...For the film presentation, the family I chose is the Pearson family on the television series called “This Is Us”, on NBC. Why this show’s family is beneficial for future family therapist is due to the series showing flashback of family member’s behaviors, their reactions to the father’s death, and how their past experiences have effected their present perception of self, environment, and life. For this project, the theory I utilized was Adlerian’s Family Therapy, but for this discussion I am going to apply Feminist Therapy because I am not familiar with this orientation. The presenting issue is Kevin feeling like the “fifth wheel” in the family due to his mother (Rebecca) favoring his sister (Kate) and his brother (Randell). The family came...
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...The cultural text that I will be utilizing to answer my research question is the popular television show “This Is Us” which tells the story about an American families struggles, heartbreaks, challenges and most memorable shared moments. Likewise, the reason that I choose this television show was because it highlights the ideal American family in its most basic atmosphere. Furthermore, I feel that utilizing this genre of television show, will allow me to see the true portrayals of women that are being depicted onto viewers in todays society, by focusing on the main roles played by women in the show. Another reason, that I chose this show was because it is highly relatable to almost all families in American culture today. If you think about it most people have a family, and in those families there is...
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...LET US RUN THIS RACE Chapter 12:1-2 We are people that love our share of sports, either as players or spectators. You name it football, baseball, volleyball, basketball, soccer yes even track. All of these events require some running, I have people tell me that only time they ran was to train for another sport, running wasn’t something they enjoyed doing. When I was in school, track was my favorite sport, after a few track meets the season was over, a short season. When I got out of service in the early seventies we had what you call a running boom, people begin running for exercise trying to stay fit or get fit, an activity everyone could do, young and old. The movie business got involved, if you ever seen the movie “Forrest Gump” you know what I mean. We have 5K run, 10K run – ½ marathon, marathon and even ultra marathon 50 miles or more, but tonight I would like to talk about another run - The race of faith. In the beginning of the chapter the writer is telling us we are surrounded by a great cloud of witnesses. I would think of these as spectators, ones that have already ran this race, had finished the course. These are the old saints that the writer wrote about in previous chapters of Hebrews such as Abraham, Moses, Rahab, Gideon, Samson, David, and we might be able to add others that we believe ran this race of faith. Ones we have come in contact with in our lives that we think of as being faithful but now is no longer with us, ones that bear witness of...
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...Lover Calls us to the Things of this World 1 Lover Calls us to the Things of this World Heather Waltman ENG125: Introduction to Literature Lover Calls us to the Things of this World 2 Lover Calls us to the Things of this World The poem I am choosing is Love Call us to the Things of this World by Richard Wilbur. This poem speaks of a man or woman who woke up from a night’s sleep. In this story I feel it is saying that no matter where life takes you one can do anything. In Wilbuer’s poem he gives us an insight into a spiritual world. He talks about how love can make you do crazy things for some one. There are all kinds of love when it comes to the spiritual part of love. This whole poem is talking about love and things that inter wind with the poem. The pulleys awake the man or women not a lot just enough for them to realize that they did not want to wake up. This is a feeling that God wanted them to know not to be scared and that he will guide them through anything and will help them as long as they want him too. God also wants them to know not to run from him. Lover Calls us to the Things of this World 3 In Wilbuer’s third section he talks about how a man or women is ready to accept what has for them...
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...“Love Calls Us to the Things of This World” Richard Wilbur Richard Wilbur’s poem, “Love Calls Us to the Things of This World” is about the first moments of the morning when we are between the state of being asleep and being awake. That moment when we aren’t burden with the outside world and still on the outskirts of reality, engulfed in a worry free peaceful zone. As the sleeper is in his peaceful state, the window is open and he hears the “cry of the pulleys” as laundry is being hung and what I envisioned also was him hearing the flapping of the laundry because he says “The morning air is all awash with angles”. That maybe the flapping laundry instead of awakening him even more, reminds him of the flapping wings of an Angel. As the sleeper is in the world of the Angels and harmony, consciousness eventually wins and the sleeper is now aware that it is just laundry flapping in the wind and nothing more. The soul is now descended back into it body and daily life. One then wonders why we would want to wake up from this blissful state of being and the answer to that I believe is love. Just like the title says “Love Calls Us to the Things of This World”. We do things for love and that is why the sleeper leaves the peaceful wondrous state and awakens to a new day. “Love Calls Us to the Things of this World” shows us how different the spiritual world and the real world can be. The man then goes to describe the thieves in the gallows should have clean linens for their backs...
