...Social work is a career that I have been considering in my quest to choose a path for the rest of my life; this class has taught me quite a bit about the social work profession. Also, I learned about different population groups in the US, as well as the struggles they have, and continue to endure. The information I gained in this course has enabled me to look at the world through a different lens. My heart ached when I learned of the prominence of social justice issues like poverty, homelessness, child abuse, discrimination, and the like. Without such knowledge, I would not be as motivated to work my hardest to pursue a career in either social work or a profession that works closely with social workers such as clinical psychology, in order...
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...STUDIES IN PROFESSIONAL LIFE AND WORK Mike Hayler University of Brighton, UK Autoethnography, Self-Narrative and Teacher Education examines the professional life and work of teacher educators. In adopting an autoethnographic and life-history approach, Mike Hayler develops a theoretically informed discussion of how the professional identity of teacher educators is both formed and represented by narratives of experience. The book draws upon analytic autoethnography and life-history methods to explore the ways in which teacher educators construct and develop their conceptions and practice by engaging with memory through narrative, in order to negotiate some of the ambivalences and uncertainties of their work. The author’s own story of learning, embedded within the text, was shared with other teacher-educators, who following interviews wrote self-narratives around themes which emerged from discussion. The focus for analysis develops from how professional identity and pedagogy are influenced by changing perceptions and self-narratives of life and work experiences, and how this may influence professional culture, content and practice in this area. Autoethnography, Self-Narrative and Teacher Education Autoethnography, Self-Narrative and Teacher Education STUDIES IN PROFESSIONAL LIFE AND WORK The book includes an evaluation of how using this approach has allowed the author to investigate both the subject and method of the research with implications for ...
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...English 1510 Writing and Rhetoric Fall 2015 Professor Phone Michael D. Brown (cell) 740-593-3499 Office: Ellis 312 (office) 740-593-9941 Email: brownm@ohio.edu Description This is a writing course required for most freshmen at O.U. The purpose of the course is to practice and improve the writing skills you’ve acquired in your academic career to date. You will find, I believe, that having strong writing skills will be an invaluable asset to your future academic and professional careers. In the coming weeks you will complete various writing assignments, taking each of them through the stages of drafting, revising, and editing before handing them in for a grade. I will give you all assignments in writing posted to Blackboard; also I will post all reading material on Blackboard or we’ll retrieve materials through online sources; thus there are no texts to buy for this course. Requirements You will complete approximately four graded assignments over the course of this semester – comprised of the following: 1. Politics, government policy, and/or social and cultural issues. Some of you may be interested and engaged in these matters already – such matters as economic theory and policy, immigration, gun rights vs. sensible gun regulation, health care policy, veteran affairs and funding, equal pay for women, women’s access to abortion and contraception, the right wing’s current attempt to defund Planned Parenthood; the Tea Party vs. . . . ALL government...
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...firstly explores students’ perceptions of the current labour market for graduates and how they understand future career progression. It examines their different orientations and attitudes to work and careers through the development of an ideal-type model. It then considers how these orientations influence the way students approach future work and careers and manage their employability, and further discusses some of the implications this has for current policies around higher education and the labour market in the UK context. Introduction This paper examines the perceptions, attitudes and orientations of higher education students to their future work, careers and employability. The employability of university graduates has dominated much educational and economic policy over the past decade (NCIHE, 1997; DfEE, 2000). Graduate employability is centrally located in the changing relationship between higher education and the labour market. The development of mass higher education has intersected with the shift towards a so-called knowledge-driven or post-industrial economy (Drucker, 1993; Amin, 1994). The knowledge-driven economy is said to require individuals with the types of knowledge, skill and creative potential who can meet the challenges of a global economy characterised by rapid change. Increasingly, individuals can no longer expect a ‘job for life’, whereby their careers are anchored around single jobs and organisations (Arthur and Rousseau, 1996; Gee et al, 1996). Employees instead...
