she recognizes her mistakes. While the physical journey of these...
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...I gently closed my door while saying goodnight to my parents and sister. As exhausted as I was after a gruesome time at practice it was time for me to go to bed. Within three minutes I had my pajamas on and was tucked in bed. After what seemed like 15 minutes, I finally dozed off into a deep sleep. About every two week we traveled from North Carolina to South Carolina to visit and take care of my grandmother. My grandma is about 70 years old now and is practically unable to care for herself like she used to, so all six of her children took turns to help take care of her. At this point of time my sister and I were not in school so it was very convenient when it was my mom’s turn to take care of her mom. Finally, after a long three hour drive in a car we arrived at my grandma’s house. My mom, sister, and I hopped out of the car, grabbed our suitcases, and walked inside to see my grandmother on her recliner watching our favorite show, WWE. This was something my grandma and I had always bonded over. So after I sat my suitcase in the room, I went to the living room where she was sitting to watch television with her. Eventually, day started to turn into night so my sister and I helped my grandmother to bed because she was heavyset and sometimes refused to walk. My mom keeps telling her to walk because if she did not it was...
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...stumble and trip trying to find the right things to say and do. A cancer diagnosis changes a family forever. I found that the emotional impact it has on the family members can be felt for many years to come. It is amazing how many things we take for granted. We make plans for the day, week, and year, and never think about how those plans can change in the blink of an eye. I never thought much about it myself, until I was faced with the shock of my grandmother’s death. Like most people, I did not think about tragedy until I was faced with the devastating news. When I was 11 years old, my paternal grandmother was diagnosed with ovarian cancer. I didn’t know what to think or do. My maternal grandmother died of cancer before I was born. I could not make sense of it all. My grandmother had always been healthy. She had gone to the doctor for a checkup because she had been experiencing a severe stomach ache. An x-ray revealed the cancer and my family began a roller coaster ride that we could not stop. After chemotherapy and radiation, she eventually became bedridden and had to be moved to a hospital. Upon my arrival at the hospital, I felt like I was walking into a war zone. The automatic doors quickly opened, pulling me in and closing behind me as if I could not escape my fate. The disinfectant smell in the building was nauseating. The elevator was quick, and the sudden halt made my heart skip a beat. I felt as though I was walking blindfolded even...
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...some of my best memories were sad ones, like the day of my great-grandmother's funeral. all of us kids referred to her as nanny. she was the grandmother of my father. my dad's family doesn't celebrate funerals in the traditional way. while most people silently mourn their past loved ones,my father's family throws a huge party. everyone drinks and has a good time celebrating her life. my dad told me it was a blessing that she passed away. she was 86, and died in her sleep. he said it was the most peaceful way to go. silly as it sounds i remember hoping i could pass like that too, no pain and at peace. my nanny wasn't a huge part of my life, i saw her every couple of months for family gatherings but when she passed i wasn't sad. i remember...
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...is an important element that is used several times throughout the story. O’Connor begins the story by foreshadowing the Misfit; a convict who has escaped from the federal penitentiary. It is important that he is mentioned because he eventually ends up murdering the family. The next element of foreshadowing takes place when the family is getting in the car, preparing to head toward their vacation. The grandmother has over dressed herself for the car ride. She is wearing a navy blue, polka dotted dress trimmed with lace and violets. She said that, “In case of an accident, anyone seeing her dead will know that she was a lady.” This statement clearly foretells that something tragic is going to take place. As the family rides along in the car they pass a cotton field with five or six graves in the middle of it. Once again there is an indication of death approaching the family. After the family’s car accident, a car coming down the dirt road approaches them. The Misfit is the one driving the car. The car is described as a “big battered hearse-like automobile”; another reference to death advances towards the family. Instances of foreshadowing not only add suspense to the story, but they are also helpful to the reader. Foreshadowing gives the reader insight to what might be occurring next in the story....
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