...Family narrative Wes Moore, had a strong family presents that supported him in being successful in work and in personal life. “The single most important thing you can do for your family may be the simplest of all: develop a strong family narrative”(Feiler 2) The family narrative influences the child’s ability to be successful, the three narratives are ascending, descending, and oscillating. Ascending is the example of "Son, when we came to this country, we had nothing. Our family worked. We opened a store. Your grandfather went to high school. Your father went to college. And now you. ..." ( Feiler 3) Ascending is negative and the child is giving a common expectation of success. “ Second is the descending narrative: "Sweetheart, we used to...
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...One of the main indicators of Montag’s internal conflict is his fluctuating thoughts and emotions, which are expressed through questions and a third person narrative. In this excerpt, Montag is seen to progressively ponder over his experience with Clarisse through questions that highlight the discord and reasoning in his thinking. Montag initially responds to Clarisse’s question by confidently asserting his contentment with his life, rhetorically questioning “What does she think? [Is he] not?” (14). However, as the passage progresses, his questions become more abundant and turn into those of deep and detailed thought, a gradual contrast to his initially assured thoughts. He internally asks himself questions when thoroughly analyzing his entire...
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...This leads the author to vouch that this book could be useful in her and other homes. The rest of the narrative is organized around discussing same-sex couples to children in traditional homes. The support includes examples of having the discussion with a curious child; stating how parents may say, we feel our way is best in our home and them in theirs, avoiding a deep conversation. This support is helpful because it illustrates a possible real life response to a child. The author gives this example because she feels children won’t understand the situation as a whole given their age and mindset. The author tries to establish her point with this example and illustration of her personal opinion. She assumes an audience who may not be familiar with the storybook about Tango and whom may be resistant in having this discussion with their children. The author explains how she would approach the situation keeping in mind that children may not understand making her argument effective. This argument is effective also because the author, being a mother herself, has her own personal experience with the same sex couple topic. Therefore, she is able to provide actual examples in order for her audience to understand not only a situation like discussing same-sex couples...
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...historically, academics, such as Henry James, formed the foundation of modernism through deterministic theories on the validity of science as distinguishing factor on the development of higher human civilizations. However, the paradigm of determinism and scientific inquiry has been co-opted by the subjective sciences, such as social and cultural studies, which deny these terms as being too simplistic a narrative to define the development of human progress by science in and of itself. The major pioneer of post-modernist theory, Jean-Franc Lyotard (1984), defines the “nostalgia” of scientific realism as a barrier to the study of...
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...knowledge which is reshaped by the accumulation of new experiences. This evokes emotions of joy, nervousness or anger, forcing us to reassess the value of previous perspectives. Robert Gray’s poem, “The Meatworks”, and Tim Winton’s novel, “The Riders,” explore the view that discovery is a process, with the protagonists reflecting on the moral conflict that has developed from events in their lives, compelling them to reassess their needs and desires. Perspectives are often challenged over time, as a result of a better understanding of surroundings, causing re-evaluation of our circumstances. The persona in “The Meatworks” experiences conflict between his love for nature and his workplace, the abattoir, which causes a re-evaluation of his personal morals. To reconcile his passion for nature, he “settles for one of the lowest-paid jobs.” A brutal, one-dimensional version of manliness is revealed in the animalistic imagery evoked from “gnawed it hysterically,”...
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...Women’s Empowerment in Beloved and “The Yellow Wallpaper” Women today are still facing the same types of oppression that they did in the nineteenth century. However, the oppression that women faced two centuries ago was by far worse than it is currently. “The Yellow Wallpaper” written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman in the late nineteenth century speaks to women because of the oppression and unequal treatment the heroines received. The story also shows that women no matter race were oppressed. Beloved, written by Toni Morrison in the late twentieth century, is a neo slave narrative that discusses a woman who ran away from slavery. The novel’s present takes place soon after the thirteenth amendment was passed. As a piece of historical fiction, Beloved shares several themes such as women’s empowerment with “The Yellow Wallpaper” and displays the white male’s dominance over women and its detrimental impact on their mental state. Jane, the protagonist in “The Yellow Wallpaper,” conveys to readers her oppression due to being a female. Since her husband will not let her express her ideas openly, writing in her diary is Jane’s only...
