...Proprioceptive Writing In Writing the Mind Alive, the authors assert that “[i]f you practice Proprioceptive Writing, you’ll develop an awareness of the sound of your thinking. You’ll begin to imagine your thoughts as a persona with a voice” (Metcalf & Simon 16). Although Proprioceptive Writing should provide some benefit to everyone who uses the writing practice as taught in Writing the Mind Alive, the assertion that it will result in your thoughts becoming a persona with a voice is not universal outcome, as Metcalf and Simon failed to account for differences in individual personalities. What is Proprioceptive Writing? The definition from Proprioceptive Writing Centre website includes the following: Proprioceptive Writing is a method for facilitating emotional health, spiritual awakening, creative breakthroughs, and better writing. Proprioceptive Writing teaches you to listen to your thoughts with empathy and curiosity and reflect on them in writing, with the objective of achieving self-trust. Other frequently reported benefits include: deepened powers of attention, increased self-confidence, greater intimacy and spontaneity in relationships, enhanced emotional health, awakened spirituality. Through Proprioceptive Writing, people increase their creativity and feel their minds expand, one of life's greatest pleasures. (Proprioceptive Writing Center) Metcalf and Simon claim that each student they teach Proprioceptive Writing to believes “writing is profoundly linked...
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...Erica Garmendez Research Paper Loneliness in our Society Today The study of Sociology covers everything that deals with human behavior, including loneliness. Some people experience loneliness in different aspects. Some of these people can be in a crowd full of people and still feel alone. There are other people that can literally be alone, but not feel like they are. This feeling of loneliness affects how people interact with each other and their behavior. I will be researching how the feeling of loneliness drives people to use the internet more often within a group of 10 people. I will focus primarily on social media usage, such as Facebook. I predict that the more social media an individual uses, the lonelier they feel. One way of thinking about loneliness is as a difference between one's desired and achieved levels of social interaction, while solitude is simply the lack of contact with people. There is clearly a difference in the two. Loneliness is more of the way a person feels; if a person thinks they are lonely, and then they are lonely. People can be lonely while in solitude, or in the middle of a crowd. A person is lonely when they want more social interaction than what is currently available. This is why somebody can be alone and not feel lonely. If a person gets too little or too much social interaction, this could lead to feelings of loneliness or over-stimulation. One study found that although time spent alone tended to depress a person's mood and increase...
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...Catalog Description: LIB 111 focuses on writing clear and coherent summaries, analyses, and essays. The course also stresses the ability to understand, use, and document college-level non-fiction readings as evidence for effectively formulating and accurately supporting a thesis. Course Description and Goals: No man is an island! To communicate effectively with colleagues and communities, we must first learn how to accurately interpret the conversation around us and articulate our own thoughts so we can join the dialogue and make contributions to the world both as professionals and active citizens. In LIB 111 you will learn to analyze writings and argue with authors of literary, journalistic, and academic non-fiction. Through assignments in summary, critique, synthesis, and persuasion, you will progress your ability to formulate and share ideas efficiently. Together we will write, revise, workshop, and revise again, learning as much from each other as from the authors we read in class. As part of our commitment to helping students reach their full potential in their academic, professional, and civic lives, Arts and Sciences faculty believe that learning in all disciplines is an integrative process, a synthesis of critical reading, thinking, and writing. For this reason, as we guide you in your studies in LIB 111, we will use a Writing Intensive approach that emphasizes mastery of information and concepts AND the application of what you have learned in a variety of forms: you will...
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...hand, this same information introduces risks, ranging from mere distractions to extreme threats. Government reports, essays, books, and media coverage testify on peoples’ concerns regarding the potential for abuse and general unease over the lack of control over a variety of computer systems. Similarly, application developers worry that privacy concerns can impair the acceptance and adoption of their systems. No end-to-end solutions exist to design privacy-respecting systems that cater to user concerns. This paper will show that researchers in Human–Computer Interaction (HCI) and Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) can greatly improve the protection of individual’s personal information, because many of the threats and vulnerabilities associated with privacy originate from the interactions between the people using information systems, rather than the actual systems themselves. Approaching the topic of privacy can be daunting for the HCI practitioner, because the research literature on privacy is dispersed across multiple communities, including computer networking, systems, HCI, requirements engineering, management information systems (MIS), marketing, jurisprudence, and the social sciences. Even within...