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...The work from which Machiavelli gains his reputation most, The Prince, was written as a guideline for stability in society, but the very fact that it is inspired mainly by the foils of the hopeful, merciless Italian conqueror, Cesare Borgia,37 implies a lack of feasibility for Oppenheimer’s thesis. Similarly telling is the extent to which Machiavelli respects and praises the power-accumulating methods of Borgia during negotiations about future Florentine rule; Machiavelli, as per a primary sourced document, speaks highly of Borgia’s confidence and unwillingness to flinch, and of the ability he has to attract followers to coalesce around him as the centre of an ideology.38 Stemming from this approval, Machiavelli goes on to write in The Art of War about the need for militia rule within a society so that one’s societal involvement can be maximized and patriotism and unity affirmed for the stability of the community.39 Again, by using mostly unquestioned primary sources, most of Oppenheimer’s narrative does play into the hands of the counter-argument, as not only do his choices of...
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...The essay “I Killed Britney Spears” was written by the London based journalist Jean Hanna Edelstein, in 2008. Edelstein was born in New York, 1981 to an American father, and Scottish mother. She later moved (1999) to London, where she studied economics and political science. She has also lived in Montreal, Berlin. She has an online-based blog, where she uploads a few essays and inputs – inputs that are all backed up by her academic background. Despite the online essays, her first official published book was in 2009. “I Killed Britney Spears” is a (non-fiction) personal essay, with a first person narrator which makes the essay identifiable. Edelstein clearly wrote this essay to highlight a few consequences and flaws in the relationship between fan and idol. Most of these flaws are shown in the age 13-18. These years are filled with the confusion that follows the transition from child to adult. Edelstein might have thought about this particular transition and thereby, intending the text to be read by these confused adolescents. The text “I Killed Britney Spears” was written in 2008, a year of great turmoil for the star Britney Spears. She was fighting over the custody of her children, she had been in rehab and just cut off her hair. All these events generated a lot of public attention. Mostly negative attention. Many of the “Spears” fans (including Edelstein herself) who identified themselves with her, were emotionally hit by Britney’s instability. The intention of Edelstein...
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...Be able to assess and plan for personal professional development My Career Plan Career Goal: To become a financial manager. To design, plan, control and supervise the financing of construction of buildings, highways, and rapid transit systems. Requirements: • Bachelor's degree in Accounting. • Ability to work as part of a team. • Creativity. • Analytical mind. • Capacity for detail. • Presentation skills. • Writing skills. • Knowledge of physical social sciences and mathematics. • Accreditation by Licensing Board. Current Skills and Interests: • Summer worker for Smith Construction Co. • High School mathematics courses • High School social science courses • Experience working as a team • Attended high school writing courses • Gave presentations in high school courses Plan To Reach Career Goal: • Bachelor's Degree - attend the University of Manchester School of Banking and Finance and a Level-4 Certificate on Management and Leadership at Kings College of Management. • Job Experience - Continue working for Smith Construction Co.; Seek internships through University career placement office • Networking - Join campus organizations for engineering students Introduction: Personal development planning is the process of creating an action plan based on awareness, values, reflection, goal-setting and planning for personal development within the context of a career, education, relationship or for self-improvement. Personal Development Plan (PDP) begins by aiming...
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...Finding the Leader in You: Self-Assessment / Johari W Leadership and Organizational October 24, 2013 Develop a profile of your personality characteristics and assessment results My career development has turned me into the person that I am today within my work environment. I have learned and overcome many obstacles along the way. I would like to think of my career as consistent growth and change. I am always willing to adapt and adjust within my position as time goes on and technology becomes more enhanced. My career has leaded me to a path where I can always advance within my job and there is always knowledge and experience to grow from. One of my biggest personality traits that are of importance to me is to hold high ethical and moral standing within my company. I had to progress in my company from a server to working within the Human Resource Department. It is my duty as an HR assistant to ensure that all of our employees are treated fairly and equally as for their human rights. As professionals, we are expected to exhibit individual leadership as a role model for maintaining the highest standards of ethical conduct. And we are ethically responsible for promoting and fostering fairness and justice for all employees and their organizations. We are also entitled as HR professionals to consider and protect the rights of individuals, especially in the achievement and propagation of information while ensuring truthful...
