...Psychological Issues of Addiction & Compulsive Behaviors Memoir Report and Review This assignment promotes the following university wide objectives: critical thinking, interpretation, higher order thinking, knowledge applied to real world scenarios, self-directed learning, active learning, analytical reasoning, interpretation and student wellness. Part 1: The Memoir Report The first half of this memoir report will concentrate on a summary of what the author has to say, and only marginally comment on your opinion of what the author says and how he/she says it. It is a factual account of the memoir’s subject matter, meant to be descriptive rather than analytical or persuasive. This report needs to be well organized, give a sense of the book as a whole, and include publication details. Structure of Part 1 ►Introduction: 5pts - Give the name of the book you have read, the author, and the publishing details. - Describe how the memoir is organized. - Describe the main thesis or argument of the memoir. ►Summary of Content: 5pts - Take each section of the memoir and summarize the important points in that section, and how it relates to the overall structure and content. - Give each section proportional weight in your summary. For example, if the book is divided into four sections of approximately equal length, you should devote the same amount of space in your summary for each section. If, however, section one is twice as long as the other three sections, you should...
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...Book Report on The Reluctant Fundamentalist This book report based on the Novel The Reluctant Fundamentalist is written to Mile. I’m quite interested into this novel, in which the hero, Changez, pursue his American dream as a Pakistani man. He works as hard as the Americans and is employed by one of the prestigious countries in America. While with the outbreak of 9/11 event, people in Islamic world are labelled as terrorists. There is no exception to Changez. He is deeply depressed by such kind of treatment, as well as disappointment from his girlfriend, Erica. His American dream breaks after his returning back to Pakistan. Through the viewpoint of the first person, this novel shows the struggling of Changez, a person from the Islamic state, that they ordinary people are not terrorists. This book report aims at ascertaining the collapsing of his dream. In a series of flashback, Changez tells us his experiences in pursuing his dream and love in America. At the very beginning of his story, he says “I’m a lover of America”. And when it comes to Princeton, he says that “Princeton inspired in me the feeling that my life was a film in which I was the star and everything was possible”. He is, at that time, a typical pursuer of American dream. He could find himself “free, disappear and free of doubts and limits, and free to focus on nothing but the game”. While the rule-dominated country and the indifferent people fail to “make me forget such things as how much I enjoy the tea in the...
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...Increasing Profits by Opening the Books - BusinessWeek keyword, company, ticker Available on the iPad SPECIAL REPORT September 23, 2010, 11:56AM EST text size: T T Business Books Track and share business topics across the Web. Increasing Profits by Opening the Books Financial transparency and giving workers at all levels a direct stake in a company's success can help boost efficiency and earnings, says Jody Heymann By Jody Heymann Open Source Software Open Innovation Open Government E-Book Readers All 213 employees at Great Little Box know exactly how profitable the business is. Executives at the Canadian packaging manufacturer discuss the company's finances, production, and sales performance in detail at monthly meetings with staff that ranges from machine operators on the factory floor to senior managers. Such open-book management is tied to the company's profit-sharing strategy: 15 percent of pretax earnings are split equally among everyone at Great Little Box. The company started profit sharing in 1991 because they believed employees would work harder if they felt "they matter and their work matters," says Margaret Meggy, who co-founded the company with her husband and now serves as its human resources chief. She's right. Our research shows that sharing financial information and profits with low-skilled workers helps boost both efficiency and profits. Yet while sharing profits and financial data with top managers is common, it is rare at the bottom...
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...Looking back, I remember when I was in fourth or fifth grade and my teacher told us we were reading a book and doing a book report on it. I was always up for anything, but when she started reading the book each day I found myself not even listening to what she was saying. I would be thinking about all of the other things I’d rather be doing. Then, we were to write a book report on it. “What?” “...a book report?” No way was I going to write a paper on something that couldn’t keep my attention. I believe at that time I had probably read the first and last chapter and vaguely put together bits and pieces I heard the teacher read throughout the entire book. From that point on I knew I was going to have trouble reading books. Every time I heard a teacher say, “book report” I’d cringe! Needless to say, I probably didn’t get a very good grade on my book report. In middle school, one of the books we were assigned to read was Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck. I was unable to connect with the book just from reading the title and to make matters worse it takes place during the Great Depression. I’ve always visualized that being a very depressing, difficult time and because of that I don’t particularly like that time period. Day after day, we’d read this book and I specifically remember not looking forward going to class because it was ‘reading day’ and I hated it. We finally finished the book and my teacher said ‘book report.’ I felt myself cringe! That day I went home to...
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...I know a lot people in U.S. can speak English, but I can’t. Learning English is the most difficult thing in my life.When I was 10 years old, I went to a country call Hondura, and I start learning Spanish over there. When I start learning Spanish, I feel Spanish is very easy. After a year, I ready can speak very well and talk to the people in that country. But when I start learning English in U.S., I can feel is not easy learn English. Unlike Spanish, English is very hard to pronounce the word. And in English, some word have multiple pronunciation. Excellence, this word have many memories with me. In 2014, the first year In United States. When I go to school, I feel the school is very strange. I can see the students are talking to each other,...
