...using tradition methods to banish the bad spirits. Mrs. Miller would like to die at home than to die in a hospital. In this paper I will be discussing what will be best for Ella. Ella and her husband John are not into “modern medicine” and they would like to use their methods of natural healing to help her to be comfortable in her final days. First I would explain to them the difference between natural healing vs. modern medicine. In an article by author Thomas Sullivan entitled Modern Medicine vs. Alternative Medicine: Different Levels of Evidence; he mentioned that about 40 percent of Americans have tried some form of alternative medicine at some point but studies clearly show alternative medicine simply does not (Sullivan; 2011). Studies have shown that patients who use alternative treatments have a poorer survival time. Modern medicine was or is made to fight off infectious diseases like cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, etc. Ella and John have three children, Sam, Lila and Joe. Sam is divorced with a son that he does not have a relationship with and he is an alcoholic. Lila is married with a daughter that is in college and she is a diabetic. Joe is also married with three children. Joe oldest daughter Lucy is bipolar and has a drug problem. Josh who is the middle child is beginning to have a drug problem also and Abe is beginning to act out. Joe’s wife Sarah is going through some family issues of her own. Her sister Becky son Elias was.....
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...indicated. Review the "Introduction to the Miller Family" document for specific information on each member of the family. Grandmother Ella has been dealing with cancer for years now and has tried alternative remedies and juicing. She went into remission for some time, but now the cancer has returned and she is in the hospital. Her husband, of American Indian descent, has his ideas about what needs to be done as Ella comes to the end of her life. Ella has her preferences, though she is now so weak that she has given up in many ways. The family members are each experiencing their own fears and are grieving as they face the loss that will occur as Ella’s life comes to a close. Ella prefers to die at home and has felt stressed by the discord and discomfort of family members since being hospitalized. You are the social worker for this case. You meet this family in the hospital setting as they are considering whether the patient will remain there for her final days or whether hospice and palliative care will be provided for her in her home. For this assignment, you will: Synthesize the current research that is relevant to this scenario. Discuss the cultural or traditional issues that could arise at this time. Consider how the integration of alternative and complementary medicine and beliefs, mainstream medical practices, and cultural/traditional rituals and practices might create issues and what they might include. Describe how the family might react to the following possible...
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...HOLMESVILLE — With his friends and family gathered at the cemetery, Prairie Township Volunteer Fire Department Unit 334, Lt. Steve Miller, was summoned by radio dispatch. But, Steve Miller, who died Saturday following a four-year battle with cancer, never answered. The last call, marking Miller's end of watch, gave tribute to Steve Miller's 13 1/2 years of service to the department and community, according to Chief Reuben Miller. Radio traffic is always part of the background for those in service, but that last call is always sobering. “They're toned out and you know they're not going to reply,” said Reuben Miller, who was left speechless in the immediate wake of it and the subsequent music of a single bagpiper. “I had tears in my eyes. It just gets to you,” he said. The last call, Lt....
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...own family. Willy is the proud father of two boys, Happy and Biff. He is married to a extremely devoted woman named Linda. Willy spends almost all of his time away from home and the people he loves in attempt to make enough money to pay the bills. Throughout the play Willy sacrifices his job, family, and in the end his life. Willy Loman worked for thirty-five years as a traveling salesman throughout New England. Continuously driving from New York to Boston, he sacrificed time away from his family. Spending days away...
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...Tragedy of Denial Arthur Miller is considered to be one of the greatest play writers of his times. After many years the themes of his plays can still be compared to our every day life. Miller has written his plays filled with drama, tragedy and leaving the reader feeling the emotion of his characters. Miller has used common themes that can be traced through some of his plays; the theme of family and the extent an individual will go to for their family. In three of his plays, Miller demonstrates tragedy wrapped within denial. The three families portrayed in Millers plays, All My Sons, Death of a Salesman, and A View From The Bridge are families that are consumed with denial to cover up and protect against their own guilt and selfish needs. Each of these families have characters who display such strong denial believing they are doing what is best for their family. However, when taking a closer look, what is reviled is failure and justifications to protect what is best for them selves. In All My Sons by Arthur Miller, the characters forming the Keller family are living in the 1940’s, a time where financial stability seemed out of reach. Joe Keller who is a father, husband, and business owner, is one of the main characters in this play. Joe is able to provide his family with the financial stability he has wanted but at a high cost. With one bad decision, Joe committed a crime that he never thought would affect his family directly. Joe allowed the defective airplane parts...
