...Personal Action Plan and Observation COMM/315 June 25th 2012 Elizabeth Jane Riegner, RN, PhD, NCC Personal Action Plan and Observation Social Class differences in American society are typically described as lower, middle or upper class. This determines to a large extent where one lives, work, go to school and even worship. Social class refers to one’s status in society and is usually determined by a variety of social and economic factors such as net worth, position of power, job title and dwelling. (Bucher, 2010). Other superficial factor that comes into play in social class distinction includes type of outfit, hairstyle, car, makeup, jewelry and mannerisms. The purpose of this paper is to observe a different social class outside of my normal environment and develop a personal action plan based on my observation to share with class while integrating my new found knowledge to improving cultural awareness and diversity skills. Observation I place myself in the middle class category based on my profession, net income, and decent home in the suburban area. Because of my middle class status, I chose to observe people I believe to be in the upper socio-economic class. I chose the Lenox mall located at Buckhead- Atlanta GA which has been frequented by the superstars and Millionaires. I took advantage of the weekend shopping for father's day to visit the mall and chose the high end store called Louis Vuitton (LV), a luxurious brand name store that sells variety of leather...
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...Threshold experiences in the novels My Antonia and The Age of Innocence In any a piece of literature setting is an essential pillar of narrative construction: it not only includes some factual information about time and place or provides the background in which the events take place, but also has the power to shape the habits and attitudes of their users, or characters. Both Willa Cather in My Antonia and Edith Wharton in The Age of Innocence create the particular narrative texture that implicates some dynamics, i.e. some shifts and changes – on the one hand, the setting of the novels continually changes, and this invariably entails the changing of the characters. Since the setting doesn’t remain static, each time it changes there should be some “turning point”, from which moment on the further development of events becomes completely different. But what exactly this turning point is, what are those “triggers” that help to create this dynamic picture, how can we trace the changes and the molding and development of characters’ personalities, the changes of their identities? The thing is that the authors of both above-mentioned novels create series of “threshold experiences” taking place at the most significant, climatic points in the lives of the protagonists, acting like triggers, indicating some transformations in the outer world of the characters that entail the changes in their inner world as well. These thresholds operate on all levels: separating the interior...
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...may find their viewpoints change and are conformed in order to be involved in a group. This does not necessarily mean values change however, insights can. If a group chooses to exchange information one way and a person disagrees, said person may be swayed to alter their information exchange in order to avoid confrontation or conflict. A person wants to feel like they belong and feel secure in their position. According to Solomon Asch, “social pressure from a majority group could affect a person to conform” (Asch 1951). Majority Rules often influences attitudes or behavior. One does not want to be singled out or ridiculed by following an opposite behavior. There usually is a leader of the pack who influences behavior of a group. In example, my employer creates a positive atmosphere in which he leads by example and we follow by going above and beyond in guest service as well as leadership. Some negative aspects may occur in our company such as a team member not liking another member. The negative person may influence others to have the same opinion by talking behind ones back in an undesirable fashion. The influence of this attitude will bring down the moral of the entire team until it is resolved by another’s positive leadership and confrontation or behaviors. In today’s leadership there are various models to represent leadership styles. In our reading assignments I believe charismatic, visionary, and servant leadership are styles prominent in my company. These styles interact...
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...There were so many events in my life that I had to take a courageous step to come out of my comfort zone. Some of them include moving to U.S. from my native country, attending school in America, the first time performing on stage for a school play, my first swimming lesson, starting my own business, and pursuing my MBA degree. On the other hand, there are still certain things I dared not to step out of my comfort zone; things like riding the roller coaster, dining in the restaurant by myself, and learning to say “No” to other people. Every time when I am facing with a choice of whether to stay put with my limitations or expand it out of my comfort zone; I begin to look into my fears, personal limits, and boundaries. Many times the reasons why I wouldn’t step of the box because I could not predict what the final outcome is going to be, and I wasn’t ready for change in my lives. There were moments that I would prefer to stay where I was in life and just hope that something grand would come my way in the very near future. Yet, I know that there is more for me to do with my lives. As I replay the moments I stepped out of my comfort zone, they actually felt great. I felt I had just conquered my fear of something like being afraid of water, being shy, accepting and encountering challenges in a new environment, change, and taking risks. As I expand my comfort zone, it is that slightly over the boundary of comfort; but I...