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...second objective, which was to create an account of his life that focuses on his survival through slavery, and not on the suffering stemming from it. While Douglass doesn’t explicitly acknowledge the fact that there are those who doubt his life story and heritage, the organization of the Narrative anticipates readers with that mindset. This is clear because of the introduction and structure of the first four chapters or so. Not only does Douglass have two white men introduce him, but each introduction seems as if their authors knew most of its audience would be skeptical. In their own ways, the two introductions treat the concept of a slave becoming as fluently literate as Douglass as nearly impossible. It’s...
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...The narrative concept has several consequences. For example, the first one can be described that even though other can influence us, “it is up to us to make something of ourselves in what we do” (127). The second and third theories deal with materialistic things and our social clock. Additionally, there is a question about owning our lives, “In fact, the entire idea of owning my life beings to look suspect” (142). It questions how it is even possible to know that our lives are our own. If we can explore and look through all different life stories. No story is truly ours because others can reach it too. Lastly, it talks about how our selves can lacks the forces to determine what we are. This idea means that what we know as self-making is considered a...
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...Stonewall. No, I’m not talking about the Confederate general during the American Civil War. I’m talking about the Stonewall Uprising — the dawn of the modern day gay rights movement. During the 1960’s, homosexuals unwillingly complied with police forces and yielded to the homophobic American laws. This was true until the 1969 police raid of Stonewall Inn, a popular gay bar located in New York’s Greenwich Village. In the early morning hours of June 28, members of the New York Police Department’s Public Morals Squad stormed the bar, but to their surprise, the bar patrons fought back, thus symbolizing a significant change in the mindset of homosexuals across the country. This police raid ignited a fire within these targeted homosexuals, and...
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...September i walked in as a senior with a set of skills that i had already, only looking to improve from there on. I thought to myself that i already was a great writer and that i didn’t need to improve on much. I was oh so wrong, there was a lot that needed to be improved on and thankfully through the course of this semester i have been able to improve on those things. The improvements came about from the different type of essays that we had to write and it brought a whole lot of strengths from it. Although in the past years we have learned on how to write a lot of these papers this year we dove a little more into them. We took different approaches to them to get more out of them than we had before, such as the personal narrative. I have written a personal narrative in the past but this time it helped me improve because i could not just be basic. I learned that i would have to write more in detail for it be a quality paper, that i couldn’t just get away with writing it like a 9th grader any more. The improvement was just as small as having to do with the intro and getting better with my attention getters. It benefitted me because we have to write intos in all of our papers and if you write an intro that can’t grab the attention, no one...
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...Poland regarding the Nazi Regime’s answer to the Jewish question. Browning sought answers to the question of how the Nazi’s were able to exterminate so many Jews in Europe and how they found the manpower that was needed for the task while not sacrificing the number of front line troops. The answer was found in the court records of the survivors from the Police Battalion 101 that was assigned to Poland during 1942. Browning stated that many of the men from Police Battalion 101 were residents of Hamburg and resided there even after World War II. This afforded Browning the opportunity to obtain detailed information regarding what happened while the unit was assigned to Poland. Browning focused his narrative on Major Wilhelm Trapp, commander of Police Battalion 101. By using personal stories, Browning was able to portray the events from more of an...
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...Family Counseling Approach: Narrative Lisa R. Murray Liberty University Online Abstract Narrative therapy is a therapeutic approach that is used alone or in conjunction with other methods of therapy. This particular method of therapy is used in family therapy to help clients focus on gaining access to preferred story lines in reference to their lives and identities the family dynamics that may affect them. The preferred story line will replace the place of the previous negative and self-defeating narratives about themselves. Helping clients within a family counseling to begin to become the author of their own story is important in many cases to overcoming multigenerational affects. Narrative therapy aids in this process. This comprehensive evaluation of narrative therapy within the structure of family therapy and the integration of faith will be constructed in the following pages. Keywords: self-defeating, Narrative therapy, multigenerational, therapeutic Introduction Narrative therapy is considered apart of the Social Construction Model. This particular type of therapy, the counselor or therapist is not a dominant entity or focal point of the process. Instead the therapist is seen as an influential individual to the client. The counselor will aid the client with the process of internalization and the creation of new stories or narratives within themselves that help them to draw new assumptions about themselves. This is done through the process of the client...