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...College Campus Crimes: Content Analysis Approach Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements of model of term research paper Nandi Harris Mississippi Valley State University Rochelle Cobbs Victimology When you think of the word victim, what exactly comes to mind? Someone who has been physically or mentally assaulted against their will? A person who was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time, right? Wrong, victims are people who have undergone a heinous experience of which they will never be the same again. When one becomes a victim, a piece of one’s life is permanently snatched away from them. If it wasn’t life itself the most valuable attribute that has been stolen from them is their piece of mind. There are many people that have been victims of several crimes and some survivors don’t overcome their experiences so they end up living a life of fearfulness and paranoia. Victimology is defined as the study of these victims of crime and the psychological effects they have on them from their experience. Victims come in every shape and size known to man, a victim can be anywhere around you at any time or you could be the victim yourself. I believe crimes take a toll on people the most when they’re college students living on campus. There are several crimes reported each year in regards to on campus college students, from a student’s car being broken into, to a student being raped on campus, all the way to students being killed on campus. According to victimsofcrime...
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...S.A Per.4 12/3/12 Career Paper: History Teacher For my career project I choose Historian, which can be categorized as a History teacher or professor. History is the ideal career for me, due to the passion I have for it. As an individual I see myself as more open to working cooperatively, I find it difficult to work in solitude. Teaching is the perfect career for my personality; I value knowledge and consider myself an exemplary student. This career was one of the choices from my personality survey, It suits my style of working and the type of environment I most comfortable with. History is my favorite subject in school, so perhaps my passion in it can lead me to a prosperous career. Historians and or History teachers have one common goal, to spread the knowledge of the past, and make people understand the importance of history and how it connects to our world and our life’s. History can range from teaching World History, European History, Art History , and any other study that involves the analysis of the past. The process of historical analysis involves investigation and analysis of controversial ideas, facts to create coherent narratives and theories that explain "what happened" and "why or how it happened". Modern historical analysis usually specifies on social sciences, including economics, sociology, politics, psychology, anthropology, philosophy and linguistics. There are some historians that are guides in museums, this takes great knowledge and memorable facts...
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...Rehabilitation and AB109 Paper Denise Atkinson CJA/234 Joseph Dempsey October 17th, 2012 Rehabilitation and AB109 Paper Offenders are always punished in different ways. Fundamentally, this is in a bid to restore and enhance a desirable state of social cohesion. The characteristic rehabilitation refers to efforts geared toward enabling an individual too effectively to readapt to society and assume practices which are consistent with the societal rules and regulations. In his research, Gottschalk (2006) indicates that the origin of the practice of rehabilitative imprisonment can be traced in penitentiaries constructed at the close of the nineteenth century and were informed by biblical principles. Offenders left in solitude have a chance to reflect penitently over their felonies and are therefore likely to transform or cleanse themselves. With time, discipline, and hard labor were introduced in the practice to be partaken silently. This, according to the reformers helped the prisoners to meditate over their felonious practices. The rehabilitative efforts have undergone various changes and currently, most of them assume a more community based approach. The common method employed in this regard pertains to parole. Woodard (2011) defines parole as the release of an imprisoned offender who agrees to established rules even though he or she has to be closely monitored for a given period. This release is provisional and allows the offender to serve the remaining term from...