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...Stepping Outside Your World The objective and goal behind stepping outside a person’s world or environment is to educate and familiarize an individual to other cultures and subcultures that encompass diversity. The essential idea is to investigate how and why various situations exist differently than a person’s own comfort zone and ideals. People will behave differently toward an individual who appears exactly like them versus an individual who may appear differently than they are. The environment we find ourselves in has a highly hypnotic effect on us. The environment has a tendency to establish and influence our thoughts and our ideals about people and society. As a multicultural society there needs to be awareness that what we see in our environment can play a role in what we manifest. Someone who lives in a part of town that sees poverty and crime everyday is going to have a harder time manifesting abundance than someone who already lives it everyday. To prove this point an individual first must decide on the environment they would like to explore. A good activity to investigate would be “Homelessness.” The common perception of a homeless person is an older man with a drinking or drug problem who sleeps in an inner-city park or street. This would require not only spending time with the homeless, but also pretending to be homeless. The objective is to understand people’s perceptions and attitudes toward those who are different than themselves, but also to know why we perceive...
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...Career Exploration Paper Tori Turner Liberty University Career Exploration Paper Career Field & Occupation Choice Within society, there are many occupations to explore and chose. The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) results showed that my personal career strengths fall under the area of teaching and counseling. Currently, as a school counselor for a high school in Duncanville, Texas, a suburb outside of Dallas, I find the results of the assessment to be very accurate. Making the decision to become a counselor is a rewarding and exciting career choice. In the world of counsling, there are many individuals who place emphasis on not just basic implications, but also on theoretical studies that usually are a part of their professional and personal experiences. As times have change, so have educational curricula. Counselors and educators, their philosophies, and educational standards continue to change; therefore, educators have to take on responsibility and think more about their chosen roles within the educational system and the various means of combining theory and practice. The general examination of the different roles in counseling, personal career assessments and ideological relationships each play a role in the area of education and counseling. As a result of the choice as having a career as a counselor attaches the decision to continue to research theories and then integrate them into areas of education helps to build a solid foundation, which will...
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...and ask the reader to think “outside” the box on a very important topic. Change needs to take place. This will not be a simple decision; meditating and cud-chewing on this topic will be a start for this path headed for a better, revolutionized era. In fact, it starts with a “voice”. A good example of a “voice” for public awareness is Candy Lightner. “Her daughter was tragically killed by a drunk driver who was a repeat offender. Her pain and loss drove this mom to be a “voice” and “raise public disapproval of drunk driving with the reduction of drunk driving traffic fatalities” (Hanson PH.D.). Her “voice” turned into...
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...Organizational Theory – Summary Paper Today’s organizations draw upon the concepts of social and cultural anthropology, political science, strategic management, and organizational behavior. To become a successful manager in today’s organizations, mangers must understand and adjust to organizational concepts, implementation and management of change within organizations, concepts of systems of theory problem solving and decision making. As a manger in my current organization, this course has taught me how to improve my managerial skills through recognizing and understanding the concepts mentioned above. The following is a complete system analysis of my company based on the Six-Box Model. Within the six-box model I will demonstrate how the following factors: (1) Boundaries and Environments; (2) Organizational Structure; (3) Formal and Informal Systems; (4) Reward Systems; (5) Power; (6) Force Field Analysis, (7) Organizational Interventions; and (8) Reactions to Proposed Changes affect a managers management style. Organizational Boundaries and Environments Boundaries in organizations can be defined as “the umbrella under which rules are implemented to shape their purpose and goals.” (Ware, 2005). Boundaries are in place to determine the sphere of influence for the internal activities of an organization and to govern the reactions to external environments (Ware, 2005). In my organization there are written policies which address the boundaries which are internal...
