...myself down on the steps of my Abuelitos house. I remember so many people surrounding me hugging me saying they were sorry. I never felt so awful, so upset, and angry. I could not process what just happened because I didn’t want to believe it. It was a week before all this happened when my mom got a call from my Abuelita saying that my Abuelito was in critical condition. Over a year and a half ago at that time, I was in my Junior year of high school. My Abuelito was diagnosed with stage four cancer. I didn’t like to think of it because I was very close to my Abuelito and the thought of losing him killed me. As a child both my parents worked a lot and I was an only child at the time. I was always taken to my Abuelitos house and in way they raised me. Part of who I am today is all the time I had spent with them. After my mom received that phone call she told me Abuelito asked for me. As quickly as we got the phone call my whole family all headed out the door. When we arrived a bunch of my Abuelitos friends were there already surrounding him on his bed. He was breathing weirdly, his breath was very fast for a few seconds then no breath at all. It was as if he was...
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...When I was a little girl, I faced an opportunity that I did not know would be so life-changing. When I was first presented with this opportunity, I wanted to refuse because it seemed so boring and lame. As a kid, I thought I had better ways to use my time. However, I decided to do it, and soon realized that this was a great choice. This time turned out to be one of the best times in my life. The opportunity that I was faced with was to volunteer at a dog boarding facility. I had the chance to work at the facility because my mother thought I needed something to do for the summer. Because she owns a rescue, my mom knew Michelle and she thought it would be good for me to volunteer at Michelle's facility. I volunteered there almost every day during the summer of 2013. Some days, I got there when the place opened, and stayed until closing time. Other days, I got there around 10:00AM-12:00PM and stayed until it closed(around 6pm). The facility was a few miles from my house. From the outside, it looked pretty small because it was next to two huge buildings. The entrance was a room for customers to wait for their dog and pay for everything. This room usually smelled like vanilla, and was decorated with...
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...There are many beautiful cities in my home state, but all of these places cannot be called home. Home is somewhere you can be comfortable and that satisfies your needs, whatever they may be. In my current home state of Georgia there are many places I would consider living, but there is one place I would not live, that place is Atlanta. I would not live in Atlanta because it’s a major tourist attraction, too urban, and traffic can be overwhelming. Atlanta is a beautiful city which in turn attracts people from all corners of the world. This major tourist attraction is home to the mesmerizing Georgia Aquarium, the lucrative World of Coca-Cola, and the busiest airport in the world, Hartsfield Jackson International airport. All the people flooding...
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...My parents divorced when I was five years old. At the time, it was like living two different lives. I didn’t tell other people because I didn’t find a reason to. I never thought having divorced parents was a bad thing or that I was different. I thought having to bring stuff from one house to another was normal. It was amazing at sometimes like being able to have two birthday and to know that if I had an issue with one parent I can always use the other parent's house as my salvation. I studied at Saddleback Valley Christian school from first to third grade. My third-grade classroom had a painted wall with every color of the rainbow and the bible verse “ ‘Arise and begin the journey.’ Deuteronomy 10:11” in the large white font. Everyone's uniforms...
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...For my outreach project I used my job at Kindred Healthcare Nursing Home as an STNA. In my position I spend my whole twelve hour shift taking care of the residents. The normal age range for my residents range from late seventies to late nineties, but you always have special cases. I cannot state any names in my paper because of HIPAA and out of respect to protect the residents information. I had started this job in May and had to quit in September due to distance, but with be going back in the summer. A typical day for me is We start with getting the residents that need assisted up and ready for for breakfast that usually comes around 8:00 then shortly after dinner we lay some of them down and get them back up for lunch at 12:00 and then...
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...As I reflect on various ways to construct Sweet Home Chicago into more of an ethnographic work, I draw on several different methodologies and recommendations from my fellow class mate as well as my own introspective analysis in conjunction with the class readings. First, one of the key shifts is to unpack for the reader the internal language that I use as a geographer. For example, I reference the significance of “spatial lineage” to engage with the various time-spaces that my family has traveled through that have contributed to my identity as a third-generation Black Chicagoan. Although ethnography is largely an academic practice, the strength that it possesses as a methodology is to invite readers from diverse backgrounds to engage with the culture, spaces, people and...
