I conducted my second teaching on last Thursday, November 5th. It was my second time to meet the students after the two weeks break, the topic I prepared for them is choose from the chapter three in Future 3, which is talk about the future plans. Because most of those students work so hard in here […]
One of the most important ways to learn oneself is by self-awareness. Through the residency that was conducted in Denver, Colorado, I was able to find the areas that I was more of a transformational leader versus a transactional leader. The analysis of my results for the Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire (MLQ) Testing, showed specific characteristics of […]
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Get startedIntroduction It requires high level of supply chain integration for firms in shipping industry to improve performance and be successful. Big line companies have made great efforts to develop the best solution for achieving this goal, leading to the growth of inter-firm cooperation, accompanying with the challenge resulted from alliances (Yuen & Thai, 2017). TradeLens, the […]
Increasing numbers of Chinese internationals are choosing to attend universities. In the United States. As the international population grows. A gap between international Chinese students and American-born Chinese students. On campuses becomes more noticeable. At Northwestern University, this divide is particularly evident between Chinese Students Association (CSA) and Chinese International Students Association (CISA). There is […]
As a member of my generation, I’ve heard the phrase “The first rule of fight club is, don’t talk about fight club”. That quote is about the only thing I knew about the movie “Fight Club”, other than the fact that it starred Brad Pitt. Naturally, when starting the film, I was expecting two hours of […]
In Chuck Palahniuk’s book, Fight Club, two social classes, the working class and the multi-billion corporations, were displayed throughout the book that caused mayhem between the two within society. The two social classes cannot work together due fact of their economic status, but even if one social class was being sabotaged, threatened, or mistreated the two […]
In the novel Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk explores the very real crisis of men: what makes a man? Through the very real representation of the narrator’s opposite side, Tyler Durden, we see what men feel pressured to be; the alpha male. Men can’t feel things, never mind show them. Men are expected to behave, dress and […]
People deal with personas every day. They are the masks strapped so tightly on the faces of colleagues and the self that offer a different surface-level interpretation of character. Whether these personas are put on to impress or to hide the truth, people are prone to pursue an idyllic model of excellence when they put on […]
In Smoke Signals, Thomas and Victor fulfill each part of the Hero’s Journey, from “The Ordinary World” to “Return with the Elixir”. For instance, Suzie Song acts as the maiden presenting the heroes with gifts as their reward at the end of their journey. Their first journey is to Phoenix to retrieve Arnold Joseph’s […]
No Man Can Walk Out of His Own Story Gore Verbinski’s animated film, Rango, portrays a chameleon who accidently winds up in the Las Vegas desert after being thrown from the back of his owner’s automobile, and becomes the desperate needed sheriff in the town Dirt. The main character, Rango, demonstrates Joseph Campbell’s monomyth of a hero’s […]
Dreams and the Hero’s Journey The book All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy follows the boy, John Grady, throughout his travels in Mexico. The story is a bildungsroman, or a story about a hero who matures with the experiences gained during the adventure to ultimately become a fully developed individual. The methods McCarthy uses […]
“Role perceptions of foster care in African American kinship and non-kinship foster parents: A quantitative analysis” is precise and short clearly outlining the purpose of the study hence meeting the requirement of research articles titles that they should be brief and precise. This allows the reader to clearly understand what the research is about avoiding […]
The question of whether or not parenting should be regulated or licensed is a difficult one. On the one hand, the number of children who end up in foster care because of incapable parents is staggering as is the number of children from broken homes who are unable to regain their lives after being abused. Even […]
The journal article entitled “Aging Out’ Gracefully: Housing and Helping Youth Transition Smoothly out of the Foster Care System” by Gabrielle Richards studies the youth population of the foster care system. That are about to face the transition into independent lifestyles after reaching the age of 18, or ‘aging out’ of the system. This article […]
