...Team Dynamics The saying “There’s no I in Team”, is usually said as a motivational quote and even at times as a silly antic, but it is true. Working in a team is a good positive way to develop good interaction skills in making a person a better leader. Team Dynamics is a processed learned from when you were in Kindergarten learning to work with other children to being in College and working on group projects. Team Dynamics is a good part of developing your personality. In your professional career, you have a better understanding of Team Dynamics; from beginning of your career as a subordinate to moving up in the career ladder and becoming a supervisor. But not only does Team Dynamics affect your educational and professional life, it also effects how you develop your friendships with others as well as your relationship with your family. From the ages of 4-6 years and beginning the new adventure of school, you learn about how it is to work in a group. Some children depending if they are the only child or the middle child react to groups in different ways. It is noted that the perception of children between these ages are too egocentric to engage in reciprocated in social exchanges. (Davis, 1991) As you get older and start working in team projects like for instance in high school; you either succeed or you fail. Not because the work was incorrect but because some children may feel threatened by the presence of other group members which then leads to “free loading”...
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...Dexter Downlow Professor Miteechur English Comp II February 10, 2015 American Family Values In the article, “Family Values,” Richard Rodriguez states his view on the positive affect of homosexuality on family values in America. He questions the values that the media and politicians claim Americans hold and intrigues the reader to decide whether the United States values the family at all. With the traditional family dynamic changing every day, so does the perspective of right and wrong. The media, however, is quick to defend the sanctity of the stereotypical family and chastises anything that contradicts that ideal. The things one values changes with age and are shaped through personal experience and relationships made throughout life. This individual moral development should be promoted instead of criticized. This country was founded on the idea of individual rights. However, America is always forcing it’s ideals on others. The United States would be a more unified and progressive place if its citizens embraced the idea of tolerance and valued the diversity that make the people of this country great instead of demonizing what doesn’t fit the stereotypical image of the American family. The United States is seen as the “Land of Opportunity.” People have come from all over the world to give their family a chance at the American Dream. This nation was created by people who believed in the idea of a better life for their children. But what is the American Dream and why was...
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...Family Health Nursing and a Healthy Environment Family health nursing provides the “conceptual foundations of family nursing across the life span” (Garwick, 2002, p. 284). “The Family Health Nurse (FHN) concept was developed by the World Health Organization (WHO) in Europe in order to provide a means to strengthen family and community-oriented health services” (West and Macduff, 2006). WHO defines family health nursing as presenting a “key contribution within a multi-disciplinary team of health care professionals in the attainment of the 21 health targets” produced by the World Health Organization 21-policy outline. Family systems frequently change as the members of a family adapt to the stress that is inherent to illness and/or injury. Families adapt to the stress, making use of family resources and capabilities, but they often need help in making these adjustments (Servonsky and Gibbons, 2005). In aiding families, nurses employ care that is culturally competent care that uncovers a family’s personal story that reveals both the strengths and the deficits of a family, illuminating where they require assistance within a specific health care system (Servonsky and Gibbons, 2005). Denham (2003) points out that a great deal of nursing concentrates on the individual. However, it is the family and the home that should garner more attention from healthcare professionals because it is within the home "where health is learned, lived, and experienced),” as well as being the "niche...
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...Family Value The meaning of family is different from family to family, unit to unit, and culture to culture. According to DeFrain, Brand, Friesen, and Swanson (2008), “Families are the basic, foundational social units in all human communities around the world, and healthy individuals within families are at the core of a healthy society (para. 4). Families are usually made up of two or more people that love, care, and respect one another. Each member in the family plays a vital role to family functions or goals. When patient comes in the Emergency Room, they do not feel well and want service with a smile. Most times patients can be an advocate for themselves. There are times when it is important to have a family unit there to ask questions, clarifying information, and receive teachings as well to help nurture the patient back to a normal or functional state of health. Family values are defined differently in each unit; they all involve how they will live their lives, to include their culture, spiritual beliefs, and/or tradition. Their values build the family’s structure, functions, attitudes, ideas, and roles. In the emergency room, our goal is to include the family in healthcare decisions, treatments, and education as much as possible, however this is not always possible. Events in the emergency room are fast moving in nature and in the priority of treating and or stabilizing a patient the family can be pushed to the side. The family is a vital part to the success of the...