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...respect is actually listening to what another has to say.” –Bryant Mcgill When I was at the age of the students I have been with during my field study, I wasn’t that aware of actually doing listening. It is true that listening can be the hardest due to many barriers around us but the depth of listening isn’t on how well we can hear through ears but on how well we understand by heart. Through the ages, I realized that this isn’t merely a skill. It is also a choice. Listening to me is a powerful ability that enables many to be respectful to other people, even with a stranger. Listening is where anyone can not only take whatever he will perceive but most importantly give other people consideration and compassion. It might be small thing for others, but massive for those who seek for it. Trying to listen to what other has to say has been one of my personal principles as what my elders have taught me and how I hoped to be learned by the youth today. So I’ve been grateful to have an opportunity to observe how the students use listening efficiently and effectively in the classroom. READING “Reading can be a man’s deepest pleasure. It extends his experiences, giving him a glimpse of the world’s excitement, pleasure, and wisdom.” –Virgil Howes I once shared to my former teacher-instructor that I am a bit pressured to my chosen profession because I’m not that into books. I’ve been told that not every one of us is born a reader. I learned that no matter how you wanted one thing,...
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...Carmen Johnson Dr. Marion English 112-MJZT3 6/1/2012 The Lesson of the Flenser The book Blubber, by Judy Blume, is one of 100 books that are on the American Library’s banned books list, reviewed at number 43 on Cal Poly’s website (100 Top Banned Books). Blubber is about a group of fifth grade children and their interactions in school and in the neighborhood. Parents complain that Judy Blume’s book uses cursing and that the bullies are never formally punished (Brunner). This book leaves parents to contend with the possibility that children may view this behavior as acceptable and decide that their actions have no consequences. However experts believe that "books can be a safe way for young people to explore edgier, sensitive, or complicated topics, and they provide parents the opportunity to help their teens grow and understand these kinds of sensitive issues," says Beth Yoke, executive director of the Young Adult Library Services Association quoted in Kobler. Sensitive issues cause parents to find the book Blubber inappropriate for their children; however, this book should be assigned in fourth through sixth grade classes because of the valuable lessons it promotes, especially that peer pressure is not usually positive and developing moral character is important, but difficult. This book gives examples of the importance of how students should stand up for themselves and others when someone is being bullied, mistreated, or harassed. Students at this level are learning...
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... and behaviors. In the book, The Pigman by Paul Zindel, John conlan and Lorraine Jensen are two of the main characters. They befriend a man named Mr.Pignati, who was very ……..Although the asset positive peer influence is present in John’s life, but because he lacks in the assets positive family communication, and learning engagement. John Conlon will not be a successful adult. John Conlan will not be a successful adult because he lacks the asset number two, positive family communication. In the book The Pigman, this quote is found, “Bore and I have been having...
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..."My mind isn't going-so far as I can tell-but it's changing. I'm not thinking the say way I used to think." Carr went on farther, saying that he cannot read as long as he used to, his concentration starts to wonder after two or three pages. He states, "he began to get fidgety and lose his focus and start looking for other things to do." Carr says this change is because he spend so much time on the internet, that as a writer, then he finds the Web to be very valuable to him getting information. Carr say to him and others, the internet is becoming a universal medium, that most information flows through your eyes and ears and into your mind. Wired's Clive Thompson says, "the net seems to be doing is chipping away the capacity for concentration and contemplation, that the mind now expects to take in information the internet distributes it; in a swiftly moving stream of particles." He uses for an example, "Once I was a scuba diver in the sea of words. Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a Jet Ski." The reason he says this is because why searching the internet we tend to just skim from site to site and to never return back to the same site. Carr says that he is not the only one, that when he mention his reading to his friends, many say they are having the similar problems. One of his friends, Scott Karp states that, " he has stopped reading books altogether. Karp said in college he read a lot of books, but what happen is that he started...
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...group communication, group norms, roles, rubrics, and other skills and methods. Throughout this course, I had the chance to experience some wonderful group work. After completing our project, I looked back and was able to see that we had worked a lot in order to succeed in our goal. This class has thought me to be a responsible group member. In the following report I would like to talk about the topics which really pointed out to me, and which have helped me to look at group work differently. In the report I will be talk about group communication, the stages of group formation and what they include, the cultural diversities in groups, and the assessment rubric. Isa N. Engleberg and Dianna R. Wynn, authors of the book “Working in Groups”, define group communication as an “interaction of three or more interdependent members working to achieve a common goal.” From the beginning of the course, this sentence really stood out to me. The word interdependent plays a big role in a group project, and if the group is formed out of non-dependable members, then the group’s goal will most likely not be successful. Another term, which plays a huge role in the groups’ work toward the goal, is synergy. Chapter three of the book defines synergy as a “cooperative interaction of several factors that results in a combined effect greater than the total of all individual contributions.” The books explains that the work done by a group as a whole brings out better results then a work that done by the...
