...Realistically, a petty decision such as this seems almost inconsequential in the grand scheme of one’s entire life. Is there some sort consequential impression upon one’s future from the outcome of one decision? Perhaps the CYOA structure highlights the causal structures and limited paths that the character is forced into by this decision and eliminating the others from the equation. The CYOA structure elevates the novel from a normal, active linear reading of textual narrative to one characterized by Dovey and Kennedy as an interactive experience. Dovey and Kennedy assign the audience the role of “users” rather than “viewers” or “readers” due to the particular way the media is played with (Dovey and Kennedy). The interactive processes through...
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...Africa through Theatre This paper sets out to explore how processes of theatre making employed by The Mothertongue project, provide spaces for women to remap their personal narratives. Mothertongue works from the premise that the development and subsequent performance of stories in theatrical processes affords women the opportunity to re-write and remap their personal narratives and in so doing insert their voices into the landscape of South African Theatre. In an attempt to redress the gender imbalances and androcentricism prevalent in post-apartheid theatre, this paper speaks to the relationship between theatre, liminality and communitas. I am interested in unpacking how collaborative processes of theatre-making provide spaces for women to remap their personal narratives. Remapping in this instance refers to processes of transforming lived experience through story. I address how, through engaging in ritual activities that are central to the stories performed, actors, audiences and the owners of the source stories are invited to physically participate in remapping and transforming lived experience. Linked to this is the choice of form(s) and how this affects or impacts on the performed stories as well as on the construction of performed rituals and ultimately on the processes of remapping personal narratives. I focus specifically on Mothertongue’s 2004 production, Uhambo: pieces of a dream. The production was an integration of theatre and visual art in the form of performances...
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...a major topic of interest in recent studies. In the United States, statistics have proven that there have been increased incidences of patients who are diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder and researchers have linked this disorder to the younger population as well as the rest of the world where people often go around undiagnosed. Objective: How can one understand Bipolar Mood more thoroughly and how can one have more insight of this disorder as it derives from different people in different social classes, different counties as well as different work environment. Methods of Study A research published in the Journal of Creativity in Mental Health entitled, “ The Use of Narrative Therapy with Clients diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder” elaborated on the importance of using narrative...
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...TASK: Blog 1 (post and comment) Friday 12 August, 3pm (10%) Make your first blog post (250-300 words) to your Tutorial Group’s Blog. (Sign up instructions on LeanJCU). Contribute your first comment to another student’s blog (about 150 words). Remember to make connections in your discussion with relevant ideas from lectures, tutorials, and set readings. Ideas drawn from lectures and set readings must be acknowledged with in-text referencing in the APA style (instructions below). (Blog 1 instructions can also be found in the Subject Outline). Your Blog must address the week 3 Lecture on ‘Maps’ and the subject key concept ‘power’. For your blog post this week you may like to use the questions below to help you reflect on your virtual network. Remember to address the week’s lecture topic ‘Maps’ and focus on the subject key concept of ‘power’. (It is not compulsory to use these questions, nor is it compulsory to attempt to respond to all of them; they are just ideas to help you get started). You might also find it helpful to have another look at Prouty’s ‘Turtle on a Leash’ set reading as an example of good critical blog post. Blog Focus Questions * Describe the new virtual network you joined (last week). * Explain your persona for your new network – have you kept your own identity or changed it? Why? * Analyse your experience of ‘travelling’ in your virtual network. Do you experience more or less freedom than when travelling in physical space? ...
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...Most of the action of The God of Small Things takes place in a village called “Ayemenem,” set near a river called “Meenachal.” Roy’s fictionalized village and river strongly resemble the real-life Aymanam and Minachil, and her narrative contains numerous references to the actual landscape of south-central Kerala, its people and their common customs, their music and dance, their religions and social organization, and their economic and political activities. The narrative also mixes its fictional elements with factual elements on a larger scale. Some of the novel’s “imaginary” episodes occur in the real town of Kottayam (about 2 miles from Ayemenem/ Aymanam, across the river) and in the historic port-city of Cochin (now Kochi, about 50 miles away to the northwest). The novel’s political discussion frequently blends fictional characters and organizations with real politicians and political parties: Comrade Pillai, for example, is an invented figure, but E.M.S. Namboodripad, the Communist Party, and the Congress Party are historical entities. The mixture of fictional and factual elements in The God of Small Things has led many Indian readers to interpret it as a “semi-autobiographical” novel. But attempts to relate characters, places, events, and patterns in the book primarily to Roy’s personal life can seriously distort its...