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...In the novels Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson and In Cold Blood by Truman Capote both authors demonstrate their use of characters and their change throughout the novel. In Kidnapped, the characters David and Ebenezer Balfour and the characters Herb Clutter, Perry, and Alvin Dewey in In Cold Blood are dynamic characters because they all undergo a change within the novels. Furthermore, Capote and Stevenson use suspense to promote the character dynamics within the novels. Capote and Stevenson cohesively use suspense with irony, the theme of chase and the overall structure of their novels to illustrate the character dynamics. Suspenseful irony is used to show the change in character throughout the novels. Suspense adds to the theme of chase because the characters try to converge on something they are after. The structure of the novels plays to the authors’ use of suspense in their own styles. Robert Louis Stevenson’s novel, Kidnapped, depicts the adventures of David Balfour in search of his inheritance in the perilous Scottish Highlands in 1751. David comes close to retrieving his inheritance, but his uncle, Ebenezer Balfour, has other plans for David. He tries to kill David by coercing him to climb a rickety, old stair-tower. David barely manages to make it out alive because his uncle has lied to him about the condition of the stairs thus the devious side of Ebenezer Balfour emerges. Ebenezer’s failed attempt to get rid of David calls for the use of his secondary plan involving...
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...law and science. Forbes headquarters are in the city of New York. The company faces tough competition in the category of national business magazine from Bloomberg and Fortune hence the performance strategies need to be set in such a way that the output is extremely original, reliable and of high quality (Forbes., 2009). The company depends greatly on young people in conducting surveys and collecting data and news update materials. However, for the recent past the company has experienced great problems with the young female workers who have just attained the marriage time. The young female workers are recording very poor performance in their areas of duty unlike the past when the young workers both male and females, were the key drivers of the company’s growth. Recent research has shown that many young parents especially mothers are currently undergoing through stressful lives as a result of changes in families’ dynamics and structures (Hadden & Borgatta, 2010). Background of the study The 20th century witnessed very remarkable adjustments in the families’ dynamics and structures in America and Western Europe. There are many smaller households in terms of family size which is a further change from the extended families to nuclear families. However, these changes have been accompanied by decrease in nuptiality and increase in divorce (Young, 2008). New forms of unions such as living-apart-together, unmarried cohabitation, changing gender and...
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...Curiosity about the possibility and conditions of "change in identity" has been remarkably intense, in fiction and in psychology, during the last century. In talk about literature, this has led to the development of a crude but useful terminological distinction of two sorts of characterization: "static" and "dynamic." A static character, in this vocabulary, is one that does not undergo important change in the course of the story, remaining essentially the same at the end as he or she was at the beginning. A dynamic character, in contrast, is one that does undergo an important change in the course of the story. More specifically, the changes that we are referring to as being "undergone" here are not changes in circumstances, but changes in some sense within the character in question -- changes in insight or understanding or changes in commitment, in values. The change at stake in this distinction is a change "in" the character of the character. In the stories a soilders home by Ernest Hemmingway and A Good Man is Hard to find by Flannery O connor we see this occur. Many people worry about what happens during war but no one realizes what happens to the young people coming back from war. The young people that go to war will change them dramatically when they come back. In the short story “Soldier’s Home”, by E. Heimingway, he writes about a young man’s after war experience, returning home and into society. In another short story called “Speaking of Courage”, by Tim O’Brien...