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...during the preparation of Death of a Salesman provides the spark and inspiration needed to pen a literary classic. Almost five decades later, Death of a Salesman’s themes is still relevant in today’s society. Arthur Asher Miller was born October 17, 1915 in Harlem, New York City. Miller was the son of Isadora and Augustus Miller, Polish Jewish immigrants who settled in Harlem in the early 1900’s. Arthur’s father owned a successful women’s clothing manufacturing company that employed hundreds of people. Although he was a figure of wealth and prominence in the community the Wall Street Crash of 1929 left the successful family in a financial struggle. They relocated to a section in Brooklyn known as Gravesend. There Miller delivered bread to help the family maintain. In 1932 he graduated Abraham Lincoln High School. After high school miller enrolled at the University of Michigan. He worked several small jobs to pay for his college tuition. He first majored in journalism, taking up freelance writing for the Michigan Daily. While he served as a reporter and night editor he penned his first play, No Villain. After receiving the Avery Hopwood Award for No Villain, Miller changed his major to English and began seriously considering a career as a playwright. Miller would soon enroll in a playwright seminar where he would meet his mentor and life-long friend Professor Kenneth Rowe. Rowe would highlight the construction of a play, the dynamics of how a...
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...In the play “Death of a Salesman” by Arthur Miller none of the main characters achieve success. To Arthur Miller having your family respect and love, a stable life and understanding yourself are solid keys to success. In Arthur Miller’s mind, to have a family’s respect and love is the biggest success one can have. The entire play Willy just looks to get affection from his sons, but most importantly his son, Biff. He pushes so hard and is focused so much on that, that it's getting in his way of succeeding in his job. The more he pushes for affection the further he ends up pushing his sons away from him. It’s clear that the boys don’t see that their father loves them but it becomes quite evident when Linda yells at Biff “What happened to the love you had for him? You were such pals!” (Miller 57). Linda sees that Willy just wants to love from his sons but they just don’t see it. Linda is that truly loves and respects Willy. The Loman family struggles with financial stability, which is another key to success in Arthur Miller’s eyes. Willy’s solution to most problems is to use money. Willy is partially successful in this because he knows what wants to do with his money. He wants to retire to the countryside with Linda. Although he couldn’t do that as a salesman he still did everything he could to keep his family somewhat stable. He would even ask for money if he didn’t haven any. He asked Charly for money, “ Charly, look… With difficulty: I got my insurance to pay....
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...Some background about Mr. and Mrs. Miller; both were raised Amish, they met when they were teens in the Amish community in Central WI. Mrs. Miller, the daughter of the bishop, and Mr. Miller the son of a Farmer. When they married, farming was what they knew and began. They have six children, three boys and three girls. Their farm is pristine and welcoming, it is the home Mrs. Miller was raised. Mrs. Miller moved to Central WI when she was nine, from Ohio. There was a split in the Amish community, because of some differences in the rules of the Church, hence her dad decided it best to leave and begin a new community. She shared about the feeling of living in a glass bowl, how she always felt watched and she could never be good enough because she was the daughter of the Bishop. She didn’t feel her parents put the expectations on her, rather more from the Amish community. This was a sensitive topic for her to discuss. She wanted to talk about it because she has felt judged and criticized by her Amish counter parts, as opposed to the majority culture. She still feels, to an extent, that she and her family are on display…even as an adult. She asked me how I deal with the expectations of others. I shared that I live before an audience of one, and my soul purpose is— in everything I do or say is to bring glory and honor to His name. That is my reminder when I feel weighted down with expectations of others, I am then reminded of my purpose; making everything...