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...and objective life of Great Britain before and after World Wars. Realism represented the social life and paid much attention to domestic problems. Its representatives showed tragic vision of life using satire and dark humour, but still their vision of life is much more optimistic than the modernistic one. Talking about their characters, they were social types depicted in their everyday life dealing with their virtues, morals, profession, relationships, worldview etc. Narrative form used by realists is characterized by several narrative characters in order to create an objective vision of life. The most prominent among the writers who continued the traditions of realism were: J. Galsworthy, A. Bennett, H. Wells, B. Shaw; and their followers R. Aldington, G. Orwell, J. Priestley, and E. Waugh. The Novel is certainly the most important literary form of the period. The realistic novel is represented by such novelistic forms as: the social and social-psychological novel (J. Galsworthy, E. Waugh, R. Aldington) the social-domestic novel (A. Bennett, H. Wells) the comic or satirical novel (E. Waugh) family chronicle or epic cycle (J. Galsworthy) science fiction (H. Wells). Despite all this, realism and his representatives suffered much criticism. The main argument developed between Arnold Bennett and Virginia Woolf. She felt that there was something missing from the works of Bennett, Galsworthy and Wells; that there was something deficient in their approach...
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...there is a certain similarity in their underlying message, being as though an act of humility can go a long way. However, the preferred readings of the two differ quite much. The preferred readings in “Stardust Memories” are simple. The movie primarily portrays a famous director that travels to an illustrious film conference of some sort and is being praised for his work and achievements in the film industry. He undergoes a series of interviews and sporadic encounters with his fans while he is troubled by his ongoing and newly discovered love interest. “The Kid” tells a slightly different story. Charlie Chapman plays a poverty stricken middle-aged man who finds an abandoned new born on the streets and after initially trying to get rid of it, he decides to nurture and raise the child himself. On the surface, these movies may not be appealing to certain audiences. However, the sub-textual readings are much more intriguing. “Stardust Memories” has a number of underlying messages translated through out the film. The story itself has different parallel story arcs. One on side, it depicts an artist feeling that his work is overshadowed by his fame and the limited minds of his audience. While he strives to create “true” art, he is expected to continue to create empty, meaningless comedy films. It speaks about how art in turn gets affected due to popular opinion. On the other side, it takes us through the life of a lonely man who’s desperately in search of his meaning and purpose. He...
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...Examine what changes I want to make in own leadership style, and give reasons why. Give examples of how this will affect my work going forward. Examine what changes I want to make in own leadership style, and give reasons why. Give examples of how this will affect my work going forward. Plagiarism Declaration I know that plagiarism is wrong. Plagiarism is to use another’s work and pretend that it is one’s own. Allowing another to copy my work and use it as their own is also plagiarism. This assignment is my own work. I have not allowed and will not allow anyone to copy my work with the intention of passing it off as his or her own work. I acknowledge that working with someone on my assignment is allowed, but only if a mutual effort is made and different examples and, where necessary, wording is used. Signature: ....868.... Plagiarism Declaration I know that plagiarism is wrong. Plagiarism is to use another’s work and pretend that it is one’s own. Allowing another to copy my work and use it as their own is also plagiarism. This assignment is my own work. I have not allowed and will not allow anyone to copy my work with the intention of passing it off as his or her own work. I acknowledge that working with someone on my assignment is allowed, but only if a mutual effort is made and different examples and, where necessary, wording is used. Signature: ....868.... Introduction If someone asked me before I started my MBA what changes...