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...three are useful in the nursing practice to assist patients in the healing process. There is physical-body, body-mind, body-mind-spirit/bio-psycho-social. Of all the three there two I favor, body-mind and body-mind-spirit/bio-psycho-social. They hope for the same outcome, a better patient, but have different style of approaches. Body-mind is one of the oldest health and healing models and originated from ancient healing practice such as Traditional chinese medicine. Nursing that promotes body-mind healing relies on strategies that soothe and relax the mind and body such as yoga, visual imagery, biofeedback and meditation to alleviate pain and stress while preventing infections by boosting immunity (http://www.brainline.org/content/2009/06/mind-body-medicinean-overview_pageall.html) . Being an avid yoga participant I know personally the benefits of mind-body health and healing. This model started becoming widely popular in the 1950’s and focuses on a person’s own ability to heal through becoming aware of their own feelings and beliefs (Koerner, J. 2016). This gives the patient the ability to participate in their own healing process. It empowers the patient by putting the ability to control stress, pain, etc through processes without relying on medicine or other health technology and professionals. Body-mind-spirit/bio-psycho-social health and healing model treats the entire patient. Its focus encompassess gentics, behavior and culture when approaching assisting in the healing...
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...get so far. My initial dream was to become a nurse with the vocation of serving others and to become a part of the team that would save lives. The transition of this dream has been made in several steps beginning by graduating as a LVN, obtaining an associate degree and currently to finish my Bachelor’s Degree. Many aspects of my life have been influenced including my self-image, short and long terms goals, philosophies, attitudes, actions, experiences, interests, and more importantly my professional role in nursing and in society. As a new graduate with my Associate Degree in Nursing, the first feeling I experienced was fear and uncertainty about my future as a nurse. This feeling was due to my observing of how demanding this profession was during my clinical rotations. I had this strong sensation that nursing was my niche but I was afraid of failure. My perception was limited with what was expected in this profession that I considered as being primarily to care for the sick and to provide for them by learning about the diagnosis and medications. I visualized myself only passing my internship and being a “safe nurse” on the hall. At the time, I just had a subtle idea, only in theory, that nursing was a dimensional profession. My goals working in the hospital were very elementary goals. First, I needed to pass the Performance Test (PBDS) given by the hospital in order to continue working in the acute care field. Second, I wanted to be a leader on my floor so my immediate goals...
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...A. General Comments I conducted my observation at the CSUN Child and Family Studies Center on April 13, 2018 from 2:40 until 4:50 PM. When I arrived for the observation, the children were playing outside in several different areas. There were approximately 50 students between the ages of about 3 or 4 with about 8-10 teachers. There were a lot of children because it was their outdoor play time for two other classes. I spent time sitting by the sandbox, climbing structure, and swings. They were outside for about an hour before the classes split up for their own activities. I then observed a classroom setting for an hour with 4 teachers and about 10-12 children. There is a room with a one way window in which I can see the children and teachers...
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...and healing for the the human body. All three are useful in the nursing practice to assist patients in the healing process. There is physical-body, body-mind-spirit/bio-psycho-social. Of all the three there two I favor, body-mind and body-mind-spirit/bio-psycho-social. They hope for the same outcome, a better patient, but have different style of approaches. Body-mind is one of the oldest health and healing models and originated from ancient healing practice such as Traditional chinese medicine. Nursing that promotes body-mind healing relies on strategies that soothe and relax the mind and body such as yoga, visual imagery, biofeedback and meditation to alleviate pain and stress while preventing infections by boosting immunity (Mind-Body Medicine, 2016). Being an avid yoga participant I know personally the benefits of mind-body health and healing. This model started becoming widely popular in the 1950’s and focuses on a person’s own ability to heal through becoming aware of their own feelings and beliefs (Koerner, J. 2016). This gives the patient the ability to participate in their own healing process. It empowers the patient by putting the ability to control stress, pain, etc through processes without relying on medicine or other health technology and professionals. Body-mind-spirit/bio-psycho-social health and healing model treats the entire patient. Its focus encompassess gentics, behavior and culture when approaching assisting in the healing process ( Biopsychosocial model...