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...A mother leaves her daughter a map, but no legend to later unlock its true meaning. A relevant figure in this instance is Danielle Geller, a renowned writer of personal essays and memoirs who wrote “Heirloom.” Geller focuses on the idea that artifacts, especially heirlooms, can hold the weight of family traditions, memories, and even one's identity. In “Heirloom,” she explores how these objects represent connections to the past, even when those connections are filled with loss, pain, and complications. Geller’s essay analyzes how these heirlooms assist her in understanding and coming to terms with her own identity as she sorts through the remnants of her mother’s life following her passing. Pathos is evident throughout the essay as Geller deeply explores her emotional connection to her mother’s belongings and the memories they evoke. Geller sets the stage by describing a specific scenario in which she goes through her mother’s possessions, especially the family photos. Those images act as pathways between Geller and her mother’s past, helping her gain a better understanding of it. There are Already Vue moments where she can piece together a puzzle. Geller also mentions her resignation, knowing she would never be able to meet her mother’s parents—her grandparents—who have all unfortunately passed away. They are now merely pictures of family members whose names she will never know; a chronicle with no storyline. This emphasizes that heirlooms have the ability to inspire a connection...
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...decisions will have an underlying impact upon the rest of the narrative. If you choose to turn away the cigarette, the next scene underscores your continued excellence at Marlings, cultivating your scholastic endeavors and sense of self-righteousness. If you choose to pretend to smoke, the next lexia describes your imminent death before reaching forty years old as a result of your long-term smoking addiction, which has caught up to you. Interestingly, if you take the bad choice, you still make it to college and are even ahead of the pack, thinking back to that moment when you took the cigarette drag and swore to never touch one again after your coughing fit. Realistically, a petty decision such as this seems almost inconsequential in the grand schema of one’s entire life. Is there some sort consequential impression upon one’s future from the outcome of one decision? Perhaps the CYOA structure highlights the causal structures and limited paths that the character is forced onto by this decision and eliminating the others from the equation. The CYOA structure elevates the novel from a normal, active linear reading of textual narrative to one characterized by Dovey and Kennedy as an interactive experience. Dovey and Kennedy assign the audience the role of “users” rather than “viewers” or “readers” due to the particular way the media is played with (Dovey and Kennedy). The interactive processes through the branching narratives, whereby the reader can “intervene and change the text as...
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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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...Johan Rodriguez Professor Nadia Johnson English Comp. 1101 13 June 2010 The Heart of Darkness is a novel that describes many subjects. One of these subjects is read between the lines but is very prominent during the whole adventure through the African Congo. The topic is knowledge and the great desire of man to reach it since its childhood to adulthood. Conrad uses the main character in his novel the Heart of Darkness, Marlow, as an interpretation of the ignorance of human kind and its desire to find knowledge. Kurt represents the knowledge that human kind so dearly desires but usually is surrounded by darkness. The paper is divided in three different sections. The first section provides an insight of Conrad’s novel and identifies the desire of Marlow to find knowledge through his voyage. The second sections establish the new attitudes and split concepts Conrad uses as turning points of the characters in the novel. The third and final section demonstrates the dilemma that Marlow confronts once it has found the knowledge he was looking for. MARLOW’S CRAVING FOR KNOWLEDGE The HOD describes the great desire of the author for letting its audience know that the knowledge of light is Kurt, the desire of man to look for that knowledge is Marlow and the African Congo and many of the other characters are the darkness that individuals must surpass to find knowledge. One of the striking aspects of the novel is that only Marlow and Kurt are named; the other characters...
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...ANECDOTE WHITEPAPER Three journeys: A narrative approach to successful organisational change INTRODUCTION Early on in Anecdote, we did a trainingneeds assessment for part of the Australian Defence Force. Our discovery phase involved two teams; one team adopted a structured interview technique and the other used anecdote circles to collect stories. After our first day in the field we met with the structured interview guys to compare notes. “On first blush,” they said, “it seems like most things are in order. They are adhering to OH&S processes. Sure, there are some areas for improvement but generally things are OK.” As they were providing this assessment, those of us on the anecdotes team just looked at each other in astonishment and replied, “So, you didn’t hear about the soldiers who are showering in their own urine because their recycling system is broken or hear about the workshop where everyone wears protective footwear because some poor fellow lost his toes in an accident but no one wears protective eyewear because they have never had an eye accident?”. We had heard story upon story of major transgressions that weren’t picked up in the structured interview approach. This experience confirmed our assessment that a narrative approach is great for yielding new, and otherwise hidden, insights. A number of years and many clients later, we have seen that there is something even more important narrative techniques provide: a resolve among people to do something about the situation...
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...1. Describe how Dr. Gotmann with colleagues arrive to predictions of what leads to successful/unsuccessful marriages. * Dr. Gotmann with his colleagues invited couples to their Love Lab where the couples were tested while being observed and analyzed. * First, they separately complete some questionnaires about their marriage. (questions about their financial problems, kids.) * After that, couples together with a researcher completed an oral history Interview. ( they were sharing the story of how they met) * The next step was the conflict discussion. (the heart rates, facial expressions, emotions were monitored) * The back stage was analyzing the results. * Dr. Gotmann met the couples and talked about the findings. 2. What Dr. Gotmann and his colleagues claim to be able to predict? By analyzing the video tapes recorded of the couples, the researchers are able to predict the relationship stability. 3. Describe the “master” and “disaster” of relationships (in details). Listen for the patterns of distructive communication (4 hourses of apocalypse) the “disaster” use that you’ve also read about. Master- the couples who are together, didn’t divorce and are pretty happy. They are very gentile with one another even during an argument, take responsibility for even a small part of a problem. Disaster- couples who broke apart or stay together but are unhappy. Are pointing their finger at their partner, are critical, are diagnosing their partner’s...