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...Personal Values and Beliefs, Education and the Natural World The major force that is shaping the way in which people see the environment today is on the surface personal value and beliefs; however, when these values and beliefs are examined, it can be seen that the education system has a major influence on shaping them. Unfortunately, these values and beliefs reflect a separation from the environment with the environment being seen as a source to be exploited for human gain. Fain, Barantovich and Martin (2004) contrast traditional education systems, which involve the transmission of knowledge from the elders to the younger generations to modern education systems, which focuses on scientific knowledge. These traditional education systems included educating for sustainability and harmony with nature, as “knowledge of the moral world would provide insight into the duties and responsibilities of human beings related to the creation of a more sustainable future for this and future generations of homo sapiens” (para. 12). The modern education system, however, achieves essentially the opposite of this harmonious relationship with nature. According to D. W. Orr (1994), “most students graduate without any broad integrated sense of the unity of things” (p. 3). It is this lack of unity that contributes to the current disconnect with nature. In relation to nature, Bai argues that humans in the West have become de-animated. Bai (2009) traces this de-animation to the philosophical...
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...ANCIENT NEAR EASTERN THOUGHT AND THE OLD TESTAMENT BOOK SUMMARY by JOE VALENTI Old Testament Introduction OBST 590 B06 Dr. Randy Haney March 1, 2013 TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER 1 1 CHAPTER 2 2 CHAPTER 3 3 CHAPTER 4 5 CHAPTER 5 7 CHAPTER 6 9 CHAPTER 7 11 CHAPTER 8 12 CHAPTER 9 14 CHAPTER 10 15 CHAPTER 11 17 CHAPTER 12 19 CHAPTER 13 20 CHAPTER 14 22 POSTSCRIPT 23 WORKS CITED i CHAPTER 1 The opening chapter begins by orienting the reader to the idea of "comparative study," or the area of study that strives to understand things within their broader cultural context. In the case of this book, the goal is to understand the Old Testament within the context of the Ancient Near Eastern milieu. Walton explains that over the years there has been much debate on the issue of comparative study and the way in which it is to be exercised. Scholars, always biased by their presuppositions, tend to enter the argument negating the importance of the Old Testament on the one side, or defending the inerrancy of Scripture so vehemently that the cultural context is lost. Walton poses a better way, namely, accepting the study of the Ancient Near Eastern cultures as important and academic in their own right while attempting to comprehend the Old Testament in light of what modern scholarship is learning about the ancient world...
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...commonly divided into classical and modern periods, although this distinction is sometimes unclear. Korea is home to the world's first metal and copper type, world's earliest known printed document and the world's first featural script. ------------------------------------------------- General overview In general, the written arts have a tradition in epigraphic inscriptions on stones, in early tombs, and on rarely found bamboo pieces that formed early books. Repeated invasions and sacking of the east and west capitals, as well as the difficulty in preserving written texts on bamboo, make works before 1000 rare. Those works were entirely written in Chinese characters, the language of scholars, but of course incorporated Korean words and mindset. Medieval scholars in Korea learned and employed written Chinese as western schoolmen learned Latin: as a lingua franca for the region. It helped cultural exchanges extensively. Notable examples of historical records are very well documented from early times, and as well Korean books with movable type, often imperial encyclopedias or historical records, were circulated as early as the 7th century during the Three Kingdoms era from printing wood-blocks; and in the Goryeo era the world's first metal type, and books printed by metal type, most probably of copper, were produced, fully two hundred years before the work of Johann Gutenberg or William Caxton who, to most Westerners, "invented" the first printing presses. Scriptoria have existed...
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