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...other forces might have conspired in the murder. (Poison may have been used; bullets may have been fired only as an afterthought; perhaps they were fired by the victim himself, before he died . . .) Yarn can tell us the story only in certain circumstances. As a researcher and a writer, Matthew Gribble analyzes his crime scene with diligence and care. The crisis: The shortage of nurses in America. The question: How and why did this shortage become a persistent problem? Matthew affixes strings of yarn to a number of gunshots: the increasing average age of the workforce, long hours, work that is often menial or clerical, and finally, relatively low salaries. But these strands lead to new questions, wider causes which have nothing to do with social yarn. These new questions have to do with rhetoric and the enduring association of nursing with “women’s work” and “femininity.” Matthew has the audacity to ask how the rhetoric of femininity actually functions. How and why are we compelled to accept images and tropes as ‘normal’ or ‘natural’ when they are anything but normal and natural? Is it possible that the rhetoric of nursing is responsible for the shortage? Or perhaps it is the rhetoric of femininity and masculinity as such? But how did such a crime take place, right under our noses, when so many of us never noticed that an injustice ever took place? This essay is brilliant and provocative because it will not stop until the crime...
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...STUDENT ID NO.GODRD21 10367342 | NAME OF LECTURER Mr Sanjika Perera | DUE DATE6/12/2014 | Topic of assignmentPROJECT ( TWOS FRAMEWORK) | Group or tutorial (if applicable) | CourseBachelor of Business | CAMPUSacbt | I certify that the attached assignment is my own work and that any material drawn from other sources has been acknowledged.This work has not previously been submitted for assessment in any other unit or course.Copyright in assignments remains my property. I grant permission to the University to make copies of assignments for assessment, review and/or record keeping purposes. I note that the University reserves the right to check my assignment for plagiarism. Should the reproduction of all or part of an assignment be required by the University for any purpose other than those mentioned above, appropriate authorisation will be sought from me on the relevant form. | OFFICE USE ONLY | If handing in an assignment in a paper or other physical form, sign here to indicate that you have read this form, filled it in completely and that you certify as above. Signature Date | | OR, if submitting this paper electronically as per instructions for the unit, place an ‘X’ in the box below to indicate that you have read this form and filled it in completely and that you certify as above. Please include this page in/with your submission. Any electronic responses to this submission will be sent to your ECU email address. Agreement Date 06.12.2014...
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...illegal activity johnkworks/Shutterstock.com Managing fraud and corruption risk and protecting brand reputation is becoming increasingly important when sourcing from overseas destinations. With the changing enforcement milieu, extra-territorial statutes and zero tolerance around acts of bribery and corruption, brands need to constantly monitor their supply chains. These supply chains transcend international boundaries, with business partners (suppliers, vendors, service providers and such) being located across geographies, having different cultures and work ethics. Therefore, it is a challenge for any company to know and curb supply chain risks. To implement the code of conduct uniformly throughout the supply chain, companies have to change the mindsets of employees and business partners overseas through continuous learning and development. Winning and expanding business overseas could be a time-consuming and arduous task in some cases. Facilitation payments and kickbacks are easy quick fixes. Many sourcing destinations are countries that rate low on the Transparency International index, where vulnerabilities around vendor kickbacks and bribery of officials are prevalent. Mounting business pressures, aggressive timelines to complete projects and high costs involved have the tendency to spur unethical activities. Take this company, for instance Let’s explain this with an example. Take the case of ‘A Ltd’, a parent company setting up an overseas business. The management at...
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