Most people do not know this about me, but I was in foster care for the second half of my childhood. I aged out and have not been able to establish any contact with my parents after my adult life began. I think that the fact that I do not get to know about my mother […]
The youth, is the future. Today’s youth, today’s generation, is going to be what drives the future. But, just how many are willing to invest in the said builders of that future? Hundreds of thousands of those minors who are today’s tomorrow, are living in foster care. They’ll go in and out of various homes, not […]
One of the most prominent issues facing American social workers at this time is how we care for children in foster care and what happens to them once they leave the system. Too many times, children in the system turn 18 and are turned out on their own with little to no help. Occasionally, a […]
There are many ways one can interpret the gradual socialization of a community. One of which can be seen from the vantage point of a symbolic interactionist, who explains the symbolic meaning that is placed upon objects, behaviors, and events in the process of social interaction. To try to understand how a symbolic interactionist might […]
In 2013, the adoption and foster care analysis reported that 402,378 children were currently in the system in the United States. Of these children, 50% of them will not finish high school. (The AFCARS Report) Currently, this system requires the movement of children instead of providing them with a singular, stable home. The failure of the […]
Serious Problems With The Foster Care System The foster care system in the United States has serious flaws that Americans do not realize. foster care is not a very trending subject; however, as Andrew Bridge demonstrates in his memoir Hope’s Boy, the foster care system has serious problems regarding the well-being of the children it is […]
The Foster Care systems that are in operation today are very minimally funded and provide a very low success rate of the children that come out of the foster child system in most states. The media labels the system as a last resort, that it is almost a punishment, when in reality the children have done […]
After a fourteen hour car ride, I finally see the sign in the distance, just a few more minutes till I can be back at the camp that has changed my life. This camp is named Long View Ranch and is located in the mountains of Mosheim, TN. Over the past eight years I have […]
Can you imagine being born already in the foster care system? Then being adopted and after that going back into foster care? Some can’t even fathom going threw it but I did. As soon as I was born I was a ward of the court and after that I was adopted by my auntie. Ten years […]
Forty percent of all adolescents that age out of the foster care system end up homeless (Scannapieco, M, Carrick, K, & Painter, K., 2007). From the Orphan trains to the Children’s Bureau, foster care has been a controversial and well researched topic in the United States. The Orphan trains gave children the opportunity to be […]
Aging Out of Foster Care This short documentary, Aging Out of Foster Care, presented by Jennifer Rrooks, focuses on young adults who age out of the foster care system, specifically in Maine. Rrooks poses a few questions like: “How are they faring?”,”What needs to happen to give them a fighting chance in life?”, and “What […]
In today’s world, children grow up in seemingly perfect homes and have everything they need to survive, thrive, and be happy, but this doesn’t happen for every child. Some children grow up in a totally different way. Imagine being raised by people who aren’t your biological parents. Oftentimes, being transferred from home to home. Never quite […]
Pride and Prejudice Analysis In Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen employs the use of many static characters in order to further the reader’s understanding throughout the novel. The two most notable characters that do much in the ways of furthering this understanding are Mr. Collins and Lydia Bennet. Throughout the entirety of the novel, Mr. […]
The novel ‘Pride and Prejudice’ by Jane Austen is a famous piece of literature that addresses a social issue of the time period contemporary to the novel. The novel addresses marriage at the time: marriages based on love and the taboo of interclass marriages. Through Austen’s use of characterization, foreshadowing, and conflict she is able to […]
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen tells the story of marriage, wealth, and family at the turn of the 19th Century. The main character is headstrong Elizabeth Bennett, who is one of five daughters. At the Meryton ball, Elizabeth first encounters the wealthy, handsome Mr. Darcy, who is known to be very prideful, unlike his friend Mr. […]
Life for women has always been hard, and continues to be hard to this day. While most people believe the societal pressures and roles of a woman have diminished in their criticism, the relationship between the lives of the strong female character, Elizabeth Bennet of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, and that of a modern woman […]