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...The Absorbent Mind The Absorbent Mind I decided to do my report on The Absorbent Mind written by Maria Montessori. This book is about the mental powers of a child from birth to age six. Dr. Montessori believes that if a child is properly educated by unlocking their mental ability than the world can overcome things such as war. The book explains how a child from birth to age six with obstruction and without teaching surpasses all living things. Dr. Montessori says that a child cannot be taught at such a young age as birth to age two so their learning ‘’transcends the narrow limits of teaching’’ (Montessori, 1949). After all a child does not yet fully understand launge at that young of an age. Because of the time in history when this book was written, the end of World War II, the first chapter has a stong call to advance society through the education and understanding of our children. The author states ‘’Men are not sufficiently educated to control the events, rather they become the victims of them’’ (Montessori, 1949). The book goes over the current tools being used in the advancement of society. Philosophies, religions, and the old lines of education of transmitting knowledge. Dr. Montessori says that if we stick to only these tools ‘’there would be no hope for the world’’ and that ‘’the human personality alone can lead us to salvation.’’ (Montessori, 1949). The author then goes into detail of why a child in it’s frist two years of life shows ‘’the laws of psychic construction’’...
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...The UFO phenomenon has become one of the most controversial and culturally embedded supernatural beliefs to emerge in the Western world during the later half of the twentieth century. Reports of strange flying objects in the sky have been recorded from the dawn of human history. The earliest UFO sightings can be found in 4th century Chinese texts, claiming that a "moon boat" hovered above China every 12 years. Other enthusiasts cite the Book of Ezekiel, in which an inquisitive ship dropped from the sky and landed in Chaldea, modern-day Kuwait. A flourish of sightings occurred near Rome in 218 B.C. and again in Germany in 1561. During World War II, Allied pilots coined the term foo fighters for the bizarre orbs of light that flew alongside their planes during combat (Stephey, 2009). Although sightings have been reported for centuries, it was the sighting by American Pilot Kenneth Arnold in 1947 that sparked the current public interest in the UFO phenomenon. Days later, the foundations of today’s UFO beliefs were perpetuated by a report that the U.S. Army had recovered alien bodies and a crashed “flying disk” in Roswell, New Mexico. The press originally reported the recovered material was from a UFO, however higher military authority quickly dismissed this report. The United States Air Force (USAF) claims the downed aircraft was a top-secret weather balloon designed to spy on Soviet forces. This retraction from the USAF caused people to question the events that took place in...
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...hypothesis of this article to me states that they are trying to prove that men are more likely than women to report exposure to and to be distressed by work and financial events. During this paper I am also supposed to put what I believe is the type of research this study demonstrates. By reading the book and the definitions I would say that this research article is would be kind of a mixture of both. I would say that they are trying to figure out the meaning behind it and also the cause and effect of the stressors on the different genders. This to me makes this a mixed methods type of research and I will briefly explain why below. The reasons I think this is mixed methods because if you read the definition of quantitative research it states that it is a comparatively structured research that emphasizes cause and effect relationships among variables, using data represented by numbers. In this research subject they have a controlled group to do the study and they keep a tally to help prove their conclusion by using questionnaires or statistics. This to me is structured which would make it more quantitative than qualitative. I also think it is mixed method to an extent because they dipped down into the phenomena side of the research with the statement “Financial stress... increases hostility among men more than among women, but wives are more likely than husbands to report somatic complaints in response to the same stressor.” which they are explaining behaviors in this statement...
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...With so many newspapers and magazines ceasing publication, you may be asking yourself if print will survive. I don't have the answer. And, I'm not even sure it's the right question. Even when the global economy turns around, it's unlikely that we'll see the same number of magazines or newspapers. So, how will we consume print- or page-like content? Computers are the most obvious answer, but I think products like the Amazon Kindle 2 really point the way. You see, we have to prepare ourselves for a time when the majority of written works, whether in magazines, newspapers, short stories, or novels, are delivered electronically. I don't imagine that everyone believes the computer screen and Web page is the preferred format for the consumption of this kind of content. I know that industry analyst Tim Bajarin made the argument in a recent column that future generations of e-book readers will offer color screens (I guess that's a good thing), and he suggests that a copy of Harry Potter might benefit from having an embedded video clip from the movie. I disagree. When I want to read a novel, I want to read a novel. I don't need to be distracted by multimedia, or even color, to help me imagine the story. My mind is quite adept at painting a picture with the words I'm reading. For me, that's the allure of a good, rip-roaring novel. The minute that publishers start producing e-books with "enhancements," we'll witness the beginning of the end of that format for the written word. The good...
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...This is my book report on A Work In Progress by Connor Franta. This book illustrates his childhood life and what he did throughout his twenty-two years. The genre of this book is a memoir. The point of the view is first person; by the author his self, Connor Franta. The book takes place in 2000’s at La Crescent, Minnesota and then later at Los Angeles, California. On page 1, he starts off by, “It’s a chilly autumn day, with dew still clinging to the grass, a slight breeze in the air.” He stated that on page16, if you own an acre of land in Minnesota, you’ll either inherit the land or plant an apple tree. He grew up and spent all of his childhood in Minnesota, until he reached the age of 20. At the age of 20, he followed his dream and went to pursuit his career as a YouTuber. On page 181, Connor says “heading in what felt like the right direction” which was to Los Angeles, California....
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