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...When looking at the different gender roles that were represented in the prime-time television show “This is Us” there were many instances throughout the show where the female characters were depicted in what I defined as traditional female roles (Fogelman, 2016). Particularly, I noticed this to be the case for Rebecca Pearson’s character. Rebecca, who is the wife of Jack Pearson and mother to her three children, is one of the main female characters in the show. Rebecca was often shown running the household duties and chores. This often included her in the kitchen making different meals for her family, packing lunches, tending to the children, cleaning, and doing the laundry, while her husband went off to work. Kate and Beth, who are also two...
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...Give us This Day our Daily Lesson After reading this article, I believe that the Catholic school boards have an unfair advantage in comparison to public high schools. Due to the funding from churches and the government, I assume Catholic schools must have a larger budget for learning and physical resources. Throughout my high school years, I attended both Catholic and public schools. When attending public schools, the atmosphere is a bit more relaxed. I have found that public school staff takes a bit more time to get to know their students more personally. On account of the fact that most public schools are physically older, the atmosphere is a bit more relaxed. A lot of resources are not up to par with those of Catholic schools, but the fact...
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...It could be argued that the US President is becoming increasingly weaker rather than stronger, despite the writings of Arthur Schlesinger in his book ‘The Imperial Presidency. Gerald Ford remarked that the “Presidency was in peril” showing the fall of power for the US President. There are many limits on the powers of the President, however many could argue that these are not enough in preventing the president from being imperial from the other branches of government. One argument that the Presidency is imperilled is that no President has been able to exert the same amount of power that Franklin D Roosevelt did during the 1930s and 40s. Roosevelt remains the President to have increased the role of the executive branch of government with his New Deal policies which created organisations such as EXOP. He also broke the convention that a President only stood for two terms, becoming the only President to be elected for four terms. However, once his presidency was over, the powers of the President were soon limited to prevent the President from becoming too powerful. The 23rd amendment ensured that a President would serve no more than two terms. Thus all the Presidents following FDR have been unable to demonstrate as much power as he did. Even his successor, President Truman, could not do as much in office as FDR, despite having to deal with the fallout from the end of World War Two. In contrast however, some Presidents have been able to show a large amount of power overseas, rather...
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...A scripture written in N’ahuatl Myers, G. (2013, February 21). 10 Fascinating Facts About the Aztecs. Retrieved November 3, 2015, from ListVerse: http://listverse.com/2013/02/21/10-fascinating-facts-about-the-aztecs/ What does this scripture tell us about the Aztecs? This scripture tells us that the Aztecs had technology to write and gather the resources to make this scripture. Some of the resources that they might have used are bark, deer skin, paper, etc. This scripture tells us that they might have written some information about an event that might have occurred or this might have been a plan for an attack. 2) Positive - Question – SS...
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...What does the creation of this picture tell me about the society that produced it? Well. ‘Going to the Match’ – LS Lowry The creation of this picture illustrates a society of partisan football enthusiasts who have all gathered together to share the buzz of excitement they can’t contain. Around them wonder a minority of passers-by dog-tired from a day’s hard work and noticing the atmosphere they don’t mind being in, but still going about their routine lives and missing out on such a joyous occasion. Many surrounding the stadium are equidistantly positioned to convey their mutual intention of attending the match and eventually forming a crowd of supporters as a whole. The picture signifies the essence of football in the particular society and how it contributes to their social spirit. Despite the overcast evening, the fanatics are in oblivion, not paying any attention to potential rainfall or its frost, but seeking solace in what the match promises. An evening of sheer exuberance, unity and heartfelt emotion. The neighbouring factory looks to blow out in frustration on behalf of the entrapped workers aching to get out and in the vibe of the ongoing match that’s within an agonisingly close range. So close, yet so far. The stadium has long been infested with swarms of aficionados, and still plenty hastily battling for an initial spot in the plethora of queues unconsciously formed on the way inside. The sense of urgency holds the significance of conveying the cornerstone...
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...‘Transformed beyond recognition from the vision of the Founding Fathers.’ Discuss this view of the modern US constitution. In many ways, the US constitution has changed and shifted since its creation in 1787. It has changed, with power being put into the hands of bodies not specified in the constitution and certain constraints on power no longer existing. All in all, however, the constitution has maintained the very thing it was created for- to limit the power of the government and protect the people from tyranny of the executive. In this sense, the constitution is still very much embodying the vision of the founding fathers and is relatively unchanged given the lengthy period of time they have existed for. The powers of the president remain relatively unaltered and the intricate set of checks and balances established by the founding fathers remains pretty much the same. Several amendments to the constitution have happened more recently than the time of the Founding Fathers and these change the way in which the constitution can be seen as the same. During the presidency of Bill Clinton, there were 18 votes on proposed constitutional amendments, an unusually high number. All these votes occurred during the 6-year period when the Republicans controlled both Houses of Congress. The power of the executive has changed greatly since the creation of the Constitution. The President has taken on some powers not given to him by the Founding Fathers...