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...invention Commercial Break!!: Creative Play With Media Influence Purpose: Works well to introduce a personal visual media paper, or other media analysis paper, because it encourages students to think critically about their childhood experiences with TV, etc in a personal, creative way. The exercise may become an early paper draft, or simply stimulate their thinking about the programs and commercials they have watched, and how these media affected them. Description: Students will write creative narratives about a childhood TV experience, then trade papers with another classmate, who will assess the program, the narrator, and then complete the narrative with a commercial break description suited to the program and audience. You may want to have your own example written up to read to them before each step, just to get them thinking about what’s possible. Suggested Time: 20 minutes to a full class period Procedure: Ask the class what their favorite shows were as kids: cartoons, sitcoms, even documentaries. You may want to bring in a few stills or uTube clips to project (in a tech class), as a memory jogger (ex. The Cosby Show, Ren & Stimpy, etc). Once you’ve discussed a nice variety of TV programs, ask the class to freewrite for 5-10 minutes (however long you wish to tell them) in first-person P.O.V. about their experience watching a show like these as a kid. They should be specific and detailed, writing whatever comes to memory about what’s going on in the program and their thoughts/reactions/and...
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...F. Scott Fitzgerald is in many ways one of the most notable writers of the twentieth century. His prodigious literary voice and style provides remarkable insight into the lifestyles of the rich and famous, as well as himself. Exploring themes such as disillusionment, coming of age, and the corruption of the American Dream, Fitzgerald based most of his subject matter on his own despicable, tragic life experiences. Although he was thought to be the trumpeter of the Jazz Age, he never directly identified himself with it and was adverse to many of its manifestations. The life of F. Scott Fitzgerald was deeply divided, in that his early successes in the 1910’s and 1920’s contrast noticeably with the years full of personal happenings and self doubt. It was divided, among all, between the pursuit of the artistic ideal and the continual lure of easy success. He became a victim of the myth of success and money instead of the perpetrator. Nevertheless, Fitzgerald’s incredible prose style and beautiful talent shined through his tragic, disillusioned life and he was able to successful create a beautiful world for his readers to escape to. In the early 1920’s, Fitzgerald was accepted as a symbol of youthful sophistication. He became intensely aware of the strangeness and mystery behind the rich at a young age, and tried so hard to echo their actions through sheen curiosity and characterization. It was then that he established a rich and enduring symbolic value throughout his...
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...Preparing For A Career Change Schuylar Robinson, Kerry Wilson, Deborah West, Airyn Vath, Sheila Rone RES/351 January 21, 2012 Richard Dickens Preparing For A Career Change Preparing for a career change can be difficult yet rewarding. A career is the course of a person's life in working to produce an income to make ends meet. A career is also associated with the productive side of life, what a person's goals are and sometimes his or her accomplishments (Cochran. 1994). There are many obstacles that some may consider to be problems when changing careers. Individuals may be looking to change careers from result of too much stress or personality conflicts with their current coworkers or management. Career problems occurs when a current course of action signals a qualitative difference between possible career futures (Cochran). If a person believes to feel threatened by what is happening in the work place and feels that something else should be happening to reach goals or get the job done more efficiently can be considered a problem and the need for a career change. The only way to change one's direction in life is to take that first step into a career change. This means furthering one's education to climb the corporate ladder or accepting a new career that offers more pay, more vacation time, and personal satisfaction of making a difference in the workplace. The purpose of a career change is "to move into a position of greater managerial responsibility and organizational...
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...Significant Lifespan Factors Impacting Personal Coping Skills Catherine Manning Liberty University Abstract Human beings develop throughout their lifespan, as they make good choices to meet their physical, spiritual and emotional needs. While development is not sequential, it is progressive as the story of life molds and shapes the beliefs and choices of the future. When humans are compared and evaluated, what is it that influences one person to make good choices and another to make bad choices? The ability to adapt and handle times of crisis is a good indicator of a healthy, well-balanced life. It is an indicator that affects almost everyone. It takes skills that mature and develop over time. Are there life experiences that contribute to the positive handling of the stressors of a crisis? Personal experience and pertinent research points to three themes offering positive influence upon crisis adapting skills. First, a religious and spiritual foundation provides the context through which the crisis can be understood, analyzed and managed. Second, a positive, stable family situation allows for the development of the positive self-esteem necessary through which the impact of the crisis upon the individual can be managed. Finally, the satisfaction found in a career or a job can determine perspective and motivation in dealing with problems outside the workplace. Significant Lifespan Factors Impacting Personal Coping Skills Lifespan developmental psychology...
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