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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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...PERSONAL NARRATIVE 1 When taking a look at how my life has changed over the past five years I can truly and honestly say that I would never have expected the things that have happened. Back in June 2007 I was separated from my husband and moved into my own apartment. I was in the United States Navy for six and a half years at that time. My divorce was finalized in January 2008 and I deployed to Afghanistan in March 2008, for eight months. After coming home from a long deployment, I had orders to move to Lemoore, California. This area is nothing but farm lands and I did not like that at all. I was born and raised in Southern California and enjoyed the fast-paced life that I was living. It is amazing how things have changed. In July 2011 I was honorably discharged from the United States Navy and I moved back in with my mother and two younger sister. Growing up we lived in a condo in Diamond Bar, California, but that all changed over time. The same time that I got out of the military, myself, my sisters and my mother had to move out of our condo and into a two bedroom apartment. Talk about a huge change in life. This move has not been easy for any of us. There is no privacy and we all have to share the living space. I share a bed with my middle sister and my mother shares a bed with my youngest sister. I never thought that I would be unemployed for this long, but it has been over a year since I got discharged. It seems like nobody is hiring right now...
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...It is common to classify “Hispanics/Latinos” into a single category; however, these people come from a variety of countries, have their own cultures, and can even speak a variety of languages. It is important to remember that these people are human beings like any other group of people and they have their own unique lives and stories. These stories are rather important as they tell us the harsh reality of immigration through personal narratives, and many Hispanic immigrants like sharing their stories to inform others and give themselves a voice. Personal narratives tell us that Hispanic immigration to the United States needs to be reformed promptly. These narratives tell us that immigration will never end despite the current US government’s...
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...and do engage meaningfully with work, family, and community. They've discovered through hard experience that prospering in the senior ranks is a matter of carefully combining work and home so as not to lose themselves, their loved ones, or their foothold on success. Those who do this most effectively involve their families in work decisions and activities. They also vigilantly manage their own human capital, endeavoring to give both work and home their due over a period of years, not weeks or days. That's how the 21st century business leaders in our research said they reconcile their professional and personal lives. In this article we draw on five years’ worth of interviews with almost 4,000 executives worldwide, conducted by students at Harvard Business School, and a survey of 82 executives in an HBS leadership course. Deliberate choices don't guarantee complete control. Life sometimes takes over, whether it's a parent's dementia or a teenager's car accident. But many of the executives we've studied men and women alike have sustained their momentum during such challenges while staying connected to their families. Their stories and advice reflect five main themes: defining success for yourself, managing technology, building support networks at work and at home, traveling or relocating selectively, and collaborating with your partner. Defining Success for Yourself When you are leading a major project, you determine early on what a win should...
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...homosexuality. What is best to do when faced with discussing same-sex couples to young children in homes? There are debates on whether to discuss topics, such as this, later in teenage years or at younger ages. Homosexuality is too complex for a child to understand. A child’s mind is not developed enough to understand abstract concepts such as homosexuality. From ages, two to four kid’s minds are simplistic and only understand concrete topics such as right from wrongs and good or bad consequences. In Sarah Peterson’s “A Family of a Different Perspective”, Sarah raises the issue of having to discuss same-sex couples to children while, in a traditional family home. The author came upon a children...
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...happened last night, the fresh news in the morning and recording the feelings at this moment. Siapera given an umbrella term for social media that social media is an integrate technology, social interaction and user-generated content. And he also identify three main characteristics of social media which are allowing users to create, downloading and sharing content, to publish their profile and personal information, and to connect with others. (Siapera,2012). The rapidly development of social media have both advantages and shortcomings, there is no doubt that social media makes people communicate more convenient and can make more friends in this way and also keep a close connected with old friends. However, the weakness is the face-to-face communication will be reducing and excessive delay on the social media will influence the normal daily life. In this week, I recognized several overviews of the social media, such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and LinkedIn… and understood how to use designated computer software and the basic principles of web page design. And I tried to start to publish my own blog site using the theories that learnt in class. Apply knowledge of the social, political and cultural impacts of digital communication to real world situations. Moreover, I know how to demonstrate integrated creative, technical, and computer skills by developing publications at a professional standard for an online environment. In...