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...A Research Paper for the FOURTH GRADING Technology and Livelihood Education II I. INTRODUCTION: Early telephones were technically diverse. Some used a liquid transmitter, some had a metal diaphragm that induced current in an electromagnet wound around a permanent magnet, and some were "dynamic" - their diaphragm vibrated a coil of wire in the field of a permanent magnet or the coil vibrated the diaphragm. The dynamic kind survived in small numbers through the 20th century in military and maritime applications where its ability to create its own electrical power was crucial. The Edison patents kept the Bell monopoly viable into the 20th century, by which time the network was more important than the instrument. Early telephones were locally powered, using either a dynamic transmitter or by the powering of a transmitter with a local battery. One of the jobs of outside plant personnel was to visit each telephone periodically to inspect the battery. During the 20th century, "common battery" operation came to dominate, powered by "talk battery" from the telephone exchange over the same wires that carried the voice signals. By the end of 2009, there were a total of nearly 6 billion mobile and fixed-line subscribers worldwide. This included 1.26 billion fixed-line subscribers and 4.6 billion mobile subscribers. In some countries, many telephone operating companies (commonly abbreviated to telco in American English) are in competition to provide telephone services...
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...Case Study of Jim Margie Herndon PSYCH515 September 10, 2012 Dr. Napier-Ionascu Case Study of Jim Abnormal behavior and determining whether it qualifies a person with a mental disorder is complex and incorporates many differing perceptions. No concrete definition is assigned in terming behavior to be abnormal but there are six primary elements recognized. Mental disorders are assigned by professionals according to a classification system. The debate of whether this is the most sufficient system of assignment continues as some argue against the organizational structure based on the history and detail of an individual in classifying them under a label. A case example describing a personality, behaviors, and thought processes of an individual named Jim are analyzed to determine abnormal behavior and mental disorder qualifications. Determining Abnormal Behavior The case example of Jim is a summary of background information of a male named Jim to analyze how factoring the primary elements of abnormal behavior and the definition given by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Mental Disorders (2000) fourth edition, to separate from, and then together, prove the complexity in determining the behavior of a person as abnormal and whether or not it would qualify them for a mental disorder. The Six Elements Butcher, Monika, & Hooley (2010) outline the primary elements of abnormal behavior as suffering, maladaptiveness, deviancy, violations of standards of society,...
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...Canada, A Cultural Analysis Abstract Canada is a beautiful country that is adjacent to the United States of America. There are many resemblances between Canadian culture and American culture. It is also common for Canadians to expect great communications in the workplace and friendliness. It is valued to be respectful of others ethical background as well. It is also standard to see similarities in basic hand shake as a cultural behavior to mean many things. In a business environment in Canada, business people often begin relationships in a reserved manner; once people get to know one another they usually become friendly and informal. Canada as the United States encourages small businesses to grow and prosper as well as their economic. In regards to the workplace, Canada also promotes from within companies and wants its workforce to be involved in a company’s growth and offers great benefits to its employees. Canada as the Unites States offers great cultural diversity among its people and within the workforce as well. It would be easier for an individual to adapt to Canadian ethical behavior since it is similar and diverse as the United States. There are many similarities and differences between the culture of the United States and the culture of Canada. While there are many preconceptions about the culture and behaviors of Canadians, many of the country’s customs are similar to those found in the United States, despite differences in culture and government...
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...has even change the way people conduct their daily activites, from business to communication, sharing of information, to conducting research etc. These new changes although widely accepted has also created some basic challenges and problems to our society. Among the challenges that we face in this information age is the issue of our privacy. The definition of privacy is the ability of an individual or group to seclude themselves or information about themselves and thereby reveal themselves selectively. Implictly, this definition is gradually becoming obsolette. The usage of the term in this context is loosing it's meaning. On the other hand, we might also associate the term Privacy to anonymity, the wish to remain unnoticed or unidentified in the public realm. When something is private to a person, it usually means there is something within them that is considered inherently special or personally sensitive. The degree to which private information is exposed therefore depends on how the public will receive this information, which differs between places and over time. Since the inception of technology, this concept has been challenged. Most of the things that one will probably wish to make private is no longer protected. for example, lets consider patients in the hospital, before the database issue came up, most record of patients are stored on papers and files and it is practical impossible for a patient history to be disclose to other doctors or agency. But today, patient history...