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...These common themes in all three plays stem from events that Miller had experienced in his own life as a young man. Miller’s father was a Jewish immigrant from Poland who was illiterate, but managed to run a successful coat manufacturing business in New York. This business helped Miller, his siblings and his mom continue to be financially stable. Due to the fact that Miller’s father, Isidore was illiterate, there was a stronger bond with his mother, Augusta because she enjoyed reading and was an educator herself. The family managed to live lavishly until the Wall Street Crash of 1929, which had led to The Depression caused them to lose practically everything. As a result of the Wall Street Crash, he had to move into a smaller home and struggled financially which shows that he experienced struggle firsthand. After that, Miller managed various odd jobs that helped him get by financially (Rachel Galvin). However, the sudden change influenced him in the rest of his life. In his autobiography, he wrote, “This desire to move on, to metamorphose – or perhaps it is a talent for being contemporary – was given me as life's inevitable and rightful condition” (Miller, Timebends, a Life 2). He had then turned to playwriting. His 1944 first Broadway show was of his first play,...
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...| Bill Miller Bar-B-Q Sustainability | A Question for the Future of the Company | | Team Bar-B-Q consisting of Willie Lindsay, Lee Little, Jesse Mermella, and Joseph Preusser | 2/1/2012 | | Introduction by Joseph A. Preusser * Home of Texas' best eatin' for over 50 years, Bill Miller Bar-B-Q offers only the choicest of meats, all cooked to perfection over a fire of 100% Texas Hill Country Live Oak in a brick pit. According to the Bill Miller webpage, “all of our barbecue is cooked with 100% hill country live oak wood in a brick pit. Natural gas or electric heat is never used to cook our barbecue, only wood, heat and smoke. Bill Miller designed the original barbecue pits he used in the 1950 's and the large industrial sized ones used today -- that will cook up to 2,500 pounds of brisket at one time in 18 to 20 hours. Each of our dishes is served to you with our promise of Total Customer Satisfaction.” In 1950, on a $500 loan from his father, Bill Miller opened a small poultry and egg business. Three years later Bill Miller Bar-B-Q began as a small fried chicken-to-go restaurant. Fried chicken led to hamburgers and then to barbecue. The second restaurant opened in February of 1963. Today there are 68 Bill Miller Bar-B-Q restaurants.(About Bill Miller Bar-B-Q, 2011) * According to a personal interview with Ms Barbara Newman, the company has expanded and Bill Miller's currently now operates 70 restaurants in south Texas. All of these facilities...
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...1.) According to Miller (2014) “there is generally a direct relationship between price and quantity supplied; as the price rises, the quantity supplied rises”(p. 58). How this concept affects me and my family is that we are victims of the market place. My family and myself cannot rely on prices remaining constant so we may end up having to pay more at times because of the laws of supply and which way that pendulum may be swinging at any given time. In short, because there has been more of a demand for something and therefore more is being supplied, I may even have to do without it because I choose not to buy it due to a price increase. 2.) According to Miller (2014) “another factor is ceteris paribus, conditions of supply; they include the prices of resources (inputs) used to produce the product, technology and productivity, taxes and subsidies, producers’ price expectations, and the number of firms in the industry” (p. 62. How this affects me and my family is let’s say that I was going to buy a refrigerator, the cost of products to produce refrigerators has risen, this will increase the cost of the refrigerator in the long run, at that point it would be best to wait it out and buy when the price evens out again. Another way that this theory affects the economy and my family is that if timber were to increase in price, it would raise the price of resources used to produce homes which in turn increases the price...
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...Willy Loman’s father left his family and was out of his childhood when Wily was only 3 years eleven months old. As a result Willy was a failure of a father to his sons. By not having his father in his life, Willy did not know or learn how to be a good father to Biff and Happy. In the play, Death of a Salesman, written by Arthur Miller, the main character Willy is a husband, father, friend, business partner and salesman. Willy is not very good at any aspects of his life, particularly parenthood. The factors in which Willy fails at parenting are numerous including, not making his family number one priority, not disciplining his sons, encouraging bad behaviours, not admitting his faults and lying. Firstly, with Willy not making his family his number one priority, he does this by constantly putting work before them. Willy has never been there for his sons, as he is travelling every week to visit customers, and he never really had the chance to get to know, and show his love for his sons. Willy does not have the father-son relationship with his children that most fathers desire to have. Willy’s love for his eldest son Biff, is based solely on Biffs achievements as a football player. Biff has been offered '...scholarships to three universities...' (Miller 20), and when he fails math, and because of poor grades does not qualify for the university scholarship, Willy is devastated for his son. Willy states, "Biff is a lazy bum!" (Miller 5) With this statement, Willy...
