Friedman Family Assessment Josephine Thomas Beach NUR/405 May 16, 2011 Karen Wilson Friedman Family Assessment Identifying Data The S. family resides in the E.L. subdivision in Southeast, Georgia. T.S. is 31 years old and P.S. is 32 years old. They are an African American, heterosexual, couple and have been married three years.
I am the youngest of three kids. I have two older brothers. Tyler, 19, is finishing his last semester at Northwest. He is majoring in Automotive Technology. Brian, 22, is in the United States Marine Corps.
John Swales, the author of “The Concept of Discourse Community” tells the difference between “discourse community” and “speech community”. And I will tell you my thoughts about it. I think, the most different point is that discourse community has a wider edge of people while speech community may have more specific situation of people. A group consisted with people speaking specific language or dialect could be called a speech community. Yet discourse community consisted by people who have the same goal, using language or some other tools to intercommunicate with each others; different language would not be a problem.
These are some of the differences and diversities in the story The Giver. What is the novel’s answer to the essential question? What is it saying about the topic? The novel is trying to show us that living in a utopia is not ideal. Lois Lowry is telling us that having different choices and diversity within our communities is better than having all decisions made for us.
Assessing My Communication Style Adam Richardson CPMGT/304 September 1, 2014 James Candland I took The DISC Platinum Rule Behavioral Style Assessment test this week. Behavioral styles are an integral part to the dynamics of team or group and in order to have effective team, individual must understand personal behavioral style to make up with others in organization or team. DISC Platinum Rule primary behavioral styles have four different styles that are The Dominance style, The Interactive style, the Steadiness style and The Cautious style. Each style has four substyles. Substyles of dominance styles are The Director, The Adventurer, The Producer and The Pioneer.
Cultural relativism Denise Lewis ANT 101: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology (GSF1517D) Instructor: Fae Goodman Date Submitted The comprehension of a different culture practices tends to be difficult when only used in comparison to one’s own culture and practices. It may seem not normal for one’s own standards yet to those of the opposite cultures our own practices may not be considered as normal or logical to them as well. In order to be able to understand any culture, one must really know the meaning of cultural relativism. “Cultural relativism is the idea that the significance of an act is best understood by the standards of the actor’s own culture” (Crapo, 2013). Using this definition will lay the foundation of this paper.
If you have more power, you will win the consent to exercise that power in dictating the dominant people’s views. An example given is the domination in gender relations, and in relation of cultural/ethnic groups. 2. Intertextuality Intertextuality refers to the interaction between (or within) texts or as Fairclough puts it “how several text types may be simultaneously drawn upon and combined” to refer to the actual message. The result of combining several text is that the meaning of the discourse is overlaid with another meaning from a different discourse.
Analyse how one’s context and surrounding environment determines the cultural frontiers they face. Analyse how one’s context and surrounding environment determines the cultural frontiers they face. The hybrid nature of culture and identity is unavoidable in the face of global interaction of individuals and surrounding environments. In order to achieve acceptance and change one is forced to distort their own self-perception to mimicry the surrounding environment and culture. Depicted in The Reluctant Fundamentalist is the affect of both a colonialist ideology and neo colonist environment on an individuals self perception and identity.
Lastly, Cultural Relativists often argue that it is mere arrogance for us to judge the conduct of other societies, and that we should adopt an attitude of tolerance toward the practices of other cultures. Although it may be a display of arrogance to judge the conduct of other societies, it is sometimes necessary to do so and convey disagreement when the situation arises. Given these revised interpretations of the 5 claims commonly made by Cultural Relativists, individuals and cultures ought to be guided by a revised philosophy known as Centralized Cultural Relativism, where societies may have different moral codes, but they all inherit certain properties from a parent code, which is influenced by factors including human biology, physiology, and what is necessary for a society to
What’s My Learning Style? This week in class we are working on the different types of learning styles. There are several types of learning styles. A few of them are Visual, Auditory and Kinesthetic learners. Everyone has their own My Learning Style 2 way of learning.