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...The Fresh Prince of Bel Air has a lot of aspects in it that deals with societal issues that are rarely seen because this show is a comedy. There are specific episodes that really show some of these issues but look at them in a comical way. If you can get away from the comical part of it, you could really delve deep into these episodes and really find and pick apart some aspects that address major issues. The show can be looked at and broken up into three sections: Race, class, and family dynamic. I will look at and analyze these three sections using Stuart Hall’s Model of Encoding and Decoding and go through the steps involved in this model, and connect them with some episodes and some aspects of The Fresh Prince of Bel Air. Race Using Stuart Hall’s Encoding and Decoding Model of Communication, we will use a few examples from the show The Fresh Prince of Bel Air which deal with race. For each of these examples all four stages of the encoding and decoding model of communication will be applied. In one episode, Will and Carlton were driving to Palm Springs to meet up with the rest of their family, and they were following all laws and ended up getting pulled over and even taken to jail. For the first stage which is production, I look at examples of other movies or television shows, and look at what The Fresh Prince of Bel Air does. In a lot of movies and television shows, when there is a scene that involves a traffic stop, in order to build suspense, the cameras will only show...
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...Friedman Family Assessment Paper Family Dynamics Family dynamics can be very complicated. “According to Dr. Murray Bowen…families are complex units that are bonded by strong emotional connects. The ways in which members of the family interact with each other and in relation to the group as a whole are often referred to as family dynamics” (Bowles, 2011, para. 1). A following assessment of the BJ & BP’s family was completed using the Friedman Family Assessment Tool. History of Family BJ & BP meet at a mutual friend’s house in December 1999. They dated for almost two years before getting married on August 18, 2001. Their family is a blended family with three children CM, who is a 16-year-old girl, CJ. who is a seven-year old boy, and DM, who is a five- year old girl. The father, BP, is a 34-year-old Caucasian male of American Irish Catholic descent who has been working as a truck-driver for US Gas Company since 2006. During BP’s childhood he lived with his mother, then father, and then his grandparents and never received his high school diploma or GED. The mother, BJ, is also 34-year-old American Caucasian of mixed heritage. BJ was a teen mom delivering her 1st daughter, CM, one month before her 18th birthday. BJ and CM’s father were married in July, prior to CM’s birth, after BJ graduated from high school. BJ and CM”s father divorced 4 years later. After the divorce BJ and CM lived with BJ’s mother for two years before BJ and BP married. BJ currently works at the Secretary...
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...Jennifer Hickman Professor Hanson English 101 21 September 2015 Engaging a Reader Using Diverse Major Characters Writers often use a vast array of characters in order to engage the reader into a story. This is also the case in “Barn Burning” by William Faulkner. Faulkner’s two major characters in “Barn Burning,” could easily fall into the categories dynamic, round, static and flat characters. Although Faulkner has several minor characters that add to the story as well, we will only be taking a look at his two major characters. Colonel Sartoris Snopes, or “Sarty,” would be our dynamic, round character. Abner Snopes, our other main character, would be our flat, static character. Often times a major character will fall into a couple different categories of character types. Sarty can also be classified as both a dynamic character (one that changes throughout the story), and also a round character (one that acts from varied, often conflicting motives, impulses, and desires). Throughout the story Sarty has to struggle with following the teachings of his father, regarding family loyalty vs. his own inner moral judgment. There is a trial going on at the opening of the story, where Sarty’s father is on trial for burning down his employer’s barn. Sarty is called to the stand, but then removed before having a chance to testify against his father. Later his father confronts him, asking “You were fixing to tell them. You would have told him.” To which Sarty replies, that he would have...
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... p6). It has also been described as “a social and political construct that changes over time in response to a range of factors and influences” (Mc Cullock, 1992, p9). Hence, the term curriculum means different things for different people. While it is obvious that the curriculum is not neutral, its content and how it is transmitted depends on the kinds of interaction between curriculum developers, teachers and students. Stated differently, curricula emerges depending on the various ways curriculum developers, teachers and students interact with each other. In this essay, I will outline the internal and external factors that shape the interaction between the official curriculum, what is taught in secondary schools and learning that takes place in classrooms. Internal factors include the influences of philosophy, psychology and sociology, whereas external factors include the social, economic and political aspects that shape curriculum design. Two curriculum models, namely the rational and the dynamic models will then be compared and contrasted and applied to my teaching practice. Thirdly, the positive and negative consequences of different forms of evaluation for students, teachers and the government will be discussed. 1.2 Factors influencing curriculum design. 1.2.1 Internal factors shaping curriculum. Internal or pedagogical factors include the philosophical,...