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...Experience: Design Approach to Human-centered Jodi L. Forlizzi Submitted to the Department of Design, College of Fine Arts, Carnegie Mellon University, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Design in Interaction Design Abstract My thesis attempts to understand experience as it is relevant to interaction design. Based on the work of John Dewey, Mihalyi Csikszentmihalyi, and Richard Carlson, I identify two types of experience in user–product interactions: satisfying experiences and rich experiences. A satisfying experience is a process–driven act that is performed in a successful manner. A rich experience has a sense of immersive continuity and interaction, which may be made up of a series of satisfying experiences. Based on this definition, I identify a set of design principles with which to create products that evoke rich experiences. These principles are intended to encourage designers to think about how to create user–product interactions that suggest values and communicate meanings that enrich the quality of life. Narrative plays a key role in these design principles. Our series of life experiences form a narrative; the values that designers impart in an object form a narrative which is elaborated...
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...therefore be the cause of his/her own isolation. In both Margaret Atwood’s poem collection Journals of Susanna Moodie and Maria Campbell’s narrative poem, “Jacob,” protagonists Susanna Moodie and Jacob struggle as outsiders in their respective Canadian environments. Both protagonists are outsiders as Moodie is an outsider to the wildlife environment of the Bush and Jacob is an outsider to his Indigenous community; however, Moodie’s outsider status is a result of her personal fear of the unfamiliar, while external societal forces create Jacob’s outsider identity. Both outsider identities, while differing in causation, illustrate the negative impact Western ideology has on the new settler and Indigenous populations as the former’s preconditioned Western beliefs turn Canada’s natural environment into an adversary and the latter is pressed to abandon its unique cultural traditions. Through strategic word choice, both Susanna Moodie and Jacob are established as outsiders in their respective natural and social environments; however Moodie’s personal barriers cause her outsider identity, while Jacob’s outsider status is forced upon him by societal factors, providing a commentary on the destructive impact of Western ideologies. Atwood manipulates words to situate Moodie as an outsider to nature as she writes, “The moving water will not show me/ my reflection./ The rocks ignore” (“DAQ”16-18). Atwood uses negative descriptors such as “ignore” to personify nature as unwelcoming, setting...
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...This article was downloaded by: [Lahore University of Management Sciences] On: 02 May 2015, At: 09:58 Publisher: Routledge Informa Ltd Registered in England and Wales Registered Number: 1072954 Registered office: Mortimer House, 37-41 Mortimer Street, London W1T 3JH, UK Anatolia: An International Journal of Tourism and Hospitality Research Publication details, including instructions for authors and subscription information: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rana20 Understanding the influence of interpersonal relationships on identity and tourism travel Julia F. Hibbert a b a , Janet E. Dickinson & Susanna Curtin a a School of Tourism, Bournemouth University , Fern Barrow, Poole , BH12 5BB , United Kingdom b School of Business and Economics, Linnaeus University , Kalmar , Sweden Published online: 25 Jan 2013. To cite this article: Julia F. Hibbert , Janet E. Dickinson & Susanna Curtin (2013) Understanding the influence of interpersonal relationships on identity and tourism travel, Anatolia: An International Journal of Tourism and Hospitality Research, 24:1, 30-39, DOI: 10.1080/13032917.2012.762313 To link to this article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13032917.2012.762313 PLEASE SCROLL DOWN FOR ARTICLE Taylor & Francis makes every effort to ensure the accuracy of all the information (the “Content”) contained in the publications on our platform. However, Taylor & Francis, our agents, and our licensors make no representations or warranties whatsoever as to the accuracy, completeness...
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