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...iNTEGRATIVE Perpetual evolution: A dynamic integrative approach to developing praxis in counselling psychology Table of Contents Table of Contents 1 Theory Building in Counselling Psychology 2 The Impulse Toward Eclecticism 4 My Bohartian History 6 Adlerian Psychotherapy as Structured Eclecticism 10 My Adlerian Roots 11 Beyond Adler: Robertsonian Meme Therapy 13 The Nature of Self 13 The Potential for Using Memes in Counselling 15 A Use of Meme Theory in Counselling a Suicidal Youth 17 Holistic, Dynamic and Integrative: Looking Forward in Our Profession 21 Summarizing the Foundational Principles of My Practice 21 Revisiting Holism 23 Future directions 25 Footnotes 27 Theory Building in Counselling Psychology An early text lamented, “A good theory is clear, comprehensive, explicit, parsimonious, and useful. We appear to have a paucity of good theories in psychology” (Stefflre & Matheny, 1968). Lent attempted to reduce this paucity by formulating his own theory: Wellness is intended to capture the notion of health as a dynamic state or process rather than a static endpoint; psychosocial wellness acknowledges the importance of both intrapersonal and interpersonal functioning. The multiple aspects of wellness would include a) self-perceived (domain and/or global) satisfaction (hedonic well-being), b) domain/role satisfactoriness, c) presence of prosocial versus antisocial behavior, and d) low levels of psychologistical...
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...Advanced Placement English Language and Composition Advanced Placement English III First Six Weeks – Introductory Activities: ▪ Class rules, expectations, procedures ▪ Students review patterns of writing, which they will imitate throughout the course: reflection, narration and description, critical analysis, comparison and contrast, problem and solution, and persuasion and argument. ▪ Students review annotation acronyms, how to do a close reading, literary elements and rhetorical devices. Students also review the SOAPSTONE (subject, occasion, audience, purpose, speaker, tone, organization, narrative style and evidence) strategy for use in analyzing prose and visual texts along with three of the five cannons of rhetoric: invention, arrangement and style. ▪ Students learn the format of the AP test, essay rubric and essay structure. ▪ Students take a full-length AP test for comparison purposes in the spring. Reading: The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne Writing: Answer the following question in one paragraph. Use quotes from the novel as evidence. Some readers believe that the elaborate decoration that Hester embroiders on the scarlet letter indicates her rejection of the community’s view of her act. Do you agree or disagree? Explain your position using evidence from the text. (test grade) Writing: Write a well-developed essay addressing the following prompt. Document all sources using MLA citation. Compare Hester to a modern...
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...CEC - PR campaign 1. Problem identification: Following surveys conducted the company decided to put in place the present PR campaign in order to change negative attitude towards CEC, to raise awareness among young adults and to improve the image through involvement in social issues. Today it is ever more important for companies and brands to build a good image. A strong image helps the company build its business and it can help the company in times of crisis as well. According to the surveys conducted 50% of respondents were indifferent to CEC brand, 42.3% had negative attitude, while only 7.7% had a positive attitude towards CEC. The current position on the market for CEC is 6th place with a market share of 7.7%* *http://www.zf.ro/banci-si-asigurari/topul-integral-al-bancilor-cine-a-crescut-pe-o-piata-in-stagnare-14504025 2. Objectives: * increase positive attitude towards CEC from 7.7% to 50% * increase market share from 7.7% to 15% The objectives are to be attained until December 2016. 3. Targets: * internal - employees * external - consumers(young adults), investors, press, public opinion 4. Media channels Channel #1: Social Media * FaceBook and Twitter with instant feedback * SlideShare * Blog sponsored articles * YouTube * PPC Channel #2: Classic Media * Press releases * Sponsored newspaper articles (online/offline) * Radio and TV spots Channel #3: Own environment * Company’s website * Company’s...
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...This we read the article Popular and Official Responses to 9/11 in Germany and The United States written by scholar Peter Knight. The article critically analyzes the conspiracy theories that emerged in American society years after the tragic events of 9/11. Knight’s main assertion through out the article, is that 9/11 conspiracy theories have more in common with the official reports of the events of 9/11 than many people would assume. He does this my showing comparing and contrasting the two accounts, highlighting the similarities in their narratives. Firstly, the author supports his claim by showing how they both reinforce an essentialist framework of thinking. Firstly, there was a rejection of any blame or accountability, as president Bush...
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