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...Family Values Ward Cleaver he wasn’t. Danny Thomas? Forget it. Ozzie Nelson? Yeah, right. In the early 1970s, television audiences said goodbye to the goody-goody TV fathers that they had grown up with and witnessed the birth of a new kind of TV dad—a real dad. Gone were the distinguished, upper-class fathers with the pipes and sweaters with the leather patches on the elbow—the guys who gently sat their children down and explained to them in a calm voice that the kids had messed something up and then gently gave them moral advice on how to fix the situation. Oh, yes, those men were gone. Enter the new guy: Archie Bunker. This dad was middle-aged and middle-class, he believed in family and country, and he feared everyone who was different from him. He yelled at the top of his lungs about anything and everything, and he showed his sensitive side only in the most serious of situations. Archie and family were introduced to America in 1971 by sitcom genius Norman Lear in a show called All in the Family, an American remake of the British hit Till Death Us do Part, which ran for ten seasons in England from 1965-1975. Initially, the show didn’t do well in the ratings. America’s response to the character who would become “America’s most loveable bigot” was outrage. Many wondered how CBS could air a show whose main character used words like “jungle bunny,” “jigaboo,” “fag,” “fairy,” “Mick,” “Spick,” “dumb Polack,” and “Hebe” on a regular basis. The audience was shocked...
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...The psychoanalytic approach to literature best helps one understand the novel. All My Puny Sorrows, a novel written by Miriam Toews, explores the relationship between two sisters, Elfrieda and Yolandi. Elf, the older sister, is determined to die whereas Yoli spends most of her time trying to keep her alive. The family dynamics present in this novel influence the characters to a great extent. When applied to the novel, this approach helps one understand that family influences one’s decisions. It also helps the reader realize that family control makes one become disobedient. Finally, the novel illustrates that childhood experiences from family contribute to the way one later functions as an adult. Yoli is the main character in the novel who shows that family dynamics influence one’s decisions. When Elf asks Yoli to take her to Switzerland, Yoli is uncertain about whether she should...
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... The kitchen table “la mesa de la cocina” used to be the heartbeat of a family in almost every home. Reminisce of the importance a simple kitchen table played in your life. Much more than a flat surface to dine on, it is a place to gather, talk, and reconnect with one another. Today Hispanic families, however, are different. The advent of technology has changed the dynamics around the kitchen table. Modern societal influences have strayed away from a traditional approach to continuous technological advances. The premature exposure of technology in the course of early childhood has had a negative impact on traditional Hispanic family dynamics because the role of the kitchen table is no longer...
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...The Effect of a Broken Family on Development by R.A. Anderson, Demand Media \ A broken family can negatively affect all domains of your child's development. ------------------------------------------------- Related Articles ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- * Family Development Activities * Social Development and Family Planning * How Does Family Structure Impact Language Development? * The Effect of an Addictive Behavior on a Family * The Effect of Divorce on Early Childhood Development * The Effect of Language Development on Social Development The University of New Hampshire Cooperative Extension explains that the effects of a broken family on a child’s development depends on numerous factors, including her age when her parents separation, and on her personality and family relationships. Although infants and young children may experience few negative developmental effects, older children and teenagers may experience some problems in their social, emotional and educational functioning. Emotional After a divorce, children from pre-school through late adolescence can experience deficits in emotional development. Children of all ages may seem tearful or depressed, which is a state that can last several years after a child’s parents’ have separated, explains psychologist Lori Rappaport. Additionally, some older children may show very little emotional reaction to their parents’...
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