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...TOK “Knowledge gives us a sense of who we are.” To what extent is this true in the Human Sciences and Ethics? Socrates once said, “To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge” [1]. In similar vein, Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, “Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know” [1]. A great Indian master, Nisargadatta Maharaj once quoted, “To know what you are, you must first investigate and know what you are not” [2]. What were Socrates, Emerson, Nisargadatta hinting at? Is there any such thing as ‘knowledge’ and if so, can this knowledge ever give us a sense of who we are? Is there one concrete sense of ‘who we are’ that persists all throughout our lives or is our sense of identity a montage of ever-changing psychological and behavioral dynamics? Is the knower even capable of using ways of knowing to grasp a sense of who he/she is? If so, which way of knowing is more trustworthy and which area of knowledge should these ways of knowing be applied to, to get a better sense of who one is? Human sciences provides a sense of how we behave in the social context but not a sense of who we are at a personal level while Natural sciences while Thesis (….) I will be limiting my areas of knowledge to Human Sciences and Natural Sciences. Human Sciences, Psychology in particular, does attempt to answer questions about why and how people think, feel, and behave as they do. In a sense, it does attempt to give humans a ‘sense of how they behave’...
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...The chief impression a Gothic text leaves us with is the loneliness of the protagonist’ Is this a view borne out by the three texts you have studied? It can be argued that the chief impression a Gothic text leaves us with is the loneliness of the protagonist, loneliness can be revealed in physical, social and mental form or a combination of a few. However, other contributing factors may also bring about loneliness such as madness or isolation but to which leaves the chief impression is debatable. In Shakespeare’s ‘Macbeth’ the character Macbeth can be interpreted as the main protagonist being portrayed as a tyrant driven by his fatal flaws of greed, ambition and excessive emotion to lead to his dramatic downfall of death; typical of the tragedy that Shakespeare wrote it as. It is through over ambition and guilt that leads to a progression of loneliness throughout the play until the climatic point of his downfall being his death. He rides into battle companionless being labelled a ‘dead butcher’ by associates who were once friends which have now left to join Malcolm and the English army. The only soldiers left to ride into battle with him now does so through duty not honour or love which, exemplifies his social loneliness by the end of the play; showing the effect of his excessive ambition and greed for power. This explicitly shows that this Gothic text leaves us with the chief impression of the loneliness of the protagonist. To support the latter further, Shakespeare’s character...
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...TOK “Knowledge gives us a sense of who we are.” To what extent is this true in the Human Sciences and Ethics? Socrates once said, “To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge” [1]. In similar vein, Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, “Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know” [1]. A great Indian master, Nisargadatta Maharaj once quoted, “To know what you are, you must first investigate and know what you are not” [2]. What were Socrates, Emerson, Nisargadatta hinting at? Is there any such thing as ‘knowledge’ and if so, can this knowledge ever give us a sense of who we are? Is there one concrete sense of ‘who we are’ that persists all throughout our lives or is our sense of identity a montage of ever-changing psychological and behavioral dynamics? Is the knower even capable of using ways of knowing to grasp a sense of who he/she is? If so, which way of knowing is more trustworthy and which area of knowledge should these ways of knowing be applied to, to get a better sense of who one is? Human sciences provides a sense of how we behave in the social context but not a sense of who we are at a personal level while Natural sciences while Thesis (….) I will be limiting my areas of knowledge to Human Sciences and Natural Sciences. Human Sciences, Psychology in particular, does attempt to answer questions about why and how people think, feel, and behave as they do. In a sense, it does attempt to give humans a ‘sense of how they behave’...
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...The period of 1953-1961 is widely considered to be one of a thaw in Cold War tensions between the two global superpowers of the USA and USSR. The death of Josef Stalin in 1953 and the election of Dwight Eisenhower – serving two terms in this period - brought a change in leadership in both nations and with that, an inevitable change in policies. Confrontation in this period did not necessarily only apply to direct military intervention, with both sides talking pugnaciously towards one another, making grand threats to the other’s safety. It could also be argued however that this was a period of co-existence with both nations respecting the other's sphere of influence, shown in both the US reaction to the Hungarian Uprising of 1956 and Khrushchev policy of 'Peaceful Co-existence'. Dwight Eisenhower's presidency played a role in the perception of confrontation. Eisenhower’s approach to foreign policy and the Soviet Union differed to that of Truman, who had been president before him. Eisenhower was believed to be more hard-line than Truman, being highly critical of Truman’s foreign policy as he did not take a strong enough stance against communism. Eisenhower’s ‘New Look’ policy suggested that the communists were pursuing expansionist policies and outlined the idea of ‘massive retaliation’, which threatened nuclear force in retaliation to any extent of attack, also outlined by his foreign secretary Dulles. To start, Eisenhower’s approach to foreign policy did not seem to provide...
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