Culture does not make a difference for me when it comes to meeting people. When I first moved to this country and I didn’t speak the language I really appreciated those who took the time to get to know me, and were patient with me. I remember them and a lot of them are still in my life for the simple fact that they accepted me even though I was a stranger to their culture. I would be a straight up loser if I did not accept or tolerate people from other cultures, since I am different myself. I do consider myself open minded.
I have noticed when I visit friends and their families are gathered around the TV set, the experience is quite boring until I join them on the couch. Ehrenreich also establishes that the “American people” have turned into the all to familiar term, “couch potato.” While not all want to admit it all of us at some point have spent hours upon hours watching our favorite television show and in that moment are a couch potato. Ehrenreich makes it clear that at one point she herself was a common couch potato she also describes the various other activities that could replace the hours
Meursault is also described as being very dismissive to the outside world, “Looking back on it, I wasn’t unhappy. When I was a student, I had lots of ambitions like that but when I had to give up my studies, I learned very quickly that none of it really mattered.” (Camus 41). Although
I believe I am an internalist. Because my motivation and justification has an internal rather than external basis. I believe in things I think is right. I'm not easily persuaded by other people. My mind is hardly determined by external subjects.
As such there is no one-way of approach in assisting clients, as far as I can see there are no overriding theories, which influence my intervention and practice since I have not been aware of them. This exercise is therefore retroactive as far as I am concerned and what I have to do is look at my practice and then identify elements of theories that I recognise, in what I have been delivering. When I first see clients I try to make them comfortable to enable me to develop some level of rapport with them so that they the can express what their expectations regarding the meeting and answer questions that are somewhat personal. I try to keep things on a positive level and respect client’s views and feelings showing empathy but at the same time clarifying their expectations. In this respect I believe that I am taking a person centred approach.
Bailei Stout Reading Project 10/08/09 Love Aubrey, By: Suzanne LaFluer Love Aubrey, is a novel written by: Suzanne LaFluer. Aubrey is home alone since her mom left her. All she had to eat was cheese and crackers. Breakfast, lunch, dinner that is all she had. She also sits in front of the TV all day.
The Unnamed Problem In her 1963 book, A Feminine Mystique, Betty Friedan wrote, “As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night—she was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question—‘Is this all?’”. As a result of the constantly glaring of the classic “housewife” from magazines such as Good Housekeeping and members of the government such as Governor Adlai Stevenson, women in the 50s were expected to maintain a reserved lifestyle, which led to lonely dissatisfaction and an internal yearning for a different routine. After World War II and into the Cold War, “nuclear families” became the norm, with a working father, a housewife mother and their children. This idea spread and erupted into the ideal, picture-perfect family that all Americans should strive to have. By the 1950s, this model of a family had specific roles that each member had to follow, with one of important positions being the housewife mother.
My experience was not as bad as others. The day I decided to stay home and pretend I was sick. While I was sitting in front of the television the TV went blank and the news immediately started broadcasting what had just took place in New York. The Women spoke in a broken but yet calm voice. As if she knew someone that was working at the Twin Towers at the time.
But when doing this, the Millers start to behave strange. Although he only has to feed the cat, Bill Miller, the husband, uses an hour at their apartment, drinking their booze, taking their medicine and even wearing their clothes. In the end of the story, Bill’s wife, Arlene Miller, goes over to feed the cat, which she also spends an hour doing. When they decide to go over together, they realise that they have locked themselves out of the Stones’ apartment. In this short story, the narrator is a third person non-omniscient narrator because you, as a reader, are following the characters from an “outside” point of view relative to the characters, but you never know what they are thinking.
I feel that I am more than capable of shouldering my responsibilities, as well as the consequences along with it. I don’t consider myself as a risk-taker because I never really had the courage to take the step in doing something that I am not certain of. I never had the urge to explore and approach unfamiliar situations and uncertainties. If you look through it, not being a risktaker isn’t really that bad because it makes me make sure and double-check everything that I am doing. I do it carefully and seek answers and information first before doing anything, which also makes me inquisitive.