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...off with finances and have the luxury to have a little shopping spree here and there occasionally. But for the Millers that’s not the case at all. They have to live paycheck-to-paycheck and barely make ends meet. The town of Wanaque, New Jersey is very small, three miles long to be exact. But in this small town there are all types of social and economic classes from very poor to very wealthy. A family with a set of twins and another child just hitting elementary school would certainly be affected by this economy, yet the Millers still fight to keep their family functional. People take many things for granted like food, water, and shelter. Most of us can simply pay our utilities bills, sleep under a safe roof, and go grocery shopping when your refrigerator is empty. For the Millers it’s a different story. Anna Miller, mother of three, works part-time as a nanny for two homes and in retail. Eric Miller has been working at the same job for the past six years, and although he gets a holiday bonus every Christmas, he has never gotten a raise. Their three kids, twins Jason and Justin, and third child Jared are all attending the middle school in town. The family lives on the outskirts of our town in a neighborhood that’s not so great. They live in a tiny two-bedroom apartment above a post office and are supplied with food stamps so they are able to provide their family with food. And with their low income, their utilities have been shut off a few times. In times like these when...
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...Introduction Arthur Miller is recognized as an important and influential playwright, not to mention essayist and novelist. Although he has had plenty of luck in his writing career, his fame is the product of his inventive ability to control what he wants his readers to picture or feel. His intentions when writing ‘Death of a Salesman’ was to help people identify some of the social issues that were growing, in a way that eases the pain they were going through. As one of his critics states, "Miller writes ingeniously, conveying the message that ‘if the proper study of mankind is man, man’s inescapable problem is himself’ (poets 1997). Miller accurately puts into words what every person thinks, feels, or worries about, but often has trouble expressing. Arthur Miller portrays Willy’s problems with family life, the society, and himself in Death of a Salesman. Many of Arthur Miller’s plays reflect or are a product of events in his life; he believed that American society needed to be made over; and for this reason, many of his earlier plays showed sympathetic portrayals and compassionate characterizations of his characters. Death of a Salesman is a play relating to the events leading to the downfall of Willy Loman, an aging salesman who is at one time wealthy, but is now approaching the end of his usefulness (poet, 1997). Miller uses symbolism to expand on the conflicts within the Loman family. Happy and Biff, Willy’s two sons, represent two sides of Willy’s ever-conflicting...
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...Deidra Miller ID No.: 6797830 Essay Questions Assignment Question 1: To what extent do members of a group share a single culture? Culture is a very crucial concept in anthropology and some might interpret that all cultural anthropologist share a single definition. However, there was only one study conducted in history during the 1950s that showed 164 various meanings of the simple word by scholars (Miller et. al., 2009:14). Other studies have shown that a part of defining culture is to say that it is learned. As Dr. Bambi Schieffelin and Dr. Elinor Ochs basically state, individuals of a certain culture “learn” through their parents and/or social interactions what their culture is or should be, (Jourdan C., Lesson 3: slide 7). However, while one learns what their culture is, they sometimes divert and create their own ways of interpreting (like the 164 cultural anthropologists) what it means or even form a culture of their own based on what they have interpreted from learning. Sir Edward Tylor is a British anthropologist who declared the very first definition of culture in 1871. He suggested that it “is that complex whole which one includes knowledge, belief, art, law, morals, custom, and any other capabilities and habits required by man as a member of society” (Miller et. al., 2009:14). Even though the definition is quite accurate, anthropologists of today have manipulated it by replacing the “man” with “humans” or “people” while still using “complex whole” (Miller et. al...
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