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...Magical Realism Granville Scott Nelson Embry Riddle Aeronautical University Abstract Magical realism is a Latin American genre in which the author takes an ordinary storyline and inserts an unnatural character or sense of being. This paper will show the difference between magical realism and fantasy or science fiction. Magical Realism From my reading I now understand that magical realism is adding an unrealistic feature or character to an otherwise ordinary story. Magic realism is a term used to describe a mingling of the mundane with the fantastic. “Magical realism is not speculative and does not conduct thought experiments. Instead, it tells its stories from the perspective of people who live in our world and experience a different reality from the one we call objective.” (Rogers, 2002) If an author is telling a familiar story and he adds a twist such as a winged horse or an individual who has been alive for two hundred years, that is an example of magical realism. The difference in magical realism and fantasy is that the story is very natural and true with a surreal object and fantasy is just that, fantasy. The term is best described by Baker in her 1997 writing: While realism itself is a chronically unstable term, realist writing is usually understood to be that which draws on a set of narrative conventions designed to create the illusion that the story on the page is real or true and corresponds in some direct way to the ordinary world of day-to-day life...
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...incomplete. He was ready for the question because he studied orbital patterns for past six years, however, he claimed that he had solved the problem eighteen years before, but could not find his notes. After hearing the answer, Halley asked him to solve the problem using math, and then offered to pay for its publication. Over eighteen months, Newton, along with Halley, published Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, a series of books that is considered the most important composition in the history of science. The Principia explained and proved Newton’s laws of motion, universal gravitation, along with some theories by other scientists such as Kepler. Once again, Hooke and Newton disputed over Newton’s work. Hooke stated that since his research partially was the basis of the Principia, he should be given recognition for the discovery of universal gravitation. Newton refused to accept Hooke’s claims, so to solve the problem, he began to write a new version of the books without any mention of Hooke. Halley tried to convince the two to come to terms, and after much persuasion, Newton reluctantly agreed to include some recognition of Hooke’s...
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...increase as the years accumulate, it just a matter of time. So why should people care?, why should people try to resist it and suffer though?, Elizabeth Bishop’s poem “One Art” deals with the dilemma and the tragedy of losing everything. Jonathan Sircy explains the poem briefly and says “In the face of overwhelming loss, Bishop appears in this first stanza to have constructed an admittedly bittersweet, but nonetheless efficacious, philosophy of survival” (2). The author applies several poetic techniques from the villanelle’s style in the poem. For example, she uses refrain and two repeated rhymes, to give a specific effect on words and produce a message of ideas to the reader. The stanzas four and six are the most relevant for the analysis and research of this poem, in order to understand its structure and the reason of the writer to work write this down. The first stanza to be explained is the fourth one, it begins with this first line that says “Then practice losing farther, losing faster:” In this line the author uses euphony to make it sound good, and emphasize certain words, so that the reader can remember the line easily. This line changes the poem to the direction of losing progressively from less to more and from things not really relevant to things with significance in someone’s life. There are more poetic techniques to mention in the line. For example, the consonance technique is used on “farther” and “faster”, the same beginning and ending letters, and the author also...
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...Dannielle Caddell Nursing Informatics- NUT1 EPIC VS MCKESSON For this research, I am conducting my search based on two well-known systems for computerized charting in the medical field. These two vendors are known as, EPIC and McKesson. In the next few pages, I will be comparing these two vendors; and at the end of this project I will choose which one I would not mind being associated with or using in the future. I will be analyzing how these systems can improve quality of care for patients, how hand-held devices can or cannot help the medical professionals, how the computerized systems can help nurses, but also how these systems can possibly increase and improve patient involvement of care. Computerized management systems can amazingly increase the quality of patient care, as well as safety for the patients. Electronic Medical Records aid nurses in being able to identify if a patient may have an allergy to a medication that will be given. As a nurse, you may not always know if a certain antibiotic is in the same class as an allergy that the patient may have. If the patient does have an allergy, there will be a warning that will pop up for you to view. If the provider approves this patient to have the medication, it may be given, but the pop up is there for patient safety and for the nurse’s own awareness as well. These systems can also help increase quality of care because they will make the patients feel safer. When in nursing school you are always...
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